A/N Chapter 10 hope you like it!
Sarah convinces the guardians to let her come, and Jackie is manipulated by Pitch.
Chapter 10 Convincing the Unconvinced
Once Sarah had jumped down Bunny's rabbit hole Sophie turned to the Guardians, her hands on her hips, and stared at them looking stern.
"I'm going" She said. "That is my daughter, who is in pain, my daughter whom Pitch has targeted. I am going whether you like it or not."
"Pitch would not hesitate to kill you." Bunny interjected. "If he thinks that you being there will interfere with his plans... he will end you."
Sophie shook her head. "I don't care." She sated simply. "So long as my daughter is out their scared frightened and confused, I will do everything in my power to make sure she get's home safely."
"Even at the cost of your own life?" Tooth asked her worriedly.
Sophie shook her head. "I am my daughter's guardian, her first guardian, it is my job, my duty, to make sure she is safe." She said. "It is the oath I made to her when she was born. I will protect my little Winter Sprite no matter the danger." She glared at each of them.
She then sighed sadly. "I love her, and until I see her safe in my arms, I will not be able to rest." She told them.
It was silent for a moment before North spoke up.
"It is very dangerous." He said, "That is the reason you wouldn't let Sarah come."
Sophie sighed. "Sophie is a nine year old child, I am a grown woman." She said before looking down and closing her eyes. "And that is my daughter."
Sophie looked down for a moment and before looking back at them and the tears she had been holding in started to fall. "Please," She begged. "She's my daughter, I need to go."
Jamie spoke up then. "As do I, that's my niece Pitch is attacking, I should go as well."
North sighed. "Fine come," He said with an air of defeat. "But this is bad idea."
Sophie smiled, satisfied, as North reached into his pocket and pulled out a snow globe ( from the pocket that Sarah had not pick pocketed) and went to her brother and her smile fell only a fraction. "Are you sure, Jamie?" She asked him. "What about your fiancee?"
Jamie rubbed her shoulder. "I am not letting my little sister to face Pitch without me, my fiancée will understand." He whispered to Sophie. "She understands family emergencies."
Sophie pursed her lips at the reminder of what happened to Isabelle but said no more.
"I just hope we don't regret this." North said, smashing it to the ground, a multi-colored portal appeared and together the guardians and the siblings jumped into the portal.
Sophie, Jamie and the guardians had stepped through the portal, into the frigid cold of the arctic weather, But Sophie did not even notice the frigid cold for her eyes were focused on a point ten feet in front of them, her eyes widened in fear and horror.
For there 10 feet in front of them was Pitch and at his feet lying unconscious was a child with hair as white as snow and skin as pale as milk.
"Jackie!" Sophie cried.
Antarctica- Ten Minutes Ago.
Jackie backed away from the man robed in black. Her eyes wide in obvious fear.
Pitch looked at her sadly. "I see you've heard of me."
"My uncle told me stories of when you tried to cover the world in fear." She said as all around her ice started to form at a much faster rate than usual, Icicles started to form all around them as she backed away from the Man of Fear.
Pitch chuckled. "I do not wish you harm, little Jackie."
Jackie's eyes widened and she put a hand behind her back, in her mind she pictured a dagger made of ice and it appeared in the very hand that she had placed behind her back.
"How, do you know my name?" She asked him.
Pitch rolled his eyes. "I'm the boogeyman, it is my job to know who everyone is and their greatest fear."
Jackie looked at him suspiciously but let the explanation stand. "What do you want Pitch?" She asked him.
Pitch looked surprised at the question. "Isn't it obvious?" He asked her. "I want to help you."
Jackie snorted at that, but Pitch raised a hand to stop her. "No it's true, I've seen how you are treated, I've felt your fear, I want to help you so that you never feel afraid of your powers again. So that no one can make you feel afraid, like Ms. Lorna did today."
Jackie bit her lip. "How do you plan on doing that? By making me into something like you?" She hissed at him. "Something to be feared and hated?"
Pitch looked at her, and smiled cruelly. "You're already feared and hated my dear, I can teach you to own it." He said. "Do you honestly think people will take you back after what occurred at the school today? Your peers will despise you and fear you, you almost killed them."
Jackie's eyes widened "You know about that?" She asked him her voice soft and scared.
Pitch nodded sadly. "I felt every single child's fear as you froze them in their seats. Including your best friend's."
Jackie shook her head. "No Sarah wouldn't fear me, she loves me."
