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Jareth (labyrinth_king) wrote in mirage_rpg,
@ 2009-02-21 08:09:00

Entry tags:

complete, day 33, jareth, sarah williams

Who: Jareth and Sarah Williams
What: Aftermath
When: Day 33, mid-morning
Where: Just outside Jareth's room, to start
Status: Complete
Rating: PG-ish

Although he'd lived for more years than humans had even existed for, he'd never had a day like the one he'd had yesterday. It seemed there were a lot of 'nevers' going on in his life recently, actually. He'd never been kidnapped before, only now Mirage had changed that. He'd never been bowling before... and he chose not to think much about that, But above all, he'd never had coffee with his nemesis, and had never expected to. Even kings who had been alive for thousands of years don't know everything, apparently.

Though no one would have known it simply by looking at him, he was still hashing the whole thing over in his mind. What had happened, and why? In the end, though, he'd been able to come to only one conclusion. He wasn't exactly sure the why and how of it all, but he was sure of one thing. He hadn't hated anything that had happened, no matter how awkward it had been. Perhaps that was enough.

He'd gone back to his room after the odd chat with Sarah, and been there ever since, thinking it through. Now, however, it was time to get out of there. So he left the room that was the spitting image of his throne room in the Castle at the center of the Labyrinth, after dressing in his more typcial Fae style. Jeremy, it would seem, was not an everyday sort of thing here. And he was much more comfortable in the outlandish, romantic clothing he favored. Mortal clothing was so strange.

The king didn't have any particular plans, he just didn't want to spend any more time in his room. So, thinking he would perhaps take a walk (and just happen to stroll past Sarah's room), he turned the doorknob and stepped out his door into the hallway beyond it.

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sarah_williams
2009-02-21 01:53 pm UTC (link)

Sarah's room, when she had returned to it last night, had not changed significantly. The dress and the wreath of flowers had disappeared as she'd hoped and she had only had a few moments of wondering whether or not this really was as she'd suspected -- a trick of Jareth's again -- before sleep overtook her. She fell easily into bed with her clothes on, her exhaustion so complete that she was sleeping in minutes.

Dreams did not come for the first part of the night; she slept deeply, restoratively. But she woke some time later in the darkness and her mind began working, thinking about everything that had happened. She'd gone to bed at home and, in a whirlwind of fear, been pulled to this bizarre Planet. Only to be forced face to face with the one person who thoroughly terrified and confused her. And then, somewhere along the way, they had danced a delicate few steps around each other and there had been two kisses. Sarah thought she would never be able to fall back asleep as her thoughts ran through all of the events over and over again but eventually she drifted off again.

Awakening to sunshine in a golden sheen across the unwanted bedroom made it a bit better and she felt herself smiling as she got to her feet and dressed. Today held the promise of even more adventure and after yesterday that didn't scare her as much as she had expected it would. It was actually a very infectious hope that she didn't realize had infused itself into her entire being until she was looking in the mirror of her vanity, putting too much care into making her hair look effortless and romantic and humming the tune from her old music box with a serene smile on her face.

"Oh Sarah, you're not!" she laughed at her reflection. "I have to get out of this room."

She was laughing at herself still as she opened the door of her room and stepped into the hallway, nearly colliding with Jareth.

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labyrinth_king
2009-02-21 03:46 pm UTC (link)

Sometimes he started wondering if the Planet was conspiring against him. He'd no more than thought of Sarah and left his room than she should appear. And yet, somehow he couldn't mind that, even though he loathed the thought that he may be being controlled. But if so, so be it. Honestly, he could think of worse fates, much, much worse.

He shut the door behind him, not entirely sure how she would react to seeing how his room looked. And he had only the slightest glimpse into her own room, but he didn't need much more. He had, after all, made an exact copy of that very room in his labyrinth, just for her. He doubted he would be likely to forget it anytime soon.

