A.N. HI! LOOK AT THIS! I ACTUALLY HAD TIME TO UPDATE!WAHOOOOOOOOOOO!*Dances around like a crazy elephant* *Screams into a microphone* *Laughs like a maniac*

Okay, last part of The Birthday arc!

Disclaimer: Since that last disastrous disclaimer, I am back to doing my own *sigh* I don't own RotG.

The Birthday – Wind's View

Wind was so proud of her boy. He had finally found the place where he belonged. He was a Guardian. He was a protector of children, and of fun. At last he had his memories. Bunny and he no longer hated each other. He had met Tooth, and gotten to know North. Sandy had been brought back and was happily getting to know Jack too. Everything seemed to be going well. The five of them had been having a meeting every week, so that they could report on the clean-up of the battle. North had made the decision that as soon as everything was well, they would have two month meetings. It seemed like maybe Jack had found some allies. Wind could tell that the other four wanted to get to know Jack. The bringer of winter himself had been finding more believers all over the world! (News travels fast over the internet!) All seemed well. Until the other immortals had found out.

It had been about three months since Jack had become a Guardian. Wind wasn't sure why it had taken that long for the others to find out, but eventually they had.

"So, punk, you think you deserve to be a Guardian? What have you done to earn it? Well, I'll tell you this – I've earned it, and you haven't. So what are we going to do about it?" August Summers was not one of Jack's fans.

"Uh, stop smashing me up against the wall?" Jack was trying to smile.

This comment only made Mothman squeeze harder.

"You didn't think it would be that easy now did you?" Showers remarked.

May didn't say anything, but did frown at her brother.

Marigold Leaf turned and raised an eyebrow at August, "Who says you should be a Guardian? I deserve it!"

Showers cocked his head and widened his eyes, "Hey, me and May need it more!"

Mothman turned and pointed to himself with a growl.

Quickly the group dissolved into fighting. Jack was thankful for this, without the distraction Mothman might have suffocated him. The half human had released Jack to have both hands open for punching. Jack took the opening and ducked under his arms sprinting to his staff which had been carelessly tossed to the side. The other five were too busy fighting to notice. Jack made it to his staff and leapt into Wind's embrace. She quickly pulled him up in the air and headed toward the South Pole.

Jack had a slight burn from a fireball on his face,courtesy of August, and his leg was bruised from where Marigold had kicked him, but compared to the other times they had beat him up, he was fairly unscathed. He was lucky that Leaf had only been able to rustle up the five of them when she had heard about Jack's Guardianship. Fast thinking had never been her strong suit, and she hadn't thought that they might need more than her other seasonals and Mothman.

Wind gently pulled some snow up to Jack's cheek. He pulled away, but she wouldn't allow that, and sat him in a snow bank. He tried to get away – the spirit had never liked healing his wounds – but Wind pushed him down. He needed to take care of that burn before it got worse. After a couple of minutes of listening to Jack whine, she let him move. His cheek was now only a bit pinker than normal. Wind whooshed her approval. Jack stuck out his tongue. Wind just laughed at him.

A minute later Jack sighed, than asked, "Wind, do you think the other immortal will do the same thing?"

Wind stopped laughing. A shudder ran through her when she realized that Jack could really get hurt. "Yes Jack, some would. We need to do something. Ask the Guardians."

Jack shook his head, "No way! This is my problem, not theirs."

It was then, as Jack stood to resume his Southern winter duties that Wind acknowledged that Jack was too stubborn to ask for help from the Guardians. She would have to take this into her own hands.

The beatings had only gotten worse over the days. It had only taken about a week for Jack to have to flee to Burgess. It was the middle of the summer there, but his lake was the one place where the other immortals couldn't hurt him. All of the myths and legends had someplace that they called home where the others couldn't enter unless they didn't mean harm. The lake was Jack's place. Burgess was definitely getting a cool down.

Wind rushed to the Pole. She found North working in his office. A huge burst of energy pushed the window open. The big man stood to close it, and she held it open. He finally turned to get help, and Wind pushed herself toward the lists. It was hard work to stay so focused on one thing. It hurt just a bit, but slowly she circled Jack's name on the list in front of her. It was with her last burst of energy that she propelled herself back to Jack. She hoped North would understand the message.

When she saw the sleigh above Burgess, Wind knew that North had figured it out. Jack was up in a tree, trying to stay in the shade so that he wouldn't get sunburned. North got out from the sleigh and called to Jack. He looked up.

"Oh, hey North. Whatcha doing here?"

