A/N I don't own rise of the Guardians. All orginal characters to this story however are mine.

Intrusion

Jonathan's eyes widened before he shook his head. "She wouldn't. She's smarter than that."

"Yes. She is smart." Pitch agreed. "Smart enough to know that not everything The Guardians say is true." He said, then he looked up at a point just past them and smirked. "Isn't that, right? Will?"

Jack and Jonathan turned to see the youngest son of the Will Kids just stepping out from where he'd been hiding.

"I heard something about Sarah," William said looking confidently up at Pitch.

"Well, you may as well join in." Pitch said waving him over, "Saves me the trouble of having to repeat this to one more person when the guardians eventually catch wind of this. Especially since this one" - here he pointed to Jonathan - "Believes what the Guardians do"

Jonathan rolled his eyes. "I know that not everything the Guardians believe is true. I mean how they treated Jack is proof of that but…"

"I'm sorry, Grim Reapers?" Jackie said still stuck on that word. "Like the beings who take your souls to the afterlife when you die? Why would Sarah be close to a Grim Reaper?"

"That's not what they do," Jonathan said to Sarah. "Grim reapers take over your body erasing your spirit in the process and when they're not doing that, they're stealing your souls."

"Um, somehow I doubt Sarah would-" Will tried to cut in

"Oh, for the love of-" Pitch said exasperated sharing a look with his daughter. "Jackie had it right, Grims remove your spirit at the point of death and take it to the proper afterlife."

"Then why do so many reapers look like people who have died?" Jonathan challenged.

"Grandmother said that a friend of hers went missing and when she saw her again the woman was a Grim, who hardly even recognized her. Stealing souls from children."

Pitch rolled his eyes "She wasn't stealing souls. The child was dead, she was leading the poor soul to the afterlife."

"How do you know?" Will asked, sounding more curious than angry or worried. "You weren't there."

"Because unlike the guardians who have never bothered, and likely will never bother to, I've been in contact with the Grim Reapers. Practically since the moment, I became the Boogieman."

Jackie remembered back to Halloween a couple of years ago, Sarah was dressed up like a grim reaper. Jackie knew Sarah, if she had thought Jane was evil, she wouldn't have tried to emulate her chosen profession. Especially given her ability to hypnotize people with her voice.

But then… Sarah hadn't been using her voice much since Pitch had kidnapped and psychologically tortured her. So, this Jane might have been abusing her instead, taking advantage of her weakened state.

"But you were evil at the time," Jackie said glaring at Pitch. "So obviously you wouldn't have seen anything wrong with what they were doing."

Silence descended at the line Jackie said, everyone, staring at her like they couldn't believe she said that.

"But I wasn't." Emily Jane said softly the clouds that were often around her were turning darker and darker as the conversation took an unwanted turn. "Jane is the reason I took the guardians to where my father kept Sarah." She said sharing a look with your father.

Jonathan, Jackie and Will stopped staring at Pitch and stared at Emily in shock. "What?"

Emily Jane didn't smile, but the look on her face was haughty like she knew something which would shatter their entire argument. "And while I may disagree with my father's unwillingness to reveal his suspicions, I can at least agree that he's not wrong. Even if you could find them, they don't need to be dragged through the mud if you don't even know they did it."

"Ok…" Jane said, and though she was desperate to find her friend. "But outside of Jane potentially knowing Sarah." Pitch opened his mouth but then closed it again. Clearly deciding that arguing about the point was not going to get anyone anywhere. "Why would she kidnap Sarah? If there as benign and rule-abiding as you claim… why take Sarah?"

"I never said she took Sarah," Pitch said. "I said that Jane is a lead we haven't looked into it." At the look of disbelief from 2/3rds of the children (Will was being quiet and contemplative - something that Pitch was grateful for).

"I've also known Jane for a long time, she never does things for no reason," Pitch said. "Granted some of those things are "I miss my family but…"

"Maybe Sarah is a descendant of hers or a descendant of one of her family members," Jackie said latching onto that piece of flimsy evidence.

Pitch stared at Jackie for a long moment looking as though he wanted to say something before, he shook his head. "No, if Sarah was family, she wouldn't be able to speak to Sarah, let alone spend any time with her. It's one of their rules you leave your living family alone. Besides she would have taken Jonathan too."

"But…."

"I know who Jane was in her mortal life." Pitch said, "Neither Sarah nor Jonathan, as far as any of us knows, are her relatives."

"How do you know?" Jackie glared at him. "Was she one of your victims?"

"Yes, probably," Pitch said bluntly. "But I found who she was after I met her as a Grim."

"And she… talked to you?" Jackie said, "While you were evil."

Pitch looked as though he was desperately trying not to roll his eyes. "Do you think she did it or not? Because it seems you're just looking for any excuse to disagree with me." He turned to his daughter. "Were you this bad as a teen?"

"Worse." Emily Jane said with a small smile. "So… so much worse."

The look on Pitch's face seemed to suggest that he knew exactly what she wasn't saying and didn't comment on it further.

"So, she did one nice deed," Jonathan said. "That doesn't mean-"

"ENOUGH!" A loud voice shouted in the hallway, everyone turned in surprise at Will who had been so calm throughout the entire argument that Jackie had started to forget he was there. "This argument is getting us nowhere. Who cares if she was cruel and awful or kind and benevolent in the past? What matters is that she's a potential lead in where Sarah is now. And this petty arguing isn't doing any of us any favours." Will said.

Everyone looked down ashamed of their petty behaviour. He glared at everyone before he took a deep breath. "Good." He said then he looked at Pitch, "how do we contact Jane?" Will asked, steering the conversation back to what was important. "Find out if she knows anything about Sarah? I mean benevolent or not, you were right. We still have to talk to her and see if she knows anything."

Pitch opened his mouth to answer when they heard a loud crash. Everyone turned to stare at each other before they hurried out to the globe room and found a being that North, Pitch and Emily Jane recognized immediately.

He was a hairy being, with goat-like horns and cloven hooves for feet. He had a grotesque smile as he took in the guardians and the rest of the guests.

Pitch and North breathed in a shocked gasp. "Krampus." They said simultaneously.

The being smiled, "Ahh," he said, "So some of you do remember me." He said with a grin.

"Good, I won't have to waste time with pleasantries I can get straight to the point. His smile dropped into a menacing glare. "Where. Is. Sarah. Jessup?"

A/N ladies and gentleman, might I introduce to you are villain for this story: KRAMPUS!

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