Everything around Jack was dark. The air was thin, there clearly was a floor, but ahead were portraits of Jack. Everyone Jack passed showed what he has gone through. His birth, his sister bond, his parents, family, Ice incident, ressurection, girlfriend, guardians, girlfriend incident, training, the big battle, and a family reunion.

Everything was in every portrait.

There was even one of his first kiss. Seeing that one photo gave Jack a warm feeling, but he wanted to be out of wherever he was. After a while of walking it was back to pitch darkness. The portraits left far behind, but nothing was ahead. Wherever he was, it surely felt like an endless tunnel.

One side of him actually missed the suspence feeling of thick air rising his hairs on his neck. But Pitch was gone, meaning all that darkness feeling was gone. Other than that Jack was bored in that dark path.

The darkness sunk his soul into an odd feeling. He wasn't enjoying his time in that endless pit. He wanted out, as soon as possible. Before he knew it he felt like he could hardly breath. As if someone was grabbing him by the neck pulling him towards the ground. His body felt heavy. His head felt dizzy. His breathing was out of normal. Something was happening and he had no clue.

Until a calming voice was heard all around him.

"Jack wake up, please. I miss you..."

He closed his eyes in peace letting himself sink into the ground. When he reopened them he wasn't in the darkness no longer.

The air was warm, his body felt tired as if he hasn't moved in a week. There were all sorts of warm colors around him. His body laid on a soft hospital bed. He moved around in the bed uncovering the sheets from his body wondering if this was real. He set his bare feet on the cold floor, but when he put his weight on them trying to take a step away from the bed... He fell.

A loud grunt came out of his lips as he felt the weakness of his body. He tried to get back up but everytime he put weight on his body he'd drop something making a mess all around him.

A few books fell from the edge of his bed making a couple "Thuds" of their own. After a while of so much noise someone opened the door.

"Elves what are you doing this time?" A gentle voice said from the opened doorway

When Jack looked over to see who it was his eyes went wide as the person infront of him gasped in shock.

That moment he knew he was in the real world.

"JACK! YOURE ALIVE!" The innocent girl said as she rushed to his side taking his head into her arms.

"What happened? How are you alive?-" He was stopped from his flood of questions as the girl placed her finger on his lips hushing him before he ruined the moment.

"I'll explain everything, right now everyone needs to know that you finally woke up" The platinum blonde said as she helped Jack up to his feet and back onto the bed.

He sat there confused, but never took his eyes off the girl who got down to pick up his mess he made. As she started to put the books away on a shelf near by, Jack began to speak.

"E-Elsa tell me this isn't a dream, cause this isn't funny"

The girl looked at him with a funny look. "It's not a dream, Snowman"

She gave him a comforting smile, before she walked out of the room.

"Snowman, surprised she still remembers that" Jack said to himself before he started to observe the room he was in.

It was clear he was in no hospital of the real world, more like a small nursing room in the north pole. Of course, opening the window with a small gust of wind there was nothing but snowy mountains from where the eye could see.

He felt hungry. He was clearly skinny, how long was he out of it exactly?

At the corner of the bed there was a small charm handing from a blue ribbon, of course the same charm of always. Elsa's snowflake charm.

At the side of his bed towards the far wall was a christmas tree already decorated with small gifts at the base. Every ornament on the tree was a message for the sick ones in the room.

"hope you get well"

"it's not as bad as you think"

"keep smiling"

"Don't give up"

"Don't Die"

"You can beat this"

The gifts at the base were all for him. Each tag read "For Jack F.". Tempted to open the gifts he got the best grip possible on his staff that was at the side of the charm, and attempted to bring them closer to him. It didn't work. His grip wasn't strong enough all he did was feel his arms tremble at every movement, he found himself giving up as he replaced the staff from where he got it.

When the others finally walked in, they saw Jack sitting on the bed with his arms crossed with a look of a kid who didn't get what he wanted for his birthday.

Elsa giggled at his look as she walked over to his side to give him one small gift to open. He was about to open it but when his eyes met Santa's gaze he stopped where he was setting the gift at the side but put his hand over Elsa's

"Oi the boy didn't die" the familiar australlian accent was heard from behind Santa.

"So who's gonna explain what happened? Why am I so weak?" Jack asked rolling his eyes at the comment Bunnymund made.

Santa moved into the room as he took a seat in a chair next to the bed. The others followed taking a seat, as Sandy made sure to close the door.

Once it looked like a good moment to start speaking, Santa began the story Jack's been longing to hear.

4 Months ago, Santa's P.O.V

"No, theres gotta be a way out... Bunny the ground?" Tooth said clashing her fist to the walls looking for some weak spot as she ignored what could be true.

