Death is a thief. It takes and keeps all that a person is, the person was. And when death takes from us someone as extraordinary as Jackson Overland, it takes with it not just his past, but who he was to us every day. Jackson was special but he never had it easy. A childhood torn from him. A rough adolescence, and a damning identity that was thrust upon him which he bore with dignity until he made himself a new name, Jack Frost. A name that was his own. Free from the binds of history, but with a curse of no memories of his former life. Not recognizing Tooth as his love, and vice versa. But that would soon all change...
Burgess January 5, 1712
I stand in a blazing snow storm as I wait for Jack. He said he would meet me at the back of the general store, which he worked at. He had said that he had taken his sister to ice skate, then meet me here exactly after. But, according to the sun, it's been almost two hours since the appropriate time. Where was Jackson? Had he ditched me?
No, silly, he probably is just dealing with something. I try to reassure myself like this over and over.
He was usually late anyway. Not two hours late. I shake my head. I needed to get this out of my head. Jack loved me; didn't he?
I twiddled with my feathers, while waiting I had a lot of time to think. Which wasn't that good. I began thinking of ways he had ditched me.
You're basically covered in feathers, you're a freak. I think. My eyes tear up, no wonder he didn't want me.
You'll live forever, he won't. My mind points out yet again. I hold my face in my hands. He ditched me.
You are a bird.
You are not pretty enough.
Lots of thoughts like this race through my brain. I can't help it, it was like a dam had broken and let all of these negative thoughts out.
I wait until night falls on the small and dreary town. He obviously wasn't coming…
Without realizing it, tears well up in my eyes.
I loved him, and I though he felt the same way. Obviously I was wrong. I couldn't deal with this, but I couldn't do anything drastic...
No, Toothiana. A familiar voice fills my head. Man in Moon.
If your here to say I told you so, hurry it up. I think back to him. He doesn't speak for a while, carefully choosing his thoughts.
I just said that a relationship would be extremely difficult, especially with a human at that. As he said that, I noticed something in his voice. He was hiding something, I had used that voice one time too many. Trying to get away from the guardians to see Jackson. It took a lot of lies. And now I'm currently fluent in it.
What are you hiding, Manny? I think back. He stays silent and his voice fades away. I sigh. With tears in my eyes I fly back to Tooth Palace. But on the way back, something hit me, I could never love again. Jackson was my first lover, I would never be able to move on. Especially since he basically took out my heart and shattered it into a million pieces.
Revised 9/18/14