He didn't, however, stare. Not at her closing door, anyway. It wouldn't be completely inaccurate to say he was, however, staring at her. She'd done something really nice with her hair, and she was laughing... and not in a bitter or sardonic way, in a way that seemed actually happy, or at least amused. He couldn't seem to help but smile back in response to the sound.

"What amuses you?" He asked before shaking his head. "No, that's not quite right. Good morning, Sarah, I hope you slept well." He deliberately didn't comment on her room, wondering if she would feel self-conscious about how it looked. "Where are you off to?" It was trange, he decided, how he'd changed. Not exactly either Jareth or Jeremy, but rather something in between. At least where she was concerned.

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sarah_williams
2009-02-21 04:26 pm UTC (link)

"Oh!" Sarah said and felt her cheeks flush, startled to see him so quickly after having left her room. She'd thought she might have to wander around the place a while before finding him. She figured she had slept so long that he was likely to be off doing something else somewhere else.

"I hadn't thought I-" she began and then laughed again, easily. "Good morning to you too. I slept okay. No nightmares, which I guess is good considering the way I would always wake up at home with -" And she stopped again, this time biting her lip. Chattering nervously was not going to help her in this situation. Especially when it was leading her toward topics that would just remind him of the past.

Though she supposed that conversation hadn't quite been finished last night. They still had more to discuss, she was sure of it. They hadn't even spoken about the terms of their truce or anything but damn, his eyes. They were penetrating today and she felt herself warm even further whenever he looked at her.

"Um, did you sleep well? Er, do you sleep?" she asked, trying to force some lightness back into her tone.

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labyrinth_king
2009-02-21 05:06 pm UTC (link)

"I'll understand if you don't exactly rush to accept this offer, but I could make you sleep without dreams at all." He hadn't really intended to make the offer, but he wanted to help. Odd, really, considering he normally would have been completely unconcerned about anyone's sleeping problems.

He smiled at her slightly and shrugged. "I sleep. In fact, I know of very few things that don't. At least on Earth." And he had mostly kept his scrying to those realms. "Without sleep, the mind becomes disordered, concentration is shot straight to hell..." He stopped, and noticed with a sense of amusement that he was rambling now. "Yes, I sleep."

For awhile, he looked at her, and then decided all at once to speak again. "It occurs to me that yesterday, I hardly gave you a proper tour of the resort. There is much to do here." He sneered slightly, remembering the bowling from a couple of days ago, and not at all fondly. But it wasn't all as had as that. "Would you care to see the rest?" It gave them an excuse to be together, and in a less intense way then they had been yesterday.

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sarah_williams
2009-02-21 05:33 pm UTC (link)

"Sleep without dreams? How could you -? No, that's fine. Thank you for the offer though." She smiled slightly and shook her head. The only way she could imagine him being able to do what he'd just suggested was to either find a way into her mind -- no way would she want him to see what was in there! -- or use his magic on her. And she was just not ready to trustingly allow him to do that to her. They'd made some progress but she was still wary on that front.

It was nice to know that he slept though. It was no wonder though, as he talked about how disordered the mind became with lack of sleep, that she had been so befuddled for so long. But she highly doubted that would be a problem -- not too much at least -- anymore. Her smile broadened as he began to follow suit and chatter away himself. That struck her as funny and she giggled as he said simply, "Yes, I sleep."

Vaguely she remembered that a tour was supposed to have been in order yesterday but it hadn't happened. They couldn't very well go for coffee again, that would get boring, and there didn't seem anything else safe to do at this point since she was not familiar enough with this place. So she smiled at him and stepped closer as though to walk beside him when he chose to move.

"Yes, please show me around this Planet." She could almost feel a vibration of energy between their bodies. A shuffle slightly further away from him and the sensation lessened ever so slightly. How interesting... "What else have you been doing here since you were first brought here by the Planet?"

She moved slightly closer again and without really thinking about it, made to slip her arm into his.