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Little China Girl: So glad you like Toby, he's kinda based on my brother who did this to me with a crush of mine once!

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December 21st

Jareth felt quite awkward waiting for Sarah at the Christmas tree farm. He had no idea what to do and felt quite out of his element. Honestly he didn't even care about getting a tree. He was only here because it was a good excuse to spend time with Sarah.

Sarah saw Jareth standing there, agitated. But it wasn't the annoyed kind of agitation. Instead it was him looking agitated because he was alone and unsure of what to do.

"HI JARETH!" She yelled from behind.

Jareth jumped and nearly pounced on her but Sarah was too fast. He slipped and fell in the snow quite ungracefully and it ruined his hair.

"Really?" He glared at her.

"PAYBACK!" She laughed at him. Sarah held out her hand and helped him up. "At least you didn't bruise your freaking tailbone."

"I am sorry about that you know. And I did offer to help heal it." He smirked at her and accepted her extended hand.

"Yeah that would include you touching my butt." She rolled her eyes.

Jareth was about to make some smart comment about her butt when someone came up to them.

"Hello, are you Miss Sarah Williams and Jareth Sigourney?" An older man asked them.

"Yes we are!" Sarah smiled at him.

"A bit late to be getting a tree isn't it?" He laughed at Sarah good naturedly.

"Well he's never had a tree before." She stuck her thumb out at Jareth. "Better late than never!"

They went around trying to see which tree was the best. All while arguing like a married couple.

"That one is too tall for the living room." Jareth said.

"Okay but that other one wasn't as pretty." Sarah argued.

Finally, they found the perfect tree. One that wasn't too tall, too "poofy" as Sarah put it, or too small. It was just right.

"Now we gotta go buy you some decorations." Sarah said excitedly as they got the tree to the back of her dad's pick up.

"You're in charge, my dear." Jareth climbed onto the passenger seat.

"Don't you forget it." She winked at him and turned on the ignition, her feet on the clutch and break. She turned on some Christmas music and Jareth tried to change it.

"It's almost Christmas! You can't NOT listen to Christmas music." She argued with him.

"I keep hearing this same damn song over and over." He pouted.

"Deal with it." Sarah stuck her tongue out.

"What if I don't want to?" He challenged her.

"You did say that I'm in charge." Sarah have him a pointed look.

"Not over the music." He reached to change stations but she swatted his hand away.

"Learn how to drive stick shift then you can control the radio." She said.

"You're only saying that because I don't want to drive and you're just making up arbitrary rules now."

They got to the store and had more arguing there.

"Jareth, those ornaments cost twice as much as these ones here." Sarah pointed out.

"But those don't have glitter. And I'm paying anyway since these will be mine to own." He put the ornaments in the shopping cart.

"Does everything have to have glitter?" Sarah leaned against the shopping cart.

"Hey, it's my first Christmas tree. I'm going to add glitter if I want to." He made himself look just as annoying as she was being.

"You're terrible."

"That's a funny way of saying incredibly handsome." He showed her all his pointy teeth.

Sarah shook her head.

Finishing their shopping, they went Underground to the castle. Jareth waved his hand over himself and transformed into the king that he always was. His hair grew out into that messy mane and he donned his comfortable grey tights, loose white shirt with his pendant showing on his lean chest and black boots. Perfect for strutting around.

He and Sarah set up the tree in the living room next to the fire. It sounded easy, but Sarah ended up just sitting on the couch waiting for Jareth to decide the optimum spot for it.

"If it's too close to the windows, it'll block the sunlight." He reasoned.

"You keep this place so dark anyway, why does it matter?" Sarah was now sitting so her legs were slung over the armchair.

"Because if the darn tree is in the way, I'll have to move it if I change my mind about making the room brighter." He said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"Stick it by the fire then." She said.

"But you can't see it on that side when you first walk into the room." He protested. He put his hands on his hips and walked over to her. "Are you not going to help me move it?"

"I'm not going to move some giant tree when you have no idea where the heck you even want it." She shrugged. Somehow she moved to a position where she was upside down and her legs on the couch cushions with her head near the floor.

"Well where do you put yours?" Jareth sat next to her. "And get up, your making my neck hurt trying to look at you."

"Don't tell me what to do." Sarah stuck her tongue out and made a silly face at him.

Jareth raised an eyebrow and proceeded to attack her with tickles.

"HEY!" Sarah swerved but all that did was make her end up on the other side of the couch with Jareth's fingers attacking her waist.

"That's what you get for being so defiant." Jareth leaned back and tried to look cool. And he succeeded.

"Maybe if you weren't such a jerk, I wouldn't feel the need to be so defiant." She got up and walked around the living room. "Why not just put the tree here on the other side of the fireplace?"

