All that day, Jack and Amy traversed around Halloween Town, stopping at market stalls, monuments and even gravestones. Then one grave inparticular made Jack walk away.
"And this is the grave of..." Jack paused as his eyes read the name engraved on the tombstone.
Amy looked first at Jack, then the tombstone. It was covered in thick ivy so you could hardly read the name engraved on it.
Amy knelt beside the tombstone and removed the ivy from around it. The name read "Rexus Skellington: King Of Halloween, Friend, Father and Noble Man"
"Rexus..." thought Amy. "That was the man in the photograph"
"What happened to him?" breathed Amy.
"I..." began Jack, looking into Amy's big, green eyes. "I'd rather not talk about it..."
Amy looked at the gravestone in remorse. "Funny..." she whispered. "Sally said the exact same thing..."
Jack heard these words, but chose to ignore them. It had been enough seeing his father's grave again.
"Shall we go towards the Spiral Hill?" asked Jack, quickly changing the subject whilst taking Amy's hand.
"A Spiral...hill?" asked Amy.
"Indeed. It's quite a splendid thing, not like anything you would have seen before I imagine..." said Jack.
"Ah! Here we are"
Amy stared at the sight before her. It was indeed a hill, but an oddly shaped hill at that! It appeared to curl downwards and looked awfully bedraggled.
"Wow" gasped Amy, running up the steeper hill ahead of her to climb on the Spiral-Hill.
"You can see the whole of Halloween Town from up here!"
"Correct. It's my favourite part of the whole graveyard!"
"Mine too..." she sighed, sitting down and staring up at the stars above. It had been the most wonderful day.
"Amy..." began Jack.
"That's my name" laughed Amy.
Jack half huffed, half laughed in his little way.
"I-I have something to tell you..."
Amy fixed her gaze upon Jack, which made Jack incredibly nervous.
"Go on!" giggled Amy, blushing a little. Jack still said nothing, his eyes were wide and he was sweating alot. "Alright, if you won't say anything, I will" said Amy.
"This morning I looked around your house, I wasn't intruding, I swear! And I found this leather-back book...with photo's in it..."
Jack looked the other way, she'd found it after all.
"And...I saw this photo...of..."
"Of Myself, Sally and our daughter..."
"Y-Yes..." there was a pause.
"What happened to her?" asked Amy.
"She was taken away from us...someone stole her..."
Amy gasped, feeling a little guilty for reincarnating these memories Jack obviously didn't want to talk about.
"I'm sorry"
"Don't be. Do you want to know her name?" asked Jack.
"If you wouldn't mind..."
"Amy" he uttered.
Amy clamped a hand over her mouth. "No..." she whispered.
"Y-you don't think?"
"I've missed you, my dear..."
"Y-You can't be my father! I-I'm alive! You're dead!"
"Amy, please..."
Amy stood up, tears rolling down her cold face.
"Y-You're ALL CRAZY!" she shouted, running away.
"AMY!" called Jack, recieving no reply, Jack placed his head in his hands and also began to cry. "What have I done?" he breathed. "What have I done?"
Amy ran through the graveyard, not sure as to where she was going. Now was the time, she had to find Tim. He'd take her home, then she could get on with her normal life.
Suddenly, she hit something soft, like a pillow.
She looked up to see a pair of green eyes staring at her.
She did nothing but stare and then fell into the pillow.
"There there..." said a voice from above. "Why you cryin'?"
Amy didn't respond, she just cried and cried.
"Now c'mon kid..." began the voice, coming into the light.
"Oogie will make it all better"
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OH NOEZ!!!! >_<
