Sorry you had to wait a few days!

'Uhm... Remind me again why I agreed to this?' Jack was fidgeting slightly and had a nervous look in his eyes.

The guardians were now all sitting in a big room at the Tooth Palace, with a high ceiling and golden ornaments everywhere. Tooth said it was where all the memories of the immortals were kept. Then she mentioned them to sit down on the cushions lying on the floor in a round. Making themselves comfortable they waited for Tooth to come back with Jacks memories.

'Jack you don't have to do this! We can still return to the North Pole and forget about this!' North smiled at the uncomfortable looking teen. Jack was suddenly really not so sure, if this was a good idea. After all it were his memories, his past, some of his innermost feelings... And to top it all, Tooth had explained that they had no influence on what memory they would watch, not even Jack himself!

His line of thoughts was stopped by Tooth entering the room with a huge smile on her face and a silver chase with a white snowflake on it, being carried behind her by several babytooths.

'What is this supposed to be?' Jack looked perplexed at her and the chase. 'I thought my memories were all in the toothbox... you know, the little golden one!'

'Well, yes... basically. But only the ones from when you were human. But inside this one...' She held the chase up in triumph. '… are ALL your memories!' Tooth grinned from ear to ear. 'And it's also like a back up storage! I mean, an immortal lives soo awfully long and quite some memories come together over the time...'

The guardians looked questionally at her. 'Back up storage?'

She squirmed a little. 'Um... yes. I decided to copy all the immortal memories inside such chases, after SOMEONE' She glared at on of the babytooths, who grinned innocently and left as quick as possible. 'had lost the memories of an immortal...'

Tooth sighed and then realised the stares the others were giving her.

North, Bunny, Sandy and Jack looked utterly shocked.

'Guys it's alright!' She held her hands up in appeasement. 'Mother Nature didn't mind at all. And I made sure all of her memories were recollected. So, no harm done!'

Sensing it was a touchy subject for her, they dropped it.

'By the way. If this hasn't happened, we would have never started to use this wicked cool memory-crystals!', Tooth announced and hauled a crystal ball out of the box. Then she placed it in front of the guardians and smiled proudly.

The spirits all looked awed at the ball, which contained every single of Jack Frost remembrances. Only Bunnymund had a sceptical mien. 'I thought I am going to take a look at frostbites past, not to get my fortune read...'

At this gave him the Tooth Fairy a pointed look and Sandy just shook his head.

'However...' Tooth replied icily towards Bunny and then turned with a soft smile on her face to Jack. 'Are you ready?'

Shocked, Jack remembered his earlier doubts. Was he ready?

He frowned a little and then nodded his head in agreement. 'Yes, I am.'

'Then let's go!' She cheered and mentioned for Jack towards the crystal.

The winter spirit extended his hand hesitantly. The moment he touched it, the room was wrapped in a bright warm light.

Here we go... was the last thing Jack Frost thought before he and the guardians entered his first memory.


(The first memory: Italics are for memories and normal for talk between the guardians watching it.)

When the bright light faded away and they found themselves standing in the middle of a forest. Of course weren't the guardians really standing there, but were in some kind of astral bodies, which allowed them being present in every memory.

It was around spring time, because everything was in bloom. The leaves of the trees were green and beautiful flowers spread over the ground. The early morning sun shone lightly through the green leaves right at a small wooden cottage. It was so pastoral, they nearly couldn't believe it.

'Wow... It's beautiful!' Tooth whispered.

All of a sudden, the idyllic air of the springtime forest was disturbed, by a girl coming out of the cottage. 'Come on!' She had brown eyes and hair, a big grin on her face. She didn't seem to be older than 6 years old.

'Emily...' The guardians looked quizzically at Jack. 'Who is she?' The white-haired spirit looked sadly at the girl, his eyes never leaving her. 'She's my little sister, Emily.' With realisation, they looked back at the girl, who now laughed.

'Ja-ack! You promised!'

A boy, with the same hair and eye color, emerged the house and shook his head while laughing. They didn't see it at once, but the resemblance was clear. It was Jack, human and around 15.

'I know, I know!' He lifted his hands in a defensive way. 'And I'm here, aren't I? Although it is awfully early...' Emily sticked out her tongue at her older brother but smiled.

'She's most definitely your sister...' Bunnymund snickered. Jack just copied his sisters action and then turned back to watch his memory.

The children started to walk through the woods, chatting and laughing.

'All I say is, it can't be so difficult to hide some hard-boiled eggs!' Jack laughed and earned a punched from his sister. 'But Jack! The Easter Bunny hides thousands of eggs ALL OVER THE WORLD and that in one day!' Emilys eyes grew serious.

The teen smiled musingly and then said. 'A great accomplishment! But I wonder how he manages it not to forget any children...'

'So... it's a great accomplishment, eh?' The Easter Bunny laughed.

The little girl suddenly stood still. Jack looked stunned and turned towards her. Then he saw the tears building in her brown eyes and was immediately by her side.

'Sis, what's wrong?' She stayed silent and looked at the ground.

'Emy...?'

His younger sister faced him and whispered fearfully. 'What if the Easter Bunny forgets us? With all the children he has to think of...'

Jack hugged his sister lovingly and smiled. 'He won't.'

'But how do you know? I mean we life in the woods and...' She couldn't stand it any longer and sobbed in his shoulder.

Jack pulled her closer and sat down. Now she was sitting in his lap. 'Shh... It's okay...'

'H-how ca-an it be o-kay?'

Her brother lifted her head, so she was facing him. His expression was serious.

'If the Easter Bunny forgets you, I swear to you that I'll search for him till I finally find him and then, I'm gonna kick him in the ass for being such an idiot!'

Emilys eyes widened.

'But only when you stop crying. Is that a bargain?' Jack smiled and wiped away some of her tears.

She grinned and nodded.

'That's my sister!' He stood up and took her by her hand. 'Then... let's hunt down the easter eggs!' They started walking again and both laughed.

'You're a wonderful brother, Jack.'

The winter spirit frowned. 'I made her cry...'

'Yes, you did.' Jack looked shocked at Bunny, who just smiled. 'But you comforted her and gave her hope... That's even more important and all that matters!'

The first memory! I was debating so long if I should start with his human or his immortal ones... hope it was the right decision!

And a big THANK YOU to orangevbnin for pointing my mistake with the name of Jacks sister out! (For those who didn't notice: I renamed her from Pippa to Emily. Because I learned that Pippa is a girl from Burgess and a friend of Jamie!)