A/N Own Nothing Still. Do you think one of these days I might own something? Probably not. Enjoy! Almost 600 hits, yay *does a dance*

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I looked around Dave's room and found him lying on the bed with some tubes in his arm and a bunch of bandages all over him. He looked at me for a minute. I just stared in horror. He looked terrible.

"What happened?"

"I am alright. There was a fire in the warehouse. I saved some people, go me. It looks a lot worse than it really is. I am only going to be in here a week. Where are Carla and Jason?"

Once I heard him actually speak I felt so much better. He sounded like his normal self. "The kids are in the children's ward. Jareth is going to look after them while I am in here. I will take them home with me while you are in here. Everything will be taken care of."

He laughed, "Your apartment is so under furnished they might as well be on a camping trip."

I laughed too and sat with him for about three hours. While he drifted in and out of sleep we had small conversations about nothing important. Eventually I gave him a small light hug trying not to touch any burnt spots and let him sleep. I asked for directions to the children's ward and headed in that direction.

I was very surprised by what I saw. Jareth was in the middle of about twenty kids, including my niece and nephew. There were a few books scattered around him that I assumed he had read to them. He had his crystals out and was doing a bunch of tricks for them. He was smiling and laughing with them. I watched for awhile with one of the nurses who told me how great he was with kids. She told me that he did everything they asked him to do, played every game, and read every book.

As we watched some more Jareth started singing and dancing around for them. The ones that could move danced and Jareth held two of the smaller ones. The ones that couldn't dance around just laughed at the others. I was laughing so hard. It was funny to see this usually unhappy man be so different. I wondered why he was acting differently towards Carla and Jason before. He seemed to be perfectly as ease with them.

After the song and dance routine, Jareth sat on the floor and the kids crowded around him with another book. I saw it was a princess fairytale. The boys all groaned. I heard one of the little girls ask, "What's wrong with wanting a happily ever after?" The boys all laughed and one said, "Because true love and all that fairy tale stuff don't exist."

Jareth looked up at the little boy, "Fairy tales exist. A lot of the creatures that are in these books are real." The girls all brightened when they heard that.

"Jareth?" One older girl said; she must have been almost 12 years old, "Do you believe in true love?" I started to notice how the girl was looking at him. She was old enough to notice how cute Jareth is.

"I used to," He said. The boys started going on about how Jareth was on their side and not the girls.

"Well why don't you anymore?" Carla asked him.

Jareth was not prepared for that question. "I found it once and she found someone else."

Jason tugged at Jareth's shirt, "Aunt Fel?"

Jareth turned red. I have never seen him so red when he wasn't angry. "Felicia doesn't see me as her prince charming. Why don't I start reading?" He started reading fast at first but then slowed down to a normal pace after a couple pages. I took that opportunity to act like I had just walked in.

Jareth looked up at me. I smiled at him and told him to send new messages that bowling would continue as planned. Jareth took out his phone much slower this time and sent the message. He got up and started to walk away but Carla took his one hand and Jason asked to be picked up. I looked expectantly to see what Jareth was going to do. He picked Jason up easily with one hand and led Carla over to me.

"Do you two like bowling?" They looked excited. Well, Carla did. Jason didn't seem to know what I was talking about.

I took the kids back to the restaurant to get them someone for dinner before we headed out. Hoggle and Didymus were there already at a table. Valerie was sitting with them. I asked Valerie to watch Carla and Jason while I got myself cleaned up a bit and Jareth walked with me to the employee bathroom. It was a nice spotless bathroom, Jareth had his own connected to his office but he occasionally went into ours for the larger mirror.

"I had forgotten how disgusting children can be sometimes," Jareth said as he tried to get some stains of god knows what out of his shirt. There were a lot of sticky substances in random places on him too.

"You might just want to get yourself a different shirt to wear." He nodded and I went into his office desk and found him a new shirt. I came back and told him to take off his dirty shirt so I could wash it for him. He did and I almost gasped. His body was perfectly sculpted. When did he have the time to work out? Every muscle was hardened and perfect. He noticed me staring at him and almost smiled. He flexed a couple times for me until I noticed what he was doing and handed him the shirt.

"I'm sorry," I blushed and went to the mirror and washed my face and fixed my hair. He kept on smirking and walked out. I came out behind him and noticed that the place was busier than normal tonight. It was still early and it was packed. I hoped Jareth didn't mind that we were taking up one of the larger tables.

Carla and Jason were sharing some chicken fingers and fries when I can over and stole one. We all chatted for awhile and I wondered where Jareth was. I glanced over in his office to see him through the window. I walked in, "Why aren't you out there with your friends?"

"My social life you requested I have does not begin yet. I still have time to get some work done before you take me away to throw balls around."

I didn't argue. I walked back to the table and sat down. Didymus was trying to convince Carla that scrabble is the best game in the world. Hoggle kept looking at me strangely. I almost thought he was afraid of me, but that was just silly. After everyone ate we grabbed Jareth and got into his limo.