The white light faded out to black, and the scene that appeared before the Guardians was that of a gently orange lit city. Their main focus was brought to one house, where they spotted Jack with his hood up, watching through a window. He hung upside down from the roof, and they saw that inside was Jamie and his little sister. He was jumping up and down with excitement, and Sophie joined him.

'And it was like WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH through all these cars! And then the sled hit this, this thing! And then it was like WAY up in the air! And then BAM! The sofa hit me, and, and see? My tooth came out!' Jamie revealed his gums to his sister, them both ecstatic from the story. There was a drawing Jamie had done of the scene pinned up on his wall, and the Guardians looked at it fondly.

'Alright you, tooth under your pillow?' they noticed the children's mum for the first time.

'Yeah, I'm ready.' Jamie pulled a torch from his nightstand and shined it at the ceiling to test it after his room lights had been turned off.

'Now don't stay up trying to see her, Jamie, or she won't come!' his mum teased.

'But I can do it this time!' Jamie said enthusiastically. 'You wanna help me, Soph? We can hide and see the Tooth Fairy!'

'Hide, hide, hide, hide!' Sophie jiggled up and down with anticipation, and she wore little pink wings even though she was in her blue pyjamas.

'Uh uh!' Jamie's mum said, walking over to pick up her daughter. 'Straight to bed now mister!'

'Mom!' Jamie complained.

Their mum didn't say anything, she just rocked Sophie up and down and playfully cuddled her, and Jamie got jumped on by his huge greyhound, Abby. They looked like a perfect family.

'This is the day Jamie lost his tooth, and when we... Urm, kidnapped Jack.' Tooth said the first part excitedly, but felt slightly guilty at the other half.

It was only then that the Guardians noticed Jack's expression reflected in the glass of the window. He was smiling with genuine happiness, but they only got to see it for a second before it dropped away and he looked thoughtfully on the scene. Maybe he was thinking about family. He noticed the webs of frost that spread out across the panes and blocked his view through the glass, and he pulled an annoyed expression then promptly back flipped onto the roof. In the complete silence of the night, the Guardian of Fun- with his navy hood high over his head- pulled his staff in to himself. He looked up to the huge moon with wide eyes, bathing him in soft white light.

'If there's something I'm doing wrong...' Jack started to talk towards the sky. 'Can you... can you just tell me what it is? Because I have tried everything, and no one ever sees me!' Jack adjusted his grip on his staff a few times while he spoke, obviously thinking hard about what he was saying.

'Oh dear.' North sighed gently.

Jack suddenly looked frustrated- angry, almost- as he stared up at the Man In The Moon. 'You put me here!' he said firmly, then softened a little, emotion making it's way into his voice. 'The least you can do is tell me... tell me why.'

Jack Frost stared without falter at the moon, squinting his eyes to search for any response at all from his creator. When nothing happened, he sighed heavily and scrunched up his face in an annoyed expression that also said "I didn't expect any less". He shoved his hand in his pocket and hopped onto a telephone wire that hung over the street, freezing each thin line of metal with his staff in one flick, balancing on them like a tightrope while he walked. Despite the emotion filled talk he had just tried to have with the Man In The Moon, he managed to instantly pull himself back into his playful mood.

Lines of golden dream sand illuminated the scene, and Jack turned at the light. He flicked back his hood and smiled with delight up at the sky, obviously happy to see Sandy's work.

'Right on time, Sandman.' he said joyously, jogging along the telephone wires to meet a tentacle of dreams that stretched out to the nearby houses. He lifted his arm up and jumped to touch the sand, then instantly ducked as dolphins flipped and dived around him. He giggled, and Sandy felt truly humbled.

Jack watched all the strands of sand fly across the sky in fascination, even though he had seen them a hundred times before. It was still amazing to him. A sudden flash of light lit up the scene as if the sun was rising, but the Guardians knew that this meant it was coming to the end of the memory.

'The knife!' Tooth shrieked, then started frantically searching the place for any sign of an unusual or out of place object. They had all been so transfixed on the enchanting memory that they had forgotten to search for the damage- and now they were running out of time.

'Tooth, Tooth, calm down!' North moved his hands as if he were pushing down an imaginary object to signal for her to quieten down. 'Sandy, remember?'

