Hello! I am back with Chapter 6! I hope I didn't keep you guys waiting for that long. :)

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Chapter 6 – Guardian of Heart Attacks

As Sandy finished the last finishing touches to all his dreams, Jack took a deep breath. All was going well so far. At least he didn't have anything else to do for the night. When the dream maker finished his sweet dreams, both he and the teen slowly floated back down to Jamie's house. Both of them were smiling, and both were happy that they fulfilled the children's dreams.

Jack opened the window with the Sandman in his arms with a, for once in this whole disaster, relaxed smile. When he saw Jamie looking at all of the toddlers with a stern eye, and almost all of the little kids still with concentration, the winter spirit laughed. "How did you do that?" Jack asked, bewildered at how well Jamie seemed to be handing them. "Well," the boy began. "it takes a whole lot of time with a little kid sister to know what to do in situations like these." Jamie turned to the teen with a rather smug smile on his face. But the expression suddenly changed. Now he looked frustrated.

Jack's expression changed too. "What?" he asked, confused. The boy stuck up an accusing finger to the winter spirit's face, making Jack lean back a little to avoid being touched on the nose. "You owe me though." Jamie finally said. "What did I do?" Jack retorted, once he understood the question. That was when their little argument began.

"Christmas is just two days away and Bunny ruined my Christmas present for Mom!"

"Holy snowballs! I completely forgot about Christmas!" Jack took a mental note of that in his head. Jamie, however, was not pleased.

"You owe me a new snow globe, Jack."

"Well it's not my fault!"

"Yes it is! You're the one who dumped all of the Guardians here and thought that I could care for them all!"

"What did you expect!? I was just waking up one morning, minding my own business, when all of a sudden, this happened!" Jack put down Sandy, so he could join the rest who was watching in amusement. Jamie never thought he would argue with his favourite Guardian like this. Nonetheless, he persisted.

"But why did you give them to me!? I spent my whole allowance on that thing, and now it's smashed to a million pieces!"

"You're the only one I have left! The yetis, those annoying elves, the eggs, and the… Tooth fairies…" Jack's voice slowly softened as he started to feel sudden panic. Jamie regretted that he had fought with the winter spirit now. "They're gone?" Jamie asked, catching on. All the teen could manage to do at the moment was nod. Jack no longer felt like the Guardian of Fun. He felt like the Guardian of Heart Attacks. He has been getting a whole lot of them lately (not literally, mind you).

Jamie began to feel sorry for Jack. Now he realized how Jack felt at the time. All the possible emotions popped up: scared, anxious, frustrated, angry… alone. Now his smashed Christmas present seemed like nothing compared to Jack's situation. You can buy another snow globe, but you can't just trade in the Guardians! Plus, now he has to do all the responsibilities that the Guardians formerly had. Before he came to Jamie, he must have felt very… alone. No one to help him, no one to catch him when he falls…

The boy felt a sudden surge of determination. "What do I have to do?" He asked. Jack looked up from his misery, and saw a Jamie who wouldn't give up on him; his first believer… believing in him, believing that he can get through this. Now all he had to do now was believe in himself. Jack grinned. "Okay, here's what we'll do."

Pitch looked down at his nightmare project. It seems to be going fine… so far. But it's getting much too… what was the word? Sweet. He needed to spice things up a little, and he knew just how to do it.

Jamie nodded along as Jack explained the plan. "So you take care of all of them, while I attempt to get to every house in the world in one night-" Jack stopped mid-sentence. The winter spirit felt something wrap around his ankle. He hesitantly looked down, only to see one of Sandy's sand whips spiraling around it. He found this very weird.

"Hey, Sandy," Jack looked down upon the Guardian of Dreams. Sandy looked back with big, innocent looking eyes. "Can you please let go? I'm in the middle of something here." The winter spirit gestured to him and the human boy. Jamie watched, as watching many television shows taught him when something wraps around your ankle, it will never end well. Actually, it will end with the victim flat on their back groaning in pain. The boy looked on, wondering if his guess was right.

