Your Eyes Can Be So Cruel

Epilogue

It was after midnight and I, the lonely black raven, stood perched behind my master as we both watched the girl put things away in her drawer. It some pictures, a leather-bound book, and a music box. It seemed to me that my master sighed more with each thing she put away.
"I need you..." Sarah said. "I need you. I need you all..."
"Sometimes," I heard the wise man's voice say. "To need is...to let go." Outside her dark window, the white owl had sat, watching and waiting. Now, as I watched him, he swooped away over the park, on silent velvet wings, up and up towards the full moon.

It was raining in the Aboveground. Everyone was in their homes, cozy and war. My master was long gone, but I on the other hand, in my fitting black pants, boots, and green poets shirt, was walking dwon the middle of the street. I wasn't in the mood to return to the Underground just yet. The rain felt good, it was nice and cold. It felt like it was washing away everything that had happened. It started to rain harder, and I twirled in circles, splashing through the puddles.
"You're going to be soaked." I turned around to see Jareth standing a few feet behind me, holding an umbrella. I bowed to him.
"It's too late, your Majesty. I am already soaked to the bone." I was looking at the ground, but I could hear him walking towards me, and saw his hand reach for me.
"Come under the umbrella." I ignored his hand and stood up on my own.
"Jareth, I-" I wanted to apologize for everything. For the oubliette, for disobeying him, for Leila...
"Elizabeth..." Jareth offered his hand to me once more. "Let's go home." I sighed, pulling Sarah's ring out of my pocket. I stepped closer to him and carefully placed the ring in his palm, closing his fingers around it.
"I know you still love her..." I whispered. He opened his hand, looked at the ring, and then back at me.
"Elizabeth, what are you..." I shook my head.
"Don't, please. It's not worth it. Like you said, I'm just a goblin to you." I saw his eyes widen and in them surprise and hurt shone through. I turned away from him. We both knew that I would go back to the Underground. I was, after all, still his servant.
"Lizzie, please..." I heard him say.
"Just go." I said, my voice barely audible over the crash of thunder. I heard a sigh and knew he was gone. I sunk to the ground, and laid on my side, crying. Nothing in the world could put me in so much more pain than I was in now. I knew, somewhere in my deep, endless love for that one Goblin King, that he would always be under her spell. His love, his whole entire heart, would always belong to her, to Sarah.

I continued to lay there as the rain fell. I shivered and felt myself being picked up, set on my feet, and a jacket placed over my shoulders. I opened my eyes, blinked a few times, and saw green ones looking worriedly back at me.
"It's you! What are you doing here?"
"My name is Andrew, and I saw the fight you had with Jareth."
"Oh..." I shivered again, put my arms the the jacket sleeves, and hugged it to myself. I looked at Andrew in his dark jeans and black muscle shirt.
"Aren't you cold?" I asked.
"No." He smiled at me. "You know, we never finished our dance." He same closer to me, putting his hand lightly on my waist.
"There's no music." I pointed out.
"So." He took my hand in his, pulled me closer, and started to twirl me around the street.

Still, nobody saw the owl. It was sitting in a tree, which, isn't the best place to be during a storm. He watch the girl in the street as she danced around like she was at a ball. The owl felt something inside him, perhaps it was jealousy, he wasn't entirely sure. All he was sure of, was that he wanted to be the one who twirled her in circles in the rain. One more time, the owl would fly away, and again no one would see him, white in the fading moonlight, and black against the inky night sky.

Authoress: Well...that's it! I figured I would upload it now, to celebrate the new year! And I may, MAY, be planning a sequel to this story, I'm not sure. But I have a new story coming soon, one that's not for Laby! Lol, it's for Alice! My new obsession :3 I absolutely love Hatter and his adorableness =3 So yeah, once I come up with a title, I'll post that one!! Happy New Year! =]