Yeah, just a warning. I've been attacked by reviews on my new fanfic and I'm still getting over the shock. So the updates on this fanfic might be a little slower than I originally thought. Still, here is a chapter for you guys, so enjoy!
Key:
Memories/Manny talking
Normal
Jack's thoughts
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the films in this fanfic
There was silence for a few moments before Hiccup spoke. "Jack... just what were you planning to do?" Jack didn't get a chance to answer since Rapunzel shrieked and covered her ears. "Don't, Hiccup! Just don't. I don't even want to THINK about what Jack was about to do."
"I've changed my mind." Bunny stated simply. "This can't wait until we get out of the memories. Jack, we need to talk about this."
Jack gasped and tried to back away, only to have Bunny grab his wrist. He squirmed in the rabbit's grip in a desperate attempt to escape. "No, Bunny! You said we would talk after the memories were over."
"And I've just told you, I've changed my mind. We need to talk about this, and we need to talk about this now."
"I don't see why we need to talk about it now."
"Frostbite, you almost killed yourself!"
"And you promised!"
Bunny froze as he caught the look on Jack's face. His stomach dropped. "Oh no. Frostbite, please not the eyes. Anything but the eyes."
"You promised." Jack whined. "You might not have said that you promised exactly, but it was a promise and you know it. You know you can't go back on a promise. Besides, you're making Punzie upset." He added, motioning to the trembling blond who was still covering her ears in a pitiful attempt to block out the conversation. "Please Bunny, don't make me talk about this now."
"I – but – see..." Jack's face melted into the cutest puppy-dog look Bunny had ever seen. "Oh, fine! We'll talk about it later, just stop giving me those eyes!"
"What eyes?" Jack blinked in confusion, and everyone mentally groaned as they remembered that no one had told Jack about his ability with his eyes, aka the ability to look completely adorable in such a way that it would probably make even Pitch's knees tremble and give in to the winter child. They didn't tell him for one simple reason: he'd use it to his advantage all the time. It was better he remained oblivious to his talent.
"Never you mind, Frostbite." Bunny finally said, shaking his head fondly. "Just know that the eyes are evil and you should never use them."
"Your logic makes no sense. How am I supposed to avoid using these 'evil eyes' if you won't tell me what evil eyes I'm supposed to avoid using?"
"You know what, Frostbite? Just shut up."
"SNOW DAY!"
The yell made everyone jump and turn to the memory that they hadn't even realised had started. A small smile tugged at Jack's lips.
Jack dived straight into the town without a care in the world at the possibility of falling and breaking his neck or something like that. Instead, he leapt around, frost spreading from under his feet and affecting cars and buildings alike. With a whoop he landed and skated across his lake, the wind blowing a book out of a young boy's hands. For some reason, the sight of the boy made Jack land as he knelt to the side and watched as the boy picked up the book. "Huh, that looks interesting. Good book?" As expected, he got no answer.
"Hey! That's Jamie!" Rapunzel yelled. Jack face-palmed. "You don't say?! And here I was thinking it was Pitch's brother."
Hiccup snorted at the typical Jack-like comment, and the winter spirit smirked. Finally, something that he could laugh off and joke about. Being serious and depressing was starting to get on his nerves.
Two kids came bouncing up to the brunette, yelling about a snow day. A smile graced Jack's lips as he called after them. "You're welcome!"
"Hey guys, wait up!" The kid ran after the other two, who Jack was assuming were twins. Jack couldn't help but follow, interested in their conversation. "Are you guys coming to the egg hunt Sunday?"
"Yeah, free candy!"
"I hope we can find the eggs with all this snow!"
"Bunny, you really should put something a bit healthier in those eggs." Tooth scolded. Everyone groaned as Bunny leapt to his holiday's defence. "It's my job to put chocolate in them, Tooth! If it was anything else, the kids wouldn't be interested. And sugar-free chocolate must taste horrible because no one ever has it." He completely ignored Tooth's splutter of protest. "Besides, if you're going to complain to anyone about Easter it should be Frostbite. I've told him countless times that snow and Easter don't go."
"You say that about your warren." Jack replied cheekily. "That doesn't stop me from putting snow in it though, now does it?"
"Jack, cut it with the smart comments."
"You think I'm smart?" Jack gasped dramatically as he put a hand to his chest. "Why Merida, that's the nicest thing you've ever said to me!"
"Whoa." The kids squeezed through a loose board in a wooden fence, the twins pushing each other out of the way and the brunette with his nose still in the book. Jack walked along the top of the fence, staff slung across both shoulders. "It says here that they found Big Foot hair samples and DNA! In Michigan! That's, like, super close!"
"Here we go again." One of the twins sighed.
"You saw that video too, Claude." The kid insisted, grabbing his sled and putting the book to one side."He's out there."
"That's what you said about the aliens." The other twin snorted.
"You never know." Jack said smartly. "As far as we know, they could be looking for intelligent life, took one look at our planet and decided against it. Even the aliens know that human beings can be stupid, stupid people."
"And the Easter Bunny." The first twin, who Jack guessed was Claude, laughed.