There was a sudden slam on the ground. Jamie instinctively covered his eyes with his hands, cringing when he heard a yelp, then a cry of pain and shock and a few toddlers giggling. Everything settled down. There was total silence. Jamie swore that he could even hear his sister snoring away in the other room.

When the boy could no longer bear the sounds of groaning and giggling, he peeked through his fingers. Jack was on the ground, gripping his head with a pained look on his face. One of his eyes was tightly shut, while the other squinted, clearly showing that he was hurt. His staff was off to the side, looking as if it had been the test subject of a paper airplane. The toddlers were giggling at their little joke and high-fived Sandy as he marched past them, obviously very proud of himself. Jamie never thought the Sandman would be so mischievous. Besides, Jack already has that title.

"Are you okay?" Jamie asked softly as he slowly bent down to get a closer look of the bruises. "I'm okay, but my head's not." Pain flashed across the teen's face as he lightly touched the bump that seemed to be growing at the back of his head. He clenched his teeth as he stupidly decided to touch it again. Suddenly, there was a loud burst of cooing, then pushing. After a few short seconds, the small Tooth Fairy fluttering in front of Jack's mouth, prying his lips apart so she could see those pearly whites. Jack and Jamie attempted to pry her off, while she started to speak.

It was very high pitched squeaking, just like all the other tooth fairies' voices, but this is the Head Tooth Fairy. Jack and Jamie, because of her slightly understandable chatter, were able to know what she was excited about and it made both of them groan. "Freshly fallen snow! SHINY!" Even so, they couldn't help but be amused as well. Jack even forgot all about his head pain.

Jack felt something jump onto his stomach, and he gasped as air shot out of his mouth. Tooth seemed unfazed by this. Is his mouth really that minty fresh? Jamie wondered.

As Jack finally pried off the Tooth Fairy, he found what had jumped onto his stomach. The winter spirit managed to force a smile. "Hey North…" He said, his voice a bit raspy from the sudden impact. The teen then felt some warm fur on his neck. With the best of his ability, he managed to see the Easter Bunny, at the corner of his eye, rubbing himself against the Jack's neck. It was almost like what a cat would do.

The winter spirit found this very weird. The Kangaroo would never warm up to him like this, not treating him like he was a rival. At least, he hadn't yet. But here is the toddler form of the Kangaroo, actually, in those rare times, liking Jack as a friend. Maybe even as a trusted friend, instead a friend who is good to have around, but not good when you don't want a prank pulled on you.

From out of nowhere, Tooth started to examine Jack's teeth again, all the while cooing about how well his teeth were kept. Last but not least, the Sandman grasped onto Jack's leg, and started to hug him.

To Jamie, this was sort of cute, yet sort of terrifying at the same time. He knew how toddlers were when they are clingy. "Uh, Jack?"

"What?" The winter spirit replied with as much clarity as possible. Speaking isn't very easy when someone is currently observing your teeth.

"I think they like you. A lot."

"So what?"

"You really don't know a lot about toddlers do you?"

Jack thought about it for a while, but shook his head. He really didn't know a lot. His sister as a toddler was almost 300 years ago. You can forget a lot about your human life when you just seen a glimpse of it, and then put it away again.

"Well, having a lot of experience with Sophie, they like you."

"You said that already."

"Do you know what happens when a toddler likes you too much?"

"No…"

A pause.

"Should I be scared?"

"Well, sort of."

That got Jack's full attention.

"You see, Jack. When a toddler likes you a lot, they start to get clingy. When they are clingy, they will almost hug you with every chance they get to see you."

"That's okay, I guess. 'Spread the love' and all that stuff."

"No, it gets worse."

"Darn it."

"It'll get annoying."

Another pause.

"That's it?"

"Pretty much."

Jack's mind was blown. He couldn't believe that was all.

"No 'its gonna make you want to destroy them' or 'you'll be insane'?"

"Nope. Wait, actually, you might want to do those two things."

"Oh the JOY." Jack grumbled.

Jack attempted to stand up. He fell right back to the ground though, as all his weights… or toddlers… came down with him.

