A/N Own Nothing
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I couldn't figure out when Jareth had given me the crystal ball. I tried to assume that he gave it to me when I was sleeping and maybe I wasn't one hundred percent asleep so it appeared in my dreams. I went in to work determined to ask him. He was in his office already involved with something. I walked right on in as I usually do. He looked a little surprised, but didn't say anything.
"Jareth, when did you give me the green crystal ball?" I sat in my chair and waited for him to answer.
"Last night, don't you remember?"
"No, not really." I felt relieved. I wasn't going crazy. "I had a dream about you giving it to me. I thought I was going crazy or something when I found it on the bed."
Jareth looked at me puzzled, "How did you bring it up here? It should have stayed in the labyrinth." Now it was my turn to look puzzled. "I gave it to you in the throne room; you shouldn't have been able to bring it to the aboveground."
"Jareth it was a dream. You gave it to me in your bedroom. Wait, how did you know where you gave it to me in the dream?"
Jareth quickly described for me my past two labyrinth dreams. "They aren't dreams. They are real. The labyrinth is real. I keep trying to tell you that." He was starting to get a little frustrated with me.
I couldn't deal with this. I went home. I sat in Jareth's guest bedroom, now my bedroom, and noticed that the labyrinth book that Valerie had bought was sitting on the shelf. I quickly skimmed most of it. Most of what I saw in my dreams was in the book. I flipped to the end. Sarah was able to call up people from the underground so why couldn't I.
I went over to the mirror and started to feel ridiculous. I looked around to make sure there was no one watching me. I knew there wasn't but I felt really stupid. "Hoggle? Didymus?" A few seconds later and both of them appeared in the mirror. "Holy shit!!"
"Didya need us?" Hoggle asked.
"I need someone to explain to me what the hell is going on and tell me if I am crazy."
"You ain't crazy; now turn around."
I looked to see both Hoggle and Didymus in their underground forms on the bed. I was beyond freaked out. I went straight into a strange calm. I sat on my bed while they explained everything. They told me about how unhappy Jareth was in the underground after Sarah left. He wanted to find a new life and get Sarah back. It became obvious that he wasn't getting Sarah and he decided to bury himself in his work until it didn't hurt anymore and then he would go back to the labyrinth. I was a kink in the plan apparently. The goblins expected him to be back soon but he was going to stay until he married and now he wanted to marry me.
I really was sure I was going crazy but I slowly started to believe them. It just started making sense. They told me that Jareth loved me when I first started working in the restaurant but I was already taken so he didn't really try. He talked to me more than everyone else because he couldn't help himself, but to be fair the only reason I stayed a bit distanced from him then was because I was engaged.
I left the room and drove back to work. I wasn't sure that I was sane but I was going to continue my normal routine. Jareth didn't ask me any questions, but he looked worried about me. He was relieved that I went home with him that night and I was curious why he was leaving work the same time I was. It was nice having a nice normal dinner together. It was almost like we were a normal, sane couple.
The next couple of weeks went along like that. We went out on Fridays, but nothing exciting really went on. I was actually enjoying the routine of life. It was about three weeks later when suddenly the world turned upside down again.