Chapter 6: Skirmish In The Alley

Jack didn't leave straight away. He watched Elsa disappear from view and then his eyes never left that spot. He sighed with a bit of a smile on his face. The sun started to come up and Jack could feel its rays on his face warming it. He swung his legs backwards and forwards starting out into the world but never actually seeing it. His mind was elsewhere. Seeing Elsa again had brought up everything but he wasn't angry or upset. He was happy. He was more than that. He was ecstatic. He hadn't felt like in like a hundred and seventy years. Was it really that long ago? Some days it felt like yesterday he had last been in Arendelle and seen all those people but other days, it feels like several lifetimes ago.

Jack stood up on the swing and continued to swing. He closed his eyes. In his mind he imagined Elsa the way she had been when he had known her. Only the clothes felt different. Well this was 21st century and not the 1840s. Times change and so does fashion. Although the Elsa he remembered was prim and proper. That Elsa wouldn't dream of wearing of wearing pants. She would always look her best and never go against society. Well now she was dressed in casual clothes and with pants. Jack had to give a little laugh at that.

Jack leapt of swings in one motion. He started to run a little bit and he didn't just go in one direction, he would jump onto park benches and over them, swing around on lampposts. A bubbling feeling was filling him up and consumed him. This feeling caused Jack to feel like he was walking on air and have a stupid grin on his face. Passer-bys (mostly early morning joggers) gave him strange looks. Jack didn't grin. He was gone a second later. He didn't go straight to the Werewolf den. He wanted to have a bit of fun by himself so that his thoughts would stay on Elsa and nothing else. He had missed her, a lot actually. He never thought he would see her again and now that he had, a strange feeling was coming through him. It made him feel stuff he hadn't felt in years. It was the same feeling that he had felt when he was around her before. The feeling was love. The love he had had always felt for her.

Jack eventually found himself back at the Werewolf den. He needed to go clean out his apartment in case Elsa decided to pop around to visit which he was hoping was going to happen very much. It would be nice if they could have some time to themselves where sunlight or anything couldn't bother them. They could have some real time together and not be disturbed. Jack jumped down the ladder and headed into his room. He started to gather some stuff together to take to his apartment. He often did this; moving things back and forwards from one place to another.

A knock could be heard and he looked up.

"Hey," said Tooth.

"Hey," Jack said as he lifted up a box.

"Need some help?" she offered.

"Would save me a few trips," Jack said. "Thanks."

Tooth picked up one of the boxes that Jack had placed stuff in and walked out of the den with him.

"So what's all this?" she asked.

"Just some stuff for my place," Jack explained.

"You've had that apartment for twenty years," Tooth said, "and this stuff was sitting in North's place for like, that entire time."

"Yeah," Jack said as they turned a corner to go down the main road. People passing by ducked and dodged them as they walked. To anyone that was looking, they would look like they were moving places.

"So why bother doing it now?"

"I've been meaning to get this stuff to my place for a while now," Jack explained. "I need to get that place sorted and I can't use North's place for a dumping ground."

"Ah," Tooth nodded. "I really need to start looking for a place for me and Bunnymund at some point."

"So you guys are like serious?" Jack dodged a big family coming towards them. They then turned into an alley.

"Yeah," Tooth said. "We've kind of been on and off for a long time now."

"Don't I know it," Jack laughed.

They walked down the alley before Jack stopped quite suddenly. He gave Tooth a look and she knew what he had felt. They weren't alone. Suddenly four very muscular and tattooed men surrounded them. Jack knew that they wanted trouble and he didn't want trouble. He didn't like these kinds of situations. They closed their ranks around them. Jack could see some weapons. One guy had a pipe and another had a crow bar. He was sure he had seen a knife under a guy's shirt tucked into his pants with his shirt slightly covering it. Well, they were going to be a bit of trouble.

"Well hey now," said the guy in front. Jack couldn't see a weapon on him but that didn't mean he didn't have one. He could have a pistol or something in his back pocket. "Where you and the lady are off to?"

"Nowhere," Jack said. "We're just walking."

