Enjoy!

Jack quickly grabbed his other dagger and stepped in front of Tooth, eyeing this new opponent for a weakness. The bear bellowed louder and dropped back of all-fours, lumbering closer to him. Jamming his daggers together, the spirit changed his weapon into the chain with two axe heads at each end. He heard Tooth gasped behind him.

"Be careful!" She whispered as the bear raised a enormous black paw and swiped; Jack dodged quickly but he still felt its claws scrape against his leg. His leap ended with a clumsy landing, his leg buckling beneath him.

"Hang on!" Tooth yelled frantically, "I trying to break this chain, and then I can help!"

"You won't be able to." Jack hissed as he stood up, only to find the bear charging towards him. He swung one of his axe heads at the wall behind the bear, then pulled himself after it. He successfully slid under the bear's legs, confusing it for a few vital seconds. "I'll let you out as soon as I can, but I need this bear out of the way first." The spirit looked at Tooth and smiled at her as he pulled the other axe head closer to him. "Don't bear yourself up about it."

The bear roared and swung its head around, snarling. Jack swung one of the axe-heads around the nightmare's face, slicing its muzzle. The bear growled as a black liquid leaked from the wound and it raised a paw again, extending its claws as it did so. Jack, seeing his opportunity, hooked the chain around the paw and yanked it to the ground; the spirit then climbed on its back, forcing the paw to move unnaturally upwards once more. The bear let out a bellow of pain and lost its balance and toppled onto the floor. Jack quickly slid off the creature and changed his weapon back to his sword. Before he could raise it, however, the bear bit onto his injured leg and tossed him to the other side of the room.

"Jack!" Tooth's worries cry echoed around the room; Jack began to push himself up with his arms but the nightmare slammed its paws down on his back. The spirit yelled in pain and managed to turn around so he was facing the bear. He was met with rows of dagger-like teeth that were determined to sink into his throat.

"Jack! I can't get out…hold on!"

Jack tried holding the jaws away but the nightmare was determined, snapping its teeth viscously, breaking from his grip. As Jack turned his head away for the fifth time, something glinted in the corner of his eye.

It was his sword, a few metres away from him. The spirit gritted his teeth and quickly snatched it and jammed it into the bear's throat.

The nightmare froze, staring down at him and Jack watched as its red eyes dulled as blood ran steadily from its neck. It gagged then collapsed onto him, eyes staring unseeing into his. The spirit pushed the animal off him, panting, then pulled his sword out, staring at its unmoving body. Tooth broke the silence.

"Are you hurt badly? I saw it bite you before…" Jack didn't answer, but continued to gaze at the nightmare. "Jack! Answer me!" The spirit gained back his focus, smiling weakly.

"Hey, I'm honestly…"

All of a sudden, all of the scratches and bites began hurt so much Jack was about to scream in agony- the only reason he didn't was because he bit his lip to prevent doing so. His mangled leg made itself most known the most, bleeding at an alarming rate, and as the room span around him, Jack realised he was definitely not,

"…fine." He managed to utter and limped over to Tooth, dragging his sword. He could feel her piecing gaze on him as he undid her other chains and she slipped out of them, rubbing her wrists.

"Finally…" she breathed and looked at Jack again. The spirit watched as her eyes moved to the scratches on his face and down to his leg, which was now shaking alarmingly though there was no weight on it. She gasped. "Sit down, now." She ordered.

"Really…I'm-"

"Now."

"Tooth, you're overe-"

"Don't make me ask you again." She warned him fiercely. Jack looked away and tried to step back, but his leg finally gave way, crumpling underneath him. The spirit sank to the floor and closed his eyes to stop the ground from spinning.

I am definitely not fine.

"Are you okay?!" Tooth was suddenly at his side, propping him against the wall. She cursed under her breath. "That was a stupid question." She muttered, "when you are quite obviously not…" Jack snorted, but his smile turned into a grimace quickly as Tooth moved his injured leg into a straighter position.

"Sorry." She said, hearing his hiss. Jack watched through one eye (his hair was blocking the other) as she silently assessed his wound, occasionally muttering things like, "that bear did a number on this leg…" and "ouch…poor Sweettooth."

Jack smiled to himself as he watched the fairy's antics.

"Nothing's changed at all…" he murmured, smiling wider.

"Your going to have to rest for a while." She said bluntly, moving to sit next to him.

"No- really-"

"I'm not even sure your going to be able to use that leg for a while…" she carried on, as if he never spoke, "I can see your bone in some places…" she shuddered.

"It'll heal!" Jack said, cutting her off whilst he could. Tooth stared at him, eyes wide.

"What?"

"It new to me too." Jack said, brushing his hair from his eye. "Frost kinda…covers the wound and…ta-da…I'm not really sure how it works…"

"Do you know how rare it is to do that?" Tooth asked him. Jack shook his head slowly.

"Is it rare?"

"Extremely. I haven't heard about a immortal doing that in…actually I can't remember." She was lost in thought for a few seconds, but then was quickly brought back to earth when Jack coughed slightly. "But anyway, that wound you've got? It won't heal quickly, even if you were the fastest healer. So it looks like your stuck here for a while."

"But what if more nightmares come here?" Jack questioned. Tooth shook her head, smiling.

"They won't."

"Why not?"

"Pitch is gone."

"What do you mean?" Tooth smiled again reassuringly.

"If I know Pitch, he would've sent all the nightmares with him." She sighed. "He always was too confident…" her eyes suddenly filled with tears.

"What's up?" Jack asked her, confused. She smiled again, looking directly at him.

"It's still too hard to believe…" she sniffed.

"What is?" Jack asked, tilting his head.

"You." She answered, wiping her eyes. "After so long…you suddenly appear literally out of nowhere…just as I was ready to accept that I would be stuck here forever…" she laughed weakly, clearing the rest of her tears. Jack watched, at lost about what to say. He had never seen Tooth like this before: she was always so strong, never letting her emotions get the better of her, and one of the fiercest fighters in the group. But now, as she looked as un-Toothlike as he could imagine, Jack was in unknown territory.

"How did you come here anyway?" The fairy asked suddenly, surprising the spirit. "How did you get out of the ice?" Jack hummed in thought.

"I…dunno…" he began twisting some of his hair around his finger. "I think I just…woke up…and then the moon was there."

"Man in Moon?!" Tooth gasped. Jack nodded.

"Yeah…said some things…and he told me I had been in that ice for over 70 years…" the spirit broke off. The fact that he was seventy years older that he remembered himself being was still strange to him.

"Oh, Jack…" Tooth said, watching him. "It was the only place that we were sure Pitch couldn't find you." Jack smiled.

"It's okay…I'm here now, anyway." He tilted his head. "Could I ask a question, though?"

"What is it?"

"Why the ice? Why put me there, in that lake?" Tooth smiled, eyes brightening.

"It was Sandy's idea- Pitch would never look in a place that was so simple and obvious. He expected you to be heavily guarded- that's why he raided the Pole and all our homes- but Pitch, like I said before, was always too overconfident." She explained and Jack grinned.

"Well, his plan worked, didn't it?"

"I'm glad it did."

The two guardians fell into a comfortable silence, and a few minutes later Jack found himself slowly drifting off, his eyes closing for a few seconds at a time. He looked over at Tooth again, who was deep in thought, and felt something he hadn't experienced in a while, but knew it well.

Happiness.

Please review!