I was not excited about writing this.

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Chapter 13: Pitch lures Jack & Casey; Easter Ruined

Jack and Casey flew Sophie home. Windsong had sent her little whisp named Whisper with Casey and Baby Tooth had accompanied them as well. Casey soon noticed that Whisper had grown attached to her. As they crept in through the window, they were relieved to find that no one in the house had noticed the two-year-old's absence. Jack walked up to her bed but, when he attempted to lay her down on the bed, the little girl refused to release her arms from around Jack's neck. He eventually managed to pull her off, but she was so close to the edge of her bed, that when she rolled over she landed right on the floor.

Jack and Casey both winced and looked at Baby Tooth and Whisper, who gave them very similar winces. The two spirits quickly threw a blanket over the sleeping girl and quickly darted out the window, where Jack and Casey shared a nervous look.

"We should get back." Casey said. "Before something goes wrong like last time." Jack nodded, but before they could take off, both of them got vacant looks on their faces as two voices reached their ears.

"Jack?" a little girl's voice called out.

At the same time, another voice, this one that of a little boy, called out, "Casey?"

"That voice," Jack muttered. "I know that voice."

Casey nodded. "I hear a voice I recognize too." They flew through the air, the two voices steadily getting louder as they seemingly got closer. They eventually got to a clearing in the forest. At the center of the clearing was an old wooden bed frame. The two voices were coming from there.

Both Baby Tooth and Whisper tried to stop Jack and Casey from going near the bed, knowing full-well where it led to. Whisper tugged hard on the hood of Casey's hoodie, but to no avail. When they were right in front of the wooden bed frame, Jack and Casey used their staffs to knock a couple of the boards away and then jumped down the hole.

As they walked up to an opening in the tunnel, Baby Tooth yanked on Jack's hood, but the boy waved her off, Baby Tooth, we have to find out what those are." he said.

Jack and Casey slowly walked through the opening and when they did, they saw hundreds of cages. They flew up to a cage and found that they contained Tooth's mini fairies that Pitch had taken from Tooth Palace.

"We have to get them out of there." Casey said, but before she or Jack could do anything, they heard the voices again. This time, when they looked around, they found all of the tooth boxes that Pitch had taken from Tooth Palace along with the mini fairies. Jack and Casey dropped down from the cages and onto one of the piles of tooth boxes and started digging through the pile, searching for their tooth boxes.

"Well, look who came to pay me a visit." Pitch's voice rang out. "Jack and Casey."

Jack and Casey jumped into the air and flew over to one of the stair cases that lined the area. They looked around until they saw Pitch walking along a decrepit old bridge.

"Don't be afraid, you two." Pitch said. "I'm not going to hurt you."

Jack and Casey jumped onto the bridge and, staffs raised, began walking behind Pitch. "Afraid?" Jack questioned in disbelief. "We're not afraid of you."

"Maybe not." Pitch said. "But you are afraid of something."

"You think so, do you?" Casey asked, narrowing her eyes at Pitch.

"I know so." Pitch answered. "It's the one thing I always know, a person's greatest fear. Yours, both of you, is that no one will ever believe in the two of you." A darkness opened up under Jack and Casey's bare feet and the two dropped, landing on more brick flooring.

"And the worst of all is that you're afraid you'll never know why." Pitch's voice echoed. "Why you?" Jack and Casey ran, but ended up cornered by a wall. "Why were you chosen to be like this?" Pitch's shadow loomed over them and the two clutched their staffs close to their chests as if for protection. "Well, fear not," Pitch said as he stood in front of them. "For the answers to that are right here." He held out two tooth boxes. The faces of the children on each one resembled Jack and Casey. The two looked at the cases longingly. "Do you want them, Jack and Casey? Your memories?"

Jack and Casey reached out, but pulled back and Pitch disappeared again. Jack and Casey flew after him. As they walked down stone steps, Pitch's shadowy form appeared.

"Everything you want to know, in these little boxes." He disappeared again. "Why did you both end up like this, unseen, unable to reach out to anyone. You want the answers so badly. You want to grab them and fly away with them, but you're afraid of what the Guardians will think." The shadows multiplied and surrounded Jack and Casey. "Afraid of disappointing them. Well, let me ease your mind about one thing: They'll never accept you, not really."

Jack and Casey backed away grabbing at their heads. "Stop it!" Jack yelled. "Stop it!"

"After all, you're not one of them." Pitch said as he crept out of the shadows.

Jack and Casey raised their staffs in offensive positions. "You don't know who we are!" Casey exclaimed.

"Course I do." Pitch replied, cockily. "You're Jack Frost and Casey Aqua. You both make messes wherever you go. Why, you're doing it right now." He tosses the tooth containers to them.

Jack and Casey caught them, then looked up at him skeptically. "What did you do?" Jack asked.

"More to the point, Jack," Pitch began. "What did you do?" He backed away into the shadows, but as Jack and Casey darted after him, he vanished. When they turned around, the opening leading to Pitch's lair was gone. That was when Jack and Casey realized something: Baby Tooth and Whisper weren't with them. They had been trapped. Jack and Casey pounded on the wall, but nothing happened. As they turned back around, they saw the remains of every egg from the Warren. "Happy Easter, Jack and Casey." Pitch's voice rang out.

Jack and Casey flew to the Guardians and Windsong and Narain. When they got there, they saw disappointed children walking away and a distraught Bunnymund crouched on the ground. Narain was beside him, trying to comfort him.

"Jack, Casey," Said spirits turned to see North walking towards them, partially leaning on one of his sword. "Where were you? The nightmares attacked the tunnels. They smashed every egg, crushed every basket, nothing made it to the surface."

"Jack! Casey!" Tooth called out, then she frowned when she saw the two tooth boxes in their hands. "Where did you get those?" Jack and Casey stuttered, trying to find something to say. "Where's Baby Tooth?"

"And Whisper?" Windsong asked.

"Oh, Jack, Casey, what have you done?" Narain asked, obviously disappointed with them.

"That is why you weren't here?" North asked, growing furious. "You were with Pitch?!"

"No listen, listen," Jack stammered, both he and Casey looking at them with sad expressions. Jack sighed. "We're sorry. We didn't mean for this to happen."

"They have to go." Jack and Casey turned to see Bunnymund behind them.

"What?" Casey asked.

Bunnymund stepped forward threateningly, his right paw clenched in a fist that looked ready to hit the both of them. "We should NEVER have trusted you!" Jack and Casey stumbled back, as if they had been physically hit, at Bunnymund's outburst. He sighed and lowered his paw. "Easter is about new beginnings, new life. Easter is about hope, and now it's gone." He walked away again.

Jack and Casey turned to the others and saw them avoiding eye contact. Jack dropped the Russian doll North had given him and he and Casey took off into the air. They separated, Jack heading for the South Pole and Casey, for a deserted island in the middle of the ocean.

I wasnt really sure about doing this chapter. I knew it was necessary, but it made me sad. Review and let me know what you thought! Next, Pitch tries to get Casey on his side. Its after he's already tried to get Jack to join him.

Have any of you read MitsyLilyValley's fic? You might want to, trust me.