"I didn't think you would survive out there on your own…yet here you are." He said to me now as he was looking at me down and down, almost a snarl was on his lips there from what he was seeing and what he was experiencing. I stayed still, the fear was still lingering underneath me but I didn't want that too how just yet. I wanted him to see that I was not going to be moved by there, by him. Even the air around us was getting lower and colder.

"Look at you….I must say….you're decent," I cocked my head at him as he said that in such a light manner.

"Is that a compliment?" I asked, sounding a bit unsure.

"It is, trust me. I've done worse damage to others back at home, including that Mayor. You should see him now, unrecognizable. But I must say…I should have done worse with you," He answered as he placed his hands in his pockets, "How you were the one that got away…it still…bothers me," He sounded agitated. The knitted brow on his face, how he seemed to hunch over himself very slightly since that topic of me escaping him was bringing back a not good feeling. It was like I was hitting a nerve without me trying to.

"I'm guessing I did something to you that brought this whole thing together," I guessed with him since he was looking down at the ground and was already having a moment to himself. But right after I said that I saw him keep his head down and his eyes lock with me alone. I instantly saw him there, the Boogey man himself. I saw the raw fear that he's unleashed on those who crossed him, on those he feasted on, and now, he was doing the same with me.

"It wasn't you that I was after…dear one," He commented, his voice was velvet and low. I could feel the vibration of how he was talking along the top of my skin, "No…it was your husband that I wanted."

My husband…..

"Jack," I said in a nervous manner, the small smile on his face appeared when I mentioned him.

"Oh, now you remember your beloved. I didn't wipe him from you fully, must have been my mistake on my part. You see…my problem was with him and how he was so loved by everyone around him…how he was always the hero and he tried to kill me…well he did," He let out a sarcastic chuckle from the last comment to his explanation. I could still remember in in that town, hearing Jack's voice and how everyone was cheering for him, but the rest was still too fuzzy.

"I took his friends….though I didn't catch those three rugrats in time to get to them, his own dog that was already a ghost mind you….and but there came along you." He snapped his fingers near this face, instantly vanished to reappear in front of me, close enough where I knew he could get me in one swipe or one shove. I was waiting for that moment, but something was making him pause and almost lose himself. He was looking right at me, but at my collarbone, or what was hanging around neck against my collarbone

My necklace.

"I thought I had that destroyed." He murmured close enough for em to feel his breath as he spoke when he reached down to touch the very tip of the necklace. Once he did, he was launching back what sounded like a blast from where the necklace and his skin made contact. But I wasn't harmed nor did I feel any pain from it, seeing him fly high away from me in a launch and he fell to the forest ground. I was in shock from what happened, taking a moment to finally look down at the necklace and wonder how that could happen.

A simple bobbin necklace unleashed some kind of pain on the Boogey Man himself. I had a shield.

"You husband's little protection charm….a little more powerful than I remember," He said with a grunt as he got himself up from the ground, looking pissed that he couldn't touch me as I stayed still and held my ground now, "Looks like Jack stills has the upper hand."

Out of nowhere to his left and my right, something that seemed to be some kind of orange blast of energy and magic knocked him off his feet and against a tree. It was a shriek of magic heard, almost like a shriek from some kind of being and it even got him to stay down on the floor for a moment or two. I didn't know where it came from or how it got him to stay down like that, but it was suddenly answered with a moment as someone was walking over from the direction of the magical burst.

He was a tall young man, lean and almost a bit muscular in the dark clothes he was wearing. He had and angular face, but something about it brought some smoothness and both innocence and danger at the same time. He was wearing that looked like a leather jacket, black slim jeans, and boots, a black sweatshirt underneath the jacket with what seemed to be a skull. His hair was jet black, almost shaven down to being bald but I could see the color of his hair there.

His hand was outstretched towards Boogey, keeping his eyes on him while he was still on the ground. The young man looked stern, a hard and serious look on his face but I also saw the look of innocence and a hint of purity as well. He wasn't all bad, I knew that from just one look. Finally, after watching him for a moment or two of just watching him and sinking it all in, I spoke his name.

"Jack."

