Hello everyone! Sorry for the long delay. Please enjoy this chapter.

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Chapter 11 Dark Encounters

Armond winced as he heard yet another object crash against the wall. He had intended to go speak with Jareth and see if he could offer any insight to the situation but before he could put his hand on the door knob to Jareth's study he heard crash of glass after glass for the past ten minutes. Realizing he would not relent soon, he decided to go in. He took a deep breath and opened the door to the study.

He found Jareth upon his chair surrounded by black floating crystals and ready to throw another crystal to what seemed to be a painting of…someone but the image was covered with only black paint and had quite a bit of tears from the glass spheres being thrown at it nonstop for the past ten minutes.

"What do you want Armond?" Jareth sneered not even looking his way.

Armond gulped "Your Highness, I merely wanted to seek your company in order to remedy the situation." That caught his attention. Good or bad at least he responded.

"Remedy, Armond?" Jareth asked questioningly and sarcastically. "A REMEDY CAN BE ACHIEVED IF I WASN'T DAMMED TO THE UNDERWORLD!" he yelled.

Armond didn't wince one bit. After so many years of Jareth's temper, one grew accustomed to it. "My Lord you don't have to leave in order to reach her in your fathers kingdom, you only have to wait until she sleeps." He waited for understanding to reach Jareth's face. And it did instantly.

"I have thought about that already, but the problem with that is that my dear brother can join us as well." He said as he sat on the corner of his huge mahogany desk looking at the ruined portrait of what was the image of his father. He had adored the painting and had held on to it protectively since his fall many years ago but since his father had Sarah now, in HIS glorious kingdom that no one in their right mind would want to leave, he was beginning to despise him almost as much as his brother.

Odin was up to something he intended to get to the bottom of it and the hell with all the rules even the ones that required certain protocol to Odin as high King.

Jareth turned a thoughtful look to Armond and said "Armond, you never were one for getting much sleep were you?"

"No your Highness, I really don't require any for I am part fae as yourself my Lord. But what does that have to do with anything?" he asked puzzled

A wicked smile adorned Jareth's face "I need you to keep a certain brother of mine occupied long enough for my special nightly visit to Sarah"

Armond smiled slowly "Consider it already done my Lord."

Finally a chance to spar with Dimitri, Armond had been waiting for a moment like this for many, many centuries. With a satisfied smile on both their faces they began to put their plan into motion.

Pacing back and for in his miserable excuse of a guest room his brother assigned him in, Dimitri had never felt more humiliated! Being placed in a room fit for a servant, he was a King in his own right! But that wasn't the only thing he was fuming about, but at the nerve of Odin's interference. He had no right to take her especially during this rivalry.

But being Odin's son has its advantages. A little saying the mortals have learned well, "the fruit does not fall from the tree" or was it "like father like son" either way he knew his fathers tricks but his father probably wasn't aware of his increase of powers in the dark arts.

Thinking of the dark arts, he was feeling a bit hungry.

Time for dinner "Hmmm…that delicious little morsel of a maid that prepared my room, I believe Tabitha is her name. Yes she would please immensely. AZEZEL!"

He guard opened the door as the second he heard his master call "Yes my liege." He said head bowed as he kneeled.

Dimitri pleased as always with the reverence his subjects showed smiled wickedly as he gave orders for the girl to be brought to his chambers as discreetly as possible. Not that he cared if Jareth found out but it wouldn't do if he told Sarah of his methods.

Maybe he should let this one live, for the sake of appearance. You never know where Jareth's spies could be hiding. Oh well he'll just have to sate his hunger another time but he could definitely satisfy his lust. And he would make sure he was satisfied before he would let her go.

A knock at his door pulled him from his thoughts. Knowing it was his guard with the girl he snapped his fingers and his garments were replaced. A soft red silk of a robe wrapped around his sculpted body.

"Enter" Dimitri said.

The door was opened by the guard who stepped aside and allowed the wide eyed servant girl to enter. She took one look at Dimitri and stopped halfway through the door. The guard in no mood to be admonished by his King quickly pushed the girl inside and closed the door.

Dimitri walked slowly towards her "Tabitha is your name, correct?" he knew the girl was scared witless and was enjoying every moment of it.

"Yyy….yes your Highness" her voice shook with fear.

"Hmmm…" He took a deep breath as he neared her. She was innocent. Maybe his hunger would be fulfilled fully.

"Tell me Tabitha, Have you ever wished for a King to serve you?" he was toying with her and she knew she was the mouse caught by the great big cat.

She gulped and tried to answer but her mouth went dry and only a whimper was heard.

Dimitri drew so close that he knew she could feel his arousal. Knew it was a foreign language he spoke to her. But as he drew his face close to her neck the temptation was too strong. He nuzzled her neck as one hand held her neck and the other began to travel up her side to slowly graze her breast.

She let out a small whimper again.

"Shhhh…I will make it so that you will enjoy this as much as I will. Now be a good girl and bend your neck so I can taste how sweet your are." The girl to frighten to register what he just said quickly obeyed and felt only too late as his fangs bit into her neck.

Well guess that was something you guys weren't waiting for. I will continue the story with Sarah and King Odin's scene next. I will have something up very quickly hopefully tomorrow. Just wanted to show a bit of Dimitri's dark side. And don't worry Jareth is about to get just as dark.