A/N I own nothing from the source material, songs, or oc's from MyraValhallah's story. Just doing this for fun.

Chapter 11

A/N The link below is to the song. If you care. I hope you enjoy. Jareth will be taking center stage with Sarah soon.

watch?v=x0JXjT9tsZw

"I tried to get you out of mind/ but it's just a waste of time/ can't leave the past behind/ I told myself be glad that we're through/ but I know I needed you/ I know that I do, I know that I do-oo/ I tell myself that I've been doing so well and over and over I've been fooling myself/..." Both the Doctor and Jareth pointed their candlestick 'microphones' toward Erik who took part in the chorus with expected fervor.

"I can't stop myself from watching you/," Jareth took over from his father in lead vocals, "Can't stop myself from needing you/," the Doctor, "I tried so hard to get over you/," and they all brought it home, "I just can't stop myself from loving you!" The three men finished the song in this fashion and found nothing wrong with sharing a bit of emotional pain through 70's glam.

The Doctor had found the two kings singing Electric Light Orchestra and decided that it must have been one of them who had been peeking into the corridor for anyone who might have been a bit judgmental. After politely butting in and some light questioning he discovered this to be the case. He figured that with no danger in the passageway that he would leave for the gardens to retrieve Sarah. He was, however, stopped by a very pitiful Goblin King tapping him on the shoulder.

"You're not...interested in her...are you?" The question came out mumbled and struck the Doctor as a very human thing to ask.

He smiled brightly at Jareth. That boyish grin that on one level could drive the girls crazy but on a thoroughly different one he just liked the way he felt when he used it. "Oh...no...She is great! But not for me. Brilliant young woman though." He placed his hands in his pant pockets and rocked slightly on his heels. "I've missed having a traveling companion." With another smile, this one tinged with a bit too much reality for a faerie realm, he started to depart once again.

Erik could see that this young man needed as much cheering up as his son had and placed the burned cd from above ground into the player. "Doctor." He called. The younger man turned. True they all appeared to be around the same age but there were definite discrepancies in chronology. "Would you care, Doctor, to share in a bit of a song? There is nothing in this kingdom that could do actual harm to Sarah." The Doctor looked at the both of them and agreed to just one song.

They sang through the full three twice over before they decided to call it quits. "Do you want to know one of my more recent favorites?" Asked the Doctor from his cross legged position on the floor.

"What?" The parent-child duo asked in perfect unison.

"Faithfully by Journey. It always hits me right...here," He pressed a fist to the left side of his chest, "and here too I suppose." He poked a thumb toward his second heart.

"We should listen to it!" Erik suggested enthusiastically and the Doctor thought that a marvelous idea but he knew he only had it on the main console. With a rush of fabrics (poofy shirt, trench coat, and cape) the men ran the distance to his waiting TARDIS.

One song later and all three men were thinking about the woman in each of their lives. Erik really had nothing to complain about as the only real amount of time his wife and he were apart was shorter than the average morning walk to get the paper. Barring time spent with children they were rarely found separately, but as the song had stated, every time they were separated he got the joy of rediscovering her. Jareth knew that he and Sarah were two strangers learning to fall in love again. While he was constantly standing on the edge of that precipice just waiting for the go ahead it seemed that Sarah would need a bit more time and information to bring herself to it. The Doctor, though brave and smiling on the outside, was very worried to discover what might have happened to Rose while he was off...protecting everyone. Through time and space...there was always another task to complete. Yet when everything slowed he would find himself feeling lost without her.

The Doctor's mind slipped back for a moment to another place and time with his TARDIS. To another song. He had left the Ood outside and started his next journey when it hit him. Everything he would be losing when he changed. His clothes, his company, even his favorite foods would change. Let alone his TARDIS. He didn't want to go. He turned and looked at no one and everything.

"I don't want to go." His voice was thick and his eyes misty.

"Well, usually I wait for I wish...but...I suppose I'll let that slide." An attractive woman in a copper gown leaned against the console. "Ooh, what a big shiny button." She leaned toward it and the Doctor lunged forward grabbing her hand.

"Don't touch that." He looked at this sudden visitor with shock and, honestly, a bit of worry. What sort of basket case goes around touching every big shiny button they see? "What have you done already?"

"I've stopped time, silly. More specifically I have stopped you." She pointed for dramatic effect. "And if you agree to this little deal I could stop it for a great long while."

The Doctor thought it over. He could come back to this moment in time when he was ready. That didn't seem so bad. "What effects would this have on the universe?"

The woman smiled, "None."

"What do I have to do in exchange?" He quirked an eyebrow to give the question extra weight.

"Everything."