Ha ha, long time no see huh? Just kidding with you! Lol
Okay, if anyone reads this I will be surprised after how long I neglected it. Lol Sorry to my readers and more so to my characters - they MUST have been bored with nothing to do forever. Especially Pip, seeing as she only exists in my story because she's my character and she's one of those people that get upset and yell when they're left alone too long. I wouldn't mind letting others use her in their stories if they wanted to as long as they say she's mine in the disclaimer and ask first. Oh, and keep her brilliantly spunky personality in tact.
I've been working with my other stories so much this one got pushed lightly aside and the topics in this one have to be handled with care, seeing as the main theme is love. To those reading this, thank you for taking the time to do so. For those of you who intend on reviewing - you are the best! I absolutely love getting reviews stuffed with questions or suggestions for the story or even writing tips. Or all three, I'm not picky about reviews, all reviews are welcome!
Just so you know, Jareth has a POV later on, and he likes to refer to certain people like Hoggle and Ludo by nicknames... you'll understand when you get there I guess.
Well, on with the show then! Yay, I finally get to say that again for this story! One more time then -ON WITH THE SHOW!
Chapter 6
Hoggle, Sir Didymus and Ludo waited outside the door to the Goblin King's room all that night, sleeping in shifts so there was always someone watching the door for the Goblin King or Pip to come out so they could put their plan into action. It started to seem like no one was ever going to come out when all of the sudden -
"I'll return in a moment Pip my dearest love, just a few small matters to clear up with the servants, you know. I'll just be a moment my darling." The Goblin King whispered happily, more to himself than to Pip it seemed, striding out of the huge double doors to saunter down the hall quickly but with less of an air of arrogance than normal or so it seemed to Hoggle who had never seen him walk without it before in his entire service to the Goblin King. Hoggle sprang into action as soon as the Goblin King was far enough down the hall that he couldn't turn around and see him, sticking a finger in the crack between the two doors so the door couldn't close completely. Hoggle quickly waved to the other's to follow as the sunk inside the room. Ludo stayed behind on Hoggle's orders and watched the door, holding it open so they wouldn't get locked inside the Goblin King's bed chambers after they got inside the room to where Pip was hopefully. Hoggle and Sir Didymus crept slowly inside the room looking around wildly for Pip. It was Hoggle who spotted her first and gasped, what he saw shocking him nearly half to death.
Pip was lying down on the Goblin King's bed asleep in the Goblin King's midnight blue and silver speckled jacket, the covers were pulled up around her and wrapped loosely waist as she slept smiling brightly up at then. She looked comfortable and completely content with where she was, which made no sense to Hoggle. Why go through the trouble rescue someone who's already happy where they were? Maybe the Goblin King really hadn't kidnapped her after all; maybe Pip really had gone with the Goblin King willingly...
But then again there was poor Sarah! She had been so distraught when they had found Pip missing from her bedroom. Sarah had asked them to bring her back for Pip's own good and that's what they had to do, even if that wasn't what Pip wanted. Not that Hoggle and the others were going to ask her opinion in the matter seeing as they were just here to rescue her not ask questions. There would be time for that later, once they had escaped. Hoggle crept to one side of the bed and pulled slowly on the bed sheets so that they would give easily as he pulled Pip off the bed and onto the floor with the covers as not to disturb her or wake her up. Hoggle send Sir Didymus to hold the door and called Ludo over to carry Pip. As Ludo picked her up in his large arms, Pip sighed happily and snuggled against him. After a moment of wiggling against him she pulled away, her eyes snapping open at once. She stared up into Ludo's huge eyes for a moment before letting out the loudest scream Hoggle had ever heard in his life - and that was including all the times the Goblin King had yelled at him and the times Sarah had screamed because of the Goblin King's cruel antics.
"Jareth, come quickly I need you! HELP ME! AHHHHHHHH!" Pip shrieked loudly, kicking and flailing as she struggled to get away from Ludo, terrified for her life. Ludo struggled to keep a hold on her while Hoggle tried desperately to calm her down, but it was no use -
"Pip! Love, what is it?" Jareth asked worriedly as he appeared in a puff of smoke that obscured his vision. When the smoke cleared he stood stock still for a moment before turning red and frowning, springing immediately into action. He went running full force into Ludo, slamming into him so that he dropped Pip back onto the bed. Pip scrambled quickly to the other side of the bed away from everyone, cowering against the headboard as Jareth fought with the intruders.
