Jack ran toward the cliff putting as much might as he could muster so he could throw the case with his baby teeth in it as far away as possible. But just as he was about to throw it he couldn't let it go. Jack grunted in frustration at his inability to get rid of this case. His teeth had caused so much damage and hurt. Because of this case Jack had left his friends to defend for themselves. And because of that, Easter was now gone. It would be easier if his teeth were just vanished. But how could he destroy his teeth? His teeth are his memories; the only thing that could help him figure out why he was here. Jack looked at the picture of his past self on the case trying to figure out what to do.

"I thought this might happen." Jack's eyes widened as he heard the voice of the boogeyman behind him. Jack's features turned into rage as he listened to Pitch talking. "They never really believed in you. I was just trying to show you that. But I understand."

Jack jumped around sending a shot of ice straight at Pitch who blocked it with a shield of black sand. "You don't understand anything!" Jack yelled as he ran and jumped over Pitch shooting more ice at him.

"No? I don't understand what it's like to be cast out?" Pitch sent waves of black sand at Jack as Jack continued to roll and dodge them. Jack jumped into the air screaming as he sent shocks of ice down at Pitch. Pitch once again shielded himself against the attack causing a fog to rise around them. "To not be believed in?" Jack turned on his heels into a fighting stance as he glared at Pitch. "To long for a family?" Pitch said with a hurt expression on his face. Jack seemed shocked at what Pitch was saying and the sadness in Pitch's tone seemed to make Jack relax from his stance. "All those years in the shadows I thought, no one else knows what this feels like," Pitch paused looking up at Jack. "But now I see I was wrong."

Jack stood up straight, taking in what Pitch was saying to him. Pitch did know how he felt in a way. Jack didn't want to admit it but Pitch has been just as alone and forgotten as he is.

Pitch walked toward Jack. "We don't have to be alone, Jack. I believe in you and I know children will too."

"In me?"

"Yes! Look at what we can do!" Pitch turned toward the giant black ice that they had created during their fight. What goes together better than cold and dark? We can make them believe! We'll give them a world where everything, everything is—

"Pitch Black?" Jack interrupted.

"And Jack Frost too," Pitch quickly added. "They'll believe in both of us!"

"No. They'll fear both of us and that's not what I want." Jack turned walking away from a stunned Pitch. "Now for the last time, leave me alone."

Pitch glared at Jack, anger boiling up inside him. "Very well, you want to be left alone, done! But first." Pitch smiled menacingly as he held Baby Tooth in his hand, squeezing the life out of her. She made a squeak of agony making Jack turn back around.

Jack's eyes widened and jumped over to where Pitch was standing with the tiny fairy. "Baby Tooth!" Jack pointed his staff at Pitch ready to hit him with everything he got.

"The staff, Jack!" Jack looked down at his staff realizing what Pitch was after. "You have a bad habit of interfering. Now hand it over and I'll let her go," Pitch said as he held out Baby Tooth threateningly in his clutches. Jack looked at the helpless fairy who shook her head trying to keep Jack from giving in to the Boogeyman's demands. Jack held his staff ready to strike but there was no way he could attack Pitch without Baby Tooth getting hurt. Frustration swirled inside him. What could he do? Jack exhaled dropping his staff from its fighting stance. He held onto it reluctant to hand it over. But finally Jack spun the staff around handing it to Pitch who grabbed the staff and smiled at his victory.

"Alright, now let her go," Jack said as he stretched out his hand.

"No," Pitch said. Jack stood shocked at Pitch's answer. "You said you want to be alone. Then be alone!" Jack glared at the dark figure but he didn't know what to do. He no longer had his staff to fight with. All of a sudden, Baby Tooth jabbed at Pitch's hand. "Argh!" Pitch made a noise of pain and threw Baby Tooth against a wall of ice.

"Baby Tooth!" Jack screamed as he saw Baby Tooth fall down a hole. Jack turned back around to face Pitch who was holding Jack's staff tightly across his chest and quickly broke it in half.

"Ahh!" Jack yelled in pain as if his heart was just ripped in two just as his staff was. Before he could react, Pitch sent a wave of black sand straight at him, knocking him against the wall and making him fall in a crack of ice.

Jack fell to the ground unconscious as Pitch looked down at him laughing. Pitch turned away as he threw the remains of Jack's staff down with him. Jack awoke dazed but quickly came to his senses. "Baby Tooth!" He crawled over to where the little sprite laid on the ground. "Are you alright?" Jack picked up the fairy and held her in his hands. He put his hands over Baby Tooth trying to warm her but she sneezed from the cold. "Sorry. All I can do is make you cold." Jack looked down in dismay. "Pitch was right. I make a mess of everything."

