With time passing by so quickly since she had been caught with North there in the medical room, she had been moved from the medical wing to her own bedroom there near North's own. Bunny hadn't even been to visit... too busy with Easter she figured, but she did miss her best friend. Sandy visited her often right before he would help her sleep during the night. Though lately... she had begun to the weirdest dreams. Dreams of Pitch, Aster, and Jack all fighting against each other. It made her lose sleep cause of them. Always the same nightmare unless she dreamed about the one enemy she truly did have. it happened so often that Sandy had begun to take notice. He tried everything he could. Extra doses of his good dreams and watching over her to a degree before he had to go but she always woke up soon after and he could feel it when his sands were scattered from her and returned or either stolen from him. After a few days of this Toothy became jumpy and unable to focus, causing Sandy to act and to tell North.

After the final day of trying to get Tooth to sleep, Sandy was banging upon North's Office door. He hadn't been seen for a while either since that day in the medical room. Maybe it was rape, everyone who knew thought of it sometimes. The look of embarrassment on her face... the secret look of pride on North's own as the big man had glanced to Aster. Aster looking horrified and things haunted Sandy... but right now, he shook his head swiftly and banged on the door once more. he could hear shuffling footsteps coming from behind it, before the yell from North to enter. As the door swung open and he floated into the office swiftly, he swiftly began to explain with his pictures trying to get North's attention over all.

"Yes yes Sandy. What do you need, hm? Busy you see." he didn't mean to be curt with his friend but he was busy on a toy a child had asked for specifically. The little girl had begged in her letter to him for a doll with lots of pretty dresses. he was trying to get it to be just right to look like the girl herself with different dress designs. It was something that he was going to ask Tooth's help on. The dresses were going to be seasonal and have a dress for every day of the year... that made three hundred and sixty five in total plus an extra special gown for the child's birthday.

Sandy began to make motions and pictures of Tooth falling asleep and then waking back up with a little clock moving slowly. North looked up long enough to watch the pictures and frown.

"Toothy is having hard time sleeping? Why didn't you say so, Sandy?" North pushed back from his work bench just as Sandy blew golden sand from both ears in an anger move.

'What does he mean not saying anything!? Ugghhh...' Sandy thought to himself before he floated out after North listening to the big jolly man's foot steps as he walked... strode... jogged... to Tooth's room. As they both rounded the corner, they noticed something was wrong.

"Why are the lights out in this hallway?" North looked up at the windows and to the soft lights to light up the ways around the place. the one above them was one, but the ones in the hallway were not.

"?" Sandy formed over his head as he made another motion of a two lines instead of one. He was wondering if the circuit for the lights were cut off.

"No no... Lights run on same circuit as these... something is wrong..." He stepped forward and felt the earth shift below his boots. Blue eyes looking downward, he stared at the floor for a few seconds before he growled.

"Sand."

The simple word made Sandy jerk his head down to view the floor. The floor was indeed filled with nightmare sand. but not a full layer. Dustings as if someone had destroyed Nightmares all along the hallways. Looking confused they both walked along the floor only to find Phil and three other yetis passed out and twitching. Sandy hovered over one of the four and brushed nightmare sand from the yeti's fur. He held it up for North to see.

"Nightmares... Pitch! Pitch is here. Sandy get to Tooth. Make sure she is fine. I must summon Bunny and Jack here!" And with that, he left Sandy looking after him with shock. North had left Sandy to save Tooth. Shaking his head, he sprinkled some dream sand over the four yeti's so that would stop twitching and fall peacefully into their dreams before Sandy took off down the hall way towards Tooth's room.

Meanwhile, Pitch was dragging slow cold fingers along Tooth's left cheek. She was one of the four that had caused him to be so weak. the only female Guardian of five, including Man in the Moon, and Pitch was going to make her pay. Flipping the female over during her dreams was no big deal. Finding bandages to wrap her two wings together, again no big deal, but as he was picking her up bridal style the door exploded inwards. Sandy with his golden whips floated into the room.

"Uh uh uh, Sandman. You wouldn't want Toothiana here to be hurt... Would you?" His smirk came over his face as he pressed his cheek to the woman's feathers even as she twitched and whimpered from the nightmares he had forced her to succumb too. Sandy looked shocked and allowed his arms to drop in defeat. The whips vanishing as he glared and watched as the black sand from the hallway rushed past under his floating feet and swirled about both Tooth and Pitch until all that was heard was Pitch's laugh filling up the room before they vanished to god's knew where. A Solitary golden feather laying where they had been.

as sandy walked over to it, A rabbit hole appeared out of no where with Aster leaping through with his boomerangs ready and out to fight. Sandman's eyes widened and he smiled to a degree. this is what you did when the one you care for is in danger. Aster was looking around swiftly before he cursed himself out for being so slow. Forest green eyes looked to Sandy and his ears drooped.

