Ok….I am an addict to Bunny/Jack Brother fluff…So this is yet ANOTHER fluffy chapter devoted to Jack and Bunny, hopefully with lots of angst though it won't be too weepy. I don't think… LOL

I do not own ROTG…and I hope everyone enjoys this really odd idea that came out of nowhere.

Jack sat in his room, his face set in an angry pout as he mashed buttons on the video game controller with frustrated thumbs. Loud music blasted through his ear buds as he cut his way through enemies on the screen in front of him. Never before had the winter spirit been so happy that North had installed the TV in his room, along with the Playstation 3, and Xbox 360, it provided the perfect distraction from something he did not want to spend any amount of time thinking about. For the first time since they met, Jack had had a major blow up with Jamie, a huge fight that resulted in Jack flying off in anger.

Now he was sitting in the swivel chair in his room, watching his virtual character slash through monsters with a giant sword in berserker mode, wishing that he could just numb the pain with soda and popcorn. This was the state that E. Aster Bunnymund found the winter sprite. Bunny came in right as Jack made the screen explode with color and sound as some guy in Arabian type clothing with a sword in one hand, and a dagger in another navigated his way through a large castle that was crawling with monsters and creepy zombie like creatures. He winced at the violence of the game before looking over at Jack, his green eyes softening at the pain leaking through Jack's tough guy façade.

Leaning against the doorframe, the Pooka considered his options. Due to the loud music blasting into the headphones from the iPod, Jack hadn't heard the warrior rabbit open the door, which meant that Bunny could leave if he wanted to. But judging from the forlorn sighs emanating from the child, Aster could not bring himself to leave without checking on him, which of course left him with a new problem, how to do so? Jack didn't look like he was in the mood for their usual banter; no doubt the smallest tease or insult could send the spirit flying to Antarctica, which would then lead to Bunny being scolded by Tooth, North, and even Sandy. But the warrior rabbit wasn't one to be all mushy, at least, that's what he told himself. So he took the only option available to him that would yield positive results, he pulled over the second swivel chair and sat down next to the spirit. Bending over he picked up a controller and fiddled with it, trying for the entire world to appear casual.

Jack heaved an aggravated sigh when he noticed Bunny sit next to him out of his peripheral vision. With an irritated flick, he pulled one of the head phone buds from his ear, and huffed at the rabbit "What do you want Cotton tail?"

"Nuthin" Aster shrugged "Just wondering what this doohickey is, tha's all."

"Whatever, don't lie to me" Jack mumbled as he did a particularly nasty number on a gigantic spider "You know that this is a Playstation 3, it doesn't take a genius to figure that out."

Bunny's whiskers twitched at the comment that could either way as a compliment or an insult, but he decided not to take the bait, and continue said 'normal conversation'. "Ok" he said with paws lifted in the air in mock surrender "Ya got me there, I know what a Playstation 3 is, but I do not know the games for it, including this one."

Jack rolled his eyes, feeling very much like the teenager he was "It's called Prince of Persia."

"Interestin' name" Bunny murmured, his green eyes watching the screen "and the purpose of this game would be…?"

"Destroy all demonic dust monsters that were created by the sands of time, who now walk around trying to suck the life out of people." Jack said emphasizing his words by slashing various birds, cutting a dust monster in half, and then powering his dagger up in order to create a blast big enough to destroy a stone blocking his way from going down a secret passageway.

Aster merely gave a sage nod, one of his eyebrows raised towards the ceiling as he watched the violence on the screen reach a fever pitch as Jack ran head first into a den of monsters, his character jumping around, blasting, slashing, and running along walls shooting the gun while cutting with his sword. Giving a snort, Bunny cast an obnoxious grin at the angry boy, his green eyes twinkling with mischief.

"You know" he drawled "I can do every single one of those move ya did with that guy of yours."

"The Prince is different from you" Jack muttered "He uses a sword and a dagger, at the same time, you use those wooden stick things."

"Oi!" Bunny exclaimed in mock indignation "Those 'wooden stick things' are boomerangs, and they are more powerful than most people give 'em credit to bein'. Besides, I told you, I'm a master of tai chi, and the ancient art of Jiujutsu, which means that I've had weapons trainin'. I just choose to use the boomerangs because they are from my home."

Jack allowed a glimmer of his old self peek through as the smallest smirk quirked one side of his mouth "So…" he said slowly, the smirk becoming a small grin "You can do this?"

The Prince ran up one wall, jumped flipping over a group of sand demons, but then doing a combo slicing their heads off. Bunny winced, but nodded his head "Yeah, that is a pretty basic move."

Jack pursed his lips "What about this?"

