After Bridget left, the guardians realized by tomorrow she meant next sunset, which was actually the end of that day. Also after she left, the sun had risen and they couldn't go out in broad daylight, so they left after dark, say after all the kids were asleep, so around 9 pm.

Once they were right outside Pitch's lair, Jack started formulating a plan. "Okay, we've got about 3 hours until the deadline Bridget mentioned. Pitch might not be around, but we should still be extra stealthy. Once we get her, we get out of there as fast we can, got it?"

They all seemed a little worried for Jack. What if she wasn't even there? What if she wasn't even alive?

"Jack, Bridget didn't say she would die at midnight, she said she'd be dead by midnight." Tooth explained.

"So, we'll remove her body if she's dead."

"What if she's not even there?"

"Look, we'll find her, all right."

That was the first time he was mad with tooth. After Jack entered the lair, Tooth said to North "I've never seen him like this." North answered with "What if you made a promise to rescue someone from their doom and there was chance you couldn't."

Once inside, Jack flew up to them.

"She's not there." Jack muttered.

"What do you mean?" Bunny asked.

"Her cage, she's not in there."

"Do you think that maybe…?" Tooth started.

"No. she has to… let's just look around and see if we can find her."

After a while of searching, Sandy finally found her. She was lying (Sprawled) front side downward to the floor, her head on it's right side. Sandy went to Jack, knowing he would want to see it.

"What is it, Sandy?"

Sandy did some images of Emma, then an arrow.

"You found her? Yes! I knew she wasn't gone. Hey, guys! Sandy found her!" he was a little over exited.

They went to her, they were a little shocked.

"Is she still alive, mate?"

Jack flipped her hair out of her face, he shook her a little, and she moved.

"She's alive!"

"Yeah, but for how long?"

She lifted her head a little, she looked up at Jack.

"Jack, you did come back for me!" she sounded as strained as usual, but Jack was thinking, this time she was strained for a different reason. She looked happy, then worried.

"What don't you want to be rescued?"

"It's, not that, it's just, I feel, like, I, did something, terrible!" Each bit sounded like it hurt.

"What did you do?"

"I…uh." She passed out, that's at least what they hoped.

"We better get her out of here."

"All right, then." North said, as he scooped her up.

They rushed to the sleigh, they carefully put her on the floor, and then they took off. She looked so peaceful. Jack wanted to touch her to wake her up, but then thought against it, if the cold out here wasn't working, then his cold touch wouldn't work either. They made it back to the pole and she still didn't wake up.

They had to make sure she didn't die on them, so they were going to watch her at the pole until they were sure she was okay. They placed her by the fireplace.

As the time passed, elves came along and poked her, wondering if she was going to wake up, then they were shooed away. Jack went beside her and shook her, this time she didn't wake up. He tried everything; he even sent in a nice cool breeze, she wouldn't wake up.

"Please, wake up."

"Jack…?" it was North. He was wondering what was troubling Jack.

"It's almost midnight, why is she so still?"