Well, I guess you're all very happy that there's a sequel no? Not gonna lie, I have a rough plan, it's so very rough. So I might suddenly divert when inspiration strikes. Which trust me. Happens all the fecking time. Can barely sleep.

Sea Biscuit: Thanks! You poked me to make the sequel. Go you!

Devine Guardian Angel: Welcome back faithful one. The suspense will be back tenfold! I can pretty much guarantee that every chapter will hint to something else.

Jester: Me too! I only have a vague idea of what's going on.

Chocy kitty: Your wish is my command. -rubs cheek-

Snow-Nightshade: I'm glad! I was very nervous about the smut.

Cheshire cat: My fingers are glowing with ego! XD

Frozen-hearts x: I'm going to try and balance the smut with gore. I'm inexperienced when it comes to smut, only written it a few times. But gore is my speciality. Sorry to keep you waiting, it's taken me a while to commit myself to a sequel, I'm a little worried that I'll disappoint you all.

Soaring phoenix86: I was getting a little worried you hadn't seen the email. D: But it's nice to hear from you! I was worried about the smut, but I'm glad it wasn't too much. Not going to lie, very worried that my imagination might let me down, but I've been told that's my natural pessimistic view. Did you think I wasn't going to write a sequel?

Chapter 2 – Loss of faith.

It had taken quite a while to calm Tooth down. She was distraught, it was so much worse having one fairy go missing instead of all of them, like what happened during the uprising. Zoe managed to free herself once more from the death grip Tooth was inflicting and direct her back to Bunny. Jack came over to greet her, she smiled weakly, her heart was pounding quite fast with the worry. 'Angel,' he said quietly, his hand lingering near her shoulder. Zoe turned and hugged him tightly. She felt him grin and hug her tightly back. He was always a little wary whenever Zoe went serious, she had a habit of flipping out and shouting in anger. Her social skills had improved, but they weren't anything to be desired. He stroked her hair, she was breathing quite deeply, it had been quite a shock. She pulled away and sighed.

'Jack, we need to find that stone,' she said solemnly. 'Where was Baby Tooth last?' She asked tapping a nail against her teeth.

'Pennsylvania, according to Tooth. She might have just gotten hurt, or stuck, it happens,' Jack tried to reassure her. Zoe's lips twitched as if she tried to smile, but Jack could see the concern in her eyes. She had already checked that the other Guardians still had their stones. Only Bunny didn't have his on him, but she knew where it was. It was a hard decision to trust them to the Guardians, but Zoe came to the choice on her own. She had given the gem of air to Sandy, the gem of water to Tooth, Bunny had earth and North had fire. She had the gem of darkness, and she had given Jack it's opposite. Light. Apart from taking years to remove the gems in the first place, they still contained a lot of power. Her body had adjusted to having Jack's and her own quite close at all times, but she would become overwhelmed like last time if she had them all the time. If someone else got their hands on them, she was the spirit of Death, she was supposed to be able to control it. They wouldn't have her natural resistance. The outcome could be devastating.

'We'll go search there then,' she said. Jack was going to say that it had been searched by Tooth's fairies, but he knew that she would insist in going anyway.

'I'll come with you,' he offered. Zoe smiled properly for the time in a while, she nodded. 'You carry on ahead Angel, I'll let the others know where we've gone.' He opened the window for her, but before she left he took off his hoodie and handed it to her. She gave him a look, but he wasn't taking no for an answer. 'I've got more at home,' he said. Even though he knew that she was aware of it. She sat on the window ledge and slit the back of the material.

'I don't know why I don't just carry one with me,' she laughed. There were about four of the hoodies that had giant slits down the back. She was pretty sure that North had one floating around his house, but time was of the essence. She pulled it on, glad that Jack had a bigger size. She tugged her feathers through, and balanced on her toes ready to drop out the window. Jack cupped her face for a moment, his fingers stroking her cheek. Zoe sighed and smiled, Jack gave an almost invisible nod. Zoe fell back out the window. At the deepest curve of her fall she opened her wings and caught the thermal that pulled her off last time. Jack watched her fly for a moment before turning back to the other Guardians.

