As The trio, Zero, Jack, Sally and Bella left the house, they noticed the mayor hobbling around town, the sad side of his face showing. He was supposed to be in his house, so what was he doing around here? Jack approached him, his bony hands coming up to rest on his own hips. 

"Mayor, what are you doing out here? You're supposed to be at your house. Is everything alright?" He asked and the Mayor looked at him, shaking his head. 

"Oh Jack, I'm terribly sorry. I just needed to get outside for a minute. I have this weird feeling in my gut, like something terribly horrible is going to happen." He stated worriedly, his hands rubbing his temples. "And I can't get this feeling to go away. But more importantly, what are you guys doing out here? With Boogie's boys, I might add. Has HE Come back?" He asked the last part just above a whisper. 

Bella looked at her father, swallowing a lump in her throat as she wrung her hands nervously. He placed a hand on her shoulder comfortingly, letting her know that it was going to be okay. Bella grinned before looking back at the Mayor. "He is back. And my biological father is with him. We are going to stop them both. All of us." 

The Mayor gasped once more, his hand going over his mouth. "Oh dear, oh dear... This is exactly what I was feeling. But you just confirmed it. Please be careful, all of you. Should I alert the citizens and let them know what's going on?" Jack nodded in response. 

"If you could. They need to know what's going on. But they still need to stay in their homes. Including you." Jack said and the Mayor tipped his hat before hobbling off to go let the townspeople know the news. Sally wrapped an arm around Bella's shoulders and kissed her cheek. 

"Don't worry, my darling. We will stop Oogie and that maggot. You will find your peace, I know you will." She reassured and Bella smiled sadly. She hoped she was right. She hoped that getting rid of that asshole would bring some peace to her mind, heart and soul. She hated feeling so vulnerable, so broken. And even though she was so grateful that Jack and Sally took her in as their daughter, she wished she could have grown up with a more loving, compassionate father.

But Jack and Sally were her parents now and she couldn't be happier. She loved them so much and they meant everything to her.

When they approached the bridge that led to Lock, shock and Barrel's home, Bella could feel her anxiety kicking in, and her palms started sweating, her breath beginning to tremble. She was starting have second thoughts about confronting her father. What if he tried to kill her again? Or what if he tried to kill her parents, or even the kids? Well, her parents were dead but still. 

The trio looked up at Bella, noticing that she was getting scared and Shock lightly tugged on her leggings. "Miss Bella, are you alright?" She asked worriedly and Bella looked down at the witch, her eyes beginning to water. 

"I-I don't know if I should be here. What if he tries to hurt me again, o-or one of you? And Oogie? What will he do?" She said worriedly. The first time that she was captured by Oogie Boogie, the trauma that he put her through, it was unimaginable. Putting a spider on her stomach, when she had the most severe case of arachnophobia, strapping her to a table and giving her rope burns, etc. 

But nothing was as traumatic as the pain her biological father had put her through. And getting ready to face him for the first time in a little bit, it was making her whole body shudder. Sally placed her hands on both of her cheeks.

"You can do this, Bella. We are all going to face those two and we will make sure that nothing happens to any of us. Especially you. We are going to stop this once and for all." Sally then kissed her forehead, letting it linger a moment. Bella sighed sadly as she looked at her mother, resting her forehead against hers. 

"Thanks mama. I- I needed that." She said and Jack looked at his girls and the kids. "Let me go first. I need to see what they are doing." He said and he grabbed onto the rope, carefully going down. As he went down, he could begin to hear Oogie and that douchebag laughing maniacally, making anger fill his eye sockets. When he got to a certain point, he was able to peek in through one of the holes, and he saw the two on the roulette table. He got to the bottom and he got off the rope, being very quiet. He looked up at the bridge and moved his hands, signaling for them to come down. Sally helped Bella get on the rope, then the kids and then herself. Once they got to the bottom, Jack helped each one of them get off. 

"Okay, we need to be very quiet. I was able to see them, so we need to be cautious." They quietly made their way into the lair, crouching down and tip toeing. They were able to hide behind several statues, Bella peeking from behind one of them and her eyes locking on her biological father. 

