Not-So Perfect Timing

By: Neko-chan

A/N: Yay! A part two! Hmmm...maybe I should make this into a series of short stories, huh? ^_^ Anyway, this fic is once again dedicated to the great and wonderful Sallie Drazzi. *hugs* Hope ya like it! ^_~

Disclaimer: Neko-chan owns nothing...though she does wish that she sometimes owns the Goblin King. (Then again, who doesn't?)

The scene we enter upon, ladies and gentlemen, is of the red-headed Neko-chan in white ankle length socks, oversized plaid boxers, and a white tank top. This story begins--

"YOU REMIND ME OF THE BABE. WHAT BABE? BABE WITH THE POWER. WHAT POWER? POWER OF VOODOO. WHO DO? YOU DO. DO WHAT? REMIND ME OF THE BABE!" Neko-chan sang at the top of her lungs as she danced around her room, a comb held in her hand as a microphone.

Suddenly, her stereo shut off and a deep voice chuckled from behind the teenage girl. "Remind me to send the goblins to you for torturing whenever they misbehave. With you to discipline them, they'll never misbehave again. All you have to do is sing for them."

"Hey!" Neko-chan exclaimed as she turned around to give whoever had spoken a thorough tongue-lashing. Then she saw Jareth, the Goblin King. The red-headed girl blinked at him and raised an eyebrow. "Aren't you supposed to be in Antarctica?"

The blonde man shuddered. "Dear God, don't bring up those memories. Did you know that in Antarctica, the female population outnumbers the male 15 to 1? It was so horrible. The village that you sent me to was made up of all women."

Neko-chan started laughing, tears of mirth trailing down her face. "Do you mean to tell me that you became a man-trollop for a village full of women?" The laughter grew harder and louder.

"Go ahead, laugh as hard as you want. You wouldn't be laughing at ALL if you had to endure what I had to."

The girl began to laugh so hard that she slowly slid to the floor, clutching at her sides. Gasping for breath, she said: "But you're the Goblin King; you're _supposed_ to enjoy seducing women and then leaving them."

Jareth shuddered. "Do you know how often the women bathed? Once every several years. I'm going to have nightmares for centuries."

Neko-chan snickered. "Oh, I have _got_ to tell Sallie Drazzi this! She's gonna love it!" She stood up and made her way to her computer, a letter already outlined in her mind. But Neko-chan stopped abruptly when Jareth uttered an evil sounding chuckle.

"Oh, speaking of Sallie Drazzi..." he trailed off, raising an arm and snapping his fingers. Suddenly, a high-pitched shriek echoed off of Neko-chan's walls and a young woman appeared next to the red-head and fell on her rump.

Pushing herself to her feet, the young woman dusted herself off and glared at the Goblin King. It was then that Neko-chan noticed the pink glitter tattoo on her cheek. "Sallie Drazzi!" Neko-chan squealed and glomped her favorite Labyrinth author. "It's so NICE to finally meet you!"

Smiling happily, Sallie Drazzi hugged Neko-chan back. "I know. It's nice to finally meet you, too. But...how did I get here?" Silently, the younger girl pointed to the smirking Jareth. Sallie Drazzi cocked an eyebrow and sighed. "Oh, it's you again. What do you want this time? And are you ever going to remove this stupid pink glitter tattoo from my face?"

All Jareth did in reply was utter a low, evil sounding laugh. Neko-chan rolled her eyes at his antics while Sallie Drazzi sighed. "Actually," he finally answered when he was through, "I wanted to know if either of you will be writing new Labyrinth fiction any time soon...or, in _your_ case, Neko-chan, are you going to be _finishing_ any Labyrinth works any time soon?"

Neko-chan scowled. "I've been busy," she retorted haughtily.

The Goblin King snorted. "Yes, you looked _extremely_ busy just a bit ago when you were singing and dancing." The girl's scowl turned to a glare and she threw her comb at him.

Ducking, Jareth was able to avoid being hit in the head with the comb...barely. "To tell you both the truth, your stories weren't the reason why I returned," he said, smiling a little smug smile. Neko-chan and Sallie Drazzi looked skeptical. After all, they each had had to endure several visits by the Goblin King. They knew that he was up to something. "Actually..." Jareth continued, his smug little smile becoming even _more_ smug. "The reason why I came back is to show you two my kingdom. Isn't that your dream? To know the Labyrinth firsthand?"

Sallie Drazzi and Neko-chan exchanged and look and both began to smile.

* * *

"We are so stupid, did you know that?" Neko-chan wailed, partly to herself, and partly to Sallie Drazzi. "So completely and utterly stupid. The stupidest people on the face of the Earth. We should have _known_ better! Really, we should have! We are so completely and totally gullible!"

Sallie Drazzi sighed and tossed a scrub brush down the long hallway. "No, we aren't. We just didn't realize that Jareth would take his revenge about the whole eBay thing..."

The younger female snickered. "That was kinda funny, wasn't it?"

Sallie Drazzi laughed. "Yup. Totally worth this, I should say."

Neko-chan snorted. "The whole eBay incident is NOT worth this," she retorted. "So completely _NOT_ worth this. I swear to whatever god is listening that I'll make him regret this..."

The older woman sighed and thought of the neon green glitter tattoo that Jareth had put on her other cheek in revenge for the whole 'incident.' She sighed once again and got back to work. Growling insults about Jareth--and his ancestry--under her breath, Neko-chan followed suit....

...cleaning the latrines and privies in the Goblin King's castle.