A/N: Chapter four is finally out to everyone's enjoyment I hope; please comment if you like this story and I'll continue. Also I would like to apologize if this chapter wasn't as good as the others, for some reason it was a real bugger to write. Anyways, without any further ado I give you chapter four.
(P.S: Greetings everyone, here is the first chapter update, like usual I fixed large blocks of text and minor grammatical and spelling mistakes).
Groggily Jack slowly cracked open his eyes, immediately he winced as his head throbbed from a splitting headache. "Finally awake I see" a gentle voice chuckled from across the dimly lit room; Jack opened his eyes to find Jamie rising from a nearby chair. "W-what happened" the silver haired teen asked as he gently massaged the bridge of his nose in an attempt to dull his headache, Jamie smirked and shook a pair of red pills from a small bottle. "Here take these, they'll help" he said handing the pills along with a glass of water to Jack who took them gratefully.
"So, how did you get so messed up?" Jamie questioned as he pulled a small chair up beside the bed Jack was laying in. Sighing heavily, the young Guardian leaned forward and rested his face in his pale hands, "Pitch is back" he said after a few minutes of silence. "I thought he was consumed" Jamie protested, not wanting to believe that the king of nightmares had returned. Jack shook his head and set up further agitating his wounds, "I thought so as well" he replied weakly. "What do we do now, you're in no shape to fight" Jamie said pointing out the small crimson streaks that stood out against the white bandages that were wrapped around Jack's torso. The teen's features slacked and he glanced over at his old friend, "I have no idea" he whispered solemnly.
Suddenly a window shattered somewhere deeper inside the house making the two boys jump in surprise, Jamie calmly reached over behind the bed Jack was laying in and grabbed a red and black metal baseball bat. "I'll go see what's up" he said leaving the room before Jack could protest, seconds later a scream tore through the house.
Jack bolted out of the small bed he was in and rushed to the door staff in hand before the scream had even finished. He sprinted out of the room to find Jamie struggling against a Nightmare that had pinned him to the floor with its razor sharp claws. Before Jack could rush to his friend's aid, another Nightmare lunged at him from behind taking him to the ground as well. "Run, get out of here" Jamie yelled punching the Nightmare he was fighting in the face stunning it before it could dig its teeth into his throat.
Before Jack could reply he felt a searing pain tear through its abdomen, looking down he saw scarlet spreading across the white bandages holding his wounds together. Anger coursed through the teen's veins giving him enough strength to throw the Nightmare off and grab his staff that had rolled away in the fray. Spinning on his heel, Jack launched a blast of ice into the Nightmares chest disintegrating it into a pile of black sand that quickly dissolved.
A choked scream tore out from behind the Guardian causing him to spin around ready to help his friend. "No!" Jack screamed in horror as he watched the Nightmare slide its deadly claws deep into the soft flesh on Jamie's stomach drawing a flood of crimson from the wound. Roaring in rage Jack tackled the beast to the ground and drove his staff deep into its skull turning it into a pile of sand. Dropping his staff Jack turned to his friend and fell to his knees beside him, tears slowly dripped from his face as reality caught up.
"G-go" Jamie choked out as he weakly pushed himself up to lean on a nearby wall; Jack shook his head and scooted closer to the young human. A weak smile formed on Jamie's blood stained lips as he looked up into Jack's tear filled cerulean eyes, "It's okay" he whispered as his eyes slowly slid closed. "No, don't do this" Jack screamed shaking Jamie's shoulders trying to get a response out of him, after a few seconds of painful silence the brunette weakly opened his brown eyes. "I-I thought I told you to get out of here" he groaned in a strained voice. "I'm not leaving you" Jack replied defiantly despite the look he was given by Jamie.
"Hand me that if you want to help" Jamie ordered as he weakly gestured to a white cordless phone that lay a few feet away. Jack quickly rose to his feet and retrieved the phone despite the searing pain that racked his body at the slightest of movement. "I've got it from here, now go before more Nightmares show up" Jamie grunted as he weakly took the phone in his bloodstained hands. Reluctantly Jack rose to his feet and walked across the pool of scarlet blood that had seeped from Jamie's wounds, pausing he turned back to the young brunette. "You better be okay" he whispered before turning and stepping out into the frigid night air through the front door that was busted off its hinges.
Suddenly the air was filled with excited tweets as Baby Tooth sped out of the house after Jack who paused to look at the small fairy. "Stay here and keep him safe" he whispered before stepping out into the knee deep snow and quickly ascending into the dark skies above before Baby Tooth could protest.
A/N: Hope you enjoyed this chapter and be looking for the fifth one very soon.