Forever and always with you
Chapter 14: little brother
The siblings, guardians minus bunny, went to father time's chambers where they left him with guards incase Minerva comes back again. Eros stayed with bunny in the infirmary, so the giant rabbit would rest properly, and won't get out of bed, much to bunny's disappointment.
Father's time chamber exist in one of the highest level of the palace. Like the outside, the place is a balance of the four seasons, and as breath taking as well. The seasonal siblings and Sandy have their own room in the palace, but it has been a long time since they stayed her. They sometimes drop by to see if everything is alright in the palace and the main realm. But not stay and spend the night.
North and tooth were in complete awe, the palace was just beautiful. It was like truly a place that came out of a fairy tale. The group walked through hallways and corridors, and climbed stares. The group finally stopped in front of a silver and gold double door with the sun and moon imprinted on it, two phenomena that represent time.
They opened the door and head inside. On a large bed lies a handsome young man with shoulder length lilac hair. His eyes were closed and face blank, his skin was so pale. The man just look like the recently deceased.
Sandy sat next to the man's head, his hand pressed to the time lord's temple. He took a deep breath, closed his eyes and focused. The group waited for a few moment before Sandy opened his eyes again.
"well" asked Rapunzel
Sandy started to sign, the siblings understood, but the other two didn't and looked confused.
Jack saw their confused look and translated.
"Sandy say that father has a strong mind, so it will not be easy to see his memories, it will take effort and time(ironically)".
"but what about mother nature" asked tooth with worry.
Sandy signs again and jack translates.
"Mother has a strong mind as well, pitch won't be able to enter her mind that easily either, so rest assure"
"well we can't do anything about it but wait" said hiccup "we should all go rest"
"tooth you should go do your job and keep the children believing" said Jack
"B-but I" tooth was about to protest but interrupted by North
"Jack is right toothy, you should go do your job"
"what about Sandy" said tooth "he needs to give dreams"
Sandy signed again and Jack translated
"he says that children can have a dreamless night once in a while, pitch is occupied he won't give the kids nightmares. And that his dream sand can reach sleeping children while he is here so no worry".
Tooth couldn't protest any longer and agreed to go, Rapunzel showed her the way. Sandy way not speak, but when he talks he can certainly make others shut up.
"hey hiccup" said jack "why don't you show north some of your inventions, I think he would love that"
"I don't mind" said hiccup "please follow me
North did, he and the leader of the seasonals went of the room. Just Jack, Merida and Sandy remained.
"what will you till uncle finds something?" asked Merida
" I'm going to check on bunny, I just hope he didn't do anything stupid and caused Eros to skin him, and you?" replied Jack
"I'm gonna go practice shooting, tell Eros to come meet me at the garden, I wanna challenge him" said Merida
With one last look at Sandy and his father, Jack made his way to the infirmary. It was too quiet when he arrived. It made him worry. He opened the door and saw bunny staring distrustfully at cupid, who is sitting by the fire while sharpening his arrows.
Cupid turned around looked at Jack and smiled.
"hey Jackie boy" he said
"hey lover boy" Jack replied "I'll take over watching over him, M is waiting for you at the garden, she wanna challenge you"
"can't keep a lady waiting can we" smiled Eros "I'll be of then"
The spirit of love headed towards the garden and closed the door behind him. The room was filled with a pregnant silence. Jack took a chair and placed it next to bunny's bed.
"how are you doing" asked Jack
"great, now that drongo is gone" replied bunny
"don't be like that bunny, he is a cool guy, plus if he didn't look so intimidating, you wouldn't have stayed in bed"
Bunny crossed his arms and pouted, Jack laughed at him, bunny was acting like Sophie and that's just adorable.
"you spend a lot of time with Sophie kangaroo"
"what's that's supposed to mean"
"nothing, nothing at all" smirked jack "you just look adorable doing it"
"I'm warning you frostbite"
"relax I'm just kidding" Jack reached his hand on bunny's forehead and frowned "you have a slight fever bunny, I'll get you something to lower it.
