Darkly, Mayue, lunch, and clothing.
If anyone is still reading I also post this story on DeviantArt. The reason for me bringing this up is there you can make pics to go along with your chapters. I made some pictures taking random photos of King Jareth and other things to make up kind of what happens in each chapter. If interest let me know I can get you the link and you can see the pics I came up with. What I kind of think Mayue looks like and what Darkly looks like. Jareth is in almost every one of the pics.
Chapter 7
She came walking into the drawing room, it was quite for a Monday morning, and she wanted to let Darkly know what she had learned about Jareth and what to do with that information next. He was just sitting there on the light brown lounge; he was admiring the room from what she could tell, " Darkly," she smiled as she came up. He stood and bowed his head to her and joined her half way.
"Mayue, how was your weekend, did you find out anything new about your fiancée?" as he smiled his green eyes flashing at her. His hair was down today and he was in complete black.
He took her hand and guided her to the lounge and sat down with her, " I learned that his favorite fruit are peaches, that he loves them so much he had a winery made here in the Underground and makes peach wine. Infect the best wine in all of the Underground, I have taste it many time and never knew it belonged to him. I also never knew he loved them so much, it explains some things though he had brought me into a room that had peach and creams coloring to it. It is one of his favorite rooms to dine in. It seems he likes those colors. Let me see, he likes spring and not winter," shaking her head, "he hates the cold, umm…he likes to read of all things, above ground literature," she shrugged, " he offered to let me borrow his Charles Dickson book, and well he loves to go riding when he can get away from the court business. I tried to ask him more but he seemed to get a little agitated with the questions I was asking so I stopped. Will that be enough?" she was starting to ring her hands.
Shaking his head, the man likes his privacy but he couldn't warm up or loosen up with his on fiancée. What a shame he thought to himself a beautiful and nice girl like the princess and Jareth was being not forth coming. He really must love the girl, but in the end by not telling her more about himself could make for a very sad marriage. He noticed her hands and then placed his own over hers, her eyes meeting his, " Don't worry, it just means you will have to take more time once you married to find out more about him. At least he isn't boring he has a type of mystery about him and he isn't an easy book to read. We will come back to this latter; I think today we will do something fun. Well it will be fun for me, I am not sure you will have that much fun. " He got off the lounge and turned to her looking her over, " Mayue, how much money are you allowed as you allowance or do you even have one?" he smiled.
She looked at him for a moment, she knew he loved money but they had never discussed a payment for him giving her lessons yet. He said there would be a fee, " Are we going to talk about how much I owe you?"
Smiling and shaking his head coming down to her level and taking her hands in his own, " No Mayue we wont talk about my fee till this is all over and don't worry I am reasonable. After all I have to make sure I come through with what it is you need me to do and well I wouldn't just take your money and run. I don't do that, I know you might of heard I am a cad or that I just take the money from woman and leave. I have made some enemies in my time that is true but I have helped out a lot of people too. You don't know my history Mayue." He let her hands go, and started to pass… "I feel sometimes you doubt me and that you my not quite trust me." He stopped and side glanced judging her attitude. He turned to face her, " I have fought in many battles you can even check the books on that. I always fought for what I believed in and for others. I am quite..he looked around making sure there were no goblins around he knew of that little red one Flare he was quite good but he put a spell on the room making sure the little twerp couldn't come in, " An honorable man. I would like it if you never let any of the ladies know that. I kind of like my badboy kind of reputation I have been getting lately, it has been quite profitable." He smiled, " Well enough about me after all I am here for you my dear weather you choose to trust me or not I am here to help you. The money is for you to use on some new attire. I feel your clothing needs some help." He noticed her eyes go wide and she became self-conscious touching her dress.
" You think I am not dress adequately." As she bit her lip with worry.
He tilted his head, " Mayue you're a beautiful woman and your clothing is one of the best I have ever seen. I am not telling you to throw out your beautiful gowns oh no. I can tell you wear the finest fairy made garments after all you're are the fairy princess. It's just that I feel you should use more color. Liven you up, just a bit. Yes silver and white are nice colors on you but I feel you wouldn't look so pail and frail with a little bit of color." she didn't seem to believe him.
