A/N Spoilers! Warning you right now. This was written because I hated how the movie ended and you could easily see that Jack wanted to help Pitch towards the end and felt bad for him.
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Jack shivered as he walked through Pitch's lair. The place freaked him out and he wanted nothing more than to bolt out of the place as quickly as possible. But that wasn't possible, Jack had a job to do. It had taken him a long time to convince the Guardians about what he was about to do. The memory of what had happened was still clear in his mind.
Flashback
"Jack! Never, never would we allow that!" North roared as he looked towards the small boy.
"But ever he deserves to be believed in. I know what he felt, not being believed in or seen. Bunny, you know now to, explain it to North," Jack argued, looking directly at Bunnymund.
Bunnymund looked at the ground, fiddling around with one of his boomerangs, "Sorry mate, but North's right, he doesn't deserve to be believed in."
"What?!" Jack screamed, anger fueling him. "Sandy, what about you? Tooth? Do you guys all think this?"
Sandy nodded slowly, not wanting to get Jack even more mad. Tooth said, "Of course we do Jack. He is evil, always has been and always will be."
"He wasn't always bad," Jack snarled, looking each Guardian straight in the eye. "the Moon told me that, that he was once a general in the Golden Age and that the Fearlings messed with his mind and made him into Pitch Black. He wasn't always evil, you guys just don't want to admit that you are wrong. That even the most evil person can change. That everyone deserves to be believed in, even him. And that he is needed, even if you all deny it."
North opened his mouth to argue when a voice floated down to them, saying, "Jack is right, even Pitch deserves to be believed in. Even Pitch is needed. Without fear children would become reckless, to a certain extent fear is needed. So you are to find Pitch, Jack, and bring him back."
The voice was coming from the Moon. Jack looked up towards the Moon in shock, recognizing the voice from so long ago who had told him who he was. Jack smiled up to the Moon, glad that the Moon was finally talking to him again. Jack opened his mouth to speak the MiM but was cut off by North.
"You can't be serious Manny. Pitch is not needed, he's a menace. He nearly killed us and he did break the children's belief in us"
"He nearly ruined Easter!" Bunnymund shouted.
"He stole all the teeth boxes and fairies!" Tooth added in.
Sandy created a sand image over his head of Pitch shooting him in the back with an arrow and Pitch's sand consuming him.
Jack's eyes narrowed as he looked at them all, finally his anger took over, "So he did something for attention! Yes it was wrong but when you're invisible to the world and no one believes in you you're willing to do anything! While I was invisible I sunk the Titanic! I created blizzards that ended up killing people! I created a blizzard in '68 on Easter Sunday just for attention!When no one believes in you, you become willing to do anything to get someone to believe in you, and see you." The last part was whispered as Jack looked towards the ground, remembering the three hundred years he'd been alone. He knew how Pitch felt, and he felt sorry for him.
The Guardians became quiet after Jack's outburst, hating to remember that sometimes Jack hadn't been just fun but had been the cause of many death, while MiM said softly, "Jack knows what Pitch has been feeling all these years, and he is right about what we must do. Everyone deserves being seen and loved, and that includes Pitch. Jack, go back to his hideout and find him, make a deal with him about joining us. Go, now."
End Flashback
Right after MiM had said that Jack had flown out of the North Pole towards where the entrance to Pitch's lair had been, and effectively got it to reopen and had fallen through it. And this was where Jack was right now. He looked above him at the hanging cages, wincing as he remembered the little fairies trapped in those cages. Jack stood stock still as he heard a sound, it sounded like someone was...begging? Jack walked closer to the sound, finally hearing what was being said.
"Please, please, I am your master, do not turn on me," Pitch. It was Pitch.
Pitch had his back pressed against the wall while Nightmares surrounded him from all sides. Jack was shocked to see fear shinning in Pitch's eyes. Pitch was terrified. That had Jack leaping into action, ice shooting out from his staff and hitting Nightmare after Nightmare. Soon enough Jack had the Nightmares either running away or staying at a distance, staring warily at Jack. Jack turned to look at Pitch, who was eying Jack with distrust and curiosity.
"What are you doing here?" Pitch asked, his voice sounding hollow and empty.
"I came to give you a proposition,"
"What could you possibly offer me that I would want?" Pitch raised an eyebrow towards the boy.
"We need you to give the children a small dosage of fear,"
Pitch actually laughed at this, "Fear? You want me to give the children fear? Wasn't that what you and the Guardians were against? What the Man in the Moon was trying to stop?"
"Yes," Jack nodded his head in agreement. "But even fear is needed in small dosages. Without fear there would be no courage or hope in the world. In a way fear is needed. You're needed just as much as Sandy. Just like after Sandy "died" the balance was tipped, so would it be if you disappeared for ever. Fear is needed. The Moon wants you to join us Guardians, and give the children a small dosage of fear, not like you have these past couple days but just a small dosage." Jack wanted to make sure that Pitch understood what small dosage meant.
"Me? Help you? Now why would I do that?" despite acting like he didn't care Pitch actually secretly hoped that what Frost was saying was true, that he had finally been accepted.
"Well, the way I see it you have two choices. One, you join us Guardians and will be able to be seen. Or two, you stay here and your Nightmares destroy you,"
Pitch shivered as he thought of what his Nightmares would do to him. Finally after a couple minutes he looked at Jack and said, "Fine. I'll join you."
