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"I totally flunked the bio exam Pipes!" Venus sighed, tossing herself on her bed. "Honey, you need to chill" Piper said simply, "It was one minor test, okay? Besides Mr. Ryan loves you, he'll let you retake it."
"I guess you're right." Venus said crossing her leg over her knee and swinging her freshly pedicured foot back and forth, Piper's treat.
"I know I'm right." She laughed. "Okay, thanks babe." "Bye boo." As Venus layed down on the bed that night, two figures, both of magic, but of different kingdoms watched over her, neither sensing the other. After a few hours, the first figure swept away, leaving a light scent of the ocean and a cracked seashell.
The other remained, sliding a leather covered hand through the young girls' onyx hair. She moaned in her sleep and moved closer to the warm leather. "Missed you." She sighed softly.
He moved her black tresses to the side and leant down, his lips ever so slightly, touching her ear. "I've missed you too, precious.", Slowly backing away from her. She shifted so quickly, he thought she had woke up, but she simply grabbed his leather bound hand into her own, and snuggled her face into it, letting out a contented hum.
"Don't leave me." This piqued his curiosity as he kneeled next to her bed and smoothed her hair down her back. He rubbed his fingers against hip lips and pressed it to her temple, looking into her dream. First it showed a younger Venus, about 7 or 8 years old.
She was crying over a grave, "Andrea Elizabeth Du'Vhain, loving mother, wife, and friend." Then the image changed to a slightly younger girl, crying over a different grave, "Marcel Kieran Du'Vhain, loving brother, beloved son." Then, the next week after she saw the owl for the first time. "But dad, I didn't do anything wrong!" Venus screamed.
"Venus Du'Vhain, you will listen to her, she is your mother!" "That sorry excuse for your wife is not my mother." She spat. Her father's hand came down quickly and struck her with enough force to knock her to the floor, after he left she layed there, crying her eyes out.
He let out a light gasp, coming back to consciousness. Anger and rage, hot and red, spread through his body like wildfire. How dare they do that to the future queen of the goblins and the future princess of the fae kingdom?
Okay, so maybe they didn't know that much yet, but how dare a father do that to his child? The anger soon vanished into sadness, she lost her family at such a young age. He sighed softly, he could at least give her a pleasant dream... for both of them.
"So beautiful," He whispered in her ear, twirling her away and pulling her back. Her cheeks flushed red and she looked down with a shy smile, "Thank you" "Don't thank me for telling the truth precious." She let out a small giggle and allowed herself to be twirled on the dance floor by the handsome and mysterious man.
Venus wasn't quite sure what had happened, all she new was that she had never felt as safe or as happy as she did in this man's arms. "What's your name?" She asked curiously, but softly. He leaned down to her lips and flicked his blue eyes to meet hers', "I am Jar-"
"Kingy! Kingy, must get up!" Jareth woke with a start, his silk sheets pooling around his waist and sweat pouring down his back. "Kingy, court is having meeting about Kingy now!" The goblin screeched, running around the room.
Jareth sighed and rubbed his temples, too angry to even look at the goblin, he had 5 years, why in the fuck would they call a meeting now? Did everyone hate him or something?
Tonight was the night he was going to propose, ask his beautiful Venus if she would run away from her horrid life and stay with him, for he would love her like no other, and treat like an angel, because surely, that's what she was.
An angel sent to banish the turmoil in his soul. She would be the envy of every queen and princess in the Underground and Aboveground. But unfortunately, he could not do that, the council was calling a meeting... about him.
Jareth walked through the large mahogany doors of the council hall. "I don't understand why he can't marry my Ava!" "Lady Rebekah, we have told you it is his choice who he marries." "Tessa is more than an acceptable companion for Jareth!" Another voice screeched.
Oh how lovely... back to trying to force me into marrying their... daughters.
"Celine, it is over, he has 3 years left to choose, and as far as I can tell, he hasn't chosen your daughter." "This is an outrage! Knowing the goblin king, he will choose yet another mortal!" Celine screeched. But well, yeah, Venus is mortal.
At that point in the argument, Jareth decided to make his presence known, clearing his throat.
"I was called?" He asked, looking at the council, the room was quiet. "Jareth, tell them you'll marry Ava!", Rebekah yelled, grabbing the arm of a girl that looked extremely similar to her.
"No, he'll marry my Tessa!", Celine screeched, pulling a blonde haired, green eyed girl to the council table.
Though the girls looked rather confused at first, the moment they saw him, their eyes changed to what Jareth could only describe as an attempt to be flirtatious. To him it was more... disgusting than appealing.
He was curious to if Venus woke up yet, but what if she just wrote it off as a dream, oh god what if she refused him? He didn't think his heart could take that rejection, his heart'd probably give out and die, despite the fact that his body didn't work like that...
He really needed to think about it, and all this bickering, was definitely not helping him.
"Enough" he bit out, "I was granted 5 mortal years to find a queen, now why is there suddenly... complications, in that offer?"
"We need a prince in the Elven Kingdom, Jareth, and both you and Ava are in need of a spouse." Rebekah spoke clearly and calmly.
"It is my choice who I marry, until my time is up, there will be no decisions made for me, I do not wish to wed either of your daughters, am I understood?"
Celine turned with a huff and grabbed her daughter, Tessa's, arm and disappeared in a puff of dark smoke, leaving behind dark colored glitter.
Rebekah waved off her daughter, who sneered at her before whispering to herself, 'this isn't over.' and disappearing into earth toned smoke and leaving the scent of plants behind.
The council dismissed him and soon he found himself back in his room, dreaming of his dark haired angel and soon to be bride.
A/N: Double Update ^.^