CHAPTER 2.
"Jareth, why did you send Casper tonight to the party?" asked Jane.
"Casper is my younger brother and he can mix well in the crowd. I
needed you and Joe to know what tonight could mean for your parents
and I!" said Jareth. The Carriage rolled slowly down the road and as
it moved, the surroundings changed from sleepy little town to forest,
woodland and scrub. "Welcome home Jane', this is where you both
belong, I just wish you knew how beautiful this land is." They sat in
an enclosed, horse drawn carriage.
"I hear an extra set of hooves, I wonder if this might be." said
Jareth; he smiled as Casper peered through the window.
"Good Evening brother, how lovely your bride looks today!" said
Casper.
"Yes, Ravishing my dear." Said a voice that came from the window on
the opposite side of the carriage to Casper.
"Charming, what a pleasant surprise! What are you doing here? Another
guest for our wedding party!" said Jareth.
"And the reason I am here, my prophet told me of a union of honour and
a bond made strong, and the strongest I knew of in these woods are
Jane' and yourself, so I thought of visiting." Said Charming. "Jane',
how you've grown. Such a beautiful baby and even more so over the
years. You bare such a resemblance to your parents, you too young
Joe." He kissed her hand and smiled at Joe.
"How do you know my name and yet we have never met!" said Joe, he was
feeling slightly dizzy and confused by the situation.
"Young squire, I have been friends with your parents since we were
babes so naturally we kept in contact." Said Charming.
"I was too, but we all said nothing about the Wizard until now, since
you too are nearly of Age the pact has been kept for 17years." Said
Jareth.
"And young Joe will soon follow in his sister's steps, and yours too
Jareth. He will have magick like yours and we will all be saved!" said
Casper. The carriage came to an abrupt halt taking Jane by surprise
and consequently ended with her sitting on Jareth's lap.
"So forward too, I will enjoy making you my wife!" said Jareth with a
wicked smile on his lips making Jane blush even redder.
"Not in front of children, please!" said Charming, pointing at Casper
and Joe.
"Whoa! Who owns this joint?" asked Joe.
"It's the Le Fae estate, you live here!" said Casper.
"Home, I remember the day the we left. Come on Joe, this is our home,
we belong here!" said Jane, she took his hand and when the carriage
door opened they ran to the front door of the mansion.
"Jane', how beautiful you've grown!" said Jeffery, the grounds man and
housekeeper. He touched her cheek and with a spark of electricity she
instantly knew whom he was, a memory from when she was a baby. She
hugged him tightly before running around again.
"She'll run rings around you, Jareth!" said Jeffery. As he closed the
doors once all their guests had entered the great entrance hall.
"She'll keep me on my toes, that's all!" said Jareth. "She'll be of
great help around my castle, with her knowledge of herbs and the
occult practices on earth."
Jane ran through the halls to the kitchen where her parents were sat
down to eat.
"Jane, calm down, you'll hurt yourself if you're not careful." Said
Dursey, she took another sip from her soupspoon.
"I'm sorry, mom, it's the fact I'm home, it just feels so good to be
here. I mean it's my home, where I was born, where I belong." Said
Jane, she was energetic and hyper, so happy about being in this house
once again. Not realising her marriage to Jareth would mean her
leaving a few short days.
"Jane, you won't be here for long, you're marrying Jareth tonight and
in just 5 days the two of you will be leaving for his castle on the
other side of the Emerald Forest. That is where you belong, with
Jareth, as his queen," Said Martin.
"No, please let me spend more than five days here!" said Jane as she
tried to plead with them. She wasn't afraid of Jareth, much the
opposite, she just wanted to explore the Le Fae estate and read more
of the Le Fae scriptures.
"I'm sorry, young one but that is the way it is done, its all strange
here, I know, and you'll find it difficult to cope without ...
Electricity." Said the kitchen hand, she was average height, round and
had a rosy glow to her cheeks and deep brown puppy dog eyes, that just
made her look merry and sad all at the same time.
"Its true, we have no electricity in this realm. That means no noisy
TV's, no blaring hi-fi's, no blown light bulbs, no cut outs in the
middle of the night and last but not least. NO CARS! I always hated
those stupid things!" said Dursey.
"But you're the one who pushed me into taking driving lessons." Said
Jane, she always wondered why her mother was so eager about Jane
driving.
"Jane, this realm.. Lets just say.. You know that project on Edwardian
culture and society I helped to research for. Well. what I didn't tell
you was. that is the society we all live in.. and always have done.
That's why I was able to find all those authentic pieces of clothing
for your costume and the leather bound book for your journal. They
were all the things I used when I was your age and my age now. You see
people in this realm like Jareth and yourself can travel back or
forward in time, but the only realm you can do that is earth. So one
of the old wizards, many centuries ago, the sixth, to be exact went
forward in time and found the Edwardian to be the most civilised in
history. The majority of classes in this realm changed because we are
a peace loving society and we pay our staff well and they have their
own houses on site." Said Dursey and she passed her plate to the
kitchen hand to put by for washing up for later.
"But we kept this society because it held its beauty and it kept its
natural beauty all at the same time. The Fae have sense of duty to
Nature, we have to preserve it, since the people on earth are killing
their planet, and we have much the same climates, plants and trees as
they too have, we have to keep a sense of balance. We prevent the
destruction while they plunder their world. We have to make it up to
Mother Nature by keeping our world safe, while people on earth destroy
their world day by day. Our world depends on this culture to help our
world survive. So your mother encourages you to drive while you could
so you knew what pressures cars came with and even if you wanted the
freedom of a motor vehicle you could easily learn how to ride a horse
in this realm." Said Martin. He smiled at his achievement in
continuing the lesson for their two children.
"This realm, it's a complete solar system away from earth, different plane
of existence, and also a completely different century." Said Joe, he had
picked up all that from what his parents had just said and was in total
shock, no hi-fi meant any hip-hop, trance, dance, pop, was out of the
question. He found music so relaxing, he'd have to find a gramophone
somewhere in this old house and beg his parents to buy him a vinyl from
earth. But until then he'll suffer in silence. Jane could see the look on
Joe's face, he was far from happy, and she'd never seen him look so upset
since he was five. When she ripped the head off his Action man toy. Maybe
she'd let him in on one secret she'd decided to keep from her parents, when
she'd packed some things to leave earth she'd packed her Walkman just in
case she needed to relax.
