Valentines and other holidays
by End of Grace
This is my first Sandy x Pitch pairing, it's kind of a back story before Jack Frost and before North and Bunny are a couple, sadly. I have not read the books, I will state that now because what I'm writing with is the information I got from Wiki and I'm running with it. Also no matter where I looked no one has a name for Pitch's daughter so I'm giving her one. If it's wrong I'll change it at a later date. I hope you enjoy, and please have tissues at the ready.
A Midsummer night dream/nightmare
It was a lot darker in those days, everyone was afraid of something, especially children. That is why they needed the general so much. He guarded the nightmares, kept them locked tight in their prisons under ground. Sandy often felt that they were taking advantage of the poor man, who had already done so much and wanted nothing more than to see his daughter. Yet Man in Moon instead that they continue to bring, dreams, hope and wonder to the children of the world, and let general Kozmotis Pitchiner do his job. Once Sandy had finished delivering dreams to the children, he flew to the underground caves to visit the general. He was sitting alone looking in to his locket, gazing at his daughter's picture. Sensing a presence he went for his sword, but soon calmed down when he saw that it was Sandy. Sandy floated in and sat next to the general, who wrapped him in his red cloak.
"I did not expect you to much later, all the children asleep in their beds?" he asked stroking Sandy's golden hair. Sandy nodded as he leaned in to Pitchiner's side. Pitchiner laughs and wrapping his arm around the smaller man.
"I cannot tell you how much I enjoy your company my friend"
Sandy sat up at that friend comment, sand puffing out of his ear in frustration. Pitchiner smile and arched one of his long black eyebrows, his golden eyes shining with mirth. Sandy pointed to above his head were three images floated.
"Sandman/heart/Pitchiner"
Pitchiner laughed harder "You know I love you Sandy. You are my love and my best friend. The only light I get in this dreadful place"
He leant down and kissed Sandy on his forehead, following his nose and cheeks. Sandy reached up to get a kiss on the lips, only for Pitchiner to smirk and sitting up straight, leaving Sandy pouting. Suddenly there was thousands of screeching noises, claws rattling metal bars and howls of pain coming from the many cages hanging from the cave ceiling. Sandy griped Pitchiner's tunic tightly looking around at the fearlings growling from their cages, as Pitchiner glared back at them.
"Silence! Enough of your noise!" he ordered, his voice booming in the dark. The nightmares soon settled and Pitchiner pulled Sandy closer to his chest, rocking him slightly, assuring him that they could not escape. Sandy leant up, kissing Pitchiner's chest and neck, sucking and licking his earlobes and the hollow of the older man's neck. He slowly undid Pitchiner's cloak and tunic, gazing at the muscular chest underneath, his nipples a dark shade of brown against his pale skin. Pitchiner cupped Sandy's face and kissed him, softly at first but as each kiss landed it got hotter and deeper, till Sandy was laying on the stones with Pitcher laying on top of him, covering them both with his cape. Hiding them both from the eyes of the fearlings and the world.
Pitchiner sat in the dark, trying to ignore the voices. His grip on his locket that held his daughter's picture was now cutting in to his hand, drops of blood splattering on to the floor. The pain was sharp and stinging but it was keeping the voices out for now, he would have to clean it later so that Sandy would not get worried. The fearlings seemed to know what he was thinking and started to laugh.
"Using you, using you"
"Man in moon is making him do it"
"Why would he, a guardian, want you?"
"Its Pity, that's all it is! Pity!"
"Using you, Using you"
"The Man in the Moon doesn't trust you"
"The Sandman just needed an ego boast"
"Using you, using you"
"SHUT UP!" He shouted at the top of his lungs, standing up and swinging his sword around wildly. "HE'S NOT USING ME! HE'S NOT!"
It was at that moment Sandy came flying in, worry engraved on his face, seeing his lover so distressed. He grabbed Pitchiner's face and shook it hard, making the general forces on him. Pitchiner's golden eyes came back in to forces, tears still spilling down from them uncontrollably.
"San...dy?"
Sandy nodded as he stroked Pitchiner's hair away from his face, trying to smooth him. The general dropped his sword and hugged the smaller man tightly.
