Eden: Just so you all know there will be broken bits of French in this story. I do not speak French so I had to use translators and such to do so. If I offend you then I am sorry but you were warned! Also this will be a slow moving Frost/Bunny fic~
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Jacks eye was twitching. He knew it was. He couldn't help it as that too smug of a grin on the other spirit's face was too much even for the mischief making winter spirit. He was talking again in that smug ass tone but Jack couldn't find the will to say anything back, he'd rather just ignore him but the spirit of Halloween wouldn't leave him be. "I know she's here." He said still grinning. "Ugh! Who? Who in hell are you even talking about?!" Jack had just about enough of the annoying boy. He had been talking about some kid, a girl, about Jamies age that he had never heard of before. "Right, you dun know her!" He stated as if just realizing this little tidbit. Jack groaned loudly and floated down from the tree branch he had been trying, TRYING, to rest on and faced the Halloween spirit whom sat at its base with his hands behind his head and his legs crossed. He wasn't a bad looking guy, in need of some serious sun and sleep from the look of his skin and bags under his eyes making them look sunken in and almost hallow. What was supposed to be the whites of his eyes were bright yellow and the iris was blood red and the pupils were slitted to boot. His short choppy hair was parted at the side making his short bangs slightly cover his right eye, barely covering his pointed ears, his hair was also tipped with orange.
Dawned in his dark black and purple hoodie, black and brown camo pants that tucked into his dark combat boots made him look like some kind of punk. He grinned again. Jack hated this spirit. "Well, she's not here yet, she's on her way. She believes in all the spirits, well, maybe... We'll see if she believes in you." Jack REALLY hated this spirit. "Why should I care?" He growled at the boy, wanting nothing more then for the boy to leave him be. Even if Jack flew away he just knew the other spirit would follow. "Because she's adorable." The boy grinned showing off his sharp fangs. Jack sighed. "Even IF that's true what does that have to do with me?" The Halloween spirits grin widened, if possible, and he stood up from his spot at the base of the tree. "She's movin' here! To the house next to your little Jamie!" Jack twitched visibly. Great, just great, the very girl that this annoying spirit had a thing for was going to be living right next to Jamie. Great... The boy laughed loudly and bowed towards him mockingly. "I think I've done enough for one day." And with that he vanished in a tornado of purple and black colors.
It wasn't until well after five 'o clock that Jamie found a fairly annoyed Jack Frost sitting next to his lake. "Jack!" Said spirit jumped and turned to look over at the now teen boy slowing down his run to stand by Jack, grinning from ear to ear. "Jack guess what!" The boy said as he panted slightly as Jack, knowing what it might be, forced his signature smirk and stood to fully face the boy. "What is it Jamie-boy?" The teen was almost bouncing on his feet by now. "There's a new family moving in next door to us!" Jack held in the groan that so wanted to force it's way through his throat. Why? The Man in the Moon must really hate him. "And I know who it is!" He was so excited right now and the statement made him curious. "Oh? Then who is it?" The boys smile grew. "It's Joyice! She E-mailed me yesterday!" Jack was struck speechless. Joyice? One of his believers? "That's great!" The boys laughed together and high five. Jack was excited, he wondered if she would remember him. Even if she didn't Jamie was surely going to make her believe again, Jamie was the main reason half the world now knew of him. Then dread set in deep within his chest. Jack forgot about her for years, mostly spending his time with Jamie and bringing snow days to the world and spreading mischief where ever he went. But he hadn't visited her in a long time and then there was the Halloween spirit on her tail too. "Jack?" Apparently he let the worry and irritation show on his face since Jamie seemed worried. "Uh, oh nothing. So, when is she supposed to move in?" Jack said to distract the teen. "Today! I've been looking all over for you so we can see her!" Jamie grabbed Jack by the collar of his hoodie and started dragging him away from the lake and to his home. When they got there they were greeted with a moving van and men going to and from the house to the truck all carrying boxes. Then they spotted who they were looking for or, so Jack thought.
She was a teen around Jamies age but was a bit shorter. With it being late January she was dressed in a heavy dark winter coat with black wool gloves and earmuffs on her upper body and black leather looking pants and thick heeled boots on her lower half. Her hair was straight and reached her lower back, dyed white at the tips and when she faced their direction Jack noticed her long bangs mostly hung in her face and her eyes were heavily lined with eyeliner. A large thumb drew Jack and Jamies attention to one of the movers that had dropped a box marked 'Joyice' and said girl put the box she had down to run up to the mover. "Watch what you're doing!" She quickly picked up the boxed, groaning under the weight as she glared at the oversized movers. "If anything is broken I'll make sure you never get paid!" She hissed at the men and went to the box she felt and placed the box she was holding onto it. "I mean it. If one thing in this box is broken, kiss your payment goodbye." She growled and bent to lift both boxes, stumbling only slightly she went into the house, most likely to her room to set the boxes. The men grumbled something under their breath and went back to their jobs.
