Hello...

first of all: the amount of how guilty i feel for not updating in a while is awful I'm so so so sorry. I know its so frustrating when a author doesn't update.

Life has been hectic! I'm getting married in October, disney job crazy as always, hubby had appendix out, i just recovered from the stomach flu, sister broke her wrist...sigh.

I'm trying to update more often now, however there might be a small gap of no updating around october, due to wedding stuff. my wedding is star wars themed! yay!

Now, onto the story-

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Sandy stood up high in a cloud of dreamsand, guiding lines of the golden dust to sleeping children.

With a smile he sent out another wave, sending out good dreams.

Stretching his tired body, Sandy lay down on the cloud. The little man deserved a good rest.

As the dream spirit drifted off, he thought about the past events of what had happened.

He had...well, been gone for a small gap of time, but apparently a lot had happened then.

Shaking the thoughts away, the small man sent out one last sand line, this one heading towards the pole.

It was a sweet dream for Jacqueline Frost.

The creation was full of snow days, laughter, dolphins, candy, and everything joyous in the world.

Sandy then settled back down.

Sandy was no doubt the oldest Guardian, for dreams had been around since cavemen roamed the Earth.

Even though he was silent, Sandy was the wisest and kindest. He had always giving smiles, friendly gestures to everyone, including spirits, good and bad.

Sandy cleared his mind. He began to think about Jackie's baby. No spirit in the realm had ever actually gotten pregnant while in spirit form before. No one had any idea on how the pregnancy would go along...perhaps if they were to contact other spirits for advice, and maybe spirits of health could come help out...

But how would the child age? Would it forever be a baby? Child? Teen? Adult?

Would the child age like an human and then...die from old age?

Boy or girl? Black or white hair? Pale skin or gray skin? Blue or gold eyes?

So many questions that could not be answered by the spirit as old as time...but only answered by time.

Before heading off to get a good nights rest, Sandy decided to go and find his old friend, someone who could help Jacqueline.

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It had been a week since Tooth and Jacqueline had last talked.

Neither of them had shown up at the weekly Guardian meeting, even though Jackie was just down the hall.

The three male Guardians were sitting in North's conference room, all sitting in a awkward silence. Whether they admitted it or not, Jack and Tooth were the members who started the most commotion. Tooth with her constant, non-stop chatter, miniature fairies always around, and giving out tooth directions. Jackie would have been egging Bunny on by now, maybe causing a prank or two, or doing general mischief.

But now...it was pretty quiet.

North had finished discussing his toy production process since last week, Sandy had described how his dreams were going, and Bunny had already talked about his Warren clean-up.

Silence.

Sandy was nursing a cup of eggnog, North was fiddling with his fingers.

"Oh come on, we shoul' be going for another good forty minutes! This is ridiculous, why aren't the sheilas here?" Bunny finally exploded.

Sandy made a question mark and look towards North.

North clapped his hands together, "Ah, well...thing is..."

Sandy made a little sand image of a can of beans spilling.

"Alright alright I spill!" North gave up. "Jackie told everyone her...special news, no?"

Sandy nodded and Bunny crossed his arms and answered with a 'Yeah.'

"Well, she told Toothie, and Tooth reacted badly and isn't talking to Jackie anymore. She isn't talking to anyone." North sighed.

"What?! We gotta go talk to Tooth and set her straight." Bunny raged in disbelief.

"I did try talking to her." North defended.

"And?" Bunny asked.

"I dunno, I guess she wasn't affected." North shrugged.

"She still hasn't gotten over it? Abortion ain't an option anymore, not that I would think Jackie would even consider." Bunny reasoned.

Sandy made the sand symbols into a sign for Tooth, then a snowflake, meaning Jackie, then a question mark.

"We gotta get them together again. They're like, best friends!" Bunny decided.

"Bunny, you go get Jackie up and here, me and Sandy go get Tooth." North directed.

"Woah hold on mates, why do you guys get to go out?" Bunny asked.

"We're taking the sleigh." North answered shortly.

Bunny held up his hands in defeat. "Say no more. I'll go get Jackie."

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"Get up."

"No."

"Jackie please?"

"No!"

"Jacqueline Frost, get out of this room right-"

A small hand balled up in a tight fist connected with Bunny's face, cutting off the spirit's rant.