"Already tried. The boy's got this ice layered one after another. It's too thick. Just face it, Jack trapped us in here with no escape" Bunny said crossing his arms as he mummbled the last part

"Not possible, we will get out somehow and we'll teach him the lesson of no man on his own, Yeti's get me some help will yah?" Santa claimed as he pulled out his 2 swords then scrapped at the ice. Moments later 6 Yeti's came by cracking their knuckles as they prepared to break some ice. Thinking they were tough enough, Elfs came rolling in with strong tools they built last minute.

After a while of struggling with the thick ice we managed to get out. 3 of his elves pulled out some explosive device that looked like a jelly bean. It took a while to get it to work, but when it did the ice shattered and the elves won.

Santa pat one of the smoked elves on the head as a thank you, then he rushed to get to his sleigh. Bunnymund rejected the invite of getting in the sleigh but there was no escape. Tooth flashed by grabbing him by the ears and with help of Sandy's dream sand he was stuck on the flying sleigh feeling sick to his stomach.

Bunny may have gotten the sleigh's paint job dirty, but all Santa cared about was getting to Jack before worse could happen. Still Bunny getting the sleigh dirty got a few of the elves mad at him.

Tooth and Sandy flew out to cover more ground. One headed towards the city as for the other headed towards the dark mountains.

As for me, All i could do was hope for the best. Hope that we'd find him on time.

After what seemed hours of searching Sandy sent out a beam of his golden sand lighting up the night sky as a signal that Jack was found. Everyone rushed over towards the beam but when they got close there was a force of strong magic that nearly pushed them all away. Something was going on, something was bad, and this wouldn't end good.

Magical Blue light shown from the white haired boy indicated he was well, but when it meshed with a dark flow of sorrow things ended badly. The lights stopped flashing form the battle, and the magical force faded. Worried that something went wrong, I rushed my reindeer down to the land near an alleyway. The others got closer to me but searched the alleyways near by just incase one of the 2 attempted to run away.

When Bunnymund hopped out of a hole, he sent out a yell that he found him. When we all got close we found Jack laying on the ground with his staff far from him, an injury caused by a dark dagger at the side of his abdomin still bleeding, and a small blue snowflake charm in his hand. He was luckily still breathing but in time it stopped. Tooth and I rushed to get you medical help to save you. Sandy and Bunny stayed behind to make sure that Pitch was truly gone.

Jack was placed into urgent surgery to repair the damage done. The dagger was taken out, the bleeding stopped onced it was stitched up, and you looked good but you didn't want to wake. It was that moment you were placed into a coma state. We Jack into a small medical room, and had our best doctor elf watch over him. Sandy and Bunny eventually got back with news to be given and heard.

They say they watched Pitch's body freeze into an ice statue. Looking too ugly to stay out in the open, they somehow managed to get the body back here where it'd be watched incase he ever somehow escaped his death. He's hidded down under the workshop in a cave where no light is shown to melt the ice although it was shown that Jack's Ice is clear it won't melt nor break unless its something highly explosive.

As for Elsa, she somehow got out of her coma state. But from there the rest is her story to tell

Santa concluded.

Jack stayed quiet for a while until a few of his questions resurfaced.

"How long was I out for?"

"4 months" Santa said in a mono tone

"Why am I so weak?"

"Loss of exercize, movement, loss of hydration since you've been stuck on an IV for 4 months" Bunny said as he wiped dirt off his large boomerang

"Don't IV's keep you hydrated?" Jack asked in confusion

"Boy this is the north pole everything freezes here making the melt process take a while" Santa said picking at his long white beard

"Why didn't I wake up?"

question mark over Sandy's head

"Was I at the verge of death?"

"More like in between life and death line" Tooth answers alittle unsure if she made it sound wrong

Jack simply gave her a look of confusion. His eyebrow went slanted and all Tooth did was fly away to another corner. After a while of explaining everything, Jack wished for a moment to take everything in. Everyone left the room but Elsa stayed at his side as comfort.

"You wanna hear it don't you" Elsa said in a low whisper as she rubbed his back

Jack nodded with a serious look in his eyes. The moment he looked at her he saw those eyes. God he missed those big fierce blue eyes.

"Won't it be too much on you for one day" She asked since she felt alittle concerned for him

"If I lasted 4 months in a coma and 2 years without you then I can stand this" He said as he took brought himself closer so he could rest his hand on hers.

"Ok but get comfortable. It's sorta complicated" Elsa said as she placed her free hand over his

That moment Jack figured it was gonna be something interesting. But before he was going to let her start talking he stopped her.

"Something wrong?" Elsa asked with alittle worry going over her eyes.

"Yea theres something I gotta do before you start" He said in a nuetral look

"Ok let me go get someone to help you to the Bath-mmmm" Before Elsa could stop talking Jack stopped her first. Her warmth was back. She was real and this proved how much they both missed eachother. Jack missed everything about her but what he missed the most was her tender kiss.

Apparently Elsa missed the same thing. 3