Standard Disclaimer: I don't own any of these characters. I'm just going to play with them nicely for awhile and put them back.
I want to thank everyone who reviewed my first chapter. I hope you don't think this one is too long.
Chapter 2--Look Honey Who's Come to Visit
"I've come to collect." Stated Jareth simply before walking over to the love seat and sitting down. He put his head up against the side of the arm and dangled his feet over the arm on the other side.
With a flourish her produced and crystal let it roll across the back of his hand, forwards and backwards. He seemed to completely dismiss Robert as he focused on the crystal rolling across his hand.
Robert, who had been clutching Toby to his chest, put him in the small playpen that was next to his favorite chair. The one across from the love seat on the far side of the room.
"You're not taking my baby anywhere" he told the Goblin King starting to raise his voice.
"Is that so?" Jareth smirked but never looked at Robert. "And how do you think you will stop me?"
There was a sudden flash and Toby was suddenly sitting on Jareth's chest, watching the crystal as it floated back and forth across his hand. He stroked Toby's back and makes kissy faces and the child was utterly delighted with the attention.
"Well, Toby" the Goblin King asked as he bent over to kiss the top of his head, "how will your father stop me, hmmm" he asked the child but never looked up at the father.
Robert, seeing that threats would do no good. As how do you make a threat stick with someone who can do magic at will, realized that he had no other choice. At certain times in your life you realize that "begging is good".
"Please, anything." Robert begged. "I'll do anything. I'll go thru the Labyrinth again."
Jareth who had listened to and assessed such pleas for centuries thought to himself. *There is more duty than love in his request. He went thru the maze as a child yet let her spend all her time on a play about me. He does not appreciate her, mores the pity.
And such a lovely child to appreciate. I knew I had made a good choice as I watched her in the park, learning her lines. She would be worth it for her beauty alone. But when she went thru the Labyrinth I knew she was perfect.
She is able to inspire great loyalty.
She was able to not only get that monster to follow her, and not an easy trick that as they are so stupid that they forget what they were doing and wander way. But she actually was able to make good use of him by getting him to call the rocks to defend her merry band.
And as hard as it was to get the monster to stay with her is to keep Sir Dydimus from trying to take on the whole city by himself. I sometimes think he has a death wish since he retired. I actually had to make up a need for the bridge out of the bog to be defended. As if anyone would want to sneak into the bog. Nothing is more embarrassing than heroic rescues when you are not actually in any danger. Especially from attractive women...although I must admit his behavior was useful when it came to Princess Zaluka.
What was I thinking, oh yes. And most amazing of all -- she got that cowardly little scab of a dwarf to perform acts of bravery. I was amazed at the backbone he suddenly acquired. He actually attacked the gate guardian.
A perfect Queen should compliment her King. Fear is a very good way to get people to do what you want. But so is loyalty. What one can't accomplish the other can.
I think he has sweated long enough* having ignored Robert for several moments while he played with Toby. "What makes you think you have any better chance of winning now then you did when you were 10?" Jareth responded still talking to Toby and not his father.
"I... I... I" he stammered.
"Well I do like a good competition." Jareth suddenly stood up with Toby still in his arms and stalked toward Robert, circling him like a wolf before the kill. "If I can convince your wife to let Sarah go with me, *freely* then she's mine. But if she refuses then she stays. Do you agree to these terms?"
"Yes I do, Karen will never let the Goblin King take her to the Underground. No matter what you say, unless you cheat and use magic to make up her mind."
"Ah well, there are two conditions: You don't do or say anything to dissuade her and I don't use magic. And just to make sure you don't try anyway I'll keep a hold of Toby and if you do we will leave. Now that's fair."
"Not really, how do I know you won't use any magic?"
"I've given you my word." In an astonished voice as if no one had ever disbelieved him.
Dripping with sarcasm, Robert shot back "Forgive me if I'm more than a little skeptical."
Jareth glared at him, then relented. "This crystal," which he produced from thin air with a flourish, "will become warm when I use my magic." He handed the crystal to Robert. "Test it."
He carefully took the offered crystal, "All right, do some magic."
Jareth created another crystal from thin air. Robert's eyes shot to the crystal he was holding as he could feel it getting warmer.
"The more magic used, the hotter it gets. Better put it down for a moment so that I can change. Somehow I don't think your good lady will believe that I am a distant relative of yours dressed as I am."
Robert put the crystal on the coffee table. Jareth waved his hand from his feet to his head and his fitted jacket with a large, flared, stand up collar all in black, black shirt and tight black trouser that fit like a second skin on him disappear. They were replaced by a very finely made men's suit. The sort that would make the finest of men's tailors weep for the sheer perfection of design and workmanship. The make up also disappeared. Only the hair and boots remained the same.
"Good, I hear her coming in now." He said has he returned to the loveseat. But this time he sat up straight with Toby in his lap, occasionally bouncing him on his knee or tickling him. Perfectly playing the part of the long lost relative come to see the new baby.
Robert heard the key in the door a grabbed the crystal off the coffee table.
"Karen, honey, we have company."
