Haha! Finally!

So here's the last chapter to the Staff arc... of course it's not finished yet, but it will continue in another arc (my chapter's names only have three numbers the most, not more, i don't like it :P)

I hope you like it :)

North kept watching over Jack after Bunny had left. Phil had thought about taking him back to work and leaving Ron to keep an eye on Jack, but he knew better. The others weren't there and there was just no way North would leave Jack without being watched by at least one of them. So no, North would not be leaving the room until Bunny, Tooth or Sandy arrived.

Jack was sleeping peacefully while he put some snow around him from time to time. Lily had mentioned he would probably be warm due to the injuries, so it was likely for his temperature to rise while healing. And they didn't want that.

About half an hour after Bunny had left, Tooth arrived.

"Hi, North" she sighed as if she had run a marathon to get there. She made her way towards Jack's bed and sat behind him while caressing his head with snow.

"Hello, Toothy" smiled North who was sitting in the chair Bunny had been using before him "Everything alright with teeth?"

"Yeah" she smiled while making sure her belt had all its pockets closed "I just wanted to get here as soon as I could. How is he?"

"He woke up and asked for staff" said North with a duh kind of tone and Tooth couldn't help to laugh at that "It's like teddy bear, I told Bunny the same" he laughed warmly "He had fever after but we were able to cool him down" and he glanced at the snow around the spirit.

"Oh" said Tooth with a sad look while putting more snow over Jack's head "Have you check the stitches?"

"No, we wait for Sandy" and Tooth nodded in response. Yeah, that was a better idea.

…

"Look, we seasonals have a great deal of power, a power you can't imagine and that not even we understand. Mother is the only one who knows everything about nature's power and course, we just sort of… feel it, you know?" Bunny nodded for her to continue "Nature is… nature after all. It's life itself…"

She looked at Bunny.

"For us to be able to control it properly, a conduit is needed, a channel" she explained with her hands.

"A'right, I get that" said Bunny "But Jack's stick is just an object"

"It was once, but once it becomes the conduit it becomes kind of an extension of you as well" she said "it's linked to our very core" she shrugged "at least that's the best I can explain it to you" and she looked at him in the eye "That's why it hurts"

Bunny was mad. Still, if not more so. But he hadn't missed one word. Especially not that one. Our. And for one moment he felt bad for making Lily tell him. It was a much more fragile situation than he had thought. But no. There could be absolutely no way he wouldn't have asked. This was something that needed to be known.

He looked at Lily with a sad look and sighed. First things first.

"Is it too hard to fix?"

"No… you have to concentrate and use your energy but that's all"

"So does it take a lot out of you?" Lily looked at him with narrowed eyes as if getting where this was coming from.

"It would if you were already worn out after too much energy or…"

"… being about to pass out" finished Bunny with an angry sigh "So it doesn't hurt?"

"To fix it? No, it shouldn't" she shrugged and Bunny nodded with his arms crossed as both legs.

"Jack's staff…" he began shyly "it was only bent this time" and Lily looked at him in utter horror 'this time'?! But Bunny talked again before her thoughts could leave her mouth "but it was broken once, did that time hurt even more?" and the he noticed Lily's expression "Pitch…" he sigh in frustration.

Lily stood up with a sudden jump.

"What?! Pitch?! When?!"

"When he ruined Easter" and Lily's face paled in one second. Her skin looked like Jack's now as her mouth quivered while trying to make a noise.

"D-did h-he… did he do anything else?"

"Not that I know of, only one of Tooth's fairies saw it all"

"Then he didn't know…" she whispered.

"Huh?" and Lily sat back down. She looked at the floor. Pitch was gone and there was no way he could know. She looked at Bunny again.

"He must have thought that's were his powers came from" she sighed.

"It isn't?" he asked. Lily looked at him amused.

"I'm not going there" she smiled.

…

Sandy arrived only minutes later and went straight to Jack's head. Only after sending some dream sand towards him did he say hi to the others. North told him the same he had told Tooth and then informed him they were about to check the stitches and change some bandages. Sandy nodded with a serious look and put his hands on Jack's temple.

Phil and Ron arrived to help with the task and Baby Tooth was now by Jack's cheek along with Shiver.

"Shouldn't we wait for Bunny?" she said. She hadn't seen him when she had arrived so he assumed he was on the kitchen or maybe the bathroom.

"I don't know when he's coming back, but we have to do this now"

"What? He's not here?" Tooth gasped, and Sandy looked surprised as well.

