Miracle Winter Wish

Dreams

Chapter Five: A Dark Past And An Uncertain Future

The whole room was already covered with one inch of snow and the temperature had dropped another ten degrees within the past thirty minutes. The abnormally tall bunny and the sandy man were shivering and were staring at you like you had two heads.

You were not shivering, in fact the cold felt good to you.

"What is going on here?" You hear a voice with a Russian accent boom from down a hall.

You turn your head to the direction the voice came from and you see a tall but also big old man enter the room.

While three chitchat you manage to slip away and head upstairs to the "heart of the storm"

As soon as you one step inside the room, you notice the difference in temperature compared to where you just were.

Jack is sitting on the windowsill with the hood over his head, his legs were tucked in close to his chest, and his head was resting on his knees.

You walk up to the windowsill and take a seat in front of Jack. You sitting in a similar fashion as him, the only difference being you have your right elbow resting on your right knee. Your head slightly tilted and resting on your palm.

"What's wrong?" You ask sweetly.

Jack notices you but his gaze doesn't meet yours. "Tooth, told me she can't help you..."

"Why not? You said she keeps childhood memories safe and can retrieve them when necessary."

"That's true but there's nothing she can do for you."

You look at him confused. "Jack, I don't understand. Is there something you're not telling me?"

Jack finally makes eye contact with you. "Your memories...there's a lot of tragedies in them. It's too dangerous for you to relive."

You're still confused. "What do you mean?"

Jack sighs, "I'm sorry but I can't go into details. I probably told you more than I should have already."

Your confusion turns into frustration. "Dammit Jack, I trust you! Besides, those are mymemories neither you or some fairy has the right to keep them from me. So I'll give you a choice, either tell me yourself or I'll find the fairy myself."

Jack looks at you confused. "Wait, you don't...see her? But that means you don't believe..." Jack was barely audible and you didn't catch the last bit he said.

You raise an eyebrow. "What are you talking about?"

Jack stands up. "You don't believe in her."

"Believe in who? The tooth fairy? Well of course I don't believe in such childish things like her."

The winter spirit bows his head, his bangs covering his emotion filled eyes from you. "...Y-You believed in me..."

Before you can say anything else the spirit of winter is gone from your sight.

You're sitting in a chair in front the fireplace while on the other end of the room five guardians, two of which who are now invisible to you, are discussing the issue at hand.

"I say we just take her home where she belongs. Who cares if she doesn't believe in Tooth or Frostbite over there?"

The four feel a blast of frigid air hit them. "I do!" Jack says angrily.

"Oh, and why's that, mate? By the sound of things that spark you thought you had with her was nothing more than a trick your mind played on ya. I mean look at how easily she lost faith in you."

Jack just stares at bunny. "Don't give me that look, mate. Did you really think all that time you spent with the girl went unnoticed by any of us?"

Jack glares at bunny. "My mind isn't playing tricks on me. She's just confused, that's all."

"So Frostbite, how do you plan on getting her to believe in you again? She can't see or hear you and if you ask me, you're wasting your time and effort on a teenager who will probably forget about you again during her adulthood." Bunny points to the globe. "You're a guardian, kid. Your time and efforts need to be spent on children not on teenagers that always end up forgetting about us even if they don't want to."

Jack simply grins at the older guardian.

"What are you grinning about?"

"Oh, nothing. It's just for the older one here you're not wiser than me, Cottontail."

Bunny just watches Jack leave the pole. "And he wonders why I don't like dealing with teenagers." Bunny rolls his eyes. "They all seem to think they're smarter than the adults in their lives."

Bunny taps the floor with his foot and a hole appears. He jumps into it and it closes after him, leaving a flower where the hole once was.

With all the guardians gone the workshop has grown dark and quiet, at least until a laugh comes from the depths of the shadows.

"It's time to act my pets." The boogeyman pets his nightmares and then he snaps his skinny fingers, sending the nightmares to your neighborhood. He grins, dissolving into the shadows.