When she came back out Jamie made his way up to her. "Joyice!" The girl looked and smiled slightly. "Jamie. You actually came to see me?" She said obviously surprised. Jack stayed back for their little meeting the teens were chatting away with each other until she turned to look back in Jack's direction. "Jack!" He jumped slightly startled by her calling out his name. She waved at him gently a very small smile on her face but it faded completely when a small child came running out of the house and colliding into her leg and nearly toppling her over. "Sarah! I told you not to run into me like that! And don't run so fast when there's ice on the sidewalks!" The small child pouted and looked over at Jack, she giggled and ran up to him, nearly knocking them both over. "Woah!" She was jumping up and down chattering about winter and Christmas. "Sarah!" Came a very stren sisterly voice making the child and spirit look over at Joyice who was making her way over to them. Standing in front of them Joyice crossed her arms and tapped her heavy boots into the iced over sidewalk. She looked very much like a scolding mother or an angry lover. "What did I just say?" The child lowered her head and placed her gloved hands behind her back. "S-sorry... I just wanted to meet Jack Frost.." Came her tiny reply making Joyice sigh. "You have to be careful. Mom would be totally cracked if you got hurt under my watch." She said and Jack noticed the little girls shoulders slumped slightly, he couldn't call Joyice out on it since she spoke again. "And I don't want you to get hurt, you are my sister after all." The girl smiled softly. Joyice looked down and gasped. "Sarah! Where are your shoes?!" The little girl looked down, back at her sister then to Jack who rose his hands up in defence like the argument that was to come was going to be aimed at him. "I forgot..." Joyice's brows knotted together and pointed at the house behind her. "Go get your shoes on or don't come back outside! I mean it!" The girl huffed and went back into the house. "Sooo..." Jack started awkwardly trying to lighten the tensed mood. "She believes in me?" Joyice looked at him with a raised eyebrow. "Of course she does. If I believe in something then she does too." Joyice flipped her bangs out of her face and turned to Jamie once more. "So look, I'm glad you guys came to see me but it's..." She paused and looked off to the side with an emotion Jack couldn't quite place. "It's just a little busy right now. Um, we'll meet tomorrow when the movers are gone and... Stuff." She didn't let Jamie reply, instead she walked by him and went to the truck to pull out more boxes and moved to the house. "That was... Odd..." Said Jamie as he looked over at Jack whom nodded his agreement. "Yeah.. Looks like she changed a bit." The boys nodded and went to Jamies house. "I think I'll go see her tomorrow like she said. After all, she was a good friend." The teen smiled and Jack nodded. "Yeah.." But he wasn't. Jack forgot about her all these years and the guilt was like a large rock in his gut. He was going to make that right, one way or another.
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It was late at night when he saw her again. Jack had perched himself on the branch of a tree outside Jamies house for the night when Joyice snuck out of her second story window by the bare rose ladder and hopped her back fence to head into the woods. She looked back only once before heading deeper into the wooded area, "What is she doing?" Jack followed her as she made her way into the dark woods and he noticed something, no matter what noise was made she never, NEVER looked in it's direction. Jack took a stick from the ground and broke it loudly to see if she would look. She didn't. Jack huffed but still followed until she stopped at his lake. 'Seems like everything happens here.' Jack thought to himself as he watched Joyice look over the frozen lake, slowly she tapped her heavy boot on the ice hard then slowly pressed her weight onto it. Slowly she made her way over the iced lake surprised at the thickness of it for a moment. Ever since Jack remembered how he died he made sure to freeze the ponds and lakes almost completely solid so no one would have to go through that again, so Jack wasn't worried about Joyice being on the ice. What he WAS worried about was that she was outside in late January, at night, ALONE and no one knew where she was. Except for him. When she reached the end of the lake she turned at raised her hands to the sides of her head and pulled out earbuds from her ears. 'So that's why she didn't react to any sounds.' Jack thought to himself again ducking his head back behind the tree he was using to hide himself. "Jack, I know you're there.
