Shadow had promised Jakul that she'd allow him this. After all, she had gotten to enjoy Jack's company though perhaps not in the way the other "shadow" had thought. Which was now why she was standing patiently in the closet of the teen who had yet to come home; she had spent hours setting up things to ensure that the boy would be alone in the house... His mother was off on some business trip and his younger sister off sleeping over at a friend's for the night. Jamie arrived home from school, having been , smiling as he wet to get himself something to eat; unaware of the two intruders. A soft smile tugged at her lips at the sound of the boy downstairs. She sent out a bit of sand to move the snow globe that the boy used to summon the Guardians. She slid it out of sight beneath the boy's bed, not thinking about whether or not he'd notice it missing on the night stand where it usually was. Jamie hummed a tune as he went up stairs to his room with a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. He glanced at his math homework, accidentally writing Jack's name next to 2 = 4; he couldn't help but think about the snow days Jack had brought and he was concerned now that he hadn't heard from Jack in a week. Shadow slipped from the closet as the boy was distracted by his homework, she stood behind the door which was now half open, she would let the boy eat... He would need his strength after all; she murmured inwardly so only Jakul could hear her soothing words, she could sense he was becoming impatient and eager to test the body she'd given him.
"Patience my dear... patience... the boy needs his strength first." Two minutes later Jamie had finished his sandwich, though he hadn't gotten any where on his homework; he stood up from the desk, preparing to take his empty plate downstairs when he sensed that something was off about his room, he looked around and turned to see that there was a book out of place. Setting the plate back on his desk he moved over to fix it. Shadow rolled her eyes, knowing that Jakul had moved from the closet to toy with the boy by moving the book; still, it was the perfect time now and she pushed her hand on the door. It swung shut, the click rather ominous in the slice that had persisted. It was dusk now, the sun nearly having sank all the way beneath the horizon. Sand poured from her and sealed the door shut, it slid over all the surfaces of the room as the boy was whirling around to face her. The sand blocked out the moon and locked the window; all but plunging the room into pitch darkness as the only light came from the lamp in the teen's room. Jamie looked around in slight fear.
"Who's there?!" He he yelled into the darkness, gasping as he felt something rough brush by him and he turned around only to be pushed into the wall by the bed, being held by Jakul. The teen gasped, eyes wide.
"Y-you! I th-thought we got r-rid of you!" Jakul chuckled.
"You can't get rid of something like me. I doubt Jack would let that happen as he still has some darkness in him, always will no matter what." Shadow chuckled.
"Really now Jamie... There's a darkness in you too... don't deny it. I can sense it... I know all the wishes of your heart as we all the dark desires that lay within... Jakul could not simply be rid of anymore than you could part with your own feelings." Black sand whipped out and snagged the boy's limbs to keep him from lashing out at Jakul as she felt that the boy would do so if given the chance. Jamie gasped in pain as Jakul summoned ice to collar him with, the frost bitting into his neck.
"S-stop." He gasped out as Jakul traced his stomach with one hand, smirking at the boy's reaction to his touch. Shadow made a "tsking" sound.
"Now Jakul... don't put too much cold in the collar... You'll freeze him to death before you have your fun." Jamie's eyes widened with an untouched innocence.
"Aww... okay." Jakul eased up on the coldness of the collar, smiling as Jamie look at him in slight fear, knowing that the two had the upper hand against him. Shadow noticed the boy's look of innocence and nearly laughed.
"Now isn't this precious? He's purposely forgotten that night we were stopped... Why don't we refresh his memory Jakul..." She chuckled darkly, amber eyes flashing with delight as sand strands formed near the two and worked quickly enough to rid the boy of his clothes. Jamie whimpered at the lack of clothing, feeling self conscious at being exposed. Jakul chuckled at the boy's obvious shyness and licked his lips.
"Oh Jamie... you look absolutely delectable... maybe just a taste."
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Tears fell from Jamie's eyes, he was terrified at what the two would do to him and at the same time he couldn't believe he'd taken pleasure in that act as he had. Jakul smiled and turned his eyes to Shadow, not needing to speak - the two bonded as they were - to indicate that it was her turn to play with the teen. She smirked and nodded a little before moving forward. As that night before... the one Jamie didn't seem to remember - or didn't want to, her hands on him were gentle and seductively teasing, each touch meant to arouse as delicate touches of her fingers became light grazing with nails when she found where he was sensitive on his torso. She didn't go below his waist yet; taking her time.
Jamie couldn't help but gasp in pleasure though he tried desperately to keep quiet.
"P-please s-stop!" He cried out, he shook his head in shame, unable to believe that any of this was happening.
"Shadow, can I try a toy yet? Maybe the small one... please?" Jakul pleaded, making a small icicle that looked about as big as a cucumber. Shadow smiled at Jakul.
"Yes of course! The small one, mind you... remember what I said about easing him into it... Oh, and not breaking him..." With a flick of her wrist the sand bonds pulled Jamie onto the bed, wrapping around his ankles to pin him down but also to allow them easy access to any part of his body that they wished. Jamie's eyes widened at the sight of the icicle and he struggled vigorously to be free from the sand bonds.
"STOP! NO!" His protests were ignored as Jakul shifted to one side of the bed, Shadow the other.
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Shadow stepped back a bit to watch Jakul toy with the boy.
"Ah... what a beautiful sight the two of you make... A shame we can't show up on film or I'd take a picture to take back to Jack..." Jakul smirked.
"Don't worry, I can send him everything by our link later. Oh how delicious it will be to see his face when he sees this..."
"Oh yes... I'd forgotten that... Mmmm... Well, be sure to capture it all. Oh... but don't get my part in this... after all... I have to be there to "comfort poor Jackie..." Jakul smirked.
"Of course." Shadow pulled out a toy that was slightly larger by only a few centimeters, it was sand that was coated by Jakul's ice.
"I think it's time to try this one..." She smirked.
"It should make him nice and loose for you..." Jamie screamed at the sight of it, tears falling fast.
"Please let me go!" He cried, fear surging through him even as his body ached for what he knew would come.
"Ooh yes, that's so beautiful Jamie... Make more of those delicious screams for us." Jakul said as he felt his own need pressing against his pants, begging to be attended to. Shadow smiled.
"Oh... I'm sure he will do better than that once you've properly claimed him..."
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"P-please... n-no m-more..." He gasped, unable to deny the pleasure even though he didn't want it from these two. Shadow chuckled.
"I think he's almost ready for you." Jakul smiled.
"Good, I can barely hold myself back right now."
"Just a moment more..." She smirked, carefully watching Jamie's body's reactions to the toy. The teen groaning from the pleasure.
"I believe he's just right now..." Jakul smirked, looking into Jamie's fearful, lusted eyes as the teen shook his head in denial as Jakul slipped from his clothes and the toy disappeared as Jakul crawled over the boy. He smirked as he looked down at the boy.
"Just think of Jack, like always, doing this to you Jamie. I know that's how you feel about him, correct?" Tears fell like rivers as the teen shook.
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Shadow grinned, deciding to make it more fun by blinding the teen with sand made into a blind fold.
"Now if you just talk in his voice..." She purred suggestively to Jakul, knowing that the other could perfectly mimic Jack's voice; he had been Jack's darker half after all. Jakul smirked and did just that.
"Jamie." He murmured in Jack's voice, causing the teen to gasp; thinking that Jack was around, but also to struggle more. Shadow purred quietly, so that only Jakul heard her.
"There you go... What a good boy he is..." The boy squirmed beneath him, screaming in pleasure.
"Who do you love Jamie? Who is it you want inside you?" Jamie screamed out Jack's name.
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"That was gooood... I can't wait to show Jack!" Shadow smirked, sprinkling dream sand on Jamie so that the youth falls asleep as the rest of the sand returns to her.
"Sweet dreams Jamie..." She snickered and turned to Jakul.
"After you Jakul... and don't worry if he freezes your sand body... it won't last too much longer anyway." Jakul smirked and flew out of the room on the south wind, light as a feather as he headed off to where he knew his frost spirit was while Shadow disappeared into a nearby shadow to return to Pitch's lair to await Jakul's return with news of Jack's reaction. Jack was sleeping in the nook of a tree, his arms crossed, hoodie up, slightly alert as he held his staff tightly despite being asleep; he was sleeping sitting up against the top of the trunk, his ears open for attack. Jakul snickered when he found Jack.
