*A/N* Hello! This chapter is about Oogie Boogie's backstory... and his relationship to Dr. F. I will probably expand more on this plot in another story... There is no JackxSally in this chapter... sorry. But on the bright side, this explains Dr. F's realtionship with Sally. She's kind of like his daughter... but not really. So his feelings for her are very conflicted. He hates her and loves her. This is a very weird idea, anyways. Uhmmm... thanks for the nice reviews, and please tell me what you think. I own nobody but Marie, and Revenant and Horrifica. Thank you, and enjoy- TC

Chapter 6: A Few Truths

Four years had passed since that night. I had not seen Jack; for Creator had kept such a close watch on me that it was…unbearable. I had not escaped since.

I longed for Jack every day and every night.

I doubted he even knew my name.

All those years I had been a meek, quiet little servant on the outside. Inside, I was growing stronger. In those four years, I had become more practical. I had learned many things. This was the most important one:

Creator had made a monster.

As I read my books, I found out that My Journal was written by a Creature of Darkness who called himself Oogie. In reading a History of Halloween I found out that there, in the Beginnings of Halloween, the was a Creature of unknown origins called Ogin, a horrible thing, that fed on bugs and was addicted to Fate. Ogin, however was defeated by one of Jack's ancestors, the very first, who founded Halloween itself.

Eidolon–the-Skeleton.

Ogin was never truly destroyed. Eidolon placed Ogin's foul essence into a sealed bottle, and he hid that bottle away in a distant place.

Ogin was never heard from again.

Many years later, a Creature named Oogie Boogie, a boogeyman, came and killed the current ruler of Halloween. His Halloween was one of terror and anger and awful, gory things. All Halloweeners were enslaved, except the two that escaped.

For you see, the Ruler that Oogie Boogie killed had been Revenant Skellington.

Jack's father.

His widow, Horrifica, had run away with her small child. They had remained hidden for many years. She had died long before she could see her son defeat Oogie Boogie, exile him, and become the Pumpkin King.

Jack, the Pumpkin King.

I knew that Creator had something to do with Oogie Boogie. The empty room I had discovered many years ago… My Journal…Igor had brought it to me, and as far as I was aware, Igor rarely left the Tower. And he and the strange personage named "Marie" were mentioned in My Journal… and they were Creations of Creator.

I had to know the truth.

Not that Creator was going to tell me. Fortunately though, The Book of the Ages held a handy little potion called "Truths". It was a rather simple potion, really. You just had to add it into someone's food or drink ad then… they would tell you whatever you wanted to know.

That very night, I did it.

Nervously, again, with shaking hands, I set a cup of tea in front of Creator. He nodded, and I stood aside.

"Good work." He said. I beamed, pretending that in every fiber of my being that I wanted to please him. Hah.

He picked up the potion and raised it to his lips.

He drank it down…and slumped, ever so slightly. I hesitatingly asked him:

"Master?" He groaned. Good. He was under the potion's spell. It would only last for about fifteen minutes, so I'd better start. I wanted to start with a small question first, and then work my way up.

"Master… who was Marie?" He started and he looked furious. Oh dear.

"Marie…Marie…. Was my… wife. Sh-she. …died." What? I was confused. He had been married? How had she been one of his "creations"? So I asked him.

"I was so foolish. I made her a heart that beat like Igor's but he wasn't dead before I put it in. She was. She became a hapless automaton, and she disgusted me. And myself. How could I have… done such a thing?" I nodded. One mystery solved.

"Master…? Did you create the thing they called Oogie Boogie?"

"Yes."

"How?"

He hesitated.

"I was experimenting in making, life, real and true life. I could not find a soul willing to be made anew, so I …stole one. The soul of a creature named Ogin. I combined it with bugs and sewed it up with cloth, and I named it Oogie. What I did not expect that in the binding of that creature there would be accidents. Mistakes. A mistake that killed Marie. His birth killed Marie.

" I hated that creature. Oh, how I longed to destroy it. It was evil, and it had an insatiable hunger. It lived for games of chance. Soon after he was born, I tried to revive Marie. He… fell in love with her, so I destroyed her for the good of everyone.

"Oogie was furious. He set out one night, with murder in his heart, and the next morning…. I heard… Revenant Skellington was dead. He was my best friend. I put two and two together and I locked up Oogie, hoping to stop him. It was no use.

"Later that week, he escaped. My legs were damaged beyond repair that night. He destroyedd them. He locked me up, and proclaimed himself the Pumpkin King. The Reign of Terror began."

"After that, when Jack came to set us free… I- I thought I should like to try again. I took Marie's face and bits of flesh and cloth, and bound them all together. I did not use a soul. It came on its own. I made a heart, a perfect heart, one that could feel and love, because it had been made of my pain all of it, and I placed in your chest, and I hoped for the best results.

"You came, and I loved you. You were my daughter. And yet… all that has hardened me, all that has made me stone. I hate you. I HATE YOU! How dare you wear her face, and talk with her voice. You cannot bend to my will. You too, will leave me as she did!

"You love Jack and hate me! I saw how you stared at him. You love him, don't you? Why would he ever want a pathetic thing like you? How could you… why would you… I just... want to... protect you..." He started, as though waking form a deep slumber. The potion had worn off. He knew how I felt about... Jack, though he would never admit. I didn't care anymore.

And I finally understood.

I was his daughter.

And he hated me.