Thumbs flying over the controller, Jack made his character fling himself backwards as he danced on his hands doing some kind of cartwheel spinning kick, demolishing several sand demons at once, Bunny scoffed "Please, that one only looks hard because the spinning makes it fancy, but tha's the easiest one in the book."

Jack allowed a small giggle to burst past his lips "Alright, how about this one?"

The Prince ran up to an enemy, jumping onto the creature's chest and then leaping high into the air. Flipping his body over the monster, the character came down, slicing the thing down the back, and then the Prince swooped down for sweeping kick just inches off the grass. Aster gave a big grin "I could do that!" he said "If I wanted to."

"Oh yeah?" Jack taunted his blue eyes finally brightening from the funk he had fallen into from his fight from Jamie "Then why don't you prove it next time we get in a fight with some of Pitch's nightmares!"

"Fine then" Bunnymund harrumphed "I will!"

Jack laughed, but then things became quiet again as the two sat in companionable silence, while Jack continued his assault on various dust demons, and Bunny found himself watching the characters moves, unable to deny that the moves executed by the character, though brutal, were beautiful to watch, especially from a trained warrior's point of view. But as time passed, Bunny noticed the boy slowly sink back into his bad mood, though without the angry undertone, now he just looked deflated, like he couldn't muster the energy to maintain a spirit of fun, which worried Bunny to no end.

"A'right Snow flake" Bunny said as upbeat as he could "Why don't you pop in a two player game, and we can talk about what's eatin' you alive?"

Jack bit his bottom lip and considered turning the rabbit down, but he couldn't bring himself to do it. Just the fact that Aster came in to his room, and was willing to sit and play video games with him, almost like a big brother would for his younger sibling, it made Jack feel safe. Like right now he was in a special bubble where no pain existed, and he could say anything without fear of it getting out. Finally with a sigh of resignation, the winter sprite stood up, and popped in his favorite combat racing game. As the opening theme for JakX played through the speakers, Jack gave Bunny the tutorial for how to drive, use his weapons, and how to use his turbo boost.

Finally they were on the starting line, and Jack quickly discovered that Bunny had more knowledge in video games than he had first let on, especially racing games, which the winter spirit discovered after Bunny used a missile launcher to blow him over a ravine and take the lead. Blue eyes glared at the rabbit, then turned back to the screen as he used his turbo to jump over a hole, and thereby gain the lead by making himself a shortcut. Bunny's jaw dropped, but then he gave a robust laugh at the way the kid had used his car's hydraulics to first jump, and then the turbo to make it over the ravine and back onto the track. Fidgeting himself into a more comfortable position, Aster got his 'game face' on, and put even more focus into defeating his rival. The race ended with Bunny and Jack going neck and neck towards the finish line, but Aster had an ace up his sleeve, suddenly putting on the brakes, the rabbit shot his last missile at the boy seconds before he was going to go over the finish line. As the winter sprite's car went up in flames, Bunny zoomed past, and took first place, leaving the second car in the dust awaiting to be resurrected on the track.

The Pooka gave a triumphant shout, and Jack gave a good natured roll of his eyes before clicking on another race.

"So" Bunny spoke softly as he watched Jack scroll through possible race tracks "You gonna say what's makin' ya so angry?"

Jack blushed, suddenly feeling very silly for why he had holed himself up in his room "Um.." he muttered "Jamie…Jamie and I… We had a fight."

At this Bunny shot the winter spirit a look of shocked surprise "You and Jamie had a fight?" he asked incredulously "I didn't think the two of ya were capable of fightin' with each other."

Jack gave a bitter snort "Yeah, well it happened."

"Can I ask what happened?"

The winter sprite looked down at his lap, the video game forgotten for the moment as he struggled to swallow a lump that had formed in his throat. "I's nothin'" he muttered softly.

"Snowflake" Bunny sighed "It can't be nothing if you don't even have the energy to try and have fun. Whatever it was that you fought about, it's messin' with ya center, and it ain't healthy to keep things bottled up, especially things that hurt ya."

"It's just…" Jack swallowed trying hard not to let the tears fall "Jamie's mom and dad are getting a divorce, and when I tried to help by cheering him up, Jamie…he just…blew up."

"Ah" Bunny said his green eyes lighting up in understanding "So what did the both of you say?"

"I just told him that everything was going to be ok," Jack mumbled tears slowly beginning to swell in his eyes "And then he got mad, and said… he said…"

Bunny turned to face the little sprite more directly, a comforting paw squeezing his thin shoulder in reassurance "What did he say?"

Jack took a long shuddering breath before answering, twin teardrops falling, emphasizing the pain behind the words that Jamie had spoken "He said that I couldn't understand what he was going through because I wasn't human and didn't know what it was like to have a family."

