Hey Guys! Here's the actual story! Enjoy!
(Set the day after the Prologue. Next chapter from Jack's POV! This one from Bunny's. Not any romance here yet, mainly just Jack being angsty…)
'Stupid North and his stupid ideas…' Thought Bunnymund as he walked through his warren. Yesterday, the other guardians had decided that in order to help jack deal with his depression he would have to talk to someone about what has been bothering him. That would have been fine, if they hadn't thought that a good way to make him talk about it was to shut him up in Bunny's warren until he talked about it. Bunny had tried every excuse in the book, but North had decided that it was settled. Jack would stay with Bunny until he talked about his problem. And from what Bunny knew about Jack, he could guess that he wouldn't talk about it if you tried to make him… Which meant that he could be staying here for a while…. Great.
It wasn't like the pooka (that's what Bunnymund is in the books BTW…) didn't like Jack, he liked the kid well enough in his own way, but he REALLY didn't want his warren to become a frozen wasteland because he can't stop moping around. Jack wasn't supposed to arrive for another thirty minutes, so that gave the pooka just enough time to get all of the little eggs into a place in the tunnels where the coldest wind wouldn't reach them. The last thing he needed was all of the remaining eggs to be frozen solid. A little known fact was that most of the Easter eggs were made immediately after Easter, which Bunny then painted at his own pace. Until that is, the week before Easter. That is when he would start panicking and using the flowers, river, and other natural paint making parts of his warren to paint the remaining eggs while he ran though the checklist for Easter, making sure there was enough eggs and baskets. It was like that basically every year, and while Bunny didn't really enjoy the current system, he never got around to thinking of a more efficient method.
Once he was sure that the eggs were safe, He decided he would go and enjoy what he was sure was the last remaining peace and quiet he would have for a long time. He sat on a tall hill overlooking the rest of the warren. He closed his eyes and felt the warmth of the 'Sun' on his face. He would have fallen asleep there if it hadn't been for the chilling breeze that blew through the warren. When it hit Bunny, it hit hard. Or cold. It felt like someone had just put ice under his skin. He wrapped his arms tight around himself and ran towards his den (the entrance to which was hidden by a great deal of vegetation and guarded by a larger than normal pair of the stone eggs that roamed the warren, keeping a protective watch on everything that was down here). Now it had started snowing. Great. Before he could even go near Jack, he would need something to keep him warm or he would risk freezing to death. Thankfully, North had been kind enough to provide Bunny with three smaller versions of the heater that warmed the factory. One Bunny had placed with the smaller eggs, one was in his den, and one was portable so Bunny could continue his day to day activities without suffering from frostbite… He just had to find it… After a good five minutes of searching, he finally found it. It was about the size of one of his boomerangs, but it gave off enough heat to melt a glacier. Although in this situation, Bunny would have been more than happy to have something with ten times the heat of the sun. He was LITERALLY freezing, and he hadn't even been near Jack yet! Although, the heater did considerably help. Now that he had that, it was time to find and deal with Jack…
It didn't take Bunny long to find him, as the closer he got the colder the temperature became and Bunny found himself adjusting the output of the small heater quite a bit. By the time he found Jack, he couldn't make it any hotter, and he was STILL freezing. 'Ok, all I have to do is talk to him before the whole warren freezes. No pressure.' He thought. Jack was sitting on one of the stone eggs, which of course was covered in frost an snow, and stared up at the roof of the warren. He was unaffected by the cold, which made Bunny EXTREMELY jealous, and didn't seem to notice the blizzard that was beginning to form around him. He wore a thoughtful look on his face, one that Bunny couldn't help but think was sad. "HEY! Frostbite! You're freezing everything! " shouted Bunny, trying to get Jacks attention. However his cries were drowned out by the wind. 'Fine,' thought Bunny. 'Time for plan B…'. He took one of his boomerangs and threw it with all of his might. Just when it seemed it would hit Jack in the back of his head, the wind picked up and blew it harmlessly around him. 'oh for the love of MiM' Thought Bunny, getting extremely irritated now. Taking a few steps back, Bunny dropped to all fours and sprinted towards Jack. The wind picked up again, as if attempting to protect Jack from the freezing pooka, but it wasn't strong enough and Bunny tackled Jack off of the egg and to the ground. They landed on the ground with Bunny on top of Jack. He yanked Jacks staff out of his hands and threw it to the side before looking back at the winter spirits shocked face. Now that Jack no longer held his staff, the wind died down and the snow fell much lighter. "Hello Frostbite. Having a good time? Because you are literally bringing about the second Ice Age." Said Bunny in a surprisingly calm voice while at the same time he glared at Jack with such intensity that he felt the sun couldn't match it.
Jack stared up at him with a look of anger that quickly turned to an apologetic expression when he looked and saw that the pooka was right. There was snow everywhere and the colorful river that flowed through the warren had been frozen solid. "Oh my god I'm sorry! I didn't notice what was doing." Said Jack quickly. "I was just thinking about something…" He trailed off with a light blush on his cheeks. "So, would you mind getting off of me if I promise not freeze anything?" Bunny hadn't even noticed that he was still on top of the smaller guardian. Bunny stood up and offered his hand to Jack, who didn't take it. "So, you mind telling me what it was that you were thinking so deeply about?"
Jack avoided his gaze and instead looked at the ground. "It wasn't important, I don't want to talk about it." He made a move toward his staff, but Bunny grabbed it first. "Oh no. You are not getting this back so you can freeze everything again." Jack let out a frustrated sound and tried to take his staff from Bunny, only for him to push him back to the ground. "You obviously didn't hear me." He bent down to where his face was inches from Jack's. "You. Are. Not. Getting. This. Back."
Jack looked angry now. "But why? I already told you that it was an accident! I will be careful this time, I promise!" He stood up and tried to grab it again, but Bunny simply back stepped and held the staff behind his back. He smirked at the frost spirits frustration. It felt good to be the one doing the tormenting for once. "Fine! Keep it! Whatever!" Jack shouted, before turning around and stomping away. Where he was stomping off to, bunny had no idea as Jack couldn't leave if he wanted to. Bunny let out a sigh and thought 'Great. I get to spend the next few days with a secretive, irritating, and apparently depressed frost spirit. What fun' Then he started back towards his den, content with leaving Jack alone to brood if he really wanted to. While he was walking he noticed he still had the heater on full blast, and without the freezing wind to balance it out, it was burning his skin and he let out a yelp before taking it off and throwing it into the remaining snow on the ground, which it then melted in about five seconds. This was going to be a long week…