(Jareth POV)
I had told Pip how I felt about her. She had remained calm through all of it, her eyes growing wide as I confessed to her that I loved her. She just stared at me, making me feel oddly uncomfortable in a way I couldn't describe.
"Pip, I'm sorry I even brought it up since it obviously distresses you so that I care about you." I murmured, not looking at her. She still didn't speak, just continued to stare at me as if I were a ghost. "If you don't feel the same Pip I understand, I didn't except you to love me like I loved you. I'm so sorry, I'll just leave then."
"Wait Jareth, please!" Pip cried out grabbing my arm as I went to leave her. I turned to look back into her beautiful face. Tears had sprung up in her eyes and now I had to be confronted with them. I reached up a hand to brush them away and she grabbed it, capturing my hand in hers, holding it stead it seemed as shivers had begun to run up and down my body as I watched her cry. She stroked my hand with her free hand not already holding mine as I watched her, looking down at her hands. It was easier to look at her hands instead of her tearstained face, because I knew I had caused her saddened tears. "What did you say to me? Oh, please say it again!"
"I'm sorry Pip." I said slowly, sure that was what she wanted to hear me say. But it wasn't.
"No Jareth not that." Pip laughed, placing a hand gently on the side of my face. I brought a hand up to bring my fingertips gently across her hand and she smiled at me. "I want to hear the part where you say you loved me again. That's what I want to hear."
"I love you Pip, I do!" I smiled brightly pulling her into my arms. She rested her head on my chest, hugging me tightly around my waist. "Please tell me you love me back! I'd die if you didn't!"
"Jareth!" Pip gasped, pulling her head back off my chest to look up at me. She looked angry again. Was it something I said? She raised a fist and punched me hard in the shoulder, fire still blazing in her eyes. "Don't say things like that! I couldn't bear it if you died, oh Jareth don't say such things to me!"
"Do you love me Pip?" I asked imploringly, taking her face in between my hands as I wiped the tears sliding down her face to fall lightly off her chin onto the top of her shirt. "Please tell me Pip, I have to know the truth!"
Pip stayed silent, looking up at me through her large eyes. Her smile faltered as she looked up at me, biting her bottom lip, causing me to think she must be about to tell me she didn't love me after all. I looked away as tears welled up in my own eyes, unable to look at Pip as she prepared to reject me. Then I felt small warm hands closing around my face, cupping it between them to force me to look around at her as she pressed her body against mine.
"Jareth my wonderfully sweet and dear friend, if you must know how I feel and can't figure it out for yourself then I'll tell you... or better yet I'll show you how I feel." Pip said quietly, pausing for effect.
I stared blankly at her, unsure of how she intended to show me how she really felt about me, unless it meant hitting me upside the head or something cruel like that to show me she didn't love or like me at all. Pip leaned forward until our noses where almost touching, until I was staring up into her beautiful eyes, until I could feel her warm breath as she smiled at me. Then she closed the gap, her mouth closing over mine as I closed my eyes against the happiness flowing inside my heart. The feeling of her small soft mouth under mine was even more rapturous and wonderful than I had imagined it, love for Pip coursing through my veins like the blood or water. I had never imagined it would be like this. Pip was better than my wildest and sweetest dreams and my most passionate plans, better than the strongest of all the many spells in my many books. Pip's arms wound their way around my waist as I pushed her back against the soft sheets of my bed, climbing on top of her as she continued to kiss me, her tongue slipping inside my mouth making me moan. She was so perfect for me, even better than I had imagined a girl could ever be. But Pip was so much more than any mere normal girl – she was so special, so perfect even as she kissed me until I was senseless with pleasure. I pulled back for air, looking down at her as she lay silent beneath me.
"Did that answer your question Jareth?" Pip asked, smiling breathlessly as she panted, wrapping her arms around my neck to pull me closer to her. "Well then, did it?"
"I don't know about that Pip. You might just have to tell me again. It wasn't the clearest of answers my love, hopefully you realize this." I smiled wickedly down at her. A second later, Pip's mouth had captured mine again. If you can die from happiness, let me die now in her arms. "I love you Pip."
"And I love you Jareth, my wonderful Goblin King." Pip said softly, her hand stroking my face as she closed her eyes. She yawned, trying to sit up but I wouldn't let her. "What's wrong Jareth dear?"
"Nothing Pip my darling, but I don't think you should get up." I sighed putting my jacket around her shoulders as I stood up when she shivered. I pushed her gently back against the pillows, tucking the blanket in around her body. "Get some sleep dear."
