Chapter Eleven

NOTES: Sorry for my little absense. I wasn't feeling very well, but I'm back ; v ; This chapter is kinda half assed. I'm still sick so forgive me

Jamie's heart felt like it had just stopped and that he had lost all of the air in his lungs. Pitch was still holding out the staff for Jamie, wanting him to break it.

"What...What happens if I break it...?" Jamie asked quietly.

"Oh nothing too bad," Pitch replied in an ominous tone.

Jamie didn't believe that it would be anything good. In fact, he had a feeling something horrible would happen if he were to do so, unaware that it had been snapped in half once before.

"I-I really don't think I can do it," Jamie whispered, his voice going out.

"Well you do want the fairy to return home safely don't you?"

Jamie nodded.

"Okay. Then you'll break it."

Jamie looked down at the staff, fear swarming through his mind. His hands shook as he placed one hand on one side, and the other hand on the opposite side.

"Good, good. Now snap it," Pitch encouraged, his eyes narrowing.

Jamie breathed deeply but stopped when he heard a voice in his head.

Jack! Jack! It was a female's voice, like the one he heard by the hole to Pitch's old hideout. I held the staff up like I was going to snap it across my knee, but the voice got louder. JACK! JACK!

Jamie immediately stopped what he was doing and he stepped back, clutching the staff to his chest tightly.

"N-No..." he whispered.

"What did you just say to me?"

"I said no!" Jamie yelled at him, puffing his chest up a little.

"But if you don't then I'll..."

Jamie cut him off though.

"I don't believe you," Jamie told him sternly.

Pitch rose a brow and Jamie spun around, staff still in hand.

"You don't know how to leave here."

"That's fine."

Jamie walked off the balcony and back down the stairs to the room where he had woken up. He slammed the door behind him and when he did, he saw Tooth sit up a little more.

"Ah you startled me, Jamie," Tooth said.

"Sorry."

Tooth just shook her head but her eyes widened when she saw the staff in Jamie's hand.

"Is that?"

"Yeah. Pitch wanted me to break it but I wouldn't do it," Jamie explained.

"So now what?"

"I don't know. I don't know what to do anymore."

Jamie sighed and slumped onto the bed. He felt terrified. What if Pitch actually did harm Tooth because he refused to break it? The thought of him doing that infuriated him. The rage all boiling up in his body. He threw the staff and it hit the cage. Yet when it did, it froze the lock, and then shattered into pieces. The door slowly opened and both of their eyes widened in shock.

"J-Jamie... You... I don't know what you did but you did something," Tooth said happily. She stood from her place and stepped out of the cage. "Grab the staff. We're leaving immediately."

Jamie nodded, slowly picking up the staff. That's all he wanted to do. Leave.

The two of them stayed close together and Tooth stood behind Jamie, putting her hands on his shoulders.

"The only way out is through that door," Tooth said. "Are you ready?"

Jamie nodded and the two of them crept over to the door, Tooth starting to fly behind him. He opened the door and when he did, he saw Pitch standing there with a smirk on his face.

"Leaving so soon?" Pitch asked.

"I'm not scared of you," Jamie said, pushing him out of the way.

Pitch was shocked when this happened, and he watched as the two of them went up the stairs. They marched up to the front door of the home but Pitch reappeared.

"I cannot let you leave."

"I'm pretty positive you can," Jamie said and Tooth giggled.

"What is so funny?" Pitch demanded.

"Oh nothing. Just you," she egged on.

Messing with Pitch wasn't apart of their actual plan of just getting up and leaving, but it sure was working out for the two of them.

"What is that suppose to mean?" Pitch demanded.

"That you're a joke," Jamie told him with a smile.

Pitch frowned and he was about to say something else, but Jamie and Tooth just walked right past him, and out the door. Jamie wasn't sure what exactly just happened, and he knew Pitch would return soon, but at least they were out.

Jamie observed their surroundings and he cocked his head to the side.

"Where are we?" Tooth whispered.

Jamie darted his eyes around and around, but he was soon smiling at the familiar looking houses.

"This is my neighborhood!" Jamie exclaimed.

Jamie saw Tooth smile and the both of them ran off to go find sanctuary until they could find a way to contact the others.

"Where should we go?" Tooth asked.

"We could go to my house, but I don't want to be questioned by my mom why I'm not at school," Jamie told her as the two of them walked together. "Do you know of any good places?"

Tooth shook her head no. Jamie sighed, clinging the staff he still had in his hands tightly. He leaned his head against it and bit his lip. All he wanted was to see Jack again.

Jack and the other three Guardians had been searching for what seemed like a century for Tooth and Jamie. Jack wasn't much of a help in the night when he was powerless and could not use his abilities. Yet he helped out as best as he could anyways.

The four of them were in Santa's sleigh, flying through the clouds. Bunnymund didn't look as nervous on the sleigh as he usually did, his thoughts probably distracting him.

Jack wished that he had his staff, then he could probably help even more. His split personalities from losing it was not helping anyone at all. Jack sighed and he was about to lose all the hope he had when he sensed something.

The sense like Jamie and his staff were nearby. The signal like feeling was getting even stronger as they started to fly over a neighborhood.

"North, I think we should land and check here," Jack demanded.

Santa looked back at him and nodded. The sleigh was starting to slide down and it landed roughly on the pavement.

It was nearly two in the morning according to a sign someone had that had an electronic clock on it. Nobody was out. The town was completely silent.

Once the sleigh was on the ground, Jack hopped off of it, along with Bunnymund and Sandy, and began walking. Santa stayed in the sleigh and would be looking from overhead. They walked along until Jack saw a figure in the street. His body feeling like it was paralyzed to that spot when he saw it.

It looked like the body of Jamie, with Tooth behind him, and his staff. Jack smiled brightly and started running towards the figure.

"Did you see something?" Bunnymund called out.

"Yeah! Follow me!" Jack told them.

They ran to the figure but Jack came to a halt when he saw what it actually was. His eyes widening it horror. It was a shadow and not just any shadow.

Pitch appeared from the darkness and stood before them.

"Your little friends ran off, who knows were," Pitch said with a snicker.

Bunnymund pulled out his boomerangs and Sandy was making something with the golden sand. Jack scowled the boogeyman down and growled.

"You're in our way," Jack said to Pitch.

"Oh? Am I? I didn't notice..."

Pitch laughed and tilted his head to the side, his evil smile staying on his face.

"I'm not moving until you feel the pain you made me feel all those years ago!" he screamed.

Jack raised a brow and he was about to say something when he saw a snowball hit the side of Pitch's head. Pitch fell back a little and Jack looked over to see who could have thrown that.

There stood Jamie and Tooth. Jamie still had the staff and Tooth was making another snowball. The other Guardians smiled widely, happy to see that they're okay, and soon Santa was coming in for a landing. Pitch stood there, six against one.