He looked over at me, and once we locked eyes, really locked eyes, I knew then that it was him. It was the one person that was somehow lost within this new life I had here since I woke up in the middle of the forest. It felt like everything that was lost within me was clicking wide open, no longer hazy or fuzzy. It was crystal clear: the small visions of the town, the musical melody that was playing over and over again like a constant regularity, and of course hearing his voice alone. His voice, it was my sense of home, and now he was right in front of me.

His eyes softened, instantly went from looking harsh and stern to almost a bit emotional when we were staring at each other. The way he looked at me was like he hasn't seen me in years, beyond years, and it was hitting him all over to see me there. With his hand still out over to Boogey in case he was going to do something, he finally spoke.

"Sally," How my name sounded on his lips alone sounded so pure and so true, naturally rolling off his tone but with emotion behind it. He sounded both relieved and scared at the same time to see me in front of him. He lowered his arm slowly, no longer seeming to have the appearance that he was going to kill someone with a flick of a wrist.

I was only focusing on him, no one else and not even Boogey. All that mattered was Jack, and how everything inside of my own heart was feeling like it was pieced together. Within a second, once again without my brain really telling to stop and be careful, I was running to him and it was more of a bolt than anything. I missed him, without realizing that I was missing him far too much and I needed that hole to be filled.

We collided there in the middle of the forest, both of our arms wrapped around each other and my own breath was lost when we were connected. He felt solid against me, his own arms were around my waist in a protective manner, and I never felt safer in my life. My arms around his neck, it already felt like we've done this plenty of times before. This was familiar, this was real, and this was what I was missing.

"I thought I lost you forever," He whispered to me as we were still in an embrace, neither one of us were going to eat the other go anytime soon. My heart fluttered when he said that, and ti was such a frightful feeling hearing that from him and also just near him. And ache that I knew I missed was no longer there, and it was replaced with the soothing sensation of comfort and peace.

"He did this," I whispered to him, needing him to understand why we were in the situation we were in, and how we got here, "He made me…made me forget everything." It pained me to say it and to know that it was all from Boogey because he had some kind of resentment towards the man in my arms.

"It was because of me, I'm the one to blame," Jack reassured me as he was still holding em close and refusing to let me go. I didn't want to believe that, I really didn't want to since it sounded so cruel and unkind. It didn't feel right for us to talk about this now since we were having our own reunion together when I thought we were going to be separated forever from each other.

"Of course you are," Boogey said in an utmost growl from his spot away from us, both Jack and I looked instantly to see him stand up completely now, but his look was way beyond the look of wrath. Within a split second, Jack threw me behind him, shielding me from Boogey and it was so quick that I had no time to blink and see him.

"We can walk away from this, Boogey. But I'm not going to let you get Sally," Jack vowed to him, sounding stern again like he did before when he was fighting off Boogey all by himself.

"Just a snag in our plan to get rid of you, but since you both here, it'll be better to kill you both," Boogey replied in a snort now as he was seeing us as the two brand new target, twice as much for him. I didn't know how we were going to handle him, the both of us since Jack was the one who had the powers, not me. What could I do against a nightmare like him?

"You know you can't touch her," Jack reminded him, already having me remember the necklace that was around my neck. Up to this point, I didn't think fit as anything else than some kind of trinket the was a clue to my past. But it was more than that now, apparently.

"I blame you for that, your little wedding present prevented me from getting even a scratch on her," Boogey snarled back at him, instantly having em see him cut himself off as another blast on our left and his right that almost knocked him off his feet. He blocked tin time with his own magic, all of us looking at the source of the blast and I knew who it was. I forgot about them from the moment I was with Boogey Man one on one.

The heroes of Storybrooke.

"You're gonna have to do better than that to get a scratch, Amateur," Regina growled with her own one of authority, already having one hand out and ready for what could come from Boogey. Snow White had her bow and arrow drawn, Charming had his pistol from his holster armed, August was holding my backpack in his grip and Will had his hands curled into a fist.

"You shouldn't stand in a way of something that doesn't involve you and your band of merry men," Boogey said to her in a way to be threatening as I saw Will scoff at him from the remark.

"Oi, I take offense to that, fancy pants. But you best wander off before things get ugly," Will advised him. I stayed close to Jack, not wanting to lose him already since we just got back together again and things were clicking back in my head from what I forgot. All because of Boogey.

