Jack sighed, thinking that he'd take the consequences. "I don't care how much it will hurt, just do it." He huffs in slight annoyance at himself. Tooth smiled a little. "I thought you might... which was why I had Bunny make his medicine dose a little stronger... Just... brace yourself." Tooth moved to hold Jack's head in her hands and pressed her forehead against his; closing her eyes as her wings stilled and she stood at the bedside instead of hovering. Her power flowed through him, memories flashing through his mind much like when he had peered into his tooth box those years before only many of these memories were sharper and more real, as if he was living the memories that passed before him; the most recent of them digging like blades into his mind, but dulled by Bunny's medicine that was seeping into him. Jack gasped as the memories flood in.

"She brought me here to save me from the sand wolves after..." He gulped, he was about to cry when he remembered seeing Pitch kiss her and the pain that had torn through him then tore into him now; he'd thought he'd lost her and then... she'd come after him after he swore he'd heard a scream... but maybe that was his imagination... no... the memory was crystal clear. He'd heard it.

"She... entered my dreams Tooth... to fight the darkness... She took the darkness away... I think... I... I remember only seeing the white light and then..." Tears streamed from his eyes.

"She absorbed the darkness!" He wept openly as he looked at her.

"Now she has to deal with more pain... Why didn't you let me bear it this time? Why?" Tooth smiled a bit sadly, she understood why... in an abstract way since she had never really been in love herself.

"Because she loves you Jack... She knew the risks... she took it anyway... that is true love." Jack just wept, unaware that his pain and suffering was jarring Mysterie awake.

"Please... I can't let her bear this on her own... I have to take Jakul back. She was right about the fact that they can't survive without a host... but I... I could find ways to fight him!" Jack struggled to get up, but she did her best to gently push him back; but as Jack struggled she knew she'd have to get help from Bunny and Sandy to put Jack back to sleep.

"What's all the racket?" Mysterie mumbled sleepily. Tooth gasped as Jack struggled harder as Bunny tried his best to get Jack to lie down to rest, the stress was very bad for him and at the moment was the reason he was hooked up to a heart monitor. Sandy would have knocked him out, but the Guardian of Dreams was busy elsewhere at the moment.

"M-mysterie!" Jack cried out with joy, Tooth looked at her with a smile.

"Welcome back to the land of the living."

"Really now... can't a person get some sleep?" She grumbled, cracking one eye open to look at the group she went on.

"Bunny... you aren't the best of nurses... you might want to get back to your eggs..." Bunny stopped trying to hold Jack still and looked at Jack sternly before letting him go.

"Mysterie." Jack wheezes out as he accidentally grazed his wound. Jack didn't care though as he simply stared at her happily, she could sense the joy radiating from him and Tooth smiled, leaving the two alone with Bunny hopping after her.

"How are you?" Jack asked and she rolled over onto her side to look at him, she looked beat.

"Well... a mite better than you I think... I wasn't bitten and poisoned... Your power... man it packs a wallop." Jack rubbed the back of his neck a little sheepishly.

"Yeah, sorry about that... I was really scared ya know?" Jack looked at her with a serious expression.

"Mysterie, I know you'll be pissed a time for this ... but I need Jakul back; before you freak out here are the reasons why, one; he is a trigger for Shadow to take over, two; I don't want you to bear my burden and three, I love you." He looked into her eyes, waiting for an answer. Instead of getting mad as he had anticipated, she just sighed.

"I love you too, but it's not that easy to just give him back you know. He is more link with Shadow than before... I don't know if we can separate them... Doing so would be hard... especially since Shadow is so deeply intertwined with me now..." She lightly pressed her lips against his before pulling back a little.

"Jakul hasn't been a burden, I promise you that." Jakul began to list off all the things he thought that Jack should be doing to her at the moment instead of just talking, a few of his "suggestions" are bad enough that even a prostitute would blush; knowing full well that they could both hear him. Jack blushed furiously, particularly when he realized some of the suggestions were part of things he'd thought of himself.

"Um o-okay, but you can't keep taking the darkness away every time I scream and cry for help. I've learned to deal with it for 300 years and feel much better in the morning." She wanted to argue that he'd learned to do that only because he'd had to and he hadn't had anyone to help him, but instead she only sighed. Much as she wanted to protect him, she didn't have the strength to anymore... at least not from the nightmares. Trying to ignore Jakul's "little list" she muttered.

"THIS is what he gets for being tied to Shadow... who has seen it all..." She sighed a little and nuzzled against Jack with a second, tired, sigh. She could only be there for him when he woke up as the days turned into weeks. It grated on her, she hadn't felt this helpless since she'd been a mortal and that had been forever ago in her mind that she'd felt this useless because even when she'd still been human she'd managed to make herself helpful when she'd been an adult. It couldn't be helped though, she was constantly tired for the next few weeks, which kept her as much bedridden as Jack was by his wound. She was slightly better at being in one place though than he was, but the others would swear up and down that Jack was only staying in his bed because of her; even if he did complain a lot.