Shaking her head, " your one to talk you were black all the time." As she looked away. This was affecting her more then he thought it would.
He came over and sat down next to her she didn't look at him. She was trying to play a guilt trip on him. He liked it, " Mayue…" she gave him the could shoulder, "Mayue.." he smiled and tried to get her to look at him. He shook his head and turned away from her himself rested his hand on the side of the lounge and his chin on his closed fist, " Oh well I guess I do wear to much black. I guess I could pull out that blue suit my aunt sent me last spring. Would it make you feel better if I wore that?" he knew she would fall for it. He started counting in his head, he didn't get past 1.
"Oh no Darkly, you dress beautiful and …" she shrugged and placed her hand on his turned shoulder, " black is your color. I really couldn't imagine you in anything other color. Especially all blue it would not work for you. What kind of colors were you thinking?" he really didn't want her up set and he must know what he is saying. She had heard he was quite good at what he did.
He smiled and turned back around, " Mayue, the colors I have in mind will be quite suddle. Come with me…" he grabbed her hand and she had no other choice but to follow. It first started out as a light walk but then he started to trout and she started to giggle.
" Where are you taking me," she laughed as they went around the hallway quite fast and she almost landed on him when he came an abrupt stop.
" Come along," he still holding her hand brought her to two large window like doors and he waved his hand, the doors swung open. Letting the garden smells and of the early morning come washing into the castle. He smiled back at her and brought her out into the sunshine. He places her directly out onto the veranda, "Ok, Mayue show me your beautiful wings." He smiled and stepped away from her.
She blushed but did what he said they magically came out, with her being a princess she had quite large and quite beautiful wings. It was like a rainbow but it wasn't dark but they were more iridescent, and see through. It was just the way the light hit them. They reminded him of a crystal prism. " Quite lovely Mayue. Those are the colors I am thinking. Yes…yes indeed, were going shopping." He got a wicked smile on and came up grabbed her around the waist bring her quite close to him and then they were gone.
Ducking behind the food venders cart, "Darkly what are you doing?" Smitty inquired as he bit into an apple. He was wondering where his friend was today, he remembered Darkly saying something about shopping so he was checking out the markets closest to Princess Mayue's palace.
Darkly peaked out form around the corner slightly" Hiding you dolt, what else does it look like."
Smitty cracked a wicked smile, " from Who?" as he looked around. And took another bight from his apple.
Smitty and his stupid question, well he had to give him credit he was acting quite childish but with everything going on." Countess Delora Vortez." He spat back quietly. " She's been harassing me for months now, she thinks she has claim on me. She thinks we should be married I have declined her politely for months now and finally was quite rude to her about it. She just says I am playing hard to get. I have tried everything Smitty nothing seems to work." He looked over where he saw her. It was too close for comfort, he knew he shouldn't of left Mayue in the dressing shop alone but he was getting a little bored watching her try on all those different gowns. This would be the last time he took advise from one of his kitchen maids.
Smitty looked through the crowed of mingling customers out for the shopping day. " Ahh.." as he spotted the bright fuchsia and plum feathers that she normally wore. The woman knew nothing of fashion that was for sure. She was always in the most outrageous outfits. He never knew why Darkly went after the woman all she was worth was her land. Well to come of it Darkly had acquired in the past year a knew home over in Netherwith. No, she wouldn't Darkly could never…he looked at is friend what did he do to get such a nice place as that. He thought his friend acquired it by buying not by. He looked back at the Countess.
She was of course lecturing a man about his goods for sell at the market, " she is too far away and to preoccupied right now to see you my friend come out and stop being such a coward." Smitty thought on his words as of lately Darkly had been quite busy with that Prince Mayue girl. That and he noticed how Darkly was always seemed to be looking over his shoulder like he was being followed. " You never used to hide from anything Darkly why now?" after all they both fought in several battles together and Darkly was quite an accomplished swordsmen.
