A Jack and Sally Drama - No more thread
Jack climbed up the spiral hill, the moon glimmering like that first night.
" You were the one who was stitched together" Jack spoke quietly to the empty head.
" But it felt like you were the thread holding me in one piece...like I was the rag doll" He admitted aloud to the empty head, his voice crackling with agonising sadness. He had never felt this way and didn't know what to do. All he could think of was her.
" There's nothing holding me together now. There is no more thread. There is no more you" Jack spoke, and his voice suddenly began to burn. He felt the need to get something out, to scream. To cry. But he couldn't. He began to sob with the absence of tears, his bones shaking as he did so. And for the first time Jack skellington felt truly dead.
* A few months later*
The night was gentle; the breeze refreshing. Jack walked through the graveyard as he always did now at night. On his way he picked up some deadly night shade on his way, as Sally had often done. The skeleton then slowly walked up the hill, murmuring a song to himself as he did so.
" We can sit together...Now and forever..."
A small grave lay at the very top of the spiral hill. Jack placed the deadly night shade in a little bottle that he had gotten from Sally's room, removing the old ones. He sat by the grave whilst stroking the floor as gently as possible, as if he wished not to disturb her. Jack sat there for a very long time, the moon shinning brilliantly onto them. Jack took the strand of her hair out of his suit pocket, pressing it against his skeletal mouth. He cherished this moment everyday. It was the last real piece of her that belonged to him; their secret only. He liked that...It was like she was there with him.
A high-pitched bark came from behind Jack, and he began to stand. Zero floated over, a flower in his ghostly mouth. He whined quietly whilst placing the flower on top of the the grave. Jack smiled at his faithful friend, not feeling so lonely anymore. The two began their decent down the spiral hill, leaving the grave behind. The full moon highlighted the words inscribed onto it:
Here lay Sally, the most dearest friend
Together, now and forever.
As Jack and Zero walked away, they did not see that the flower Zero had placed had set alight, with no causation at all. There had been rumours that the flowers show some sort of prophecy or message. But this time nobody was around to receive it. We can only guess that it was Sally telling them she's okay where she is now.