"Oi!" Bunny yelped, clutching his burning face. "Wha' was that for?!"

Jackie sat up in bed, her hair tangled and her face full of rage. "I'm tired Bunnymund! Why can't you guys just leave me alone?!"

"Is not healthy for you...or your baby!" Bunny chided, rubbing his cheek.

"Oh shut it rabbit. I throw up every day, I have headaches, nausea, and I have to pee every twenty minutes! So excuse me for not wanting to get up every so often!" Jacqueline yelled, fury painted across her face.

Bunny scoffed, "Oi it can't be that bad, is' just a little kid. You don't even have a bump yet!"

Jackie was on her feet in less than a moment.

Thats when Bunny knew he was in trouble.

Jackie walked right up to Bunny, standing only within a inch of him. Even though she was in the low 5 foot range, making her rather small, the look on her face and in her eyes could scare the crap out of any one, including a now rather frightened rabbit.

"What. Did. You. Just. Say?"

Bunny backed up a few steps, only to have Jackie follow him, the small barrier between the two kept at the same inch distance.

"Snowflake, come on, just listen-" Bunny stammered, bumping into the wall behind him.

"Don't you Snowflake me! Listen rabbit, you'll never have to ever be pregnant, so how would you know what if feels like to have your own body betray you?! This isn't even all of me anymore! I have to share it with someone who will just keep making my life more painful and painful for the next nine months, not that it doesn't already suck as it is. So I would advise you Aster, to-"

"-shut. The. Fuck. Up." With every word she poked him harder and harder in the chest.

Bunny just stared into her eyes, green into blue, blue fierce, green horrified.

"Understand?" Jackie asked, teeth bared.

Aster nodded mutely.

"Good. Now, get out." Jackie took a step back and pointed to the door.

Bunny shook his head, trying to regain some of his deflated pride. "Sorry sheila, you gotta come out. Just for an hour or two?"

"Get out."

"Come on Jacqueline, do we have to do this the hard way?"

"Get out. Now!" Jackie yelled, patience completely run out.

Bunny shrugged. He knew was was going to regret this later.

Aster grabbed Jackie by the legs and popped her in the air. She yelped as she landed in his arms bridal style. He quickly started running with her in his arms to the meeting room.

Surprise was replaced with rage.

"ASTER BUNNYMUND PUT ME DOWN OR I SWEAR I'LL MAKE A PAIR OF SLIPPERS OUT OF YOUR EARS!" Jacqueline screamed as she beated his chest with her fists.

Bunny winced. Her hits didn't really hurt that much, but he knew her threats weren't just threats. The sheila might be small, but she could certainly win any argument she got into by an means.

Bunny, not wanting to hurt Jackie or her unborn child, gently placed the still kicking girl on the sofa.

"BUNNYMUND I'M GONNA SMASH ALL OF YOUR EGGS!"

Bunny rolled his eyes.

"AND I MEAN EACH AND EVERY PAIR!"

Bunny winced, knowing exactly what she meant.

Suddenly the other three Guardians were dumped in the room by a portal.

Tooth was the first up and flying about. She immediately attacked Bunny's face with her fingers, looking inside his mouth with concentration.

"Bunny North and Sandy told me you got hurt and fell face forward into the ground-" Tooth began talking pretty fast.

"Wha-eeeuuu..." Bunny tried talking, the fingers in his mouth now examining each tooth.

"And-then-they-told-me-you-knocked-out-your-front-teeth-" Tooth continued, not even spacing out her words anymore.

Bunny shot North and Sandy a look.

Sandy gave a nervous smirk and North chuckled.

"Toothy, Bunny's fine!" North assured, pulling the fairy away from the Pooka.

"Wha-? But you said he knocked his-" Tooth stuttered.

"Tooth i'm fine." Bunny reassured, putting his paws up.

"We brought you here to talk." North said.

Sandy made a snowflake in the air.

Tooth sputtered, "What?"

"We brought you here to talk to Jackie." North stated firmly. He turned to Bunny. "I thought you were going to get Jackie."

"Whad'ya mean? She right here." Bunny spun around to look at the couch Jacqueline had been on moments before.

She was gone.

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DUN. DUN. DUUUUUUUUUN.

Please review every 'kind or encouraging' word means a lot to me :)

-Shelby