Jack lead Ariel somewhere in town for them to sword fight.
Ariel never pick up a weapon in her life.
She thought about how someone like her was going to fight the controller of death.
She never thought about facing death in the face, let alone fighting it.
"Ah Sally, nice to see you again."
Ariel saw Sally again, she thought that Jack was in love with her or just great friends.
"Umm…are you two lovers?"
Ariel was a bit rude of asking something like that.
How nerves she was, it wasn't something she would do.
"No Ariel, we not. Sally and I are good friends."
"Oh…"
"It alright, Sally here to watch and make sure you in good hands."
"In other words…if I was going to get hurt?"
"Yes."
"Oh…I get it…"
She was about to faint again.
"Ariel, breath."
She took in a deep breath and let out.
Jack will have to make sure she does this every time she look like she was going to faint again.
He handed her a sword, she caught but it was light.
She was uneasy about holding it.
"Jack…are you sure about this?"
"Well, you have a few week to figh-"
"A Few Weeks! Are you saying I have to miss 14th!"
That day means a lot to her.
There a reason why Ariel couldn't miss that day.
"Is there something going on that day?"
Jack ask her in his clam voice.
"Well…it was the day…"
Ariel's words were lost.
Her body felt numb, it was the day her father left for war.
She was only was fourteen her father left.
It was before fifth teen birthday.
She hope her father would write a letter for them on that day.
She thought the day a person was gone from your left you'll receive something for them.
"…my dad left us…he in a war right now…I keep hoping he would write back to us at least. Nothing came over the last two years…I don't know if he is alright…I don't know if he was….*sob* killed or not…*sob*…I just want to know if he alright…"
Ariel couldn't control her tears, they came out like the first rain of the year.
Jack could see how it up set her.
A human girl without a father.
"Ariel…"
She drop the sword and ran off.
Jack follow her, he told Sally to look for her as well.
He look all over town, no sign of her yet.
Ariel was in the old part of Halloween Town, no one saw her come down this way.
She need to clear her mind at least for a bit.
Clearing away her tears and the memories that came out her at once.
She need something to keep her clam.
She look though her journal, after playing the piano the other, she about that song.
If I Apologized
It wouldn't make it all unhappen
Wouldn't make the darkness go away
If I Apologized
It wouldn't mean I was forgiven
Wouldn't mean you wanted me to stay
But
It's a dream
When you seem
To be walking into the sun
We're on first
Unrehearsed
And we still don't know what we've done
So we don't say anything.
Jack came to the oldest part of Halloween Town. He heard a beautiful voice.
It was the song he and Ariel played. She was singing it, he follow her voice till he found her.
If I Apologized
I don't suppose you'd even notice
Even though I'd whisper it inside
If I Apologized
We could be the perfect couple
Well we could, but only in my mind
But
If you ask
For the mask
Then we're stumbling on though the dark
But we wait
It's too late
And we only to be asked
So we don't say anything.
Jack found her, leaning against the bridge singing to herself.
Tears were still coming down her face. Jack listed to her words, it was a sad song, but it was happy too.
Zero was next him, her voice like angel, but it was something he never heard in his life.
It couldn't hurt to try it
It couldn't hurt too much to try.
It's there beyond the quiet
It couldn't hurt too much to fly…
When she finish, she finally broke down crying.
Jack walk up her. She need someone to comfort her now.
"Ariel…I'm sorry I didn't know about your father."
"It *sob* alright *sob*…"
She could talk, her voice was breaking into two pieces.
"Can you stand?"
She nodded no, he help her up to her feet.
But he had her in his arms.
"It alright, we'll skip it today till you're recovered."
She smiled at him, she never thought someone like him was this kind to her.
She never meet someone so caring to her.
Jack was something else, she knew in her heart he saw as a princess. She was the girl who look like her.
She thought about dieing now. Death would be with her sooner on later.
Ariel was asleep in his arms. The poor thing a had a bit of rough day.
Jack was going to let her rest. "Oh Jaaaack!"
Oogie saw him with the princess.
"Oh, she fainted again?"
"She didn't Oogie, I would suggest if you leave her alone. She had a rough day."
"Like how her daddy died?"
Jack stop and look at the Boogie man.
Jack was ready to scare him out of town and made sure he stay away from her and Halloween Town as well.
"I don't know what you're planning, but leave her out of this."
"Oh Jack! I wouldn't dream of it. To me, she nothing about trash that should have be left alone. No, she nothing like lady luck. She lady bad luck. Oh I hope you do see her birthmark."
Zero barked at Oogie till he was gone.
Jack lay her down on his bed again. He couldn't stop think about that song.
He wanted her to be happy. She born on Halloween, he should make it a day to remember for her sake.
"Zero, I like you give this to the Mayor for me. Tell him there been aa change in plan for Halloween this year."
Jack made sure not to say anything about Aril's birth date. He watched her sleep again.
Stress must have cause this time. He thought, maybe it stress that making her faint or a panic attack.
Humans were strange in his view. But, Ariel was much more different then he thought.
Since she was acting like the princess, making Halloween in the human world better then last year, a night for her only.
It would at least he could for her.
Ariel woke up in her bedroom.
The white walls, the tan door, the window, she was here again.
Did Jack bring her home. Was he seen, she hope didn't cause so much trouble foe him.
She found a note on her bedside table. It was from Jack.
Dear Ariel
I thought I bring you home for you to rest. Am sorry if I cause anything to trouble you. We'll start training tomorrow, if you wouldn't mind, I like to what you do on the 14th. Maybe I'll understand you a little more. If you think I'm only seeing as the princess, believe, it not true,. Am doing my best to see that way. Sally was worried what happen to as well. Talk her sometime, she'll understand what going on.
P.S
You have a beautiful singing voice I've ever heard.
Okay, I really like this song from MirrorMask and it fit Ariel, I thought it fit her mood or something, I don't remember now. Anyway...
Ariel Bloom belongs to Me
If I Apologized belongs to Dave McKean
Nightmare Before Christmas belongs to Tim Burton
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