ATTENTION! You need to Read my fic Topsy Turvy to understand this fic. I'm rating it an M for later chapter due to violence, language and especially strong Slash/Yaoi Male and Male relationship between North and Bunny. Don't like then don't read! For those who enjoyed Topsy Turvy I hope you guys enjoy this one! Reviews are appreciated and feed my appetite to provide later chapters as quickly as possible. ENJOY!

Old Paths are Crossed

Darkness loomed as the moon managed to pierce and light a little bit to where the man was kneeling.

It had been years since he'd seen the sun's light. It was Pitch's way of punishing the man for attempting to destroy their world and the next. He had looked worse for wear as the chains cuffed around his wrists digging into them causing them to bleed occasionally.

The darkness appeared to linger as days turned into months and months turned into years.

It didn't faze him for he knew that one day he would get out and extract his revenge on the man that placed him there.

An evil sneer forms on his lips.

"Looks like things are about to get interesting."

His laughter echoes throughout the walls reaching up to the surface where the moon watches from a distance as it continued to inundate the land with its glow.

Years have passed since North's encounter with the other world.

Since confessing his feeling to Bunny that night, North would have imagined things to go smoothly between the pair but instead things have grown rather complicated. From the start the relationship was off seeing that Bunny never wanted anybody to know that they were an item. This fact alone was causing some tension between them.

Bunny did care for North, that he knew but even after all these years it appeared as if the Pooka was unwilling to fully commit. There were times where North really felt like throwing in the towel.

Carving away at a piece of wood, North somberly looks down at the wooden figure.

Smiling, he reaches over his table and grabs a bottle filled with grey paint.

He gently lifts a brush and dips it in coating it with paint.

Lifting it and giving it a soft shake, he proceeds to paint the wooden figurine.

Done, he gives the figurine one last look before placing it by another wooden statue that shared a remarkable resemblance to North. The new figure apparently shared a similar appearance to another Guardian. North is careful to slide the wooden Pooka closer to the North figurine.

It hurt that he had resorted to this to get some sort of affection from the Pooka.

A knock at the door takes his attention away from the figurines and directly to the Pooka who was standing by the entrance.

Bunny was leaning on the door with his arms crossed giving the man a quizzical look.

"Good day, mate."

North secretly grabs the Pooka figurine and nervously throws it under his desk.

"Bunny! Wha…what are you doing here?"

Pushing away from the door Bunny enters North's office and gives the nervous man a quizzical look.

"Um…Easter was yesterday."

"Oh! Good."

He nervously nods his head and gets back to his desk. It was apparent to him that North seemed a bit distracted.

"Did I catch yoos at a bad time?"

"No no no! Come in. Relax."

Taking a seat, Bunny quickly made himself at home as he plopped his feet up in a more comfortable position.

The Pooka was a bit irritated that North seems to have forgotten what today meant for them. After Easter it would officially mark that the pair of Guardians where now in downtime mode and they usually used this time to catch up with one another.

Reaching over and retrieving a ball, Bunny uninterestedly tosses it in the air and catches it.

"So…what have yoos been up ta these last couple of weeks?"

"Same old. Toys, children, lists, the usual."

Putting the ball aside, Bunny stands and walks over to the man and places his hand on the table where the man appeared to be working rigorously.

Pulling his eyes away from his papers, the man's ice blue eyes meet with sadden amber green ones.

"Look North. I came by because somethin's been bothering me."

Concerned he gets up and places a supporting hand on the Pooka's shoulder.

"What's wrong?"

Taking a deep breath in, the Pooka carefully takes North's hand off his shoulder.

"I reckon its best if we…"

"Stop."

North angrily walks away and plops back down on his chair and continues to work on his toys.

Rolling his eyes, Bunny confronts the man.

"Can I finish?"

"You don't have to. I already know what you're going to say."

"North we gave it a bloody go and it's not workin'. I reckon it's best if we just stay as friends."

The Pooka is taken aback when he hears North's laughter fill the room.

