A/N Talim: Jareth did you see the past reviews? You are going back into your cage, everyone is very unhappy with you.

'Jareth shrugs'

Jareth: I will kick them all into the bog, including you.

Talim: Ha, you have no power over me, now get back in the cage until you learn to be nicer to Kiara. 'Cracks a whip'

Alrighty, Jareth is grounded now until he learns to behave. As usual I own nothing that doesn't crawl out of the dark recesses of my mind. Enjoy!

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Chapter 21: Unhappy Visitor

"Hello Jareth, did you miss me?" Kiara asked as she went back to cleaning.

"You are to stay in the labyrinth to assure that I have the power to run my kingdom. Why were you aboveground?" Jareth took a seat in her living room and waited for her to answer and to give him some magic.

"Uh, are you ordering me about again? I don't see any of your underlings here. I will leave when I damn well please." Kiara stopped cleaning for a minute to glare at Jareth and then began to pretend he wasn't even there.

Jareth got his temper under control and tried to remember what worked before when she was unhappy with him. "The labyrinth needs you," he said as he followed her into the kitchen.

"And the labyrinth is fine, since you no longer want me around why should I give a shit about you?"

"You really want Vivian to take the throne?"

Kiara started to answer and stopped, he had her there. If she didn't help him then she would take over and ruin everything. "Of course not, but I am mad at you so I will make you suffer." She sat down at her kitchen table and Jareth soon joined her. "I liked it better when you actually seemed to want me around. What is going to happen when you actually find a permanent solution? I'll never see you again." Outside the wind started to pick up and dark clouds began to fill the sky.

Jareth looked out the window concerned; storms were extremely rare in the labyrinth and usually were quite destructive. He looked at Kiara and wondered if she was causing it. "I will find tasks for you."

Kiara frowned at Jareth, "I liked you a lot better when you were weak; you weren't as much of a jerk. Of course that was just because you needed something. I thought we were… never mind."

Jareth almost laughed at her until he saw that she was really upset and the wind was getting stronger. Kiara was slightly enjoying the breeze, but kept her eyes on the table. "Friends? I am king I don't need friends."

Kiara looked up at him as the air rushed in through the window and blew her hair around. She stared at him angrily, "How can you not want there to be someone around when you need something and I don't mean something that your goblins can get for you. That's probably why you're still hung up on Sarah, normal people talk to their friends and get over it. You must get lonely sometimes, you acted like it before."

Jareth thought about her words, he was lonely but he was always able to fill it with distractions. His favorite distraction was being evil to his subjects and toying with runners. He never wanted to let himself be in a position to be hurt again. He kept his eyes on the sky and tried to think of something to say to calm her down. "I am heartless, no matter wh- wha-… ah-choo! Get rid of those things! No matter what you think, I am heartless and cruel."

Kiara shook her head and shut the windows to keep the pollen and the rain out, "I don't believe that. There were times where you acted like you cared."

"As you mentioned before it was because I needed something from you."

She walked into her living room and sat on her couch wondering what it was that made her care what Jareth thought. No matter how angry she was at him there was always a part of her happy to see him.

Jareth sat across from her still waiting for her to give him the power to fly again. He knew he was lying to himself and to her and part of him did like having her around. He liked to talk to her, but he wasn't sure why and he knew he shouldn't care. He began to have that guilty feeling again and did his best to push it away, but it kept eating away at him. No one had ever affected him like this before. "Shall we make a new deal?" Kiara lifter her eyes slightly and waited for him to continue. "I will try to make some time in my busy schedule for you and you will give me notice before leaving for the aboveground."

Kiara shook her head, "That's not what I want, although from now on I will tell you if I need to go aboveground for more than a few hours. I just want you to really want me to be around because you like being around me, not because you want something from me. I can't force you to feel like that though so forget it."

Jareth sighed and debated telling her the truth, but that meant he would have to actually accept the fact that he wasn't entirely cold hearted and he wasn't sure if he could do that. "Kiara, I… don't ha… ah-choo!" he looked over at the small pot on the end table and rolled his eyes, "You have them inside your home as well? I don't hate having you around, except when you keep these blasted things. You do it just to annoy me don't you?"

Kiara laughed a bit and shook her head, "No I honestly just like the way they look and the way they smell. I never thought you would actually visit me and they don't really bother Hoggle." She took a deep breath while she thought, "You don't hate having me around? Well coming from you that must be a compliment."

"It's the best you are going to get," he said as he checked the sky again. The storm didn't look like it was getting any worse, but it wasn't going stop. He was going to have to teach her some control before she got really angry and blew the castle away or something. He sneezed again and began to glare at her, "Give me some power to get home so I can get out of this house."

She stood up at smiled, "Alright, are you sure you don't want to take one of them home?" She enjoyed teasing him and was happy with the angry expression she got back. It was much easier this time for her to make a crystal filled with magic for him. He was shocked by the amount of energy she gave him and nodded pleased with her improvement. He changed form and took off for the castle. Kiara watched for awhile and wondered if any part of him cared for her at all.