I am so sorry! I should have had this up ages ago! I have seriously just been so caught up with Doctor Who it's blocked my creative process! This is the last chapter it's not very long and I apologize for that. Thank you very much for the reviews and sticking with me to the end!
I don't own Rise of the Guardians!
Jack gasped and sat straight up. He looked around at his surroundings. He was in the woods near Jamie and Sophie's house. Everything that had happened in the past couple of months came flooding back to him. He looked down at his body and didn't see any of the injuries that were there before. He looked around for his staff and laughed/sobbed when he found it. He grabbed it and hugged it to his body.
"I died!" Jack muttered to himself.
"Yeah you did." He spun around and saw Tempus leaning against a tree.
"You're young again!" Jack said happily. Then he frowned. "How am I alive and how are you young again?"
"I fixed the time line." Tempus said happily.
"Jamie... Jamie actually killed me?" Jack asked running a hand through his hair.
"Not this Jamie." Tempus said softly. "This Jamie is your Jamie. He still has Sophie. He still has unwavering faith in you and the guardians. He isn't friends with Pitch."
"Sophie is still alive?"
"This is the night you and Jamie sat up talking." Tempus explained. "The night Pitch captured you. Don't let that happen this time."
"I won't." Jack said he still hadn't stood up.
"You should go see them."
"What if he hurts me again?" Jack asked softly.
"He doesn't even know he did that." Tempus explained. "He is your best friend. He is the boy that saved you and the other guardians all those Easters ago." Tempus walked over and pulled Jack to his feet. "Now go see them!"
Jack flew off to Jamie and Sophie's this time the two were still outside. Sophie was beaming when she saw him. The girl jumped up and gave him a huge hug which he quickly returned. He hugged her tight for a bit. She chuckled and gently pushed him back.
"You must have missed me a lot!" She said but she had a knowing look in her eyes.
"You have no idea!" He said looking at her taking in her being alive in front of him.
"Hey what about me?" Jamie asked jumping up towards him. He hugged Jack and didn't notice that Jack had tensed for the briefest of seconds. The hug was shorter then Sophie's. Jamie didn't say anything about it though.
"I was worried you weren't going to come!" Sophie admitted looking at her feet.
"And miss the opportunity to crush you two in a snowball fight?" Jack asked throwing a perfectly round snowball at Jamie. They had an all out fight that lasted until the kids mother called them in for the night.
Pitch
Pitch was watching Jamie and Sophie play with Jack he was hiding in the shadows. He sighed turning to leave.
"Where you going?" He spun around and saw Bunny standing there.
"Bunny." He said nodding at the giant rabbit. "I really must be getting back to my lair."
"Aren't you going to talk to him?"
"What are you talking about?" He asked hotly.
"Tempus let me remember." Bunny said shrugging. "I told him one of the guardians had to remember to make sure the children would always be protected. As well as safe from themselves."
"Very nice."
"Go talk to Jamie."
"The last time he saw me I was trying to destroy you and Jack." Pitch said quietly "He won't want to see me."
"Just try mate."
"Just leave me be." Pitch said disappearing into the shadows.
Jack
The next nightJack was sitting outside Sophie's window when she came upstairs after dinner. She smiled when she saw him. She walked over and opened the window for him.
"You want to know if I remember?" She asked looking at him.
"Yes."
"I remember drowning." She said as he sat on her window frame. "You weren't there. You never came and saved me."
"I couldn't. You have to know I would have done anything to save you." Jack said desperate for her to understand that.
"But you didn't!" She said stomping her foot.
"Pitch captured me!" Jack said looking at her.
"He's telling the truth Soph." They both turned and saw Jamie standing in the doorway.
"You aren't suppose to remember!" Jack said pointing at him.
"I've just been having nightmares about weird things happening. Me torturing you to death!" Jamie said shocked.
"That happened." Jack said frowning.
"How are you here?"
"That's be me." Tempus was sitting on Sophie's bed. "You really are a special boy if you remember everything that happened."
"Is Pitch around?"
"He's not here right now no." Tempus said sadly. "He didn't want to face you hating him. He'll always be watching out for you though. Hiding in the shadows."
"You'll see him again one day." Jack said ruffling Jamie's hair.
"I don't understand how you are alright around me." Jamie said staring in disbelief at Jack. "I killed you!"
"That was a different time line. Wasn't it Father Time?" Tempus grumbled at the nick name but agreed with the winter spirit non the less. "Sophie I am sorry I couldn't save you in that other time line. I am so so sorry."
"It really wasn't your fault?" He shook his head quickly. "Then don't let it ever happen again!" She said playfully punching his arm.
Pitch watched from the shadows as Tempus told Jamie about him and as Jamie admitted to remembering. He didn't come out though. He wanted the boy to better then he was in the other time line. If that meant he didn't talk to him that was what he had to do. You have to make sacrifices for those you care about.
Jamie was better then the other him. He grew up always believing in the guardians. He became a grade school teacher and would often be caught staring into the shadows. He knew Pitch was there, but he didn't want to push him to come out. Jack would always come around and spend winter with him and his family. Sophie would come back up from her house in South Carolina where she moved to be with her husband for a few weeks every winter. The two never stopped believing and they never forgot what had happened.
Crappy ending I know but it's actually how I have been meaning to wrap it up! Please leave a review and thanks for reading!