Floating out from behind the tree and over his lake, Jack landed in front of Joyice who hand her arms crossed and was tapping her foot at him, much like she did to her sister earlier that day. "Hey now, I'm not the one sneaking out to who-knows-where in the middle of the night." He smirked as her dark lined eyes narrowed. "It's none of YOUR business, Jack." She spat his name like venom making the frost spirit flinch. "Hey now." He started but was cut off as Joyice spoke again. "Don't." She said with her hand up to him signaling for him to be quiet. "I don't need you to look out for me. I learned that a long time ago, you or the others." Her tone was bitter and she turned to continue to head into the woods without another word leaving Jack to soak in what she said. "Hey, hey wait!" He shouted flying off after the teen girl. "Look, I know I messed up but you really shouldn't be out here late at night." She stopped for only a moment before walking once again. They walked for a while more with Jack telling the girl to go home but she kept her mouth quite tight. It wasn't until they reaches a clearing of some kind that she turned to him again. "Look Jack, I don't need you here." Her words stung his chest but they kept coming. "I haven't needed you in years. I have new spirits looking after me when you and your friends up and forgot about me." Jack looked at her for a moment. New spirits? Was the Halloween jerk off one of them? "Who?" The word left his mouth before he could catch it. "What's it to ya?" She sneered before turning around and rising her hands to her mouth and called out, "Edgar! I'm here! Where are you, Edgar!" Jack stumbled back from the loudness of her yell and looked around, it WAS the Halloween spirit. On cue from her yell said spirit appeared in that same tornado of purple and black and grinned at Jack. "So, she still see's ya, eh Jackie?" Jack growled at the nickname, no one called him that but Bunny and the only reason he got away with it was because... Jack shook his head and glared at the Spirit. "HIM? Him of ALL spirits?" Joyice narrowed her eyes at him before making her way to the Halloween spirit and giving him a brief hug and turning back to Jack with Edgar's right arm around her shoulders. "Watch it. He's my friend." Jack couldn't stop the mock laugh that left his throat. "Friend?" Jack shook his head. "Does a friend make you come all the way out into the woods just to see them?" Joyice left Edgar's side to walk up to Jack and started poking his chest roughly with her finger. "Listen here you over stuffed snowman." She growled making him take a step or two back as she poked at his chest. "I came out here because I WANTED to come out here. When I was kid he always, ALWAYS came to see me at home so now I come outside to see him." With that said she flipped her dark white tipped hair out of her face and turned her back on him to stand by Edgar's side again. Jack rubbed his chest where she had been poking him and pointed his staff at the spirit, determined to make her see what he saw in the other. "He's not your friend! He's nothing but a trouble maker! He's using you for something, a prank most likely." The girls face scrunched up in anger, "You look here-" Jack cut her off before she could continue. "All he does is spread fear and pull bad pranks on human and spirit a-like!" Jack took a step forward and jabbed his staff in Edgar's direction. "I don't-" She was cut off again. "People get hurt in his pranks! Sure I pull pranks but no one ever got hurt." Except for when he knocked out Jamies tooth that one time, but that was an accident! How was he supposed to know that couch would follow their little sledding show. Joyice was going to speak again but Jack stopped her yet again. "And besides he's a creep! And is probably-" The teen girl stomped her foot and shouted at Jack, "ferme ta gueule!" Jack paused. Was... Was that French? Joyice wasn't French. Sadly, Jack didn't know French and she was screaming at him in the foreign language. "VVous ne savez pas quoi que ce soit! Vous n'avez jamais venu me voir ainsi comment vous savez quelque chose?!" She was gesturing with her hands wildly and pointing at him, her tone was angry with just a hint of deep bitterness and her eyes teared up slightly but they were glaring at Jack as if he would burst into flames at any moment. "Vous n'avez pas!" She snapped at him and huffed loudly from her rant in French. "Vous n'avez pas un mot dire dans tout ce que je fais! Plus maintenant." She ended her rant and turned her back on him crossing her arms and shaking her head. Jack reached out for her but Edgar placed his arm in front of her to stop Jack from getting too close. "I think you've done enough damage for the night Frost." The spirit of Halloween was suddenly very serious now and his snake like eyes glared at Jacks for a moment before he pulled away and went to Joyices side. Jack stayed for a few moments longer before floating into the sky and leaving the girl and spirit alone. Jack had to figure this out, he had to find someone to help him do that. Who? Who could ask for help? Then it hit him, North. North could help him figure this out, so with that in mind he made his way to the pole.
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"She was yelling at me in French, North! Freakin' FRENCH!" Jack groaned flopping back onto the window sill he sat on in Norths office as the large Russian man worked on a new train of some sort. "She was angry, da?" Jack sighed heavily. "Yeah... Livid really." North hummed thoughtfully as he worked and taking in all of what the teen spirit had told him. "She is upset." He said simply making Jack groan again. "I KNOW that!" He sat up and turned to the Christmas spirit. "I want to know how to fix it so I can get her away from Edgar!" He all but spit out the Halloween spirits name like a bad after taste making the large man hum again. "Come on North, I need your help. I don't want that guy to hurt her." North finally looked up at the teen and sighed at seeing the desperation in his eyes. "She is mad. Hurt. That you left her alone and forgotten." Jack deflated at Norths words. He was right and Jack knew it, still though... There had to be a way of fixing all of this. "North... Please.." Jack pleaded making North sigh once more. "Try." Was all the old Russian said making Jack tilt his head. "Try? Try what?" North rose from his desk and walked over to the window Jack sat on. "Try make it better. Make up for lost time Jack." The frost spirit thought for awhile and North watched the boys face as he did. "Okay. I think I know how to start." The boy jumped up and faced North. "Can I barrow a snow globe?" North made a show of thinking really hard until Jack was bouncing on his feet and calling out to him. "Haha, of course you can!" The large man made for the trunk at the side of his desk and took a globe from it to hand to Jack. "Thanks North." The Russian nodded and stepped back for Jack to use the globe. "Okay take me to the Warren globe." Jack waited to see the Easter eggs before tossing it and then floating through it with a wave to the spirit of wonder making him laugh.