"Well, bless my bugs, I can't tell you how grateful I am that you brought me back, Danny boy! Your deed will not go unpunished! As promised, I will make sure that you get that little girl Bella back!" He yelled out and Bella's eyes widened in horror. He was planning to take her back?! No, she couldn't go home! She didn't even want to go back with that shitshow! And she thought that Oogie had forgotten about her!

"Yeah yeah yeah... that little bitch thinks she can get away from me this time. Once I get her back, I'm going to show her who her daddy is. She has no idea what's coming."

She looked at her parents, Jack shaking his head. There was no way in hell they were going to let her get taken away by that bastard. "Let me handle this..." He mouthed before making his way from behind the statue. His shoes clanked against the roulette table, his bony hands on his hips. 

"Hello, you two. Fancy seeing you here." He said angrily, the sack of bugs and Danny jumping up slightly when they heard Jack's voice. Oogie laughed sadistically, Danny just glaring at Jack. 

"Well, well, well, what have we here? Its none other than Jack Skellington! What seems to be the problem, Jackie?" 

If looks could kill, Jack would have definitely murdered Danny and Oogie. More so Danny. After hearing about the pain Danny had put his daughter through, he wanted to strangle him with his bare hands. But that didn't mean Oogie was off the hook. Because he certainly wasn't. He was going to get his karma as well.

"Neither one of you will lay a hand on my daughter. Not Oogie, and CERTAINLY not you, Danny. Huh, Now I finally know your name" Danny immediately got dangerously close to Jack, but Jack neither flinched, nor stepped back. Jack was much taller than him and knew he could break this man like a toothpick. 

"That is MY daughter, skeleton boy. And she is coming home with me!"

"N-No I am not!!" Bella yelled as she slowly but surely came out from behind the statue, her breath trembling. Now was the time to step up to Danny. She was afraid, but she knew it needed to be done. Danny's eyes narrowed at Bella, who slowly walked onto the gigantic roulette table, her arms at her sides, and her blue eyes watering. 

"Oh yes, you are Bella. You think you have escaped, and you think you have new parents. Well I am here to tell you that that is going to change. You are leaving this hellhole and I am never, I mean NEVER letting you out of my sight again!" He snarled and Bella stood her ground, tears beginning to fall down her cheeks. 

"D-did you forget the pain that you put me through? Every... single.. F-FUCKING day of my life?! Did you forget the countless times you have sent me to the hospital? Or the times who have choked me to the point of unconsciousness?! I-I mean, its a miracle that I don't have brain damage because of you! Oh, you know what, do you remember this?!" 

She lifted up her shirt, just under her breasts, revealing a long scar from her navel to right underneath her breasts. Jack looked at the scar, his eye sockets widening in horror. He remembered the scars that she had mentioned but this was his first time seeing one of them. 

"What in the devil's name did he do to you?" He asked and Bella glared at Danny, tears continuing to stream down her cheeks. 

"Danny is so messed up in the head, he thought that I was pregnant with the devil child. M-Mind you, I've never done anything to get pregnant. He had proceeded to grab a knife and force me on the couch. He had tied my wrists and ankles together so I couldn't move, and he decided to give me one long cut. The pain was unbearable. S-surprisingly, before he went any further, he stopped and he called the hospital. Ambulances came and they took me to the hospital right away. M-My father tried putting the blame on me, but at that point I couldn't take it anymore. I told them that he did it, why he did it, and he was arrested." She was sobbing at this point, and Danny's eyes were filled with hatred, anger coursing through his body. 

"I Shouldn't have called the hospital. Better yet, I should have torn you open. You were pregnant with the devil child, and I can't believe you are the devil child of your mother, who you know you killed."

Bella lost it. "YOU KNOW THAT I DIDN'T KILL HER! SHE DIED OF BLOOD LOSS AND OTHER COMPLICATIONS, BUT YOU IN YOUR FUCKED UP HEAD BELIEVE THAT ITS MY FAULT?! YOU'RE FUCKING PSYCHO AND I HATE YOU. I LOOKED UP TO YOU, EVEN THROUGH THE MOST TRAUMATIC ABUSE YOU PUT ME THROUGH!!!! BUT NOW, I HATE YOU. I HAVE JACK AND SALLY AS MY PARENTS AND I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW MUCH I LOVE THEM. THEY ARE BETTER PARENTS THAN YOU EVER WERE!"

