Sorry for the delay, but I'm back and ready to write (sortta). Well I still have a bit of writer's block so I'm going to start updating once a week. Thanks for the support everyone, I really appreciate it. Well, I sure hope you all enjoyed the moment of bliss because now it's time to take a turn for the worse... DA DA DUMM! Oh and for a change from other fanfics, I'm adding a nice surprise in his memories.

"What do you mean you're getting married!?" Jack asked his mother, anger and sadness showed in his face, which was surprising for the older guardians.

"Jack, please calm down!" Claire begged as their mother sighed. Jack seemed furious at the thought of his mother betraying his father like this.

"You're only fifteen, I don't expect you to understand why I'm doing this, but Jack," His mother exclaimed calmly," We can't get by like this anymore. Pippia, Claire, and you deserve better than this. He can provide for us and give us all a better life."

"He's nothing but a sorry drunk who uses his money to get everything he wants. You know he's been after you since before dad even died and you want to marry him!"

This level of anger was new to the guardians and they were shocked with every word the human boy spat out. Jack, however was embarrassed by his actions. "I don't remember this." He informed the rest of the group.

"You will not remember all the incidents in your human life, Jack." MiM exclaimed. "But this is something I felt you and your friends need to see to understand."

"Understand what?" Jack asked.

"Yourself. Why you are unable to trust and get close to others easily."

Jack rubbed his left cheek where his mother just slapped him. "Don't you ever say something like that again! He did not kill your father, they were friends fighting on the same side!" Betrayal, pain, anger, and sadness shot though his eyes, it was then she had realized her mistake. Jack took off out the door, leaving his shoes and family behind.

"What just happened, mate?" Bunny asked, knowing Jack couldn't answer that.

"Well, apparently I just got slapped." He replied trying to sound sarcastic. Bunny didn't find it funny though, and he could tell Jack didn't either.

"Oh, Jack." Tooth sighed. North and Sandy was staring wide eyed into the forest. It took the others a minute to realize what they were staring at.

"Pitch!" Bunny and Jack shouted in realization.

A dark shadow was heading towards the memory Jack, who seemed oblivious to it. "Look out!" Tooth warned, trying to reach him only to be held back by the guardian of wonder.

"No use, he von't hear or see you." Tooth wanted to argue but when she saw the worry in North's expression, she realized that they all wanted to do something and decided to watch.

Jack finally heard something. "Who's there?" He asked, knowing he wasn't getting an answer, unless an animal could talk. He decided to investigate so he lept down from the tree he climbed up on.

The shadow was lurking in the shadows of the bushes. Jack noticed a figure in then and grabbed a tree branch that had broken off a nearby tree. "Come out! I know you're hiding in there!"

"Bad idea, boy!" Pitch answered as he stood tall, towering above the small boy. Jack stumbled back and fell next to a tree, his back pressed against it. "Oh, you can see me?" He seemed interested and approached the brown haired boy.

"Who are you?!" Jack asked, trying to hide the fear in his voice, failing badly.

"My name is Pitch. Pitch Black. But you may know me as the Boogieman." He introduced, a dark cloud formed around him.

"It's not black sand?!" Jack noticed.

"Of course not, Jack." Tooth exclaimed. "He only recently learned how to change Sandy's dream sand to nightmare sand. He originally just used black fog to give children nightmares, but it was easily deflected by the dream sand."

"Oh." Jack understood.

"Boogieman!?" Jack repeated in disbelief.

"Be careful Jack." Tooth prayed quietly.

Pitch closed in on Jack. "Fear me, Jackson Overland." Jack's eyes widened.

"How do you know my name?" He slowly stood up.

"My dear boy, I know everything about you. Especially your worst fears." He paused, noticing the boy didn't believe him.

"Your greatest fear is losing your family. Of course you would, after getting your own father killed would scar a child."

"What!" Both Jacks replied at the same time. The guardians didn't know what to think of this.

"Oh, you don't remember do you. Or is it you don't want to remember? The little boy your father died protecting on the battle field, was you! Because of you, your father died."

Jack went into shock. A cloud of a short memory slowly reveled that day.

There was a battle going on between the people from the village and the bandits that threatened their families. The village was nearby, the guardians noticed it too.

Jack's father noticed Jack at the edge of the forest. He tried to yell at his son, but to no avail. A bandit noticed the man yelling at the kid and decided to kill the child.

Jackson Sr. and the bandit raced to get to the kid. Jack reached his son first, only to be shot by the bandit. He fell to his knees, hugging his son.

"Daddy?" Jack whined.

"Why did you come? I thought I told you to stay and protect your mother and sisters." Jackson asked, although there was no anger in his voice.

"I just wanted to try and help." Jack cried. "I didn't mean to get you hurt, daddy." Tears flowed down both of their eyes.

"Listen, I want you to run."

"No! Daddy I don't wanna leave you!" Jack cried louder. The bandit was getting closer.

"Jack, daddy will be fine. But if they get you, they will kill you. Run into the forest and hide, don't go back home right away. They could follow you and find the others." He grabbed Jack's shoulders and pushed him into the woods. Jack turned to see a familiar looking man take his gun and shot his father, killing him. The memory then faded.

"NO!" Jack yelled. Tears streaming down his face."Daddy~ No! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" He cried repeatedly.

"You see, if you hadn't have gone there, your dad would still be alive and your mother wouldn't be remarrying. It's all because of you!" Pitch taunted.

"No, no, no, no, NO!" A beam of ice shot out from out of the memory Jack and froze the land around him. Pitch, clearly shocked, used his shadow to protect himself from the blast.

Jack was still in shock from the memory to process the scene. The others however were amazed by what they were seeing.

"A human," North stated. "He's an ordinary human and he has powers. That's unheard of!"

Jack's powers were going haywire from the shock.

"PITCH!" a familiar Australian voice shouted angrily. A boomerang flew at Pitch, who barely dodged it.

"I knew something was up when I heard you were around here. What did you do?" He yelled at Pitch when he noticed the crying boy and the ice forming around him.

Jack's memories overwhelming him.