"What about you, aren't you tired?" She asked through a yawn as she slid her arms inside the jacket I had placed around her cold shoulders. I walked over to the doors, smiling at her as she closed her eyes.
"I'll return in a moment Pip my dearest love, just a few small matters to clear up with the servants, you know. I'll just be a moment my darling." I smiled as I turned to walk briskly down the hallway. There was no issue to talk to the servants about to be truthful, but I had needed to tell Pip something to get away! You can't declare your love for someone and then run off to a tall tower to work some spells, which is where I was going. I wanted to work another spell just for Pip, to make something for her – a wedding ring fit to be worn on her delicate hand with pride. I intended to ask her to be my queen, to rule beside me forever and share my throne and my kingdom. I realized this might seem a bit risky and a bit too quickly to be moving things between us but I didn't care – I loved her so!
"It has to be perfect, a special ring just for Pip with no other one like it in the entire world. It has to be just so." I whispered to myself, flicking through my spell books to find the perfect spell to do the job. It was then just as I found the spell that I heard it – Pip screaming my name in fear. I snapped my fingers, reappearing in the chamber I had just left.
"Pip! Love, what is it?" I asked as the smoke began to clear from in front of me. I froze, how had THEY gotten up here and into my rooms? Or out of the dungeon for that matter now that I thought of it. Without thinking about how bad my shoulder was going to kill afterwards, I slammed into the big orange monster clutch Pip against it. She pressed herself against the head board in terror, nearly fainting away before my very eyes. Needless to say, seeing they had terrified her that much upset me – big time. Like I-will-turn-you-into-a-scrawny-chicken-mad or even something crazy like throw-you-into-the-bog-of-Eternal-Stench-upset. (A/N: Ha, the chicken jokes again! Lol)
"Hoghead, today your luck runs out!" I yelled, stomping over to him to pick him up by the scruff or his neck, intent upon throwing him against the wall to knock him out but he turned around and bit me hard on the hand. I shouted, dropping him onto the floor. The orange blob came running at me, arms outstretched. With a cry Pip jumped off the bed onto its back. It lumbered around, flailing its huge arms to try and knock Pip off of its back. She clung on for dear life as she was twisted around, her eyes huge. "Stop it, you great brute! You'll hurt her!"
I ran over to Pip, lifting her off the orange carpet's back and into my arms. She looked up at me gratefully as I set her down on her feet. She swayed and grabbed my arm. I held her up and steady, kissing her tenderly on the top of the head as she smiled at me. Hoghead jumped up on my back to bite my neck and I fell spiraling forward, managing to fall away from Pip so that I wouldn't squish her under me as I crashed into the hard ground head first.
"Jareth, get off of him!" Pip screamed as she pulled him off of me with such force she fell back onto the ground with Hoghead in her lap. "What do you want anyways?"
"You, we promised Sarah we'd bring you back to her world." Hoghead squealed. And suddenly I understood why they had tried to sneak inside the palace – all because of Sarah!
"Sarah, she'll pay for this!" Pip yelled, gritting her teeth as she threw Hoghead across the room. He splattered against the wall falling limply onto the carpet in a dead faint. "I hope he has a killer headache when he wakes up – if I don't toss him out a window first!"
"We can do that a little later on love, right now we have to deal with the orange brutish thing together." I smiled as she helped me to my feet. I kissed her quickly, my need to feel her lips surrender under mine overpowering the need to exterminate the orange menace that was walking toward us. The crazy orange thing turned out to be way tougher than it looked, and it looked pretty tough to begin with! It picked Pip up and threw her across the room onto the bed where she fell, not moving. "PIP!"
I ran to her, flipping her over in my arms as her eyes fluttered weakly. I kissed her forehead as she smiled, sitting up in my arms. She pulled away from me to sit up on the bed across from me, taking my hand. I kissed her hand and she blushed pink making her look even prettier. Amazing how we had time for a precious moment when we had intruders trying to kill us, huh? And they still meant something, at least to me. When I was with Pip, the rest of the world faded away and left only us.
"Jareth, look out!" She screamed pointing over my shoulder as the orange fur ball came running at me. The thing she did next was both brave and stupid – she pushed me out of the way so that I would be safe...
But she wouldn't be safe. It pushed her instead, and she went flying across the room into the wall as Hoghead had, sliding down the wall to lie on the floor. I turned to look at her and the thing grabbed me, throwing me across the room... right into my clock.
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