Jack's eyes flickered from guy to guy. He felt like they were in some kind of gang or something. Maybe they just got their kicks from tormenting poor souls who just happened to travel down this alleyway. Jack and Tooth only came down this way because it was a shortcut to where Jack's apartment was. They could have avoided the alleyway but Jack was glad that they didn't. He got a feeling that these guys needed to be taught a little lesson. Jack didn't like guys like this. He got the worst feeling from them.

"With all those boxes?" another one said. Jack realised that there was a fifth that he didn't see and was also a woman who was heavily tattooed as the rest.

"Moving stuff," Tooth said.

"What kind of stuff?" Jack was starting to feel more uncomfortable than before. He had a feeling that this is what they did. They rob and fought.

"Just stuff," Jack shrugged.

Even though they were closing in ranks, both Jack and Tooth stood their ground. The girl suddenly dived into the box that Tooth was holding. Tooth didn't even have time to react. Normally she would but she was focusing her energy on the men in front of her. Tooth was startled when the girl did this. The girl pulled out a woman's scarf from the box. Jack's face whitened. That scarf was Elsa's. Anna had allowed him to take a few things with him when he left Arendelle. The scarf was special because Jack had given it to Elsa for her sixteenth birthday and she had treasured it. The scarf was made out a light material and was a light blue colour and was decorated with flowers.

Jack started to sweat and feel nervous. He didn't like anyone touching Elsa's old things that he had. He kept them away so that prying eyes couldn't find them. He was moving them to his place to keep them safe.

"What is this?" the girl asked. She draped the scarf around her neck and pranced around in it. Jack's whole body tensed up. "I like this scarf."

Jack made a while grab for the scarf but he couldn't get to it. One of the males, judging by the way his body language screamed protective so presumably maybe the woman's partner or in Werewolf terms; mate, had grabbed Jack's hand to stop him from grabbing his scarf back. Jack managed to loosen himself from the grip.

"That's now my girl's," the man said.

"That's mine," snarled Jack.

He was getting even angrier now. These things had once been all he had left of Elsa. The scarf had been something she treasured. Jack could still smell Elsa's sense on the scarf as a Werewolf sense of smell was far superior to that of a human. That smell used to fill him with joy. Sometimes he could still smell the perfume she once had. Jack's anger was starting to be seen in him by these guys. They started to laugh now which just infuriated Jack even more. His eyes started to dart from one laughing face to another.

"This isn't important to you is it?" the man said.

The man shoved Jack causing him to drop his box and to stumble into Tooth. She too dropped the box she was carrying. Luckily nothing spilled out of the box when it fell onto the ground.

"Give that back," Jack snarled. His fist clenched and every pore of his skin radiated anger.

"That's the lady's now," the man said. He pushed Jack back. "You better realise that you will never see it again."

Jack's anger took control. He lashed out at them. Jack picked up the first guy and threw him against the wall which cracked beneath Jack's strength. This caused outraged among his fellow gang members. The two guys that held the pipe and the crow bar came at him. Jack caught the pipe in one hand and used the other to push the guy backwards. Jack's strength caused him to smash into the wall like the first guy and got knocked out. The guy with the crow bar was stopped too but by Tooth and not Jack. Tooth grabbed him from behind and, using the same strength that Jack possessed, lifted him up and threw him several metres. He landed a fair distance in the direction where they came from.

The last two guys came at them. They looked pretty frustrated at them now. The first guy aimed a punch at Jack but missed when Jack ducked to dodge it. Jack then tackled the guy to the ground. Tooth dodged a few punches from the other guy before grabbing his hand when he tried to punch Tooth. Tooth squeezed the fist until a cracking sound could be heard. Tooth released the hand. The guy cradled his hand and collapsed in pain. Jack thought perhaps that Tooth broke the guy's hand and it sounded rather like she did it rather painfully.

Jack then lunged at the girl. His hand slammed against her throat and she started to splutter as the air was cut off from her.

"Jack," Tooth warned but Jack ignored her.

"The scarf," Jack said. "Now!"

The girl looked simply terrified now. All her smugness from before had vanished. She struggled against Jack's grip but Jack only tightened it further.

"The scarf," he repeated but this time with a lot more force.