Jareth still grumbled about how it would block the sunlight but he just shrugged and went for it since it was the easiest spot anyway. Sarah said that it would be a cozy place to put presents.

"I'm going to my parent's house anyway for the holidays." He said.

"Still, make it festive." She unpacked the ornaments. "I bet the goblins will love it."

"As long as they don't eat the tree." He shook his head.

"These have pine needles and sharp ornaments." Sarah pointed out. "If they try to eat it, they'll learn fast to not do it again."

"I do have a lot of goblins though." Jareth smirked as he got out the very long tinsel. He somehow got quite tangled up in it. "Ah!"

"Oh you." Sarah giggled and tried to help him out of it. She grabbed one end of it but somehow she got tangled up in it too. Pieces of the glitter was falling in her hair and in Jareth's too.

"How did this even happen?" Jareth was ready to just cut it off.

"I got it!" Sarah tried to move but it didn't work and she ended up crashing into Jareth.

"You keep crashing into me. You know, if you want to get closer to me-" Jareth wiggled his eyebrows.

"You're a hopeless flirt." Sarah rolled her eyes, very much aware that his hands were around her waist to keep her from falling and the tinsel was still keeping them close to each other's face.

"I'll have you know that my flirting has gotten me the attention of quite a few people." He winked at her.

"I know." Sarah said a little roughly. She looked away from him. She liked flirting with him but when he mentioned other people it just made her self esteem drop faster than the helping hands had dropped her into the oubliette. "Just magic this tinsel away please."

Jareth definitely felt a change in moods when he had mentioned the fact that there were a lot of women who found him desirable. While he was a king of a bunch of goblins, he was wealthy, handsome, and a powerful king. She usually bantered back with him, pointing out her past boyfriends but she hadn't had one in a while. Over a year and a half, if his memory was correct. He waved the tinsel away.

"Let's just string up the lights and then we can add the ornaments." Sarah tried to smile, to bring the happy mood back up.

Jareth put the little owl ornament she made on the very front. He touched it tenderly, loving how the small replica of him seemed to smile at them.

After finishing the lights and ornaments, Sarah insisted that they put a star on top of the tree. Of course, Jareth chose a gold, glittery one from the store.

"I'm too short to put it on." Sarah frowned.

Jareth had an idea. He really could just use magic but this was much more fun. He turned around and held his arms behind his back. "I'll carry you."

Sarah gave him a look. "What?"

"Climb on." He turned his head back and grinned at her.

Sarah laughed and jumped on his back. Jareth lifted her up and she was able to stick the star on top.

"Perfect." Sarah looked pleased with it. "You can put me down now."

Jareth's only warning to her was a slight grin.

And he took off running.

"JARETH!" Sarah squealed and wrapped her arms around his neck to prevent herself from falling. Jareth zoomed through the castle and kicked any goblins in their way, sending them flying off and laughing.

He ran outside and made a path through the snow. Sarah laughed and felt the cold wind in her face and Jareth's soft hair ticking her cheek. She hadn't been carried like this in years, when she got too old and too big for her dad to do so. She wrapped her arms around his chest and laughed in his ear. "Don't drop me!"

"Wouldn't dream of it!" Jareth laughed back. He loved the way she held his neck then chest tightly, his arms carrying her legs and the feeling of zooming through his castle using his quick fae speed. The sound of her laughing made him feel warm and happy inside.

He ran back to the living room, slowing down. He slowly let Sarah down and turned to see her happy smiling face.

"Wow, that was-" She giggled. "That was fun."

"The feeling is mutual." Jareth grinned at her.

They sat on the couch together. "I had a lovely time today, Sarah." Jareth said quietly.

"Yeah?" Sarah wrung her hands together, a shy smile on her face. "Me too. I thought you'd find it lame to go Christmas tree shopping. I mean I was serious about it but I didn't think you'd actually want to go."

"I always have a good time with you." Jareth smiled at her.

"Same." Sarah said sincerely.

Before things could get too cozy and venturing to a place where neither were ready yet, Sarah stood up. "I have to go and visit Hoggle soon."

"Ah." Jareth nodded. "You better get going then."

"We are watching a movie tomorrow evening, yes?" Sarah confirmed with him.

"That works with me." He said to her. "I'll see you then."

And he took a chance, leaning in and kissing her cheek.

Sarah turned bright red as she felt his lips touch her cheek. So soft and sweet, his hair tickling her neck.

Jareth felt some sort of pride at seeing her blush. It was nice to know that he had the same effect on her as she did him. He wondered if they could be something more…

"Have a lovely time with Hogbrain." Jareth told her with a silly wave.

Sarah rolled her eyes. "I don't know why I put up with you."