Tooth sunk to her knees unable to look at Jack standing there, Pitchs hand on his shoulder, seemingly indifferent. Sandy shook his head sadly and turned toward the pole to alert North. As they left Jack turned to Pitch anger now clearly showing on his face.
"What are you doing Pitch? Why do you do this to me? They care about me and they have since the first time I was taken to Norths palace! What were your first words to me? ''Oh god, a neutral party, then, i'm gonna ignore you but, you must be used to that by now! " Jack yelled fighting back tears, part of him wanted to be with the Dark Spirit and another wanted to go back to how things were with the Guardians.
Pitch frowned, obviously bored with the boys tantrum, "Jack all I did was tweak a few dreams and you came to me. Besides you were the one dreaming about me and whispering my name into the wind as you slept." Jack stepped back his darkening eyes wide.
"What do you mean? I wouldn't have been whispering your name into the wind." Pitch smirked but didn't say a word leaving Jack to think for a moment, waiting for the boy to get everything out, expecting much more. "Say something! God dammit Pitch this isn't fair, and I've spoken to Jaime as well, what are you doing talking to his sister?" Pitch stepped back not realizing anyone had seen him speaking to the small girl.
"I- she was telling me something that Jamie hasn't told you." Jack raised an eyebrow and sat on the edge of the building they had been slowly moving towards.
"Well? What is it?" Pitch sighed and sat beside jack.
"Jaime has been asking about his ancestry a lot lately, he doesn't know that Soph has noticed. Anyway he found out that some generations ago, his many-greats grandmother Emma had a brother." Jack looked up at him expectantly, waiting for the point of the story, "Anyway she had an older brother who, who." Pitch's voice caught, Jacks eyebrow raised, he hadn't seen Pitch emotional, he didn't even think Pitch could have feelings.
"Pitch, just say it." the winter spirit laid a cool hand Pitch's shoulder.
"He drowned Jack, Emma's older brother drowned saving her." the Nightmare King paused letting the information sink into the younger spirit.
"You don't think what I think you do, do you?" Jack asked. Jaime could be his nephew generations on? Sure the last name had changed but that happens when a woman marries didn't it. Pitch just nodded letting the younger spirit have a moment.
About ten minutes later Jack nodded, he still wasn't happy about how things had ended with Tooth and Sandy but that couldn't be helped. "I need to be alone for a while Pitch, I'm sorry." With that Jack took off home, leaving Pitch to go visit Sophie to tell her that she was related to Frost knowing how much she and Jaime loved the boy, whether the young girl chose to tell her brother he didn't know. Not far away Jack was just cruising around the streets not wanting to go back to his lake quite yet, as he was flying he saw a liquor store still open. He knew some humans used the stuff to stop thinking and just forget everything for a while so he went in, sneaking a bottle out of the store and headed home, as he reached home he laid looking at the bottle for a while debating whether or not to have some. He decided against it for the time being and rolled over quickly falling asleep after the past twenty-four hours. Not long after Jack had fallen asleep and Pitch had finished speaking with Sophie, Pitch started to feel lonely, he missed the winter spirit though if asked he wouldn't admit to it. So the Nightmare King decided to get the boys attention in the only way he knew how, he quickly called up the last of his nightmares that accompanied him every time he went to visit soph. The young girl, after getting past her initial fear of the beast, decided to call her starlight due to the sparkling flecks throughout the mare, and sent the mare to Jacks home to get his attention via a nightmare.
Jack tossed and turned as Pitch lunged at him, bearing his giant scythe and nearly cutting the boy in half, this wasn't what he needed right now, to be fighting with Pitch but that's all that was happening, he gave a tiny gasp as Pitch got him in the chest with the scythe and he fell forwards.
Jack opened his eyes yelling out Pitch's name then realizing it was a nightmare grumbled angrily, he looked around his room for something that would allow him to sleep easily and saw the bottle of peppermint vodka, sure he didn't have anything to mix with it but oh well it'd just help him fall asleep faster. Standing up and shaking the nightmare from his head he sighed grabbing the bottle and fashioning a glass out of ice he poured some of the liquor into the glass and started drinking, slowly at first due to the burn in his throat from the alcohol, then as he grew accustomed to the burn he started drinking a tiny bit faster, before he knew it half the bottle of straight vodka was gone and he was drunk. He decided to take a walk when he heard a commotion nearby, hiding in the trees he saw the Guardians had ambushed Pitch.
"Where is Jack?" North asked his heavy accent and large swords making him seem incredibly menacing, Pitch shook his head.
"I've already told you guardians I don't know! We were talking then he left." Pitch said, he knew he wasn't strong enough to take on the Guardians but also knew the fight was inevitable.
