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Jack pressed the play button to start the next memory once everyone calmed down. The screen showed once again Jack's home. He was on the floor what seems like a stuffed bunny in his hands. He was shaking the bunny just above the ground, making it seem like the bunny is dancing. Jack had a wide grin on his face.
"Jack is now 9"
(So ye liked to play with dolls back then, Jackie boy?" Anna asked trying to hold down giggles and falling at it
"Just watch" Jack said annoyed.)
Soon a little girl with the same brown hair as Jackson walks into the room, right towards Jackson and the dancing bunny. As she reaches to get it Jackson jumps back a foot and the little girl groans in complaint. "Jackie, bun-bun!" the little girl says
"Naught until ye catch me, Emilia!" Jackson said as he jumped back yet again as the three year old caught up to him.
"Bun-bun! Bun-bun! Bun-bun!" Emilia chanted as she got closer to her brother.
Jackson began making the bear dance again and he spoke in a deep voice saying "Emilia, I beseech the save me from this pudh lad!"
(Everyone was laughing at young Jack's antics.
"Kinda reminds me of how Jamie and Sophie used ta play when ya were that age" Bunny said
"yeah and it seems that Emilia has that same fasciation to bunnies too" Pippa pointed out)
"Ma look what I taught Emilia!" Jackson said looking at his mother how was stiring a pot of soup over the fire. "Emilia, what does a Bun-Bun do?"
"Bun-bun hop hop" the little girl said as he mimed the hopping like a bunny
(Everyone cracked up laughing again
"That is just the cutest!" Tooth said
"I can't believe she said the exact same thing as Sophie." Jamie said
"Yeah and if her hair was blond instead of brown I say she was Sophie." Cupcake said. "And Jack now that I see it, your human self looks a lot like Jamie too. That's weird"
"Aye weird" Jack said quietly)
"Well is that not just precious. Come hither dear, and help yer ma with the soup. Jackson if ye like thee can go out and play." Myrun said
"Aye!" the siblings chorused. The younger running to her ma and the elder running towards the door.
"I will be back before sundown ma!" he said as he walked out the door
"hold it right there lad, dost thou have something to talk of? Concerning Goodfellow Lenning, and his meat mayhap?" Alrek said as he sat by the fire place, slowly widiled a piece of wood.
"A…I did not believe it would be that bad?" Jackson said as he tried to ease out though the door.
"That bad! My boy you coated his meat in sugar, all his food went bad. Thee will held Goodfellow Lenning hunt down more meat, coating it in salt, and thou will go out to fields with me in the morning. It is time thee learned a trade and become an adult, understood?" Alrek said
Jackson stood there rigid and tense. 'Pa is right, I need to learn a trade now, both Elizabeth and Rachel have already been taught how to keep a house hold and the other lads in the village that are of the same year as I are proby to blacksmiths, bakers, and the such.' He bowed his head slightly and said "As thee wishes, Father."
"Good to hear boy, now go and enjoy your last day as child before you become a man." Alrek said with a smile on his face.
(the screen froze)
"Hey! Wherefore dost though grab mine remote!" Jack exclaimed
"We need some answers from ya, ya gumby." Bunny said
"Jack, why did your father have you take a job? You were only a child still." Tooth said
"That ratbag arsehole" Bunny mumbled under his breath. Though not quit enough for Jack had heard him.
"Durst ye talk of my Father in such a manner as that?! Ye whoreson fly-bitten scut! Mine father had done what all fathers of that time had done; teach his boy the family trade! Dost not insult mine Father again!" Jack said as he stood up grabbed Bunny's scruff, yelling in Aster's face.
"Both of you came down!" Tooth screamed. She turned and looked at Jack "Jack go sit back down now! Aster did not now of the customs back then, none of us truly did." Turning then to Aster "And you… Mind your language and apologies to Jack" she said coldly.
"Why? He insulted my mother and whatever that was after it!"
"While I don't condone Jacks language," she glared at Jack, "and I hope he will use more appropriate language in font of younger children. A three hundred year old sprite should know better, you, Aster are much older than him and should know even better, Aster." Tooth said "now go sit down and don't do it again or I will do something worse than simply yell at you, understood?"
"Yes ma'am" the two said simultaneously and then glared at each other.
"Ah… why was Jack getting a job, that is what a trade is right?" Monty asked
"Aye it is. A trade is your job, usually it is a job that runs in the family, like shepherding. And you tend to start young because life expectancy was also really young. Most men did not live past fifty."
"oh" was a resounding reply from those that were under a century in years.
(the memory began to play again)
Jackson walked out the door but then ran back in.
"Forsooth! I forgot I am going to show the staff thou gavest me for Christmas to Elizabeth and Rachel" Jackson said as he ran back into his room and came out holding a staff that is taller than him and looked very similar to the one that was covered in frost in Jacks hands.
("So ye always had that staff?" Anna asked
"Good ta see ya grew inta it." Bunny said as he chuckled to himself
"Yes I did, pa gave it to me the year I started helping him in the fields." Jack said to Anna and ignored Bunny's comment)
The scene changed from the house to the lake. Jackson was sitting atop the rocks with the staff in his grip. Rachel and Elizabeth were just walking into the clearing.
"Elizabeth! Rachel! Come see mine staff, Pa gave me it to me for Christmas!" Jackson said with a joyful grin on his face.
"And art thou going to shepherded with thy staff?" Rachel asked
"Aye, Pa wilt be taking me with him to the fields on the morrow!"
"That is wonderful" Elizabeth said, "I will miss you dearly while thou art in the field though" as she started wiping her eyes.
"Do not cry Lizzy-Beth, I wilt not tarry in the fields long" young Jack said.
"What did ye call mine sister?" Rachel said.
"Lizzy-Beth, I have heard yer ma and pa call her such oft."
"Aye that be true, but it be a pet name, one used by kin." Rachel said
"But ye art the dearest of friends to me, is that not like kin?" Jack said
Rachel just stood silently and Elizabeth looked at him, then moments later the two girls ran and hugged him. Elizabeth hugged him the tightest and longest.
"Enough with this talk! Let us play before I am off!"
"Aye! Let us play hide and seek!" Elizabeth exclaimed.
The three children ran and played till the sun was in its zenith, Noon. The girls were the first to depart and Jack slightly hesitant and making sure that they were home safe, made his way back home.
'I will miss the two dearly wilt I am gone, Elizabeth most of all.' He thought as he ran back to his home.
(the screen faded to black)
"Jack's got a girlfriend, Jack's got a girlfriend!" the young teens chanted.
"Ha ha, though for your information there was never such a thing as a girlfriend back then, you had either a wife or betrothed or nothing." Jack said.
"Still that was might cute, especially the nickname and thought," Bunny said.
"Whatever! Let's just get onto the next memory" Jack said, getting setting slightly uncomfortable with this conversation.
"I just hope it's not just you herding sheep. That sounds so boring" Claude chimed in
"It's far more interesting than you think." Jack said as he pressed play.