"Wow. The Easter Bunny is real."
Bunny smiled upon hearing Jamie defend him.
"Oh, he's real alright." Jack added. So what if they couldn't hear him? It didn't make him any less a part of the conversation. "Real annoying, real grumpy and really full of himself."
"The Easter Kangaroo to a T." Merida snickered.
"Oi! I'm a BUNNY!"
"Ooh, step back." Jack snorted, holding his hands up in mock defence. "Look out everybody, here comes a bunny, the manliest animal man-kind has ever seen. Even the flowers that grow when he closes a tunnel are manly."
Rapunzel failed to hold back the round of giggles that corrupted her, but quickly managed to suppress them.
"Come on, you guys believe anything." Claude laughed, pushing his brother again. A dog nearby barked, and a young blond girl began hopping down the steps to the house. "Easter Bunny, hop hop hop." Just as she jumped to reach the grass the dog behind her accidentally nudged her, causing her to fall to the ground. She immediately began to cry.
"Mom! Sophie fell again!" The brunette called, with complete disinterest, making Jack almost laughed at how lazy the kid was. He watched as the mother came out of the house to check on the girl. "You okay, Soph?" She asked, before noticing something and turning to her son. "Jamie, hat? We don't want Jack Frost nipping at your nose." The woman placed a blue hat on his head, only for the kid, Jamie, to turn and look at her with confusion. "Who's Jack Frost?"
"No one, honey, it's just an expression." The mother replied, going back into the house. Jack, who had sat down by this point, looked back at her, offended. "Hey!"
Jamie chased after his friends, clutching his precious sled. Jack jumped off of the fence and grabbed a handful of snow, scrunching it up into a ball. "Who's Jack Frost?" He repeated, before blowing on the snowball and giving it a peculiar blue glow. He turned and, with perfect aim, threw the snowball at Jamie, watching in amusement as it hit him on the back of the head.
Jamie turned, annoyed for a moment before there was a blue glimmer in front of his eyes. A smile tugged at his lips as he let out a small laugh and turned to his other friends. "Okay, who threw that?"
"Well, it wasn't Big Foot, kiddo." Jack commented, landing nearby.
Assuming it was one of the two kids near a pile of snow – Jack recognised these two, Monty and Pippa – Jamie picked up a handful of snow and threw it at them, hitting first Monty, causing him to face-plant into the snow, and then Pippa, making her fall over. The girl looked up, annoyed. "Jamie Bennett, no fair!"
"You struck first!" Jamie laughed, although he was quickly distracted by Jack throwing a snowball at Claude and then his twin, Caleb if Jack remembered correctly.
"Free for all!" Jack yelled, throwing another snowball at Jamie. The boy laughed and used his sled to block the second one. Jack leapt around, occasionally swinging his staff to create more snowballs and throwing his own at people. As Jack hit Jamie in the face with a snowball, causing the boy to fall backwards over a snowman, one of Pippa's snowballs whizzed over his head and hit a girl in the back of the head. She turned around, a scowl on her face. The kids immediately began to worry.
"Rat, I hit Cupcake!" Pippa muttered. Monty pointed an accusing finger at her. "She hit Cupcake."
"You hit Cupcake?"
"I think we've established that Pippa hit Cupcake."
The girl approached the group of friends, not noticing the way Jamie hid under his sled, clutching the snowman's head, only to get hit in the face with another snowball. The kids looked baffled, not noticing the way Jack was balancing on top of his staff with his arm raised.
"How do you do that?" Merida moaned. "Surely you should fall off of the top of that stick of yours."
"Staff." Jack automatically corrected. "And I can balance on top of it because I'm the embodiment of awesomeness. If you look up awesome it the dictionary it should come up with the explanation 'Jack Frost'."
"I thought you were the embodiment of winter?"
"Exactly, and therefore that makes me the embodiment of awesomeness."
There was a blue glimmer in front of Cupcake's eyes, much like there had been with Jamie's, and the girl began to laugh. Moments later, she ended up chasing the group around with the snowman's head, laughing along with them. None of them noticed Jack bouncing beside them.
"Whoa, it's slippery." Jack laughed, as he created an ice path near Jamie so that the boy ended up falling on his sled and following the ice path. Somehow the others managed to stop in time, and yelled after him.
Jamie yelled out in panic as the ice path led them out onto the street and main road, completely oblivious to the winter spirit by his side that was in control of the ice path making sure he was perfectly safe. Nevertheless, Jack still spoke to Jamie. "Whoa! Don't worry kid, I gotcha. Hold on, it's gonna be alright." Both of them remained unaware of the van behind them that ended up with a sofa falling out of it.
"Jack Frost, how dare you take Jamie out onto the main road like that!" Tooth's feathers ruffled as she flew into his face. "You could have gotten him killed!"
"Tooth! First of all, I'd had plenty of practice with penguins, so I knew what I was doing and exactly how to keep Jamie out of danger. Secondly, I was there! I was by his side the whole time to make sure he was safe. Do you really think I'd let him go sledding on an ice path in the street if I couldn't guarantee Jamie would make it out safely?"
