A/N I am back and sadly still don't own anything. I was happy to see some new reviewers, yay. And a couple people saved my story to their favorites and alerts. However, I saw a dramatic decrease in the hits this weekend :(. Enjoy

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I got to work a little bit early, hoping to beat Jareth there. I had decided that I was going to spend some time ignoring him. He would have to do better than just buying me stuff. I wanted to see more begging or something. I had the Nighttime cold medicine and breakfast for him in hand as I walked into his office. I was sad to see that he was there and it looked like he had been there for a few hours.

Jareth looked up to me. I had no clue what he was possibly thinking because I refused to look at him or speak to him. I put his breakfast and the medicine on his desk and went to leave.

"I thought you were going to yell at me some more." Jareth's voice was better than the previous night but it was still kind of raspy. I did glance at him and noticed that he looked a lot better. He must have spent the whole day sleeping it off. I didn't answer him. I just walked out the door.

As I worked I was trying to decide if being mad still would ruin any chances I still had with Jareth. I was also wondering if I still wanted to be with Jareth. Valerie offered to flip a coin for me but I just laughed at her and continued to work. I did want to be with Jareth; I just wasn't sure if I could deal with it. It was a slow afternoon, practically dead and all of us started gathering up chairs in the dance room having a good time.

Even our cook came out to talk. John was the best cook we had. He also looked very silly in his apron. He was tall and not just because I am short. He must be closer to seven foot than six. Also, he is huge and I don't mean in a bad way at all. He is all muscles, like incredible hulk muscles. The first time anyone meets him they are frightened. He is just that intimidating. The evening crew was starting to come in for their shifts and the morning set was too involved in the conversation to leave.

"Alright so we need to find a place to host our little Labyrinth staff party." Valerie continued with her planning of a party that no one actually expected to happen.

"Come off it Valerie, how are you going to have a staff party if half the staff will be at work?" Mark had a really good point there.

Donna, one of the bartenders, had an idea. "Maybe Felicia can get Jareth to close the restaurant for a night." Everyone started laughing at her for that. The Labyrinth has never been closed to anything since it opened.

Valerie started to tease John, "Why don't you go and ask him; unless you are afraid of the guy. I want to see your big, bad side in action. All we get to see is you being a big puppy dog."

John somehow made himself look bigger, "I'm not afraid of Jareth. Bring him out here and I'll make him close the place."

Donna continued to laugh at John, "What about last month when you accepted that delivery of fish burgers or whatever it was and tried to serve it to him?" Donna could barely finish the story. "When Jareth started yelling, I never seen anyone hide so fast. I don't know how someone as big as you fit in that little closet."

John's face started to turn bright red, "I wasn't hiding. I was looking for a broom and the door just happened to shut behind me."

Valerie and Donna continued to tease John until eventually Jareth walked out to see what was going on. I took a quick glance up to make sure he was doing better and then immediately turned away so that my back was to him.

"Jareth, you are just the person we wanted to see. John has a question for you." Valerie was only too happy to embarrass John again.

Jareth looked over at John and waited for him to say something. "Well boss, Valerie thought that since your birthday was coming up we would close the place on Friday night and have a little staff party to celebrate."

Everyone in the group was holding their breath waiting for Jareth's answer. I could feel him staring at me but I refused to turn around. "Fine," was all Jareth said and he went back into his office. John started breathing again and we were all complimenting him on getting Jareth to say yes. Valerie started planning the birthday party and everyone else mostly just listened.

At the end of the meeting, Valerie decided that it was going to be a karaoke party. She ordered a cake and made a list of decorations that she needed to buy. I started to wonder why she didn't party plan professionally. She was really excited about it and shopping even when it wasn't for her. I tried to remember to talk to her about that later.

We all started getting ready to leave when I got a text message from Jareth asking me to come into his office. I really wanted to keep ignoring him, but I knew I would regret it later if I didn't stop in. I walked in and sat in my chair and waited for him to tell me what he wanted. Once again I tried my best not to look at him.

We sat in silence for a few minutes. I almost got up and left, but I knew that he enjoyed irritating me. "Did you like the new bed?" I was so happy when he finally spoke.

"Yes, I did. I don't want you buying me anymore stuff. You have to make up for what you did the hard way. Which means I am going to be angry with you and ignore you and you have to be sad and beg for my forgiveness." I tried my best not to smile. No matter how angry or hurt I was Jareth made me smile.

Jareth smirked and then put on a pretend sad face, "I will wait." He must have been feeling much better. I left and continued on his birthday present. I had to get it done for his party on Friday. I doubted he would even really be there. I knew and so did everyone else that he would most likely either spend the entire time in his office or watch it from a distance. Either way we got our party.