"I was hoping you would help at Pole, I need someone to test toys and yetis are busy!"

Jack looked stunned. "Ah, uh, well, yeah!"

"Good! Am not taking away from winter duties am I?"

"No! Uh, I mean, Southern winter isn't very fun, I'm good to leave it for a while." Jack left out the part about not being able to fulfill his responsibilities because the other immortals were hunting him down.

"Good! Let us go!"

Wind smiled sleepily as the two clambered into the sleigh. She hitched a ride, and they soon arrived at the pole.

North wasn't lying when he said Jack could test the toys. Wind watched as Jack enthusiastically dove into his work. Wind knew that at heart Jack would always be a child, and this was the perfect job for him. The two of them conversed cheerfully for a few hours. North got an odd look in his eyes as Jack made an offhand remark about sleeping in the snow.

"You don't have a bed Jack?" North asked.

Jack was too busy playing with a race car track to really pay attention to what he was saying. "Yeah, usually I just hang out in trees or snow banks."

He froze as he realized what he had just revealed.

"Ah Jack, you are always welcome at the pole! You can have a room here!" North quickly commented.

Jack grabbed his staff and stuttered an excuse to North before jumping out the window.

Wind carried him to a snow bank a little way away from the workshop. Jack buried himself in the snow, while pulling up his hood. He was so embarrassed that he didn't even notice when Wind left to go back to the office.

North was just closing the window when Wind arrived to stop it. She had just been exhausted, but now North's remark that Jack could sleep at the pole had energized her. Of course! That would be a great solution! If Jack knew that the others cared enough about him to make rooms for him, he might realize that it would be okay to tell them about what had happened with the other jealous immortals. A huge shove opened the window all the way, and she forced her way in. A blank piece of paper and a quill were all she needed to give North an idea.

Wind had been so tired after the episode with North that she couldn't even bring herself to pull Jack out of the snow bank.

Wind wasn't surprised when she saw Bunny later that day. He was the one that would find it hard to accept that Jack didn't have a home. Jack didn't even see the Pooka, and lay down to sleep. The shocked look on Bunny's face confirmed that Wind was right about him. Wind quickly said goodnight to Jack and made her way to the Easter Bunny's Warren.

By the time she got there, the Pooka had already made up a plan for the room. It was extravagant, and for a minute Wind loved it. Then she realized that this was Jack they were talking about. He definitely wouldn't know what to do with something like that. And so, Wind made a desperate plead to Bunny. It was a shock when he could hear her. Not many could. It zapped her energy to speak to him, and her voice quickly faded out.

As Wind made her way back to Antarctica, she tiredly laughed to herself. She had exhausted herself more in the last day than ever before. "It's for Jack," she reminded herself. She didn't care what it took; she would get Jack what he needed.

Wind tried to get the other Guardians to listen, but they couldn't hear her. The only thing she got North and Sandy to do was simplify the doors to the rooms. (The other Guardian's doors hadn't been painted or carved before that.)

It was down to Bunny. She watched him as he headed to destroy the room after that next meeting. A whispered sentence stopped him, and Wind giggled as he yelled –boy was he frustrated with her.

Jack had started to avoid the others. He knew that North would have told the others about what he had said, and consequently didn't want to see any of them. It was lucky for him that he never noticed Bunny painting in the Burgess Woods, or he might have had a fit.

Finally the day came for Jack's rooms to be revealed. Wind was there the whole way. Sandy's room was amazing, Tooth's was awesome, and North's was grand. She had to smile when she saw how Bunny's room had affected Jack - her plan had worked, and Bunny had gone with the simple version. It had meant the world to Jack, and she too had noticed Jack's look in the Pooka's direction when asked what room was best. Yes this whole ordeal had been exhausting, painful, and hard, but it was worth it when she saw the five Guardians all sleeping, Jack and Bunny snuggled close to each other, looking like the brothers that they were.

A.N. Okay, so I hope you liked that, yes it's pretty small, but for thinking that I wouldn't update at all... Yup, better than nothing.

That bit about North and Sandy's doors was for Cat Girl 1995. See I did have a reason! (HA HA HA I randomly put in that bit after looking through the reviews again)

Uhm…. Yeah it makes Wind exhausted to do Poltergeist- like acts. She really does care about Jack, and is definitely a motherly/sisterly figure in his life.

Yeah there was an appearance of OCs in there; I don't think they'll play a large part in anything… Just needed some other characters.

Think that's it…

Thanks for reading! Please review if you can.

-sprinkles