"Yes" said North with a 'right?' look while nodding "Couldn't believe it so I didn't ask where, just told him to go!" and the other two nodded. For Bunny to willingly leave Jack while he was like that was… wow. So yeah, better to just nod before he changed his mind.

North moved over to Jack and gently slid his hoodie up so the bandages could be seen. Sandy had his eyes on Jack making sure he didn't stir. Tooth did the same with Jack's left arm by the opposite side of the bed while Phil and Ron prepared the things. North started to unwrap the bandages sliding then as carefully as he could under Jack's right side. He had to do it three times before it could finally be thrown away. Tooth bit her lower lip as she took in the sight. The black stitches shone under the reddish tortured skin along with dark bruises around it which contrasted against Jack's pale frame.

Sandy grimaced at the sight before putting Jack into an even deeper slumber. Phil cleaned the stitches while Ron did the same with the deep cuts around the spirit's right arm. Tooth spread snow over all his cuts as if band aids and they kind of were.

Phil then had had to wrap Jack's torso up again so they had had to lift his form a little in order to do it and Jack had winced before Sandy's hands pressed more against his forehead.

Once it was over Sandy smiled as he started to give Jack nice dreams. Finally!

During the whole time since they had found Jack the one thing he had wanted to do was to give him the sweetest dreams ever, only happiness and joy, no pain what so ever. But he couldn't. His sand, even though worked as the perfect anesthetic, would not turn into any dreams, not yet. Jack was far too weak for that and his body needed full rest both physically and mentally and the latter wouldn't do if his mind went wandering with dreams instead.

However, he made sure the first dreams were quiet ones. Just calmed and peaceful. So that's how little sand flakes started to fall only to disappear before others took their places. Jack was dreaming about just that: the sight of snowing. And Sandy thought it was beautiful, even if it was in the form of his sand instead of Jack's beautiful snow.

…

They were both in the middle of the dessert again and it was almost dark.

"Well, thanks for telling me this" Bunny said while standing up.

"Well, I didn't have a choice" she scolded with a smile "But… I think it's for the best actually… you better keep an eye on him… don't make regret what I just did"

"Pooka's honor" he smiled while lifting a paw "And… I'll keep an eye on you too" he said and they both stared at each other without a word. They both new what Bunny meant.

"Oh!" she suddenly jumped "Looks like Maeve already did all the job!" and she lifted both flower and leave "I'll better go help her… and keep Jack cold! I can assure you he'll have a hell of a fever soon"

"Wait, how do I do it with the others?" he asked. Lily looked at him while thinking.

"That's up to you…" she smiled before waving her hand and flying away, leaving a stressed Pooka behind.

…

Bunny got to the pole in a minute. The others had been watching over Jack for a few hours. Phil had taken North back to work as soon as they had finished with the stitches. Tooth and Sandy were both there after all. Then Tooth had had to go. Sandy really, really didn0t want to go, but he had to, and as soon as he was getting ready to go North had already taken a seat in the room. Bunny got there about half an hour after that.

"Bunny!" North jumped "Where were you?" he asked.

"Nah, you don't wanna know mate" he assured with a tired smirk.

"You didn't rest then?" it was more of a statement really. Bunny snorted.

"Would love that" he said "How's he doin'?"

"Ah, good! We changed bandages and he's healing fast" North smiled.

Jack was fast asleep and both guardians remained silent while watching his dreams. There were three people… they were all lying on the grass: A woman with a dress, a boy, and a little girl in the middle. They were just cuddling against each other happily. Bunny couldn't help to smile. That such an unexpected dream for Jack Frost to have.

Phil came in a few minutes after to take North who pouted making Bunny laugh at him as he was left alone in the room. Well, almost alone. Shiver and Baby Tooth had both fallen asleep next to each other against Jack's forehead. Bunny laughed at the sight. Those two could fight all they wanted, but they were both the same.

So anyways, turns out Lily was right.

It was only nine pm when Bunny's eyes started to drop. He was exhausted. He had gone through worry, panic, adrenaline attack, fear… all in one day. So yeah, you could say he was a little tired.

He was just about to enter Sandy's realm when he was brought back by a little sound. His eyes flickered as fighting the urge to ignore the weird sound when a second one was heard. Bunny's head shot up with the third sound, but not because of its repetition but because of the pained hue that came along with it.

He looked at the bed to find a pained blushed face Spirit of Winter. Darn it.

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