Hiya! I'm about to succumb to an REM "everybody hurts" induced coma, so I thought I'd write something. GRIN! So, what the hell was it? OUCH! Oh, yeah..... Birthday Party for me! Disclaimer: Jareth doesn't belong to me....I just like to borrow him. I'll dust him off and put him back, so don't get your shorts in a knot! ****************************************************** "Hm, where does this go?" I pondered, balancing an item I had fished out from under my couch. "I fact, what *is* it?" I had no earthly clue, so I tossed it over my shoulder where it landed with a dull thud. "Not a very effective way of cleaning, if I may say so." Said a voice behind me. I almost jumped out of my skin. "Jesus Christ! Don't do that!" "What?" "Sneak up on me like that. Are you being totally dense today or something?" "My, aren't we in a bad mood?" "It's my birthday, I'll be bitchy if I want to. Now what do you want, your Royal Tightness?" "Don't call me that." He all but growled. "Hit a nerve, did I? Well what do you want?" "Nothing, if your going to continue to behave like a spoilt brat." "I'll have you know, I'm far from spoilt, so there." I blew him a raspberry. "That was unbelievably rude." "I know!" I said with a giggle of delight. "I just wanted to mess with your brain." I was perfectly chipper now. (yea gods! Did I really use that word?) "So, seriously, did you come to give me a present? A *real* present, not some stupid tribble or horrible psychedelic peach? Please please please?" I was jumping up and down now, and giving him my best pouty look. "Exactly *what* did you have in mind?" He asked with a lewd grin. "Get your mind out of the gutter, you pervert. What *is* it with you and teen-aged girls?" He shrugged. "Anyway, I was thinking more along the lines of one of those handy crystals your so fond of handing out." "Um...." "Oh, you can trust me. I won't do anything unspeakably horrid to you." "Promise?" "Cross my heart and hope to die! Scouts honor, I would never, on my mother's grave, do anything..." I crossed my fingers behind my back. "Good enough! Here!" He all but flung it at me. I think I was starting to get to him. "Is that what you wanted?" I turned the crystal sphere over in my hands, gazing into it merrily. "Yes. Thank you!" I threw my arms around his neck and kissed him on the cheek. (I was *reeeely* out of it. Must've been that peach Snapple I had at lunch) He disentangled me from his neck and disappeared in a poof of glitter. My room was starting to look very festive. I hefted the crystal ball in my hand, and giggled evily. I was contemplating how lovely Jareth's throne room would look in toilet paper, and wondering where I could buy silly string in bulk. I'm sure the goblins would love some! The End If you didn't like it, well, too bad. It's my birthday, and I'm milkin' it for all it's worth!