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Karma and Death stood in the middle of the ice watching Jack and his sister skate by them. He looked so happy, with his sister. Jack was at peace away from the world, but the world needs him to have peace. Karma knew this and it killed her to know she had to change it. "Death," Karma said softly, "can you make him see me? Just so I can try and fix this, maybe change his mind."

Death shook his head with a small smile, "What ever you want Karma, I can only wish Luck was here to help. Oh and just know humility will be waiting for you." Death gave a slight laugh and with a snap of his fingers he started to disappear into the air away from Karma's sight. Soon she stood alone, in the middle of the ice watching Jack and his sister skate. It took a minute for Karma to find the words to creep out of her tulip like lips.

"Jack-" Her voice hitched in her throat as he seemed to slow, as the world seemed to go slightly darker. Jack turned from his sister who just kept on skating.

"Hi," He seemed happy and smiling at her with a blank look on his face, "Can I help you?"

She looked at him with a sad smile, "We need you Jack, everyone needs you. I made a mistake, and I can't expect forgiveness to come from what I did to you but please. I must try and fix what I have done. The world needs you. Winter needs it's shepherd, please." Karma pleaded to Jack.

He looked at her blankly, "Sorry, but who are you?" Jack smiled and gave a slight laugh.

"Karma." She admitted with her voice coated in humility, "I am Karma. I am the one who killed you. I made a mistake. I beg of you, to please, come back from this peaceful haven and take your place as shepherd of Winter and Guardian of Joy." This was her humility, she hated to hear those words as she hung her head.

"I'm sorry Mrs. Karma but I am happy here." Jack said with a smile.

"Please, I know I messed up, but do not think of me. People need you, children need you." Karma looked into his brown eyes with truth in her voice.
Memories that Jack didn't think about for what seemed eons, came back to him. Of what Karma did to him, what he was, things he did and he now looked at her with shock and a hint of disgust, "You," realization came to him, "you took it all away from me, and I come here. I am at peace, and now you come back to take that away from me too?" his voice was accusing, "Do you not have an end? Karma why would I want to go back? Nothing is there for me, you made that obvious. I am now happy and you want me to go back?! How did you even get here?! This is my haven, now leave!"

Jack stood with his head held high as Karma looked at him with sorrow in her eyes, "I asked Death to bring me to you. Summer is trying to chase Winter out and it is hurting people; children. You protect children, right?! I messed up and the world needs you and only you can do that."
"I did protect children, but why would they need me now? You messed up so why should I pay for that too?!" Jack's voice was low.

"Because that is what you are." A voice came from behind them. It was his sister. She stopped skating and looked up at Jack. Jack turned to see her standing with a soft smile, "You protected me. It is what you are. Don't fight it."

Jack bent down and looked his sister in the eyes, "Why would I want to leave you though? The world will just keep turning without me. We are happy."

"But happiness and joy like this is, your center. The world needs you. Winter needs it's shepherd. Forgive Jack, she is not asking for herself, she is asking because she is the only one that can fix it, but it needs you. I will be happy, but it's your choice. You need to be happy too." His sister smiled up at him.

"The world doesn't need me in it, I was loved making them happy. But they don't need me that much, do they?" Jack started to question his judgment, now looking at Karma for the answer.

Karma looked down at Jack as he kneeled by his sister, "There are storms, deadly storms while Summer shoos Winter. Children get stuck in the storms and get hurt or worse. No one is ever joyful, the world needs you."

Jack thought about it at first, "Only you can choose." His sister said up to him, "Just remember what it was like to see them happy."

"Take me." Jack's voice was soft with a hint of that mischievous grin tugging at his cheek, "I want to go."

Karma was so happy, that she could barely understand he own thoughts, "You hear that Death!" She said happily to the air, "He wants to leave! Man in the Moon, you head him loud and clear!" Out of thin air, Death stood in his suit and tie with a smile of relief on his face. Then with a snap of his fingers, everything went to a haze and then they were out side of Death's cave once more, but it was only Karma with Death.

"Where's Jack?" She asked.

Death started to walk back down into the dark of the cavern, "I told you," he said, "the Man in the Moon has to do that part. Give it time, but he will pull out in the end."

"Time?!" Karma called after him as he disappeared, "The world doesn't have time!"

"Waiting is the hardest part Karma, but peace will come again soon." Then the deep voice of Death disappeared.

It was North who found it. The old staff that was left behind from something so long ago, or at least it seemed. It was in the infirmary that he found it. The staff that gathered dust for months and he didn't dare to touch it until now. A memory of a mischievous boy flashed into his memory. Something he long forgot, and someone he almost wished to never remember. He collected the staff from the forgotten room and took it to his study. Bunnymund was waiting there for their regular check ins now that Easter and Christmas was over. He stood as North entered the room, looking at the staff. "What's that?" Bunnymund asked.

"Found it in the infirmary," North's voice was low, "I think it is something we forgot long ago." He tossed it across the room to Bunny, with a swift swipe of his paw he caught it. The memories of the mischievous boy flooded back but seemed so distant, "What was that?" He asked dropping it.

"I don't now," North said feeling the North Winds bustling into the window and dancing around the staff, "but something that we forgot, and some one I can't help but wish I didn't remember. Why does it feel like that?"

Something seemed to click in Bunnymund's mind, "The one we didn't protect. I remember, sort of, Jack. It was Jack." Just as fast as the memories came back to them it seemed as if they left just as quickly. "Who was Jack?" Bunnymund asked himself, almost not believing his words.

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