Chapter 27: Night time at North's

"We saw you and your father," said Jack and I felt my breath hitch in my throat as he continued to list off what he had seen, "North showed me the fight between you and him and then the agreement you made with him after you woke up. He also showed me the conversation that we had in the caves and finally, you in here just now."

I looked up at North and then back at Jack as he finally released me from his hug. North gave a hearty laughed and walked up behind Jack and reached around to place a hand on my shoulder saying, "Scarlett, it is good to have you back."

"Thanks North," I said tentatively, "and how did you know to call me Scarlett?"

North smiled and looked down at Jack who was also smiling at me and said, "Jack, here, told me that you didn't like Hunter."

I gave Jack a grateful smile while saying, "Yeah. He's right."

I took in a deep breath before saying, "Look, I know that father looks bad but he really isn't he's just protective. I just, I don't want you guys to hate him even more because of me."

"Scarlett the only reason we oppose your father is because of the kids. If he didn't hurt them, then we wouldn't have problem," explained North. I nodded in understanding. So the guardians hatred towards father was provoked by me. The new-found information actually helped me in feeling better about the situation. The room was quiet for a moment and then North straightened up, taking his hand off my shoulder and asked, "What will you do now?"

"Now," I said, "We're going to find Sandy to see if he'll accept me again."

North nodded thoughtfully,"Sandy is a good guardian. He will understand and you might be needing this for your journey."

North walked around his desk and opened a cupboard. He bent down and pulled out the knives that I had used to fight my father. I smiled widely as North also pulled out a knife belt and I quickly strapped it on around my waist. After I had finished placing my assortment of knives inside their respective sheaths in the belt I smiled up at North saying, "Thank you."

North chuckled, "You are welcome, Scarlett. Your axe is still upstairs wedged into floor boards and it is late. Do you two want to stay the night?"

My smile grew even wider. I had no idea how I had missed seeing the axe while Jack and I were in the globe room but I was happy regardless of the fact to be getting it back. I gave North one last smile before I took a hold of Jack's hand saying, "Yes please, North."

The large man chuckled, " Alright. I will get yetis to show you your roo-"

I was so excited and happy. I was almost like a child saying, "let's go find our room, Jack!"

I ran out of North's office feeling much better than when we first came in. He accepted me and understood what I wanted. He understood that I wasn't threat and forgave me for the lies that I told him. I was thankful that North was such a good friend and I could only hope that the others would be as forgiving as well.

Jack trailed behind me as we ran through the workshop and I turned back to face him over my shoulder as we ran, sending him a wide grin and saw that he also wore an adorable grin on his face as well. We made our way to the elevator and I could barely contain my happiness. Not only were things with Jack and I normal but so were things between North and I. Personally, I thought that he would be the hardest to sway when it came to the situation that we were in but as it turns out he was actually very understanding.

When we finally made it to the elevator I was smiling and panting with Jack beside me in a similar manner. As the elevator started moving up I threw my arms around Jack's neck triumphantly saying, "He trust me!"

Jack chuckled and wrapped his arms around my waist saying, "I know."

"And we're allowed to stay here!" I said happily.

"I Know!" said Jack with the same enthusiasm.

I pulled away from the hug only to tug him down again and kissed him. I could barely contain my happiness and Jack chuckled into the kiss but happily replied. Everything was finally looking up again and I knew that things could only get better. My one hope is that it'll be able to stay that way. I pulled away from him as the elevator came to a stop and pulled him back into the globe room.

"Okay, North said that it was up here," I mumbled to myself.

"Are we suppose to find our rooms?" asked Jack with a smirk.

"Pit stop," I responded as I turned in a circle to look for my long forgotten axe. Jack chuckled and I finally spotted it implanted into the floor next to the fireplace. I smiled a went to run up to it when Jack let go of my hand and used the wind to carry him over to the axe.

I gave him a questioning glance as he said, "I'll get it for you."

