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dedication: Fan fiction, without it I would die.
reviews:
Phantom Music Lover: I made you speechless, I am honored!
creatorx33: I am so sorry, I am just not used to boys reading my stories. Please don't take that as an insult, that wasn't meant to. Plus, yeah. There is a lot more drama in this one though.
SkyHighFan: I am sorry, but I am not really aloud to say that stuff, me mum would tan my hide. And I'm kinda, no really, scared of me mum. And sorry, I'm trying to get the beta version up soon.
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Blackirean Boltien: If your mad at Manny for something like that, then your going to despise him after this chapter. And me. :P
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From the moment we're born, we're drawn to form a union with others… an abiding drive to connect, to love… to belong. In a perfect union, we find the strength we cannot find in ourselves. But the strength of the union cannot be known… until it is tested. -Jack's Thoughts
Jack
I flew, that's all I remember. I was flying fast, that was when it happened. Then I crashed. Right in Burgess. Right beside the lake. Then I started crying. Baby Tooth would tweet our little language trying to cheer me up. I got up, then searched through my paocket. I bring out the ring that I proposed to Tooth with. I caress it in my hand, this could have been me and Tooth.
A life, a life where we loved each other, where we could have seen the world together. A tear goes down my face, then another. It keeps repeating in my head, this could have been us. This COULD HAVE BEEN US. A sob escape my throat. That could have been us. I get up, walking towards the hole in the ice. I try to throw it back down into the icy depths. But it wouldn't go through my fingers.
I sob, tears streaming down my face. "This could have been us." I loud whisper. I sigh, putting the ring back into my pocket. No matter how much I wanted to fix it, it would never happen. I pocket the ring. I fidget up and down. A thought crossed my mind. Then it came over and over. Drown yourself. It said. But it didn't sound like my thoughts.
I shrug, I was being paranoid. I could try drowning again, worst case scenario I couldn't die. I hover my foot above the whole. Then jump in. But something grabs me, gosh. Why couldn't anyone let me die. I got out, Baby Tooth was sitting on the edge of the ice. But she wasn't the one who had saved me, it was the hummingbird in front of me. Tooth.
I narrow my eyes. "Why can't you just let me die?" I ask, but then rephrase it. "Why can't you let me die, die?" I ask. She sighs. She rubs her neck nervously, as if anticipating her next move.
" Because, I could never live with myself." she replies. The venom in her mouth was gone. The disgusted glint in her eyes, gone. It was Tooth, the one I loved. I had to stop thinking of that, She definitely didn't really love me now, now she knew I was dead.
"Tooth, I couldn't of really died anyway." I say, rolling my eyes.
Her brows go down, she's confused. "I don't think I follow." she honestly replies. I smile, looking to the sky.
"Because Tooth, I don't need to breathe. The time you saved me last time? I wasn't really dying. More like me trying to find a way to die." The last part I whisper.
She looks to me, her eyes sad. "Right." she says. I narrow my eyes.
"How long have you been standing there, anyway?" I ask. her smile falters.
"Long enough." she replies, a little to quickly.
"How long is long enough?" I ask back. She almost giggles.
"Jack, would you hate me if I said I saw the entire thing?" she asks, giggling the whole time. My face turns red.
"I could never hate you, Tooth." I state, my face a cherry tomato. She frowns.
"What happened?" she asks, hesitantly.
"Why? So you can tell the others and they make fun of me. So you can make fun of me?" I nearly shout. My eyes unfurrow, I didn't mean to do that. "I'm sorry, Tooth."
She looks to me, giving me a half smile. "I should be the one saying sorry, Jack. I am so sorry I didn't give you a chance to explain, it's just that. When you never came back, I thought of the worst things. About you , about me. I don't know if the guardians told you, but they wouldn't let me out of their sight for years." she almost smiles.
I nod, remembering. "You tried to kill yourself. Why?" I ask, the thought of her gone made my heart pang.
She looks up to me. "Is that what they told you. Oh, trust me. THAT IS NOT WHAT HAPPENED!" she shouted, looking to the moon. Her face was livid.
"What?" I ask, my face swirled with confusion and concern. She looks down, her face is neutral.
"Because, that's not what really happened." she whispers. I shoot my head towards her direction.
"Come again." I ask, I was really worried now.
"I don't really want to tell you. But you should know. It is about you. But I can't tell you here, Jack. The moon won't let me." she states, looking up to Manny. Her neutral face becomes furious again.
"Where do we go then?" I ask. I really needed to hear this. For Tooth's sake, for my sake, and for the sake of it includes me.
She looks to me, half-smiling. "Tooth Palace. I'm more powerful there. He can't stop me from doing anything. Heck, he can't see me do anything there." Why won't the moon let her say anything? It must be real important. We get up and fly at the command of my nod.
