From now on the point of view will shift between Ellie and Jack, just so you know.

**Jack**

I open my eyes and feel pain all over my body. It's like someone had put me in some kind of giant bolt stock and tight it really hard. My back hurts the most and I can't focus my eyes. But I do remember everything that happened and, with a groan, I know I have to get up and find Ellie.

"Ellie?" I call out as I slowly lift my arms. They feel okay, but as soon as I merely move my back I have to bite my tongue to keep myself from screaming. It doesn't feel like anything is broken, more like the skin is on fire. But I do also feel that I'm sitting down, leaning against something, and I'm pretty sure it's a tree, which I flew right into and scratched my entire back as I slid down its bark. After a while I can see again and notice that no one in the park is aware of what just happened. My stick is lying next to me and that should make me relieved. It's not broken, like that time long ago when Pitch where close to drown every child's dreams and believes in a brighter futuer and fairytales. But because of me and my friends' refuse to ever give up, and the fact that I became a Guardian, we succeeded to defeat him and I became visible to children who believed in me. In one attempt to defeat me alone, he took one of toothfairys fairy's, babytooth, hostage and made me give him my staff in order to set her free. But he tricked me and broke not only my staff and my powers, but my self-reliance as well. He didn't believe I would bother him after that but I healed, thanks to babytooth and my memories and came after him. The fact that he broke my staff where the first step of defeating me, and if he had known I would come after him, he would have made sure to somehow finish me of when I was at my weakest point. But now my staff is unbroken. I know it's not me he wants. His goal is not do break me down, just to shove me aside and make sure I don't interrupt in his plans. But what does he want then?

When I get up, leaning on the tree, the world spins before my eyes and I feel dizzy and a bit nauseas, not to mention the enormous pain in the back. It's a great effort to just bend over and pick up my staff and I immediately turn around towards the point where Pitch showed up and surprised me and Ellie.

"Ellie?" I call out again but no one is there. I hear how an older woman mumbling to herself as she walks pass me.

"Screaming girls that flies away and disappear in the sky. I told that doctor those pills where too strong for me…"

She keep mutter about strange illusions and I realize what must have happened. As soon as I was enough far away, Pitch kidnapped Ellie and took off, probably to his ghastly hideout deep underground. But what could he want her? Why on earth would he want to kill and innocent girl? I take rate to fly away after them, but the pain in my back is too great and I fall to the ground, unable to move. I try hard to keep my consciousness but slowly fall down into the darkness.

**Ellie**

I'm cold, scared and I'm crying. Pitch laughs in my ear. It's like he enjoy watching me suffer. He has brought me down under the ground, somewhere where it's cold and dark. He had just put me down on the stone floor and then disappeared in the darkness. I'm not jailed or tied or anything like that but I know I can't escape. I don't know where to run. Pitch is the Boogeyman. The nightmare king. The one who knows each child's greatest fear. Jack told me that. Another tear falls down my cheek and I hear the laughter again, bouncing around the cave walls.

"Are you scared, little child?"

I don't answer him. I wish with all my heart that somebody will burst down this cave, chase the shadows away and save me, bring me as far away from this wicked place as possible. I wish Jack was here.

"You know you can't run away now", Pitch says and the gray eyes appear right in front of me.

"What do you want?" I whisper and he gives me this pity look, like he felt sorry for me.

"It's nothing personal, I ensure you. It's just a coincidence that it happens to be you of all humans that will help me gain the power I once wield. And I'm afraid you don't have much of a choice."

"What?" I manage to say confuced. Pitch turns his back against me and slowly walks away.

"I have been watching you and that pestilent teenage Frost and am quite happy to say that I finally have found my long missing partner. I know so because the moon never lies, Ellie."

He turns around and I'm now shaking. I don't know if I do so because I'm frozen or because I'm terrified. In a second he disappeared in the shadows and a voice whisper right behind me.

"Have you ever heard of The Grim Reaper, Ellie?"

His hand suddenly covers my mouth from behind and a radiating pain is piercing my body. I'm so shocked I don't even scream. Al I do is gasp as I see how the tip of a blade is sticking out from my chest and colors my clothes red. Pitch is letting go of me but leaves the knife in my chest. I can't speak. I can't breathe. I can't think. Al I know is that I suddenly lie on the ground. It's cold, just like the laughter that surrounds me and even though my eyes are wide open, I can't see.