Sandy smiled and nodded gleefully, then shut his eyes tight and focused on his senses to take him to the memory demon. His new power really had helped- and he thanked Manny for that. After a few minutes of following the trail, they came to a standstill at the side of a road. Sandy pointed to a dark green car parked outside an old shop, gesturing that that was it.

'It's the car?!' Bunny exclaimed. 'How are we supposed to get rid of a whole car?!'

Sandy shook his head aggressively and pointed several more times, closer to the vehicle. Another flash of light lit up the memory, and they could see Jack still watching the dreams from a telephone wire.

'Inside the car?' North asked, and Sandy nodded in response.

'There.' Tooth pointed in through the window, cupping her hands around her eyes so the street lights wouldn't reflect on the dirty glass.

'Not very well disguised, if I may say.' Bunny said, looking inside the car window. There on the front passenger seat lay the knife, not changed or hidden in any way.

'I guess it was hidden well enough in the car for him not to bother to transform it.' Tooth suggested, and it was the likeliest answer.

'Let's get it out!' North suddenly perked up, remembering how little time they had left.

'How can we, it's locked!' Tooth cried out, trying all the doors and windows.

Another light flashed. 'Ah, who cares?' Bunny shrugged. 'Damage will be fixed later, when we give him the box back, right? So who cares if we do a little dirty work?' Bunny pulled out his boomerangs and threw them at a window, and the sound of the smash of glass echoed around the quiet street.

'Bunny!' Tooth scolded, hands on her hips. 'You should have let me do it!' a playful smile etched itself across her face, and mischievousness gleamed in her eyes. She reached in through the shattered window and pulled out the dagger, putting it straight into their bag. 'Job done!'

'Well, I think memory done, too.' North said, looking up and around as it faded to white.

Strangely, after that bright light they now associated with changing memories, the scene hadn't changed.

'Huh.' Bunny eyed up the situation. 'That's weird.'

Sandy's dream sand in the memory appeared to dissolve into thin air, and Jack was still watching as the town returned to it's normal state. The Guardians went over to see why this memory had continued, then Bunny remembered.

Something flashed past Jack and left behind only a rustling wind, travelling at such a high speed it couldn't be seen.

'Whoa!' he twisted around and instantly shot off to follow it.

Jack sped off into the night, in pursuit of whatever it was that was obviously trying to attract his attention. He set off car alarms in the street, then eventually ended up in a dead end alleyway. The thing whizzed past him once more, knocking over a metal rubbish bin as it did, and he held his staff low in defence, padding across the ground.

'Hello, mate.' Bunny's voice rung through their ears, and Jack shot around to face the rabbit. 'Been a long time- blizzard of '68 I believe, Easter Sunday, wasn't it?' Bunny fondled his boomerangs angrily, obviously wanting to strike out. Memory hopping Bunny got shot a look by the other Guardians.

'Bunny!' Jack said in a mocking tone, leaning against his staff. 'You're not still mad about that, are ya?'

'Yes!' Bunny snarled at the Winter Sprite, pointing the sharp end of a boomerang at him. 'But this is about somethin' else.' he pulled his weapon back into himself and stroked it gently. 'Fellas!' he called out, and Jack was taken by surprise. Two Yetis came out and grabbed him by the hood roughly, holding a sack.

'Hey!' Jack cried out in annoyance. 'Put me down! What the-!'

Seeing as these were Jack's memories, they were from his perspective, so the whole world around the Guardians was plunged into darkness and muffled voices.

Jack continued to complain even though he was now in a tightly fastened sack, kicking and trying to beat his way out. 'Let me outta this thing!' he shouted. 'Bunny! I'll get you for this! What is this thing? A sack? Oh, real smooth!'

The Guardians were suddenly sent tumbling around the blackness, until they hit solid ground with a thump. 'Ugh, I see why he was so annoyed.' North stood up slowly, pulling his senses back to normal. That had been painful.

'Agh!' Jack complained, rubbing his head in the stuffy bag. Light returned to their vision as they saw two tiny elves peering into the sack, then jumping away in fright. Jack looked outside quizzically, holding the sack open.

'He's here!' North's voice was barely recognisable through the fabric. 'Quiet!' he whispered to Tooth, who had been talking in French to some of her fairies.

Suddenly the attention was brought back to Jack, and the Guardians could see North and Sandy and Tooth all looking down on him and smiling.

'Hey!' North's voice could be heard, although still slightly muffled. 'There he is! Jack Frost!'

