Chapter one

Jamie awoke when he heard a soft voice almost like a whimper he sat up in his bed, he was no longer the boy that the guardians had once known but a man he was thirty five now and he had a child, a young girl who was only six, her name was Iris, she had short chocolate brown hair that reached her jawline and large round dark brown eyes, at the moment she was in a pink nightgown that had lace around the neck and cuffs of her sleeves she hugged her toy close to her, it was a stuffed Bunny with Gray fur and blue eyes, he wore a stereotypical Australian outback hat and a boomerang on his back. Jamie smiled sleepily at the child who half hid in his door way with the stuffed toy tucked tightly under her arm.
"Iris, it's two in the morning." Jamie said to her as he sat up, the young girl hurried in and climbed up on the bed so she could sit in her father's lap she hugged him close to her and Jamie immediately knew what had happened.
"Did you have a bad dream?" he asked her brushing her hair gently out of her face Iris nodded slowly and Jamie smiled at her before picking her up and getting out of bed before walking down the hallway to her room Iris clung to him the whole way there, Jamie switched on the light switch and the room was illuminated with light the whole room covered from head to toe in anything and everything that could possibly have something to do with the guardians, an entire wall dedicated to drawings of each of the guardians, little models of the baby teeth hanging from the ceiling with brightly colored feathers, a second wall above her bed that was painted yellow and had glitter all through it, Jamie remembered when Iris's mom had first painted it, back when they had first gotten the news that they were having a baby, above the painted wisps of dream sand was a cloud with Jack sitting on it with Sandy overlooking the sand, Jamie would tape a sleigh that also had North on it during the winter, Jamie placed the small child in bed and tucked her in bed. Iris snuggled under the bright green covers with Easter eggs sewn into them with little feet attached, Jamie sat on the bed beside her and smiled at her as she hugged her toy rabbit close to her, almost trying to hide her face in his soft fur
"Iris, I've told you a hundred times that there is nothing to be afraid of in your room." Jamie told her brushing her hair out of her eyes "I watched the guardians defeat Pitch a long time ago, you can ask your aunt Sophie even, The guardians would never let anything bad happen to you" Jamie told her Iris nodded a little but she still didn't look convinced Jamie smiled before grabbing the flash light out from under her pillow and going to the closet he opened it and shined the light inside to prove there was nothing there, then he crawled under her bed and did the same he stuck his hand up between the wall and where her bed was and started to tickle her which caused the child to squeal with laughter. Jamie crawled back out grinning as he watched his daughter look at him a small smile on her face as he sat back on her bed.
"Dreams are only real in your head, if you get scared, you can always just give yourself a little pinch and you'll wake right up and everything will be alright" Jamie told her, Iris nodded and Jamie kissed her cheek before standing up and heading for the door.
"Daddy?" Jamie stopped and looked at the little girl snuggled under her covers "Can you tell me a story?" she asked Jamie laughed a bit before walking back to the bed and sitting down he thought for a minute trying to think of a good story to tell the child, But Iris cut him off
"Tell me how the guardians defeated Pitch!" she said to him Jami smiled but saw how tired the girl was and shook his head
"That's a really long story sweet heart, and it's late" Jamie reminded her Iris frowned but nodded in understanding Jamie kissed her forehead
"I'll tell you in the morning alright?" he asked Iris nodded and Jamie turned out the light he watched as the little girl rolled over and drifted to sleep he smiled watching his daughter's peaceful face as she slept on, what she dreamt of this time only sandy would know
"She's a cute kid" Jamie looked over his shoulder seeing his old friend and he nodded a little bit at Jack
"Yeah, she is." Jamie said with a slight yawn before Jamie suddenly had a thought, Jack hadn't come by in years Jamie turned back to the guardian who smiled at him
"What are you doing here?"
"A kid had a bad dream; you don't think sandy gave it to her do you?" Jack asked Jamie was surprised this couldn't mean what he thought it meant
"Pitch?"
"We have our suspicions but so far no proof" Jack said shrugging "But North has that feeling in his belly so we're all on our guard" Jack added quickly afterwards Jamie nodded a little he was a bit more relieved he looked back at his daughter who slept peacefully while the two friends spoke to each other before he closed the door only leaving it open a crack
"She really wants to meet you guys someday" Jamie commented to Jack with a smile Jack chuckled a bit
"I can see you've made her just as big of a believer" Jack said he had seen her room and all the guardian stuff Jamie nodded
"Crystal did too, apparently she caught tooth sneaking into her room once to get her tooth" Jamie said Jack's smile vanished as he remembered what had happened to Jamie's wife, Jack often found that he blamed himself, Jamie's wife had died in a car accident two years earlier she had slid on some black ice and she had crashed into a tree. Jack hadn't meant for it to happen it was an accident but Jamie knew it and didn't blame his friend at all but Jack blamed himself for it.
"Jamie…."
"You don't have to say it Jack, it's not your fault" Jamie said to him with a sad smile before he smiled "I gotta go to bed I have work tomorrow" Jamie said Jack nodded a little understanding, Jamie wasn't the little kid he used to be he now had three kids the twins Jade and Tristan and then off course Iris.
The twins were off doing a school trip in Italy, both had begged him to let them go as their birthday present which Jamie agreed to doing after they begged him for like a week, so he got to spend some quality time with Iris which was going well, which it usually did considering Iris loved spending time with her dad. Jamie went off to bed then he felt better knowing that the guardians would be around who knew maybe he'd be able to see the others again too. Jamie didn't hear a soft noise moving in the hall as he drifted to sleep, not noticing the tall black figure as it went down to the young girls bedroom, the figure proving to be a man grinned as it saw the child laying spread out in all directions in her bed now the stuffed toy clutched tightly under one arm for comfort.
"What a beautiful dream," Pitch commented noting that the dream sand took the form of the guardians and the young girl all seeming to be playing games in the warren he frowned gently touching the sand for the second time that night as it turned black and the guardians disappeared and were replaced with fearlings Pitch chuckled
"What do you know, the child's worst fear is me."