Jack bit his bottom lip to swallow back the sobs creeping up his throat, then drew his legs up to his chest, and burying his face in his knees. Bunny sat in conflicted silence, one part of him shocked by the whispered words uttered by the youngest guardian, the other part angry that Jamie would use such a sensitive subject against Jack. But after giving himself a firm shake, the Pooka reminded himself that Jamie was going through a hard time, regardless of how cruel his words. But his personal feelings over this matter could be dealt with later, because every second he spent in quiet thought, was another second spent by the winter spirit going into an even deeper and deeper depression.

Jack had his arms wrapped tightly around his legs, his face firmly planted between his knees as he struggled to control the sheer amount of sorrow drowning him in its icy depths. One pale hand reaching up and gripping his white hair, Jack grit his teeth, wishing that Bunny was not sitting next to him, that he could just be alone again, and not have to bear the pain of heartbreak. But just as that thought slipped by, two strong arms wrapped themselves around his trembling form, and a soft voice rumbled from the chest that he head was now lying against.

"What did I tell ya about bottling things up Snowflake? It's ok; everyone deserves a good cry every now and again, just go ahead and let it out."

That was all it took before the wall crumbled, his carefully crafted façade melting away to reveal the hurting child underneath. Violent sobs wracked his frame and Jack found himself feeling guilty for wishing that Bunny wasn't there, because if it wasn't for the Pooka, he wouldn't be able to find some solace from the pain of Jamie's words. Bunny gave a grief filled sigh, one hand rubbing Jack's back, the other stroking his hair. They sat like that for good five or so minutes, until Jack's sobs finally began to slow down to shuddering gasps. Sitting up, the winter spirit quickly wiped his eyes, his gaze staring down at the ground in ashamed silence.

"Sorry for exploding." He murmured.

Bunny ruffled Jack's hair fondly "Ya don't need to apologize, I can understand how much it hurts when someone says something that they don't mean, especially when it comes from a friend."

"Does this mean that we aren't friends anymore?" Jack asked softly his heart hurting from what he feared would be the answer.

"Not on your nelly!" Bunny smiled gently "So you had a spat, it doesn't mean that things are over, it just means that life happened, and ya need to get over it."

"Really?" moist blue eyes glanced up to meet warm green "We can still be friends?"

"Only if you want to be" the rabbit shrugged "I mean, Jamie was the one that hurt you, the ball's in your court, you decide whether you want to forgive and forget."

"I don't want to stop being friends" Jack said firmly before his eyes took on that defeated look again "but I don't know why he would say something like that."

"Aw Jack" Bunny sighed reaching out to gather the grieving boy in for one more hug "The two people he trusted most in his life just up and split, and whether they know it or not, they are committing one of the deepest betrayals that a child can endure, the betrayal of love. The first mistake every kid that has to watch their parents' divorce can make is thinking that it is their fault. Right now Jamie is wondering if it is his fault that his parents don't love each other anymore, he is wracking his brain trying to figure out if there were anything he could have done to prevent this, but the truth is, he couldn't. Only the selfishness of adults cause them to divorce, it is NEVER the fault of the children, and Jamie hasn't realized this yet. He is in pain, and he is scared because he feels like the people he loves most are abandoning him, and he is scared that if he can't trust his parents to not abandon him, then he can't trust his friends either, so he is distancing himself from you in some attempt to protect himself from even more hurt. He is terrified that he will be forgotten in the sea of selfishness and hate being spewed on both sides. He is scared that he's becoming invisible, and that it is all his fault that this happened in the first place, because he wasn't good enough, or smart enough, or better behaved. But like I said, it isn't his fault, nor is it anyone's fault except the people doing the divorcing."

Jack nodded, he could understand those fears all too well "Ok, I guess I understand when you put it that way."

Straightening the boy up, Bunny cast a reassuring smile at Jack "So what are ya gonna do?"

Jack sat in thought for a few moments, and then answered "I'm going to Burgess, and I'm going to apologize for not understanding, then I will see about making sure Jamie doesn't feel alone."

Aster ruffled the white head "Good boy"

Thanks to everyone who read this, and to anyone who is going through this situation, please know; It is NOT your fault, your parents are making this decision because of their own problems, but it is NOT your fault. You will not be forgotten, and you are still loved. My mom divorced my birth father(I never met him thank goodness), and he was an evil man to did very bad things, which hurt my mom, and scarred my sisters. I understand how things can happen, how life can happen, but don't lose hope. Everyone reading this, you are VALUABLE, you are BEAUTIFUL (Boys you are HANDSOME), and you have the POTENTIAL to grow up into something MAGNIFICENT.

Hope you enjoyed this latest chapter!

And to Alana-kittychan: I LOVE One Piece, but I'm currently more obsessed with Fairy Tail LOLOLOL!

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