Chapter Twelve - 'Tis a glorious thing!

A/N - OK, I can't update for a while because my GCSEs start next week and I really
need to get serious about my revision, no more half hour slots. Realistically there
won't be anything until early July. Sorry!!

Lily sat cross legged in her back garden trying to concentrate on her last trigonometry
problem. Just one more question to go in today's revision session but wow, it was a
bugger! She took a sip of Coke and once again tried to figure it out logically.
Morrigan the cat was nuzzling her knee affectionately.

"I don't suppose you know how to work out the cosine of X, do you?" said the girl but
the cat only looked at her and purred. "Didn't think so."

"It's the adjacent divided by the hypotenuse, you silly girl." said a familiarly, arrogant
voice. Lily looked to her right and came face to face with the Goblin King who had
appeared next to her on the lawn.

"Oh! Thanks." she said suspiciously "But something tells me you're not here to give
me a maths lesson."

"Sadly no. Although you really do need one." said Jareth "I've come to discuss you're
writing."

"Oh, here we go again!"

"You're getting sloppy!"

"I'm under a lot of pressure at the moment!" Lily argued. "I've got a lot of things to
do."

"Like swanning around in Italy?"

"It was a working holiday!"

"Which I did not permit!"

"I know! You sent that little Goblin in the red coat to frighten me. You know I get
freaked out by "Don't Look Now" it's like the scariest movie ever!"

"Well, what's you're excuse now?"

"I'm bloody tired and I don't feel like it OK!" said Lily angrily "And you haven't
helping, keeping everyone awake at night with your incessant hooting!"

"Well, it's the mating season, I get carried away sometimes." said Jareth defensively
"Never mind, just make sure you get back on track when you finish school." and with
he vanished leaving nothing but a pile of glitter and a packet of liquorice allsorts,
which Lily promptly fed to Morrigan to see what would happen.

Trin approached the door again cautiously and knocked. He was still the bait for the
plan but at least he had lost the card cutting fair and square. The hatch opened once
again and a very angry looking guard poked his out.

"What do yous want now!" he shouted with irritation.

"Erm... excuse me?" said Trin shakily "But your father was the illegitimate son of a
fish wife!"

"WHAT?!?"

"And you're mother is so big that when she tried wearing high heels she struck oil!"

The guard looked at Trin in a strange way which in no way as threatening as he had
expected. "Ah! So you know my parents!" said the guard "Well, why didn't you say
so, friend! Come on in!" and with that the ominous looking door at the back of the
pub swung open.

"Hey! That was easy!" said Hilarity happily and followed the others inside.

The back room was dark and unsavoury and reeked of sour beer. At the back was a
crowded table occupied by a dozen or so shady looking characters and at the head was
the most elaborate looking pirate Hilarity had ever seen. Unusually, he looked just like
Keith Richards.

"The Pirate King will see you now." said the guard and motioned for them to move
forward.

"What is this obsession about kings who look like rock stars!" said Hilarity.

"Search me!" said Jareth.