Lying Is The Most Fun A Girl Can Have…

Chapter 6

Sarah awoke ten minutes later, scared, confused, and alone. For some reason, she felt violated. Lying on a cold, metal table could do that to a girl.

There was a yellow light above her, and she could hear voices whispering in the corner, one of them distinctively Jareth.

Oh no. She sat straight up.

Was she found out?

Did they know?

Did Jareth hate her?

Was she the laughing stock of the entire Underground?

She swiveled her head quickly to look at the two men plotting her destruction in the corner. With a yelp, she bolted off the table and tackled Jareth to the floor. All he was aware of was her screaming something along the lines of, "Won't have you…. Destroy my name… Don't you laugh… Love me!.... No… Hate me!... You shall not… You lose, bucko!!!!"

Jareth grumbled and choked. "Sarah… Sarah… Sarah…"

He shoved her off and her back hit the wall with a thud.

"What in the seven hells are you going on about?"

Sarah stared at him wide-eyed. Did he not know?

"Um… well… I was disoriented?" she tried.

Jareth ran a hand through his messed hair. "At least you are alive, I suppose."

Still with eyes wide, Sarah nodded her head.

Jareth turned to the doctor, who watched the whole debacle with a wary eye, and said, "Do you think you'll be able to run any tests on her now, Reimy?"

Jolting her feet, Sarah shouted, "No!"

Both men shot a glance her way, and she seem to shrivel under their glares. "I mean, uh, I feel fine!"

Reimy cleared his throat. "If she is unwilling, then I cannot run anything on her."

"What?"

"Ha!"

Both Jareth and Sarah said at the same time.

Reimy continued. "Without her consent, it would be immoral of me to run anything on her."

While Sarah was smiling gleefully to herself, Jareth took two steps and stood imposingly over the doctor. "I command you to run tests on her, Doctor."

The doctor swallowed hard. "I-I… As much as I would like to, King Jareth, I am afraid that I simply cannot."

Letting out a howl of frustration, Jareth clapped his hands once, and immediately two goblin guards appear. Turning to them, he said, "Take this man and stick him in the Bog of Eternal Stench."

At hearing this, Reimy began to yell and beg, but Jareth would have none of it. Grabbing Sarah by the elbow, he dragged her out of the room, and within a second, they appeared in Sarah's room. Sarah didn't really know how to react; Jareth was obviously angry and although she did not want to be found out, she figured it might be easier to come clean about everything…

"Sarah," said Jareth, drawing her out of her thoughts of impending doom.

"Yes?"

"It is time for your inspection."

"Inspection?" she repeated, her voice high.

"Yes. Since none of my doctors will see you, I will just have to see to you myself."

"But… But…" stammered Sarah. "You're not qualified!"

"Au contraire, my dear," he said as he approached her. "My magic is more than qualified to search out any impediments to your being."

Slowly, Sarah backed away from him. "I don't want you violating me!"

She saw that he was not stopping. With a wild look in her eyes, she said, "Wait, no, you don't have to do this! I… I'm not sick! You don't have to do anything. I made the whole thing up. I'm fine! No sickness, no death… Stay away!"

However, even though this was the truth, Jareth was buying none of it. Still, he advanced upon her until he had her backed into a corner. "Not sick, you say? Well then, that would mean that you were lying. And you know what I do with liars?"

Sarah shook her head.

"Well, it is a very terrible thing…" He looked down. "No, no, I can't say; it is far too horrible."

"No, tell me!" Sarah pleaded.

"Oh no, I simply cannot."

Suddenly, Sarah burst out into a fit of tears. "Oh, I'm a liar! I am a bad, bad person! Do what you have to do to me… I lied! I lied! I lied! I lied! I lied! I lied! I lied!"

Jareth punched her in the face.

Well, not really.

But he wanted to.

"Oh come now, Sarah. You couldn't have lied! What about your human doctor? and your father and stepmother? Surely…"

"LIES!" she screamed a little louder than intended. "All… lies…Oh, just kill me now!"

Jareth shook his head. "Sarah, Sarah, Sarah… This little phobia of yours really is ridiculous. Tell me, why are you so afraid of the doctor?"

Sarah sniveled. Why didn't he believe her? "Well…" Should she just roll with it? "Well… I was… sexually… violated."

Silence.

"No. Wait. One time, they gave me anesthesia, and I… died… for seven minutes."

She paused while she thought it over.

"Yeah, that's what happened. Now, I don't trust any doctor, because, because they killed me!"

Silence.

She pouted. "Don't you believe me?"

Silence.

"Well?"

Silence.

She stomped her foot.

Silence.

"Answer me, you lousy, no good kiniget!"

Silence.

"Jareth?

Silence.

"Hello?"

Silence.

"Anybody?

Silence.

"Helllooooo?"

"Heeeeellllooooooo?"

"HEEEEELLLLOOOOOOOO?"

"WHAT!?" he yelled at last.

"You zoned out there for like, ten minutes."

He rolled his eyes. "I zone out stupidity."

"…. And that was just the first time you've zoned me out?" She scoffed. "Sheesh, that took you long enough."

"Are you implying that you are stupid?" asked Jareth.

Sarah gave him a weird look. "Duh."

"But…" he slowly began. "But… you beat me, remember?"

Realization dawned in Sarah's eyes. "Ohhhh yeahhhh…. That must mean that you are even stupider than me!"

After Sarah had said that, she immediately wanted to take it back. "I mean… uh… no. No. That's not what I meant. I just must be smarter than I thought: a genius perhaps."

Jareth gave her the eye. She was getting on his nerves lately, more so than usual.

"I'm smart. You're dumb. Get over it," said Jareth.

"LIES!!!!!"

A pause. "You sure seem to be preoccupied with lies lately," considered Jareth.

"Maybe."

"Might I ask why?"

"No."

"You're insufferable."

Sarah stuck out her tongue at him.

And then Jareth punched her in the face.

For real this time.

A/N: =)

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