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'It's no good, I can't even sense it,' Zoe sighed as they glided over one of the forests again. It had taken a while to fly here, but now after a couple of hours of searching, they found no trace of Baby Tooth, or her precious cargo. She decided to land on one of the towering pines. Jack followed as she dove. She misjudged her landing and had to cling to the tree. 'Ow! Fuck!' She swore looking at her wrist. There was a nasty gash along the inside skin. She began to suck at the wound, making a face at the taste. Jack landed perfectly next to her and she gave him a dirty glance.

'You hurt yourself?' He asked concerned. Zoe shrugged and sat down on the branch.

'It's because I wasn't concentrating,' she explained. Her mind was on other things, normally flying was instinct. She had become more lazy with the precision of her flying since her own wings returned to her. They usually stopped her from face planting into buildings and trees. But her mental worries seemed to be rubbing off on them as well. Jack took her wrist from her mouth and looked at the wound. The line of his mouth thinned, he didn't like it when she hurt herself. They both still had the scars from years ago. Zoe's were, to his fear, a lot worse than his. Even after all this time.

'You need to be more careful,' he said, his hand hovered over the wound and she felt the sting of cold. She hissed in pain, but when she looked at her wrist the blood had stopped and clotted. It was far from healed but now it wouldn't get infected.

'I know I need to be careful,' she muttered. She gave Jack a hurt look, 'I wish you would warn me when you do that,' she pouted. Jack laughed and nudged her. She swung her legs and sighed heavily, 'Jack, we've got a serious problem if we can't find Baby Tooth.' He nodded, knowing there wasn't anything he could say to make this better. 'I had a feeling something bad was going to happen,' she murmured leaning on his shoulder. He placed a hand on her knee, resting his head on hers. It was getting dark, it had been a long day.

'We will try again tomorrow Angel,' he said with a half smile. She looped her arm through his and nodded gently. They watched the sun set, casting pinks across the sky. Zoe couldn't help but smile, sunsets were so tasteless. Any self respecting artist would take one look at the colour palette, see the hot pink and fluorescent orange, snap his brush in half and become an accountant. Jack breathed in deeply, he always felt better in this part of the country. Zoe couldn't remember where she was, when she died. She said that the planet changed too much over the years. He didn't blame her, he had trouble remembering things even three hundred years ago. He rubbed Zoe's knee, she had gone very quiet. Still. He frowned slightly and tilted her head to him. Her eyes were shining bright silver. He had been here before, she was being summoned, she blinked once or twice, shaking her head a little. The silver dimmed and her usual green reappeared.

'I've g-'

'Got to go?' Jack finished. Zoe nodded sadly. 'Want me to come with you?' He asked. He wouldn't normally offer, but a lot had happened today, it probably wasn't best for any of the Guardians to be alone. He considered Zoe a Guardian, although she hadn't been made one officially. Zoe thought for a moment and she nodded slowly. Jack gave her a smile and kissed her gently, a light blush dusting her cheeks. The sight only made Jack grin more. She playfully hit him and leapt from the tree leaving him to try and catch up. He caught a breeze and floated gently beside her. He tugged a couple of feathers cheekily, making her wobble. She raised a brow and on the next down stroke ''accidentally'' buffed him around the head. 'Are we going far?'

