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Hello all my lovely ankle-biters! If you wanted some Jack love, here it is! Last time we left off, Jack had challenged Bunnymund to an egg painting contest so here it is. Also in this chapter we learn a bit about April and her past so enjoy!

Guest Bunnymund's Girl - I'm glad you are so enthusiastic and thank you for all the praise. Don't worry, there is going to be tons of jealousy and really, the story is only just beginning! I have to agree with you, Bunny is rather sexy. When I was going to watch RotG for the first time I said to my friend: "I love Jack Frost, he's going to be my favourite character!" She then said "Are you sure it's not the badass rabbit voiced by Hugh Jackman?" I watched the movie and called her up and said "You are right, I love a six foot one rabbit with an aussie accent." I still love Jack to bits and melt for him but I'm a Bunny mate. xD

~CandiLand95

The Challenge was simple enough, Bunnymund and Jack had five minutes to paint a single egg the best they could and once they were finished, their eggs were judged by "Little Miss Sunshine" (as Jack had nicknamed her) and she would crown the winner "King of the Egg-Painters". At first April protested but both were persistent she judge the competition between the two. Both males sat close to the edge of the creek with dozens upon dozens of eggs jumping up at them, wanting to be a part of the main event.

After a few minutes fruitless minutes of trying to calm them down, April had enough of the eggs and a small hedge no thicker than her two thumbs put together and no higher than her ankle grew between them and the competitors. "If you want to be painted, line up behind this line and wait your turn!" She scolded the little ones.

Bunny was amazed, the egg listened to her and lined up like well behaved children on the other side of the mini hedge. Jack picked up the first egg and smiled at it, thinking of a fantastic idea that would definitely put him above Bunny. Bunnymund too picked up the next one and closed his eyes, getting a visual of what he wanted to paint on it's shell. April smiled at the little googies and turned back to the competitors. "Ready... Set... GO!" and they were off! Painting quickly and carefully while April painted much simpler designs on the others.

Five minutes later they all put down their brushes and the two guardians handed over their eggs to the spirit who stared at both in amazement.

Jack kept to his main theme of ice and painted a winter wonderland that was his lake in Burgess but the thing that stood out the most was a single red rose, just like her own, growing in the centre of the lake. He had dipped his brush into the water thinking of a clear paint with gold glitter which added a magical look to the wonderful artwork.

Bunny, living up to his reputation as the painter of Easter eggs, had painted the place where April had awoken for the first time and claimed as her home. The beautiful ancient tree she slept in was there with an Easter Lily with a small blue-grey bunny sniffing the flower curiously. And to finish it off, on the top and bottom of the egg was golden ivy vines twisted like her crown.

She was so touched and amazed by both. She opened her mouth a few times but she simply could not say a word. "You like it sunshine?" Jack asked hopefully.

April nodded her head and held them out for the two to take back. "They're both beautiful..."

"Yes, but who won?" Bunny urged, wanting Frost to be put in his place... there was no way that dill was better than him and what he does, there was no way he could beat the EASTER BUNNY at painting EASTER eggs.

"Obviously I won, look at the detail in the snow!"

"Oh please, a little glitter and you're all that? You ain't David Bowie mate. What about the Ivy boarders?"

"There's a smudge."

"Wait, what?!"

April sighed and walked away from the bickering pair, there was no way in hell or high water she was going to tell them who she thought was better. No, she would let them bicker it out of themselves. 'They will probably forget about it once they finish' April thought to herself as she bent down the pick up a stray egg that had a tiny chip in it, not noticing the two Guardians had stopped bickering and were outright gawking at her as she did.

"Wow..." Jack said again, his eyes glued onto April's backside. Her skirt was pulled tight and raised just a little bit more, showing off her long slender golden legs. Jack had seen many... things... in his 319 years, but nothing made him feel like THAT before. Well maybe Tooth but Jack was pretty sure she was with North.

"I saw her first!" Bunny hissed at him, eyes also on her ass. His primal instincts were scratching at the surface of his brain, begging him to do something, claim her.

"She ain't got a ring on her finger, she's not your daughter, thank moon. So you can't stop me. You snooze, you lose Peter Rabbit." Jack said, getting up and out of arms reach of Bunnymund who was practically seething. He flew over to April with his trademark grin and Bunny hopped off angrily once again, ignoring his animal instincts.

'Jack's right, I've had three hundred and one years and I haven't done Jack-shit' He thought bitterly as he hopped away from the two. April giggled loudly and Jack laughed mischievously and Bunny felt cold daggers go through his heart which sunk down to his feet making them heavier with each hop.

"Where did Aster go?" April asked Jack, looking around for the large Pooka.

"Oh, he's just cooling off, otherwise he might say something he might regret." Jack explained, leaving out why he needed to cool off. "Speaking of cooling off... I've got something for you..."

He lifted his palm to his lips and blew a frosty cloud whilst April watched in awe. When the cloud cleared, a small ice rose rested on his outstretched palm. It was the most beautiful flower she had ever seen, the light of the sun bounced off some parts while other parts passed through it and reflected off the inside making it shine a thousand colours. Jack watched her as she hesitantly reached out for it and smirked. "You can touch it, it wont melt. It's hard to make but it's worth it." He said softly.

April's excited green eyes meet his forever blue eyes and he felt a jolt in his chest. "Jack I-" She looked like she was going to say something but a voice inside her head stopped her and she smiled gently. "Thank you."

