This story just came to me while I was at work the other day. I'm a life guard it can be pretty boring when there is no one swimming or coming down the slide... Anyway this is Darkest Hour! Please enjoy and leave a review at the end of the chapter! Warning character death. Just a heads up.

I don't own Rise of the Guardians.

A figure was suspended by chains by his wrists. Blood was running down his arms onto his shoulders. His blue hoodie was ripped and blood soaked. His white hair was stuck to his head with sweat. He had no clue how long he had been here or how he had managed to get captured. He was barely able to keep himself awake. He had lost so much blood and he was in so much pain.

"Jack. Jack. Jack." He weakly raised his head at the voice of his captor. "I thought you were stronger then this! I thought we were going to have more fun!"

"Wh-what do y-you wa-wan-want?" Jack asked weakly. He could barely get the words out.

"Awe Jacky whats wrong? You normally don't stop talking! Now you can barely get a word!" The person walked around Jack. "I expected you to put up more of a fight!"

"What is going on in here?" Came the surprised voice of Pitch. The Nightmare King was walking briskly into the room trying to take in everything he saw around him. "What did you do to him?"

"Stay out of this! You have nothing to do with anything going on here!" The other person said as Pitch walked towards Jack. "Pitch don't you touch him!"

"You are killing him!" Pitch said angry.

"This is what you wanted! This is why you befriended me!" The boy yelled glaring at Pitch. "Besides all of this is his fault! My sister is dead because of him!"

"Ja-Jamie Pl-please!" Jack begged he was crying now frozen tears falling down his dirty face. "I tri-tried to get to you. I wa-wanted to save her!"

"What happened to Sophie was an accident Jamie." Pitch said sadly.

"He wasn't there!" Jamie yelled so loud it vibrated off the walls of the dark cavern. "I needed him! Sophie needed to him and he wasn't there!"

Two months ago

"I miss Jack." Ten year old Sophie Bennett said sighing. She was sitting outside with her brother. Her uneven blond hair was up in a messy ponytail. She was drawing a picture of Easter eggs and a giant rabbit.

"He'll be here!" A fifteen year old Jamie Bennett said not even bothering to look up from his book. He was reading about aliens today. He moved his head so his brown hair would move out of his brown eyes. "He promised he would come before the beginning of March."

"That's tomorrow!" Sophie sighed exasperatedly.

"So either today or tomorrow he will be here." This time he did look at her. He smiled at the picture she was drawing. "You miss Bunny?"

"Yes! I can't wait until Easter!" She said jumping up and down thrilled with the idea of seeing the Guardian of Hope.

"Jamie! Sophie! Come inside it's getting cold out!" Their mother said to them opening the back door. She smiled at the two siblings. She was incredibly lucky that she had two beautiful children who got along so well.

"Okay mom, we'll be right right in," Jamie said.

The two gathered all of their belongings up and walked into their house. They ate dinner at the dinning room table. Jamie was going on and on about a girl he was talking to in his math class. When he was done Sophie was talking about building a snow man or going ice skating tomorrow. Jamie smiled at her knowing that they would probably end up spending the day throwing snowballs and hanging out with Jack. When they finished eating Jamie went upstairs to work on homework. He smiled when he felt how cold his room was.

"Jack!" He said beaming seeing the familiar boy in his blue hoodie lounging around on his bed. "Awe come on you're freezing my blankets!"

"It's out of my control." Jack said laughing he jumped off the bed beaming at his friend. "Lets go have some fun! Go get Sophie!"

"Jack, I can't right now I have homework to finish." Jamie said sadly. "I have a huge report that I have to at least start. Besides mom doesn't want us out now she says it's too cold."

"Well how about tomorrow?" Jack asked hopeful. The next day was a Saturday. Jamie didn't have school!

"Of course Sophie is already planning our day for us." Jamie paused. "Can you put a lot of layers of ice on your pond she wants to go ice skating."

"I'll do that tonight!" Jack said happily. He moved towards the window to go fly around town.

"Wait you're leaving already?" Jamie asked frowning.

"You have homework."

"I can talk for a while!" Jamie said hurriedly. "I haven't seen you since last year!"

