Chapter Seventeen

Jamie had always thought that'd he live out his life by becoming a primary school teacher and growing old with someone he loved. Never in his wildest dreams did he think that'd he never grow old at all and would live his life out as a possible guardian. Although, he was glad he could do so with the person who'd helped him most. Jack Frost.

"Jack Frost..." Jamie whispered, staring at the white haired boy who stood some feet away from him.

"Hello again Jamie Bennett," Jack said with a soft smile. "Glad to see you back."

Jamie nodded, walking slowly across the icy lake to get to Jack. His eyes moved to the staff he had in his hands, seeing that it still wasn't back to it's regular self. As Jamie got closer, he saw one of Jack's eyes was black, while the other was it's usual bright blue.

"What happened to your eyes?" Jamie questioned, tilting his head as he stared curiously at them.

"I could ask you the same question. Your chocolate eyes now look like Sandy spilled a tub full of his sand into them."

Jamie chuckled a bit at the comment. "I'm not sure. I woke up and they were like this."

"Well if it makes you feel better, I use to have brown eyes too," Jack said with a snicker.

"Reallly?"

"Yeah."

They both stared at one another, their eyes meeting. Jack reached out his icy white hand, wanting Jamie to grab onto it.

"Come with me. We have stuff to talk about, ya know?"

"Y-You still want me to come back? Even though I left?" Jamie stammered, his face turning a slight red.

"Of course. When I saw your note, there was no way in hell I was going to just stay back and let you run off. If you haven't noticed, I'm crazy about you, Bennett. You're not running away on me," Jack said, a smirk forming on his face.

A smile spread across Jamie's face and his heart was beating so fast he thought it'd fly out of his chest. He grabbed Jack's hand gently, no longer bothered by the cold. In fact, he didn't even notice it.

"Alright. Let's go."

Jack nodded, continuing to smile, and he floated up. Snow brushed past Jamie's feet as he was lifted up as well.

"The others are waiting a bit further away than here. It'll be quicker to fly," Jack explained as he lifted Jamie away from the frozen lake.

Once they were both firmly off the ground and above the trees, Jack felt the need to carry Jamie bridal style, even though Jamie was quite bigger. It didn't matter to them. As they flew throughout the sky, Jamie couldn't help but notice Jack's different colored eyes. The pupil in the black eye was completely gone, and he was only focusing out of the blue one.

"Are you going to tell me what happened to your eyes?" Jamie asked.

"I'll explain everything that happened when we get back to the Pole. It's not suitable to discuss anything now while we're up here," Jack explained.

Jamie just nodded, figuring that he shouldn't ask anymore questions. Their little flight only lasted about five minutes. It would have been shorter if Jack didn't show off with a bunch of cool tricks. That should have been expected of him, of course. Jamie didn't mind. He was enjoying himself, feeling like some of the stress from before was slowly vanishing.

They soon found themselves landing in front of Santa's famous sleigh. Bunnymund was sitting in the sleigh, his feet propped up on the seat in front of him and he was leaning back. Sandy was sleeping in the back of the sleigh, completely zoned out. Santa was checking his sleigh and looking up at the sky occasionally. Tooth and Baby Tooth were looking around frantically when the smaller fairy noticed Jack and Jamie.

She pointed and Tooth noticed. Her face widened in surprise and she made a loud gasping noise.

"Look everyone! They're here! Jamie and Jack!" Tooth exclaimed.

Soon, the other Guardians were looking at them excitedly. Bunnymund quickly hopped out of the sleigh after he nudged Sandy awake. Sandy followed and Santa was coming towards them.

"Jamie my boy! Glad to have you back. MiM explained a lot to me so you can save it," Santa said happily, holding out his arms and engulfing the two boys in a big bear hug.

"Wow there North. You're squishing us," Jack gasped.

Jamie and Jack's feet dangled in the air as they hung there, being lifted in the hug. Santa soon set them down and he laughed happily.

"Sorry there. You know how I am!"

Jamie noticed that everyone seemed happy and relaxed. There was no tension and it was like a big family reunion where everyone had finally reunited after twenty years. Jamie didn't get it though. Where they just happy because he was here? Wasn't Pitch still around? Didn't they have to deal with him? And what about Jack's eyes and staff? What was the deal with that? Was his personalities still split into two? Everything was still confusing, even after a long break of just sleeping.

"Well we should get going aye?" Bunnymund offered. "We have stuff to do."

"Of course!" Santa bellowed. "Everyone! Onto the sleigh!"

The Guardians hopped onto the sleigh, getting comfortable, and Jamie stared up at them in a daze.

"You coming?" Jack asked, holding out his hand.

"Uh, yeah," Jamie whispered, grabbing the open hand.

With the help of Jack, he climbed into the sleigh and got himself comfortable. Soon they were flying off to the North Pole for the who knows how manyth time.

Jamie had fallen asleep on the sleigh, even though he had slept for so long. He guessed that dying must wear people out. When Jamie was woken up, he saw they had already landed and someone had carried him into the workshop. He was in a slouching position in a giant green arm chair. When his eyes adjusted, all he saw was six pairs of eyes staring at him.

"Ah!" he yelled, jumping back into the big chair.

"Oh didn't mean to scare you dear!" Tooth said energetically, her wings flapping furiously.

"Well since everyone is awake now," Bunnymund started, looking at Sandy and then Jamie. "We should discuss what's going on."

Jamie's head immediately snapped up. He'd been gone for a while, he needed to be caught up on the situation.

"Does this mean I'll find out what happened to Jack's eyes?" Jamie asked quickly.

Yet, when he asked the question, he immediately felt the tension in the room. Everyone was staring at him, some tried to speak, but no words ever came.

"Is it that serious?" Jamie asked skeptically, his eyebrow raising in question.

"Well you see..." Santa begun.

This story was going to be quite the roller coaster.

NOTES: Oh yes a cliffhanger. I know I use to post chapters like everyday, but that became incredibly hard. After this week, I'll be on Spring Break for two weeks so expect some more c: