So happy new year even though it's the third day in! This year I'm planning to study more so I'll do good in my exams and things, it's going to be hard because I have to pass them for my second year in college and hopefully, final!
I was wondering if anyone would like to a collab message me if ya do!
Ayamekitsune- Thanks and hope you enjoy this chapter!
TigerRates-Oh he will but I have a different way, just let the story reveal itself!
-B
December 18th
Part 1: Bonding
1. A New Journey
Bunny looked at the car crash, it made him want to cry. It had been a horrid way for Jack to lose his mother. North had got her body out of there and the two had buried her in the snow with a cross marking her grave, there was little else they could do now but go back. Bunny didn't know how they were going to explain what happened to Jack, he was still little and would probably not believe it. Oh Bunny knew he would understand, children were quite clever. They would have to explain to Jack or lie to them, they just needed to consult the other guardians on what to do about the children.
North seemed distressed as well, they were some toys in the car that he had taken out and almost had a sad smile on his face. Their mother had given them, there was a small little rabbit and then a strange bracelet with a snowflake on it. Bunny almost chuckled and knew that the bracelet belonged to Jack, he seemed like the sort of little boy who loved bracelets.
Tapping the ground, Bunny went down his hole whilst North went back to his sleigh, they headed back to the North Pole still wondering on what they could do about telling Jack, about the fact that is mother had passed away.
"All these all the tooth fairies?" Jack asked staring at the flutter surrounding him. They had taken to Jack straight away after seeing his smile and they couldn't stop fawning over them. The Sandman gave a soundless chuckle and watched Emma in his hands, fall softly asleep and dreaming of a small toy rabbit. Jack had been holding her for the past half an hour but his arms had soon got tired so Sandy had taken Emma off him.
"Yes, Jack," Tooth giggled and flying down so she could talk with him on an eye level. Her wings fluttered and Jack smiled again.
"They really like me!" He commented, letting some of the fairies rest on the palm of his hand. Jack's eyebrows rose up in excitement when he saw some of the tooth fairies, going over to what looked like a collection of boxes with children's faces on them. "What are these?" He asked, looking over at Tooth with a puzzled expression.
"They are tooth boxes where children's teeth are stored, for teeth contain the most important memories of childhood and that's why we collect them," Tooth explained, landing onto the platform and showing Jack some of the teeth inside.
"Do you have mine?" Jack asked, opening his mouth so Tooth could see his teeth again, she noticed that one was missing, a molar, near the back.
"Ah I see you lost one a couple of months ago, when you bumped into a car door and yes but only a few because you've only lost some since, you're so young Jack," She commented.
Jack's eyes widened, "How did you know?"
"I'm the tooth fairy, I always know," Tooth replied with a wink. Before Jack could respond, there popped up a hole from the ground and Bunny appeared in their midst. He looked distressed and worried but Jack didn't know why and as a child it bothered him, he liked to know things, he didn't like being in the dark.
"Tooth, can I talk to ya for a second mate?" Bunny asked, staring at the ground, avoiding eye contact with Jack. It puzzled Jack and he wanted to go and see what was wrong with his new friend but Jack stayed put, the Guardians may have been his new friends but they were still adults.
Sandy followed them after he gave Emma back to Jack and the three of them began to discuss something. Jack sat down on the platform staring at the palace and the surroundings, this whole thing felt like a crazy dream and he didn't want it to end. He looked into his little sister's brown eyes and smiled.
He remembered the day Mom had brought her home, just a few months ago, he had been so excited to see her and had even taken her in his arms, gently rocking her. His Mom seemed tired and told her that he could look after her for an hour whilst she went to go and sleep on the couch. Dad was out on 'work business', he was always working and Jack never saw him. In fact he hadn't seen him for the past week, had that been what his mom was so upset about earlier? Well if the Guardians had found her, that meant he could ask her!
"Jack, would ya come over here?" Bunny asked him and Jack obliged to his wishes, still wondering what was going on.
"Yes?" He asked unsure.
"Me and North looked all over the car crash site but couldn't find ya mum anywhere, it's like the Sheila's just upped and left,"
No! That couldn't be true! Jack knew his mom would never leave him and Emma alone but he trusted the Guardians, why would they lie to him? They were his childhood icons and he trusted them. Feeling tears prick his eyes, Jack sat on the floor with his back turned to the Guardians and he held his sister.
Their Mom had abandoned them, he didn't know where she was and he didn't know where his father was. What was he supposed to now? Where we he and his sister meant to go? More tears welled up and Jack made a promise to his sister, he would protect her always because at that moment in time, all they had remaining of their family were each other and he wanted to stick with her for as long as he could.
He didn't know how long he sat there, just silently crying, the Guardians had began to discuss something again and it was then that Jack felt a touch on his shoulder and saw Tooth comforting him. "Jack, don't cry, okay sweetheart?" She patted his hair.
"Okay," Jack sniffled and looked up to Tooth with the means of a smile. He was still upset and just kept hoping that one day his mom would turn up.
"You're going to stay with us until new year's and then we will find you a place to live because you can't live here forever, can you?" Tooth told him, lifting Emma out of his arms and Jack stood up, nodding his head.
He liked the idea of spending quality time with the Guardians and getting to know them more. Over the next hour, Tooth explained on who he was going to stay with during the run-up to new year. Up until Christmas, he would stay with Tooth and then they would heard over to North's who he would spend the next two days with, Jack asked where North was, Bunny told him that he had gone back to his workshop because it was almost Christmas and he needed all hands on deck.
It wasn't long until Bunny went back to his warren and Sandy began to make his rounds, the sun was setting on the horizon and Jack actually felt a little sleepy, Tooth was busy sorting out the tooth boxes with her fairies, she had located him to a bed that she never used and had found an old cot for Emma to lie in so he headed over that way.
As the day began to fade away, Jack placed Emma in the cot and settled into the bed. He still had his old ragged clothes on and wondered if he would get any new ones, the Guardians had said they would get some for him and Emma. Feeling tears prick his eye, Jack knew that he would have to cry himself to sleep tonight, he just couldn't understand why his mother would have abandoned him and Emma.
Tooth fluttered towards Jack as she watched him slowly fall asleep with tears in his eyes, she knew this was hard for him and why had Bunny decided to lie to him, she would never know but Emma and Jack were starting a new journey into a different life.
