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Author's Note: I am posting the first five chapters of this story now (including the Prologue in the prior chapter). I am hoping to add a few more by the end of 2018. Most of these will be shorter chapters, and will focus heavily on Jack and Jamie, as well as their relationship and how others perceive it. As I learn more about Katherine (from the Guardians of Childhood books), I will include asides referencing and comparing her with Jamie. And as I learn more of the backstory to characters like North, Bunnymund, Toothiana, and Sandy, I may include references to that, as well. So I may be going back and editing a bit in these earlier chapters, but for now, please enjoy them!

Summary: Jamie Bennett had always been an extraordinary and precocious child. Befriending Jack Frost had only reinforced that...[Multi-Chapter. Movie- and Book-Based. Familyfic.]

"Speech/Dialogue"

Personal Thoughts (Italics)

.:Dream-Bonded:.

By Sentimental Star

Chapter One: Of Guardians and Believers

Among the Guardians, it was a well-known fact that every couple of centuries, they might encounter a child of whom they grew incredibly fond—more so than the hundreds upon thousands upon millions of children who entered their care each year.

(Katherine had been one such child.)

They'd just forgotten the fantastic experience of finding their First Believer.

They'd each had one, even MiM. Even Pitch.

But even by First Believer standards, Jamie Bennett was an exceptional child.

(Katherine would have been a great friend of his, North ruefully admitted.)

After all, what other Believer had still Believed, even with all other Lights gone out?

North and Bunny, even Tooth and Sandy, had freely admitted to some jealousy that Jack's First Believer was such a one.

Or, well, they would have, if they had not been so awed by the fundamental change Jack underwent upon meeting him.

To be fair, the Easter battle with Pitch had been deeply transformative for Jack all around.

(Themselves, too, to some extent.)

Not only had the winter spirit found his First Believer, he'd regained his mortal memories and discovered his Center, all in one go.

All of it had resulted in a phenomenally altered Jack, who had proven himself to be selfless and courageous, young-old, full of childish wisdom and whimsy, with a kind and vulnerable heart. In short, everything MiM had hoped for and then some, upon reviving the once-human boy from his watery grave.

And he was soon to be much-beloved, not just by the Guardians and the children of the world, but by Jamie, too.

TBC