Jack stumbled out of the portal clumsily brushing off invisible dust and looked over the Warren. He was glad to see the Warren as lush and green as it ever was, he always feared that he would walk into the Warren on day and see it trampled and black like he did after Pitch was defeated. "Bunny!" Jack called as he rode the wind in search of the large Pooka. In the few years of Jack being a Guardian he and Bunny had gotten to be better friends. Not to say that they didn't fight, in fact, they fought more often the not but it wasn't as harsh or mean. Their fights were more on the smart-assed side of things to see who had the sharper tongue or best come-backs. It was a tie at the moment but Jack knew he could beat that old grumpy bunny any day! "Buuuuuuuunnn~ eeeeeeey!" Jack sang as he rounded an egg golem and towards the dye river on the other side of the Warren where he knew Bunny would be working or taking his naps. Luckily, Bunny was awake working on a few of his 'googies' as they pitter-patted around him waiting to be painted. "What cha want Frost?" The slightly grumpy sounding Australian voice huffed as his ear turned towards Jack but otherwise the rabbit never moved from his spot. "I need some help Bunny." Jack said as he perched on his staff and waited for the Spirit of Hope to turn to him. When he didn't Jack started to whine slightly. "C'mon Bunny! I'm for real this time!" The rabbits ears fell flat to his head but he still didn't turn around or give any sign that he was going to help. "Ya do know Easter 's in a few months right?" He said making Jack groan. "Uuuugh! I know Cottontail but this is serious, I swear!" Jack said and hopped off his staff to walk over to flop next to the Pooka warrior. "I promise I'll help make up for the time you give me, I swear, but I really need your help." Jack reached out and grabbed a fistful of the fur on Bunny's arm and tugged slightly trying to emphasize how important this was to him. Bunny sighed and placed the egg he was painting down and let pitter-pat away before turning to the younger Guardian. "If this 's some kind of prank Jack Frost, ah'll skin ya good." Jack grinned and nodded quickly letting go of Bunny's fur. "Now, tell me what got ya panties in a twist." Jack's face flushed slightly blue as frost covered his cheeks at the comment but told him what was wrong anyway. "You remember who Pumpkin Jack is right?" The rabbits eyes narrowed at the name, he hadn't had the pleasure of meeting this spirit as much as Jack has and the winter spirit was glad for that. "Ah think so, he's tha Halloween spirit, right?" Jack nodded and was glad he wouldn't have to explain that part to the Pooka. "Yeah well, you remember Joyice?" Jack watched Bunny's dark eyebrows knot together as he searched for the girl in his memory. At least a minute passed before Bunny's eyes widened in remembrance and nodded quickly. "Ay! Little ankle-bitta that liked to climb trees and play in tha snow." Jack nodded again and sighed softly, so far so good on telling Bunny what happened. "Well, you see, she just moved back in next to Jamies house and well..." Jack trailed off rubbing the back of his neck and looking way at the dye river. "Jack, what is it?" Jack looked back at Bunny from the corner of his eye and rubbed his face roughly as the fight they had went through his mind again. "Well, uh... F-for lack of a better way at putting this, she hates my guts.. And is mad at all of the Guardians." The last bit of what he said came out rushed as if he wouldn't have gotten it out if he didn't say it quickly. Bunny blinked. Blinked again. Then he shook his head and stared at Jack. "Why?" Jack scoffed at the rabbit. "When was the last time you saw her?" Bunny flinched and turned away from Jack and picked up the egg he was painting before. "Jack," He started and then sighed heavily. "My work, like Sandy and Tooth's, doesn't end. In the months after Easter ah have ta get the flowers ready for the next year, replantin' alone takes three or so months. ah also have to feed the soil with my own magic, how do think t's always spring here?" Jack tilted his head to one side, he had never know taking care of the Warren was so trying. Now he felt kinda bad for freezing parts of the Warren when he would drop by now. "Sorry.." Jack huffed and stood back up, if Bunny had to do that much work before and after Easter then Jack should look else where for help. "Never mind Cottontail, I got this." Jack twirled his staff for a moment then let the wind lift him into the air and floated above Bunnys head. "I'll help ya out later today, promise!" Bunny stood up and grabbed Jacks ankle before he can get too high up. "Hold it there, Frostbite. Ya never ask fer help so ah'm gonna help, besides I could use the help when it's over." Jack floated back down to stand and stare at the Pooka for a long moment, he never thought Bunny would actually help him or even want his help in return! Bunny's ears twitched at Jacks look of awe. Had what he just said really been that surprising? Bunny had to admit that it would even throw North off at accepting the winter spirits help with his Warren and Easter preparations. Then his ears flop slightly in surprise at Jacks blinding smile as he nods quickly. "Deal!"
