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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
2009-02-24 03:03 pm UTC (link)

Sarah cast him a sharp look as he suggested a hope of running into Jack. "Why would you hope to run into Jack? I can't think of a possible scenario in which that would be a good thing for any of us."

He'd run that statement in after he'd spoken about marriage so it hadn't quite settled into her mind that he sounded a little put out at her assumption until after she'd begun to feel annoyed about the possibility of Jack being somewhere here on the planet. When it did work its way into her mind, she shot him another sharp, quizzical glance.

"Why would you be serious about something like a marriage proposal. From me of all people? That makes no sense at all, Jareth."

She thought back to their first conversation on the planet when he'd made such a point of telling her he'd never said he loved her. That she had been the one to assume that was what he'd said. He was not going to twist her around in that again if she could help it.

"No more games of semantics and implications, please?"

She carefully let go of his hand in such a way as for it not to seem as though she were angry -- because oh she wasn't! -- and picked up her pace so that she would be standing in the middle of the bridge before he reached her.

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labyrinth_king
2009-02-24 03:26 pm UTC (link)

When he smiled at her, the expression had a sharp quality about it. "Oh, I'm sure the boy and I could find something to discuss." His smile suggested that it would be a highly uncomfortable discussion, at least for the hapless Jack.

They were drawing closer to the bridge now, and to the river that it spanned. In the privacy of his own mind, he knew that he had to keep better control than he was doing. Like it or not, he wasn't in the labyrinth now, he wasn't really a king here except in name. And he didn't own her, though he'd given it his best shot.

He was about to respond in some glib way, throwing doubt on just how serious he had been, but she neatly cut him off at the pass for that one. For a moment he just thought about it, and then shrugged. "Why would I be? Think, Sarah." It was a struggle to even get that much out, enough of a confession for him.

When she freed her hand, he let it go, and then watched as she moved quickly to the center of the bridge. For a moment, he watched her, and then moved so he was on the highest part of the arch with her. "Here's your bridge, Sarah. It is rather lovely here, isn't it?"

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sarah_williams
2009-02-24 04:27 pm UTC (link)

Sarah caught his dangerous smile and grumbled, "Jack would probably try to fight you for my honor or something stupid like that and you'd probably end up destroying his manhood." It was good thing for everyone that Jack could not possibly be there. The planet wasn't that malevolent, was it?

"I don't know why you would be serious, Jareth," she said simply before he reached her on the bridge. That was all she was going to say. He seemed to be playing a game of sort. She wasn't going to try to pry information from him when he was being so tight-lipped about it. It was a futile endeavor if he didn't want to say any more than he already had and chances were, he'd said all he wanted to. She wasn't sure if she wanted to know -- no, she did want to know. More than anything. C'est la vie, she thought.

"My bridge, hm? It would be nice to have my own bridge, I think. Just stand and watch the water lazily moving downstream." She turned her eyes to him then and smiled softly, "Yes, it is lovely here."

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