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Surprise

There were times when Jane slept that she wished the Sandman, could penetrate the Reapers' house. So, he could give her a few good dreams.

Not that she didn't have good dreams on her own, but on nights when she spent her sleep tossing and turning, her mind replayed images of some of the worst moments of her life.

The day Jack died,

The day her husband died,

The day she found out that joint assignments, where reapers of children and adults joined up, almost always meant bad news.

Every single war she had been a part of.

They all turned around in her head, with Sarah, Jack, and Jackie in the middle, being sucked down into the ground, to a place she knew they didn't belong. To a place where they would suffer.

Jane shot forward awake, eyes widened breathing deeply, before rubbing her face. It was just a nightmare, what she dreamed about would not happen.

She rubbed at her wrist for a few seconds looking over at the bed beside the one Jane was lying in and her eyes widened seeing it open.

And that was when she remembered that she'd transformed her scythe into a bracelet, and she looked down and saw that it was missing.

"No," She jumped out of bed, "No, no, no," She hurried to the bed hoping it was her eyes playing tricks on her. "No, no, no," She pulled the covers off and stared in horror at finding the bed empty.

"No, no, no," She turned to her closet and found her cloak missing.

She covered her mouth in fear, "Help!" She shouted hurrying out the door of her bedroom. "Sarah Jessup is missing! HELP!"

Sarah contemplated going to Jackie for help. But there was a risk that if she went to Jackie, she was just dragging her best friend into her mess.

Still, she needed a way to find Krampus, while also putting herself in a position of semi-power, so that he would be forced to give up Will and Her brother before she dared hand over herself. Jane hadn't told her if Krampus had given them away to contact him, only that they didn't know if he could be trusted.

For all, she knew he hadn't, and the way to contact him, was to literally call his name, but Sarah didn't want to do that unless she knew for a fact that it would end with Will and Jonathan being freed.

Sarah hated the thought of going to Jackie, especially since Sarah didn't know if Jackie knew about her best friend using her powers on Jack, but she couldn't think of anywhere else to go.

Sarah's parents likely would have been understandably distraught and unwilling to help Sarah put herself in danger, but Jackie was in many ways a lot like Sarah. She'd fight her on Sarah putting herself in danger, but Jackie would also be looking for a way to find Jonathan. (Despite being out of it for a good year, she wasn't blind to the fact that the two had grown close.) And Sarah was going to need all the help that she could get if she wanted to find Jonathan and Will before sunset.

That thought process in mind is how she found herself in Burgess, the sun just barely climbing over the horizon as she made her way across the pond to Jackie's house.

Sarah stared up at the open window in Jackie's room, that window was always open given Jackie's preference and necessity for below room temperature… temperatures, (Was there another way to say that? I didn't matter).

Unfortunately, she'd left any and all flying gadgets that Jonathan had made for her, in her room, and if there was one thing that would have her locked up and tied down under every binding spell her father and grandmother knew, it was heading home.

She also knew that the moment Jane woke up, she would have Grim reapers on her tail, and they weren't fooled by invisibility spells or the cloaks.

Wouldn't the first place they'd look be either your house or Jackie's house.

Yes, but she wasn't planning to stay long, and if she knew her friend, neither was Jackie.

She stared at her scythe and thought about the flying disc at home, and was surprised when it grew, became round and turned into a black replica of her flying disc.

She dropped it in front of her and was pleasantly surprised when instead of falling to the ground, it hovered right around her shin just high enough off the ground where she could step on it without difficulty.

She stepped onto the disk, and it levitated her all the way to the window, through the window she saw Jackie typing away on her computer.

She smiled, "Hey,"

Jackie jumped and turned looking wildly into the air. Sarah looked at her confused before remembering that Sarah was currently wearing an invisibility cloak that prevented her from being seen.

Sarah hated the thought, of removing it, out of fear that Krampus might sense her before they had a chance to do anything, but maybe bringing the hood down would not be a problem.

Really quickly Sarah pulled the hood of the cloak down, and Jackie turned to the window her eyes widened when she saw Sarah.

"Surprised to see me?" Sarah asked with a grin.