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Jack floated out of a hole Bunny made outside of Jamies house and waited for the large rabbit to follow. When he did Jack grin and shouted, "Follow me!" And took off to the next door house with Bunny yelling at him to slow down. Jack looked around the house and into the windows looking for Joyice and when he didn't find her he huffed. "Where is she?" Bunny hummed and tapped his foot on the ground as he thought for a moment. "Where did ya see her last?" Jacks eyebrows knotted together in thought. "Oh! I remember! C'mon, c'mon!" He shouted and took off again, "Damnit Frost!" Bunny yelled and quickly hopped off to catch up with the flying mischief maker. He almost bumped into Jack went he stopped suddenly making Bunny growl but the sound of yelling made him look at where they were. Jacks lake. Where they finally sent Pitch Black into his hole and admitted Jack to be a member of the Guardians. His eyes trained in on the two teens yelling at each other, one by the lake shore and the other standing in the middle of the frozen lake. "Why are you so mad?! All I said is I was going to get Jack!" Jamie yelled at the girl on the ice and dodged a hard snowball flying toward his face. "I said I don't want to see him! Keep him way from me!" She screamed back holding another snowball above her head, ready to throw a hard blow to Jamies head. When she threw it Jack was ready and knocked the hard snowball away with his staff, it was as hard as ice and made a loud chunk sound when he hit it. "Hey! Knock it off you could hurt someone!" Jack shouted and stood in front of Jamie just in case she wanted to throw another iceball at them. "I told you last night to leave me alone Jack Frost!" She stomped her foot on the hard ice making Jamie and Bunny flinch at the sound. "Oh is that what you were saying to me? I couldn't understand what you were saying since you were, ya know, screaming at me in French!" Bunny and Jamies heads turned to Jack then to the girl on the ice. "Only because you pissed me off! Don't talk shit about my friend!" With that she threw another iceball but this time she hit Jack square in the chest making him double over with a soft humph and stomped again in her rage. "You insulted him! He's been my only friend, my only friend since I moved!" The teen girl started waving her hands and turned her back to them. "VVous les gars oublié à propos de moi! Puis je reviens et vous insulter mon seul ami!" She turn back and pointed at the group as she went. When she was done she was huffing from anger and swept her arm out in front of herself. "I'm pissed off, Jack Frost!" She spat and turned away and started heading to the other side of the frozen lake without another word.
Bunny turned to Jack when she disappeared into woods to see him rubbing his chest, she brows knotted together and a deep frown that looked very out of place on his face. And from the look on Jamies face he thought so too. "What happened Jack?" Jamie asked quietly waiting for Jack to say something. Jack sighed and ran a hand through his hair and looked to where Joyice had gone just moments before. He told them about what happened up until he left for the north pole. "I see. Well, you really pissed her off mate." Bunny stated making Jack groan and flop down on his back into the snow, his arms out at his sides and staff falling out of his grip slightly. Bunny chuckled quietly to himself at Jacks over reaction to his statement, something that would have annoyed him greatly early on but now that he's had some time to adjust to how Jack worked he found him rather funny and, if her were honest with himself, kind of cute. "C'mon Jack, ya betta tell her yer sorry about bad mouthing her friend." Jack glared at the Pooka whom just smirked back making him sigh and sit up. "But it's Edgar! That good for nothing Halloween spirit! Bunny he's worse then I am!" Bunny blinked. "You know him by name?" Jack stared at Bunny for a moment in something in between disbelief and annoyance that Bunny seemed to not get what he said. "So? That's not the point! He's bad news Bun!" Jamie, who had been quiet and thinking this whole time, finally spoke up. "How do you know that Jack? Do you know him that well?" Jack snapped his head to Jamie whose eyes where searching his face for clues to this whole bizarre situation. "I.. We... Uhh, W-we used to hang out." Jack said quickly and looked away from Jamie to see Bunny eyeing him with the same look only his was way more intense. "A-A long time ago... I didn't like his pranks and haven't talked to him since." Jack stated quickly and got up from the ground and floated over the lack. "I'm going to go find her!" With that he took off into the woods. "Jack! Grr, bloody bub runnin' off like tha'! C'mon mate." He huffed and snatched up Jamie and slung him onto his back and took off to catch up to Jack and Joyice. "Whoa Bunny slow down!" Jamie shouted as he clutched onto the fur of Bunny's back as he made his way quickly through the woods. Bunny couldn't shake what Jack had said, 'We used to hang out', for some reason that sat in the Pookas gut like a bad egg especially when he told them he was bad news.