"Love?" Pitch asked her. "Love is a trick, an illusion, no one loves you."
Jackie shook her head. "That's not true! Momma, Uncle Jaime, Sarah..."
"The very same people who encourage you to hide your powers?" He asked him with a raise of an eyebrow. "Yes, they seem very loving." His voice dripping in sarcasm.
Jackie shook her head. "They are!" She insisted. "They told me to hide them so no one would take me away!"
"No, they told you to hide your powers because they were afraid of them." Pitch said.
Jackie shook her head "NO!" She cried covering her ears. "Stop it! It's not true!" She said. Around them the wind grew harsher and the snow started to fall more and more rapidly until a blizzard was upon them.
"It is true, and why shouldn't it be? Look at the disaster your creating now."
Jackie looked around and saw snow and ice blowing around in the chaotic wind, that she herself had created. She focused on her breathing and slowly the snowfall and wind decreased.
Pitch laughed. "Why did you stop it? That was amazing! We could create so much chaos together."
Jackie looked away. "I want nothing to do with anything that could cause people to fear me more." She said softly. "I want to be loved, not hated."
Pitch's face twisted into a mocking grin. "Your already hated my dear, your own father never wanted to visit you."
Jackie's eyes widened. "That's not true, he does not know about me, mother did not know how to contact him."
Pitch looked at her mockingly. "Oh I assure you, little halfling, he knew, in fact I told him myself, and you want to know what he did?" He said his voice soft and cruel.
Jackie shook her head eyes wide as she started to step further back from him. Pitch started to walk forward as he answered.
"He left, he told me that even if what I said was true, he wanted nothing to do with a child like you."
Had Jackie not been so emotional and angry and scared, she would have questioned everything that Pitch was saying but as it was, she was angry and scared, and so she took Pitch's words at face value.
She covered her face with her hands and cried. "NO!" She screamed.
Maybe those dreams were true! Maybe I should join him, spread fear and chaos wherever I go, It's all I'm good for. She thought to herself dejected.
Pitch laughed "So now will you join me?" Holding out his hand to her. "I'll never fear you." He said for once his voice soft and almost kind. "I promise."
Jackie opened her mouth but hesitated when the strangest thing occurred.
The moon above them glowed brighter and all of a sudden Jackie was flooded with memories of every happy moment she had ever experienced: When Sarah told her that she believed, Her 8th birthday, The day Uncle Jaime took her to the Broadway performance of Frozen (her favorite Disney movie ever), Every hug she ever received, every kind word ever said to her, every single time that Sarah her best friend stood up for her when people were making fun of her, every time her mother kissed away her tears, every moment her mother comforted her after a nightmare,flooded her mind.
"I love you squirt" Her uncle's voice echoed in her mind
"Your my best friend, I will always defend you." Sarah said her emerald eyes holding a seriousness, that Jackie (at the time) had never seen before.
"I love you my little winter sprite, no matter what, I will always love you." Her mother had told her before giving her a kiss on her forehead.
When the memories where ended she gasped and looked at Pitch a smile on her face. "I am loved" She told him her eyes hard and determined as she raised her dagger against him. "And I will never join you."
Pitch sighed sadly. "I was hoping it would not come to this but..." With that he blew black sand into Jackie's face and she fell onto the icy floor unconscious. The dagger made from ice slipped from her hand.
Unfortunately for him, he was too late for at that moment a portal appeared and out stepped Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, Sandman, Jaime Bennett and the young half-ling's mother herself Sophie Bennett.
Sophie's eyes widened at seeing her young daughter lying on the frozen ground. "Jackie!" She screamed rushing towards her. Pitch erected a wall of black sand that stopped Sophie in her tracks.
"What did you do to her?" She snarled at him. Behind her the guardians prepared for battle.
"I just put her asleep for a while" Pitch said. "Don't worry physically she'll be fine."
"And emotionally?" Sophie demanded her own emerald eyes glinting with the same anger and malice he had seen in Jack's eyes not 20 minutes before.
Pitch shrugged "After the amount of nightmares I gave this girl, another nightmare won't hurt her."
Sophie's eyes widened as she realized just how long Pitch had been interfering with her child's life.
"You monster" She snarled at him.
Pitch smiled. "Thank you for the compliment" He told her laughing.
"Give us the girl now, Pitch" Bunny said getting ready to throw one of his boomerangs. "And we'll think about letting you leave unscathed.
Pitch laughed and around him Nightmares appeared from the shadows. "Try, I dare you."
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