A/N: HELLO ALL.
SO, HERE'S MY STORY. I HAD ALMOST GIVEN UP HOPE ON THIS STORY, AND WAS GOING TO ABANDON IT BECAUSE I HAD NO IDEA WHERE I WAS GOING WITH IT. BUT I WAS RECENTLY INSPIRED TO GET MY NOTES TOGETHER AND I THINK I ACTUALLY CAME UP WITH A FAIRLY DEENT PLOT, BUT I WANTED TO REVISE THE LAST FEW CHAPTERS THAT I HAD WRITTEN IN ORDER FOR EVERYTHING TO COME TOGETHER. SO THESE ARE REPOSTS, BUT THEY ARE DIFFERENT.
I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR WHAT YOUR OPINIONS ARE ON THE NEW CHAPTERS, IF YOU LIKE THEM MORE THAN THE OLD ONES OR NOT (THAT IS, IF YOU EVEN REMEMBER THE OLD ONES, IT'S BEEN SO LONG SINCE I ORIGINALLY WROTE THEM.) SO PLEASE LEAVE SOME FEEDBACK AND LET ME KNOW.
ANYWAY, I WON'T RAMBLE ANYMORE. HERE YOU GO. ENJOY!!!
Jareth slowly came to, still feeling extremely exhausted. He also noticed that he felt really cold.
Sensing a warmth coming from his left, he rolled toward it and unknowingly wrapped himself around the woman that was sleeping in his bed. As soon as he was comfortable, he was again fast asleep, his arm wrapped around his source of warmth.
Sarah was briefly woken when she felt Jareth's arm slip around her waist, but in her sleepy haze grabbed his arm and further wrapped him around herself, falling back to sleep very quickly herself.
Adelphos flopped down on the bed, being careful to avoid his partner who a moment before was laying under him. He felt completely spent and exhausted. It was time like these that he was glad that Antonia had a temper. If he was successful in diverting her attention to the two of them, rather than whatever she might have been ranting and raving at, it would be the makings of a very long night.
Turning to lay on his back, he pulled Antonia to him and draped her naked body over his like a human blanket. "Fantastic," he said softly as the two of them caught their breaths. Antonia chuckled softly and nodded into his chest. After a moment, she said, "As wonderful as that was Adelphos, it didn't do much to solve our situation."
Moving off of him, Antonia grabbed her robe and put it on, tying the sash tightly around her waist. Sighing loudly, Adelphos grabbed the hem of her robe as she stood up from the bed and stopped her from walking away. "Antonia, can't you just forget about it for a couple of hours and enjoy us?"
"Do you see what time it is Adelphos? We have already been in that bed for hours, and now I don't want to waste anymore time. We need to come up with a plan to take the Goblin Kingdom." Antonia said as she walked over to a table that had some fruit on it, grabbing a piece, she hungrily bit into it.
"We don't have to worry about that Antonia, I think that I already have a plan, and it is very much the same as what we had planned before, only a few minor changes," Adelphos said as he climbed out of bed and over to where she stood, completely oblivious about his nudity.
Coming up toward her, he grabbed the fruit out of her hand and took a bite of it. As he chewed he said, "The only thing that we rally have to do is get rid of this Sarah woman, then we can go forward as planned."
Grabbing the fruit back from him, Antonia asked, "How do you propose we get rid of her?" as she brought it back to her lips.
Surprising her, Adelphos grabbed the fruit out of her hands and threw it across the room. He then grabbed her and hoisted her over his shoulder and carried her back to the bed.
Sarah felt the warm naked torso pressed up against her and smiled a little as she remembered the night before. It took two seconds for her hazy mind to register that there was no night before, and she couldn't remember who was wrapped around her.
She tried to turn her head, but couldn't turn it far enough to see the face of her bedmate. Forcing her self to stay calm so she wouldn't wake the person behind her, Sarah tried to clear the cobwebs from her mind, and told herself to think back to the last thing that she remembered before falling asleep. The only thing that came to mind was bad tea and scaly hands.
Sarah tried harder and thought back a little further, when am image of Jareth naked from the waist up and sweating profusely from the bed came into view. Another image of him collapsed in the hallway and looking an unhealthy shade of gray came into her mind. She remembered what had happened and assumed that Sevina had drugged her also in order to make her rest and further heal her internal injuries.
Trying not to wake the sleeping form behind her, Sarah tried to lift Jareth's arm so that she could crawl out of the bed. She gasped in surprise as his arm locked even tighter around her waist and pulled her back to him.
