A/N I do not own any characters that are in this story, I only play with them. I origanly wrote this for a one shot but it ended up being far to long to I've split it up into three chapters to make it easer to digest. Some of the lines from the book have had to be changed slightly. Dew to the law. Chapter posted every week!
"Do you think your going to get away with this?"
"Oh, dear. Do people really say that?" And suddenly Teatime was much closer. "I've got away with it. No more Hogfather. And thats only the start. We'll keep the teeth coming in, of corse. The possibilities are endless."
"They most certainly are not." Said Susan staring Teatime in his one good eye. "Your not getting away with this, I don't care what you think you may have already got away with but you are clearly mistaken."
Teatime started to laugh. He took a step backwards as if daring her to stop him from reaching the door behind him. When she didn't move he turned his back on her and strode towards it. Susan moved as fast as she could taking a step to the side and then moving up besides Teatime. Susan tapped him on the shoulder and, as he looked around, hit him as hard as she could across the face.
That was the plan, at least. He moved faster turning and caught her wrist in his hand. It was like striking an iron bar.
"Oh, no." He said. "I don't think so. This place gets into your head, doesn't it? It pokes around to find out how to deal with you. Well I'm in touch with my inner child"
He reached out with his other hand and grabbed her hair, pulling her head down.
Susan screamed.
"And its much more fun," He whispered.
Susan winced as his gripped tightened on her hair. Out of the corner of her eye around his feet she saw the grayness move again, bouncing off of him like wasps around a pot of jam, trying to find a way in.
"I think, I know you Teatime."
"Teh-ah-tim-eh" Interrupted Teatime automatically, gripping on her hair once again pulling her further down so that Susan's back was now curved. She had the feeling that, that was not an automatic response.
"Your the mad kid they're all scared of, right?" She continued; her scalp beginning to pulse with pain.
"Shut up!" Snapped Teatime.
"The giggling excitable one even bullies never touched because if they did he went insane and kicked and bit. The kid who didn't know the difference between chucking a stone at a cat and setting it on fire.' Susan's words were tumbling out faster as she began to gasp for breath under the excruciating pain coming from his hand twisted in her hair. "I bet no one wanted to play with you. Not the kid with no friends." She said watching his face. "Not the kind of little boy, who looks up dolls dresses."
"SHUT UP!" Roared Teatime. And then Susan was no longer standing; she felt herself hit something cold and hard, her head whipping backwards and smashing into it where Teatimes hand had just been.
It took her a minute to get her wits back and to figure out that what she was pressed against was in fact a wall made of children's teeth. She could no longer feel any ground beneath her feet but something that felt suspiciously like an arm was holding her halfway up a wall.
Susan blinked, Teatime stood glaring up at her.
"Next time I say to shut up Ms. Sto-Helit you would be very well to do so."
Susan laughed. She had found a way in, but looking up dolls dresses were pointless to a man Teatimes age. And nothing beyond looking up dolls dresses existed in a child's mind. Even though Susan was sure it had been her last few words that had triggered Teatimes outburst she knew that if she pushed the subject any further; it would pass over to a conversation only adults could understand, they would no longer be able to remain in the realm that a child's mind had created. She had to play it very carefully.
"Sounds like I hit a sour note Teatime, tell me did the little girl who's dolly that was want to play with you after you stole her doll? Or could even you tell that she already knew what you were. Kids know about a mind like yours even if they don't know the right words for it."
The pressure on her chest increased.
"I said I didn't look." Said Teatime still glaring at Susan.
"Your not a very good lier Teatime. And given the chance I'd bet you'd do it again; maybe even to a real girl this time."
"IDIDN'TIDIDN'TIDIDN'T!" Shouted Teatime.
Susan knew that she was walking on thin ice with the assassin but if she could only keep him distracted long enough for Death to do something.
"Yes you did!"
"Didn't!"
"Did!"
"Didn't!"
"You looked up girls dresses and you know it!" She felt like a clild in in the playground.
The pressure on her chest lightened, Teatime had looked away from her to the floor. Around his feet the grayness bounced around erratically; its confused she thought. The things Teatime must be thinking no child would be able to understand; it had no way in, not to an adult mind.
And that was it, a child that still believed in the tooth fairy would not be able to understand the fascination of looking up real girls dresses for any other propose then to see where they hid their trousers. But Teatime knew very well that they didn't wear trousers.
There was a loud sound like corse fabric ripping all around them and a crash as they hit a new non marble floor. Susan landed on her behind opining her eyes to just in time to see Teatime land on his. He looked around, his mismatched eyes falling on her.
"What did you do!"
"I didn't do anything. You did!"
"Didn't!"
"Did!"
"Oh, I'm not getting into this again." Susan sighed getting up.
"Take me back!" Demanded Teatime doing the same.
"I most certainly will not! If your that desperate you can just go the way you first went."
She felt the blade before she saw the blur.
"Now if I have to I'm rather more then willing to do away with you politely; but as I'm sure you can see, you have put me in rather a tight spot. Witch I am unable to get out of without your . . . help. So if you would be so kind as just to send me back to the tooth fairy's castle and leave yourself here, I'll even be as kind to put my knife away."
Susan swallowed. Teatime was now so close that she could feel his breath on her cheek.
"I didn't bring us here, like I said, you did. You thought whatever you thought back there and the castle sent us away."
"I don't believe you."
"Well then let me explain it for you." Said Susan huffly. "You were thinking of looking up women's dresses, for other then innocent reasons. A child would not know why you would do such a thing. Sex dose not exist to a child, therefore you got us thrown out of a place that only a child's mind understood."
Teatime looked quite shocked.
"I was not thinking about procreating." He said.
"Sex."
"Don't be so corse, it dose not suit such an elegant lady."