"no need to mate, your hand is cold enough for the job" said bunny
"but that would be acquired wouldn't it" asked jack
Bunny merely shrugged. In truth he liked it when jack petted is forehead back at the pole. Even though his hands are cold they were comforting. They made him feel safe, and the gesture also reminded him a lot of his parents. They used to do this to him when he developed a fever. Of course he won't tell jack that.
Like before jack placed his cold hand on bunny's forehead and started grooming this area and its surrounding. Bunny leaned to his touch, it took all his will power not to purr, and Jack was biting his cheeks to keep himself from laughing. No matter how hard bunny tried, Jack can see that the pooka enjoyed the gesture. Jack moved his hand next to bunny's neck, the same place Jamie scratched when bunny turned into a small cute fur ball. The said fur ball started thumbing is big foot on the bed and Jack is really trying real hard not to laugh at the site. Bunny was so lost he didn't pay attention to what he was doing. Jack's hand moved to bunny's head again, and like before it felt like de ja vu, like jack did this to him a long time ago. But again that is impossible, so bunny locked that thought away and asked Jack a question
"why didn't you tell us that you are a shape shifter mate?"
Jack looked at him shocked he only answered "w-what?"
"why didn't you tell us you are a shape shifter?" repeated bunny "and why did you hide you know the olarak and all that stuff?"
"oh,… about the shape shifting, I guess I merely forgot, I mean I don't shape shift much, it's tiring especially when i shift into a creature that is not my familiar".
"what do you mean" asked bunny, forgetting the other question.
"you see each season has an affinity with certain animals, in case of winter it is owls and wolves"
Bunny nodded in understanding.
"I can easily shift to a wolf or owl with no problem". As to make his point Jack shifted into both animals and shifted back. "but transforming into others takes more energy, and the bigger the animal and the more human like it is the more energy it requires".
"what you mean more human like?" asked bunny
Jack smirked at bunny's question and started to shift. Fur started to appear on his skin, his clothes disappeared. A muzzle started to form on his face, his hands and feet turning into paws. On the top of his head long appendages that looked so familiar to bunny started to form.
When jack was done Bunny was speechless, his eyes wide and mouth dropped. In front of him is a pooka, a pure white furred pooka with blue eyes.
"breath bunny, breath" said the white pooka
Bunny took the rabbits idea and breathed. Then looked again at the rabbit next to him.
"what do you think?" said jack " do I pass?"
Bunny remained speechless, his eyes were collecting tears, is what in front of him true? or is he dreaming?
Jack frowned "does this form disturb you, I can change back if you like"
"NOO" said bunny, he felt embarrassed when he noticed that he answered quickly. "you just surprised me and it's been a long time since I've seen one of my kind, I was just want to make sure I'm not dreaming"
"I understand bunny" said jack and took bunny's paws in his and placed it on his head. Bunny kept examining the fur on jack's head, ears and face. Most of the fur is made of soft baby fur, which made him realize how young Jack is. A preteen in pooka's years!. His paw went to Jack's ruff and torso and again the fur is mostly soft baby fur with the occasional adult guard hair. It kinda made bunny feel like a big brother and in front of him is his baby brother whom he wanted to protect. Bunny yawned, his body still needed rest. Jack stood up ready to leave "I'll leave you rest then"
But to Jack's surprise bunny pulled him towards the bed next to him and let out a yelp. Bunny curled around him as how would a mother do to her kits to protect them from predators and weather. He will happily pretend that Jack is a younger brother that needs protecting. Jack on the other hand was shocked, but relaxed when he saw how bunny curled around him. He saw mother rabbits curl like this around her kits. Jack realized that bunny must be doing the same thing, he must be happy to see one of his kind, well Jack is not really a pooka but shifting to one must made bunny happy. He had heard about bunny being the last of his kind and that must've been hard on him. Jack curled closer to bunny's fury chest and let himself rest as well
"good night bunny" said jack
"good night little brother" answered bunny.
That was fluffy wasn't it?, I like the brotherly relationship between Jack and bunny. It's just so cute.
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