GAHHH! T^T I AM SO SORRY! This is WAY past being late!
I do have a reason for why it is so late though!
High School. Freshman Year.
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-_- yeah.
Well, here.
Have some feels.
July 28th, 1707
Before the Guardians saw a new memory they first heard voices. Or rather, a voice.
"Hey Emma." A young male voice said.
Nothing.
"Emma."
Still nothing.
"Come on, Em, you can't still be mad at me."
"Yes I can, Jackson, that was mean what you did." A new, even younger female voice said.
"Oh, c'mon, it was funny!"
"Not to me."
The memory finally unfolded to six year old Emma, sitting on a log in the woods with her arms crossed and a pout on her face. One of the twelve year old Overland boys, most likely Jack, stood behind her trying to get her attention.
Jack smiled. "Please forgive me Emma?"
"No! You scared me!" Emma snapped.
Jack laughed. "Yeah but that was the fun in it!"
Emma jumped up and turned around. "That was not fun, Jackson! I thought you were dead!"
"What's she talking about?" North asked.
"I think Jack pulled a prank on her," Bunny said.
North nodded. "Judging from this conversation, he took it too far."
Everyone agreed.
Jack put his hands up in front of him. "Okay, okay, I'm sorry Emma. I didn't know it would scare you so much."
Emma's bottom lip stuck out and she run into Jack's arms. "Please never do that again, Jackie!"
Jack smiled softly and sunk down to his knees to hug Emma better. "Okay, I promise."
"Can we go home now?" Emma asked, pulling slightly away from Jack.
Jack stood up and took Emma's hand. "Sure."
The memory faded away into darkness, before a new memory appeared.
October 14th, 1707
An Overland twin stood in front of a window, holding the curtain away with his left hand and standing perfectly still. Outside the window, the sun was just going down, casting a dark blue across the grass.
"Jack," A voice said, before its owner, Jacoby with a bruise covering the right side of his face, came into view. He walked over to the boy at the window, Jack, and put his hand on his twin's shoulder. "Jack, please listen to me."
Jack shrugged the hand off, still staring out the window.
Jacoby sighed. "I know you're mad at David, but please, Emma needs you."
Jack mumbled something that Jacoby, nor the Guardians, could hear.
"What?" Jacoby leaned forward.
Jack huffed, and then said, "I'm going to fucking kill that monster."
The Guardians literally took a step back.
They had never heard Jack use words as harsh as that before. They all wondered the same thing, what had happened?
Jacoby sighed and sat on the end of the bed near the window. "Jack please don't say that."
Jack's shoulders slouched and he let go of the curtain, turning around for the first time. He had a bloody red scar going across his nose left cheek and down his jaw. His head had blood seeping from his brow and he had a bruise on his forehead. The front of his shirt was covered in blood.
"My heart, oh I think my heart just died." Tooth said, sinking to the ground.
"Jacoby, we can't stay here." Jack said, tears brimming his eyes.
"Where else would we go?" Jacoby asked.
"Ugh! I don't know!" Jack said, becoming irritated. He walked over to the only dresser in the room and pulled out a brown shirt. He stripped off his bloody one, revealing how skinny he truly was and put on the brown one. He wiped the blood from his face, leaving it only with the bruise and the angry cut across his face.
"Go get Emma." Jack said.
Jacoby stood. "Where did you hide her?"
"Behind the firewood." He said.
Jacoby nodded and left the room.
Jack sighed, and sat on the bed. After a few moments, Jacoby came back into the room, Emma trailing behind him.
The six year old's eyes lit up when she saw Jack.
"Jackie, look!" Emma rushed over and lifted her hand up, revealing a little white tooth. "When David pushed me it fell out!" She started jumping up and down.
Jack frowned. "Why are you happy about that? Didn't it hurt?"
Emma stopped jumping and her smile faltered. "B-because the Tooth Fairy is going to come! Right Jacoby?" Emma turned to Jacoby for support.
Jacoby nodded encouragingly. "Right, Emma!"
The Guardians smiled in the change of mood.
Jack scoffed and turned his head away.
Jacoby frowned. "Jack is just being sore, Emma, ignore him."
What was said next completely deflated the Guardians.
Okay, I had to do this, get ready for one hell of a Peter Pan 2 reference
Jack stood up, facing away from her. "Ughhh! The Tooth Fairy doesn't exist Emma!"
Emma pouted up at him. "Yes she does…" she said. "You and Jake read me stories about her…"
Jack turned to look at her, rage on his face. "Those are just stories, Emma, that's all they are! This is the real world, where people like us are hurt everyday!" Jack balled his hand into fists. "The Tooth Fairy isn't real, none of the spirits are!"
Emma's eyes stared watering. "Yes they are!"
Jack stomped over to Emma. "Oh come on, Emma, grow up!"
Jacoby tried to butt in and stop Jack, "Jack!"
Jack continued anyways. "That's just a bunch of nonsense!"
Emma's lip trembled. "You're lying!" She shouted before running out of the room.
Jacoby made a feeble attempt to stop her, but after she left he turned to Jack. "Jack! How could you say that to her!"
Jack's face relaxed, realization seeming to strike.
Jacoby stormed from the room, leaving Jack alone.
Jack face contorted into angry once again and he slammed the door shut, putting his back against it and sinking to the floor, burying his face in his knees and quietly sobbing.
"What have I done?" he whispered.
The memory faded into nothing, once again.
Once again, thank you faithful viewers, and my amazing Beta, for everything!
Expect a nice looong chapter on Saturday okay?
Oh, and you know how in the story description is says 'Jack sings'?
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