Jack was filled with emotion, some he didnt even recognize. Jack fell to the ground, pounding his fists in the snow.
"No,no,no,no,No! How can this happen?" he asked himself over and over again. His head fell into his hands.
Jack heard footsteps and groaning, he looked up and saw a bloody Lock stumbling towards to him. Jack filled with anger, knowing that Lock dragged him and his family into this. He stood up and grabbed Lock, he pushed him up against a house "Where the hell are they?!" Jack ordered. He realized then that Lock was hit pretty bad, he had a huge lump on his head, a scratch ontop of that, blood seeping out of it.
"I don't know, Jack..." he wheezed. Jack desperatley wanted to punch him, but then he could be reasonsible for probably a death. He just gripped his hold more tightly and helped him to Halloweentown's hospital.
Jackie woke up to a dark room. She was held down by straps on her hands and her feet. She didn't try to get out, she learned that it would never get you anywhere, just kidnapped again. She looked to her side, Moogie wasn't there. She looked to her other side, Moogie wasn't there. She panicked.
"You can't be together, son!" Oogie shouted.
"Yes we can! What's stopping us?" Moogie asked. They were both in LSB Treehouse. Oogie was trying to put Moogie off Jackie, it wasn't working.
"Destiny is stopping you son, you know it."
"Do i? Dad, how many times have 'destiny' come between me and things. Nearly every time, what's this destiny about?"
Oogie stared at him, knowing that Moogie was right, but he was still going to try to put him off.
"She's a Skellington, your a Boogie. We don't like each other-"
"No.. that;s just you and Jack." Moogie said, right again. Oogie looked to the floor, knowing he was stumped.
"You will argue all the time.."
"Something we can get past."
"Fine. Go. Take that filth with you." Oogie was serious, he wasn't giving up on his son, he was just done with this particular conversation.
Sally rushed to the hospital as fast as she could. She sat outside an emergancy room for over an half hour, Lock needed stitches and blood.
She sat outside patiently, she looked to her side to see Dr Finklestein. "Oh my goodness.." she said. Dr Finklestein was in shock.
"Sally? Oh my gosh. What are you doing here?" he said.
"Jack is in there." she said nodding at the door. Dr Finklestein wheeled up against Sally's chair, they both started chatting. They got onto the subject of Oogie, Dr Finklestein shuddered and rubbed his arms up and down.
"You OK?" Sally asked.
"Uhh.. Yes. I'm just a bit cold." he replied, but Sally knew there was something wrong.
"You don't have to hide it," she said, he looked at her confused "you don;t have to hide them." she slowly reached out to his sleeves and pulled them up. He had to have stitches. "Where did these come from?-" she asked, Dr Finklestein pulled her closer to him,
"Trust no one." he said, "they will come for you."
Moogie hurried down to where Jackie was. He stared at her, stroked her soft cheek. "What's going to happen?" she asked.
"We're going.." he answered. Moogie unstrapped the straps and helped her up. They both walked out without a care. Too easy? Yeah, Moogie thought so too.
"They threatend me. They cut my arms, smashed my head. They knew that I could do it." Dr Finklestein explained.
"Who threatened you? You could do what?" she asked.
"Oogie, Lock, Shock, Barrell. They stormed into my lab, they ordered me to create another Jack. I told them 'I cant do it without some DNA from Jack first'. Lock got out his knife and started slashing my arms. Shock something on my head, making it collapse..." Dr Finklestein stopped, he was tearing up. Sally grabbed some tissues and gave them to him.
"What happened then?" she asked.
"Oogie got out a peice of Jack's clothing. I got body parts that looked similar to Jack's and.. boom, there's another Jack." Dr Finklestein blew his nose and wiped his eyes. He suddenly looked at Sally. "Their going to take her.." he said.
"What?" Sally was confused.
"Their planning on taking Jackie, to do what I dont know, but just beware.. Because they want Jack, and you, out."
"And Jackie?" Dr Finklestein shrugged,
"They don't want to hurt her." he said, "but they want her for something." He got wheeled away by a nurse. Sally was nervous..
A few minutes later, Jack came out with Lock. Jack explained that Lock was going to stay at their home, to Sally's shock. When Lock got out of the car, Sally grabbed Jack and pulled his head to hers, "he's going to betray us.." she said, "he's going to take Jackie."
Continuedd.
