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Warning: Contains violence, torture, blood and gore.

You Can't Kill Fear - Chapter 4: Backup

Jack didn't say anything to Pitch as he taunted him, toying with his feelings. He was on the verge of breakdown already, Pitch's words really got to him. Some say actions speak louder than words, but in this case, it was the other way around.

Pitch broke into another bout of manic laughter, his head shooting back and his wicked cackling echoed through his lair. He really did seem much crazier, or even, possessed. He still held the knife, tight in his hands, so tight you could see his knuckles, of course it was too dark for that, though. Yet he had not need knife anymore, so he made it vanish into a puff of Nightmare sand.

He lifted his foot, unnoticed to Jack, before bringing it down, hard, onto Jack's bare left foot. Jack, being unprepared and surprised, screamed out in pain as he felt Pitch putting all of his weight onto his foot. It seemed impossible that such a slender person could bear so much weight, but it wasn't like Jack was the most muscular boy around.

Bunny emerged from his tunnel, finding himself at Tooth's Palace. A few Baby Tooth Fairies flitted past him in a hurry, until one actually noticed him. He asked for Tooth so the Fairy immediately flew to where Tooth was hovering, checking the organisation of the area. When Tooth heard that Bunny was looking for her, she stopped what she was doing and flew down to him donning a curious expression. "What is it, Bunny?" She asked.

"'Ave yer seen Jack? I 'aven't seen 'im, nor 'as North," Bunny said. Tooth laughed, "Oh Bunny, always so paranoid, I'm sure he's just playing around, nothing to worry about!" She thought it was a joke, but there was nothing funny on Bunnymund's face. Bunnymund just stared at Tooth, an eyebrow raised, waiting for her to realise this was no laughing matter.

Tooth looked down, cheeks red, "You're serious, okay..." Her head suddenly shot up, and her wings started flapping almost twice it's usual speed, "Then we must find him! Oh if anything happened to h-" Tooth was cut-off as Bunny told her to calm down. They were to find him, but planned out and organised, not just flying, or hopping, about aimlessly.

"We must set off immediately!"

"What about North?"

"The two of us are enough!"

"If things get serious, I'm getting 'im, but we may just be overreacting. Better safe than sorry, though mate."

With that, the two set off to Burgess, the one place they knew Jack would usually be.

Jack had his head hung, he was fighting a losing battle with himself, he could just easily cry for mercy that instant, but he was too proud for that. "You know it's very impolite to look away when someone is talking to you," Pitch said striking a blow to Jacks face, from under his chin, pushing Jack's head back to hit the wall. This caused Jack to shut his eyes tightly, trying to maintain the pain as it shot through Jack's head.

"Oh how pathetic you look," Pitch said in a very sadistic way, a smile still plastered on his face. He surveyed his 'work'. Jack's left arm was still gushing with blood, it dripped down his fingertips, and his left foot had already got a purple shade, bruised badly. It was clear that his head was bleeding because the blood showed so clearly in contrast to his snow white hair. He looked paler than he already was, the loss of blood already taking effect on him. With all this, Pitch still wasn't satisfied.

Pitch allowed the chains to vanish and Jack immediately dropped to the ground, coughing up blood. He could barely support his own weight with his one arm that was still unwounded. "Oh that won't do. Stand up!" Pitch ordered, his voice ringing in Jack's ears, causing him a headache. Jack struggled to stand up, failing once, before steadying himself on the wall, his back to Pitch. He knew if he didn't comply, things would get much worse. Horribly worse.

Bunny and Tooth had arrived at Burgess. It was cold, but it wasn't snowing, so there weren't very many children out. This was a good thing and yet a bad thing. It was good because they wouldn't need to be disturbed by loud children playing and seeing them, but bad because it meant that Jack wasn't there.

They set off in different directions, searching for any sign of Jack or anything off. They didn't call out, for it would attract unwanted attention. After awhile of looking and finding nothing, Bunny saw Tooth stop at a lamp post. He hopped over, her wings were drooped and she was looking at something in her hands.

"Tooth?" Bunny asked, until he saw what she was looking at.

In her hand, apart from snow, were a few specks of Nightmare sand.

"What? No, this can't be! We all saw him get pulled down with 'is own fears! 'Ow can this 'appen?" Bunny exclaimed, rather confused and worried. Tooth still silently stared at the sand, before saying softly as something dawned on her.

"Pitch has Jack... Pitch could kill him... We can't... Bunny! We can't let Pitch hurt him! We have to find him!" Tooth said, getting louder and more panicked when she addressed Bunny.

"We 'ave to tell North and sandy, warn 'em."

"No, there's no time! You go, I'll-"

"No, then he'll 'ave you vulnerable."

Tooth sighed, Bunny was right. They had to warn the others and get their help. Yet she just couldn't push away the thought that anything could happen to Jack while they found North and Sandy.

"Don't worry, Jack won't give in easily, we'll find North an' Sandy in no time."

"That's exactly what I'm worried about." Tooth said, referring to Jack not giving in, before following Bunny to gather North and Sandy.

Was this okay? If any of you have any suggestions, please do just leave a review! Like any ways to tortu- uh I mean help Jack :P

I'll be writing another chapter, but take note I'm writing this before I leave for tuition so I don't have much time ^^;

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