CHAPTER 9. "I hope, oh how do I hope, I can overcome this tortured feeling inside of me. He hurt me today Sandy, I can't believe he'd think I'd betray him like that. I know Blake is vaguely handsome, but he's no one compared to Jareth. I could sit and watch Jareth for hours, I can't look at Blake for a moment before my body aches and I feel tempted to hurl." Said Jane. She flattened out the creases in her dress. It was a beautiful bouncy evening gown that perfectly sat on her hips. Sinking between her bosoms and accentuated her waistline. She couldn't complain with the way it hid the expanse of her huge bottom. But while she twirled in the mirror a figured came from the shadows in the room and as she tried to move closer to the door he cornered her to the other side of the room. Jareth should be here anytime now, he wouldn't let her deal with this alone. She tried to move closer to the door but every move she made caused Blake to move closer to her. His leer growing, his face full with an evil sneer that made him look even more repulsive than the goblins in Jareth's court. "Leave me alone, what do you want from me? YOU HAVE NO POWER OVER ME!" she screamed and she jumped over the bed and knocked him flat as she bolted for the door. Jareth ran in and pinned Blake to the floor before staking him. "What was that in your hand? How could he have been a Vampyr? They walked about during the day!" said Jane, she ran to Jareth and held him tightly, sobbing into his chest as they knelt on the floor. "This realm has a different affect on Vampyrs, the sunlight cannot harm them! It doesn't have such an impact as on earth, but we can vanquish them with wooden stakes." Said Jareth, he held her tightly and they lay down. With a swish of his hand the door closed and locked itself. "Jane, I'm sorry I didn't get here before I did, I wanted to know that you were okay before I intervened." "I'm okay, I knocked him flat, I haven't done that for a long time!" said Jane, she smiled; maybe she was gaining her strength. "I hope I don't have to face another moment like that, I promise to look after you from now on!" said Jareth, he picked her up and laid her on the bed. She looked so beautiful in this dress. "I don't want to take this dress off you, but it looks so good on you I could eat it!" "Who said you had to take it off, I'm sure we could make up for today before we go down to dinner." Said Jane, she gave him a wicked grin and they began to kiss and cuddle. "How did you find out?" "The way I described it to Joe, they had no soul, no warmth, no compassion, the only creatures I've come across like that was a Vampyr called Lestat and we remained friends because he controlled his daemon and gained some morality." Said Jareth, he was proud of his friendship with Lestat; they had been friends for quite some time yet he would always be quiet, reserved and timid. "I hope I may meet Lestat, he seems a lot nicer than Ivy and Blake were." Said Jane; hopefully he would not have the same effect on her as the other two did. "I hope so too, and then when Joe and I entered the drawing room again, Ivy was covering Casper and we could see Blake's fangs. Then I really got annoyed!" said Jareth. "I can understand." Said Jane, she gathered up the skirt of her dress so that she could sit up properly. "Jane, are you okay?" Asked Dursey somewhere inside her head, Jane stood up and pulled Jareth to his feet before they walked downstairs. "C'mon, dinners ready and my mother is worried about me." Said Jane she held onto Jareth's arm appreciatively and smiled up at him, "I'm glad your touch doesn't leave me on the verge of Consciousness." "I'll have to work on that later, I'm sure there's something I can do to that effect." Said Jareth, they casually walked down the stair well and greeted their family. "Are you okay? Blake just disappeared and then we heard you scream, I was really worried." Said Martin. He kissed her on the forehead and they embraced as only father and daughter could. "I'm fine, Jareth came in as soon as I had bolted for the door, I knocked him over and Jareth staked him in the heart. I'm grateful he came in when he did, I couldn't get any nearer to the door than that." Said Jane, she hugged Joe and kissed her mother on the cheek before kissing Casper on the forehead too, catching him completely unawares. "Shall we eat? Dinner will be getting cold and I'm starved." Said Jareth, he held Jane tightly around the waist and they walked through to the smaller dining hall. "So, would you like me to go along tomorrow to visit Ava, I'm sure you'd like to meet them on your own accord and I can read through some of the scriptures with your father and I'm sure the boys will enjoy some time with the horses." Said Jareth, he pulled the chair away so she could sit and sat beside her. "I'm sure you would like some time away from me, I'd enjoy talking with mother, and the boys would like your company before we leave. You stay here tomorrow and mother and I shall make a day of it!" she said, touching his leg gently, electricity flowing from the tips of her fingers to his thigh. "Then we shall spend the day after together, if that's okay with you Jareth, only I'd like to spend some of these precious few days with my sister." Said Joe, he smiled sweetly at his new brother, he was going to be happy in this realm and very few things could change that. "I would not even think of intruding your great bond, of course, I shall spend some time with your parents, reading the scriptures once again." Said Jareth, he felt Jane's hand moving higher and higher up his leg.

The next day came with great rejoice from everybody, it turned out to be a warm day so Jane wore her Earth clothes, knee length skirt, Mid calf DM's and a short sleeved wrap-around shirt, her hair tied up and off her shoulders. She was grateful for the change of clothes; she wouldn't have survived wearing those long dark dresses that were about three layers thick. "Mother, what are the children's names again, there are a lot of them to remember.." Said Jane, she mumbled off into her own little world, thinking of the night before in their bedroom making love to Jareth. "There are eleven children in all. There are seven boys, Jeremy, Lex, Lucian, Damien, Zachary, Bactien and Coyote, and four daughters, Satanne, Annaleigh, Innana and Daphne. Ava is a lucky mother, she survived all eleven births and her children are all so beautiful. Very much like Jareth but with out the power." Said Dursey, they were travelling in the carriage. It was a lot more pleasant than the buses, trains and Planes on Earth. They could hear the birds' song and smell the flowers they passed and hear the horses' feet clip-clop down the road. All was so enjoyable that it would be understandable how shocked they were to hear the extra pair of hooves on the gravel path. The sudden halt of the carriage and when Jane managed to pull herself from the floor where her mother's feet were, she looked and found the silhouette of a young man with long dark hair. "My Lady Jane, so it is you!" said the young man. He was wise beyond his years and his face looked so fresh.