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Gemini Chapter Six "Coffee, tea, and Dayan"

"YOU ARE KIDDING ME, NO COFFEE!!!!" Lydia was not a morning person. Now finding out there is not one drop of Coffee in the entire Underground. Not even a Starbucks; and Starbucks probably will be the first coffee shop to reach Mars, but they hadn't reached the Underground much to Lydia's demise.

"My Lady Lydia please calm down, I am sure the tea will suffice," said Dayan with an amused smile. They had introduced themselves this morning. Jareth had yet to make an appearance. When Lydia had laid eyes on Dayan she her mouth gaped. Dayan looked like something out of every wicked dark sexual fantasy any woman could have. He had dark black hair with that beautiful blue tint to it. His eyes were silver and he looked at a person as either reading them or undressing them in his mind. His body had one of those perfect shapes that make women think that Sn'M is the way sex should be. He was dressed in similar attire as Jareth. She couldn't help it when her eyes lingered I the crotch area more than once. She told him he was too damn gorgeous for words and should never go to the Aboveground out of fear of being raped. He had laughed in a deep rich laughter that made her shiver. She kept telling herself that just because there are two absolutely gorgeous within the castle that she did not come here for an orgy.

"Looks like I don't have a choice," Lydia shoulder lowered in disappointment. "Better to give me the entire pot of tea, because the one thing I am addicted to is coffee and I will need the entire pot of tea to get the same affect. And have been known to be in a bad mood all day when I do not get at least one cup of coffee a day. But that tea will have to do."

"Do you not like tea?"

"OH I love tea its just… coffee is what I have every morning and tea I drink at night. I even brought some of my own tea because the tea that I prefer is more likely not in the Underground. Which would be green tea, Jasmine, and a whole bunch of others that I love."

"Really, you wouldn't mine allowing me to try some of this Aboveground Tea." Dayan after the introductions had been entirely charmed by this woman. She had a way to allow people to feel comfortable around her and to easily warm up to her as if she was a long time friend. But yet under her cheerful ways he could see within her own eyes she had had her own hardship but didn't let it get her down and affect her in anyway. It was the way of his race of Fae, to read other's underlying emotions. He could not read their minds, he felt and read their emotions. That's why His majesty had befriended him and hired him as his Advisor once he had become king. He could read the emotions of both His majesty and ones addressing his king, and give Jareth his analysis of the situation.

History Lesson

His race the Spirit Fae had been feared and judged, an exiled race. They were given the most uninhabitable land known to the Underground; the trolls had better land than the Spirit fae. Because of this they had been had been dying off with disease and famine, and there had been a just handful of them including his mother and Father. The high council still had a strong fear of their race because of their special gifts and the vengeance they could have been bestowed upon them, because they would know the emotions of each and every member pf the council and know the very weakness they hide. They charged them all with treason and were killed, others were assassinated. A close friend of his family had escaped with Dayan to the Labyrinth. Luckily Dayan had been just a child and the woman had been a lowly mortal and they were not questioned on their trip to the Labyrinth.

The mortal woman raised Dayan as her own child. They had lived within the outer rim of the Goblin Kingdom in a mortal inhabited town. Dayan had thought he was a typical mortal boy until puberty had come upon him and he discovered his gift to read people. That was when the mortal woman had told him of his race and origin. Though knowing what he was the woman forbid him to speak of it to anyone because the fear of his race. Dayan had kept his secret hidden not long after the mortal woman had passed away, when he had met Jareth. They had met when Jareth had been a small child and Dayan was coming to the end of his adolescent years (which is around the first 50 to 100 years). Dayan had heard Jareth crying, Dayan had found the child hidden in a small bush in tears. Dayan gift felt the true pain in the child's heart. The child had lost his mother in the childbirth; the child did not make it as well. His father had offered no comfort; the child in a way was alone. Dayan had comforted the child because the child experience was so similar to his own; they were both alone. They had formed a brotherly bond through out the years. He had confided in Jareth of his gift and history once Jareth was old enough to understand. Jareth had given Dayan the position of Advisor as soon as he had been given the Goblin crown and put Dayan under his and his kingdoms protection.

Back to the present

"Your Majesty glad to have you join us." Jareth walked in his casual everyday clothes gray breeches and a white low chest line poet shirt. Lydia felt under dressed both these men where beautiful and all she was wearing was jeans and a T-shirt that said, 'I went to Middle Earth and all I got was this crummy Ring.'

"Morning Dayan." Jareth looked at Lydia, "how did you sleep, were you comfortable?"

"I did. I even forgot where I was." Lydia drank some of the tea and then continued, "Your Majesty, so where will be we beginning my training?"

"Call me Jareth, and today we will be…." Before he could finish Tidus walked into the dining hall.

"Your Majesty, all invitations have been accepted." Tidus paused, and then continued with caution, "Your father the High King with also will be attending." Both Jareth and Dayan were silent for some time, and Lydia being inpatient spoke first.

"There is going to be a ball?"

Tidus replied, "Yes this weekend My Lady, and by the way I am his Majesty's Page Tidus." Tidus looked the age of sixteen; he looked like Orlando Blooms double from "Pirates of the Caribbean."

"Name's Lydia. So I don't have to attend this ball do I?"

Jareth looked at her as if she said something foolish, "Yes, as my guest you are expected to attend. Do you not want to attend?"

"Never was interested in playing princess and going to balls. And the idea of corset wearing makes me not want to go near a ball with twenty foot pole."

"But you went to those balls Aboveground," Jareth said amused.

"Those balls were barely imitations of what a real ball is, they are meant for childish fun."

Dayan decided to step in, "Call it a experiment. Are you not curious over the fae noble society?

She looked over at Dayan with a skeptical look and replied, "How would you know that? I have been very discreet about my curiosity. At least amongst you." She looked at him as if analyzing him. He now understood how it felt to be read, though she did not have his talent. She looked at him with the same skeptical look he gave others. "You can read me can't you? Not my thoughts but something else. Emotions maybe"

Both the men and the page looked at her in absolute shock. Jareth asked, "My dear how would you know that?"

She looked down as if confused and looked up with a very unusual look in her eyes, "I don't know, I just did. It just came to me just as if someone punched me in the stomach."

Dayan nodded and looked at her, "Lydia, my gift and yours are similar both involve the mind and emotions. Yours on the other hand also involve dreams. Mine is traditional among my race. I can read the hidden emotion of all races, in which can be interpreted into thoughts"

"You are not the same as Jareth?"

"No, I am a Spirit fae. Jareth is an Earth fae. The difference is he has more power over the elements and other forms of magic, such as healing and dream weaving. I have some elemental power but my base is within my mind. I am the last of the Spirit fae, at least to my knowledge. Jareth is part of one of the most powerful branches of the Earth fae. He has quite a considerable power like the rest of his family."

Jareth then entered the conversation, "Please keep the fact that Dayan is what he is a secret."

"Don't worry about me. If you want it to be known you will announce it at your own time." Lydia said as a state of fact. "So I am going to this ball huh, so do get a dress for the occasion because nothing I have will be even close to suitable?"

"Yes, the Seamstress has already been notified of your arrival and will be in your room after your training." Jareth walked up to her and held out his hand and said, "And your training we will now commence in the library, my lady."

She took it with no hesitation and they disappeared.

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