Jack looked flabbergasted for a moment before breathed out a peal of laughter which became louder and more uncontrollable to the point that he was on the floor shaking and gasping for breath. Poseidon, if anything, looked miffed.

"Well I must say I've never gotten that reaction before." he huffed and crossed his scaly green arms, but not making any move to attack them at that moment. Pitch glowered at everything surrounding him.

"Jack, next time I suggest throwing a sea spirit back in the water and hightailing it out of the area I expect you to agree." Poseidon raised a black eyebrow at this.

"You make it seem as if there will be a 'next time'." That dark smile from before was back and those teeth didn't look anymore friendlier than they had a few minutes before, in fact, now they looked as if they were currently discussing...Politics. Their pointed edges glinted maliciously at Pitch and Jack, who had by now calmed himself down and pushed himself into a sitting position.

"My fishy friend, do you happen to know who we are?" Said Jack in a nonchalant tone, gripping Pitch's hand to pull himself up. The nightmare king pulled Jack to his chest and rested his chin on the top of the frost spirits head. Smirking he looked down at the mer-man who even standing on the edge of his tail, was just a few inches taller than Jack, who in turn was a full head shorter than Pitch. Poseidon felt something in his stomach turn as he looked up into the cold, golden eyes that were glaring down at him. He supposed it had been quite stupid to think that he could take on two people at once, but hey, a man can dream.

"Well I imagine if I was suicidal I would answer 'My lunch', but tall dark and scary here seems to have other plans. So humor me, who are you." He hopped over to his dining table and sat down atop the table, his tail could only support him for so long after all. Pitch chuckled, but it came out as more of a deep rumble.

"Well you may have heard of us before, I am Pitch Black, and this is my... boyfriend, Jack Frost." He couldn't help but sneer at the word 'boyfriend' it sounded so juvenile to him. He was just glad that after tonight he could change that to fiancé.

While Pitch was lost in his musings he didn't get to see the way Poseidon's face paled and the water outside pulsed and scattered the many fish that surrounded the palace.

"T-the nightmare king and the frost prince?" Asked Poseidon with a noticeable tremor in his voice. Jack broke away from Pitch's firm hold and nearly flew up to Poseidon's face.

"The frost prince? Is that really what they're calling me nowadays?" He asked eagerly, placing his hands on the table next to the mer-man. unfortunately in his eagerness a trail of frost drifted from his hands and circled around Poseidon who looked to be nearly shaking with fear.

"Get him away! I'll let you all go just don't freeze me!" Poseidon jumped up from the table in alarm as the frost traveled much to close to his watery skin. Jack held his hands up in a form of surrender.

"Err, sorry I didn't realize, I didn't mean to freak you out it just happens some times!" Jack stepped forward to show him he was really harmless and Poseidon flopped backwards and fell to the floor.

"Keep him away! Just leave the way you came, I'm sorry I was gonna eat you two just please don't freeze me!" Jack was going to continue to try and talk sense into Poseidon but a hand on his shoulder stopped him. Jack looked behind him wide eyes and Pitch just shook his head and lead him to the hole in the floor which led back into the ocean.

"I've just check and Poseidon over there seems to have wards around this place to keep his prey from leaving, so we will need to jump in the water to get out." At Jack's nod Pitch jumped into the water, Jack following a few second later.

Pitch opened his eyes despite the sting from the water and reached out for Jack who had his eyes clenched shut. He still disliked being in deep water, fear was coming from him in waves and with concerned eyes Pitch shadow-ported them out of the water. They arrived silently at their next destination; The labyrinth beyond the goblin city. He figured Jack would enjoy seeing all the creatures in the labyrinth and Jack always did seem interested in all of those couples games so solving a labyrinth sounded like a fun couples game to him. He had already checked to see if the Goblin king was home and- Pitch looked down to see that Jack had buried his self in pitch's robes.

"Jack, are you okay?" If that slimy fish did anything to him while he wasn't looking he was going right back there to beat his- Jack gave a soft cry and tried his best to keep from bursting into tears.

"Why?" asked Jack after tightening his grip on the robes, his voice cracking sadly.

"Why, what Jack?"

"Why do people always have to fear me? I would never hurt someone on purpose, why do they always assume that I want to hurt them?" He gave an uncontrollable shudder and Pitch pulled him closer, bringing his mouth to Jack's ear he whispered.

"Jack, you are the most wonderful being on the face of this planet, but some creatures out there only judge based on what they've heard, not what they learn. That's one of the reasons I love you, you're impossible not to love. You're kindhearted and loud and he funnest man I'll ever meet. When I look into your eyes I can't help but wonder how such a wonderful man could ever come to love someone like me. Every morning I wake up and think of how lucky I am that I get to wake up next to you, Jack Frost and I almost pity all the men who will never know the joy I feel every time I see you smile. Almost." Jack looked up at Pitch, wonder filling his teary blue eyes.

"Do you really mean all that?" Said Jack, who was so awe-struck by the words the man in front of him had spoken that he didn't notice the short cupid flying overhead muttering about 'Goblins and their tendency to steal shiny things.' Pitch kissed Jack tenderly before pulling away to give his whispered reply.

"With every fiber of my being." Jack felt all the breath leave his lungs and he couldn't help but think that Pitch was the man he wanted wake up with every morning and go to sleep beside every night.

"Now what do you say we go solve ourselves a labyrinth?" Still too breathless to speak Jack just nodded and softly took Pitch's grey hand

AN- I know that both Jack and Pitch seem really out of character but there has been 15 years that have passes that were full of experiences that have changed them as people. (Experiences that weren't always for the better, which is why Jack is so.. I guess you could say 'soft' now, but I'm not telling you all what happened!) ((In this story at least)) Any way and sorry about how horribly all this romance stuff is written but I'm not very well versed in all that (One day I'll go through and make it sound more realistic but until then) Thanks to everyone who reviewed!)