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// Babysitting (SarahVision) 
// Story: Wishes Gone Wrong 
// by Jazzy Mellows 
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	The evening had started out to be a relatively normal one for Sarah. Toby was sleeping over at a friend's house for the weekend, her father and stepmother were planning a romantic weekend alone, and Sarah was going to finally have some quality time between herself and her research paper. What she had NOT planned on, however, was a certain blast from the past to poof into her room holding a purple baby unicorn-pegasus-thing.
Sure, this was hardly the first time since she beat him that Jareth asked for her to babysit the children that got wished away every now and again, but usually they were at least humanoid. This was just plain ridiculous. Technicolor, she could handle. Baby horse thing, that was different.
“So you speak horse, now, Goblin King?” she asked as he handed the filly over to her.
“Actually, it's a pony,” he corrected her. “And when will you stop calling me 'Goblin King,' and start calling me 'Jareth?'”
“When you earn the respect of a first name basis,” she bluntly stated. The filly stared up at her with its purple eyes, probably trying to comprehend what a human being was.
“So, Sarah,” Jareth said. “I need you to watch this thing for thirteen hours, probably a lot less. This perso-PONY, has had to deal with me before.”
“You mean you would grant somebody's wish twice?” she said, looking down at the poor filly with concern.
“Sawa!” the filly said. After the initial shock of a talking horse wore off, Sarah couldn't help but to grin at the filly.
“It's been a really, really long time since I granted her last wish,” Jareth said. “I'd thought she'd learned her lesson.”
Just as Sarah was about to say something back, Jareth conveniently remembered that he still had to give the wisher her task to win the baby back with. With a poof of glitter, he was gone. Sarah looked down at the filly in her arms.
“You know,” she said. “Some people just need a crystal ball to the face.”