A/N New chapter! Hope you enjoy!

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Get Out

Jackie had shut down at the knowledge that Jonathan was missing, just staring into the ether.

For five minutes she said nothing just stared into the nothingness.

Sophie and Jack stared at each other worriedly before Jack knelt in front of her shaking her knees slightly "Jackie?"

The sound of Jackie's father sounding so worried brought her back out of her reverie, she closed her eyes for a moment before they snapped open. Jackie glared at Jack with such potent anger, that Jack stared at her taken aback "You were supposed to destroy him." Jackie said tears freezing on her cheeks before they had a chance to fall off. "Not let him take someone else."

Jack put a hand on her knee, "Jackie…" he attempted to soothe.

She shook her head and shoved him away from her. "No!" She yelled at him. "My best friend is a target, and now he took Jonathan. My best friend brother and my…" She cut off, not knowing how she could finish that sentence. "And my friend" She finally continued. She ignored the look Jack and her mother shared with each other. Angry that they still could read each other so well after so many years apart, but she hadn't even noticed she and Sarah's friendship changed.

"You failed!" Jackie cried standing up in front of him and pushing him away. Jack tripped a little at the sudden force of his daughter shoving him away. Too busy focusing on his daughter that neither he nor Sophie had noticed something falling out of Jack's pocket.

"Jackie!" Sophie shouted then she took a deep breath, "Jackie, they were doing the best they can."

"It's not good enough" Jackie cried tears streaming down her face.

Jack stepped forward trying again to attempt to calm her down. "Jackie…"

The attempt "Get out!" Jackie cried screaming at her parents. "Get out! I hate you." Jackie screamed.

Jack looked gutted not even physically pushing him away had made him look like that, but Jack was far too hurt and angry to care. "Jackie please…"

But Jackie was done listening. She created a wall of ice and used it to push Jack and Sophie away from her and out of her room.

Neither noticed that they had accidentally left something behind.

When her parents were gone; she stopped crossed the room and locked the door. Then she sat down and buried her head in her pillow and cried.

Sarah stared up at Jane, her emotions warring inside her. "You let my brother get taken?"

"No," Jane said. "The reapers I had asked to guard him were taken by surprise and were knocked out before they could do anything."

"Oh, that makes it better does it?" Sarah laughed, "That you placed two reapers so weak that they were knocked out before they could defend my brother?"

"Sarah…" Thomas said stepping in "maybe you should."

"You asked me to trust you." Sarah glared at him. "You asked me to wait 12 days. And now not only had Krampus pushed the deadline closer thanks to grim reapers not being careful. But my brother has been taken. Is this what I have to look forward to? More and More people I love being kidnapped, all the while worrying that at the end of it, they'll be sucked into hell all because I was hiding away here?" Sarah shook her head. "No. Take me home."

Jane shook her head and stepped forward. "Sarah… he'll kill you, or worse."

"I don't care," Sarah screamed tears rolling down her cheeks. "My brother is gone. William is gone. I want to go home." Sarah cried. "Please!"

Jane didn't move, didn't touch her Scythe. "I'm sorry," Jane said. "Your parents demanded that I keep you here until Krampus is taken care of."

"Their son is…"

"Yes," Jane said, "but they don't want to lose you too." She said, "There's no guarantee that Krampus will keep his word and return the children he's already taken. So worst case scenario your parents lose both their children."

Sarah glared at Jane, "And had you done the job you were supposed to Krampus wouldn't have taken one child let alone two." She hissed. "Get out."

"Sarah this is-" Gretchen started.

"Shut up!" Sarah hissed her voice unintentionally taking on a hypnotic lilt as her emotions got the better of her "You have been nothing but callous and cruel since I met you. Shut up!"

Being dead, and on her way to becoming a full-fledged reaper, Gretchen wasn't as affected by Sarah's magic as she would have been, had she been alive. But the ferocity of Sarah's anger and the relative newness of her death meant that there was still a draw to obey Sarah's lilt.

Which left Gretchen staring at Sarah, with Gretchen's mouth opening and closing feeling very confused.

"All three of you," Jane said taking charge. "Out."

Sarah glared up at Jane, but she refused to give an inch.

"I know you hate me right now," Jane said. "But it's for your own good."

Sarah laughed bitterly. "How can you possibly know what's in my best interest." She hissed scathingly. "you're dead!"

Jane blinked but refused to rise to the bait. Instead, she just waited for Sarah to get it all out of her system.

"In fact, I bet you're trying to prolong this aren't you?" Sarah laughed. "The longer this goes on the more you can spend time with your brother."

Jane was vaguely reminded of three years ago. Sarah's power was in her voice, in the words she used. It left her with an abundance of knowledge of how words could be weaponized. How you needed the right things to say to manipulate someone.

It was a skill she learned at 5 years of age, and by the sound of it, the fact that her hypnotic abilities didn't work on Jane, didn't diminish Sarah's ability to break someone down.

Too bad Jane had 300 years on Sarah and had dealt with far worse abuse.

"You know that's not true."

Sarah laughed cruelly, for a moment Jane was reminded of three years ago when Sarah was manipulated by the black sand. Her tone and anger and manipulation were similar to what it was then.

"Then why are you wasting time!" Sarah asked scathingly.