"What? Didn't do enough damage last night so you gotta do some more Frost?" Bunny heard a rough and slightly hissing voice say as he stopped at a small clearing to see Jack and another spirit having what could only be described as, a stand off. Jack had his staff clutched tightly in front of his chest as his stance was spread wide in an obvious defensive posture as the other had his arms crossed over his chest and a scowl set on his gray face. Then Bunny spotted Joyice who looked like she was torn about something. "Edgar, stop it! I told you he was leaving!" Her pleading voice was waved off by the spirit that kept his glare on Jack and growled. "Shush! I told you I'd take care of this." Bunny's head tilted to the side at the scene, it sounded like a domestic dispute or a kid trying to empress a girl on the play ground by saving her from a bully. But Jack was no bully, he could hardly rise his voice without feeling guilty for it and apologizing for hours. "Look, I just came here to make peace okay? I wanted to-" The Halloween spirit growled as he cut him off. "I don't care what you want! Joyice said to leave her alone!" With that Edgar swiped his arm out towards Jack a rush of black and purple followed and lashed out at him. Jack had just enough time for the wind to pick him up and out of the way of the strike and to see the damage done to the tree that way behind him. "Edgar stop!" Joyice threw herself infront of the spirit and grabbed his arm to keep him from using it again. "I don't want him hurt! I don't want anyone hurt! Leave him alone!" She cried at him making his glare turn from Jack to her. "You said you wanted him to leave so I'm making him leave!" The girl shook her head. "Not like this! I'm mad, yes, but I don't want him to be hurt!" She shook her Halloween spirit slightly as she pleaded with him. "I hate fighting! Please!" Edgar's body went rigid as she pleaded with him to not attack Jack, whom was still floating in the air and ready to retreat just in case Edgar didn't listen to Joyice and attacked him again. With one last glare set at Jack the spirit huffed and removed himself from the girls grasp, rather roughly they might add, and stepped back. "Fine. You wanna listen to him yammer on? Be my guest!" And in a swirl of dark colors the Halloween spirit was gone. "Edgar!" The girl placed a hands on her head pushing up her bangs as she leaned her head back briefly before snapping it forward with a frustrated yell, turning and pacing with her hands on hips. Another angered shout as she reached a stump sticking up from the ground and gave it a hard kick with her heavy boot effectively knocking off the dead bark and bits of wood before pacing again. Jack floated to stand behind Bunny silently seeking his comfort, something Bunny noticed he did only with him and the Pooka took great pride in this little fact, that's right he knew this as a fact. "Jack Frost!" All three males jumped at the sound of a very distraught and angry female teenager. "Why couldn't you leave me alone today huh?! Why can't you ever do what your told?!" The teen pointed her gloved finger at the spirit and then pointed to Jamie hotly. "I told you we had a fight! I wanted to be left alone today but you wouldn't! And neither would Edgar!" She snapped and ran her hand through her white tipped hair roughly. "Aye calm down sheila." Joyice snapped her head to the Pooka and shouted. "DON'T TELL ME TO CALM DOWN! I DON'T NEED TO CALM DOWN I NEED TO BE ALONE!" The guys all flinched back and Jamie and Jack hide behind Bunny at her loud voice. "I told everyone to leave me alone today! I just need time to adjust to this shit but nooooo, you fuckers know what I need better then me, so why listen?!" The girl was heaving heavily and glaring at the three like she had the power to burn them on the spot. Silence ran over them in a thick and heavy sheet that seemed to smother the guys in its shadow of awkwardness. "I'm sorry."
They all turned their head to Jack to see him with his head down and turned slightly so they couldn't see his face. "I was just worried about you.." This made the girl laugh loudly covering her darkly line eyes with her hand as her head tilted back from that action. She all but laughed manically as it turned from a mock laughter to a high pitched cackle that shook them all to their very bones. "Hahaha! You've GOT to be kidding me! Worried? You?" She drew her hands out to gesture at the spirit before fanning her hands out beside her. "I haven't even seen you in years! Why, all of a sudden, do you give a big rats ass about one kid? About me?" The statement made Bunny's ears drop and his fingers twitch as they tapped at his hip, a habit Jack caught when the Pooka was thinking or worried. "Jack has responsibilities as a Guardian. He couldn't just drop by and spend time with anyone let alone the children." Jamie stated peeking his head out from behind Bunnymund, still in fear of the teenage girls rage at the moment but continued on his little defending Jack Frost tick. "I haven't even seen him in a good few years! Jack has to bring winter and fun to all the kids, not just us!" At this the boy found some courage and took a step out from behind the rabbit. "But he has visited you, right?" The girl asked in an icy calm voice that sent a chill down Jamies spine. Not good. The girl was bitter and hurt and Jamie telling her that Jack had indeed visited him in the past years was not helping. The girl shook her head and walked away from