I smirked and watched as he wrapped his hands around the hilt of the axe. He gave it a tug and I chuckled as it stayed imbedded in the wooden floor. He looked up at me sheepishly and averted his gaze back down to my axe. He tugged at it again. This time with much more force and actually succeeded in pulling it out of the wood. Only to almost fall backwards from the force he had used but quickly regained his balance as I chuckled, saying, "My hero."

He walked up to me with a lopsided grin and laughed as he held out the axe for me as he bent down on one knee and bowed his head. It was as if I was royalty. I laughed at him softly before taking the axe.

"Thank you valiant knight," I said with a chuckle, "For rescuing my axe from the floor boards."

Jack stood with a smirk that I knew ment trouble, "This is the part where you ask what reward I want for returning your axe."

"No," I said defiantly for two reasons. One: I was capable of getting the axe myself. He chose to run up and get it. Two: I wasn't quite sure what he would want for his reward and his smirk was doing nothing to aid me in trusting in his mischievous ways.

"Please," said Jack with his smirk changing into his adorable smile. I sighed. Damn. He won this round.

"Fine," I said before I un enthusiastically muttered, "What can I offer you in reward for returning my axe?"

The smirk was back as he said, "How about a kiss?"

I chuckled and gave him a quick kiss on his cheek with a smirk. He groaned knowing that he did in fact get the kiss he requested just not on the part of his face that he wanted. I chuckled again as he took a hold of my hand, saying, "Pit stop's over."

He pulled me flush into him and lifted us a few feet into the air before speeding off down a hallway, carrying me with him. I let out a laugh as we speed through the hallways of North's home. We almost crashed into several yetis but Jack managed to keep us on track while I yelled back an apology for almost knocking them over. Jack's adorable laugh sounded every time the yetis would grumble back something incoherent towards us.

Finally Jack slowed down his speed until we were actually standing back on the ground in front of a dark brown door. On the door was carved a giant letter "G" which I assumed stands for guardian. Jack, with his arm resting around my hip, moved forward and turned the gold handle of the door to reveal a large room complete with a wardrobe of the same deep brown colour, a matching brown dresser, a bed big enough to fit two people, and even a simple brown arm-chair. The walls complimented the brown furniture by being painted a light tan colour and I must say, whom ever decorated this room had some serious sense of style.

Jack pulled me inside the room with a chuckle from where I was gaping at it in the hallway.

"This is your room," said Jack. I turned to him confused.

"You aren't going to stay," I asked. Jack chuckled and ruffled my hair.

"No, my room's just on the right of yours. Besides, can you imagine what North or lord forbid, Bunnymund would do to me if we shared a room?" Jack replied.

"Right, Bunny. I forgot about him," I said in almost a scared manner. I mean North had the monitors so he was never a real threat and I'm sure that Sandy is pretty easy-going when it comes to the situation because he reached out towards me when father was taking me away. Tooth, well im not sure how she'd react. She could go any which way but bunny, he's a fighter. So unless the others are there to restrain him or something I'm fairly certain that if Bunny so much as sees me in North's home I'm dead. If I'm seen cuddling Jack in my sleep I'm still dead and Jack would probably get hit in the head with a boomerang.

Jack chuckled, "I'll see you in the morning, okay?"

"Yeah, sure. Then we continue our search for Sandy, right?" I asked. Jack smiled down to me.

"Yeah. Goodnight, Scarlett," Said Jack as he kissed my forehead. I felt my cheeks begin to grow red with the blush that was making its way to my face.

"Goodnight, Jack," I said and despite my blush, I felt the need to one up Jack and his forehead kiss by latching on to his hoodie and planting a quick kiss on his lips. Jack seemed slightly dazed but smiled despite the fact and I pushed him away gently and closed my door saying with a chuckle, "See you in the morning."

I'm glad that I did close the door when I had because the blush that rested upon my cheeks was burning and it was also giving me a bit of a head ache. So I took the liberty of climbing into the plush bed and promptly falling asleep, not realising that Sandy was already at the pole delivering dreams to both Jack and I in our own respective rooms so that we wouldn't have to be away from each other as long.