A.N. *screams* OMGOSH Do you see those beautiful numbers?! I was never expecting something like this!

*slowly calms down* Thank you, thank you, thank you!

YAY!

On to the story! So, I've written this from different points of view… Hopefully it doesn't get too confusing. Just remember, every other section is Jack's.

Disclaimer: Uhm… This is embarrassing. It appears that Percy couldn't show up to tell you that I don't own RotG, considering he is on a quest on the other side of the world…

Jack's Accented Mistake Part 3

Previously: Jack let out a little noise from the back of his throat and quickly flew out of the open window, leaving behind a trail of fairies.

Bunny blinked and then asked, "Ah, mate? What jus' happened?"

Jack flew as fast as Wind could carry him. He didn't tell her where to go, except for away. This was embarrassing. When caught in these types of situations, Jack's instinct was to run, and so he did. Away from the fairies that wouldn't leave him be until he had talked to them. Away from the Guardians who had heard him talk, had heard him talk in his accent.

Sandy watched the others. The sudden disappearance of Jack, coupled with the fact that he still hadn't told them what happened with Pitch, would be enough for them to run around yelling. And, this was exactly what they were doing.

"Girls! Girls! What hap- NORTH!"

"Hurry get sleigh ready! And swords!"

"Calm down, ya' bloody show ponies!"

"An arrow pointing toward Bunny"

"Where did Jack go?"

"Спешите получить саней!"

"Stop ya' bloody drongos!"

"Exclamation point, steam out of ears"

"STOP!"

"…"

"…"

"…"

No one was willing to say anything while Tooth was angry.

"Now, that you've calmed down, I'll be able to listen to my girls and find out what just happened." Tooth turned away with a sigh.

"Now, Baby Tooth, what happened?"

Jack wasn't sure where he was, except that Wind had taken him to an island of some kind. It wasn't hot, but wasn't really cold either. This was probably a good thing, considering that if it had been cold, Jack would have buried himself in snow until next Christmas.

"You Chicken-Hearted loggerhead! I ought to have stayed there!" Jack yelled at himself before sitting down hard on the ground, dropping his staff a few feet away.

Wind tried to comfort him, but Jack pulled up his hood, signifying that he wasn't talking to her. Jack curled up into himself, wishing that he could go back in time to fix his mistake.

For Bunny, this was pretty confusing. He had just been trying to catch up on some sleep that he had missed from Easter, two days ago, (Although, he wasn't as exhausted as usual, Jack had actually been a help with Easter,)when North had the idea to check up on Pitch to make sure he wasn't giving Nightmares or anything. To tell the truth, he thought that Jack probably was the best for the job. His arguments won over the others, and he set off. Bunny had been dozing before Tooth woke him up by being worried over Jack. He tried to comfort her, before falling asleep again. Only a little while later, he had been woke again, told Jack had just been there. He had followed Sandy to Jack's room, and heard the kid talking in speak from centuries past. Everyone had been freaking out, while he and Sandy tried to calm them down, now Baby Tooth was telling Tooth a story that she translated for the rest of them.

"So, Pitch made Jack mad?"

Some more chirping.

"He started yelling at him in that accent?"

"It was so cute!"

"Of course it was!"

"Tooth, are you translating what fairy is saying, or adding own comments?"

"Oops, sorry North."

"And then Jack left? He must have come back here..."

"Wait, wait wait. Why would 'e still be talkin' like that?" Bunny was so confused!

"I don't know, and Baby Tooth doesn't either…'

"Well, we need to find Jack! To the sleigh!"

The accent had finally faded away, but Jack had already blown up the problem to huge proportions in his brain.

"They'll kick me out for being so stupid!"

"I can't believe I freaked out like that."

"I'm so stupid."

"I need to control myself!"

"Why did I let Pitch bug me like that?"

"Stupid, stupid, stupid!"

"I need to hide!"

With that last thought, he gripped his staff and tried to jump into the air, but had forgotten that Wind wouldn't carry him right now. He was going to start his other way of flying, when he heard jingling behind him. North's sleigh was zooming toward him, and he shrank back, trying to hide from the Guardians. Wind wasn't having that though, and firmly, but gently pushed him forward. Jack tried to fight it, but was pushed out into the open.

Tooth was a little scared for Jack. She worried that maybe Pitch had done something after all. There wasn't much she could say at the moment, considering she had become the teddy bear for Bunny on this sleigh ride, and was currently relaying his directions to North, as he followed Jack's scent.

"Urrrgh, go left." Bunny whimpered.

"Left!" Tooth said.

"Going left!" North was too busy directing the sleigh to begin teasing Bunny.

"Arghhh, stay straight."

"Straight!"

"Going straight."

It had been like this the whole sleigh ride.

Jack had apparently fled to a tiny island off of the coast of Iceland.

Tooth was looking for the blue hooded figure, but couldn't see him anywhere.

"Where is he?" Tooth was just a bit hysterical.

"According to Bunny, down there." North was trying to keep his head, but was worried out of his mind about Jack.

It was at that moment that Jack came into view. He was leaning backward, not moving his feet, yet was still moving forward. His hood was covering his face.

North pulled the reindeer just the right way, so as to let them know to land. They didn't hit hard, thankfully, and Tooth quickly flew out to Jack.

