It had been two weeks since she'd disappeared, the other Guardians had noticed that Jack had become even more unreachable to them than before; that the rift between them had grown wider and that the incident had caused Jack to withdraw from them more instead of reaching out to them. Jack sat at the window sill of his room at the North Pole when he wasn't out sending snow where it needed to be. It was all he could really manage to get himself to do, he couldn't help it as Jamie's careless wish haunted him; he would spend all his free time gazing out the window with his hood drawn up and every time someone attempted to talk to him he snapped. He'd even gone so far as to freeze Bunny when the Pooka had attempted to draw him out. Each time they tried it only got worse and many times they'd suggested that he go see Jamie, but he couldn't bring himself to do it because all he could think about was Mysterie and just thinking about Jamie made him remember too clearly the anger the boy had against her. He couldn't help but wonder what those words the two of them had heard actually meant. Three simple words... 'as you wish...' what could that mean for her? He shuddered to think just what it could mean... Jamie hadn't wanted her to ever come back... His heart clenched tightly in his chest as he thought that he never might see her again...
Mysterie stood at the top of a bar that had been set up in the suburbs in a small town south of Burgess. It was as close as she could get to where Jamie lived; the music to a song she had not heard in years began to drift up to her and a sad smile touched her lips because she remembered it, just as she remembered the brilliant blue eyes she had grown to love so quickly; her eyes shifted in the direction of Burgess, her former home and the home of the man she loved as she began to sing with the song though she knew no one would hear her.
Everybody's got something they had to leave behind
One regret from yesterday that just seems to grow with time
There's no use looking back or wondering
How it could be now or might have been
All this I know, but still I can't find ways to let you go
I never had a dream come true
'Til the day that I found you
Even though I pretend that I've moved on
You'll always be my baby
I've never found the words to say
You're the one I think about each day
And I know no matter where life takes me to
A part of me will always be with you
Somewhere in my memory I've lost all sense of time
And tomorrow can never be because yesterday is all that fills my mind
There's no use looking back or wondering
How it should be now or might have been
All this I know
But still I can't find ways to let you go
I never had a dream come true
'Til the day that I found you
Even though I pretend that I've moved on
You'll always be my baby
I've never found the words to say
You're the one I think about each day
And I know no matter where life takes me to
A part of me will always be ...
You'll always be the dream that fills my head
Yes you will
Say you will oh baby
You'll always be the one I know I'll never forget
There's no use looking back or wondering
Because love is a strange and funny thing
No matter how I try and try
I just can't say goodbye
No, no, no, no...
I never had a dream come true
'Til the day that I found you
Even though I pretend that I've moved on
You'll always be my baby
I never found the words to say
You're the one I think about each day
And I know no matter where life takes me to
A part of me will always be...
A part of me will always be with you
Mysterie nearly choked on the last words, she missed him more than even the song could say... but it was close. She turned away and brushed away tears of loneliness and sadness; for she had found that just as no one could see Jack the first time he had come into the world as Jack Frost so was she invisible to the world. No one had seen her since Jamie and because of the boy's wish she couldn't even get close to the town he lived in... banned from the place by her own magic. With a quiet sob she summoned her sand and flew off into the night. She had to keep moving, there wasn't a spirit that hadn't heard by now what had happened to Jamie and every one that she'd happened upon, even Cupid, had taken shots at her for it. As dangerous as it was, she kept returning to this town... one that she hadn't even bothered to find out what its name was; not that it mattered really, but it was as close as she could manage to get to the place she had once called home for even the North Pole was a place she could not visit thanks to Jamie's wish. Although she realized she could visit any one of the other Guardians' homes - outside Jack's pond of course - but she didn't dare because she was on shaky ground with them as it was. She didn't think any of them would give her the sanctuary she so desperately needed.