A/N Own Nothing

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I don't know how long I stared into nothing for. A few years?? He did say a few years right? I couldn't live without him that long. What about our baby? That thought brought me back into the present to Jareth calling my name.

"Felicia, are you in there?" Jareth was waving his hand in front of me. I got up and helped him back up the stairs. He ordered me to stay out of the kitchen. He didn't want me cleaning up his mess. I didn't answer. I was still in freak out mode. I saw him get into bed and went to clean up the kitchen even if he did tell me not to.

I started cleaning and just had to tell someone else my secret, "Hoggle." He was in the mirror as usual and when I turned back he was there. He followed me to the kitchen where I continued to pick up all the glass.

"Can't you ever wake up Didymus in the middle of the night?" I knew Hoggle wasn't really annoyed at me but he liked to pretend he was.

"I need to talk to someone and I trust you most." I was going to need something sturdy for glass so I found a box from the latest thing Jareth had ordered.

"Hmm, so talk."

"You can't tell anyone."

"If you're looking for someone to keep secrets you've got the wrong dwarf. I told ya I'm a coward I'm fairly sure. One threat from Jareth and I'll spill."

"I'm pregnant."

"What!!!" Hoggle stopped helping me and just stared at me. "It better be Jareth's. Does he know? I'll bet he never expected that to happen."

I don't know how efficiently I was cleaning. I was more thinking and staring into nothingness. "Jareth doesn't know yet. I should have told him a long time ago. I'm already 11 weeks along and of course it's Jareth's. Why does everyone ask that?"

"I never expected to see Jareth be a father, that's all. When are you planning on telling him?"

I gave up on cleaning and just curled up into Hoggle. "Every time I try I get scared. Either something is bothering him and I don't want to add this on top of it or I just get scared. He told me before that he didn't want kids right now."

Hoggle nodded, "Well he is still young for a fae. He probably never thought of it like a human would. Tell 'im now."

I shook my head, "He needs to go back to the labyrinth for a long time. How could I tell him that he might have a child that he won't get to see for a few years? Actually he said isn't sure if he can even get himself back the labyrinth. He is almost out of magic."

Hoggle started looking really worried. "He better be able to get back there. The labyrinth needs him. It's bad enough he has been up here; a lot of it has already gone to hell. Most of it has been kept in order just because he is watching and sending orders through, but that won't last if he can't get back.

I went back to cleaning and stopped talking. I was worried that if I said much more that I would come out of my freakish calm and go back to crying. I don't know what time it was when I went to bed but the kitchen was now clean.

I was really surprised that I got up before Jareth. That has never happened in all the time I ever spent living in that house. I had another appointment that day so I went and came back and he was still asleep. Everything was fine, but the doctor wanted me to call if the morning sickness continued that badly for much longer. She gave me a few tips to help it and I was ready to try.

I made lunch for both of us, hoping that Jareth would at least be able to eat something. He came down the stairs as I was finishing. I turned around to see him on his knees. There was a ring in his hand and he was looking straight at me.

"Felicia, I want you to be my queen and rule the goblin kingdom next to me. Will you marry me?"

I put down the food and looked at the ring for a second. I couldn't believe what he was asking me. The ring was not very large. It was a nice small round diamond and a smaller round diamond on either side. It was nice, simple. It was exactly what I would have asked for in an engagement ring. I didn't know if I should just say yes or tell him exactly how I felt.

On one hand, I loved Jareth. I was carrying his child. I thought that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with him. On the other hand, I made that mistake before. I got married to someone I loved, someone I thought that I wanted to spend my whole life with. It didn't work. I didn't want to make that mistake again.

Jareth saw my hesitation and stood back up and took my hands. "I know what you are thinking. I know I am moving too fast for you, but I need to go back to the labyrinth and I want you to come with me. This is the only way it will work. I will still need some time to build up the power but then I won't have to miss you while I am gone. You and I can rule for thousands of years."

I sat down in the chair. I didn't know what to say. I almost didn't trust myself to speak. "What happened to your parents?" Suddenly Jareth's parents were important in my mind. I was going to be a mother soon; I wanted to know the dangers involved with living in the labyrinth.

Jareth looked confused at my sudden change in topic. "They got really sick from something. I can't really remember what was wrong with them exactly. I know it didn't affect me at all. I think there was a plague at the time and they caught it."

"How old were you?"

Jareth thought about it. "I was about early-adolescent range so I was probably a bit over a thousand years old."

That thought made me feel really strange. Jareth was a couple thousand years old. He knelt by me. "If you come into the labyrinth with me you will start to age as I do."

I smiled at him. "Yes, I will marry you. But first I need to know something really important."

Jareth looked happier than I have ever seen him. "Anything."