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Everyone was too silent to speak. Pitch? No! It couldn't be! Pitch was attacked by his own nightmares and thrown into his lair; there was no way he could've escaped! Was it possible? North grabbed hold of the jar and studied it carefully; he looked at Jack and Bunnymund with stern eyes. He'd asked, "You certain this is Pitch's doing?", they both nod.

This was all too crazy, mostly confusing. Jack's eyes darted towards the window and glared angrily; Pitch had returned, and has killed Jamie's parents! As for his little sister, Sophie, he doesn't know what had happened to her, but hopes she was alright...somewhere. With out even thinking, Jack started to fly fast towards the window, until Tooth flew in front of him.

"Jack! Where do you think you're going?"

Jack responded, "I'm gonna kill Pitch for what he's done! That no good son-of-a-bitch has made Jamie suffer!"

The anger in Jack was pretty strong, like what happened when he first encountered Pitch with out the others- once when Sandy was 'killed', the other when he was in Antarctica.

"You can't go alone, Jack," North points out while studying the black smoke that was still continuing to swarm around the mini jar.

"Besides, we're a team, we stick together. No matter what.

As much as Jack didn't want to admit, North was right. Pitch has done the unforgivable: Killing the parents of such still young children. He's tore that family apart, and now Jamie and Sophie are orphans! Jamie. The thought of not making it to his make-up Birthday, and what North had told him to do crossed his mind.

Sighing through his disappointment, he slowly heads up towards Jamie's bedroom, where he'll break the news to him and try to make things up with him.

Jack opens Jamie's bedroom door, seeing the boy sitting at his window, and his back against the wall as his head was turned to look out and see the starry sky. A small glimpsing tear is shown at his right eye- Jack could see from a long distance. Jamie, who's still facing the window, glares angrily as he says through his teeth, "What are you doing here, Jack? Leave me alone."

It had hurt Jack enough that Jamie's been taking a rough time getting use to their deaths. Jack had missed a day that was meaning so much to Jamie; walking over towards his adopted little brother nervously, Jack tries to get him to listen.

"Jamie...I know that I wasn't there, and I'm sorry, but I wasn't there for a good reason." The winter spirit didn't know if he was making progress or not. Jamie was all he had to care about right now. As much as he really wanted to kill Pitch right now, Jamie had to know the truth and reason why he missed-out on a very important day.

"I know you're only lying to make me happy," Jamie snarled in a venom-like tone. "But I appreciate you're trying to make me feel better!" This wasn't good.

"Jamie!" Jack snaps, finally getting over towards him. Jamie was startled by Jack's eruption. He began to cry softly.

"Oh Jamie, I'm sorry!" Jack exclaimed; he had just made Jamie feel even worse now! Quickly, Jack pulled the boy into a hug and whispered sweet nothings into his ear- it always calmed him down when he was sad or angry.

After a few minutes, after Jamie had finally calmed down, he looks into Jack's eyes- filled with grief. "I'm sorry Jack..." Jamie gasped-out between soft sobs.

"It's okay, Jamie. I'm sorry two; but I've got some news on who killed your parents, and Sophie."

Jamie looked at him confused. "Sophie? No! She's at her godparents' house. I didn't want to leave with mine, because they're total morons." The two laughed.

"Alright then...so...wanna know who did it?"

Jamie nods.

"Pitch did."

Not one word came out of Jamie's mouth. Instead, he just stood there with a complete shocked look his face. Pitch Black? The Boogieman- returned? No! To Jamie, this had to be some kind of prank from Jack, or maybe even a dream. Jamie didn't know what to say or do now, but just cry a little again.

"Pitch! I'll kill him! I want to avenge my parents!" Jamie then picked something up, and threw it towards the open door, crashing it into the wall.

Jack looked surprise, but not too surprise. Why? Because he expected this to happen; in some way, it was kinda like this when he thought about it.

To calm Jamie down a little, Jack decided to take him flying, maybe even having some fun (A/N: Not like that, you perverts!).

While Jack and Jamie were out, the others were planning when they'll find Pitch.

"I think we should go tonight," Bunnymund hinted, eating a carrot. "I mean, c'mon, we'll get the job done quicker."

North shook his head. "No. We'll wait for tomorrow; Sandy will put Jamie to sleep to keep him from waking up and finding out what we're doing, then we'll go and get Pitch."

Tooth, Bunny, and Sandy all nod with agreement. Once Jack and Jamie came back from flying, they were gonna explain the plan to Jack.

This was gonna be interesting.

Sorry if this chapter's not very interesting, just woke up this morning, and can't think about what else to put down.

Only three more chapters left, so sink it all in, foks! lolz

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