She struggled to get the scarf off. Jack took it off her and threw her away from him. She scrambled to her feet before racing off. Jack could feel the anger still pumping through him. He looked down at the scarf in his hand and the anger subsided as he channelled his focus into concentrating into looking at the scarf.

"What the hell Jack?" Tooth asked. "You just went ballistic."

"I couldn't let them take the scarf," replied Jack.

"It's just a scarf Jack," Tooth said. "Just a stupid scarf. Buy another one if you must."

"It's not just a scarf," Jack almost yelled this. He then forced himself to calm down. "It has sentimental value."

Tooth was quiet for a few moments. "It belonged to her right? The girl who's photo you always carry around?"

"Yes," Jack picked up his box and continued to walk.

Tooth picked up her own box and followed Jack. They walked around for about ten minutes in silence.

"What was she like?" Tooth asked.

"She was the most amazing creature," Jack's face formed a smile. "She was my best friend and probably my only friend. I loved her more than anything. She had my heart and I had hers."

"She sounds special."

"She was," and still is, Jack added in his head.

Tooth grinned and the rest of the trip was in silence. Jack was too caught up in his memories of Elsa to say anything else.

Jack and Tooth soon reached the apartment that they were heading too. The apartment used to belong to some guy that Jack knew twenty years ago. He had been a human that Jack had befriended all that time ago. The friend unfortunately got visually mauled by another Werewolf. Jack had been his only friend and only person left that he knew. His parents had died at a young age and he ran away from foster care when he was eighteen. Jack had bonded with him and the guy needed a friend which Jack helped with. The apartment had been the guy's grandfather's who had died before his parents had died.

Jack led Tooth into the building and used his passcode to get to his floor. The apartment was in an okay part of Burgess. There were some robberies in the area but nothing too serious. Jack wasn't too worried about that kind of thing though. He was more than capable of defending himself. Jack led Tooth up to the fifth floor where he used his key to unlock the door and let them both in.

Jack's apartment had a wide open space that he used for a living room. It had two armchairs by a fireplace with a long square red mat lay. The living room connected to a kitchen and the kitchen had a round tabled used for meals. There were two rooms that were on the left had side of the apartment. One was a bedroom and the other was a bathroom. On the right hand side of the apartment was a small room used as a study.

"Welcome to mi casa," Jack said.

Tooth laughed. "Where do you want these?"

"Just on the table," both he and Tooth placed the boxes on the table.

"So I'll leave you too it," Tooth said. "Bunny has something planned for me."

"Have fun," Jack said.

Tooth smiled and left Jack to his own devices. Jack decided that it was best to start to unpack. He opened up one of the boxes and started to take things out and put them away.

It was pitch dark when Elsa decided to leave the convent. She was eager to see Jack again. As usual, she couldn't get him out of her head. She had been fully distracted by him. Anton had asked her what was up and she just pretended to be happy. She took out the piece of paper with the address Jack gave her. She knew the area vaguely and thought that she could probably get to the address with no problem.

Elsa zigzagged around the streets looking for the area. Eventually she managed to find the area that had the street address on it. Elsa looked at the address on more time to make sure she got it memorised. Elsa continued down the main street staring at the streets she passed. She passed a few guys as she walked by. They were drunk. They wolf whistled at her as they passed her. Elsa just ignored them.

"Aw don't be like that," one of them said.

Elsa rolled her eyes. Drunken idiots, she thought. She just continued walking, keeping her eyes facing forward. The only other people that she saw were a few people down an alleyway. They were acting really crazy and to Elsa they were probably high. Elsa walked down the main street but she wasn't seeing any street sign that looked right. Elsa then realised where the street was now. She had been down it once before as one of her friends once lived down there. Elsa had forgotten this before for some reason. Jack had pushed everything out of her mind.

Elsa journeyed back down the main street and passed the high kids from before. A couple streets down from there, she found a street that she wanted. She walked down this street and turned left on the first street she came to. This was the street that she wanted. Jack's apartment was in a decent part of the area. Elsa walked down the street until she came to the right building. She gazed up at it. It looked like a nice building. The area looked just as nice as well.

