Jack pushed open Luna's unlocked bedroom window. He peered around the room. It had been three days since Luna's death, and the people who were investigating her disappearance had finally left. They had concluded that she was a runaway.
The boy wandered past Luna's dresser, tapping the wood and running his fingers over the various snowglobes and figurines. He sighed. He made his way over to her desk, which was barely visible beneath the folders, papers, notebooks, and pencils. He sat down on the chair and picked up a notebook. He opened it and saw himself looking back.
It was him.
She had drawn him.
And it was perfect.
She had taken into account every last detail. From the exact shapes of his eyes down to the barely-there freckles that dotted his cheeks. Not one silver hair was out of place. He turned the page. Another Jack. This one was his profile and his eyes were closed. Again, every detail was spot-on. On the next page was Sandy. He was looking at something in the distance with a day-dreamy smile on his lips. Jack flipped through the pages and marveled at how she had captured each and every one of the Guardians so splendidly. It was especially interesting to see how she drew Tooth's feathers so intricately.
After looking through a few more notebooks that were filled with mermaids and dragons and centaurs and other fairytale things, Jack came across a photo album. There were four page-marker labels sticking out of the side: Plants, Animals, Friends, and Family.
He leafed through the Plants and Animals sections, admiring how clear and beautiful the shots were. In the Friends section, there were several pictures of only two people. A thin girl with dark eyes and wavy brown hair and a tall, muscular boy with dark skin and short, black curls. In one picture, Luna was between the two of them and they all had their arms around each other and were smiling brightly. They were in dressy clothes, Luna being in a knee length silver dress with a bright blue sash. A small note in Luna's writing below the photo read: Lisa, Gerry, and me at the 8th grade Spring Fling. Even in that picture, she had her Moon necklace around her neck. Jack reached up and took his matching pendant out of his hoodie. He clutched it, sighed, then put it back under his shirt.
There were a lot of pictures of Lisa and Gerry, whoever they were. Luna and Lisa at a camp, Gerry holding some sort of sport trophy above his head, class pictures of the two of them. Were they really her only friends?
As he reached the Family section, he saw many photos of Angie, Ms. Nightingale, Phoebe, and tons of aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents. On a page all by itself was a picture of a handsome man who was very obviously Luna's father. Jack hadn't thought of it until then, but Luna had never spoken a word about him. He wondered where he was.
He turned the page and was surprised to see himself yet again. He was in the Family part of her book. In his photo, he was sitting on the floor in Luna's living room and leaning his back on the sofa, fast asleep. Underneath it, Luna had written:
Jack on Christmas morning.
He didn't even know Luna had photographed him! She must have put the picture in the album on Christmas, before Pitch abducted her. On the next few pages, there were photos from their tours of the workshop, the Warren, and Tooth Palace. She was taking pictures all that time and we didn't even notice? Jack laughed to himself. She was a sneaky little lady, wasn't she?
The little chuckles that he had let out stung in his chest, and tears burned in his eyes. He decided it was time to leave, and that he needed to go visit North. He had not been in contact with any of his friends since that terrible night. He took one last look around the room, then flew out. As soon as he was outside, only one thing caught his eye.
The Northern Lights.
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Jack entered the busy workshop to find that he was the last to arrive.
"What's going on?" he asked suspiciously.
"It's MiM," North replied. "He wanted me to gather all Guardians."
"Must be something big," stated Bunny. There was a strange quietness to the Pooka's voice. Although he was one of the toughest guys around, he was also very sensitive, and the loss of Luna visibly took its toll on him.
Then the Moon moved over the opening in the roof and looked upon his Guardians. A bright ray of moonlight shimmered down on the Guardians symbol on the floor. A shadow of Pitch wielding his scythe appeared in the light.
"Yeah, we know," Jack said, sounding a tad annoyed. Then, to their complete surprise, the floor began to open. Tooth and Sandy exchanged an excited look. The giant moonstone rose from the floor, glowing brilliantly. They all knew what this meant. Everyone in the room held their breath as a figure began to form above the stone. They froze in shock when the human figure was complete. All five of them looked as if their eyes would pop out of their heads.
Luna.
Jack began to laugh hysterically. There was now a new hope in his heart, as his little Snowdrop was alive, after all!
Chapter 10 at last! I'd like to thank Ya I'm THAT chick, Normal-is-boring-96, SomeRandomPerson (I made the cookies with unicorn spit and apple butter, so they give you life times infinity!) and Daisy54154 for their delightful reviews! Oh and Randomness, nice Bunny. I only know how to make a sideways chicken... (:3)=l And FireGirl12, thanks! But why does my story make everyone "die"?! Your comments motivate me so much and I LOVE them!
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