Chapter 15

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Tooth paced around her living room chewing on her lip as she stared down at her phone, she has been waiting for a call from Aster for an hour and the anxiety within was rising higher and higher. The girls and Rapunzel followed her each step trying to calm her down, "Toothie please sit down" Rapunzel mumbled trying to calm down her friend.

"Tooth what's the matter?" Baby Tooth asked right behind Rapunzel, "I can make it better just tell me what happened?" She begged her best friend.

"Mommy wha's the matter?" Lila muttered chasing behind her sisters. Tooth began to feel her eyes water as she turned around and looked at the three girls whose faces were completely covered by concerned, she could bit down on her lip as she felt tears begin to fall from her eyes. She sunk down to the floor, covered her face with her hands and began to cry softly into her hands. She felt four little arms wrapped around her and another hand patting her back. She didn't know why she was crying, she didn't even know why she was so hurt, but maybe it was because Jack was the first guy she actually could see in her future. "I'm sorry girls" she whimpered softly, "I shouldn't be crying" she sighed wiping away her tears, she gave her sisters a comforting smile and hugged them tightly, "Let's play again no more sad times."

"Are you sure you're okay, Tooth?" Baby Tooth whispered to her sister, Tooth nuzzled her littler sister's neck as she nodded, Baby Tooth giggled as she hugged her sister tighter. "Okay let's play just dance!" Baby Tooth yelled letting go of her sister and running towards the T.V. happily being followed by her little sister. Tooth stood up and wiped her eyes as she turned to a still completely concerned, Tooth gave her a warm smile and Rapunzel walked up to her and gave her a tight hug.

"It'll be okay, Toothie" Rapunzel muttered into her friend's ear, "I know it will."

"I know, Punzie" Tooth whispered back hugging her friend back, "Thank you for being here."

"You'd do the same for me" Rapunzel giggled letting go of her friend, "Now no more sad stuff, let's play with the girls." Rapunzel said pulling her friend towards the girls. After a few hours of playing with the girls Tooth's phone went off "Give me a second girls, it's probably Aster," she said slightly giggling as she walked towards the kitchen, she picked up her phone "Hello."

"Tooth, hi it's Jack" a shivering voice said from the other side of the phone, "Aster explained what happened today and can we please talk, I need to explain a couple of things." Jack's shaky voice explained, "I'm outside." He muttered.

"I-I," Tooth began, she took a deep breath "Okay, just give-give me a minute." She stuttered as she walked into the living room.

"Yeah, okay." Jack mumbled, Tooth hung up and turned to Rapunzel who noticed Tooth's sudden change.

"Are you alright, Toothie?" Rapunzel asked walking over to her.

"Jack's outside." Tooth simply sighed, "He wants to talk."

"Do you want me to tell him to go?" Rapunzel asked.

"No, just take care of the girls" Tooth sighed pushing her hair out of her face, "I'm going to talk to him, I think he deserves that." She said biting her lip slightly, Rapunzel nodded slowly, "Alright girls I'm going to go outside for a while, I'll be back in a few minutes." She said to the girls who waved as she walked out the door. Leaning on the wall in front of her door was Jack, he looked drained, he was paler than usual, his eyes were red and puff, and his hair was even messier than usual. His was dressed in a blue hoddie that looked too big on his slender body and brown pants along with old converse; he smiled at her weakly, "Hey Tooth." He muttered with his hands in his hoddie pocket.

"Jack, you look horrible." Tooth blurted out, Jack chuckled coldly as his eyes went back to the ground.

"I didn't have a very good night" He sighed out, "My brother dropped by my place."

"He dropped by mine too," Tooth admitted nibbling on her lip.

"Aster told me," Jack muttered, "I'm sorry if he scared you," Jack said looking up at Tooth, "he could be a really scary person," Jack continued taking a step closer to the tiny girl, "He still scares the living crap out of me." Jack chuckled coldly, "I never liked being around him much," he admitted, "that's why I didn't want to bring him up." Jack explained, staring at Tooth who was listening to him intently, Jack took a deep breath and took another step towards Tooth. "I'm going to sit down on the floor; do you want to sit with me?" Jack asked pushing his back against the wall and sliding down it.

