Chapter 5
Memories from the past
"ughh" is a frustrated sight from North and Bunny, they had been patching up this kid for 3 hours now every time they thought they had covered the last cut a new one would appear out of nowhere it didn't help that the girl was so blasted cold.
"Where are they coming from?" Bunny is frustrated now and has stopped to warm up his hands for the eleventh time.
Jack was still sleeping peacefully in the next room close enough that he could be monitored by the older guardians, as they continued their pains taking work on the girl. They were still only on her legs the rest of her body was covered with white and red sheets for the moment.
Jack awoke to find the room beside the infirmary cold it wasn't too cold but there was snow everywhere and he could feel some bandages on his back and lower legs from when Pitch had knocked him into the blaze. He shoots up remembering the girl was it really her, the girl with the bright eyes he had failed to save so long ago. Couldn't be she was dead he watched her family morn her at the cliff after her death. Despite the pain in his legs he got up and practically ran to the next room only to see Bunny and North working over the white haired beauty's cold form.
"Ahh! You're awake!" North bellows, "come here."
"Is she. . ." he gulps.
"Yes,yes she'll be fine, but there's something I wish to show you its rather remarkable!" Jack walks into the actually rather warm room and comes over to north "there, you see" Jack looks at the small ice patterns over the girls arms that north is pointing to.
"What happened, it looks like I touched her with my staff?"
"It is quite incredible this frost and ice is holding closed a wound, watch" he puts his warm hand over the area a few moments latter blood started to trickle out of a small gash on her arm.
"H-how?" He stutters shocked
"It seems they don't heal when they are frosted over, but it keeps the wound closed, we have melted and bandaged all but this one I was waiting to show you hoping that you might have the answer to that"
The girl in the bed starts to shiver and stir "quickly now Bunny get Tooth and Sandy they went to get fresh bandages for Jack's burns" just then the two other guardians walk into the room their arms full of white cloth.
"Is she waking up" Tooth asks excitedly "I can't wait" she squeaks as North nods and motions for he to be quite, she flies quickly over to a chair in the corner and puts down the make shift bandages.
"What's going on-" Jack tries to ask but is stopped by a fury paw over his mouth his muffled "hey" goes un-heard as the girl on the bed moves her hand to her head.
She opens her deep dark blue eyes and looks directly at Jack. He finds himself moving closer to the girl not knowing why then she jumps half out of the bed raping her arms around his neck "I thought I'd never see you again!" some slight flurries around the room and her mood is lifted as she stairs into his eyes.
"Why do you have to go?" her sad expression destroying the guardians knowing that her face is made to smile.
"Don't you worry I'll be right here when you wake up" Jack tell her.
"Can't I stay awake and talk for a while longer?" she pleads to North.
"The best thing for you to do not is to let yourself heal and your body can do that the best while asleep, Sandy."
"Bu-" her but is cut off as the dream sand and her head hit the pillow.
"Awww" is the only thing tooth could say.
"Come on Jack you've got some explaining to do." It had only been a few minutes since she had wakened and now she was back in dream world again. Jack had not been pleased. The guardians had quickly realized that somehow Jack knew her and they wanted to know how.
A sigh for jack while the walk into the common area is all he says at first "It was 200 years ago about, I was just getting the hang of my powers and had finished spreading some snow around the nearby villages it was the beginning of winter, deep in the night I was so tired I let my eyes close then I heard a scream" jack told the rest of the memory adding on to the end about how the family mourned her by throwing white flowers off the cliff every year because they were her favorite he would always come to that and how they missed her, her little brother crying himself to sleep some nights. How bad he felt that he could have now but didn't know enough back then to save her also his everlasting guilt and the fact how he hadn't told anyone.
By the end of the story the guardians are in shock "Jack why did she go thru the ice?" Tooth asks
"I flew to my lake thinking she would be safe when the thing dragged me back and she slipped from my fingers"
"Jack the cliffs are a ways away from you lake it doesn't make sense"
"Imagine how I feel!" the air temperature drops drastically around the teen "to be dragged back so far and know that there was no way I could save her! Falling on the ground would have been kinder but because of my stupidly she drowned just like I did!" his breathing heavy half frozen tears running down his cheeks "I couldn't even tell her I was sorry" he had calmed down enough for the rooms temperature to return to normal, but he was now crying into Tooth's shoulder as she tried futilely to comfort the winter spirit.
"Jack" North says in a whisper, his head raises slightly to look over Tooth's coloured feathers "its okay."
"We won't judge you snowball" Bunny says calmly "you didn't know."
"She's here now you can't change the past but you can accept it" Sandy flashes.
Author's note: ya so I decided to post chapter 4 and 5 the same day because well why not? review if you like it or you think something could change :)