"Sandy help me! I think I'm losing my mind"
Sandy held the general just as tightly, rubbing his back and kissing his cheeks. All the while, the fearlings watched and whispered.
"Using you, using you! Ha ha ha"
His daughter was a beautiful girl. Large trusting eyes, rosebud lips with long lushes hair. He had not seen her in years, he wasn't even sure how old she was now. He wasn't even sure if she was alive anymore. He wanted to see her, to hold her again, read her bed time stories. He wanted to hear her sweet voice again, just once.
"Father..."
Pitchiner shot up to his feet looking around to see if anyone was there. There wasn't, even the fearlings were being unnaturally still.
"Hello? is someone there?"
"Father..."
He Knew that voice, he did. "Annemarie?"
"Father...help me. I've missed you"
He was frantic now, looking this way and that, trying to see in the deepest dark for the silhouette of his daughter. His eyes fell on the Door. It was a large caged door, with chains weaving in-between the bars. Should that Door ever be opened all the nightmares would be released in to the worlds again.
"Help me Father...I'm in here...I've missed you so much"
"You can't be in there! Its sealed" muttered Pitchiner unaware that he was slipping in to a trance, by the fearlings. He stumbled towards the Door, his sword drawn.
"Father I'm scared...it's so dark in here..."
"It's alright Annemarie, father is coming"
"Please father...let me out...I want to see you again..."
"Hold on, Daddy's coming" said Pitchiner as he swung his sword, shattering the chains around the door. Slowly he grabbed the bars, and started to pull, inch by inch the Door creaked opened. Then the door swung open, fearlings flooding out like a tsunami, swallowing Pitchiner so quick he didn't have time enough to scream. They pushed themselves though his skin, his mouth, his eyes, all their dark thoughts piecing his mind. His pale skin started to turn gray and his clothes black, as he continued to choke on the fear the nightmares were giving him. Suddenly everything went dark in the cave and all that could be heard was insane laughter.
The Sandman was sitting on his golden cloud, floating over a small town, his golden sand floating down in to the houses below. He smiled as dream sand dogs and cats danced around the night sky, but that quickly stopped to the sound of a screaming child waking up in fright. He floated down to the window and saw the child sitting upright and crying. A tall dark figure standing over her smiling at his handwork. Sandy, not wasting a moment whipped out his whip and wrapped it round the dark stranger and pulled him thought the window, away from the distress child. Sandy grabbed the black wavy hair and pulled the face up to see who had done such an awful thing to a child, only to stop his fist when he looked in to a pair of familiar gold eyes.
"Sandy...if I knew you were in to this sort of thing, I would have quite happily oblige you" the stranger purred kissing Sandy on the cheek.
"?"
"Don't tell me you don't recognise me. I'm the man who was trapped down in a cave in the dark for years, doing the Man in the Moons dirty work"
Sandy's eyes widen as he undid his whip allowing the man to stand up. The face was the same, as were his eyes but the royal amour was now a long black robe and his beautiful pale skin was a dull as ash.
"!?"
"Yes love, it's me. The fearlings told me a lot of things in the dark. Truthful things, like how the Man in the Moon was using me. About how the world needed fear, otherwise how will it survive? But I wish to make sure that they were wrong on one little thing"
He glared down at the golden man, his eyes gleaming with malice. "Where you using me Sandy? Were you just come to me out of pity or obligation?"
Sandy was both hurt and shocked by Pitchiner's accusations and shook his head, a large heart floating over him. Pitchiner visibly relaxed as he dropped to his knees and hugged Sandy tightly.
"I knew they were wrong about you, I knew you weren't using me. I love you so much"
Sandy pulled away, still confused and worried about his love and pointed to the house, where the child was being comforted by her parents.
"You want to know what I was doing in there? It was so odd, one moment I was in the cave and then I was under the child's bed. I crawled out to see your dream sand in the shape of a teddy bear dancing. Very sweet by the way, all I did was touch it and it turned in to a ravenous beast. Poor thing didn't like that at all and woke up, that's all. Though I must admit I did enjoy that scream. Though I think your silent ones give me more pleasure"
Sandy blushed but quickly shook it off and started to point at the child and crossing his arms.