"Oh, how peaceful he looks... let's change that." Jakul hovered before Jack and touched his forehead lightly, dark frost spreading from it and Jack cringed in pain; at the first few images of the "memory" Jack cried out for Jamie. His eyes snapped open and he looked around, seeing nothing for a moment.
"How did you like the memories Jack?" Jack's confusion and fear from what he'd just seen turned to pure, absolute rage and the wind picked up, becoming a strong blizzard that pulled Jakul into the vortex.
"Oh shit." Is all Jakul can say before Jack slams into him, repeatedly pouching him. Jack grabbed the other by his collar, choking him as they tussle but Jack was blinded by his rage. Jakul mentally called for Shadow, needing her help.
"I'M GOING TO KILL YOU, YOU BASTARD!" Jack screamed above the howling of the wind as the rage in him grew tenfold, his eye becoming nothing but white orbs as the ice Jack had summoned crept into daggers along Jack's skin, cutting into Jakul; Jakul found he was unable to control any of it because it was only reacting to Jack's rage against him. Jakul felt the response from Shadow and just laughed as his body began to fall apart, but it's not painful as he begins crumbling into black sand.
"Pleasant dreams... Jack." Jakul was soon back with Shadow, who was waiting for his essence to return to her where he had made his home since Mysterie had made the decision to draw Jakul into her.
Jack just felt confused now, he pulled out the message bottle he'd retrieved from the tree branch and looked at then looked at where Shadow had disappeared; he felt conflicted. He was a Guardian, he should be with the other Guardians to protect the children of the world, but at the same time... What had they ever done for him other than ignore him and hurt the woman he'd come to love? Since the first time they'd met, Mysterie had been there for him, she had been mortal; of course she wasn't perfect, but what mortal was and he'd been mortal too before he'd been chosen as a Guardian. One of the things that had attracted him was her devotion to him, that she had been there for him like no one else had and he found he could tell her things that he hadn't even told Jamie. She had been old enough that she could understand him and she talked to him as an equal rather than as the child he looked to be. He knew that his life was better with her in it, but he couldn't just turn his back on his duties as a Guardian either. He looked at the teenager who was passed out beneath one of the trees; he felt darkness stirring in his heart even as he longed to help the heartbroken girl. All he had ever tried to do was gain believers, but what was the point if they grew up and stopped believing? If they turned their back on the Guardians and became like this girl who didn't even realize Jack was just a few feet away and was hurting just as she was? Jack growled in frustration and slammed the message into the ground without even bothering to read it; the tiny bottled shattered and the sand message inside was lost as he turned his back on it and began to search for Pitch's lair once more, this time with a purpose. In a room in the dark lair, Shadow ran a hand along the silk sheets; the same room that she had introduced Jack to, she sighed a moment before getting up and going to the throne room in search of Pitch for some company... However bad his company was it was better than nothing. Darkness stirred in her heart when her amber eyes met the silver ones of the Boogeyman as he sat on the throne. The slender shade merely opened his arms when he saw his queen and she crawled into his lap like a child to curl up against him, closing her eyes as he threaded grey toned fingers through her hair. Jakul snickered in her mind.
"Jack's back and he seems willing to kill something this time." Shadow don't respond but neither did Mysterie, Pitch smirks when he sees Jack. She turned her head to see Jack, her once amber eyes having returned to green; she was mid-motion of just starting to turn towards him when Pitch seemed to want to break Jack's bond with her and swooped in before she could react, pressing his warm lips to hers. Green eyes widen in shock, Jack's eyes went wide as well, his heart breaking in half then and there. He turned away as Pitch finished the brief kiss, Jack's brilliant icy eyes dulling and becoming lifeless as what darkness that remained in him began to slowly consume him. Jack prepared to call the wind, but couldn't as Nightmare grabbed his staff and Jack glared at the thing as it screeched in laughter and he gave chase.
"HEY! GIVE IT BACK!" Mysterie jerked back from Pitch and slapped him hard, but the Boogeyman just laughed.
