I love the support, I really do. But there comes a time when everyone feels a little rushed when people are worried about you updating. Now that I think about it, it was a good thing. Keeps me motivated and inspired. I read every review I had!

Yes, that chapter was a test run. And yes, the results were good. So here you are! I don't own anything.

That was January when Jack had had the last meeting. Now Jack was headed to Santoff Claussen for a different reason. He believed he was sick. It had started with Jack was feeling more tired than normal from waking up from every night.

He felt a sudden pain in his backside but it faded. Worried, he stopped to rest on a tree in the middle of the dense Canadian forests.

Reaching around to rub his butt tenderly to check, for what he didn't know, he immediately pulled his hand back when it felt sticky.

Jack felt whatever that liquid was starting to drip down his leg and he felt a sudden need to go somewhere warm. He took to the air again, now with more urgency.

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North was resting in his workroom as his helpers created lists of whatever toys would be needed for next year's Christmas. Phil, recently promoted, was checking everything over. All North had to do was sit around and eat cookies. After all it was the beginning of spring! What better way to celebrate it then by lazing about?

His quiet lazy time was interrupted by his workroom door busting open. "How many times have I told you to- Jack?" In a yeti's hands rested Jack, who opened his eyes when North said his name.

He looked sick, his body vibrated with shivers and he looked flushed. A water like liquid dripped from his body and it made it look as though Jack was melting. "I'm tired…" Jack closed his frosted blue eyes again.

North bellowed to Jamison, the yeti holding Jack, "Get him to his guest room!" North walked quickly to the Globe room to grab a couple of snow globes.

North then wrote a message to Bunny and Sandy each and taped then to two elves that were dancing to another's beat boxing sounds. He threw the first snow globe so it opened to the Warren and sent in Bunny's messenger.

Another was opened and a message was sent to one of Sandman's favorite towns, in hopes that he would see it. North didn't have to wait long for Bunny as less than a few minutes had passed before Bunny was in the globe room. "What's wrong with Jack?!" North lead Bunny out the door and into the hallway then started down toward Jack's room.

"He came here tired and sweaty looking, what word? Flushed? And wet somehow, but only on pants." Bunny stared at North "That sounds like… well it can't be, must be a different reaction then normal to a virus."

North saw Jack's door, painted blue with ice frost patterns on it and pushed it open. Bunny hopped inside and both noticed the lack of anything on the bed.

Both pairs of eyes zoomed to the disorganized nest of covers and pillows on the floor that had a flash of messy white hair. Bunny stepped forward only to freeze. "North, I could be wrong, but Jack is in…. heat."

North walked to the sleeping figure of Jack "What? I know Jack is heated. He under covers." He petted the white hair only to get a whimper so he pulled his hand back.

Bunny shook his head before backing away "North, just let me explain what I meant." Bunny glanced to Jack's sleeping form, "In the globe room, please?"

North nodded and went with Bunny to the globe room just as Sandy flew in on a giant Toucan "Hello Sandy! Now we have all the healers! Oh! Bunny explain whatever that you need to explain." North sat in his large armchair that was classic Christmas red with gold patterns on it. Bunny was shocked from staring at the door and took a minute before explaining.

Bunny-

Bunny was startled from his staring at the door by North's permission to explain what was wrong with Jack. "Well, Pookas have a hierarchy of breeding classes-"

North interrupted "What does Pookas have to do with Jack? Jack not Pooka." Bunny glared at North "Let me finish." A quick glance at both Sandman, who zipped his lips with a real zipper, and North, who looked a little upset but nodded, indicated that there would be no more interruptions.

"Pookas have three breeding classes. Alphas, who are the strongest and are in charge of protecting their mates, Betas, like a 'second in command' thing they also protect but often take on more feminine roles too, and Omegas, who are those that need the most shelter and care and also the ones with the greatest chances of giving birth. Regardless of gender.

Alphas mate only with Omegas and Betas with other Betas. Omegas are a period of fertility that is called heat. They make nests from whatever soft materials can be found and produce… slick that acts as a lubricant and mating scent to call Alphas." Bunny folded his ears back against his head in embarrassment.

North looked confused "I still not understand…. Wait, you saying Jack act like Omega?" Bunny nodded as North continued "But Jack not Pooka."

Bunny looked at North "I know, mate. Although he did get something spilt on him at Mother Nature's house, maybe it reacted to make him seem like an Omega."

Sandman flashed a series of pictures over his head "We should ask Mother Nature." North clapped Sandy on the shoulder hard enough to send him sprawling. "Good idea, Sandy!"

Bunny grabbed an elf that was hanging from the doorway by a string of ribbon that had been thrown around and handed it to North after he wrote the message.

They settled back into their spots and Bunny kept glancing at the door. He could still remember the smell Jack put off, his usual spearmint, chocolate, fireside smell with a heavy dosing of arousal and fertility.

He felt his lower regions heat up at the thought so Bunny went to sit on the couch instead of the floor near the door. Sandy watched Bunny and then started to talk to North.

"Good point Sandy. Bunny." Bunny jumped at North's call "Yes?" North stared at Bunny, making him fidget. "What is your class?"

Bunny gulped knowing North would not like the answer since he was Jack's unofficial father figure "I'm a… Alpha." North stood up to glare at Bunny who shrank into the couch "Alpha? Alpha like Omegas, if Jack is acting like Omega that means you are a threat to him!"

Bunny winced "Now hold on mate, I haven't made a move on him-"

"But you will! You say so yourself! Alpha like Omega. Omega attract Alphas!"

"Well that is the truth if Jack is truly an Omega." Mother Nature swept her dark brown hair from her shoulders as she sauntered into the room and turned to Bunny, who sat upright to get a good view of the sprit. "You two destroyed several potions in my lab. I wish you would be more careful."

"Sorry, Sheila. Any chance Jack got something from your lab?" Bunny looked over her garb of choice: a much too thin dress of yellow tan color that flowed to her bare feet. He felt a shiver at the thought of how cold that outfit would be.

"I didn't have anything that could make him into an Omega." Mother Nature looked thoughtful. Bunny sighed in relief as he ignored the twinge of disappointment. "But-"

Bunny looked up at the brown haired woman with a mixture of excitement and fear. "I had a splicing potion made to copy DNA, so if Jack got some of that and a handful of Bunny's DNA it's very possible he develops Omega traits. Did Jack have a purple liquid on him?"

At Bunny's nod she smiled "Then he is an Omega. Congrats on finding someone that can mate with you, Bunny." Mother Nature dipped into a curtsey and exited from the room, the only sign of her being there a new ivy plant that started to take over the doorway.

North glared at Bunny "Get out." Bunny didn't question it and opened a rabbit hole to disappear before North got out his swords.

North calls Bunny and Sandy since they are very good with healing and medicine. I tried making North have a accent but sometimes he will speak better then other times. I can't help that because if I butcher any more English for him North may start sounding a bit... stupid. Plus my English teacher may come strangle me.