"You don't want me to go near children? But Sandy its important that they learn about fear. It warns them of danger, remind them of their limits, it's a very healthy thing is fear"
Sandy bit his lip, what Pitchiner was saying made sense in a roundabout kind of way, but he really did not like seeing children crying. Pitchiner wrapped his arms around Sandy once more and kissed his head.
"Also Sandy, the children will soon take your good dreams for granted, they'll get bored of them if they have nothing to compare them too. A few nightmares would change that. I promise, its best for both of us and the children that we do this...what do you say?"
Sandy still a little unsure still nodded, hugging back his lover "Heart"
"Yes, I love you too. I was thinking, since I'm more or less reborn I should have a new name. How about Pitch?"
The first few months were fine and Pitch kept his word. He scared a few children a night, turning Sandy's dreams in to nightmares, feeding on they fear and tears. Once they were both finished, they would go to Sandy's dream sand castle, were they would cuddle and kiss. A few times Pitch would convince Sandy to go down to his underground lair and although Sand disliked it, he could never say no. Time past, and gradually Pitch began to torment more and more children, getting stronger and stronger. Sandy's pleads to stop were ignored and their arguments had become full out fights, until one night Pitch left.
"You simply don't get it!" he roared at Sandy as he swung opened the dream castle's doors. "I deserved to be powerful and feared! They won't love me like they do you and the others. Parents are telling their children that I DON'T exist! I have to work twice as hard to get my powers Sandy, If you can't understand that, you're really were using me"
Sandy curled up in to a ball and wept quietly, wondering why Pitch had changed and why the man in the moon had not gotten involved. It was a month later that Manny did get involved, summoning North, Bunnymund and the Tooth fairy to stand with Sandy to take down Pitch. The fight had been brutal, Pitch summoning his nightmares to take them down, but with North's swords and Bunnymund's eggs taking them down, Tooth and Sandy were able to get close to the nightmare king. Sandy's whip knocked Pitch off his feet allowing Tooth to hit him hard in the face, making him dizzy, losing his footing. He tumbled to the ground hard, making a load thud as he rolled down a small hill. Sandy followed quickly with the other guardians close behind. Manny's blue light shone on a large hole in the ground surrounded by a broken bed frame. Pitch realizing that was to be his prison, turned to the guardians.
"The children need me! They need fear! Without me they would have no need for you!" he shouted as they slowly approached him.
"They is enough things in this world to be worried about without you Pitch!" said North, his swords glowing brightly.
"They don't need you mate, they've never needed you." said Bunnymund, twisting his boomerangs in his paws.
"And neither do we" said Tooth, her smaller fairies humming around her ready to attack. Pitch looked at Sandy, who was shaking, tears threatening to fall at any moment, but still posed to attack.
"Sandy...my dream...you know I'm right! Tell them, I'm right" he pleaded, his legs hitting the bed frame. Teardrops made from sand fell from Sandy's brown eyes as he shook his head sadly, flicking his wrist so that his whip knocked Pitch down the hole. The look of betrayal and heartbreak on Pitch's face and his name echoing down that dreadful hole was the last of Pitch that Sandy ever saw or heard of for many years. He stared at the awful bed frame and the barren ground that was now underneath it, not joining in the cheers of his fellow guardians.
"Come my comrades, and join me for eggnog back at the pole" laughed North wrapping his arm around Bunny in a shoulder like hug.
"Ha! Why not, after taking out that piece of garbage I could use a stiff drink"
"Maybe just a little one wouldn't hurt!" smiled Tooth as she followed North and Bunny to the sleigh.
"Sandy? are you coming?" asked North turning to the smallest guardian. Sandy shook his head and pointed to the night sky.
"I understand my friend, so please join us once you are finished" said North as he led the other two away, leaving Sandy alone. Sandy wiped his face as his dream cloud lifted him in to the air. He tried making toy soldiers, teddy bears, dolls, and ponies with his sand, but they did not hold their shape for long before turning back in to sand. In the end Sandy let his dream sand float in long streams of light, sending children to sleep and flying to the North pole to drowned his sorrows with his friends in eggnog. In the morning, parents found they children awake but wiping away small tears. When asked if it was a bad dream the children answered no. It was the end of a wonderful dream that they couldn't remember, but they knew ended sadly.
The End.