A meeting was called forth in the mist of spring. Bunny was felling more relaxed now that Easter was over. Sure he still was a work-a-holic from time to time, but now it wasn't so tense.
Another added bonus to that Easter was that everyone helped him make preparation.
Ever since the pitch incident from last year, everyone has been pitching (no pun intended) in to help each other and their jobs.
The hardest worker of them all would be Jack. The boy kept insisting that he had plenty of free time during the summer to help out anyone who needed it. Tooth used every ounce of that help she could get. Organizing millions of teeth and trying to get more of them at the same time, well that would have caused the poor fairy to lose some feathers.
Bunny couldn't help but laugh at frostbite whenever he got back. Completely exhausted and have tiny feathers all over him from the fan club of mini fairies.
Sometimes he felt that the little bugger was trying too hard. He knew Jack felt guilty from the Easter incident, and was trying to make up for it. Jack even took it to great lengths, where he didn't even stay that long in the warren during the preparations for this year Easter.
'Ah, why am I worrin? Frostbite will be fine.' Bunny thought.
He was now focused on how the meeting was going, but was surprised that it hasn't even started.
"What are we waiting for mates? Let's get this bloody meeting over and done with." Bunny commented.
"ve are vhating for Jack, he's late. (sigh) once again." North said
Now bunny was getting irritated. "This the twentieth time that bloody gumby has done this. North just get the yetis on him again, that was fun."
"I find it odd that Jack has been coming to the meetings late recently. He was very punctual when we first started them." Tooth spoke. Sandy just nodded his head in agreement.
That got bunny thinking. True it was strange that Jack was slacking in the meetings more than he was before. Actually, the frostbite did this in the very beginning, a month after Easter to be precise. They just thought it was because he was still adjusting life as a guardian, and also that he was helping out at the tooth palace. But he felt that something else was a foot.
Before bunny could also clarify on tooth comment, the window burst open. Blowing a cold breeze on bunny's back, with Jack floating down on the window seal, and giving a small smile. "Geez frost! Little warning next time mate."
"Sorry Kangaroo, wind can't be controlled." He chuckled.
"Well close the bloody window, you know I hate the cold." Bunny complained.
Jack did as he was told but he left the window open by a crack, just so a little bit of the cold fresh air could come in. He took the seat right next to the window.
The guardians knew he never liked to be the fire place, since it was too hot for the young winter spirit. Although Jack was sitting a little farther than usual from them.
"Jack you can come a little closer, the vire iz not that hot right now." North suggested.
Jack crinkled his nose in a way that looked like he smelt something that bothered him. "N-Nah North I'm fine right here, let's get the meeting over with."
North just shrugged, he knew not to pressure the winter spirit too much. They remember the time they pressured Jack too much into joining them for meager things. That made Jack just out bursted on them, and took off for two weeks. Soon they realized that Jack has been on his own for 300 years, so being pushy to spend more time together. Was not a very good plan.
Everyone just left Jack to himself and continued the meeting.
Bunny would have focused more on what everyone was saying, but with his sensitive hearing; he kept hearing someone sniffling.
'Maybe one of the elves are sick.' He thought.
But the sound just wouldn't go away.
Bunny looked around the room, trying to figure out where the bloody sniffling was coming from. Much to his surprise, no elves were even in the room. 'Where the bloody hell is it coming from?' he thought.
*sniff* Bunny's ear turned toward the noise, along with his head. He saw jack with his head leaning against the window with his hood up. Looking like he was asleep.
"Oi! Frostbite wake up." Bunny yelled across the room, attracting the others attention.
Jack just numbly turned his head towards bunny. "I've been awake cottontail." He smiled but not before crinkling his nose again, which bunny noticed.
"What's wrong wit your nose mate?"
Jack shuffled in his seat. "Nothings' wrong, you must be listening to the 'nipping on your nose' phrase too much." Again his nose crinkled, and his eye twitched a little. Something was bothering him.
Bunny glared and started walking towards where jack was sitting. "Ur hiding something frosty. What is it?"
Jack stood when he saw bunny come near him, trying to keep the distance very far apart, he started shuffling sideways. "I don't know what you mean, honestly kangaroo. You need to lay off the eggnog, that's for sandy." He grinned, but his nose kept betraying him.
"Don't make me beat it out of ya mate." Bunny grinned playfully. Though Jack knew that bunny might still do that.
"Bunny just leave him alone." Tooth tried intervening.
"I'm fine really." Jack grinned painfully.
"Let me see your face real quick frostbite, then I'll leave you alone."
Jack paled. "No thanks Kangaroo!"
"You asked for it!" Bunny jumped at jack, but jack was quick and flew up to the ceiling.
"I said I'm fine, so I'm fine. So get away Kangaroo!"
"Not happening jacky." Bunny jumped high enough to reach jack. Jack maneuvered away and started fly towards the other end of the room. All the while bunny was chasing him.
The other were trying in vain to stop the two spirits banter, but with little success.
Sandy just sighed, they were getting nowhere. Then an idea struck him. He turned towards the windows and noticed that the window jack was near was open.
Knowing that the winter spirit needed wind to fly. Sandy conjured his sand to make a whip, and enabling him to close the window shut.
Without winds connection, gravity took place on jack. He landed roughly on the sofa.
Exactly where bunny was sitting.
Jack panicked, but then he looked up to a very angry pooka. "Now answers!" Bunny demanded.
Jack tried to hold it but he couldn't any longer.
"ACHOO!"
The guardians looked shocked at the younger spirit.
"ACHOO! ACHOO! ACHOO! ACHOO! ACHOO!" Jack kept sneezing.
"What the bloody hell is wrong with you?" Bunny questioned.
Jack just glared at bunny. "Get away from me Kangaroo!" And he continued sneezing.