'Wow... You gotta be kidding me...' Jack looked up at the Guardians, half of his body still in the hessian sack. Two arms reached down and pulled him out, but luckily the Guardians didn't have to go through that. Instead, they could all see themselves in Jack's memories. That was sort of strange. 'Hey, hey, put me down!' Jack said gently, and was then placed onto his feet in the Globe Room of the Pole.

'I hope the Yetis treated you well?' North boomed heartily.

'Oh, yeah!' Jack said sarcastically, kick flicking his staff back into his hand and putting the other in his hoody pocket. 'I love being shoved in a sack and tossed through a magic portal!'

'Oh, good!' North replied. 'That was my idea! You know Bunny, obviously.' he gestured towards the Easter Bunny, who was leaning against a pole looking bored.

'Obviously.' Jack smiled.

'And the Tooth Fairy!' North grinned.

'Hello Jack!' she flitted excitedly over to him. 'I've heard a lot about you- and your teeth!'

'My... my what?' Jack sounded baffled, which is strange considering he knew she was the Tooth Fairy. He shouldn't have been surprised that she was ecstatic about teeth.

Tooth continued to chatter. 'Open up! Are they really as white as they say? Yes! Oh! They really do sparkle like freshly fallen snow!'

A few little Tooth Fairies fluttered around him, one of them squealing delightedly. 'Girls, pull yourselves together! Let's not disgrace the uniform!' Tooth waggled a finger, then flew away with them.

'And Sandman!' North tapped him on the shoulder, but he still napped. Sandy himself looked on, feeling slightly embarrassed that he had fallen asleep. 'Sandy! Sandy! Wake up!' Sandy jumped out of his dream and blinked up with a weary smile.

'Hey, ho, anyone wanna tell me why I'm here?' Jack asked.

Sandy put a finger up happily and made some pictures above his head of Pitch and the Moon and a snowflake, but it all ended up going too quickly and Jack couldn't follow it. 'Uh, it, that... that's not really helping. But-but thanks, little man.' he had bent down to Sandy's height, one finger bent and the joint in his mouth.

'I must have done something really bad to get you four together.' Jack walked along, then froze a little elf with a tray which fell over motionless. 'Am I on the naughty list?' he turned to face them, a mischievous look on his face.

'Hah! On naughty list?' North said with what sounded like disbelief. 'You hold record! But no matter, we overlook- now we are wiping clean the slate!' he wiped his "naughty" arm off to gesture them forgiving and forgetting.

'How come?' Jack asked and looked at them quizzically.

'Ah, good question.' Bunny sounded annoyed.

'How come?' North boomed. 'I tell you how come! Because now, you are Guardian!'

Music started to play and Yetis and Elves paraded around the room with instruments and banners, confetti flying everywhere. Jack looked truly horrified at all of this, backing away from the Guardians and trying to avoid whatever was happening.

'Hey, Sandy, is this the same memory or do we need to find the knife again?' Tooth asked, ignoring what was happening around them. It's not like they hadn't seen it before.

Sandy promptly shut his eyes tight and focused on picking up the "scent" of the demon, but after a couple of minutes of looking, he couldn't find anything. He shook his head and shrugged, and motioned that the one in the bag was for this memory too. Now they just had to wait it out until the next memory.

'This is all very flattering, but uhh... You don't want me! You're all hard work and deadlines! And I'm... snowballs and fun times. I'm not a Guardian.' Jack said simply, hopping up onto a table.

'Yeah, that- that's exactly what I said!' Bunny was trying to persuade the others not to let Jack become a Guardian.

'Jack, I don't think you understand what it is we do.' Tooth flew over and got very close to his face. Uncomfortably close for someone who'd spent three hundred years with no contact to anyone else. 'Each of those lights is a child.'

'A child who believes.' North stepped up to the Globe and looked at the glistening twinkles. 'And good or bad, naughty or nice, we protect them.'

'Ah, ah!' Jack could be heard groaning awkwardly.

'Tooth!' North looked sideways, uninterested- he'd seen her do this a hundred times before. 'Fingers out of mouth.'

'Oh! Sorry!' Tooth pulled herself away from the gorgeous pearly whites in front of her. 'They're beautiful.' she patted Jack on the shoulder while he recovered and licked his gums.

'Okay.' North pulled the topic of conversation back to it's important matter. 'No more wishy-washy! Pitch is out there doing who knows what!'