"And you happen to be in our town and first so….it kind of does involve us," Emma explained to him from her spot, hands out and ready. I slowly reached down to lace my fingers with Jack's fingers, feeling him hold my fingers too and suddenly I felt more at peace than anything, It felt like we were meant to hold hands, it was in our blood and in our wiring to holding hands and be this close. It was beyond natural to do seeming like this and not be afraid or awkward about it.

"Last chance, Boogey," Regina warned him, "I'm not afraid to get my own hands dirty with you since you're causing way too much chaos for one day."

"Trust me, I can turn worlds and dreams upside down," Boogey threatened back in his own snarl, "I'll end your town right after I end these two right here that have been the cause of all my problems," It was always getting worse and it felt like we had to get rid of him once and for all now. I looked over from where I was with Jack to August, seeing him watch me in concern since I was a bit too far away from him to do anything. With my backpack in his hand, I suddenly remembered something that I could use against Boogey if I was willing to try it. But I was too far away to grab myself, but I gave him one look, seeing him cock his head at me slightly before I motioned with my eyes to the backpack. He looked down briefly, not for too long, and he then knew what I was wanting him to do.

Get the mirror.

"You're not going to do that with them," Jack warned him since this was beyond messy. August slowly opened the top of the backpack without making too much movement, and I knew we had to distract Boogey enough for the mirror to be brought out and be used.

"If you want the both of us, then you can have us, not them," I said to Boogey, finally finding my voice in this whole talk, Jack squeezing my hand in a death grip. I could see him look at me over his shoulder as I was seeing August out of the corner of my own eye slowly reaching in and grasping something within the depth of the backpack, Boogey's eye were on me now, not Jack, but me as he was slowly grinning from the thought of just killing me, which was what he wanted all along.

"With pleasure," He purred, August then throwing out the mirror just in time for seem kind of rush of magic and wind to come out of the mirror itself, as if he activated something in the mirror, or someone. We all heard it, and we all were shaken by the force that came out of the mirror. Jack and I almost fell to the ground when the blast hit Boogey directly and he was pressed down to the ground by some kind of force that was keeping him down.

"You have no real power here," The voice was haunting, and I knew it from years and years of following orders from it. I stayed quiet and huddled close to Jack as the Enchantress spoke again, "I'll send you back to your own realm before you harm this one!"

A gushing beam light came from the mirror, in which August then dropped it to the floor and the beam was still coming out but shooting upward. I thought it would gong to hit the sky and the trees, going through the branches and sending that bright beam of green light out.

Jack was maundering the both of us away from the area, trying to get farther away from the force as the light was getting brighter and brighter now. The Enchantress, whatever she was doing, was apparently working since I could hear Boogey crying out. Was he in pain? It sounded like it, and when I tried to look over at him, I could only see the blinding light and it was getting brighter and brighter. It was far too blinding for me to just watch and not say anything since it was all unfolding in front of me.

She was killing him slowly.

"Leave now, or you will be condemned!" She boomed at him with her own threatening voice as finally something was bursting, almost sounding like a rip in the air. The force of air that came from the rip in the air knocked all of us off of our feet and then suddenly, everything was still and quiet once again.

What just happened?

Slowly, with my head against the ground and my arms around my head to protect myself, I moved my head up and looked around. Everything looked the same, but right where Boogey Man was just moments before and when he was so close to hurting all of us, there was a large black mark on the ground. It was the size of a tree, thickness as it was, and two large yellow eyes in the black marking on the ground. He was gone.

Boogey was finally gone.

"Sally?" I looked over to where Jack was, seeing him still close by me and he was reaching out to me in case I was hurt. I grabbed his hand, finally was close for us to help each other up as the others were getting up as well. We looked at the mark, everyone was stunned by what happened, and right next to the mark was the mirror, quiet and silent as if nothing happened to the mirror.

"What was that?" Will questioned in a huff as he was dusting himself off, the others I knew were thinking the same thing. I breathed out slowly, the moment of panic and fear was no longer a part of me now. A weight was lifted and washing like a blanket. I felt like I could live again, really live again since everything was coming to place for me now.

I finally knew more about my life, all because of my husband right next to me.

Author's Note: I pictured Jack Skellington being played by Josh Dunn in Twenty One Pilots, I can't help it he's handsome.

Thanks for the support for reading this small story. I thought we need some Nightmare Before Christmas in Once Upon a Time. Please leave a review and the next chapter will be the last one.