The ball was beautiful.  More perfect than anything I 
had ever seen before in my life.  David took my arm and led me to go 
greet our host. 
 
"Welcome to my gathering David and Delirium, how are you enjoying 
yourselves?  I picked Delirium's outfit just for you David.  How do 
you like it?" Jareth looked at me as he said this and gestured to my 
skirt.  David looked down and noticed what I was wearing for the first
 time.  
"That's Star's skirt Jareth"
"But Star's gone David, won't Delirium make a lovely replacement?" 
Jareth was deliberately bating David.  I grabbed David's arm and led 
him away from there before he could do something he would regret.  
I don't want to deal with a pissed off vampire.

David looked at me and mumbled something about getting us something 
to drink.  I didn't argue.  He left and I began to look around at the
 crowd of revelers dancing around me.  I couldn't figure out why 
Jareth was trying to get under David's skin...I mean it's a hobby of 
his with us poor mortals, but why with one of his companions?  
I couldn't figure it out.  I looked around to see Nny running by me.
   I turned around to watch him weave his way through the crowd to be
 mesmerized by a pair of glowing green eyes.  Green eyes with a shock
 of hair dyed gold, green and purple falling in front of them.  It was
 Zillah.  Zillah was someone out of my most wild fantasies.  I could 
remember burning strawberry incense and listening to Bauhaus just 
because he did.  I began to walk over to him, I didn't even know what
 I was going to say to him...but I knew I had to talk to him.  I was 
getting closer and closer to him; I could smell the sweet wine he 
was drinking then someone pulled me into a darkened corner/hallway.  
It was Nothing.

"Nothing, what are you doing here?"
"Del, he's left me again...haven't l learned my lesson since last 
time?" Poor kid, he had been crying so much his makeup was smearing 
all down his face.  I had always loved Nothing in my heart of 
hearts...there was something about him that made me want to take care
 of him.  And if his lover Zillah was going to ignore him, I wasn't.

"It's okay sweetling"  I told him, wrapping my arms around him. "But
 why are you here?"
"I followed Zillah and Molochai and Twig because they were going to 
leave me alone, I don't want to be alone...and now I see them here 
and they all have someone else and they are ignoring me."
He was sobbing now, I could barely understand him through the tears.
"It will be okay...I promise"
I didn't know what else to tell him...what was I going to do with a 
sobbing vampire on my hands?
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