"You don't have to leave you know," Jareth whispered into her ear, his voice very sleepy and husky. "Besides, you are very soft and very warm, and you also smell wonderful. "
Sarah was at a loss for words for a moment, then came up with an excuse as quickly as possible, "What if one of your guards or someone else walked in and saw us like this in the bed?"
"Well, number one, no one is ever allowed in here without knocking and awaiting permission to enter, and number two, if they did walk in here, it would just appear as though we are a normal betrothed couple."
He brought his lips down to rest on her shoulder and began tracing shapes along the fabric of her shirt. Sarah couldn't tell if it was a feather-light kiss or if it just happened to be where his head and lips landed from his exhaustion.
One of the few things that Sarah loved more than anything was waking up in the arms of a man, to have that feeling of protection and security. And Sarah certainly felt safe and secure in his arms, while the combination of his masculine musk and feeling of his hand and fingers on her stomach felt exquisite. As her sleep-muddled head started to clear and she became more alert, the fact that it was Jareth slowly crept into her mind, and the feeling of his lips and hands made her instantly tense up.
Jareth felt her discomfort, stopped the movement of his hand and raised his head slightly, and said very softly, "Does this really bother you Sarah? Because if it does, I can stop."
Sarah had been ready with an excuse to get out the bed and away from him, but found that the combination of his scent and the feeling of him pressed up against her, she couldn't even form the word. All she could do was shake her head no.
Jareth laid his head back down and continued to draw out patterns on her stomach while resting his head in the crook of her neck. Sarah closed her eyes again and allowed herself to relax and enjoy the feeling of Jareth touching her.
"How are you feeling this morning?" Jareth asked after a couple of minutes of silence had passed between the two of them.
Sarah said, "Better than the last time I woke up, but I guess Sevina magic is still working on healing my injuries, I kind of have this warm feeling throughout my body. What about you? How do you feel?"
"I feel overall very well this morning, just a little fatigue left from yesterday," Jareth answered.
All of sudden, Jareth's hand hit a ticklish spot just below her ribcage, and Sarah let out a small gasp as she moved away from him quickly on the bed. She turned to look at him, and nearly laughed at the expression on his face.
"I'm sorry, "She said, her cheeks flamed a shade of pink as she looked down in embarrassment. "You just hit a ticklish spot and it made me jump."
She looked back up to see the amusement in Jareth's eyes and a small smirk forming on his lips. "Did I now?" He asked wickedly.
Before Sarah could even get a syllable out, Jareth felt a burst of energy shoot through him and he pounced on top of her and sought out the spot that he had run over before, trying to get her to laugh. Sarah let out a small shriek when he had pinned her to the bed and laughed as his hand found the spot again.
Jareth set out to find more ticklish areas and soon he had Sarah completely flushed and crying from laughing so hard underneath him. "OK, I give. Uncle, Uncle!!" Sarah cried out, while gasping for breath. She was getting very light headed from what she guessed was lack of oxygen.
"He isn't here right now," Jareth joked, as he placed his hands on either side of her head, and leaned his weight forward onto his arms so that he wouldn't be crushing her.
It was a mistake to think that, because the burst of adrenaline he had felt earlier had given out and Jareth ended up falling forward completely on her, his body entirely in contact with hers. He let out a small "oomph" as he fell and she grunted as her body absorbed the shock of his falling into her.
The two of them laughed as they realized what happened, and Jareth moved so that he was resting his weight on his forearms and took some pressure off of her. He looked down and the sight of her nearly took his breath away, he felt a slow burn begin to form deep in his stomach. Her beautiful chestnut hair was wildly fanned out on the pillow beneath her head, her cheeks flushed with color and her eyes exclaiming mirth as the tears continued to flow from them.
Sarah admired how his wild hair fell from his head, and to see this man that she once considered an enemy for taking her brother from her and challenging her in his Labyrinth, now smiling and chuckling above her, made her feel another wave of warmth pass through her body.
Jareth brought one hand up and wiped the tears of laughter away from her cheeks. When he had wiped them away, he began to trace her facial features. His fingers and eyes fell to her lips and his thought went back to that last kiss they shared. He thought about how soft and velvety her lips felt as she kissed him.
Jareth couldn't resist and brought his lips down to hers for another soft and chaste kiss. Sarah was surprised as first, but melted into him at the feeling of his lips meeting hers. The kiss ended and he pulled back. He immediately felt ashamed that he lost control so easily and began to move off of her, mumbling an apology.
He was stopped by her arms pulling him back to her and her hands grabbing his face to bring his head down to meet hers. She looked into his eyes and said, "Don't stop."
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