"Okay," Tooth sighed out sliding to the floor next to him, "Is it true what he said, you let your little sister drown?" She asked unable to stop her tongue.

"He told you that," Jack chuckled coldly, "why am I not surprised" he sighed leaning his head back against the wall, "She wanted to go skating, she loved skating so I offered to take her out to this pond that was near out house, it always froze over perfectly, we skated on it every year," Jack began closing his eyes, "we were out there for a while when suddenly we heard a crack and I looked down and right under our feet was a huge crack and the last thing I ever said to her was she was going to be okay and nothing was going to happen to her," he continued she saw him tremble slightly, she instinctively reached over and put a calming hand on his arm, he turned to her and she gave him a small smile, he took a deep breath and tried his best to smile back. "Before I knew it we fell in, the water was so cold and I swallowed water, I couldn't breathe and it was freezing and I knew I was going to die and I just wanted to save Emma before I died," he said closing his eyes again, "I tried to swim towards her but then hands grabbed me and pulled me out, it hurt so to breath and I couldn't talk, "Jack said his voice shivering again, "all I could do was shiver and whimper just trying to let who ever saved me know they needed to save Emma too but I tried to fight out of their hold, I tried to scream and yell but the person wouldn't let go of me," Jack said whimpering when he spoke the last words, "I passed out, when I came to I was in the hospital being treated for frostbite and James was standing over me and he wasn't crying he was smiling, that son of a bitch was smiling," Jack whimpered, "he said we're finally going to be together again just him and me, and that's when I knew my brother was sick, mentally sick and I knew he was the person who pulled me out of that pond and he let my Emma drown." Jack cried tears streaming down his eyes. Tooth wiped away his tears and hugged him pulled him into a hug letting him cry on her shoulder. He wrapped his shivering arms around her and cried into her shoulder "I should've fought harder, I should've swam faster, I should've been stronger." He cried while his body shivered.

"You tried your hardest, Jack," she whispered to him trying to comfort him, she pet his hair as he cried, "It isn't your fault." She cooed holding him tightly. Jack's shivering body held her tightly as he kept whimpering, Jack didn't like to cry, it was annoying and it hurt but for some reason being in Tooth's arms and crying his eyes out made him feel better.

"I-I did some really messed up things after that," Jack muttered as he let go of her, "I started to drink just to try to forget what happened but every time I saw my face I saw James, I saw a monster and then for some reason I felt like I need to be around him, I needed to be with him," Jack continued as Tooth ran her fingers through his hair, "I needed to understand my brother, he introduced me to Pitch Black, he was a real monster," Jack mumbled, "Pitch made my brother feel like fear was the only way he could get respect or love, Pitch started a whole organization around that belief it was called the Nightmare group they used fear to get anything they wanted and James just loved it he loved being feared," Jack explained, "I found out Pitch had this horrific plan in motion and I told the police and I knew if they figured it out that I would be hurt badly, really badly, so I ran away, I ran away as far as I could." Jack muttered, Tooth grabbed his hand and squeezed it lightly, "He found me Tooth, he found you, he's going to do something bad I know it, my brother is sick and he was brainwashed to believe that Pitch was his savior, I just wish I had my old brother back, James used to be the best person, it all changed when he met Pitch." Jack said squeezing her hand back, "I just need to save him, I shouldn't have ran away from him, I should've tried to get him help."

"Jack," Tooth whispered out laying her head on his shoulder, "How can I help?" she asked, he turned to her and kissed her on the cheek.

"I need you to go stay with Aster until I know James won't hurt you," Jack answered, "I can't let anything happen to you." Jack muttered, "I don't think you can see me, for a while, James is going to be hunting me like a shark, he's going to do anything to get to me, and I wouldn't be able to live with myself knowing something happened to you because of me." Tooth nodded slowly, her heart breaking slightly as he kissed her forehead softly, "But that doesn't mean you can't keep in touch." Jack chuckled hugging her, "I can't lose you; we're having way too much fun."

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