"Yes."
Jack chose to ignore Hiccup's comment. "Besides, when I took you all sledding on that ice path when we went to get Jamie's friends during the fight with Pitch, I heard no complaints! And Jamie's never criticized me for it."
"But you probably would have flipped if it was your sister, wouldn't you, mate." Bunny snickered.
"No, I mean, yeah, I mean – look, that would be different! For starters, I didn't know Jamie, but Pippa would have been my own flesh and blood, making it my obvious duty to protect her. Secondly, if I'd have been a winter spirit, had a lot of practice and knew she would be safe, then yeah, I probably would take her on the same sled ride as Jamie. She would have loved it. If it was anyone else but me who took her on the same sled ride, then of course I would freak out, because I don't know how safe they are. But I would react in the same way with Jamie, as well. And he wasn't with someone who wasn't safe, he was with me!"
"Jack, that does make him with someone who isn't safe." Merida snickered.
He ignored Jamie's protests and instead kept up with the sled ride, knowing that after the kid got used to it, the fear would drain away and he would begin to see the fun in the situation instead. "Keep up with me kid, take a left!"
Jack continued to lead Jamie through the street on an ice path, never straying very far from the child to make sure he was safe. After dodging a couple of complaining adults, Jack saw a smile come to the child's face and couldn't help his own laugh. Then they both spotted the vehicle in front of them.
"Whoa." Jack quickly made a sharp turn to make sure Jamie wouldn't get squashed like a bug. The kid, completely unaware of the fact that he wasn't going to get run over, let out another yell and turned his head so that he wouldn't watch. The ice path ended in a small ramp, and Jamie's eyes opened again as his sled flew in the air for a moment. The smile on his face told Jack enough, and so the winter spirit completely ignored the fact that he fell head-first into a snowdrift.
"See, Jack? Dangers! Dangers everywhere, with you!"
As opposed to the other kid's worried 'Oh my gosh!', Jack landed on a nearby statue with a huge smirk on his face. "Yeah!"
"Jamie, that looks serious."
"Are you alright?"
"Is he okay?"
Jamie got up, a little shaky on his legs but otherwise fine. Excitement was clear on his face. "Whoa. Did you guys see that? It was amazing! I slid – I did a jump and I slid under a car-" Jamie was cut off due to a sofa being slammed into him. Jack winced slightly. "Whoops."
"See? I had no complaints from Jamie, and he was the one on the sled!"
The other kids winced and slowly approached the sofa, only to stop as Jamie's arm shot up victoriously, clutching something white. The boy himself stood up quickly after, looking at the object in wonder. "Cool, a tooth!"
"How there was not blood on that tooth I will never know."
"Dude, that means cash!"
"Tooth Fairy cash!"
Jamie's friends quickly became distracted by the tooth, their fun forgotten leaving Jack on the statue. His good mood immediately fell. "Oh no. No!"
Jack winced slightly. "Sorry, Tooth." He mumbled.
The kids began to walk off, and Jack followed them, in a desperate attempt to get their attention. "Wait a minute, hold on, hold on! What about all the fun we just had? That wasn't the Tooth Fairy, that was me." He jumped in front of Jamie. Why, he wasn't sure, but he knew it was a bad idea. Still, he couldn't help but wish for this time to be different, for Jamie to bump into him. "What's a guy gotta do to get a little attention around here?"
No such luck. Jamie passed right through him. Jack took a step back for a moment, stunned, before letting out an irritated huff when the tingling feeling faded and turned to leave, shoving a hand in his pocket. As the wind immediately whisked him away, he couldn't help but feel disappointed. He'd really wanted someone to see him that time, wanted Jamie to see him most of all. He couldn't help but feel drawn to the kid for some reason. Something about the boy seemed familiar, but he couldn't quite place his finger on it. Still, he shook it off as he returned to his lake, planning to visit the boy that night in order to send a silent 'thank you' for playing with him that day and a 'goodbye', since he doubted he would every spent time with the child again.
"And there you have it. My oh-so-fun meeting with Jamie." Jack said cheerfully. "Although now I know why I immediately felt so close to Jamie. I guess I'd always known the kid was special, and some part of me knew that he'd always be extra-special to me."
"Favouritism much?" Rapunzel teased. Jack fought back a blush. "S-shut up! You all have favourites, don't lie! The only people who don't have favourite believers are Tooth, North and Sandy!"
"Whoa, hang on a minute, mate. Why aren't I included in that list?"
"Because you're favourite is Sophie, Kangaroo. And don't lie, you know it's true!"
"... Frostbite, shut up."
And here come the rewrites of the film! Yay!
So, quite a few people wanted to see this scene, so I thought, why not? I didn't have that much of an idea for it, though, so I just went along with it. I guess this chapter is mainly to introduce the key going back to normal and me attempting to get my act together and not make everyone so OOC. Yeah, sorry about that.
Anyway, leave a request on what part of the film you want me to rewrite in the reviews, or, hey, just leave a review if you want :D I'll do my best to make sure it goes in.