"Oh... that was SO worth it..." He nearly purred even as she screamed at him in pure rage as she flung herself from his lap. The Nightmares nearby converge on Pitch at her silent command as she flew away from him, leaving the shade to scream in pure horror as she forced Jakul to release the bond so she can find Jack. Jakul grumbled, but he released his hold immediately and she chased after Jack, unaware of the Nightmare that had, on its own violation, snagged his staff in order to keep him close to her. The Nightmare tossed its head playfully, dancing just out Jack's reach; acting much like a puppy that wanted to play. Jack thought it was sort of cute, seeing the Nightmare act like an overgrown puppy, but he was also annoyed at the thing because he needed his staff.
"Come on little fella, give me my staff back and I promise we'll play. Just... come on." Jack jumped for it only to miss as it danced away, nickering at him as its form of a snicker.
"GIVE IT BACK!" It nickered at him again and stood in his face, but when Jack went to grab it he was kicked into a tree by one of the larger Nightmares that, had he not known any better, he would think was the little one's mother; the larger Nightmare snorted at Jack in anger, ready to kill him.
"Please, not the face!" Jack said, covering his face as the Nightmare reared to strike him with her hooves. Just as she was about to land the blow, however, she exploded from a spear of silver sand; Mysterie stood a few feet away. The Nightmare holding his staff froze as she spun around and scowled at it. It dropped the staff, ducking its head. For a moment Jack just stares at her, his eyes wide and filled with confusion but then it slowly disappears behind a neutral mask as he walks over to her and grabs his staff; when he meets her eyes again sadness slips through his mask as he turned to leave.
"Thanks, I guess you taught me what it means to have a broken heart. I'm sorry if I broke yours." Jack said quietly, but not so that she couldn't hear it.
"I'm sorry Jack... I never meant for this to happen..." She closed her eyes, shuddering from the pain from the both of them.
"I.. I cannot mend the rift... I wish I could... That things could be as they were... Even in darkness... I cannot hurt you." She yanked the black cowl over her head in attempt to hide the tears that she could no longer stop. Jack sighed as he turned back to her and closed the distance between them, he hugged her close*
"I never wanted to leave you. I care too much for you Mysterie." He wiped away her tears, leaving freezing tracks along her face even as Jakul growled.
"Damn, I don't want to be here much really. I want to be back where I belong, with Jack." He sighs, whining like a baby. Mysterie buried her head against Jack as Shadow shushes Jakul, having retreated from control the moment Pitch had decided to steal a kiss.
"M-mysterie..." Jack gasped as he felt pain from behind, not noticing the Fearling wolf that had taken a bite out of him and that they were surrounded by them. She wrapped her arms around him, only now noticing them and lashing out in pure anger at the wolves; they snarl but her sand is quicker than they are and each one that dares to get close ends up like the first... decimated. Blood and a purple liquid stained the wound. He felt like he was falling into darkness as his vision is tunneled, he gave her a tired smile.
"Mysterie... I love you." He collapsed into her, silver sand swirled around the two of them in a storm; she was angry beyond anything as she wrapped him in sand and took off for the North Pole; the only place she could think of though she knew that she risked bringing the ire of the Guardians on her head, she didn't care. She burst into the infirmary and barked orders at a confused yeti who was checking the supplies. The yeti shook with fear and complied with her demands without question. She lay Jack on a bed on his side, looking for the wound; the silver sand was keeping most of the poison from spreading, but she knew that she needed to do more than that. She just wasn't sure that she should until... she looked up at the yeti who had gotten the bandages for her.
"Get the Guardians... I don't know what will happen when I..." She shuddered, knowing how risky this was going to be. Jack groaned in pain, wanting it to go away; the yeti nodded and headed to get the Guardians as Jack breathed heavily and began to have trouble breathing as nightmares grew in his mind, terrifying ones, as the poison spread. Seeing that the poison was spreading despite her efforts... She didn't wait for the Guardians to appear. She pressed her hand against the wound, ignoring the blood, and plunged into the plane of dreams to deal with the Nightmares head-on... Knowing too well that they would latch onto her the moment she was there; that they would chase her because she was a true threat to them and like attracted like...