Maria was now in the other room with Oogie, angry had what he had done to Chris. At the moment he was planning Chris's demise.

"Ooh, a few spikes there. A knife or two there." Oogie chuckled as he drew out his plans.

Maria could hold it in no longer. She burst into tears, thinking of the awful things Oogie was going to do to Chris. Oogie only laughed at her pain, then went back to his planning.

She had cried for about an hour without looking up at anything. Then she turned around to see that Oogie had fallen asleep.

"Now's my chance." She thought. She grabbed the keys off the wall and started to run to the door when a thought hit her. I can't go in there and free him. He'll start yelling and wake Oogie. Come on Maria think! Of course! I know what to do.

Chris had been struggling with the restraints for about an hour. "It's no use." He thought. Suddenly he heard footsteps coming towards him.

"Who's there?" He asked nervously. A tall thin skeleton man appeared holding the keys.

"Dad!"

"Ssh! I'm here to get you out." He quickly ran over to Chris, and undid the restraints.

"Dad, you won't believe it! Maria's working for Oogie!"

"What? Are you sure?"

"Yes. Who knows what she told him." He jumped off the table, and rubbed his wrists. After tugging at them for an hour they were pretty sore.

"Dad…I thought she…I thought maybe" He couldn't finish the sentence it was too painful.

"Well it doesn't matter!" He now said in an angry voice. "Once we get out of here and make a plan to get rid of Oogie, we'll get rid of her too. Even…even if I have to do it myself."

Jack suddenly got a hurt look on his face. "Come on dad. We got get out of here so we can make a plan." Chris started to walk to the opening, but Jack stayed.

"Dad, come on."

"You go. I just…I have to check something. Get far away from the tree house and I'll find you. Chris nodded his head and left. But the minute he left the tall thin skeleton man started to shrink. Long hair came down, and stitches appeared every where.

"He hates me." Maria thought as she sat on the ground. She was about to burst into tears when she heard a voice from behind her.

"What did you do?" The voice asked angrily. Maria turned around to see Oogie with an angry look on his face. Although Maria was frightened she was also angry, and stood up.

"I set him free!"

"YOU DID WHAT!"

"You heard me!"

"HOW DARE YOU! I'm GOING TO…"

"Go ahead Oogie. Do whatever you want to me. It couldn't possibly be any worse then what Chris just said to me."

"Oh, I think I can think of something."

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