'You mean the- the Boogeyman?' Jack chuckled that such a man could be worrying the Guardians.

'Yes!' North confirmed, pointing at the huge model of the planet to his right. 'When Pitch threatens us, he threatens them as well!'

'All the more reason to pick someone more qualified!' Jack turned around and shook his hand.

'Pick? You think we pick?' North said, pointing to himself. 'No! You were chosen, like we were all chosen, by Man In Moon.'

'What...?' Jack turned back, instantly on alert at the mention of his silent creator.

'Last night, Jack, he chose you.' Tooth said.

'Maybe.' Bunny added.

'Man In The Moon...' Jack questioned, looking physically taken aback. 'He talks to you?' he looked at them in disbelief.

'You see, you cannot say no.' North said in a low tone. 'It is destiny.'

'Why... why wouldn't he tell me that himself...?' Jack gazed up at the soft Moon, not paying any attention to the others. 'Ah, sheesh...' Jack turned away from everyone- including the Man- and rubbed his hand on the back of his head. 'After three hundred years this is his answer? To spend eternity like you guys cooped up in some, some hideout thinking of, of, of new ways to bribe kids?! No-o-o, no... That's not for me!' he said firmly, pointing towards the floor and holding his ground, staring up at the Man. 'No offence.'

'How-how-how is that not offensive?' Bunny retorted angrily. 'You know what I think? I-I think we just dodged a bullet. I mean, what does this clown know about bringing joy to children anyway?' he leant down on the ground and casually started scratching his ear with his foot.

Jack looked annoyed- a face they hadn't been able to see when it had happened for real. 'Uh, you ever hear of a snow day? I know it's no hard boiled egg, but kids like what I do.'

'But none of them believe in ya, do they?' Bunny said viciously. The real him physically cringed that he could say something so hurtful. 'You see, you're invisible mate. It's like you don't even exist.'

'Bunny! Enough!' Tooth scolded, but the rabbit didn't break his stare with Old Man Winter.

'No!' Jack said, lifting a finger. 'The kangaroo's right!'

'The- the what?' Bunny stuttered. 'What did you call me? I'm NOT a kangaroo, mate!'

'Oh, and this whole time I thought you were.' Jack teased. 'If you're not a kangaroo, what are you?'

'I'm a bunny.' Bunny said threateningly, inching closer to Jack. 'The Easter Bunny. People believe in me.'

Jack's eyes shone with tears that he would never let fall, and they could see now he was fighting back pain. He'd admitted it himself- he was alone. Bunny could barely watch he was so ashamed. He never wanted to insult Jack on his lack of believers ever again.

'Jack, walk with me.' North said softly, breaking this feud up.

The scene quickly flashed white, then disappeared into nothingness. That was the end of the second memory.

Ack, leaving notes at the end of chapters is becoming a habit...

This is quite a long chapter, and I hope that makes up for the fact that I was away for a couple of days, even though it is just a retell. I hope I've done these two scenes justice! The whole of the repairing arc will be memories, in case you hadn't already realised, and so there will be a few retells of scenes in the movie, as I feel a lot of them were obviously important to Jack as well as his memories from his past life. There's going to be a lot of mushy fluff, then some serious tear-jerking, mess-with-your-emotions scenes, several of which I'm sure you can guess already ;) Buuuut, I have other things planned too. Things that we never got to see, things other than his sister. Besides, he had three hundred years of being Jack Frost, so I'm going to cover some of that time as it is obviously a massively significant chunk of his life.

Thank you for reviewing, I've had quite a few more recently and it's making me really happy! ^_^ I just spent a while editing and checked the dialogue about five times to make sure it's correct to the film- seriously, that took some effort (and a couple of hours). I actually did most of this from memory... I've written several retells from memory pretty accurately now, but obviously I went back and noticed quite a few mistakes :P I sit there watching the film and recite the lines with the characters. Seriously, I worry myself my fandom is so massive sometimes. But then, I scare other people more than myself. Feel free to laugh at me and call me sad.
I got my dress done and had a really great time at the festival, but trust the British weather to rain all day and be so cold I could see my breath. In AUGUST. :( Ah well, it was still awesome. Sorry for keeping you waiting!

Love, your author, Emily! :D *drives dramatically away into the sunset, throwing candy canes at all her followers, favouriters and reviewers*