Elsa entered the building and found a series of buzzers with apartment doors listed by them. There was also a code that you could use to get in. Jack had written a series of numbers of the piece of paper and Elsa guessed that they were a code to get into the building. Jack must have wanted to have Elsa be able to come and go whenever she wanted. Elsa used the code and she heard a buzz as the door unlocked. Elsa opened the door and headed to the stairs. Jack had written the apartment twenty two on his paper. Elsa checked the map. Apartments twenty one to twenty five were on the fifth floor. Elsa then walked up enough flights of stairs to get to the fifth floor. Elsa journey across to the twenty second apartment. Elsa then took a deep breath in and knocked on the door. She had to knock a few times before Jack appeared. He was only wearing pyjama bottoms and no shirt. Elsa's eyes journeyed down to his abs that were a lot of defined than they used to. She then realised what she was doing and looked back into Jack's face.

"Hello," she said.

"You came," Jack looked pleased at this. "Come in."

Jack stepped back and allowed Elsa to enter. Jack got out two wine glasses and poured them both a red wine glass. Elsa took a seat on the floor near the fire place and took the glass that Jack had handed her. Jack got the fire working before sitting next to Elsa. Elsa took a sip from the wine glass. The wine was good.

"The wine is good," Elsa said.

"I know a guy who knows his wine," Jack said.

Elsa laughed. "North?"

"You know about that?" Jack said.

"Well The Guardians are quite infamous between Vampires," shrugged Elsa. "North was one of the first Werewolves. We know quite a bit on him."

"True," Jack nodded.

"So," Elsa looked around the place, "nice place you got here."

"Would have made a good place for us once," Jack said.

Elsa grew silence. "That life was a pipe dream Jack."

"I know," Jack said. "Maybe not now though."

Elsa sighed. "I'm a Vampire, you are a Werewolf. We've always been Romeo and Juliet Jack. Star crossed lovers."

"True," Jack sighed too. "Although I will never give up on us."

"Neither," Elsa said. "There is something about you that makes me always come back to you. I can't seem to get rid of you. Never have. Never will."

"Do you want to get rid of me?" Jack seemed a little nervous when he asked this.

"I'm here aren't I?" Elsa smiled. "No, I always want you in my life." There was a silence while they exchanged smiles with each other. "So whose place is this?"

"Belonged to some friend of mine way back," Jack explained. "He left it to me in his will. I was his only friend."

"How nice," Elsa said. "It reminds me of how sometimes you were my only friend. I had people like Rapunzel and Merida but they didn't live in Arendelle. Rapunzel lived in Germany, Merida lived in Scotland. You were the only person who I hung around with when we were growing up."

"I often think of that too," Jack said. "I know I didn't have many friends. You were the only person I connected to. Well until I met The Guardians."

Elsa smiled. "The Guardians were your saving throw."

"Just like how you once had been."

"Just like how you once had been."

"I have something for you," Jack got up and disappeared for a few minutes. He came back carrying something in a small paper bag. He handed this to Elsa and she put her hand into it. She felt something soft. She pulled it out and gasped when she saw it.

"My scarf," she said in a soft whisper. "Where did you get it? I thought that it was left in Arendelle along with rest of my things."

"I have a few of your things, Anna gave them to me when I wanted to leave Arendelle."

Elsa smiled at Jack. Guess Jack had wanted a few things of hers to remember her by. Elsa would have done the same thing except she didn't have time to get anything of his which was a shame. She wouldn't have minded something of his to remember and treasure him by.

"Here," Jack helped her drape the scarf around her neck. "Looks good."

"Well you did always have good taste."

Jack and Elsa grinned at each other. Elsa then suddenly felt his lips on his. His lips were soft and seductive just as they were before. Elsa let Jack kiss her and she kissed him back. She placed her hand on his shoulder to pull him in further. They were interrupted by the sound of the door suddenly opening. Elsa looked up.

In walked Tooth and Bunnymund, fellow members of The Gaurdians and fellow Werewolves. They were looking shocked at what they saw before them.

A/N: So Tooth and Bunnymund look like they finally know. What will happen next? Anyway, I hope that everyone enjoyed this update. Please review =)

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