"Everyone, please stay together, and don't leave your friend behind!"
Jamie didn't like this. He didn't like this at all. He had worked for six months as the supervisor of this airplane factory and this was, like, the thirty-sixth group of children who had come here from their school to see how the airplanes were made.
It was one thing give commands to children. Making them realize he was serious was a whole other situation.
They walked on their route around the factory. Jamie talked about everything that popped into his mind about the factory, answered the questions and, tried to keep his fake smile fixed into place as he could. In these few months, he had been taught everything he had to know about the factory - most of all what he had to do when there were some problems in the facility. That was actually the only thing he had paid attention to. He knew exactly what to do if the factory became a danger. And, on the other hand, he knew exactly how to turn the building dangerous.
That had been Pitch's goal. Jamie didn't really know why. Pitch just told him to cause as much havoc as he could in the factory. Jamie didn't see how that was supposed to cause Jack trouble, but when he asked the Nightmare King about it, he just smiled and said, "You will see."
Well, as long as it was for causing trouble for Jack, Jamie didn't need to know more.
Jamie told the kids stay with other adults for a while when he went to get their "big surprise". The kids were excited beyond belief. Only when Jamie went into the "staff only" and "danger" -marked room did he let his fake smile fall.
"Pitch, I really don't know why you need me to do this," he said out loud. In response, he got a cold, hollow laugh.
"Because I need you to understand those machines. And turn them off." Pitch smiled, his face curling into its signature evil smirk. Jamie glared at him under his brown hair.
"You understand that if I turn those off, in a couple hours, the pressure in the engines will rise so high, this whole factory will explode. I don't see how that helps me to get my revenge on Jack," Jamie said, annoyed.
Pitch didn't even bother to point out this was their revenge on Jack, not just Jamie's.
"That is exactly what we want. And you will see," the nightmare king said, making Jamie even more annoyed. Then the spirit disappeared and Jamie walked to the machines.
He turned them off and, using his knowledge about turning them on again, he removed all the chances to make them safe again. He shut down the warning bells that was supposed to tell everyone get out from the factory.
No-one could turn the machines on again. Not even him. Jamie could already hear how the engineers started to make sounds that only meant one thing: the clock was running. They had only a couple of hours to get out from there and there were hundreds of people. And only he knew what was happening in the machine room.
He turned around and took a sack of candies from the doorway. Calmly, he walked out and returned to the kids. He wasn't sure, but to him, it looked like there was a few kids fewer than before. He ignored it.
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