Darkly shoulder slumped, " I am being followed and watch more closely these days my friend. You should know why, due to his High Majesty and that Princess of his I can't do some of the things I am accustomed to doing. He has his little goblins tracking me and watching. They get better at it every day it seems. I must be slipping or loosing my powers. I must be careful its one thing to make his sphere shadow but it's another to mess with his goblins. He has his goblins scouting almost night and day. I woke up with one of them sleeping on my chest and it seems they are starting to get used to my place each day I see more and more of them. They seem to know which place I am staying too. There like rats, they keep multiplying and never want to leave." He peaked around the corner to see if the Countess was still around, she was nowhere to be found which wasn't good at all. She could pop out at any moment around him he had to get out of there. His jade eyes search the crowed of shoppers. He decided it was safe and came out fixing his black sleeves and the front of his jacket.
"hmm so I take it you and Mayue are getting close." Smitty smiled and through the finish apple over his should it disappearing with a pop.
Darkly looked at his friend, " this is business only Smitty, I have no feelings for her what so ever. Sure she is quite a beautiful woman, yes her hair is quite beautiful when it hits the sun giving it an almost white look to it, and the way she bights her lip when she gets nervous." He side glanced his friend.
Smitty just stared at him, " Oh yes my friend this is only business. One I tend to take full advantage of. Why don't you come with me an meet Princess Mayue?"
"Ahh,ok" he just shook his head and followed his friend.
They walking into the small little shop, she was almost done she was purchasing her things when they walked in, " Mayue, are you ready." She smiled.
"Quite, I feel the dresses we picked out were quite lovely and I so agree with you. Who is this with you Darkly?" as she came up her valets taking her things to her carriage.
"Oh yes, this is my best friend Lord Smitty Warren," he watched to see her judgment of him and she approved of Smitty.
She curtsied and Smitty took her hand and kissed is softly, " It is quite a pleasure to finally meet you Princess, I have heard a lot about you." As he let her hand go.
Mayue looked a little shocked and looked over at Darkly, " Umm well…." Smitty realized that he might have said something wrong.
"Princess Mayue, I mean I have heard a lot about you from going to the balls, news of your engagement party coming up, and well Darkly had said that he is helping you with riding lessons. He told me you hadn't ridden a lot. I would agree that he is the finest rider around. You will be quiet safe in the hands of my friend here." He hoped that did it.
She smiled, " Thank you Lord Woren, I was wondering would you like to join us for lunch today?"
Smitty took a quick glance over at his friend and smiled, " I am truly, sorry Princess Mayue I had made other plans but I would like the chance to have lunch with you another time. Would that be alright."
"Oh, yes I would like to have a chance to have lunch with you. I bet you have plenty of stories you could tell me of your friend Darkly." She smiled her silver eyes brightened.
"Oh you have no idea Princess Mayue, I will send a letter to you when I am available to have lunch with you if that would be alright. We can meet up again, as for now I must take my leave and let you two continue on with your day. Once again it was a pleasure meeting you Princess." He nodded to the both of them and left the little shop. They followed suit and got into the carriage.
"Oh, Darkly I got you something, if you don't mind I would like to see what you look like in it." She smiled over at him as the carriage rocked back an forth.
What did she get him he wondered?
In the garden.
"Oh, that is quite offal Darkly are you sure about that, he seems quite a nice man. I have never been one to get upset over blood, as long as you're a good and true then you deserve a chance." She shook her head, " Poor Lord Warren."
"Yes, well he had fought in so many battles, he had give his life so many times for others, some yes have seen him as Smitty fae born, that is why he has the title he has. It hasn't been easy for him to get where he is now. You would never guess his mother was human. He has all the powers of a normal fae and he is quite good with a sword but he is limited, so very limited." He thought about bring up the situation between Sophia and Smitty but he felt the time wasn't right, " Oh we really shouldn't be talking about such things. We should be enjoying this wonder day. It is quite a lovely day out and this lunch you set out was quite good I feel I could never eat again." She smiled and she blushed and waved him off.
High King's Palace
Jareth came walking into his throne room at the High Kings Palace he had just come from Court and was quite tired. Lord Damion Raquest was still on some case about some woman he had rights too. Some kind of promise and it was in writing. The man had been in court before and had been in it for years from what he could tell. He had remembered him through out the years but just recently he realized the man pleaded his case on a normal basis. It seemed he had been in one of the biggest wars the Underworld had ever had and that he had helped out some family that even he didn't know, who they were seemed be kind of a mystery. It seemed they were all either killed in battle over the years and the last one just died a year ago. No one was left to protest against him other then a man by the name of Cornelius Keyot. He was a trusted advisor and was representing on the behalf of the woman. This all happened before he was even born, his father had been dealing with the man for a long time.