April carefully picked up the froze rose and walked over to a rather shady patch of the warren by the clear stream and under a large tree. Jack followed her curiously as she dug a small hole just underneath a tall oak and planted the ice rose. "Uh, I don't think it works like that..."

April flashed him a quirky smile. "Shows what you know about me" Jack's cheeks frosted slightly and April's cheeks flushed a rosy blush 'What is wrong with me today?' She asked herself. She turned back to the rose in the ground, closed her eyes and touched the surrounding soil. Concentration and determination could be seen on her face as she willed her magic to flow from her crown to her fingertips and slowly the ice rose grew roots in the ground. Jack's eyes widened as the single rose grew up into a fully bloom, solid ice rose bush.

"Whoa." Was all he could manage to say as the branches twisted and weaved delicately and beads of sweat covered April's brow. Jack looked at April worryingly but he knew she could do this on her own, she was powerful and he knew if he tried to tell her she would refuse to believe it. 'She kept Pitch at bay when I was knocked out in the first round.' He thought half proudly, half annoyed. Was she more powerful than him? How come he had never heard of her before? How come he felt he knew her? Was connected to her?

April fell backwards panting but proud of her work. Jack looked at the rose bush and smiled, she had turned a forever frozen ice and turned it into a blooming plant that shimmered and glowed. "Do you like it?" April asked sleepily, her chest still heaving from the heavy usage of power. It took a lot out of her, creating an entirely new plant, and the ice part made it twice as difficult and draining.

Jack locked eyes with her and smiled gently, understanding she needed to rest. "I love it." April grinned and slowly closed her eyes and laid down on the soft grass and instantly fell asleep smiling slightly. "Crap. Bunny's going to kill me." Jack groaned but one look at the sleeping figure, and he knew the hiding was going to be worth it. Her fridge fell over her left eye and Jack frowned. It reminded him of his little sister on the ice, her cheerful smile, brown hair covering her left brown eye, the last joyful memory he had as a human.

Jack shook his head, there was no way she was his sister. His sister had grown up, had children of her own which descended down to his first believer and his little sister Sophie. Anyway, it still bugged the hell out of him, being reminded so much of his little sister. So Jack reached over to move her hair out of her face when a boomerang swooped around his head, freezing him in his tracks. "What happened?" Bunny growled, looking at Jack hunched over April's unconscious body.

Jack looked at April and realised how bad this looked. "She's just worn out Bunny." He scoffed, getting up out of the way of Bunny's view of April's sleeping form. Aster's eyes flickered to the ice roses and his eyes narrowed. "Don't you trust me Roo?" Jack asked cockily, leaning against his staff.

"No." Bunnymund said flatly. Jack laughed at that while Bunny moved April into a more comfortable position that would save her back a hell of a lot of pain when she woke. After a minute of silence and much staring, Jack finally broke the silence.

"What was on the egg?"

Bunny shifted uncomfortably, he knew this was coming. "Her home. It's where she woke up as April. Kinda like the lake in Burgess for you." Jack frowned and looked back at April.

"How do you know that? How do you know her? She certainly didn't know you." He was busted.

A sigh escaped Bunny's lips as he carefully calculated the hearing distance between them and April. Taking a few steps away from April, he stopped and re-analysed the distance making Jack roll his eyes. Satisfied, Bunnymund sat down and Jack took a seat next to him."It was Easter 'bout three hundred years ago, give or take and I was finishing up hiding all my eggs for the little ankle-biters to find."

Jack rolled his eyes, of course Bunny would start his story with his bloody Easter. The older guardian saw the Frost spirit's reaction and a low growl escaped his lips and his eyes narrowed at Jack. "Sorry! Go on! Continue."

"Anyway, I heard footsteps and shouting so I hid in a bush and waited for the humans to pass." Bunny continued. "Then a pack of rugrats, all different ages and looks ran into a clearing not too far away from where I was hiddin'. And then a young woman with flaming red hair and dark blue eyes ran up to them with two little nippers on each hip." He smiled at this memory and Jack bit his bottom lip to try to control his laughter, Bunny's Australian slang could be too much at times.

"She gave the little kids to the elder ones and said to them 'Take the younger ones and follow the path down to Danielle's house and tell her what happened. You children mean the world to me, I'll try to slow them down but keep running okay?' She quickly hugged them and they took off." Bunny's expression grew darker and his smile dropped. "The man on the moon told me to follow after them and so I did except the little buggers where going the wrong way. So I left a trail of eggs and led them to safety. But by the time I got back, she was laying underneath a tree in a pool of her own blood..." Bunny's voice cracked slightly as he remembered seeing her laying there under the tree.

He had wanted so desperately to run over and try to save her but he could tell she was gone. Her red hair had been fanned out around her in waves and bits of twigs and leaves had gotten caught in the locks. What had happened to her while he was gone? Who had done such a devious act of taking away a beautiful creature's life? He might never know.

His expression grew brighter and his eyes grew slightly shiner with tears "Then Manny shinned his light over her... She was glowin like the sun. Her hair turned into the exact shade as the wood of the tree she was laying under, her skin became sunkissed and when she opened her eyes..." He let out a watery chuckle. "Bloody oath I had never seen such beautiful green eyes! She picked up this crown and placed it on her head."

He took a deep breath and looked over at April and smiled. "And after that night, I have been protecting April, making sure nothing bad happens to her."

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I had to bring David Bowie into this... I just had to xD