"Why? So you can start a fight over something you don't even understand?" Silvia asked sarcastically.
"There isn't anything to understand little one. Pitch isn't a nice guy. He's the boogeyman, not your dad." Toothiana tried to explain. "He's a really really bad guy. You're not safe with him. I'm going to take you…"
"You're not taking me anywhere!" Silvia screamed. "I don't give a damn what the rest of the world thinks of you! You sit there trying to make yourself the hero, but where the hell were you when… when… when the monster who made me tried to fuck me?" Silvia asked as she burst into tears. "You weren't there. I was begging for help. Did any of you guardians answer me? No!... But Pitch did. He came out of the shadows and he saved me. Unlike you he actually gave a damn about me. He's done nothing these past two days other than to show me what it's like to have a dad that cares about me, that actually loves me. So you're wrong I am safe with him, and he is my daddy." She finished before burying her face into Pitch's side.
The hovering Toothiana dropped to the floor choosing to take a standing position and Baby tooth flew over to Silvia. She squeaked several times in a quiet tone and used her tiny hands to wipe away her favorite child's tears. Pitch wrapped an arm around Silvia in an attempted to comfort her. "Toothiana can I ask you something?"
She nodded to stunned by Silvia's outburst to speak.
"Do you honestly think that I don't care about Silvia? Do you honestly believe that I'm only using her as a pawn against you?" he asked sounding almost hurt.
Toothiana looked away. "You don't exactly have a good track record with children Pitch, and your nightmares…"
"They no longer exist. Without the fear of a child they faded. And without child believers I don't have the power to create any more." Pitch explained. He looked at Silvia. "And even if they did still exist I would rather destroy them myself then let them anywhere near my daughter."
"You really do care for her don't you Pitch?" Toothiana asked.
"You should have seen her that night. Skin grey as mine because of the dirt on it, Wearing a dress that was basically rags, and so terrified of the man who gave her life that I was able to touch him without him having to believe in me." Pitch fixed Toothiana with a hard look. "Her fear made me sick to my stomach. No one especially not a child should ever have to endure that kind of fear."
"You sound like Kozmotis when you talk like that." Toothiana murmured.
"Toothiana you and I both know that Kozmotis is long gone." Pitch replied.
"I know that. It's just… Nevermind. Did she not have anywhere to go?" She replied changing the subject.
He shook his head. "No mother and no other family."
"You should have taken her to the authorities." Toothiana sighed. "Oh who am I kidding she would have still been in danger."
"Yes she would have been. And considering that even the moon was overlooking her She'd have been truly abandoned and forgotten. I wasn't going to let that happen to her. No child should ever have to suffer that fate, and yet so many do." Pitch sighed. "It hurts a spirit to be invisible. Imagine how a child must feel."
Toothiana looked away. "It's a fate worse than death."
"How many of those lights are just like Silvia?" Pitch asked suddenly.
"I don't know Pitch." Toothiana answered.
"I revised the enchantments for the lights." Pitch admitted. "I built a warning system for when the lights flicker."
Toothiana blinked in surprise. "And why would you do something like that?"
"Because I know what it feels like to be invisible and the children represented by those lights don't deserve that." Pitch explained.
"You sound like a guardian." Toothiana observed.
Pitch scoffed. "I'm no such thing."
"Yes you are." Silvia interjected. "Well more like a hero. Guardians just sit back and watch. Heros act."
"Geez Pitch she's like a tiny female version of you." Toothiana replied.
Pitch chuckled "Well she is my adopted daughter." He held up his free hand summoning a worn leather journal from his lair. "These are the blueprints for the revised enchantments." Toothiana reached out for them only to have Pitch hold them out of her grasp. "I'm only giving these to you If you swear here and now that you'll say nothing about Silvia."
Toothiana thought for a moment. The guardians needed those enchantments, but she still wasn't comfortable leaving a child with Pitch. It was then that she noticed Baby tooth still squeaking happily while perched on Silvia's shoulder. For a brief moment she considered leaving the mini-fairy with Silvia, but she had no idea what the prolonged exposure to Pitch's dark magic would do to Baby tooth. She sighed. "Very well Pitch. I swear on my honor as Queen of the tooth fairy armies that I will not speak a word of Silvia's existence to the other guardians."
Pitch handed over the journal. "It may also be a good idea to leave my name out of it if anyone asks where you got those from."
Toothiana took them with a giggle. "Wouldn't want to ruin the fearsome reputation of the boogeyman." She looked to Baby tooth. "Come on Baby tooth. Lets head back to the tooth palace."
Baby tooth gave a squeak of complaint but gave her favorite child a last nuzzle before taking flight out the window. Toothiana smiled at Pitch. "I know you keep saying Kozmotis is gone but you do have his heart still." She held up the journal. "Thank you for these Pitch. I'm sure North will appreciate them." With that said Toothiana took off after Baby tooth.
Pitch sighed. "At least now I don't have to worry about taking those enchantments to North myself."
Silvia sat up. "Daddy what did you mean when you said even the moon was overlooking me?"
Pitch sighed. "The man in the moon is actually real. He's the one who made the guardians. He's supposed to look after all the world's children, keeping them safe from darkness fear and nightmares."
"So he's the reason the guardians don't like you?" She asked.
"Yes he is." Pitch answered.
"Why doesn't he like you?" She asked.
"Its difficult to explain but the simple version is that he's the last member of a family that thinks fear shouldn't exist." Pitch explained.