White As Snow, Dark As Pitch
"What do you mean Pitch? Shouldn't he be gone now?" Jack asked, his tone was filled with hatred, Artemis looked at him in surprise. She had never seen him so angry. Even if he seemed annoyed, he was never angry.
"Oh its a good thing I brought her here huh?" Tooth said quietly to Sandy. Jack stepped ahead of Artemis.
"Why? Whats happening?" He asked, normally he would have responded back with a witty remark. But right now, he was defensive, and even Artemis knew why, her. North sighed again and started once more.
"You can never defeat a nightmare completely Jack, and Pitch has returned. And he wants to destroy us for good...and starting with the closest things we have" North said with a frown, Artemis was thinking over everything carefully while Jack caught on quickly. North shook his head to Jack, as if reading his mind. Jack ignored Norths stare and walked backwards towards Artemis.
"The point is, we need to protect everyone we are close to...Which includes Artemis" Tooth said with a saddened look. Artemis then finally caught up and opened her mouth to speak but was to late as Bunnymund then began.
"Were gonna need the lass to stay here for protection" He said, looking past Jack and to her.
"If that's okay with you" His ears twitched up ready for a response. Artemis closed her mouth and swallowed.
"F-for how long?" She asked biting her lip, Jack stared at her in shock. He couldn't believe she was thinking of something like this, he wanted her to stay in her world and live her life.
"As long as we know of, a couple of months maybe" North said to her, Artemis bit her lip harder. She was actually considering this, leaving her life for sometime, and staying here.
"We will give you time to decide" Tooth said snapping Artemis out of her thoughts, she glanced around and realized Jack was holding her and ready to jump through the portal. Was she really that deep in thought? She couldn't think about it until the next day she decided. Jack mumbled something inaudible as they entered her room. She was about to walk away from his grip, but his staff cut her off from moving at all.
"As much as i want to protect you, please, don't leave your life here" He whispered into her ear. She nodded, she was perfectly aware of everything. But what she needed to most was to sleep on it, she pressed herself against Jack to get some room between her and the staff, pushing it away from her face.
"I-i need to sleep.." She said walking over to her bed, he sighed and looked at her as his eyebrows bent down in frustration. He moved his staff letting the frost swirl in the air as the portal opened. He wished her goodnight and left, leaving her to sit on her bed. Surely enough it was hard to get sleep once she settled down. But eventually she slipped into a darkness, one of which she rather have Jack in to brighten up.
The clock above Artemis's bed ticked away, the red needle slowly going round and round. The only light shown was the moons gaze that leaked through her window and doors. The girl slept seamlessly through the night, the large hand of the clock finally hit the three o'clock mark, while the skinner hand hit the twelve o'clock. Marking the time as exactly three a.m, the dead hour. The clouds that floated through out the sky eventually moved and aligned themselves blocking the moon. The shadows then stretched through the room, a haze then crept through the cracks of the window and door. Eventually moving to the middle of her room forming together into a shadow like creature, stretching up tall. What seemed like a face was stretched out as if having complications. The figure moved towards the girl, advancing its way as it stretched its horrid face into a smirk.
The shadows smog stretched out like an arm to touch the sleeping girl. But the light broke through the clouds and to the shadow. It screeched silently, turning back to the corner, breaking and spreading apart into a haze and crawling out of the room through the cracks. The same way it entered, it left, just in time for the girl to wake up. Shooting up the sweat dripped from her head as she breathed heavily, she had just woken up from a nightmare, into a real nightmare.