Hey guys, this chapters up a little late tonight, but I hope you enjoy anyway. Anyway, I need some sleep. So please enjoy this while I get some shut eye.

ICE COLD HEART

I've never been one for light. Stuff like the sun and what not. I've never liked it, but I've never really hated it. The sun melted my snow and made me get hot. I didn't like warm or hot. So I stayed away from the light as much as possible to escape from the sun. I liked the sun as long as it wasn't hot. I was always disappointed when I had to leave Burgess and go to Antarctica or the South Pole or somewhere to get out of the sun. And I knew summer was approaching, I'd have to make a decision of where to go this year.

I've loved light when it comes from the moon and stars, or when you see the light in someone's smile. That's the light that I enjoy. Not the one that makes me feel like I'm melting. But even so, I've never really known a lot of light in my life. The darkness of my dreams don't help, the coldness in myself drove me away, and I was more one for the night.

But even something as new to me as light, will become my friend in this war…

| NORTH POLE

North and Sandy sat in the large room with the globe in it. They didn't say anything… mostly because Sandy doesn't talk. All the Guardians had agreed on meeting today, North had told Sandy and Tooth about Jack's decision not to stay and instead return to the lake in Burgess. He mostly told them just incase they came over here looking for Jack and got mad at North for not telling them he wasn't here.

Tooth walked into the room, she looked worried and agitated. "Good, Tooth, thanks for joining us." North welcomed, "Now all we need is Jack and B-"

Suddenly a hole in the ground opened and Bunnymund jumped through. He looked at the other Guardians, not saying a word.

"Okay, we only need Jack." North corrected himself.

"What? That ice box still not here?" asked Bunnymund. He was secretly worried for the little ice spirit.

"No, he hasn't shown up yet." North told Bunnymund.

Tooth looked anxious. "Okay, I've thought this over in my head, I just want to make sure I got this right." She started, "He's all alone, in a forest, with nowhere to sleep, and probably freezing. What if he got hurt or something?" she asked desperately.

"One, he probably just sleeps in trees, two, he's the spirit of winter, he's not going to freeze, three, he can handle himself, and four, he's been on his own for a long time now, I don't think he needs us babysitting him at every turn." Bunnymund stated, he didn't like to admit it, but the Guardians had left Jack alone for three-hundred years after all.

"Still, I'm going to send Baby Tooth after him. You know, just incase he forgot or something." Tooth said worriedly. The rest nodded in agreement. They watched as the little fairy flew off.

| BURGESS

Pain surrounded him. He ached everywhere and he was pretty sure one of his wounds had opened back up. He shifted uncomfortably in his tree. Sweat dripped down his pale face and the signs of a fever showed evidently. His eyes were clenched shut as he shifted again, holding the found on his chest that hurt the worst. He was still asleep, but a restless one. He panted and groaned now and then in his sleep. Everything just seemed to hurt.

Suddenly something soft gently nudged Jack into a semi conscious state. He opened his dropping eyes. He looked at the soft feathered fairy in front of him. He grunted and slowly and painfully got into a sitting position. "Baby Tooth?" he asked, looking at her. "What are you doing here?" he asked, his voice was still cracking and it hurt him to talk.

Baby Tooth chirped worriedly. She looked at him for a second and Jack's eyes widened. "Oh no, North," Jack moaned leaning back in his tree and putting his sore hands over his eyes. "Dang it! I should have remembered!" Jack yelled frustrated. He smashed his right wrist down on the tree branch, only to cry out with pain. He pulled his wrist back and rolled up his sleeve, he gasped at what he saw.

Black crack marks covered his wrist and were up his arm about half way. He took a deep breath. "It's nothing, I'm fine. I'll look it over later." He told himself. He got to his feet. "Just need to get to the North Pole so that they don't worry about me. Then I can look it over." He promised himself. He gently floated down to the lake, looking down at his reflection and gasping. His hair was coated with mud and blood, his side wound had reopened during the night and was bleeding horribly, his chest wound looked almost infected and his shoulder wound was the only one that looked fine.

The slash on his face had stained blood to his cheek and his hoodie was half red now. He took his staff, stabbing into the ice with it, cracking it only enough to get to some water. He began to clean the mud and blood out of his hair, leaving it back to his normal white color. He then took some more water, using it to wash off some of the blood on his hoodie and cheek.

He put a bit of water on his shoulder wound, it stung and he cried out but continued. He got to his side wound and cleaned it off with some water but it still seemed to let out a bit of blood. He looked at his chest wound but didn't dare touch it. It looked horribly red around the real wound and he was pretty sure that wasn't a good sign. So instead he let it be, getting to his feet.