The matter at hand made a sudden rebound. Jack turned to see the window, then the clock.

12:00 AM.

THE TEETH!

The winter spirit jumped up and started to practically rip the toddlers off of him, thus surprising himself, Jamie and the little Guardians. What kind of person, especially a Protector of Children himself, would do that, just tossing (literally) the children aside?

"Sorry…" Jack cringed each time he heard a groan. "What just happened?" cried Jamie. "I gave everyone lollipops and they all went off happily in their way." Jack replied, sarcasm dripping off of each word. "Didn't you just see what happened? You have eyes, don't you?! You should be smart enough to see that!" Realizing what he just said, he took a step back. His eyes widened. He just insulted a kid. Not just any kid, his first believer. He immediately started to apologize.

"I'm sorry! This is what happens when I get frustrated and panicked at the same time!"

Jamie heard nothing of it. "Fine! You think I'm so dumb? I might as well just stop helping!" After a moment of thought, he added something Jack would never forget. "I might as well stop believing in you!" And with that, Jack and the rest of the Guardians disappeared. He really did stop believing.

Back at the North Pole, one light went out.

"No!" Jack cried, but he was too late. Jamie's face seemed surprised. "Jamie! You have to listen to me!" But then his first believer's face changed into total satisfactory. Now Jack realized he really was alone on this one now. Jamie stopped believing. There was one spark of hope left though. Jamie's friends! They could help! Jack thought of the cons of this option. He just didn't know these kids as well as he knew Jamie. Sure, he played with them, but didn't connect as well.

He felt like a little piece of him went with Jamie as the boy stopped believing. If Jamie stopped believing in him, how can Jack believe in himself?

I'm starting to realize that I needn't a "WARNING – LONG AUTHOR'S NOTE" anymore because almost all my Author's Notes now are long.

Well this has taken a turn for the worst. … maybe. Who knows? It could get even worse. Poor Jack… :)

I feel so evil! I took away all of the yetis, elves, eggs, and tooth fairies, and now I made Jamie stop believing in Jack! Oh the evil me…

This really isn't matching up to my genres anymore, is it? Humour – okay, still some left – but Family? Now that I think about it, there isn't a lot about family anymore. Plus, its getting a tad darker now lately isn't it? With all that bickering and "you're stupid" insults. If you think there is a genre out there that more or less fits this story better, please feel free to tell me through the reviews. If it should stay the same, then… yeah, just tell me through reviews. Thanks!

I feel like I have been gone for so long… but this chapter is a tad longer than usual, so I hope this makes up for everything.

SO… Right now, I have a poll up that asks what Jack's sister's name be in I think all of my future stories that has her in it. Please vote on it as it would help me a lot. If you do, I thank you! :)

Now let's see who reviewed, favourited, or followed this time!

. .ice (I updated! Yay! And thanks! I'm glad you're enjoying it.)

chocolate1999 (thanks! I never thought I was able to do a funny story in the first place before I started this.)

Axis-13 (Holy cow. Another review!? You're too kind. Thank you! :) )

randomobsession123 (Hi!)

LilyTheWolf23 (I'm glad you're enjoying this and I'm happy that I made you happy. And thanks for calling me and the storyline awesome! You're awesome too! Plus, as you can see now, he is slowly going insane. Remember that? :) )

And the Guests!

Guest (Why thank you!)

candle dark (Christmas is coming. Well, now that only Tooth is here – as a toddler – and the rest of the fairies are gone… DUN DUN DUN! :) But, yes. Tooth is very lucky.)

I hope I didn't miss anyone! If I did, please tell me in the reviews.

We are now at the end of my ridiculously long Author's Note. If you actually made it to the bottom, congratulations!

In the end, as always, thank you for all of your support, follows, favourites, and reviews! They mean a whole lot to me and always make me smile. :) . Room for improvement anywhere? I want to be better! Thanks! And please leave any suggestions in the reviews too! Who knows? Maybe I might just use them in the story! Also giving you credit, of course. Please review, favourite, and/or follow!

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