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Chapter 6
I was up before my usual time well before Minion and decided to go walking about the place.
"Well my petite P…" I cut him off. "Why do you keep calling me your little fish?" I asked Jareth.
He smirked. "So you finally figured out what I was saying."
"Actually Roxanne did."
"She did strike me as a smart one… Because… That's what you are… and always have been. You have always been a little fish. Though you're bigger now than when you first came to me."
"Very funny I was 14 when I first met you." I said to him crossing my arms.
"No my dear you were 6 months old when I first met you." Jareth stated
I looked at him confused "what?"
He put his hands on my arms near my shoulders and looked at me… really looked and it dawned on me "I was wished away" He nodded
"By whom" I asked
"By an older couple who chose you for their Minion" he said sadly
"So I really am" I stared at him
"A little fish." He said
"Why not them too then." I had to know
"They knew what they were doing… I asked them if they wanted to come after you. They said even if they made it through the labyrinth there would be no home to return to. They did it to save your life." While he had been talking I had been talking steps away from him.
Minion by this time was up and heard part of this conversation… not really meaning to hear something that might be private but considering what Jareth had done the last two times he had been there. Well he wanted to make sure I was ok.
"How do I know you're not lying?" I asked already anticipating the answer. I didn't want to hear.
"There isn't a point to lying… when the truth hurts so much more." It's something he has said before and I knew… he wasn't lying.
"That's why I call you my petit Poisson. I didn't change your form. I removed the glamour already on you."
I felt like I needed air… I had to get out… go someplace…. other than here. I turned away from Jareth and ran… through the holographic door and down the street.
Jareth spoke." You might as well come out now Minion… I know your there."
Minion stepped out of the shadows Jareth looked at him. "So know you know."
"Why hide her like that?... Why not tell her before now?"
"Tell her that I put her where I did. Without knowing about any others of her kind…. Four months ago she knew nothing of your world. Telling her before then would have been pointless. She would have lost the will to live… The hope of ever having someone like herself… she would have stopped living and that would have been the cruelest thing… I could have done to her." With that he was gone.
After a while I had stopped running. Why had he kept this from me? Finding herself at the docks i found a way under to hide
"You're telling me Jareth told her the truth" Megamind looked at minion in disbelief
"It sure felt like it Sir." Minion wringing his hands with a worried expression on his face. "I have to find her."
I had been sitting under the pier for a while now. "Core so this is where you been hiding. Should have looked here first. You always did have a fondness for the water"
I knew that voice though this is the last place I expected to hear it "Hoggle?" I said. I turned in my tank and peered in to the dimness behind me.
"Yes love… its me." he said stepping out to where I was. "Blimie… you're really a fish."
"You already knew that though… didn't you" I said to him smiling at the look on his face "You have been around almost as long as Jareth."
"Aye… I did but I just didn't expect it… He took off your glamor."
"Why didn't you tell me? " I asked the dwarf
"Would you have believed me if I had" he replied
I thought about that "no probably not" I sighed "Where do I belong Hoggle?"
"Where do you want to belong love? Do you want to go home? Or there is the labyrinth… that has charm all its own or" he held up a finger "there is this world too"
"I don't know" I said simply
"I'd be surprised if you didn't"