He looked at Baby Tooth who was looking at him nervously. "You can't tell anyone about this Baby!" Jack told her. "I mean it!" he snapped. He stopped, "Sorry Baby T., that was uncalled for." He apologized. He didn't know where the anger came from, but he didn't like it. "Let's just go."

| NORTH POLE

The Guardians waited anxiously for their newest member. Hoping he hadn't gotten himself into any trouble. Suddenly Baby Tooth flew in, flying towards Tooth. A few seconds later Jack walked-limped in. The Guardians' eyes widened as they took in Jack's small form.

"Jack, what happened?" Tooth asked, flying over to Jack quickly, but not touching him, afraid she would hurt him more. Jack pulled him hi hoodie more, hiding dark bruises on his neck from the rest of the Guardians, they didn't seem to notice.

"I was flying home when I must have dozed off or something, I sort of crashed landed." Jack bluffed. They looked at each other, not sure what to think of this story. Baby Tooth didn't look pleased, knowing that wasn't the truth. She flew over to Jack and grabbed a hold of the top of his hoodie, pulling the collar down to show the dark bruises and hand prints on his neck. The Guardians gasped and Jack bit the inside of his lip.

"Jack, why would you lie to us?" asked North.

"Because you guys always get worried over nothing!" exclaimed Jack, raising his hands in the air. They just now noticed how painful Jack's voice sounded.

"This isn't nothing Jack! Look at you! You're torn up, you have bruises on your neck and one of your wounds looks infected! You call that nothing!" Bunnymund yelled.

"It's none of your business! And besides, since when have you cared?!" anger flared up in Jack. "Oh look at me I'm the Easter Bunny, I go around hiding eggs. I protect children. But for the past THREE-HUNDRED YEARS I'VE COMPLETELY IGNORED JACK FROST! But who really care!?"

The Guardian's looked at Jack stunned. "Jack, we're just worried, we want to help you" North started.

"Oh, like you wanted to help me by leaving me alone?! How you wanted to help me by making me figure out my powers on my own?! How about the fact that because you pushed me out I sunk the gosh dang Titanic?!" Jack yelled. "If that's what you call helping, I don't want anything to do with it!" Jack didn't mean it, he didn't but anger was taking him over. He just let it happen, he couldn't fight it, couldn't stop it.

"Jack, you need to calm down." Tooth stated, looking and the sweat slipping down Jack's face. His normally pale cheeks were red and there was actual heat rising from him. The boy's hands were clenched and his eyes were glaring daggers at Bunnymund and North. "Jack don't over exert yourself, I think you might be very sick." Tooth stated. She looked at the young spirit sadly.

"Oh, so now I'm sick am I?!"

"Jack that's not what I meant," Tooth said, trying to reach out to him.

He glared even more, his eyes now fixed on Tooth's hand that was reaching towards his forehead. He let he put a hand on him, his eyes still glaring at her and he was panting with exhaustion. She flinched at the heat radiating off the normally cold forehead of Jack. "Jack you have a really high fever, you need to let us help you."

"NO! I DON'T WANT ANY OF YOU'RE GUY'S HELP! YOU NEVER CARED FOR ME! WHY WOULD YOU NOW!?" he shouted, grabbing a hold of Tooth's wrist in a death grip and ripping it away from his forehead. His anger got the best of his powers and Tooth's hand started to frost over. She screamed as the frost turned to ice. Bunnymund was there in seconds. He hoped over and used his back legs to kick Jack away from Tooth. She backed away from the boy on the floor, he didn't get up, didn't move.

"Jack?" she asked. He didn't move, didn't respond. North ran over to Jack, the boy's chest still heaved with exasperation but he seemed to have broken away from that state he was in. His eyes were clenched shut in pain and his breathing was shallow. North put his own hand on Jack's head, noticing the same thing Tooth had. Normally Jack would have been freezing, and that was his normal temperature. But now, he was even hotter than a normal human's temperature. North's eyes widened and he picked up the limb Jack bridal style.

He ran out of the room, followed by Sandy, who had been too stunned to move during the entire thing, Tooth, and Bunnymund. As North ran towards the infirmary he didn't to notice the black lines disappearing from the boy's neck.

And done! Yay, anyway I like to apologize for the little Jamie crying in Jack's arms scene from the last chapter. I've never really written a scene like that before so it was new to me. Thanks for sticking with me even after that scene.