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Chapter 4: Dance Magic Dance
"And Harry?"
"Garion," Jareth raised an eyebrow regally, "is my son in all things except blood. He deserves this second chance and I won't let anything or anyone interfere."
Sirius heard the threat implied in the Goblin King's words and nodded.
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Sirius Black, escaped prisoner, stood, leaning against the old oak tree watching a man play with three very active boys. 'Oh for a wizard camera,' he thought. 'The Daily Prophet would love a shot of the Goblin King rolling on the ground with three boys climbing all over him.'
However, he knew better. He didn't want to betray Harry, nor did he wish to jeopardize his position here. The trust Jareth had shown the animage wizard was not something to be taken lightly and, he thought ruefully, it was a good bet that he could find himself suspended over that putrid bog of the Fae's in a heartbeat should he ever give the Goblin King reason to doubt him.
In the year that he'd been here, he'd gotten to know Harry, now known as Garion, and the twins Garrod and Jarrod. He noted with some surprise that all three boys looked like true siblings. Almost, he mused, like triplets. The twins had the look of their father even down to having his mismatched eyes and silver hair. Garion looked like a black haired blend of both Sarah and Jareth. Sirius was astounded at first to note the similarities. 'I wonder,' he thought, ' If the Fae influence has anything to do with it'?
"A penny for your thoughts," came a voice behind Sirius breaking into his mood.
Turning he found the woman who had become the love of his life, though he would never confess it as he didn't want to be killed! "Done for the day, Sarah?" he asked, trying to still the pounding of his heart.
His time here at the cottage had healed the physical damage done to him in prison, but it brought with it a new torment, Sarah. She was at first merely a friend, but friendship had grown into something much deeper for him. He prayed she would never know how he worshiped her, would do anything she asked of him, but he knew there could never be anything between them. She loved her husband passionately.
Sarah chuckled softly as she looked over at the quartet. "Almost, but you didn't answer me."
Sirius smiled. "I was thinking how lucky Garion was, how different his life is now from what it might have been." He smiled with quiet pride, "You know the three of them are into third grade material now?" He couldn't believe just how intelligent Garion really was. He knew Fae children were taught differently than humans. They seemed to almost absorb knowledge, but the young wizard wasn't truly Fae, he was human, yet he seemed to learn as easily as his younger siblings!
"Mother!" three voices rang out as they ran to her. Sarah knelt and embraced her sons as the Goblin King strolled up. Sirius was envious, wondering how the Fae could always look impeccable no matter what he did. There were no grass stains, no dust, not a hair out of place! No one looking at Jareth would ever believe he'd just been rough-housing with three boisterous boys.
"How were your lessons?" Sarah asked the three squirming boys in her embrace.
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A soft summer night echoed painfully to the sounds of three enthusiastic boys jamming in their room and the raucous thump of many Goblin feet as they played. Music filled the top floor of the cottage and spilled over. They were grooving to one of their father's songs, "Dance Magic Dance."
The adults below tried not to wince at the missed chords or the off beat attempts at harmony that filtered down to the family room. After all, the boys were only 5 and 6! Despite their young age however they were still able to play many instruments with some degree of proficiency. Secretly, each adult was praying that the ceiling didn't come crashing down on them tonight with all the stomping.
"You've got to teach them a new song, Jareth," Sarah complained, hands over her abused ears. "I know you and the goblins love to dance to it but it's getting old. Fast."
Jareth shrugged pulling his wife closer into his warm embrace. "And pray tell, My Love, what do you suggest?" He leered down at her.
Sirius and Corindel walked into the room carrying glasses of wine for all of them. They were discussing the finer point of pranking. Sarah started to say something on that matter when the two Fae men suddenly stiffened in shock.
A wave of pure, joyous magic washed through the cottage as the tempo of the song the trio were playing had reached it's peak. It wasn't powerful, as magic goes, but it was magic and it left the Fae momentarily stunned.
"What in Merlin's name was that?" Sirius asked in a strained voice. Both Fae looked at him in surprise.
"Bardic magic or Creation Magic," Jareth said as he stood up, looking up at the ceiling. "I believe we need to go and check on the boys."
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Garion and the twins set their instruments down. They were proud of their accomplishment. This was the first time they'd managed to make it through the whole song without stopping. Music was fun!
"That was great!" Garrod said, slamming his fingers down on his keyboard as he grinned at the Goblins scattering for cover at the sound of feet on the stairs.
"Too right!" Jarrod agreed, rapping a quick beat on his drums, ignoring the disappearance of their audience.
"Think we can stay up a bit more?" Garion asked, strumming a chord then leaned over to tap the large mirror in their room and watched their Goblin audience dive through it to the waiting Labyrinth beyond.
"Nope! Bedtime," came their mother's voice from the door way. "No arguments."
"Aw Mom!" the three complained.
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Sarah returned to the normal sounds of a summer night. The three men were quietly discussing magic. She sighed as she settled back into Jareth's arms.
"They asleep?" he asked, placing a light kiss on the top of her head.
"Like angels," she replied with a wry smile.
Sirius snorted. "I certainly hope their halos are no worse for the wear!" He looked into his glass of wine for a moment before continuing, "Garion should be showing signs of accidental magic from time to time. Still, I'm not familiar with what I just felt. So, you going to explain what happened?"
Jareth leaned back, pinching the bridge of his nose in an attempt to both gather his thoughts and control his temper. "The Wizarding World is ignorant and uninformed! Arrogant humans that you are, you've forgotten where true magic comes from."
Cory leaned over and handed Jareth a glass of wine, then took up the story. "You must know, we Fae dislike the way the Wizarding World's disregard of basic magic tenets. We feel they are parasites. We will do whatever we can to shake them up and remind them of their ignorance."
"But that doesn't explain what happened," Sirius said, confused and a bit upset. He hated to be lumped together with those that caused so much grief in his life at the moment.
Jareth sneered at the wizard before Sarah poked him with her elbow. "Be nice!"
"Humans have the greatest capacity to create magic. They just don't know that they are doing it, nor can they access what they create. Sarah creates magic when she writes. The glow around her is visible to any Fae, it's only you humans that are blind to it. The Fae take magic and shape it, feeding it Underground where it is used to nurture the earth itself. Some Wizards have learned they can tap into that magic and they've been stealing it ever since," Jareth sneered in contempt.
"WHAT?"
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