"North?"

"Bunny you don't have to lie to me. If you don't want to be with me just say so!"

"That's not what I said."

"BAH!"

Pushing away from his desk he gets up and threateningly walks over to the Pooka and looks him right in the eye.

"You don't have to say it. Your actions prove it."

His ears fall back as his brows frow forward.

"Excuse me?"

"YOU don't want to be with me. I try and I try yet you push me farther and farther away."

"Here we bloody go again! THIS! This right here is exactly why we can't be together! All we do is fight now!"

"And whose fault is that? Hmmm?"

"OH! So you're sayin' it's my fault!?"

"Yes Bunny! That is EXACTLY what I am saying!"

"Ha! You bloody blow hard! You honestly reckon that? Fine! You're right! Who am I ta argue with Mr Perfect over here? All I'm bonzer for is paintin' and hiding me eggs!"

"You stubborn bunny! When will you realize-"

North suddenly stops.

Reaching down he places a hand over his belly.

Bunny could see the fear in the man's eyes.

"North? What's wrong?"

"My belly."

Looking around, North notices that all of his snow globes where beginning to turn black.

The room began to tremble.

The shelves shook causing for several of the snow globes to crash and shatter against the wooden floor.

Grabbing hold of a nearby post, North looks down at the shattered globes.

"It…it can't be."

Panicked, Bunny hides by the door, holding on for dear life.

The shaking soon stops, leaving the pair in a now muddled office.

Making sure that the coast was clear, Bunny steps away from the door and gives the office a look over.

"What the bloody hell was that? An earthquake?"

Reaching down, North picks up a piece of the shattered glass.

"No. I've seen this before."

Before Bunny could respond a flash of light fills the room temporarily blinding the pair.

A portal mysteriously appears in the middle of North's office.

Behind the light a tall statuette of a man emerges from the portal and begins to walk towards North.

Wincing his eyes, Bunny attempts to see past the light.

To his horror, he sees a familiar figure walking in North's general direction.

"NORTH!"

North couldn't believe what he was seeing.

There in front of him stood a tall slender man in all white. A man he hasn't seen in years. His eyes widen when he is met with a pair of intense orange eyes.

The light soon fades leaving the couple in the presence of their new guest.

The tall man greets the older man with a smile.

"North."

Eyes widened as he whispers back.

"Pitch."

Whipping out his boomerangs, Bunny charges at the intruder.

North shouts in an attempt to stop the Pooka.

"Bunny! NO!"

Lifting a hand Pitch easily grasps the Pooka by the wrist and lifts him off the ground.

Afraid for the Pooka's safety North steps in and grabs hold of Pitch's arm.

"Stop! He's a friend!"

Looking back at North, Pitch let's go of the Pooka.

Back on his feet, Bunny gives North a stern look.

"What the bloody hell is he doin' here!? And what's with the white get up?"
"Bunny calm down! He's not who you think he is. I'll explain more to you later."

Lifting his sleeves to get a bit more comfortable, he approaches the statuette of a man with caution.

"Pitch, why have you come here?"

"I apologize for my abrupt entrance North, but it was quiet imperative that I have a word with you."

"About?"

"Our worlds."

Taking a moment, he signals for Pitch to take a seat. North walks over and grabs himself a glass of eggnog before taking a seat himself.

While sitting down Pitch looks over to Bunny.

"His resemblance to Aster is impressive."

North's heart aches for a moment. How long has it been since he remembered the Pooka from their world?

Not wanting to dwell on the past North pushes for Pitch to further explain his visit.

"Something bad has happened. Am I right?"

Bunny looks over to Pitch hanging onto to every word.

The man's smile fades.

"Yes. There was breach from your world into ours."

"How!?"

"I don't know. But if my sources are correct I believe the Pitch of your world has found a way into ours."

North and Bunny look over at each other with a concern look.

Wanting a better perspective of the situation at hand, Bunny steps in.

"You're sayin' that there's a world out there besides ours?"

