A/N Own Nothing

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When I woke up the next morning, Jareth was already gone. He left a note for me: Already left for work, since there is no food in my home pick something up for us on your way in. Also, how can such a small girl take up so much of a very large bed?? I laughed at the note. I was told by many people that I was a bed hog.

I realized after I showered in Jareth's bathroom that I didn't have any clean clothes with me. I checked Jareth's closet and found some regular jeans that must have been a little small on him and a black t-shirt. I had to roll the cuff of the jeans about 4 times to make it the right length. I hoped he wouldn't mind me taking a peek in his closet. Most of his clothes were black. He had a bunch of suits, lots of black pants, a bunch of glittery leather jackets and some strange shirts. He had some normal black and white t-shirts, but he also had some white poet shirts that he must have had for decades. When would he have worn those? I was laughing at some of his more frilly clothing and eventually knew I had to leave if I was going to get breakfast and make it in on time.

Jareth gave me a strange look when I gave him his breakfast but didn't mention anything about my clothes or the previous night. His new copy of the Labyrinth was sitting on one of his shelves. I smiled at him and got to work. The week passed quickly. Jareth tried another magic lesson with me with no success and I spent the nights in my own apartment.

Valerie and Didymus were able to spend some time together that week so I helped her pick out an outfit and got her ready for her date. It was pretty obvious that I wasn't much help to her but I did I best. To make up for it I spent Thursday night at her place. She was taking Friday off for the auditions and then we would go out later that night. Mark was taking her morning shift and I don't know who was taking his evening shift, but either way he was now free and planning on coming with us.

Valerie and I spent the entire night singing every single "Wicked" song several times. At midnight I put my foot down. I couldn't speak. My voice sounded terrible and my throat was starting to bother me. Valerie's finally agreed to give her voice box a rest for the night. I went home and prayed that I would actually be able to sleep and I did. I didn't have any dreams, just a nice sound sleep.

I really began to look forward to Fridays. It was nice to know that I was going to be doing something with friends and to not have to worry about what I was doing for the weekend. This weekend was a busy one. We were planning on seeing a movie and then going to dinner. I knew that during the whole dinner Valerie would tell us about every last person who auditioned. Sunday I had to go to my aunt's house for my birthday party.

Valerie actually came into work to talk to me before the audition, "Ok, I know I am going to get the part, right? So anyway, I will hear from them tomorrow either way, and then Sunday Didymus will take me to dinner to either congratulate me or console me."

I smiled at her, "Of course you will get it. You have a perfect voice and you fit the part nicely."

She nodded, "Well there is a problem with Sunday. Didymus never wants to leave Hoggle alone. You think that he was worried Hoggle would go kill himself or something if he had to stay at home for a night by himself. Can you take him somewhere for me?"

"Oh, sure I guess. It will be kind of funny to be babysitting a grown man but he can come with me to my birthday thing at my aunt's house. Carla would love to see him again."

Valerie jumped up and down and then started telling me all about what she planned to sing and how she planned to act until it was time for her to leave. The hours passed very slowly that day. I was glad to see 5:00 come around.

Valerie, Hoggle and Didymus all came in and sat at a table. I immediately went to them and waited for Valerie to let me know everything. I am surprised she didn't say anything about her audition but she was smiling brightly. We had a 6:00 showing of some new horror film. I really didn't care what it was. Mark got changed quickly while I went into Jareth's office.

I barely opened the door when he pulled me in and kissed me. I smiled up at him and cuddled into his chest. "It is time to go to the movie." Jareth opened the door for me and held my hand as we walked. Life was getting too good. I couldn't help but worry about what would happen to screw it up.

The movie was actually pretty scary. Jareth enjoyed it very much when I jumped and hid my eyes in his shoulder. "Are you scared of the zombies?"

"No," I whispered back, "I can't stand things jumping out. I hate being startled." I looked over at Valerie. Her head was buried into Didymus' chest and Hoggle was laughing at all the scary parts. Mark was eyeing up some girl sitting two seats down from him.

Dinner was exactly how I expected it. I never heard of the place, probably because Jareth picked it out. Valerie took the opportunity to tell everyone about every other woman that auditioned for Glinda. I barely listened to her but from what I had heard it sounded like she had a fairly decent chance.

The evening was going by so quickly that I almost forgot to talk to Hoggle about Sunday. We were in the limo on our way home when I remembered. I was sitting in between Hoggle and Jareth again like I usually was. Mark was having fun just being in Jareth's limo and trying not to be annoyed at Valerie and Didymus. They were still in the overly flirty stage of their relationship and even though it was nice to see them happy, it was extremely annoying to watch.

"Hoggle, are you coming with me on Sunday?"

He just looked at me for a second obviously not remembering at first what the plan for Sunday was. "Oh yeah, Didymus said something 'bout that. I guess I will, it don't matter to me. I don't mind having a day to me self."

"Alright then, my brother is picking me up at the Labyrinth at 3:00 if want to meet us there."

Hoggle just nodded. I sat back thinking until I noticed Jareth staring at me and glaring at Hoggle. I held Jareth's arm and looked up at him.

"Where are you going with Hogbrain?" Jareth asked. He sounded a little jealous.

"He is going to hang out with me while Valerie and Didymus go out to dinner or something." Jareth still looked unhappy. I decided to tease him, "Jealous?"

"Of course not."

"Are you sure? You look jealous to me. It's kind of cute." I continued to tease him hoping to get him to smile, but all I got was his usual smirk.

As usual Jareth and I were the last ones to be taken home. Jareth held me in his arms. I knew he was going to ask me to stay the night but I didn't really trust myself to stay in Jareth's house. I really wanted to move slowly with Jareth. We both had issues. Jareth still had his thing about Sarah and I started to notice that as I got closer to Jareth I was getting really nervous about him leaving. I tried to overcome the abandonment issue that I had developed when Bill left me and I knew I could I just wanted to slow down. I was just happy that Jareth didn't push me. He was a little upset but I think he understood.