Karen followed her husband's voice into the living room.
I want to thank everyone who reviewed my first chapter. I hope you don't think this one is too long.
Chapter 2--Look Honey Who's Come to Visit
"I've come to collect." Stated Jareth simply before walking over to the love seat and sitting down. He put his head up against the side of the arm and dangled his feet over the arm on the other side.
With a flourish her produced and crystal let it roll across the back of his hand, forwards and backwards. He seemed to completely dismiss Robert as he focused on the crystal rolling across his hand.
Robert, who had been clutching Toby to his chest, put him in the small playpen that was next to his favorite chair. The one across from the love seat on the far side of the room.
"You're not taking my baby anywhere" he told the Goblin King starting to raise his voice.
"Is that so?" Jareth smirked but never looked at Robert. "And how do you think you will stop me?"
There was a sudden flash and Toby was suddenly sitting on Jareth's chest, watching the crystal as it floated back and forth across his hand. He stroked Toby's back and makes kissy faces and the child was utterly delighted with the attention.
"Well, Toby" the Goblin King asked as he bent over to kiss the top of his head, "how will your father stop me, hmmm" he asked the child but never looked up at the father.
Robert, seeing that threats would do no good. As how do you make a threat stick with someone who can do magic at will, realized that he had no other choice. At certain times in your life you realize that "begging is good".
"Please, anything." Robert begged. "I'll do anything. I'll go thru the Labyrinth again."
Jareth who had listened to and assessed such pleas for centuries thought to himself. *There is more duty than love in his request. He went thru the maze as a child yet let her spend all her time on a play about me. He does not appreciate her, mores the pity.
And such a lovely child to appreciate. I knew I had made a good choice as I watched her in the park, learning her lines. She would be worth it for her beauty alone. But when she went thru the Labyrinth I knew she was perfect.
She is able to inspire great loyalty.
She was able to not only get that monster to follow her, and not an easy trick that as they are so stupid that they forget what they were doing and wander way. But she actually was able to make good use of him by getting him to call the rocks to defend her merry band.
And as hard as it was to get the monster to stay with her is to keep Sir Dydimus from trying to take on the whole city by himself. I sometimes think he has a death wish since he retired. I actually had to make up a need for the bridge out of the bog to be defended. As if anyone would want to sneak into the bog. Nothing is more embarrassing than heroic rescues when you are not actually in any danger. Especially from attractive women...although I must admit his behavior was useful when it came to Princess Zaluka.
What was I thinking, oh yes. And most amazing of all -- she got that cowardly little scab of a dwarf to perform acts of bravery. I was amazed at the backbone he suddenly acquired. He actually attacked the gate guardian.
A perfect Queen should compliment her King. Fear is a very good way to get people to do what you want. But so is loyalty. What one can't accomplish the other can.
I think he has sweated long enough* having ignored Robert for several moments while he played with Toby. "What makes you think you have any better chance of winning now then you did when you were 10?" Jareth responded still talking to Toby and not his father.
"I... I... I" he stammered.
"Well I do like a good competition." Jareth suddenly stood up with Toby still in his arms and stalked toward Robert, circling him like a wolf before the kill. "If I can convince your wife to let Sarah go with me, *freely* then she's mine. But if she refuses then she stays. Do you agree to these terms?"
"Yes I do, Karen will never let the Goblin King take her to the Underground. No matter what you say, unless you cheat and use magic to make up her mind."
"Ah well, there are two conditions: You don't do or say anything to dissuade her and I don't use magic. And just to make sure you don't try anyway I'll keep a hold of Toby and if you do we will leave. Now that's fair."
"Not really, how do I know you won't use any magic?"
"I've given you my word." In an astonished voice as if no one had ever disbelieved him.
Dripping with sarcasm, Robert shot back "Forgive me if I'm more than a little skeptical."
Jareth glared at him, then relented. "This crystal," which he produced from thin air with a flourish, "will become warm when I use my magic." He handed the crystal to Robert. "Test it."
He carefully took the offered crystal, "All right, do some magic."
Jareth created another crystal from thin air. Robert's eyes shot to the crystal he was holding as he could feel it getting warmer.
"The more magic used, the hotter it gets. Better put it down for a moment so that I can change. Somehow I don't think your good lady will believe that I am a distant relative of yours dressed as I am."
Robert put the crystal on the coffee table. Jareth waved his hand from his feet to his head and his fitted jacket with a large, flared, stand up collar all in black, black shirt and tight black trouser that fit like a second skin on him disappear. They were replaced by a very finely made men's suit. The sort that would make the finest of men's tailors weep for the sheer perfection of design and workmanship. The make up also disappeared. Only the hair and boots remained the same.
"Good, I hear her coming in now." He said has he returned to the loveseat. But this time he sat up straight with Toby in his lap, occasionally bouncing him on his knee or tickling him. Perfectly playing the part of the long lost relative come to see the new baby.
Robert heard the key in the door a grabbed the crystal off the coffee table.
"Karen, honey, we have company."
Karen followed her husband's voice into the living room.