So here we were at Tooth's Palace. We were I Tooth's chambers. Her bed was in a corner, colorful colors of the rainbow adorned the sheets. The wood of the dresser, the headboard of the bed, and the vanity was a strange blue wood. A yellow canopy cascaded down from the ceiling to the bed. She was sitting on a small sofa on the opposite wall of the bed, me beside her.
We hadn't spoken since we got here, it was all hand motions. She had a cup of hot tea in her hands, her knuckles white form gripping on it too hard. "What is it, Tooth? What is so important the moon won't let you say?" I ask, breaking the awkward silence. She doesn't even smile, instead gripping the glass harder.
"You saw your memories of you and me, correct?" she asks, still looking forward. I nod.
She shifts uncomfortably, "Well, the part where you and I did something?" she started, she was uncomfortable in whatever she was saying. I nodded, I shouldn't make this any harder for her than it already was.
"Well, the reason the guardians thought I had tried to kill myself. It was what Manny wanted them to think." she looks to me, seeing if I process this. I do.
"He knew I wouldn't tell them the truth. I was all covered in blood, lying unconscious on the floor. Because Jack, well..." she tries, I put a hand on her back.
"It's ok, just tell me. I pinky promise I won't make fun." I smile towards her, holding out my pinky. Still looking down she reaches out and tangles her pinky into mine.
"I was, I was pregnant, Jack." she says. My eyes widen. I was ready for anything but that.
"Who's, who's was it?" I ask, gulping.
She slaps me on the arm. "Who else did I have sex with?" she answers me with another question.
"I was a father?" I ask. I was thrilled. I had a baby, we had a baby. And I had left her. I frown. "Where is it? Can I see it?" I ask, I was excited. I was a father.
She smiles, but it wasn't out of happiness. "It's buried outside, under a bush of roses." she says sadly. I frown.
"What?" I nearly whisper. My baby had died. "When did it die?" I ask, choking on the words as if they were poison entering my body.
She frowns, looking up to me. "Jack, it was never born." what did she mean it was never born?
"It was aborted." she says. I start to get angry. Why did she abort it?
"Why did you abort it? Where you scared it looked like me?" I was red hot angry.
She looks up to me, putting up her hands. "It was unwillingly." she states. Then, looking at my confused face she continues. "Jack, Manny tore it out of me. I had just found out I was pregnant. I was so happy." a single tear goes down her cheek.
"I didn't tell anyone but Manny, I thought he would be happy for me. Instead, he was angry. Angry that a possibly new immortal would come into the world without his consent. He didn't want something to be immortal unless he wanted them to be." she looks down, biting her lip to keep from sobbing.
"So what your saying..." I ask, trailing off hoping she would continue for me.
"He tore it out, used a knife and cut me open. Before the guardians came I hid her body, she was already four months old. It's funny, I was wondering why I was gaining so much weight." she smiles, then it turns upside down.
"Wait," I say. I didn't know much, but I did read a book about pregnancy before, "So, you were about four months pregnant, that means you were sixteen weeks. And at twelve weeks they can feel that kind of thing." my face turns into a horrified expression. "That (F) (BA)! I shout. I didn't have any words for a monster like that.
"She even cried for a second. But more like a sob. Then she went limp." she finished. Tears going down her face.
"Take me to go see her." I demand, Tooth looks up at me surprised. But nods her head.
A rose bush sits in the ground in front of me. The roses on it were beautiful, just like I knew our daughter would have been. A single tear falls to my cheek, then dissolves into my skin. "There is one little thing I didn't tell you, Jack." she says to me, after moments of silence. I look to her.
"What?" I ask. I was already going to kill Manny, he better not give me another reason.
"Our daughter, she is kinda alive." she says, this must be really hard for her. I look up to her.
"How?" I nearly shout. She shakes her head.
"It isn't really her, but it is. It's one of those things you just have to believe." she holds her breath. "God, he saw what Manny did. He saved her. He put her soul into Baby Tooth." she finishes. I look at her, shocked.
"You mean?" I ask, I couldn't believe it. She nods. I smile and hug her to me. Her small petite form only coming up to my shoulders. "God really does bring wondrous miracles." I say, smiling at her. Baby Tooth snuggles up to both of us. That was why she was so protective over her, why she nearly killed me when we though I had lost her.
I know what I had to do now, it was like something inside me snapped. I was partially a father. But that was enough for me. I bring out the multi-colored ring and kneel. Tooth looks like she is about to faint. "Toothiana the Tooth Fairy, I promise to love you for the rest of eternity. To love and treasure you. To go to the ends of the earth for you. Toothiana, will you become necrophilia and marry me?"
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