Come As You Are

i have to go off on this like yall are super supportive of mentally ill people until they have irregular behavior, you find it SUPER easy to make fun of traumatized people and still having the fucking audacity to think youre an ally. 

Summary:

Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town, meets Sally, a ragdoll created by Dr. Finklestein. A friendship blossoms between them as he introduces her to the world outside of her tower. Sally is falling for him as their relationship grows into something more, and Jack finds the same is happening to him.

A story where the Christmas incident never happens, and Jack and Sally find their happiness on their own.

Pairings: Jack Skellington/Sally

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Sally’s life feels absolutely miserable. After that horrendous evening, she has experienced nothing but pain and suffering. It felt like something was ripped out of her when she saw Jack leave that day, and its absence has left a very cold feeling in her leaves. Like she is missing something crucially important to her functioning. She feels lonely and miserable, just like she was before she met the man of her screams. And now she remembers why she wanted so badly to leave this life - all of it is absolutely unbearable. She spent the next two days after the incident sobbing to her heart’s content. She couldn’t think or do much of anything - not with Igor lingering behind her, constantly watching her in her room. She hasn’t had a moment’s worth of privacy, as the assistant would follow her around the tower and constantly block the exits if she was in the near proximity of them. Sally has begged countless of times for him to let her go, to let her escape and see Jack again, but no matter how many times she’s bribed him with bone biscuits, Igor was very strict to stick with Dr. Finklestein’s orders. The man would even stay awake the whole night while she was left sleeping. She is very depressed. She hasn’t felt happy ever since she saw Jack, and she misses him dearly. She knows, deep inside of her, that he’s missing her, too. The most the ragdoll has seen of the skeleton is his small silhouette that rarely comes in his window from his observatory. She is only allowed to look through hers from a certain distance, but even her eyes could make out Jack’s figure, and they would never leave it until she couldn’t see it again. In those moments, she could feel the hope and happiness surface in her leaves - but they were ultimately temporary, as the moment those lights would go off, she’d feel very cold again. She is sitting on her bed now, her head in her hand looking sorrowfully at the ground, slowly kicking her dangling legs. Igor is across from her watching her intently with his one working eye. He is very close to her closed door for obvious reasons. Not that he should be concerned of her leaving - the last thing Sally wants to do is to see the Doctor’s face. She’d rather be trapped up in her room than be around a man who crushed her hopes and dreams right before her eyes. “Funny how he wants to keep me here so badly when he rarely leaves that lab of his…” She mutters to herself.