Without another moment going by, there was a loud smack and Bella's head whipped to the side, her hand coming up to rest on her cheek, which was stinging. She gasped in pain, her eyes wide with shock. Jack growled, getting ready to strike Danny, but Oogie stepped in between them. 

"Now, Now Jack, why don't you just hand Bella over to Danny and you can go on your merry way?" He snickered and Jack got right in his face. 

"Over my dead body." Oogie laughed once more, his attention so focused on Jack that he didn't even notice Bella slowly take out the dagger from her boot. Not even Danny noticed it. 

"Oh well, I take that as a yes, since you are already dead!" He Cackled, his eyes closing. But a loud gasp left his mouth, his eyes widening and he looked down. Bella was now in front of him, the dagger in his chest. Without even thinking, Bella used the dagger to slice his front open, his bugs beginning to spill onto the roulette table. He began sobbing, trying to put his bugs back in his body. But they just kept pouring out. 

"Look what you have done! No, my precious bugs!" He said as Bella took the dagger out of his chest, watching him slowly get smaller and smaller in size, his bugs continuing to shriek. They crawled around the floor, before going up in flames, which made Danny, Jack and Bella step away. They quickly looked to the side and saw Shock with a flamethrower, burning the hell out of the bugs. Where in the hell did she get a flamethrower? Who knew that Oogie had one.

Bella grinned at Shock, who smiled back in response. But then, her hair was gripped, and she screamed. Everything felt like slow motion. Jack wasn't quick enough because before he knew it, there was a dagger in her stomach, blood beginning to seep through the wound. And it was right where her scar was, so that was even worse.

"NO!" Everybody, except Danny, screamed, Bella's hands flying to her stomach. But her dagger was still in her hand. Her eyes slowly averted to Danny, her teeth gritting and without even thinking, she stabbed the dagger in his chest, right in his heart and pushed the button. He immediately let go and his body started convulsing, his eyes rolling back in his head. He collapsed to the ground, his body continuing to shake. Bella was able to lean back against a wall, her hands trying so hard to stop the bleeding. She looked away as Danny convulsed. Within minutes, he was dead, his now lifeless body on the ground. 

Sally and Jack immediately rushed towards Bella, Jack very carefully wrapping his arms around her and lifting her up bridal style. Bella cried out in pain, her face burying in his neck. They didn't know how deep the wound was, but could imagine it was pretty deep since there was quite a bit of blood. 

"We need to get back to town, now!" Jack called out and they wasted no time in leaving the lair, Bella holding onto Jack as they climbed up the rope. It was now nighttime and the moon was shining brightly. Once on the bridge, they ran back into town, and Bella was starting to become pale and her breathing was getting shorter. As soon as they got into town, Jack and Sally fell to their knees, and Sally was immediately sobbing. 

"SOMEONE HELP, PLEASE!" She wailed. All the lights in people's houses turned on, and the citizens opened their doors, some gasping when they saw Bella bleeding in Jack's arms. Her face was pale, her lips turning grey. Jack lifted up her shirt and grimaced when he saw the blood covered wound. Blood pretty much covered her stomach, and a little bit was coming out of her mouth. 

"D-daddy... m-mama... I don't think I'm going to make it..." She choked out, Jack placing a bony hand on her cheek. 

"No no no, don't you say that. You're going to be okay. Please just keep fighting." He cried and Lock, Shock and Barrel were crying as well. 

"You can't go miss Bella! Please, we need you here!" Barrel cried, his lollipop falling out of his hand. Bella looked over at them, coughing up a bit more blood and she grinned, her eyes beginning to lose their sparkle. 

"K-Kids... please take care of my parents..." Bella then looked up at Jack and Sally and was about to continue speaking, but she let out one final breath and her eyes fluttered to a close, her body going limp in Jack's arms.