"Sandy is more sandier than you though."
"I should hope so!" Jamie said with a faint grin. Jack dropped, letting go of Jamie and falling from the tree. Jamie jumped down from the tree, seconds behind; Jack almost hit the ground. Jamie made sure he didn't while Bunny and Tooth stare; they hadn't noticed anything until it had been too late. Jack breathed heavily, mostly shocked that it had happened, but he hadn't eaten and he curled in on himself as he felt weakened.
"Maybe you should eat a little something first." Jamie murmured quietly.
"Do I have to?" Jack asked, giving him puppy eyes.
"At this point, if you want to stand on your own two feet... yes." Jack huffed.
"I'd rather lay on the ground then 'cause I don't wanna eat." Jamie sighed a little.
"You'll be unable to make frost and snow soon enough if you keep ignoring it. Considering how much of our energy those two... blighters spent. You're not going to be able to do much without an energy source. Jack turned in Jamie's arms while Bunny whispered softly in Jamie's ears.
"The bugger has to eat, if we don't when we're weakened then we fade; basically die. We need energy to stay alive." Jack huffed, shaking slightly as he felt really weak. Jamie nodded, looking up at Bunny, he'd only suspected that from reading old tales; the though of losing Jack like that made him shudder a little.
"You have anything on you?" Bunny thought a moment before rifling in a pouch.
"Got this... should tied him over a little while if nothing else." Bunny pulled out a chocolate egg. Jack hid his face.
"No."
"Jack... please. Don't fight this." Jamie murmured quietly. Jack just shook his head; he just couldn't eat. Jamie sighed.
"What is it going to take for you to just eat something?" He glanced up at Bunny helplessly; Tooth and Bunny exchanged a sad look. There wasn't much they could do and Jamie knew it, but what could he do? If Jack didn't eat... What was he going to do. Tooth sighed, whispering to Jamie.
"If he says no again... no other choice but force feeding." Jack shook his head.
"No. No food." Jamie sighed a little, shaking his head at Tooth's whispered words.
"I can't do that..." Well, okay he COULD... he just didn't want to have to... Jack shivered, going unconscious as he his body was shutting down on him. It needed the food, anything that would power him up. Bunny sighed.
"I'm afraid we have ta mate, the more he doesn't eat the less energy and I'd say by this week he'll fade." Jamie shuddered and sighed in resignation.
"Just... tell me what I need to do." Bunny sighed.
"First we need to get him on a feed bag 'cause I doubt he'll wake up when we give him an IV full of nutrients and... well, rub his neck so his swallowing reflex kicks in."
"Suppose I'd better get to it then... he's not gonna be happy about this though. I'll see you two back at the pole." Jamie shifted so that he could carry Jack properly and headed off for the pole. Tooth followed behind him while Bunny took a tunnel. Jack stirred slightly but collapsed as soon as he awoke. Jamie was setting Jack into one of the beds when he woke up and tried to get up.
"Stay down Jack. You collapsed, you need some help. SOME mind you." Jamie didn't elaborate beyond that.
"What?" Jack looked around.
"What's going on?"
"Just take it easy. Okay?" Jamie murmured. Jack relaxed only a smidge before he realized a pinch to his arm as the nutrients IV was put in. He looked down at it.
"What the hell!"
"Relax Jack. It's just to make sure you don't collapse again. Nothing more. No healing serum or anything like it, promise." Jamie said as he settled next to Jack while the yetis worked. Jack nodded, slowly falling asleep.
"Is he out?" Tooth asked gently as she prepared the feeding bag. Jamie nodded, watching her finish with the bag; just settling next to Jack to keep him company and watch her set it up once she's done with preparations. He was pretty sure Jack was going to be pissed when he woke up again and realized what the the three of them had done... Tooth fitted a mask on Jack's face, holding his head up, she pinched a nerve that made him open his mouth as they fed Jack and rubbed his throat to cause him to swallow a little at a time. Jamie watched, just in case he would need to do this at some point. Knowing how stubborn Jack could be first hand, though he didn't understand why Jack insisted on not eating... Tooth sighed a little.
"Jamie, I'm thinking that Jack may be anorexic." She sighed again as Jack started to close his mouth as he began to wake up.
"Oh man..." Jamie groaned. He knew all about that... Cupcake had gone that route... That had been a mess and no matter what he and the others had told her... Well, it had never really seemed to be enough. He wondered, fleetingly now, if she had had gotten better after his death... He pushed the thought aside because he needed to deal with Jack.
"Oh no! He can't be awake yet!"
"Um, maybe you should leave the room. If he's going to talk about this it's not going to be with anyone else in the room... if at all." Jamie murmured, shooing them out. Tooth nodded and was the first out of the room, followed by the yetis. Jack slowly opened his eyes, realization dawned on him almost immediately that something was on his face.
"What the hell?!" He looked at the tubes that connected to the feeding funnel and other things. Jack struggled in the bed, pulling the strange thing off him and almost pulling out the IV in the struggle. Jamie clamped down on the arm with the IV to at least keep Jack from pulling that one out.
"EASY! If you struggle too much you'll only hurt yourself!" Jack was afraid of what had happened while he'd been asleep as he struggled with the feeding tube, he felt the taste of soup and he glared at Jamie.
"YOU BASTARDS!" Jamie leveled Jack with a cold glare right back. He wasn't going to be intimidated this time. He'd faced down Cupcake... and she could be REAL scary when she wanted to be. Jack glared, spitting out the tube only to growl.
"What the fuck?! I said I wasn't hungry and yet you force feed me!" Jamie spoke quietly in return.
"You would leave me to my fate simply because you do not want to eat? Leave me with the burdens of the world and having to explain to your believers why you won't come when winter's tug demands snow? What makes you think those who love you will not do things you do not want for the sake of the whole? For your own sake?" Jack's glare softened as he turned his head.
"You wouldn't understand."