"Yes. A world North had an opportunity to visit and save."

The Pooka soon puts the pieces together.

"Is he talkin' about that time yoos went missing?"

North ignores the Pooka and brings the focus back towards the topic.

"But how could Pitch have known about your world. I told no one."

The comment was hurtful. The Pooka couldn't help but think why North felt that nobody could be entrusted with such information. Especially him.

"It's not your Pitch who was trying to break into our world. It was someone from my world trying to break into yours."

Taking a moment, North then remembers.

"Kris."

Pitch nods.

"How!? I thought you took care of him."

"You're right. I did imprison him, but I'm afraid there are others involved with powers far more greater than mine. Whoever they are they are planning something. Something so terrible that it could mean the end for both our worlds."

Gasping, North drops his glass of eggnog. Pulling himself together he replies back in a more serious tone.

"What can we do?"

"I need you to come to my world along with your fellow Guardians."

Taking a moment North gets up and heads towards the globe.

Panicked Bunny chases after him.

North is about to pull the lever, but his hand is caught within the Pooka's grasp.

"What do yoos think you're doin'?"

"What does it look like? I'm summoning the others."

"I mean can we talk about this for a minute? This Pitch twin shows up out of nowhere tellin' yoos what ta do and you're just going to do what he says?"

Placing a hand on the Pooka's shoulder North warmly replies.

"I trust him."

"Well I don't. It's too risky! Our job is ta protect our world. Whatever's goin' on over there is their business not ours."

"You wouldn't understand."

"Well I would if yoos had came out and told me instead of lettin' me find out like this!"

"Why do you care so much?"

Sighing and rolling his eyes he gives the man a firm shake.

"Damn it North! You know I care! How many time do I have ta say it for yoos to get it?!"

"I'd prefer if you act it."

With that he pulls the lever.

The night sky fills with a mixture of color as the Northern lights cover the dark canvas with its overpowering presence.

North steps away leaving Bunny to ponder alone over his previous comment.

Sure enough it is only a matter of minutes before the remaining Guardians make their way to the Pole.

One by one they take their place by the globe.

Always a fan of North's eggnog Sandy happily sits by the fireplace as he sips on his eggnog.

Twiddling her thumbs, Tooth waits patiently for North to explain to them on why they have been summoned.

Late as always, Jack flies through the window playfully freezing any elves that happened to be in the area.

Laughing he stops only when he sees the Pooka grumpily standing by the globe.

"Bunny! Long time! Missed me?"

"Rack off Snowflake. I'm in nah mood for your shenanigans."

Frowning, he playfully floats over and taps the Pooka on the head with his stick.

"Awww! But I had so much planned for us!"

Grabbing the stick he gives the boy a stern look.

"I said RACK OFF!"

Abruptly letting go of Jack's stick causes the boy to nearly plop down to the ground.

"Geez! Ok ok! I get it. Pfft! You're no fun!"

Tooth was about to intervene until she notices the door to North's office open.

Smiling she is about to welcome her friend only to freeze when she notices a familiar man standing behind him.

Gasping she shouts,

"NORTH! WATCH OUT! IT'S-"

Growling, Jack intervenes by hatefully spewing their arch nemesis name.

"Pitch."

Grabbing his stick, a chill fills the air as the boy charges at the man.

Slapping a hand to his head, North allows Pitch to take control of the situation.

Raising his hand, Pitch stops the boy by leaving him in a frozen state.

"HEY! I can't move!"

Not wanting to give anybody else a chance to attack his guest, North uses the opportunity to fill in the remaining Guardians.

"Friends! Thank you for coming. As many of you are aware we have a surprise visitor."

Seeing a chance to further rag on North, Bunny openly emphasizes on the word.

"Yes. FRIENDS. Cause that's all we are! JUST friends."

North looks over to Bunny wickedly before continuing.

Baffled, Tooth and Sandy look to each other before looking back at North as if they have both came to the conclusion that he has lost his mind.

