Once upon a time there lived a beautiful silver cat named Starfire. She was a spoiled cat, who ate everything in the house, and her human didn't know what to do with her. So one day the King of the Goblins peeped in the upstairs window and saw the beauteous Starfire bathing.. and decided that he just had to have the cat! So he whipped up a big storm, and delivered a basket of fresh peaches to the human's door....

"My what nice peaches!" Sylvie exclaimed as she spied the big basket sitting on their doorstep, "The card says they're from the Jareth, King of the Goblins- ever heard of him?" She turned to Sarah, who looked as if she had just swallowed a live fish.

"Don't eat them!"

"I wasn't going to, honest! Whoever heard of eating something somebody just left on your doorstep!" Sylvie gave Sarah one of her most infuriating I-Know-What-I'm-Doing-I'm-Not-A-Child glares.

Sarah grabbed the basket and drop-kicked it out of the still-open door. "Take that, you evil knave!" she yelled out into the thunderous night sky.

Jareth sulked to himself 'she shouldn't remember about the peach! Oh, well, I'm just going to have to do this the old way.'

Starfire screeched a warning as the tall shadow solidified in HER room. A muffled "What the heck is going on up there" could be heard through the now-closed door.

"There's nowhere to run, my pretty" Jareth sneered as he drew closer to the startled-but-never-undignified cat, "just calm your little self down, and I'll be your slave"

Starfire launched herself into the air and clawed her way down Jareth's best hunting outfit, scratching, biting, clawing anything and everything in sight.

"I'm ruined! Damned cat! I would have given you your dreams!"

Starfire faced off with her nemesis, warily circling IT. How dare this creature enter HER domain uninvited! She would teach the cur a lesson.

Sarah threw open the door, regarded the incredible scene- and started laughing. "A cat? You wanted a cat" she fell to the floor as she positively howled with laughter. Sylvie tumbled over Sarah's crumpled form, to see what was going on. "Is this him?"

Sarah nodded affirmative, wiping the tears from her eyes. She looked at the tattered-but-incredulous Jareth and said "Look it's the cat burglar!" which set everyone off, even Jareth.

After they could all talk without dissolving into a fit of giggles- they retired to the living room and ate a bunch of peaches, while Starfire watched in stunned silence. When the little bubbles came, she resisted the urge to swat at them, this being kittenish and therefore undignified.

********************The End************************* or is it????

Jareth appeared in a florish of flying fur, holding a angry cat out in front of him. "Dreamspinner- get rid of this thing, will you!?!"

"You didn't like that weaving?" she asks impishly. Gwydion is trying very hard not to laugh as he sits there holding his wife.

"Please?" Jareth asks, almost at the end of his rope.

"Allright Starfire, back you go!" Dreamspinner giggles, and sends the cat back to its proper home. No more shedding cats for the goblin king! ;)!