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Chapter Ten
Third Person POV
Jareth stood up, with Lily still in his arms, and chuckled when she made a squeaking sound and wrapped her arms around his neck in surprise. With this new position and the blanket completely gone, he had a wonderful view of how she really looked in the night gown. The light blue accented her sliver eyes, made her hair look a couple of shades darker, and her skin looked slightly paler than it had before. He gently set her down on her feet and looked down at her. "Iʼll leave you to get dressed. As I said before, thereʼre clothes in the wardrobe for you. Iʼll send someone up to collect you and then weʼll talk." he told her, running his hand down her cheek as he spoke.
Lily POV
I only nodded and watched as he left. I couldnʼt believe that this was happening. I had wanted this since I was a child. All throughout my childhood, after I met Jareth in the woods, he became my ʻknight in shining armorʼ. He always came when I needed him and even when I didnʼt.
Every time I told uncle about him, he thought that I had just made him up. As I got older, Jareth stopped coming and I started to think that I had made him up too. I thought that because I was getting older, I didnʼt need imaginary friends anymore and thatʼs why Jarethʼs visits stopped.
I shook my head and smiled. I knew now that he hadnʼt stopped visiting because hedidnʼt want to see me anymore, but because he had to stop in order to keep his kingdom from destruction.
The war between realms started when I was fifteen and didnʼt end until I was sixty-six. The war lasted for fifty-one years. "Wow." I said out loud, doing the math in my head. I hadnʼt realized it had been than that long. I sighed to myself and pushed all thoughts of the war away. Now wasnʼt the time to dwell on the past. (A/N: If you havenʼt figured it out by this point, Iʼm sorry and itʼs completely my fault, but because Lily is half elf, sheʼs immortal and doesnʼt age. So when I say elf, think of Lord of the Rings elves. It only seems fitting.) I walked over to the wardrobe Jareth had pointed out, I tentatively turned the knobs. I didnʼt know what women were expected to wear in this realm. I was pleasantly surprised to find that the dresses were plain and normal looking. They were elegant, not that I expected anything else from the Goblin King, but they were simple.
I ran my hand over a dark purple dress and was amazed that it felt so light. I looked through the dresses and decided on a light green renaissance dressthat had a dark green corset and matching cuffs. I smiled at the dress and took it off the hanger. It was smooth to the touch and felt like velvet.
I slipped off the nightgown and draped it across the chair next to the wardrobe. As soon as I got the dress in place around my body, I was surprised that it fit perfectly. I waked over to the body length mirror and looked myself over. I had to admit that it looked fantastic. It made me look older.
I had been disappointed when I stopped ʻagingʼ at seventeen. Now I was a sixty-seven year old stuck in a seventeen year oldʼs body. The dress made me look like I was at least in my early twenties. It molded into the curves of my body just right and made my hips and breast more prominent.
I blushed at that. I wasnʼt used to showing my body off so much. Usually, my outfits consisted of things that were easy to move in. I smiled and went back over to the wardrobe and pulled out a pair of dark green flats, slipping them on with ease. I was jarred from my thoughts when there was a knock on the door. Looking over myself one more time and made my way to the door. I opened it to see a young male dryad. He bowed slightly and when he rose, I saw distaste in his eyes. "His Majesty has requested that I escort you to his study." he told me, his voice cold.
Third Person POV
Lily nodded and followed him out into the corridor. As the dryad lead Lily to Jarethʼs study, Lily couldnʼt help but look around in amazement. Jareth had told her storied of the Goblin Kingdom when she was a child, but she didnʼt expect it to be anything like this. Everything was so immaculate. Her thoughts were cut off when the dryad stopped in front of a pair of large double doors. He knocked twice on the door and waited. "Enter." they heard from inside after a moments silence. The dryad opened the large doors and stood aside so Lily could enter.
The study was smaller than she thought it would be, considering how large the doors were. There was a rather large deskin the center of the room, sitting on a large round oriental rug. On the left side of the room, the wall was cut out into a large bookcase and on the right side of the room, there was a large fireplace with chairs around it. Behind the desk, there was a large window that took up most of the wall, but the curtain was so dark and thick that it blocked out the light.
Jareth looked up from his desk and smiled when he saw Lily. "There you are, love." he said, standing up and walking around the desk. He leaned on the front of the desk and gave the young dryad and bad look. "Thank you, Sebastian. You may leave." he said curly and waited while Sebastian bowed to his king and left the room.
Once they were alone, Lily stayed where she was. She was uncertain of what to do next. Jareth saw that she was nervous and walked up to her. "You look lovely, dearest. I must admit though, I think I liked the nightgown much more." he said, cupping her cheek. He smirked when she blushed a deep red and leaned down so that his lip ghosted over hers. "No need to be embarrassed. It was meant as a compliment." he said before taking her lips with his.
When he pulled away, he couldnʼt stop the chuckle that escaped him when he saw her blush had deepened even more. He wrapped his arm around her waist and pulled her towards the door. Lily looked up at him confused and raised an eyebrow. "Where are we going?" she asked, placing her hand over the one he had placed on her hip.
"Lily, we have some vey important things to talk about. I want to go somewhere I know we wont be interrupted." Jareth explained, guiding Lily out of his study and further down the corridor. "Itʼs beautiful here." Lily said, looking around at the paintings that were hanging on the walls, some were small while others were huge and took up the whole wall. "How do you keep is so clean? Any time Iʼve met a goblin, theyʼre not the brightest or cleanest creatures." she added when he raised an eyebrow at her statement. Jareth just chuckled and lead her down a rather large spiral stair case. "I donʼt allow goblin beyond the throne room. All the servants in the castle are from other realms, as you saw with Sebastian." he told her, smiling down at her.
They walked in a comfortable silence until he stopped outside a pair of marble double doors. "I always come here to think. Only those of the royal family are allowed beyond this point." he told her and placed a finger on her lips to silence her before she could question him. "You are, and always will be, the exception." he told her, removing his finger from her lips to cradle her cheek.
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