'No, not far at all,' she replied curtly. She always became focused and serious when she was doing her duty. There was always a chance that it wouldn't be a good night. He felt a little wary at her tone, she really meant that they're weren't going far. After about fifteen minutes swift flying she began to bank. The trees cleared and they were faced with a road. They had arrived in time to see a car skid into another, taking it off the road and into a ditch, the wheel screeching was enough to make Jack grind his teeth. Not to mention the brief screams and heart clenching panic. Zoe floated above the scene, Jack waited with her, he didn't like watching but he forced himself to, for Zoe. There were about six cars in total, more skidding around the blind corner at every moment. Zoe began to let gravity take hold and she descended. The scene of melted and warped metal made Jack's stomach flip. Luckily it was dark but he could see dark pools of liquid scattered here and there. Zoe simply stared ahead, it was almost if she didn't notice the loss of life that surrounded them. Jack could hear a woman whimpering, he looked over to see where the noise came from. He instantly wished he hadn't. The older woman, about forty, had been thrown from her seat, through the windscreen. She had hit the pavement with speed, her knee was shattered, she had lost the rest of her leg and it was scattered in a bloody trail toward her. She was leaning against the blackened door of another car. Her eyes were wide as she stared at the stump that was her limb. Her breath came quickly, a keening noise. Jack tore his eyes from her, feeling the bile rise in his throat.

But still Zoe continued walking, not paying attention to what was happening. She leapt gracefully onto the upside down hood of a car, ignoring the broken driver and his passenger inside. She noticed something on the tarmac. Stepping off the car she knelt down and touched it with her fingers. Black sand grains moved with her fingers. She gasped, when she blinked the sand had become oil. She rubbed it between her fingertips. Still oil. But something wasn't right.

Jack was beginning to wish that he had never offered to come. The passenger was a young man, the driver looked like his father. A long metal pole from the fence had pierced the drivers side and was effectively holding the man prisoner. The faint light from people's car beams and the small fires, here and there allowed Jack to see the son's hands covered in blood, as he tried to staunch the flow, the father gasping. It had gone straight through the man's lung. But still Zoe moved on, Jack resorted to looking at the floor as he followed, there was a radio playing, somewhere in the wreckage and he focused on that, rather then the agonized whimpers and cries of those around him. He slipped and stuck his hand to catch his balance, his hand caught something warm and sticky, he didn't even look but gagged, wiping his hand on his t-shirt. Balance regained he quickly walked, Zoe wouldn't wait for him, not during her duty.

He found her at the far side of the accident, down in the ditch, where the trees had begun. A land rover had smashed into one of the pines and there was a branch on fire. She was waiting a few feet away, in front of her there was a teenage girl lying on her belly, her long hair strewn around her head like a halo. She stirred, a cry of pain escaping. She managed to sit up but her arm was badly broken, the bone had splintered and shattered through her skin. She shakily brushed her hair from her eyes. Jack felt his heart stop.

Sophie.

Jack looked back at Zoe who ignored him, her eyes never leaving the young girl. Sophie coughed, clutching her broken arm. She looked around her, settling on the car. The tree creaked above her, the branches protesting as the car dug deeper into it's trunk. Sophie sniffed, tears dripping from her chin, Jack shook his head, looking back at his lover. But Zoe hadn't moved.

'J-Jamie?' Sophie called out. 'Jamie?!'

'Soph? I-I can't move!' A deep male voice called from inside the land rover. Sophie wiped her eyes. Jack went to move forward but his feet were rooted on the spot. This was his worst nightmare. Sophie had looked right through him. She was older now. It didn't matter how much she believed in him, age wiped all traces. The branch above moaned as it weakened. Jack had a sudden premonition of what was going to happen. Sophie was directly underneath. 'Sophie! Are you hurt?' Jamie called to his little sister.

'My arm's broken,' she called back, her voice wobbling. 'C-Can you get out?'

'I'm getting there. I think I've broken a finger or two, you might want to back away from the car Soph,' Jamie said. Jack could tell that he was trying to be calm, but there was a tremor in his voice. Just when Jack thought that Zoe had gotten this wrong. That there would be another person that arrives on the scene. He could already hear sirens. The branch finally gave way and began to fall, straight for Sophie. Zoe's eyes glittered amber in the firelight. Jack felt his breath catch, he was going to see Sophie die... He couldn't do it.

'No!' Zoe screamed at him, too far away to stop his intention that she saw in his eyes.