Baby Tooth looked up at Jack, wishing she could make him feel better. She got up and hopped into Jack's pocket to warm herself up. "Hey." Jack said as he watched her head into the pocket. Jack huddled his body around the pocket and leaned against a wall closing his eyes with the feeling of dread weighing down on his heart.

As Baby Tooth entered the pocket she noticed that Jack still had his baby teeth. Maybe Jack's memories will be able to help him, Baby Tooth thought. She touched the case and activated it. "Jack," said a voice. Jack opened his eyes wondering where the voice was coming from. "Jack." Jack looked down to see his pocket glowing, startling him. He took out the cylinder staring at the colorful case that holds the secrets of his past life. Jack looked to Baby Tooth who shook her head with approval. Jack touched the case opening it up and filling Jack full of his old, forgotten memories.

...

Jack was sitting on a branch over the lake where he came to life 300 years ago. His white hair blew in the wind as he held his staff over his shoulder. He stared up at the moon thinking about that time he regained all his memories in the ice. He sighed and looked down at the frozen water. Jack continued to wonder why the Man in the Moon would make him forget all of his past. Was it punishment? No. Jack knew deep down there was a reason.

Just last week, Jack helped the guardians defeat Pitch and save all the children of the world. Jack still couldn't believe he was a guardian. He didn't seem to think it changed him that much. He still felt like he was his own mischievous self. Everything seemed back to normal. Jack kept bringing winter to places around the world and continued to be unseen, except by Jamie and his friends. Of course now Jack wasn't alone. Even after this short amount of time, Jack went to go check up on North at the North Pole. And the other day he saw Sandy and Tooth. Jack was even happy to see Bunny when he had the chance. And just today, Jack went and saw Jamie. Jack smiled. "Things won't be as bad as before."

But everything Jack saw was a constant reminder of his past life. Seeing children play in the snow and a family at the dinner table continued to bring Jack confusion and hurt. Jack's head throbbed as if his memories are trying to burst out of him. Ever since that moment he remembered, he was so happy. But the memories are hard to process. The only memory that Jack seemed to remember fully was him saving his sister and becoming Jack Frost. He could still get bits and pieces of other memories, but he could never remember them totally. Jack couldn't understand why he could only see these glimpses of his memories. But even though Jack wanted to get all his memories back, sometimes he felt like he didn't want to remember them, like they might bring too much pain.

"Sight seeing?" Jack turned to see Tooth flying behind him.

"What're you doing here?" Jack asked smiling.

"I could ask you the same thing."

"Oh you know, causing trouble." Jack gave her a smirk and Tooth rolled her eyes. "Yepp I helped a kid win an epic snowball fight."

"Yea I know. One of those kids lost their canine. That's how I knew that you'd be nearby."

"Wait. So you're back in the field?"

"Well after what happened with everyone, I decided that it's good for me to spread my wings every once and a while." Tooth smiled and sat down next to Jack. She felt so free out in the open and not in her palace. "But we aren't talking about me. Why are you sitting here all alone?" Jack wouldn't look at Tooth because he didn't even have an answer himself. "Are you okay?"

"Yea, I'm fine." He paused. "I'm just not sure what I should do about these memories. They seem all foggy. Like it's hard for me to remember clearly." Jack said.

Tooth looked at Jack thoughtfully. "Listen. I know this is hard for you. You all of a sudden remembered your life from before. And I know you think you let your family down by forgetting them but that's not true." Tooth paused thinking of a way to make Jack feel better. "You know, you don't have to go through this alone. We're all here for you Jack. Me, North, Sandy, and Bunny."

Jack smiled at Tooth, "I know." She returned the smile happy to see him a little better.

All of a sudden Tooth remembered she was late. "Oh well I better get back to, you know, collecting teeth." She giggled and started to fly away but turned back to look at Jack. "You know maybe the reason it's difficult for you to remember is that you haven't taken the time to remember. I'm sure if you focus on them they will become much clearer." Then Tooth waved goodbye and flew away.

Jack pondered this for a moment. After he remembered saving his sister he was so ecstatic. He knew who he was and why he was chosen as a guardian. But he never really took the time after to remember the rest of his life. Was he afraid of what he might discover? "Maybe it is time for me to think this through." Jack thought as he jumped down from the tree and onto the snow. "If Tooth thinks it'll help I guess it can't hurt." Jack sat down leaning his back against a tree. "I mean she is the guardian of memories, she knows best." He slowly closed his eyes as he began to recall the memories of his past.