I actually wrote this on December 10th, 2010. It's high time that it saw the light of day. It is inspired by Another Rainy Night by Queensryche.


Jareth looked out over his labyrinth, a small crystal in his hand. The night air was cool, and bit at him slightly despite his hi-collared coat. The stars mocked him
with their brightness, even though things seemed so dark and much colder to him. Through the crystal, he watched her turn over in her sleep, seeming quite content without him. While it had only been a year in her world, it had seemed like so much more to him, like eons. He gently ran a gloved finger across the surface of the crystal, and in a sudden fit of rage threw it across the room, where it shattered into a wave of glitter on the flagstones.

Things were so stale now; she often called on her other friends, yet she had made no mention of him, not even as she slept. Of course, she must not consider him anything – she had cast him as the villain in her little tale, and it seemed that was where he would stay.

The candles that had lit his room had long burned out, the flames managing to singe their pedestals before finally succumbing to their eventual fate. The last meal he'd had brought to his room (how long ago?) had grown cold, and he felt no desire to keep up what little strength he had remaining. She had taken everything he had to give her, and at the same time had refused everything. He fought valiantly against the urge to scream as loudly as he could; to conjure another crystal and hope that through her dreams she might hear him demand to know why he meant so little to her when she meant so much to him...
Finally, loosening the grip he'd had on his hair, he slid against the wall in the corner of his room and decided that he would wait ...wait for her to call for him. He would not conjure another crystal to watch her, it would only make him more frustrated. After several hours, he finally fell asleep, and unbeknownst to him, in her sleep, she whispered what he had wanted to hear most from her – his name.