Starting Over

1-It's Destiny

Santa Claus sat in his little office, crafting a new toy out of ice.

"Still waiting for cookies!" he shouted to the little elves on the floor, who were eating the cookies.

A few more tinks… and done.

"Tada!" he exclaimed, holding his hands up in the air, letting the little bird he made fly away. He grabbed a cookie and ate it as he watched the bird fly around the room.

A yeti opened the door and shouted Santa's name.

Santa jumped about a foot in the air, rattling everything in the room. "Oh, Phil, how many times have I told you to knock?" he scolded as the ice bird landed in his hands.

Phil pointed to the globe room, saying something only Santa could understand.

"What?" Santa muttered as he gently placed the bird on his table. "Man in Moon? It's not Pitch, is it?"

Phil shrugged, making noises that sounded like 'I don't know'.

Santa stood up and walked to the globe. "Nope, lights still there." He turned to the hole in the ceiling where the moon shows through when Man in Moon has something to say, which isn't very often.

"Manny! It's been while. What's big news?" he said to the moon.

Man in Moon's voice spoke in his head. Call the Guardians.

"Is there problem?" Santa asked again, scratching his head. "Is Pitch rising again? Hope not, we can't get rid of him."

But the moon just rose out of sight, saying nothing more.

Puzzled, Santa waddled to the desk by the globe. "Dingo," he ordered. Four little elves raised their hands in excitement. "Make preparations, we're gonna have company." He grabbed the lever, turned it and pushed it down, sending out the Northern Lights.

The little elves began pushing each other so the yetis left to set up the four rooms, one for each guardian.

"We've got a lower left lateral incisor in Sector 22. Upper right central incisor in Sector 54. Thanks Baby Tooth, aw! This is the cutest little lower left central incisor I've seen! And so clean!" Toothiana, the Tooth Fairy rambled as she announced coordinates to her tooth fairies. A small fairy pointed in the direction of the North Pole, getting Tooth's short-spanned attention. "What? Oh, no." Her spirits fell as she and some of her fairies—including Baby Tooth—flew to the North Pole.

Sandy stood on his sand, delivering strands of dream sand to every house in the region. Just he was about to move on to the next region, the Northern Lights caught his attention. Worry crossed his face for a second, then he turned his sand ball into an airplane as he flew off to the North Pole.

The Easter Bunny was hiding out in the Warren, playing with his boomerang. Being early December, he had nothing to do since the eggs weren't ready to bloom and get painted. Sounds of turning rocks woke him from his trance, causing him to get hit in the head with his own boomerang.

"Ow! Oh, there better be a good bloody reason for distracting me," he shouted, scratching behind his ear.

The giant rocks of the Warren were in the wide-mouth position when Bunnymund stepped out into the open.

"What's the problem, mates?" he asked, tensing up and scanning the area for danger. He looked up and saw the Northern Lights. "Oh, no. Not again. We can never get rid of him."

Tapping his foot, a hole appeared and he hopped into it, taking his tunnels to the North Pole.

Laughter rang through the night as Jack Frost gave the neighborhood a good snowstorm. People were slipping and sliding on the ice and kids were out having last-minute snowball wars.

"Haha, now that was fun," Jack said, swinging on a telephone pole. He looked up to call the wind when he noticed the lights. "Aw, this isn't going to be fun, though," he muttered, frowning at the ground. "I thought we took care of him." He sighed and swung his staff over his shoulder.

"Wind!" he yelled. The wind began to blow lightly in his face. "Take me to North's workshop!" The wind blew harder, taking Jack with it as he flew towards the North Pole.

"What's that bloody showpony up to now?" Bunnymund growled, gripping his boomerangs tighter with each word.

"He knows that Jamie will never stop believing, right?" Tooth asked, fluttering around nervously.

Sandy had an array of images appearing over his head, going too fast even for the fastest reader to see.

"He knows he's no match for me," Jack stated, forming a snowflake and waving it away.

"I know, I know. It's all very confusing. But Man in Moon told me to call you," North said, talking over all the rambles.

Everybody froze in the spot.

"Wait, Man in Moon?" Jack repeated, loosening his grip on the staff.

"Oh, no, he isn't recruiting a new evil sidekick, is he?" Tooth asked, covering her mouth in worry.

"I don't know," North replied. "All he told me was to call you."

"That's it?" Bunnymund shouted. "Not even a sign? A shadow? A feeling in your belly?"

North shook his head.

"Well, uh, now what do we do?" Tooth asked.

"I don't know," North responded, shrugging. "Wait for sign, I guess."

"Like that?" Jack asked, pointing his staff at the glowing moon.

North turned to look at the bright moon. "Yeah, like that," he mumbled. "Manny! I have called Guardians. What must we do?"

Moonlight shown through the hole and lit the Guardian symbol on the floor. Shadows formed, and the Guardians tensed, waiting to see what the problem was. The shadows formed a girl, a mortal girl; sitting on a bench, drawing. Then the shadows turned and formed an image of a boy, a boy with a hooked staff; walking towards the girl. The boy says something to the girl, startling her. She drops her sketchbook, and the boy picks it up for her, staring at the drawing. He gives it back to her and sits next to her on the bench. They began to talk, and then the shadows faded away as the moon rose away, saying what it had to say.

"Well, we know it's not Pitch," North mused, stroking his beard.

"But what was that?" Jack accidentally shouted, bringing the room temperature down a little.

"It looked like the beginning of a very good romance novel," Tooth said shyly, shifting from side to side.

"But, it—he, looked… like me!" Jack added, running a hand through his snow white hair.

"Maybe because it was you, mate," Bunnymund replied, hopping up to the young guardian.

