Author: This chapter is based on North's last words to Jack before Jack drowns and becomes Jack Frost. Most of the chapter takes place during Little Prince, the first half takes place during the fifth chapter of Little Prince.
Disclaimer: I don't own ROTG.
I vill be back in hour.
Balancing his bare feet on the thin tree branch, the newly made spirit of Winter watches the three figures search around the lake. The three people seem really desperate to find who or what it is that they are searching for.
From his place above them Jack wonders if he can help.
It's wrong to see them so... Like this.
Jack Frost doesn't know why, but it was all wrong... the large man in the bright red coat- he shouldn't look like that!
He shouldn't look like- like he was shattering!
He shouldn't be shattering!
So desperate and afraid!
Jack wants to help.
He really, really wants to go to them.
But what if they walk through him to? Like the people in the village had done? He doesn't want to go through that again.
So the newly made Winter child stays up in the tree.
He stays up there and watches.
Jack saw it when two of the three figures slowly lost hope gave up, he saw the two convince the man in the red coat to give up and go to a place named 'the pole', at least that's what the large rabbit thing said. Jack watched the golden man create an airplane from golden sand.
And finally, Jack Frost watched the plane take off. Watching till it was nothing more than a small golden dot in sky that eventually disappeared... And still Jack's sky blue eyes didn't stray from the dark night sky.
His chest hurts... He feels cold- but not.
They weren't supposed to leave...
Jack's alone now... the people in the village- they didn't see him- walked through him.
And those three people who had searched through the woods, near his lake-
'I vill be back in hour, just short talk with Mother Nature should do trick, da?'
Shaking his head to rid himself of such weird thoughts the newly made spirit of Winter looked down at his staff a small smile formed on his pale face. He touched the tree with the tip of his staff making the most beautiful frost patterns.
Carefully touching the frost, Jack's smile grew.
The world needs snow and there's new Winter spirit who needs to start and tame Winter.
And he'd throw himself into work- forget the sad feeling he had just now- and have a little fun instead.
-ROTG-
For years Jack Frost travels around the world bringing Winter, bringing mischief and bringing fun. He goes where Winter is needed, he knows so by instinct or sometimes does what Mother Nature orders.
Jack goes all around the world, visiting both the Northern and the Southern Hampshire.
He sees the most beautiful, amazing, wonderful thing all worth remembering. He meets the most extraordinary spirits, some friends some foes.
And yet... Jack always finds himself returning to the lake he 'woke up' in. Why he didn't know.
'I vill be back in hour, just short talk with Mother Nature should do trick, da?'
After years he started to refer to the lake as 'home'.
It isn't his home though.
But it's all he has now.
So he keeps returning.
And every time he lands at the lake Jack looks around, always there is something nagging- something at the back of his mind that he isn't allowed to remember.
'I vill be back in hour,'
On several occasions Jack feels like he's waiting for someone.
'I vill be back in hour,'
He never knows who or what he's waiting for... And usually he lets the feeling pass.
He's Jack, he has no family... Who would he be waiting for?
-ROTG-
300 years after 'waking up' from the lake, everything changes.
Pitch Black attacks.
Man in Moon chooses a new guardian.
Jack remembers.
And when it's all over Jack finally gets to get in the sleigh.
It's a little later than just an hour... But North's there- his dad, his family is there and Jack can finally go home.