I don't really know where I was going with this one.

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Cache, n
- a store of things hidden away

While the sleigh pulled up and the children began waving goodbye to the guardians, Tooth was drawn to a small, white item on the ground. She hadn't realised when she'd punched Pitch in the mouth that she'd knocked one of his teeth out, but she had, and a small part of her felt guilty about it. She'd only done it because he'd kidnapped and caged her little fairies, and she hated him for that. They were like her children, and she loved them, and it had hurt that they'd been gone.

She hadn't meant to actually dislodge one of hie teeth from his jaw though, that was something she never wanted to do. Teeth should only come out when they were ready.

Glancing around, she saw the other Guardians were busy saying their goodbyes. Jack was talking to Jamie, Bunny was hugging Sophie, North was trying to detach the twins from his legs and Sandy was shaking hands with Pippa. Before any of them could look her way she snatched the tooth up from the ground and kept it tight in her fist, ignoring the surge of power she felt from it, and how she immediately knew there was something significant about this particular tooth.

North, at that moment, quite simply said it was time to go. They all climbed up into the sleigh and waved to the children, letting their helpers see them off to bed. It was a sobering time, and Tooth sat quietly thinking about the events of the last few days. They'd come close to losing everything because of one being, and something told her that the tooth she was hiding in her hand held a lot of the answers as to why Pitch was the way he was now.

"Guys, I'm going to get back home. I need to tidy my Palace up and start collecting teeth again," she said gently, looking up at them all with a small smile, still keeping her hands clasped.

"Need any help?" Bunny offered, sitting up against the side of the sleigh whilst still refusing to look over the sides.

"No, I should be okay, my fairies know where everything goes and they're really quite efficient."

"Right, well you know where we are if you do," he said with a smile, and she hugged him quickly in thanks, then hugging each of the other guys in turn before flying down from the sleigh to her Palace. North had been kind enough to fly over to her Palace to make it easier for her, and as she swooped in she was greeted by a swarm of her little ladies who were happy to see her, and she was equally happy to see them.

"Excuse me girls, I have some things to do," she said gently, apologising to them all as she pulled herself away from them all, and she swooped down into the gardens of the Palace, bursting quickly through a waterfall to appear in a secret chamber on the other side. It was brightly lit with coloured lanterns and patterns like stained glass shone up the stone walls. In the back of the chamber was a small cabinet that she kept everything important in. Her teeth were in there, in the box her parents had made for her when she was a child.

There were mostly just trinkets in there, and slowly she set down Pitch's tooth beside some golden bangles she'd received from North a few Christmas's ago, and looked at it.

She wanted to search the memories, but there was something telling her to wait, because it didn't seem right to invade someone's life, even if it would give her an important insight into their character.

She wondered vaguely if she should seek Pitch out and ask his permission to look at his memories, but she didn't feel that was the best thing to do at the moment.

So instead she shut the door of the cabinet slowly, kneeling before it for a small while as she thought about what she should do. If she should just look at them despite her hesitations, if she should talk to the other Guardians about it, or if she should seek the Nightmare King out.

Deciding finally that it would be best to leave them for another day, she turned and burst through the waterfall again, watching the light beam through the scattered water droplets and rainbows cast through the air all around her.

The memories that tooth held were possibly the most important she could find at a time like this, but at the same time, it didn't feel like the right time to explore them. She'd just keep them hidden away for now.