Jack didn't meet anyone's eyes. His hood fell as far down as Jack could get it, and he had a death grip on his staff. He was trembling. People might say he was overreacting, but to Jack, everything about this event was terrifying. He was so scared that the Guardians would shun him for his differences, that his brain was overridden with the messages that he always had to try so hard to suppress.

"You don't do anything good for the world."

"You can't ever pay back the Guardians for accepting you."

"You are useless."

"You are so different from them that they could never really accept you."

Jack had such a low self-esteem, that he listened to these messages.

He couldn't meet Tooth's eyes.

She had flown up to him, and he was waiting for her to say something.

What she did next utterly baffled him.

She flung her arms around him and babbled in his ear,

"Oh, Jack are you alright? We were so worried! Was it Pitch? Did he hurt you? Do you need anything?"

Jack had automatically stiffened from the physical contact. His head hurt from trying to understand why Tooth was doing this. Was she trying to lessen the burden of being kicked out of the Guardians? This idea was discarded as Sandy and North joined Tooth, North placing a hand on his shoulder, and Sandy hugging his leg. Poor Bunny was still in the background, trying to recover from the sleigh.

"Jack? North asked calmly, "Are you alright?"

Jack, in shock, could only nod, which caused his hood to fall back, revealing his mussed hair.

Bunny made his way to the little group, still stumbling around.

"Yeah, what happened Frostbite?"

Wind gently rustled his hair, and whispered, "Just explain, they'll understand."

"I, uh," Jack cleared his throat, "um, well…"

He wasn't sure how to reply.

North solved his dilemma, by gently asking, "Could you tell us what happened with Pitch?"

Jack felt more comfortable starting at the beginning. He quickly rushed through the story, blurring his words.

"And, then, well, Pitch made me kinda mad… And I guess my accent came out…"

"Your accent?" Tooth asked.

"Mmmhm. Well, I grew up in the 1700s, and well, I still sometimes speak in the accent… Usually only when something makes me mad or something…" This last part was muttered.

"So, you get stuck in the accent?" Bunny asked the genuine question.

"Yeah, usually it goes away after an hour or so… I just kinda yeah, get stuck in it…"

"Why did you run away Jack?"

Sandy accompanied North's question with a question mark.

Jack flushed a blue color, "Well, I guess, I was just embarrassed…" He trailed off, before muttering in a voice so low that only Bunny could hear him, though he probably didn't realize it, "and I'm tired."

Bunny quickly ran the conversation with the fairies that they had overheard through his mind, "I have not slept in a fortnight!" Bunny had been around long enough to know that a fortnight meant two weeks. His eyes bugged out as the others continued the conversation, when he realized that Jack hadn't slept at all since he had started helping out at the Warren for Easter. Elementals like Jack needed even more sleep than normal immortals, who had to sleep at a minimum, once a week. Jack hadn't had sleep for two weeks! This was a problem, but Bunny should probably pay attention to the conversation.

"Yeah, sorry, I just kinda freaked, I shouldn't have left like that, sorry."

"No Jack, it is not you who should apologize, I should never have barged in room like that, I am sorry"

"It's okay North."

"We should get back to the workshop." Tooth remarked.

Sandy nodded, as he looked at Bunny. The tiny man nodded, signaling that he knew Jack hadn't slept, and would soon be getting a nap in the sleigh. Bunny relaxed a bit, though not about the sleigh. He quickly tried to open a tunnel, but North pulled him into the sleigh by his shoulder strap.

"Oi, not again!"

Bunny squeezed his eyes shut, and missed Jack being knocked out by Sandy's Dream sand. The spirit slumped in the seat next to Bunny, and the Pooka's eyes cracked open when he felt the weight against him. The white haired teen automatically grabbed onto Bunny's fur, seeing as his staff had fallen out of his immediate reach. Bunny just sighed, and gently moved Jack's head so that it wouldn't dig into his shoulder. The sleigh started moving, and Bunny, simply out of instinct grabbed ahold of Jack, so that he would have a hold on something. He eyes had been shut again, and he didn't see Tooth and Sandy's shared look of amusement.

North was said by some people to be unobservant. This was false. He oftentimes saw many things that others didn't. This was why when he had been speaking to Jack; he had been as calm and gentle as he could. His body language told North that he was pretty freaked out, and needed some reassurance. To others, Jack's little slip up would be very small, but the jolly man could tell that this was a big thing to Jack. To him it meant that he was very different from the Guardians, and that they wouldn't accept him. The amazed look as the Guardians made sure he was alright, and hadn't been hurt by Pitch, was worth many Christmases to North. The child had been so alone for so long, that their reassurance and acceptance was worth an immense amount to him. This was why he pulled Bunny along for the ride, not to be rude, but to let Jack know that they were figuratively (and literally) all on board. North was thankful Sandy made his move; the teen had been drooping with sleep. North drove the sleigh as only a practiced driver could, and looked up to the Moon.

Inside he told Manny this, "Manny, you have given us Jack to teach us have you not? He is now glue that holds Guardians together," Here North made a silent vow, "Yes; I will take care of Jack. He has been alone for too long, he deserves family. He will not be alone anymore."

A.N. So… that arc is over! Did you like it, hate it, or don't care?

About the all alone thing… the Guardians don't yet know about Wind, that will be coming up in White Wings part 3 or 4….

Uhm…. Yeah I kind of got stuck on the ending…. Hopefully it isn't too bad.

Oh yes! I would really love to thank xXSleepingXx for your amazing review, it just made my day!

Hmmmm….. Think that's it…..

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