Jack woke up feeling surprisingly warm. Not uncomfortably warm, but just right. He went to stretch out but found that his arms were constricted by that same warmth. Not sure if he wanted to move and destroy this comfortable feeling he had he tried to fall back to sleep, but then something touched his hair. He opened his eyes and looked to see exactly what was holding him and saw a gray pair of arms wrapped around his torso. Blinking he turned around so that he could see what touching his hair and found himself face to face with a sleeping Pitch Black. Pitch's chin had found it's resting spot on Jack's head. Jack let out an out of character giggle at seeing the sleeping nightmare king. For some reason he didn't see Pitch as much of a snuggler, more of a 'You sleep on the bed and I'll sleep under it' type of person. In fact he didn't see Pitch as the type of person to share his bed with anyone. He squealed as Pitch reassessed his hold and pulled Jack closer. Pitch opened his eyes and smiled down at Jack.

"You feeling alright then?" Pitch's voice was gravelly from sleep but the concern was still there. Jack decided he liked this side of Pitch.

"Yeah, a little warm, which is weird, but not bad weird." He was babbling and he knew it but he couldn't stop, so Pitch decided to stop him. He silenced Jack with a kiss. Jack stopped talking immediately, and looked up shocked before returning the kiss, or at least trying to. He wasn't the most skilled guy when it came to kissing, the only other time he'd been kissed was one awkward mix-up where Loki thought he was a mortal he had promised to meet up with earlier that day. (That's actually how they met believe it or not.) Pitch broke the kiss with a laugh that he couldn't entirely smother out.

"I'm sorry it's just-Heheheh- you're just too cute for you own good!" He stretched out and started to get out of bed when he noticed that Jack wasn't following suit. He glanced over to see that Jack was sitting on the bed with a... puppy-dog pout on his face. Pitch huffed and slid back on the bed.

"We can do this the easy way, or the hard way Jack. It's your choice.." Pitch looked at Jack to see what his decision would be but he just looked away in stubbornness. A grin spread across his face and he scooted over to Jack.

"Alright Jack, you want another kiss?" Jack looked over curiously, wondering why Pitch changed his mind so quick and that's when he saw the gleam in Pitch's eyes. Before he could get up and choose the 'easy way', Pitch made his move. Pitch once again moved his lips onto Jack's and while Jack was too dazed to think he moved them off the bed, and shadowported them to where the other spirits were.

They appeared in the middle of the cafeteria, lips locked in a kiss and hair tousled from sleep. Everyone around them gasped and their mouths fell open. Murmurs of 'Is that Pitch and Jack? I didn't know they were like that!' surrounded them and Jack pulled back with a bright red blush covering his face. Pitch laughed and guided the overly embarrassed snowflake over to Bunnymund, Tooth and Sandy's table. Pitch left to get a plate of food and left Jack at the table with all his friends waiting for an explanation. Jack opened his mouth to say something, then snapped it shut. What could he say? What exactly was going on? He liked Pitch for his surprisingly good humor and Pitch just liked him for his body? While he would love to say something like that to get back at Pitch, his friends wouldn't be able to look at him the same way again...

"I'm gay." They stared at him like he had grown two heads.

"Of course we know your gay Jack! Everyone knows that! What we don't know is what going on with you and Pitch." Bunny was 'surprisingly' blunt in his wording, but everyone present at the table nodded in agreement. Even mother nature, who had swept by to see what was going on with one of her weather spirits, nodded. Jack felt himself break out into a cold sweat. All of the sudden his shirt collar felt like it was choking him and the room suddenly felt too small.

"Yes Jack," Pitch whispered into his ear,

"Tell them what's 'going on'." Jack's blush deepened and he blurted out the first thing that came to his mind.

"Pitch is gay too." Pitch nearly choked on the cake he was eating, of all the things he thought Jack would say, that was not one of them. Everyone stared at Jack and then slowly nodded.

"Oh. We see what's going on here now, Jackie boys got himself a 'budding romance'." Bunny mocked playfully.

"Oh just go back to flirting with Tooth!" Jack retorted. Toothiana blushed, they hadn't known they were being that obvious. Bunny glared over at Jack before cracking a smile.

"Touche, snowflake, touche." After that the feast went on as normal. Spirits conversing with each other, moving from table to table to talk to old friends and tell corny jokes that they had heard from other tables. Around the middle of the feast North broke out the alcohol, saying that only spirits of a physical age of '21' could drink, which Jack thought was a shitty rule but went with it anyway. By the end of the night North was drunk, singing Christmas carols with the rest of the Christmas spirits and Pitch was dancing on the table with the other spirits that were more darkly centered. When it became announced that it was time to leave a wave of 'Awwws' surfed the room and everyone filed out of the workshop, saying goodbye to their fellow spirits, until the next year. Pitch came up to Jack before he could leave. Jack felt awkward, he wasn't exactly sure what this thing him and Pitch had, if it was anything.

"Would you like to come back to my place?" Pitch asked holding out his hand. Jack gasped, he was expecting Pitch to tell him that they could never work, that they 'were too different' and instead he was inviting him to his home? Pitch thought the worst when Jack gasped, maybe he was asking too soon, but it's not like he was just looking for a one night stand, he was planning to make it work with Jack.

"We can just sleep, if you like. I would just like you to come home with me, it's much easier to sleep with you around." Pitch couldn't believe he was still talking, but like Jack earlier, he just couldn't stop. Jack smiled a brilliant smile at Pitch and if you would have asked Tooth she would have said that his smile reflected the moonlight. Pitch felt all the breath leave his body and even more so when Jack answered him.

"Yeah, I'd like that Pitch." Jack took Pitch's hand and soon they were at Pitch's lair in Venice. Jack looked at the man who's hand was still linked to his and smirked.

To sleep or not to sleep, that truly was the question.

((AN- The sequel is up on my page if any one would like to read it))