the group and flopped down onto her back in the snow sighing heavily. "Sorry.." The girl said faintly from the ground and Jack saw Bunny's ears perked up at the sound of it. "In all honesty, I would have stopped believing in all spirits if it weren't for Sandman bringing me good dreams." She said making Bunny and Jack look at each other, Jack floated over to the girl on the ground and flopped down just like she was right beside her. "I'm really sorry Joyice." The girl huffed out a laugh and looked over at the spirit. "Yeah, me too.. I just got so mad when I saw you, then I got really sad... I didn't know which one be more of, so I went with being mad.." The girl looked back to the sky and heaved a large sigh. "And then you started yelling about Edgar, yeah I know he's a punk and his pranks are bad but... He's my friend." Jack hummed and looked at the gray-blue sky as he thought about what she said. He knew he was in the wrong for leaving her behind after she moved and for saying all the things he did about Edgar, even if they where true, so he was at a loss for words. So Jack did what he did best, He had fun, scooping up of heap of snow Jack dumped it over the girls face and jumped up out of arms reach and leaned onto his staff watching the teen splutter and wipe at her face to get the frozen fluff off of it. "Jack Frost!" Jack laughed loudly as he flew into the air as the girl got up and dashed at him with all intentions of tackling him to the ground but only ending up in a heap in the snow. "Looks like it's time to make up for lost time! Let's play tag!" With that Jack flew up to Bunnymund and Jamie whom were shocked still and tapped the Pooka on the shoulder firmly. "You're it Cottontail!" With that he flew off into the air leaving the two to shake off their shock, Jamie was first and grinned widely and took off away from Bunny and towards the girl whom had a small smile on her face as she waited to see if the rabbit would play with them. "Oi! Ya ain't gettin' away from me ya bloody show pony!" And Bunny jumped into action as he chased the kids around the small clearing, thus starting a war with him and Jack of who was faster and better at this game.
The group was laid out in the snow as they tried to catch their breath having been running around the clearing as their game brought out the best in Joyice as she bobbed and weaved through the snow to avoided the others, even Jack had a hard time catching her as she used trees to fling herself away from her chasers and would home-run slide under Bunny's legs making him curse and Joyice would laugh like she was crazy. At one point Joyice used a trees limbs to leap onto an unsuspecting Jack and tumbled to the ground as their landing was softened only by the wind catching them slightly just before they hit the ground to hard. Jamie fair no better as she would hide and wait for the best moment to surprise him and jump on his back screaming 'GOT YA' into his ear and falling forward to faceplant into the snow as she bounded off to hide again. She got Bunny almost the same way but she came flying at his face from a trees pine needles sending him to the ground and standing over him like a champion and skipped, freaking skipped away to stand on the stump she kicked earlier to do a little victory dance. The males looked to one another as she did her dance and advanced on her quietly as she busied herself with mocking them she didn't see them before it was too late and was promptly tackled to the ground and they landed in a heap in the snow, all laughing and breathing heavily, this is how they were right now. "I haven't had that much fun in years!" Joyice huffed out as she sat up and dusted the snow off her arms and then stood up and did the same thing to her jacket and pants. She turned to the guys with a thoughtful look before a bright smile lite up her face. "I guess I can't stay mad at you Frost." She held her hand out to the winter spirit whom looked at her for a moment before taking it and letting her help him up and she dusted off his hoodie before placing her hands on his shoulders. "I understand, Jack." Was all she said before hugging him tightly catching them all off guard. "But, I just ruined your friendship.." As much as he disliked Edgar he didn't want Joyice to be sad and if she was because of him, well Jack didn't know if he could make up for that. A very unladylike snort came from the teenager and she pulled back and held him at arms length. "Jack." She started and shook her head. "Edgar does this all the time. We fight bout a lot of things and were just fighting before you showed up same as last night, we had a fight before moving and now he's taking it out on you." She paused looking down and let her hands drop from Jacks shoulders. "And so was I. Jack, I never blamed you for anything I swear. I understand you had responsibilities and a duty as a spirit of winter and warm weather isn't your most favorite thing." She looked back at him and smiled softly. "I'm back now and from the looks of it I'm staying for a good while." Jack smiled and nodded chancing a glance at Bunny before darting his eyes away from that sly grin on the Pooka's face not sure why the look made flush. "I need to get home now guys, my Moms gonna be cracked if I show up late, again." The girl grinned widely, almost looking like a cheshire cat when she did, and waved before taking off out of the clearing to leave the boys to themselves as they gathered themselves up off the ground.