It seemed that Lord Damion had gotten the grandfather of the girl to sign her over. The first-born girl in the family would be his. Now he found it quite odd that the man would sign such a deal with Lord Raquest, then he was told the family only ever had males born first till recently. It seemed this case was kind of hush, hush. So he could see that the first-born would never come but if it did still why would Lord Raquest be so adamant about having her. He said it was the principle of the thing and it was a contract after all. The family must have been quite powerful at one time for this Lord Raquest to be asking after her.
The contract had yet to be fulfilled and it hadn't, it was quite over do by a long way. It seemed when the girl came of age she was to be handed over. She never was infect she seemed to disappear completely. Jareth had to look more into what Raquest argument was and into what Visroy Keyots argument that she was not to full fill that contract. Why had it been in court for so many years? How was it she was able to stay out of full filling it? Why hadn't his father done anything about it? Contracts in the Underground were binding could there be more to this then what he was seeing. He would have to have a talk with his father.
He went to his throne and sat down, he shut his eyes to clear his mind of that days court business. He was a firm believer of not bring his work home with him. Then it came to him he had a luncheon with Mayue, his eye flashed open he snapped his fingers a magical clock appeared before him. He was at least two hours late. He flipped his hand and a sphere appeared before him, there was Mayue smiling and sitting on the ground she looked quite lovely. It looked like she had a lunch set out. She was waiting still… he stood and stepped down the few stairs that led up to the throne and disappeared leaving sparking dust behind him.
When Jareth reappeared he didn't like what was before him. He saw smiles, laughter light touches, and a pleasingly set out lunch on the lawn of one of princes Mayue's estates. There before him was Darkly smiling like lovesick fool and Mayue blushing about something. His firsts balled up, then he took a deep breath and remembered what Darkly had promised not to do. He put on his most pleasing smile he could muster, "Mayue and Lord Tanner, what a pleasant day if is for a lunch," he said smoothly.
Darkly smiled disappeared an Mayue's eyes got wide, " Oh, no I must of forgotten…" getting up and coming over to him, " Jareth I am so very sorry I missed our luncheon. I just got to preoccupied today with palace issues and with my lessons with Darkly. " She took his gray gloved hand in her own. Her silverish eyes pleading with him, the wind picking up her hair slightly and the scent of her filling his nostrils, she smelt delightful. He almost shut his eyes and pulled her closer to him. She looked quite lovely today; she was wearing a light pink and white dress. He had always seen her in different shades of silver or gray. When did she start wearing other colors and her wings were out, they were catching the rays of the sun slightly and were giving off almost a iridescent rain bow of color. He couldn't even remember the last time he saw her with her wings. What had he been missing as of lately?
She hoped this would work, Darkly told her that when you touch a man and give him the pleading look he would be defenseless and more willing to give into what you want. She had practiced that all through out the day. That was why he kept touching her hand or her cheek. Now she had her chance to show him that she was paying attention.
He titled his blond/silverfish spiked head slight to the side, " oh, really how fascinating. " he let go of her hand, slightly and smiled. He brought his hand up to her chin. She did not shy away like usual, " I was just coming to apologize for missing the luncheon but it seems you and your new friend are doing alright." Darkly got off the ground and smoothed his outfit out. Fixing the new green vest Mayue got him that day at the shop. He liked it, he thought it brought out his eyes more.
" I had some court business that ran a little late and I am glad you did not have to have lunch alone." He dropped his hand as he looked over at Darkly.
" Mayue, I didn't realize it was getting so late I must be getting along now please excuse me." He bowed to her then to Jareth, " Your Majesty it is always quite a an honor to be in your presents." Jareth nodded to him and with that. black and purple sparkles, he was gone. Mayue had never seen Darkly leave like that before and she didn't think he had the ability to do so. How fascinating she thought. Jareth saw that the man was wearing a silverfish green vest. The man actually wore another color other then just all black.
