#rotgau

“Jack you need to run! Get out of here!” Tooth whispered as she frantically pushed the male away from the cage like prison she was held in. Her voice was filled with terror as she spoke. “Please Jack, you need to run, if they find you they will lock you up, or worse…kill you. Please, just go!” Her small, frail arms once again tried to push the young male back. “But…Tooth….I…I can’t just leave you here!” Jack look up at the women who was like a mother to him, what was he going to…he couldn’t just leave her here. Tears welled up in his icy blue eyes as he tried once more to summon his magic to freeze the lock, but no luck, he couldn’t bring himself to focus enough.

Footsteps were heard echoing down the long hallway before Jack turned in fright and watched a shadow started to get bigger, and bigger. “Jack listen to me.” The small boy turned around to face Tooth who was now kneeling on the ground, tears overflowing from her bright purple eyes as she looked at the boy. “Run, please Jack. You need to get out of here. Go to North, he will protect you. Please Jack.”

The pleading in her voice finally made Jack step back from the cage. “ I will come back for you Tooth…I Promise.” Jack’s voice was filled with terror as he spoke, he meant the promise he just made, but for an eight year old, this was just too much. “I know Jack, I have faith in you. Now go!” Jack felt tears start streaming down his face as he nodded and ran towards the air vent that he had come in from. Jack was just able to close the vent when the owner of the footsteps appeared.

Jack wanted to run, he wanted to leave, to come back another day. But the fear in his legs wasn’t letting him move, he just sat there, watching the scene unfold in front of him, with nothing he could do to stop it.

“Oh, tears from the little humming bird? Tell me Tooth, what ails you?” The mysterious voice was deep, and full of authority, Jack couldn’t make out his face, only that he was very tall and wore all black. “I know you don’t care Pitch.  And you should know I won’t tell you anything.” Tooth’s voice shook a little as she spoke. “Oh come now Tooth, you would think by now you would know you have no choice.” Jack watched as this man, Pitch, his face seemed to turn into that of a maniac. “Tell me where the child is!” His voice boomed as he yelled into the cage, never changing his posture, and standing as straight and stiff as a statue. “I will never tell you! And you will never find him!”  The sound of Pitch’s laughter was enough to jolt Jack out of his fear, the child didn’t want to see anymore. He slowly turned and started crawling away, holding back his sobs and cries as he crawled away.