"I'm sorry about that kiddo. I've been busy. I have another believer!" Jack said jumping up and down with excitement. "Well its a baby but still she made spit bubbles at me!"

"That's awesome Jack!" Jamie said happily. He didn't have the heart to tell Jack that babies always made spit bubbles. The two boys sat and talked about what had happened in the past year. Jamie told Jack about a few of the girls he liked. Jack did his best to give advice in that area. When he was alive he had been too busy taking care of his family to even think of starting a family of his own. Jack was informed that the last of Jamie's friends had stopped believing in the guardians. He already knew that, but it was sad to hear all the same. Jamie had sat on the bed for their talk and eventually found himself laying down. After Jamie started yawning more and more Jack decided it was time to let the boy sleep.

"Night kiddo." he said softly as he slipped out the window.

He flew down to his pond landing softly on the thin layer of ice. He started to work thicken the ice. He was so involved with his work he did not see the shadows grow behind him. He heard the noise a second too late. He spun around and was met with darkness as he slipped into unconsciousness.

"That was easier then I had hoped." Pitch said picking the unconsciousness winter spirit up.

"What's going on?!" Jamie yelled as he was woken up to his sister jumping on him. He sat up panting.

"We get to play with Jack today!" She said happily.

"What time is it?" Jamie asked yawning.

"Eight."

"Soph! It's Saturday! Why do I have to be up at eight?" Jamie asked groaning and falling backwards on the bed.

"We have to spend as much time as possible with Jack!" She said determinedly. "He may not come back until next year again."

"Alright," Jamie said swinging his legs off the bed. "Go get dressed."

"Yay!" The girl yelled running out of his room. Jamie got dressed quickly wondering why Jack wasn't already at his house. The boy was so excited to enjoy the company of the sibling last night. Pushing the thought from his mind he grabbed his coat and hat and headed to his sister's room.

"Ready to go Soph?" He asked knocking lightly on her door.

"Yeah!" She yelled opening the door smiling brightly. "Jack isn't outside though."

"He's probably at his pond," Jamie shrugged. "We can go play in the woods and look for him."

"Where are you two going?" Rachelle asked raising an eyebrow as her children ran down the stairs.

"We're going to the woods to play!" Jamie told their mother happily. She frowned slightly.

"Just stay away from that pond. It's not safe on there I don't want on of you falling in and drowning." She said sternly.

"We'll be careful don't worry mom!" Jamie said as he was pulled from the house by his excited sister.

"Jack!" Sophie yelled as they reached the pond. "Jack?"

"Where is he?" Jamie asked himself quietly.

"Why isn't he here?" Sophie asked sadly.

"He probably just got busy with guardian stuff." Jamie said hiding his concern. "Maybe there was an emergency and he had to leave."

"He was here?" Sophie spun around to face her brother.

"He stopped by last night," Jamie said uncomfortably rubbing the back of his neck.

"You didn't get me so I could talk to him?" She was angry. Jamie was in trouble if he didn't calm her down.

"You were already asleep!" Jamie protested.

"He's my friend too!" She yelled. "I wanted to see him!"

"I know I'm sorry." Jamie bowed his head sadly. An idea popped into his head. "He said he would strengthen the ice so we can play on there!"

"You think he did?" She asked smiling. She loved ice skating.

"He said he would." Jamie said as they went to the hollow log they kept their skates on. Their mom didn't like them playing on the ice. "You wait here I'll test it out and see."

"Maybe we should wait for Jack." She said fear starting to grow a bit inside her. Jamie was already on the ice. He got half way across the pond when he turned and looked at her.

"Jack always strengthens the ice it's the second thing he does when he gets in town." Jamie said smiling at her. "The first is visiting us of course!"

"Right," she was not as confident as him she looked down at her feet. She heard the crack just as he did. She looked up worriedly and fear filled her. Her brother was looking at her the ice all around him was cracking. "Jamie!"

"Do-don't worry Soph!" He said gulping looking around himself. "I'm fine it'll hold!"

"Jamie please get off of there!" She said taking a step forward.

"Stay there!" He yelled pointing at her. "Stay there I'll come to you."

Jamie took a deep breath and took a small step forward. The ice cracked a little bit more. "Come on Jack! I could really use some help." He muttered as he took another step forward. The ice didn't crack that time. Sighing in relief he took another step forward and the ice gave way. With a shout Jamie fell down into the cold water.

"JAMIE!" Sophie yelled running to the edge of the pond. "Jamie?" She asked in a small voice. Tears started falling down her face as she waited helplessly for her brother to come back above the water. She saw his hand shoot out of the water and without thinking she rushed forward to help pull him back up out of the water. As soon as he was on the ice he crawled to the shore thinking his sister was following him.

"Thanks Soph." He said as he coughed up water. She did not reply and he looked around for his sister. She was no where to be seen. "Sophie?" He stood up still not seeing his sister. Just the pond with a hole that was now larger then the one he had made when he fell through. He was moving to run forward when a hand landed on his shoulder. He looked up and found himself face to face with Pitch.

"I'll go and get her." He said sadly.

"Save her please!" Jamie begged crying. He watched Pitch go under water. He held his breath as he waited for the man to come back up. It had been several minutes and Jamie was holding his breath. He sobbed when a hand shoot out of the water and Pitch pulled himself up. Sophie was unconsciousness under his other arm. "Sophie!"

"Stay there!" Pitch hollered Jamie stopped dead.

"Is she alright?" He asked still crying.

"No," Pitch said as he reached the edge of the pond."She's not breathing."

"She's gone?" Jamie asked falling down to his knees.

"Jamie!" Pitch said still holding Sophie in his arms. "We are going to get her to the street and you are going to call for help!"

"You said she's not breathing." Jamie said confused.

"Just get us to the street!" He yelled angrily. Jamie nodded and stood up the walked to the edge of the woods. "Wait! You need to carry her it will look weird if she's floating."

"Right." Jamie said taking his sister in his arms. She was so pale and cold. He swallowed a lump that was forming in his throat and blinked back more tears.

"When you get to the street call for help." Pitch said to the boy. "Someone will help you."

"Okay." Was all Jamie could say. He was grateful for Pitch being there to keep him from losing his hold on what was going on.

Jamie did what he was told and called for help as soon as he reached the road. It only took a minute before someone pulled up in a car and slammed on the breaks at the sight of him holding his unconsciousness sister.

"What's going on?" The lady asked jumping out of her car.

"She was helping me when I fell out of the ice and she fell in. I managed to pull her back out. She's not breathing!" Jamie cried as the lady took Sophie and laid her down on the ground.

"Call for an ambulance!" The lady thrust a phone into his hands and started chest compressions and mouth to mouth.

The ambulance was here in minutes and Jamie was loaded into the front seat of the ambulance as Pitch sat in the back. The driver asked Jamie what had happened and where their mother was. Jamie told the man as he looked behind him at what was going on to his sister. Pitch stood in the small space so that Jamie could not see what was happening.

"Jamie, please don't look." He said quietly.

"She's my sister!" Jamie cried. "This is all my fault! It was my idea to go on the ice! Jack promised last night he would strengthen it!"

"Do you want to call your mom?" The driver asked handing Jamie a phone.

"Thank you." Jamie dialed the number and waited for his mother to pick up. "Mom? I'm so sorry! We went on the ice and Sop-Sophie fell through. We're on the way to the hospital in an ambulance." Jamie started to cry again Pitch put a hand on the boy's shoulder. "Mom I'm sorry!"

"It's okay Jamie." Pitch said gently. "It's going to be alright."

"She wasn't breathing mom." Jamie said into the phone.

"Jamie, calm down I will meet you at the hospital." His mom said loud enough for Pitch to hear. He could tell she was just being strong for the boy.

"Where's Jack?" Jamie asked after he hung up the phone.

Pitch looked away part of him was feeling guilty about capturing Jack, but there was another part of him that wasn't as good. Right now he just had to worry about what was going to happen to Sophie. Based off the paramedic's work and hushed words it wasn't looking good. A few hours later he was sitting with Jamie and Mrs. Bennett in the waiting room when a Doctor came out and gave them the grave news. Sophie Bennett had died.

This is Chapter one. Please let me know what you think! I feel really horrible for killing Sophie off, but please stick with me this is a weird journey with ups and downs!