"But, I don't—why would—I mean, argh! There're just too many questions!" Jack sat on the floor, already exasperated from what the Man in Moon told everyone.

"It look like Man in Moon want partner for Jack!" North said, summing it up.

"But why?" he asked again, placing his staff on the floor. "I've been alone for 300 years! I'm perfectly fine."

"You think you're fine, Jack," North responded. "Man in Moon thinks otherwise. He must have something special planned."

"But, this… this girl. I don't know who she is, what she looks like, and if she'll even see me! We're talking about some teenager here! Most kids tend to… lose belief by the time they're twelve or thirteen. And, and, what if I'm not, well, what if I'm…? I'm not… attracted to her?"

"That's something we can not help, Jack," North said quietly.

"Hold on, hold on. Maybe Jack has a point," Bunnymund interrupted. "I mean, we already have to deal with him, certainly we don't want another bloody teenager horsing around."

"Hey," Jack snarled. "I don't horse around. I just frost around," he argued, smirking.

"See?" Bunnymund boasted, pointing at Jack. "See? We don't want two people talking back at us, do we?"

"Bunny, Bunny," North repeated, shaking his head. "Nobody said nothing about this girl becoming Guardian. She not immortal yet!"

The tall bunny laughed. "Ha, aha. You see, the keyword in that is yet."

"It would be pretty mean for Man in Moon to set Jack up with somebody and just have her die on him, Bunny. I mean, romance stories should never end in that way. Love wrecks everything," Tooth spoke up.

"Which is why we wouldn't want him to get involved with someone. Mortals have a limited lifespan," Bunny explained.

"You know, I just love how you guys are talking about my love life in front of me and not even letting me get involved in the conversation," Jack added sarcastically, standing up and leaning on his staff.

The other Guardians froze, embarrassment sinking in on each of their faces.

Tooth's face was the reddest, even though she rarely spoke. "We're sorry, Jack, we didn't mean—"

"Don't worry about it, Tooth. I've gotten used to it," Jack smiled. He turned to face North. "But why does it have to be a mortal girl? Why can't I—" Jack cut himself off, a flush of cold rising to his cheeks, turning them a light shade of blue.

"It's destiny, Jack. He wants you to be with your own kind," North said kindly, placing a big hand on his shoulder.

Jack looked up into North's eyes. "But wouldn't my own kind mean immortals?"

"No, no," he laughed. "Man in Moon means as in human race."

"Oh," Jack dropped the eye contact and sat back on the floor. Out of the corner of his eye, he could see Tooth's expression. "I'm—I'm sorry, Tooth," he muttered, looking at her face.

Tooth's heart swelled a little, even though she knew she was losing Jack to someone else. At least she knew that he did like her. "It's okay, Jack. After all, Man in Moon says it's your destiny."

Jack smiled sadly, looking back at the wooden floor. "Yeah, destiny."

After a long silence, a loud ringing bell was heard. Everyone looked up as Sandy dropped on elf. Apparently he was trying to get everyone's attention but nobody ever noticed because he never spoke out loud.

"Sandy! I almost forgot you were here!" North laughed, lightening the mood. "What you have to say?"

Question marks and images of the Guardians appeared over his head.

"Good question, mate," Bunnymund responded, hopping up next to North. "Now what do we do?"

North thought for a minute, stroking his beard whilst doing so. "Well, I guess we go back to work. Nothing bad happening and Manny said what he had to say, so, guess we do so!"

"Alright, mates. Guess I'll head back to where it's warm!" Bunny said, tapping the ground. "See you next time!" With that, he hopped into the hole and out of sight.

Sandy was next to leave, as children were getting ready to go to bed.

North went into his private workshop, most likely to continue working on his little ice bird.

"Don't worry, Jack. You'll be fine," Tooth said quietly, flying over to where he still sat on the floor.

"But, what about you?" he asked, choking up even though he didn't want to.

Tooth laughed lightly. "I'll be fine, I promise."

Jack sighed. "I just, I don't know. I don't remember if I've ever fallen in love before. But I do know it's not supposed to happen on purpose."

"And it won't," Tooth added confidently. "Man in Moon didn't say it had to happen right away. I guess he was just giving us a heads up that it was going to happen."

He smiled slightly, playing with his staff. "Are you sure?"

She tried her best not to giggle at his repetitiveness. "Trust me, Jack. I'm okay."

He stood up, swinging his staff over his shoulder. "Well, guess the meeting's over," he said, changing the subject.

Tooth smiled, fixing some of her feathers. "Yeah, it was a quick one this time."

Jack headed for the window, getting ready to hop out. Then he changed his mind and ran over to Tooth, giving her a big hug. "Thanks," he mumbled into her feathers.

Taken off guard, Tooth tried not to flutter too hard so she wouldn't carry Jack up with her. "No problem. Just remember, don't go looking for her, she'll come to you."

Jack laughed, pulling away from her. "I know, I was just going to deliver a few more snowstorms in places I forgot to get last year." With that, he flew out of the workshop and called the wind to take him away.

Author's Note: Hello everybody! :D This is the happy romantic Jack Frost x Reader story that I am currently writing and wanted to share with you guys. :D This is kind of the prologue so you'll be introduced the next chapter (which I finished typing and what is going to happen I find really funny) so yeah, no reader involvement yet. But when you get to the next chapter (F/N) stands for your first name and (F/N + L/N) stands for your first and last name. I'll post the next one up when I finish Chapter 3 so I'll always have one chapter ready if you guys get impatient! XD So yeah, idk what else to say, so review and enjoy your new life with Jack! :P I know I'll be! XD