"Why isn't Bunny here yet?" Tooth asked, causing the others to sigh.
Tooth, Jack, Sandy and North were all set in the globe-room drinking hot coco. They were waiting for Bunnymund to come and ask Tooth to join him at the warren. Bunnymund had told her that he would come at 5pm, it was now 6:30 and Tooth had spent the last hour and a half asking the same question over and over again.
"Tooth relax," Jack said, "the kangaroo probably lost trek of time that's all. He's probably painting eggs or doing something else of importance. Not that your anniversary isn't important," he added quickly when he saw the glare she gave him.
"I guess you're right," Tooth sighed then began, "But what if..."
"Shostakovich," North said in exasperation, "Tooth, Bunny will be here soon, he just a little..."
North's sentence was cut short as Phil entered the room with more mugs of coco.
"Phil have you seen Bunny today?" Tooth asked the yeti.
Phil shook his head and said something to North that the others couldn't understand.
"Really?" North said in surprise, "when?"
"What did he say?" asked Jack.
"He say other yeti saw Bunny earlier on."
"When, where?" Tooth demanded.
"Rotharoo," Phil replied.
"About an hour ago," North translated, "outside your room."
"Funny we didn't see him," Jack commented to Tooth, "if you remember that was when you and I..."
He stopped mid sentence and looked up at Tooth. The fairy had her hand to her mouth, her eyes were wide and there was a look of downright horror on her face.
"Oh no," Jack said quietly.
"What is wrong?" North asked.
"Don't ask," Jack yelled as he grabbed Tooth's statue and flew off in the direction of Australia.
North looked at Sandy with a puzzled expression. Sandy just shrugged.
...
Jack reached the warren within the hour. The eggs were wandering around but Bunnymund was nowhere to be seen.
"Where's Bunny?" he asked one of the eggs.
The egg squeaked and bounced towards the Bunny's cottage. Jack followed then entered the cottage. He looked around and walked into the living-room when he noticed the door was ajar.
The room was plain enough, a large couch, a 47 inch HD TV and a green rug in the middle. Bunnymund was lying on the rug, his eyes closed. Jack moved closer and was dismayed to see that the area around the pooka's eyes was wet.
"Poor guy must have cried himself to sleep," Jack muttered to himself.
Jack thought about what would be the best way to wake his fellow guardian. Maybe a soft word in his ear or a light tip on the cheek, then he had a better idea.
Jack leaned down, brought his face close to Bunny's and yelled, Oi cottontail wake up."
Bunny let out a yell and jumped a full 4 feet into the air, landing heavily on his bottom.
"Rise and shine sleeping beauty," the young winter spirit said with a laugh.
Bunny looked at him then miserably asked, "What do you want?"
"I just came to find you," Jack replied.
"Please go away," Bunnymund said, turning away, "I don't want to see you right now."
"Now why wouldn't you want to see little old me?" Jack joked; unfortunately it was the wrong thing to say.
"Why," Bunny said, turning on the younger immortal with a roar, "Maybe because I don't like being cheated. Maybe because I don't like you kissing my girl. Maybe because I don't like having my heart broken by you and that back-stabbing tooth fairy."
"Oh Bunny," Jack said softly and placed his hand on the pooka's shoulder as the other began to tear up.
Bunnymund pulled away. The sorrow he had felt earlier was now replaced with anger.
Jack sighed, "Bunny look we weren't trying to hurt you. Tooth didn't mean anything by it when she..."
"She didn't mean anything by it," the guardian of hope snapped, cutting him off.
"She kisses you and says that she loves you and you tell me she didn't mean anything by it. Well you're forgive me if I don't believe you, won't you?"
"Bunny please," Jack begged, "she overreacted to getting a present, that's all."
"Oh and what was the present, a ring?"
Jack sighted again, "a statue," he replied then added, "I would never try to steal your Tooth from you. Please believe that."
Bunny looked him in the eye. Jack returned the look.
"Believe me Aster, please."
Bunnymund was taken aback. Jack never, never called him Aster, unless he was being deadly serious about something.
Bunny sighed, "You swear on your word that that's the truth?" he asked.
"Better then that I can show you," Jack replied and took the ice statue out from his hoodie pocket.
"What's this?" the Easter Bunny asked as the younger immortal passed it to him.
"Just a little something I made for you."
Bunny stared down at the statue then back up at Jack.
"You did this for Tooth and me?"
Jack nodded.
"It's beautiful," Bunny said in awe then yelled, "man alive, Tooth's not in love with you."
"Told you so you big dummy."
Bunny gave a whoop of delight and pulled jack into a bear hug.
"Oh mate this is wonderful," he laughed.
"Yeah wonderful," Jack agreed, "now how's about letting me breath?"
"Oh sorry," Bunny apologized and dropped him.
"Its fine," the other guardian gasped then said, "now come on let's get back to North's."
...
Back at the pole Tooth was flying around frantically, and had been for the last hour. She had also been imagining numerous scenarios about what Bunny would be doing after he had discovered her and Jack. The scenarios were getting more ridiculous by the minute. The latest was that Bunny had gone on world cruise in an attempt to forget his sorrow and while on it had met the daughter of a Somalian pirate and had fallen head over tail for her. The others had tried to reassure her but she didn't seem to be convinced. She was just in the middle of telling them that Bunny was probably even now dating Phil's twin sister, when the door opened and there stood Bunnymund. He looked, in her opinion, more handsome than ever.
"Bunny," she cried and flew into his arms. Bunny just hugged her, not wanting to say anything for the moment.
After a while Tooth spoke.
"I'm sorry Bunny. I didn't mean to hurt you. I didn't mean to kiss Jack, I just overreacted that's all."
"I know," he replied, "I'm sorry too. Sorry I didn't come for you and that I didn't trust you. I should have known you and Jack weren't..."
"Bunny," she said, placing her finger to his mouth.
"What?" he asked.
"I love you," she told him and kissed him.
He smiled and kissed her back.
Here it is, part two. I hope you all like it. Please remember to review.