"That's the ankle-bitta I remember." Bunny said as he sighed and rolled his shoulders, an act not unnoticed by Jack, and walked to a tree to lean on and rest. Jacks eyes followed him for a moment before turning to Jamie and grinned. "Are all girls like that?" Jamie sputtered slightly and waved his hands. "H-how and I supposed to know that?" The two boys laughed and Jack leaned on his staff glad to have a least started to fix his screw up with one of his believers. "So, you managed to worm your way back into her life eh?" Jack turned on the spot to glare at Edgar whom had stood a few feet away from him with his arms crossed. Edgar mde his way up to Jack and grabbed him by the collar of his hoodie to glare fully into his eyes, Jack didn't budge he only glared right back. "Think your hot shit because your with the them now?" Edgar jerked his head over to Bunny as said rabbit made his way over to them, his fist clenched and ready to strike at any moment, he only stopped when Jack held out his hand. "I haven't changed at all Ed, I simply want to fix what I screwed up and you know that." Edgar's eye twitched at the shortened version of his name and Jack smirked taking great pride in annoying the Halloween spirit, Edgar started to shake Jack a bit at seeing him smirk. "You think this funny? I don't!" Jack had enough and brought his hands up to rip the other spirits hand way. "Shut up! You don't know me as well as you think you do, I screwed up and I'm trying to fix it. If you don't like it, well tough shit for you!" Jack huffed and crossed his own arms and tapped the crook of his staff to the side of his head. The two mischief makers glared at each other in their own little stand off, neither moving from their spots as they glared. Jack took his staff and swung it and nailed Edgar in the side of the head, it wasn't hard but it still mde the Halloween spirits head tilt to the side. Edgar's eyes narrow and it makes Bunny take a step forward ready to snatch Jack up if Edgar decided that he was going to try something, Bunny paused as laughter rang through the air and they all looked at the Halloween spirit with head thrown back and a hearty almost cackling laugh was thrown into the air around them and Jack just had a look in between annoyance and shock. "Alright Frost, Alright! I get it!" The spirit tilted his head back and to the side as he grinned at Jack crookedly. Jack went to bring his staff back to side but Edgar had other ideas as he grabbed the crook and yanked Jack to his side causing the winter spirit to yelp and collided into Edgar making them stumble slightly. "Hey! Let go!" Edgar laughed and snaked his arm around Jacks torso and held him to his side. "Whats wrong Frosty?" Bunny's ears went rigid when Edgar grabbed Jack and pretty much pasted him to his side and wrapped his arm around him. He was about to tear the spirit apart until Jack started struggling. "Let go of me! You know I hate being touched!" Jack wormed his way out of Edgars grip and floated to stand behind the Pooka once more seeking out his protection. 'Jack doesn't like to be touched?' Bunny thought about it for a moment and noticed that Jack was a few steps away from him, enough so that if Bunny turned around he wouldn't be touching him. He also remembered he never touched anyone willingly, when Tooth would hug or cling to him he would never hug back the only time he hugged someone back was when Jamie hugged him as a kid and even that was hesitant and unsure. "Frostbite?" Jack looked up at the nickname, his eyes were wide for a moment before he turned them away to glare at the Halloween spirit again, Bunny turned to look at said spirit to see his hands up in defense. "Sorry Frosty, but I just had to be sure you meant making it up to Joyice before she got hurt." The spirit dropped his hands and his face dropped its smirk and crossed his arms again. "There's something about her you all need to know, but it'll have to wait until after February." Jamie looked at the other Guardians in confusion. "Is there something wrong with her?" Edgar tilted his head from side to side making a groaning sound as he made a show of thinking before righting himself and sighing. "Noooo... Nothing wrong with her but..." Edgar shook his head and uncrossed his arms. "Like I said, you'll have to wait till after February." With that Edgar was gone in the black and purple tornado leaving the group to think about what he told them.
"What could he have been talking about?" Jamie asked as Jack made a groaning sound that made Bunny look at him and tilt his head. "What?" Jack shook his head nd tapped his staff on the ground in an irritated fashion with something akin to a pout on his face making Bunny's nose twitch at the sight. "I don't know but I don't like it. Edgar is nothing but trouble and I'm worried about Joyice being around him." It was obvious that Jack had spent some time with the Halloween spirit and Bunny made a note to grill Jack about it later but right now he seemed to be very worried and upset so Bunny thought a distraction would be the best thing for him right now. "Well, well figure it out later but lets get Jamie back and head back to the Warren." The two boys looked at him strangely. "Or did ya already forget that ya'd help me with Easter?" Jacks eyes widened and he slapped his forehead softly. "Aww geez! Sorry I forgot, lets go Jamie I got work to do." With that the two boys raced off back to Jamies house so Jack could make sure he got there and waited for Bunny to open a tunnel, when Bunny did they made it off to the Warren so Jack could help out and make up for lost time.
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Translations: These are really rough so keep in mind that I don't speak it.
"Vous ne savez pas quoi que ce soit! Vous n'avez jamais venu me voir ainsi comment vous savez quelque chose ?! : You don't know anything! You never came to see me so how do you know anything?!
Vous n'avez pas! : You do not!
Vous n'avez pas un mot dire dans tout ce que je fais! Plus maintenant. : You don't a say in anything that I do! Not anymore.
Vous les gars oublié à propos de moi! Puis je reviens et vous insulter mon seul ami! : You guys forgot about me! Then I come back and you insult my only friend!