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I should have been dead. Dead at the bottom of this Loch for the rest of eternity, so why…why was my soul being brought back? I felt someone's tears as my body was reassembled, someone I knew was crying. 'Don't cry…' I tried to tell them, but it didn't work. The moon was shining so brightly on me, it was a wonder that it wasn't hot.

My body hurt as my soul was thrust back into it, and the monster stirred. I was alive, alive because there was something that I needed to do. The monster gave me a gentle bump to help me start floating to the surface, which brought back memories of when I first became an immortal. As she occasionally bumped me with her head, I noticed that my hair was different, but couldn't tell what the difference was in the moonlight.

We were close to the surface when Manny spoke to me, 'Welcome back, Nessie,' he sounded really tired, like he had used most of his energy trying to bring me back.

'I would say that I'm glad to be back, Manny, except for the fact that I was dead.' I scolded him.

He chuckled wearily, 'I suppose that's true.'

We reached the surface, and the monster pushed me up so that I was standing close to the shore, but still in the water. I heard two voices that I recognized say my name, and some splashing through the water. My legs collapsed, no longer able to hold me up even if I was in the water, and someone caught me. I looked up to see the worried blue eyes of Dracula staring at me. Tears came out unwillingly, I knew that I had guests but I was so happy to see Drac that I didn't care. I held on to Drac as tightly as I could in my weak state, and he held me.

I stopped crying long enough to see Pitch standing on the edge of my Loch, looking like he wanted to join the reunion but didn't want to break us apart, "Papa!" I cried happily, reaching for him. Drac turned around and smiled at Pitch, still holding me so that I was kneeling in the water. Pitch smiled, not his usual evil one, and tears sprung to his now golden brown eyes as he walked over to us, trying not to let them fall.

Something seemed different about Pitch, besides the eyes, as he hugged me. He just didn't seem like the scary Boogieman that I knew. I smiled as I figured it out, "You finally took my advice," I whispered, resting my head on his shoulder.

He gave me a soft smile when he answered, "Of course. I actually remembered it when you told me about Dar…I mean, Danny and how I was misunderstood." I chuckled, not wanting to move but knowing that I had one more guest.

Tired, I forced myself to look at the short golden man who floated silently at the edge of my Loch, "Who are you…?" I asked before he smiled and nodded in my direction. My eyes widened as I saw golden sand rush towards me, before it reached me and made me fall asleep on Pitch's shoulder.

*start of memory/dream*

I had heard about Pitch's removal from power, but more than anything I felt sorry for him, which was probably why I wasn't scared when he suddenly visited my Loch for the first time. He was trying to figure out how to change Sandman's golden sand black, and was failing miserably. The tall man was muttering to himself, not paying any attention to his surroundings, when I decided to make my presence known.

"What do ye have there?" I asked, faking my accent again, using the water to lift my face over his shoulder when he was beside my Loch. He jumped so bad, that he tripped over his own feet and landed in the water of my Loch. Of course, that had me laughing so hard that I fell off of my perch of water and fell in as well. Pitch stood up and glared at me while I was sitting in the water, laughing at him and at myself, but anger turned into curiosity as he realized that I wasn't human. After I was done with my laughing, I nodded at his hands, where the golden sand was still glittering, "What are ye tryin to do with that?"

Pitch looked down at his hands, seemingly confused. Once he realized what I was asking, his hand quickly turned into a fist and was hidden behind his back, "It's nothing! Now leave, before I make you!" he snarled at me.

I shrugged my shoulders, "I would love to leave, if I could. But I'm a wee bit stuck here. Manny's orders," I told him matter-of-factly. He just scoffed and turned his back to me, fiddling with the sand again.

"Ye know what ye can do with that?" I asked him, standing on a stump to look over his shoulder this time, "Instead of just using yer powers to bring fear, ye should bring courage to the wee ones!"

He jumped away, almost hitting me and knocking me off the stump in the process. I jumped from the stump and looked at him innocently while his amber eyes glared at me. Shrugging my shoulders I said, "Just a wee suggestion, nae need to get upset over it."

I supposed that Pitch liked me, because after that he came by regularly to make sure that I was alright and to share his plans with me. He would always talk about freeing me from Manny's control so I could go someplace else. I thought that it was sweet, and saw that, even though he tried not to show it, Pitch had a good heart. Of course, the Guardians refused to believe it and told me that he was bad news, so I decided to break all contact with them. Then there was Jack Frost, who thought that he was all alone in the world. I didn't tell Pitch because I knew that Jack would be the ace in the hole for Manny's plan to stop Pitch and bring him to his senses. The war was just beginning, if what Manny said was true.

*end of memory/dream*

I woke with a start, looking around my surroundings. Sandman saw me wake up and waved at me, catching my attention. Nodding at him, I realized that I recognized where we were. Dracula's 'hidey hole' was very large, and didn't have any windows or cracks to let sun through. I had been set on his bed, while both Pitch and Drac slept on the floor. Stifling my giggles, I tiptoed over them and went to were Sandy was waiting for me.

"Thanks for watching over them," I whispered to him, nodding towards the two sleeping men, "I know you did it because Manny told you to, but I'm still grateful."

He used sand to make a picture of a man plowing and I giggled again, trying not to wake the other two up, and sighed, "They do take a lot of work, but I'm sure I'm worse." Sandy nodded and made a picture of me sleeping. We shared a silent laugh before Sandy straightened and looked towards the cave opening. I followed him as he floated through the twists and turns of the tunnels. When we got to the opening, I saw the Aurora Borealis streaking across the lightening sky.

I looked at him and touched his shoulder, "If you need to go, we'll be okay," I told him. He looked at the weak light of the moon that was going down the horizon and shook his head. Sighing, I took one last look at the moon and followed Sandy back into the darkness of the cave.

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