4
A bright light flashed through your eyes which you were beginning to open, slowly trying to adjust them. The area you were in smelled of wildflowers and fresh air, it soothed you, making you feel safe for some reason that you couldn't dig out of yourself. Slowly you began to regain awareness and you realised that a part of you felt...wet, you began to move your head against the hard thing it was lying on. A pain pinches and pricks in your chest as you try to sit up. Wincing, you manage to rest yourself on your elbows and look down seeing you were half submerged in water, a breeze flowing over the area, bringing the same scent of wildflowers as you look around getting your bearings and find that you're in the lively river at Bunny's Warren. It makes sense since the river has healing properties for the immortals as well as color the eggs.
"She's up!" an excited female voice buzzes happily. Following the voice, the shuffling of feet and flapping of wings rest on either side of you. Looking over each of the five of them, Sandy, North, and Jack on your left and Bunny and Tooth on your right, you remember who they are.
"How are you?" North asks sympathetically as Sandy makes a flurry of messages that you can't quite make out.
"Yeah" Jack adds "are you ok now?"
"Oh please say your ok." Tooth murmurs pleadingly and lovingly. The only one who stays quiet is Bunny, he looks at you solemnly and with disappointment stinging his usually bright green eyes. The rest of them seem to melt away in a moment as your heart begins again and it feels as if its just you and Bunny. That moment, only as long as a second, seems to last forever. The disappointment in his eyes you decipher is not him disappointed in you, but in himself, for causing this upon you, he was the one who attacked and missed, he feels responsible.
But as soon as the moment begins, it ends again and your pulled back into reality as your beat fades and you simply reply with a half smile letting your eyes travel to each of them "Im doing great." It wasn't a total lie, not completely.
The guardians all gave a sigh of releaf, all but Bunny who could probably see through your white lie. They all helped you out of the river, though when Bunny began to reach for you he stopped and pulled back. As your waist and legs surfaced from the water you realised that they were dry, the mysterious magical properties of the river never cease to amaze you. When your feet hit the ground you felt a sway and your body followed it, almost making you fall over if Tooth didn't catch you and put you back upright.
North explained how since you didn't have a home you would be staying with Bunny and were ordered to sleep in the river every night to heal you. Though you groaned about this and said you were fine North still made you stay. And the rest of them left, telling you to get well soon which you hoped you would since you and Bunny weren't the best of friends.
Once they all left you walked around the warren for a while trying to find something interesting to do when a shadow shifted. There was a larger, quicker movement. You prepared yourself to fight, immediately recognizing this to be Pitch. When the gray mass poped out infront of you you punched upward toward where you thought his face should be.
But he caught your wrist and you saw Bunnymund in front of you with one eyebrow raised. "Good to see you too sheila." He said sarcastically.
"D-Don't sneak up on me like that, I thought..." You spoke quietly still startled, then you stopped yourself.
There was a moment of silence before he replied releasing your wrist, his eyes softening and eyebrows furrowing almost into a straight line "You thought I was Pitch." His voice was low. There was silence again as he cast his eyes downward, sadly. "I didn't mean to make him hurt you its just-" you couldn't take this, why would he care, he practically hates you.
"Just wait, why would you even care about me, were not exactly friends and-"
"Why would I care? We don't have to be bloody mates for you to deserve better than that bloody piece of shit to speak to you that way!" He cut you off, starting quietly but ending practically yelling.
"I-I" you began but couldn't find any words to describe your confusion, frustration and the acheing feeling you couldn't even figure out yourself. Bunny walked off one direction after the moment of silence, grumbling low and thick, his accent scratchy like sandpaper. You're heart started to beat again, fast, furiously, a heat rising in your cheeks at how pigheaded and stupid Bunny is.
And then it all snaped into place, as you saw a last glance of his gray form. Bunny...Bunny...Bunny was who...No, it couldn't be...Your heart, with a mind of its own, chose Bunny. Bunnymund was your who you'd spend forever with. Bunny is who you will love.