I AM SO SORRY. It's been over a week and I know that's ridiculous. Sorry sorry sorry (Sorry some more).


Chapter 7: Safe Haven

Jack felt completely detached from his body ; as though his mind was actually floating ten feet above his head. Did that make sense? Jack didn't know, nor did he care because in that moment he was free of pain, free of the knowledge of Eclipse's attack on his leg and free of the worry of what he looked like sprawled out on a bed in the infirmary in Santoff Claussen, with the Guardians leaning over him anxiously. So this is what it feels like to have lost a lot of blood? Jack would almost say he was enjoying the experience. Of course him being half conscious prevented anything coherent leaving his lips. He could here mutters and segments of conversation from voices he supposed to be his family

"He has suffered horrific break."

"The little buggers bone's not broken! It's crushed!"

"How are we supposed to help him!?"

Silence.

"You think that vill work sandy?"

"It's worth a try if it will help our sweet tooth."

"Alright, better wake him up before he loses all his strength."

That was when two furry paws gently held jacks shoulders and shook. A quiet groan escaped Jacks lips and his brow furrowed. Don't wake me. Don't bring me back to the pain.

"Snowflake? Ya need to wake up ok? I promise this won't take long." Bunny tried to coax the boy from his sleep as gently as possible.

"B-Bunny?" Jacks eyes opened slightly, squinting as the light of the room pierced them.

"That's right mate," Bunny breathed out, relieved that Jacks injury hadn't driven him into complete unconsciousness yet. "We have an idea that might fix your leg."

"My-my leg?"

Jack looked down to see his leg misshapen and bloody. That one look seemed to trigger the intense pain he had felt when receiving the injury and travelling back to the workshop with it. He stifled a gasp by covering his mouth with his hands, hunching his shoulders and suddenly shutting his eyes tight. In response to this Bunny nuzzled at Jacks temple with his nose in an attempt to comfort the boy while Tooth began to run her hand through Jacks damp hair, tears welling in her eyes.

"Jack," North spoke softly, realising that the sooner they fixed Jacks leg the sooner he'd be out of pain, "We think that if you made a cast for you leg out of ice that you form yourself your magic may be able to heal the break."

Jack took deep breaths, trying to focus on what North had said rather than the searing pain he felt radiating from his leg. Make a cast out of ice? How the hell do I do that? How the hell to I form ice when I'm this weak.

"Can't we-can't we fix it any other way?" Jack asked between deep breaths.

Sandy shook his head looking at Jack solemnly. For humans, this severe a break would result in amputation. For those with magic the limb could hopefully be saved.

"I'm afraid you must use your powers Jack."

Jack looked to Bunny and begged him with his eyes for a solution to his problem. Bunny could offer none.

"I'm sorry snowflake."

"B-but I don't think I can."

"You must." North pushed.

"I can barely sit up without feeling like I'm going to collapse again. How am I su-supposed to channel my powers?"

"We're here with you mate. We'll hold you up and support your staff."

Jack saw the sorrowful expressions on each of the Guardians faces and realised that him being in pain was hurting them almost as much as it was hurting him. He could see there was no other way around this. Fix a broken leg with magic or die trying right?

"Okay." Jack spoke quietly.

Bunny carefully placed his hands on either side of Jacks waist in order to support him. Sandy made a floating pillow of sand that he pushed under Jacks injured leg and slowly rose it up giving Jack a better view of it. North passed Jack his staff and Tooth started murmuring words of encouragement and comfort into Jack's ear.

Jack took several deep breaths, closed his eyes and put every ounce of energy he had left into his staff, channeling ice to spark out of it, creating a bright white lights to course around the wood of it.. Blue veins seemed to form around Jacks injured leg, spiraling down to his ankle. Ice soon followed in a thick coating completely encasing jacks injury. Once done the sparks of ice seemed to retreat back into jacks staff but the cast still light that once radiated from the staff ceased to exist Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, even Jack who within two seconds after finishing the act fell backwards onto bunny and into unconsciousness.

*-*-ROTG-*-*

"How could you be so reckless Aura?"

Augustus's words cut into Aura like a knife through butter but that didn't stop her from defending herself. The four winds stood in the globe room, rather Augustus, Gale and lofty stood while Aura was forced to sit on the window sill facing them. It felt too much like an intervention for her liking and she had had enough of the other winds thinking they were wiser than her despite them all being around the same age in spirit years.

"Reckless? No. What's reckless is the fact that despite sensing that I needed your help you didn't turn up. As soon as North thought Jack was in danger he came as fast as he could. So did Bunny. You didn't come to help me! I didn't expect you to but don't you dare call me reckless when you ignored the fact that Eclipse was with me and Jack in the North Pole."

Gale and Lofty looked painfully guilty about this. Both thought of Aura as a younger sister. A sister they never saw and didn't really know much about but a sister nonetheless. Aura held no grudge against Gale and Lofty though. Augustus was the only one who was able to sense when another of his spirits was in trouble. He was the "Leader" of the winds, similar to North's position in the Guardians, and therefore was the only one, out of the four, with this power.

"You transformed into human form even though you are much stronger as the wind. Don't tell me that wasn't pure naive stupidity on your half."

"I had to transform into this form to tell Jack that I thought someone was watching us! What did you expect me to do!?"

"I expected you to fight and to win Aura. It's what we do. Now I realise you are not capable of what I expect of you. You nearly got Jack Frost killed with that stunt."

Aura felt tears burning in her eyes. It' because of me Jack's still alive. Why can't you see that. Why can't you ever see any good in me. Aura was above crying in front of Augustus. She wanted his respect more than anything. Maybe more than being seen by Jack. She excused herself and walked out of the Globe room and to the nearest empty workroom, locking herself in. She would remain there until the tears refused to come. Until felt nothing.


I'm not sure how often new chapters will be released in the next three weeks because I have exams. Like the biggest exams of my life so far and their kind of a big deal (Pronunciation of "Kind of" differs but I say it like "My life is over I'll never get a job or go to university my life is over my life is over" but it's watevz)