"Did someone say my name?" a voice called from the trees surrounding them, the speech somewhat slurred. The Guardians and Pitch all looked around for the source of the voice. Jack stumbled into the opening and sitting directly between the two groups. "You know fighting really isn't any good or anyone."
Pitch shook his head, the boy was drunk. Had he known that what he told him would set him to drinking he wouldn't have said anything.
"Jack, bad things happen when you've been drinking." Tooth and Pitch said in unison then looked at each other wide eyed.
Jack laughed it off. "What could you two possibly know about drinking?" Pitch looked around uncomfortably.
"Pitch and I got very drunk one year and ran into each other. We-we ended up sleeping together."
Jack and Pitch's eyes both widened. "So you got it on with the tooth fairy?" Pitch stepped back at the question and his cheeks blushed an even darker grey.
"That's not important Jack, why have you been drinking?" Pitch laid a hand on the boys shoulder. Jack looked up at him with annoyance in his blue eyes.
"After everything yesterday and the nightmare last night I needed something to take the edge off, I know I should have come and seen you like you obviously wanted, but the liquor was there and you weren't and-" jack cut off mid-sentence and stood up to hug the Nightmare King. Before the older spirit had a moment to object Jack had wrapped his arms around Pitch's neck and his legs around the waist of the grey-skinned spirit.
"I, Jack, please get off of me, Jack please." The guardians looked on amused at the drunken spirit obviously making Pitch uncomfortable. Jack looked at Pitch and pouted then, smirking, kissed pitch softly then bit the older spirits lip. Pitch's eyes widened and Jack untangled himself still smirking. After a few seconds Bunny coughed, reminding the boy that the guardians were still there.
"You wanted to know where I was? Well here I am, somewhat tipsy but fine." the guardians raised their eyebrows at the boy while Pitch stifled a chuckle at the boy. "And honestly, what's it to you if I've kissed Pitch a few times? It's not hurting any of you and I actually really think I've fallen for him." Jack heard a cough behind him and looked at pitch startled. "What? Don't tell me you haven't been expecting this, weren't you the one who made me basically admit it?" Jack felt tears of anger burning behind his eyes and blinked them back, Pitch grabbed the boys hand and pulled him closer.
"Jack, calm down. Help me deal with the guardians then we can talk." Jack nodded determinedly and looked at the other guardians.
"Alright then, I've had my say, now its your turn." He looked at them each in turn, stopping longest on Tooth, as he thought she was the first to break the silence.
"Jack, this isn't healthy! Can't you see what's happening? He's changing you, you would never have spoken to us like that before, you're normally kind and caring. Besides you're drinking because of something he said! Not to mention the fact that the only reason you went and saw him in the first place is because of the nightmares he sent you!" Tooths wings fluttered furiously and Baby Tooth, who had been by her shoulder, chirped in agreement. Jack nodded when she was finished talking and looked to North.
"Well?" He prompted.
"Jack," he sighed, "I don't agree with this at all, but, except kidnapping you there is nothing we can do. But please understand why we react as we do, Pitch is bad news, he tried to destroy us and ruin the lives of children throughout the world. Remember that." North looked at Jack with blue eyes and shook his head at the boys stubborness, sighing. Jack nodded and looked down, then up at Bunny.
"I'm sorry Frost but if you do this then I won't be able to speak to you again. He's the opposite of everything we stand for." Jack had expected that and looked to Sandy. The smallest guardian rose up to Jacks height and circled him a few times, looking Jack dead in his now dark blue eyes he smiled. A picture of Pitch and Jack in a loving embrace appeared over Sandy's head, then moments later a picture of Jack appeared, the meaning was clear, he would accept the couple, for Jack. Jack grinned broadly and hugged Sandy, spinning around quickly. North laughed loudly at the boys excitment and patted him on the back. Once Jack was in his place beside Pitch again North looked at Pitch seriously.
"If you hurt this boy in any way I will-" Norths sentence was cut of by a boomerang flying toward Jack and Pitch, Jack barely managed to deflect it with a wall of ice before it hit Pitch and Himself.
"Bunnymund, please. Don't do this." Jack pleaded, nearly falling over.
"No deal, mate." The rabbit all but growled at the boy, deftly throwing another boomerang at the pair. Bunny barely moved out of the way as Jack easily deflected the boomerang. A particularly sharp looking piece of ice spun towards the rabbit as jack sent another round of ice at him, these ones made black with the rabbits fear by pitch. As a shard grazed rabbits arm he looked at jack, anger shown clearly on his face. "Fine, if that's the way it is then I'll be back for you later." Bunny tapped his foot quickly on the ground then disappeared down the hole that appeared tooth following him quickly looking back sadly.