He whipped around with his staff and sent a pulse of power throwing the branch off it's trajectory. It smashed a few feet behind her.

'You fucking fool!' Zoe screamed at him. She crossed the clearing grabbing his arm hard enough to bruise as she pulled him away. Jack glared at her, what did she think he was going to do, just stand there and let her die? Zoe was furious. 'You don't realise what you've done! You've upset the balance!' She hissed. Her eyes flickered from silver to green.

'I couldn't just stand there!' Jack shouted back at her. Sophie's eyes were wide in fear. She looked around for someone she could neither see nor hear. Jamie had managed to climb out the car and he walked shakily around the back. Holding onto the pick up's sides. He had a nasty cut across his brow and one of his hands looked destroyed. Jack felt his heart lift a little. Jamie was seriously hurt, but alive. He looked about twenty now, but held the same essence of trust that he did all those years ago.

'You don't understand! There will be a death!' Zoe spat. She knew this, because she had tried, like Jack, to dictate who lived and died. It was fruitless. Jack's heart dropped again. Zoe was angry, that much was clear but she sounded distraught at the same time. Time slowed as he watched Jamie hobble to his little sister, she was a good twenty metres from the car now, taking Jamie's warning seriously. He saw the spark under the car's hood as the air pressure became too much. Jack threw his body over Zoe just as the car blew. The blast deafened him and he felt a sharp pain across his shoulder blades. The blast had knocked them to the ground, after the echoes had disappeared he lifted his head to see Sophie crawling to Jamie.

Jamie hung lifeless over the fallen branch.

Sophie touched his limp hand. He had been thrown into the wood with such force, it had impaled him. She touched his hand again. Squeezed it. Jack screamed out at the sight, the agony in his chest erasing all physical pain.

'J-Jamie?' She stuttered. Blood dripped from the corner of his lips. Sophie shook his shoulder, tears flooding her eyes. 'J-Jamie?! Jamie, answer me! Jamie!' She began to sob. She shook him harder and harder, but he simply lay there still. 'JAMIE!' She screamed. Jack sat there with his mouth hanging open. 'No, no, no, no,' she babbled trying to pull him to her. Zoe got up and brushed herself off. She opened her wings and turned away.

'You can't be seriously leaving?' Jack said eventually taking her hand. Zoe winced at the pain in his voice. The sirens had stopped and there were fire fighters and ambulance staff climbing their way to the young teenage girl. People walked through the two spirits. A man tried to pull Sophie from her brother careful of her broken arm, but she fought back, screaming and kicking. Zoe's eyes flickered to where they were prying the branch from Jamie, it took three men. A woman walked over with a black sheet, she could still hear Sophie's shrill sobs.

'The balance,' she whispered. 'I was here for Sophie. Not Jamie. There is no reason for us to be here.'

'No reason?! Jamie is dead!' Jack shouted at her. Zoe could tell that he was in deep pain, but she had told him many times before.

'This is why I don't interfere!' She replied, her eyes hardening. 'Jamie's life became forfeit the moment you saved Sophie! Don't blame me for this!' She shouted back. 'Everyone dies. Some earlier than others. This day was always coming Jack!' She pulled her hand from his and sighed heavily trying to hold back her tears. 'I will be at home.' She snapped open her wings again and this time Jack didn't try to stop her as she took off. He could see Sophie being carried bridal style out of the ditch. Her eyes were bloodshot and red, her good arm thrown over the fire fighter's shoulder as she screamed for her brother. Jack couldn't help the thundering of his heart and deep pain inside. He would go home. After making sure that Sophie was okay. The shadows deepened as the light from the fire was diminished.

Something stirred in the darkness.

…. well. Um. Yeah. Wow. I am cruel, aren't I. There's the second chapter. I hope that you liked it. Well, not the depressing death bit. But yeah. Um. You know the drill, review please. I'm going to go have my head checked to make sure that I'm sane. Because apparently my mind likes nothing more than to torture these poor characters.