Heres the second part, sorry it's kind of bad.
Once again, I don't own any of these characters ((sadly)) Still not Beta'd
Dog Days .pt Two
Bunnymund hated the cold; he just wanted to be as quick as possible talking to North so he could go back to his lovely warm warren and not be subjected to the freezing temperatures outside North's workshop. Stamping his feet impatiently, the pooka looked back over at North who was sitting at his desk, a tiny brush in his hand as he worked on one of the many curiosities that filled his office.
"Shouldn't Snowflake be 'ere by now?" Bunny huffed as he looked out of the window in annoyance; North had refused to let him leave until Jack had returned with his own answers from the Groundhog, and not having nightly duties like Tooth and Sandy, he had no way of refusing.
"You know Jack, 'e is very free willed, 'e will be 'ere soon" North told Bunny cheerfully without looking up from his work, Bunny however just huffed again and sat in one of the chairs, after a quarter of an hour the window began to rattle slightly and North looked up with a clap of his large hands but before he could get up to unlock the window, the shutters flew inwards and an icy wind swirled around the room causing Bunny to shield his eyes from the cold darts of ice that flew around him.
When he opened his eyes again the room was in complete shambles and everything was covered in snow and ice, but no Jack was standing in the middle of the room with his normal mischievous grin.
"Is this one of Frostbite's pranks?" Bunny asked angrily as he pulled himself up from the floor and looked over at a shocked North. The larger Guardian was looking at a roughly snapped branch covered in snow and ice that had landed on his desk, snapping the toy he had been working on. Ignoring Bunny's question; North picked up the branch and looked at it properly before turning to face his fellow guardian.
"New job Bunny, go find Jack" He said sternly before digging around in his pocket for one of his snow globes. Bunny spluttered and looked at North in confusion.
"How do ya even know where 'e is?" Bunny demanded as North muttered to himself before throwing the snow globe onto the floor and opening up a portal.
"Branch is from tree I recognise" He said with a shrug before pushing an even more confused Bunny through the portal and out into the snow. When he had righted himself and shaken off the effects of travelling, he screwed his face up then shrugged, when you had spent as much time on earth as North had, finding new ways of entertaining yourself must have been limited.
The cold of the snow was biting into Bunny's paws and he bounced around a bit before deciding which direction he should go to look for Jack, however knowing the winter spirit as he did, he doubted Jack was still here, but kept looking just to appease North. As the cold began to seep past his thick fur, Bunny thought of ways he could get back at the young spirit as revenge for making him wander around in the snow.
It was pure luck that he looked up to see Jack's staff hanging forlornly from a low lying branch with its owner nowhere in sight.
"Oh no, this isn't good" Bunny muttered before looking deeper into the forest with his sharp eyes.
~o0pruina0o~
Jack's breath refused to work for him as he heard the distant yet steadily nearing sound of thundering feet and midnight howls that echoed around him. He'd never been scared of wolves, but that, he thought with a watery laugh, was before he'd had his memories returned and he'd still had his staff in his hand. Now he was just an injured immortal with no way of protecting himself and a crushing fear of hounds that was threatening to stick him to the floor.
Finally sucking a lung full of air in through his nose, Jack calculated his options. He could climb one of the trees and hope to get high enough that he would be out of harm's way, but his body ached just thinking about it, so with a shuddering breath Jack began to hobble faster than he had before in the deluded hopes that maybe he'd out run the wolves that were rapidly gaining on him.
Turning round to see how much the wolves had on him, Jack caught his foot under a stray root causing him to crash down onto the frozen ground and sent jolts of paint shooting up his neck. The memories of when he was still human flooded back and he watched paralysed as the wolves finally gained on him and in that second he could have sworn he heard laughter.
"THIS ISN'T FUNNY!" Jack screamed at the sky, before he scrambled back in an attempt to distance himself from the creatures slowly stalking towards him. Jack's heart sank as he heard snapping behind him and cursed his luck that he had to be surrounded by wolves of all things. As the snapping neared Jack cringed back, but suddenly found himself filled with relief as Bunnymund hopped into the clearing and flicked a boomerang at the wolves successfully sending them yowling away into the night.
"What is it with you Frostbite, an' gettin into trouble?" Bunny asked with a quirked eyebrow, before handing Jack's staff back to him.
"Lovely to see you too, isn't it a bit too cold for kangaroos to be out?" Jack all but gasped up at Bunnymund who crossed his arms and stared at him till he spluttered out an apology.
"What'cha doing here anyway?" Bunny questioned as he watched Jack prod his arm gently before looking up at him.
"Oh you know the usual, took a tumble and got chased by wolves" His voice was too airy and it made Bunny suspicious.
"Define tumble for me, 'cause at tha moment it sounds like ya tripped over a rug" Bunny watched as Jack bit his lip before gingerly offering up his answer.
"Dropped my staff and fell out of the sky?" Jack smiled but snapped his mouth shut at the Pooka's expression.
"How high d'ya fall?" Jack bit his lip again before offering a small "Thousand feet…give or take"
Bunnymund sighed to himself and sort of flopped forwards, and then hopped over to help Jack up.
"Ya may be a guardian mate, but ya aint invincible" He pulled Jack into a standing position but had to grab him quickly before he fell over again "An don't say you're not hurt 'cause North'd skin me if I let ya fly".
~o0pruina0o~
Jack had to stay cooped up in his room for a few weeks after, not fully because he was still injured, but because the one time North had let him out of his room he'd frozen all of the dog themed teddy bears and then turned the Globe room into an ice-rink and thus half of the yetis refused to pass through meaning toy production dropped drastically.
Bunnymund had visited once, but only to laugh at the winter spirit and his confinement, and left rather quickly after a slushy snowball hit his face. When he was finally allowed out, Jack vowed to avoid dogs and wolves at all costs, then span off into the wind to honour a promise about a snowball fight he'd made to Jamie some time back.
Should I continue with oneshots where I regularly beat Jack up emotionally and physically?
