AU. Sally meets Jack Skellington while lost in the Hinterlands. Infatuated by the innocent rag doll who does not know who he is or his status as the town's Pumpkin King, Jack becomes obsessed with her, unfamiliar with love, but when an old nemesis targets Sally as his prized possession, the threat of the danger lurking threatens to tear them both apart and ruin their new happiness.
Edited and expanded. After the events of Oogie's Revenge, the Holidays all knew each other. So they began to assist in the Holiday preparations. Jack worked the hardest, but every year he finds himself alone on Halloween. At last, he can't handle the rejection, so he takes a potion to disappear. Only then do they realize how much Jack means to them. Can they find him?