Tooth trying her best in keeping her composure attempts to make sense of the situation presented in front of her.

"Pitch is your guest?"

Smiling he confidently says,

"Yes!"

Only after noticing the shocked expressions taking over his friends' faces he quickly clarifies.

"NO! Not Pitch Pitch, but this Pitch."

He was only further confusing them.

Seeing as they were no closer to getting to the point, Bunny decides to give it a go.

"Alright mates! Pay attention cause I'm only goin' ta say this once. Remember that time North went missing and we spent days looking for him and out of nowhere he popped out of a portal in the middle of his office? "

Sandy and Tooth nod.

"Well what North didn't tell us back then is that he was able ta cross into another dimension."

Images popped above Sandy's hand.

"Hold up I'm gettin' there Sandy. So this Pitch isn't our Pitch. He's from the other dimension and he's here asking for our help. Apparently our Pitch has made it over ta his world pairing up with a couple of goons from their world leading us to believe that now both our worlds are endangered. Got it? "

Frazzled from all of the information Tooth asks,

"Wait a minute! You're telling us that there's another world out there and we exist in that world."

Pitch approaches the fairly and calmly replies,

"Yes, but be aware that your counterparts are not you. You may be good in this world, but your counterpart may not. For example North. Here his is kind and caring, but in my world his counterpart goes by the name of Kris and he-"

North steps in and finishes his train of thought,

"Is the most evil man I have ever met. He cares not whether you are man, woman or child. He will kill you without a second thought."

Bunny couldn't help but notice the pain in North's voice.

"North is right. Kris is not one to be taken lightly. He will kill all of us if given the opportunity. Unfortunately some of us have already suffered a cruel fate under his hand."

Pitch looks over to Bunny before returning his focus back to the group.

"Kris is capable of great evil. I can guarantee that if we don't put a stop to whatever he's planning it will mean the end for all of us. No one will be spared from his wrath. No one."

Glancing over the group, Tooth steps forward and proudly asks,

"So? What're we waiting for?"

North warmly smiles at the fairy as Tooth returns the kind gesture.

Sandy lifting his sleeves courageously steps forward and stands proudly among his fellow Guardians.

"Um guys?"
The group turns around to see Jack struggling against the invincible binds.

"I would LOVE to join you, but seeing as SOMEONE I won't say who has frozen me midair I gotta say that I'm going to have to stick this one out."

Pitch flicks his finger releasing the boy from his binds and causing him to sloppily crash to the ground.

Rubbing his head he angrily shouts,

"YOU DID THAT ON PURPOSE!"

Happy to see that all of his Guardians were in agreement to go, North looks up to see one Guardian standing alone in the corner.

"Bunny?"

Taking a deep breath in, he walks over to the group throwing his hands up in the air.

"FINE! I'm in. BUT don't say I didn't warn yoos about this bein' a bad idea!"

North looks over to Pitch and gives him a nod.

Turning around Pitch raises his hand.

A small glow appears in the palm of his hand quickly growing to the size of a basketball.

Letting go the ball bursts revealing a similar portal the group saw the day North had mysteriously appeared before them.

Turning back to the group Pitch asks,

"Is everybody ready?"

The Guardians nod their heads in unison.

"Very well, then let's go!"

Pitch is the first to enter the portal with North walking close behind.

Taking Sandy's hand, Tooth jumps in with the tiny Guardian.

Having doubts Bunny looks over to Jack who was standing by him with his hand out.

The snow sprite seductively asks,

"Will you do me the honor in holding my hand?"

Smiling, the Pooka slowly lowers his hand towards the boy.

Inches from making contact with Jack's hand, Bunny suddenly raises his hand and slaps the boy on the back of his head.

"Ow!"

Smirking, the Pooka gives the young sprite a smug look.

"Not on your nelly."

With that the Pooka jumps in leaving Jack all alone to tend to his head.

Laughing, Jack jumps in as the portal closes behind sealing their fates in this unknown world which they are about to enter.