"where the hell is Pitch, Sandy... and... where is Toothy? Where the hell is North!?" He gripped his weapons tighter as Sandy stooped down and lifted the golden feather up for Aster to see. His hands grew shaky as he tucked the boomerangs away, eyes filling up with fear while he reached out and grasped the delicate feather there with his paw.

"This is one of Tooth's wrist feathers... " He muttered tucking the feather away into his belt that went across his chest. His free paw clenching tightly as he shook his head some.

"That bastard has taken her to his lair... I know he has.. I'm gonna try to find a way in there, Sandy. You kick North's arse for me." Thumping his right foot, he was about to hop into his hole when Sandy grabbed his arm and shook his head swiftly. With Aster in tow, the golden man dragged the Pooka from the room and towards the globe where North was talking swiftly to Jack Frost, whom at the time had been causing a snow storm in Texas and then the northern states of America.

"Whoa, wait! Pitch is out?"

"Yes yes, we have already explained that, Jack..." North rubbed the bridge of his nose with his free hand pressed to his waist before he heard the footsteps of Bunny coming closer.

"Ah! Bunny! Where is Tooth? You were supposed to get her."

"Hey! Don't pin this on me you... You... How could you leave Sandy back there to get Tooth by herself! Pitch took her, mate! I thought you two were dating!"

With the verbal assault from Bunny, North looked rather shocked. Jack and Sandy stayed out of it for the fact that at some point, Aster had taken out a boomerang and was pointing it to North's chest. Ears laid back, a glare in his eyes, Aster was on a war path it seemed.

"Tooth and I... Dating? No no no. " He shook his head and looked confused to Bunny, Sandy, and Jack. Aster, However, looked furious.

"Then why do that to h-" A golden hand slapped over his mouth causing Aster to fall silent before he held a finger up to his lips. Jack was looking confused. He was still a young spirit even though he was a good three hundred years old, they were all pretty sure that he hadn't experienced anything like what North had done to Tooth. They were fortunate to skip the whole thing with Jack since he had flown back off to avoid the woman's screams.

Shaking his head some, he glared to North before clapping his paws together. he was feeling cold.. from the inside as fear was spreading its way along his chest from his heart.

"Alright then... What is the plan to get Tooth back?"

Back in Pitch's lair, Tooth was hanging by a chain. Literally hanging by a chain. her arms were bound behind her back, yet over her wings to keep them pinned to her frame, with her legs dangling down towards the floor. Her head was tilted towards her chest, feathers ruffled from the man handling that had done to get her in such a position. her toes were just a single inch from the floor but along the floor below her was black sand to guard her. If she tried to touch the stone work Pitch would be informed and he would show up within seconds.

She was trapped and with her mauve colored eyes watching the inky blackness around her, she didn't have a real escape route in sight. eyes closing, she didn't see the shadows moving as she wiggled about in her bindings, good wing twitching against her arms as she tried to rock herself back and forth to see if she could see more than the dark of what she thought was a cell. Pitch was watching her from the darkness. Golden eyes gleaming with his smile etched to his face. He didn't put her in a cell... no... that was to good for her. He had her dangling in his bedroom. She was just inches from hitting her head on the wa- -Thud- Wall... well, she didn't knock herself senseless it seems, that is good.

He made his move from the shadows and eased a tinderbox from his bedside drawer to start lighting the candles about his bedroom. He adored the shadows it created and how they seemed to dance from the firelight. head turning to look at the glaring Toothiana, he slowly smiled while stepping towards her once the last one was lit only to circle her frame.

"Well well... The Queen of Memories here in my chambers... whatever shall I do with you..."

"Let me go Pitch!"

"Or what?" his smirk grew into a simple look of ' There is nothing you can do' look upon his face as he moved to stand there in front of her.

"You are in my lair, sweetheart. No one can get in or out without having to get passed my Nightmares..You're trapped here... until I get tired of you."

Tooth's eyes widened as she watched his hands come up with a device she wasn't used to and fought as he forced it past her lips and in between her teeth. A jaw spreader. it kept her mouth in the perfect 'O' look with a clear shine to the black gag. tongue pushed against it as her eyes grew slightly fearful.

"Oh yes.. you should be afraid, Tooth... I'm going to keep you here and make that family I've always wanted."

Cliff Hanger! I know!~ it's been a long time but I'm finally settled and I'll be getting these things out a lot more quickly now so every week I hope. Anyways, Rate and review. Leave your comments or questions!

Oh and I know! It's supposed to be a tooth and North love story. Just give me time in it all! Yes this is also an Update.