Out of all the years you've been alive, no one has suffered more than you have. You always wondered why everyone else was so happy. Weren't they unhappy sometimes? Miserable? Falling apart? You've lost everything. Your parents, your siblings, your friends, your love for life. No one understood what you were going through. No one. Turns out, this skeleton knows everything you're going through. The stitches over his eyes shows his pain and his crooked smile shows the deep emotional scars. Sometimes, there is even more underneath all of the pain. Don't you agree? Stitches aren't the only thing you have to watch out for now. It's the unbearable feeling of agony. And it's caused in more ways than one. Are you really sure you're the one suffering now? ---- "Darkness is my only friend." "Why do you think I keep these stitches over my eyes?" ---- A/N: The Understitch AU was created by me. This story is like a tour of my AU, but put into a story form. Enjoy!

He had given up. He didn't care about what was happening around him. He didn't care about dancing anymore. He hardly cared for anything now. But secretly, he cared too much.

Coming face to face with demonic creatures ravaging her village, Jaclyn is given a choice. Her soul, in exchange for the lives of her family and friends or to watch as everyone she knows and loves is slaughtered. With the naivety of a child, Jaclyn agrees, sealing her fate with a blood oath, making her now a marked one. On her 18th birthday, her life will no longer be her own. It'll be time for the crimson eyed demon to collect. And he will collect....