Jack groaned groggily in pain when he woke; Jamie jumped a little, startled by the noise before he realized Jack was awake again.

"W-what the hell... where where am I?" Jack looked, around memories of pain and what Jakoul did returning to him. He freaked a little inside but stopped, knowing Jamie... he wouldn't let them dare to touch him.

"It's alright Jack, you're at the pole. I know you hate being here, but it was necessary to mend your leg and keep it from getting worse. No one has been in aside from the yetis and myself. At least not yet." Jack was worried now, he was still skittish around the Guardians even after learning the fact it was Jakoul the whole time doing those things to them. As time slips by, what Jamie said continues to stay true. For the moment, none of the Guardians appear to get close, but a few of Tooth's fairies show up with a few 'get well' cards from each of the Guardians though none of them actually visit the room itself. Jack smiled.

"Aww how cute, thanks Baby Tooth." He did make amends with Tooth and Sandy; they were allowed to come in, just not Bunny or North, sadly. Baby Tooth chirped happily, landing on one of the posts while her sisters went back to their duties. Jack smiled but his smile turned into a frown when he saw the sleigh coming in for a landing.

"I know it's not his fault but I feel like it was." Baby Tooth chirps sadly in response, trying to communicate that they all felt that way, it wasn't just Jack.

"Yeah... I know the feeling." Jamie murmured. Jack sighed, my stomach growled loudly in response; Jamie chuckled as a yeti brought in lunch.

"Impeccable timing." Jack smiled.

"Oooh yummy!" Jack was hungry, really hungry. The yeti warbled, revealing a tray of the foods it remembered Jack had liked. Even some of Jamie's favorites too as there was almost enough food to feed three people on the tray.

"Thanks Josh." Jack almost drooled practically as he gasped.

"My favorite chicken a la king and smoke salmon mixed with those round black egg things you call caviar!"

"You mean you still haven't realized what caviar is?" Jamie asked as he picked up some grapes to start with as the yeti left. Jack looked at Jamie strangely.

"What? I don't know some things, you don't know some things." He ate a handful of caviar.

"Um... do you really want to know what it is?" Jamie wondered if Jack would stop eating them if he knew...

"Sure." He'd just finished eating them and moved on to salmon.

"Fish eggs." Jamie said before taking a bite of a chicken leg. Jack's eyes nearly bulged and he threw up in a trash bin right there.

"Oh gross, oh gross!" Jamie couldn't help but wince at that.

"Ah... well it could be worse... at least you didn't take to eating mountain oysters..."

"Oh God..." Jack threw up a second time as he had been eating those as well. Jamie winced.

"Really? Ah... well I won't say what those are then... geez... ignorance IS bliss sometimes..." He muttered though he didn't seem to have too much trouble eating the last mentioned food himself. Jack ate what he had left on his plate, throwing away any caviar almost immediately; grossed out, but he ate chicken, grapes, and cheese.

"Sorry about that, didn't mean to gross you out." Jamie said as he finished off his mixed veggie soup.

"I-it's ok." Jack winced as his leg throbbed suddenly like fire was inside it; Jack yelled, having dropped his plate... and hot soup all over him.

"OW! HOT!" Jamie froze the hot soup without thinking, only reacting at that point... but now that meant Jack was covered in frozen soup... Jack yowled in pain as the bowl slammed into his bad elbow, shattering the bowl into frozen shards from Jamie's freezing the soup. Jamie winces at that, he moves over and picks up the bowl and the frozen soup.

"Sorry..." Once he'd got it all off the floor he gently chipped at the soup that's frozen to Jack with a spoon. Careful to make sure not to stab. Jack winced in pain, having felt like he'd had broken a bone or two; Jamie finished cleaning up the mess and handed Jack a glass of water. Jack drink it; tired, he lay back, holding his arm. It appeared they would have to reset it. Jamie was careful in examining the arm, but he didn't give any warning, loosening the bandages as if to adjust the splint only to quickly reset the bone before quickly re-wrapping it. Wincing at the sound alone. Jack screamed in pain, grabbing Jamie's arm so tight he almost broke Jamie's own arm.

"Sorry." Jamie mumbled, not blaming Jack for the painful hold or the scream for that matter. Jack whimpered, crying as Jamie re-wrapped everything; Jamie offered Jack a tiny cup that looks like it contains water, but in truth it's a medicine that tastes a little like chicken... Jack look at it slightly disgusted since his arm was just set.

"It's not as nasty as it looks, just drink it. It will help you feel a little better." Jack groaned, drinking the water stuff.

"Weird." Jamie shrugged a little.

"Some medicines are." Jack sighed tiredly, his leg throbbing with much pain.

"It hurts."

"Give the meds a minute to kick in. No such thing as a cure all. Thought you'd have figured that out by now." Jack whined, eventually his leg had numbed.

"Ahh." He said in relief.

"Told ya." Jamie said as he settled into the chair again.

"That feels so nice." Jack giggled, floating on clouds.

"I bet it does, that's the strong stuff I think." Jack giggled more and more.

"Jamie, why do you have three eyes and two mouths?" Jack was seeing things.

"I think you should sleep some of that off... I think even that small amount was too much for you." Jamie replied after a moment.

"Nooo, you're so fuzzy now." He giggled nonstop after, speaking nonsense afterwards.

"Yeah... you definitely need that sleep." Jack looked outside and laughed.

"Look Jamie! It's a flying cow." Jamie just shook his head and called for one of the yetis to bring a sedative to put Jack out for a little while. Jack pouted.

"Noo, no sleepy." Jack hid under the blankets.

"OMG! THERE ARE WORMY HERE!" The yeti brought one in and it took the two of them to wrangle Jack out of the covers in attempt to give him the sedative. Jack hissed and struggled.

"NO! NO! Let go of me you giant bears!" Jack squealed and yelled nonsense; the yetis held Jack down while Jamie struggled to get the needle into Jack. He squealed and struggled, even biting the yeti by his head that was holding him down.

"NOOO NOO!" He arched, twisted, and pulled away from the needle. One yeti eventually ended up sitting on Jack's chest to keep him from squirming and only then did Jamie manage to get the needle into Jack's wrist.

"There." Jack squealed.

"Owww." Jack whined like a child having gotten his first shot; he held his wrist.

"Why is everything turning so f-fuzzy?" It's all Jack said before falling into the oblivion of sleep. Jamie shook his head a little.

"Tell North about this, and the head nurse. That stuff, even in a small dose, is far too heavy of a painkiller." One the the yetis warbled at him as they left the room and Jamie settled back into the chair. Jack awoke a few hours later, drowsy, but he felt like he was on a numb cloud.

"J-jamie." Jack was scared, sort of, by this feeling and everything was blurry and out of focus. Jamie gently squeezed Jack's hand.

"Hey."

"W-what happened to me?" He held his neck, two needle spots in one place.

"OW."

"The painkiller was a bit too strong, made you a little loopy so we had to sedate you."

"Couldn't you have snuggled me until I fell asleep?" Jack said angrily.

"Not with as loopy as you were. You had no intentions of staying still for that." Jack chuckled dryly.

"Yeah, I guess not, but why stab me in the neck?" Jack asked, rubbing his hurt throat.

"Ah... that was during the surgery actually... I got you in the wrist... after a yeti sat on you."

"WHAT?!" He glared, upset as he was though he calmed down.

"Alright, if it was for my own good it's fine." Jamie chuckles a little.

"Kind of had to, you weren't exactly cooperative in that state." Jack sighed, his stomach growled in answer to any more questions.

"NO CAVIAR. MAKE SURE THEY TOOK THAT OFF MENU."

"Fair enough." Jamie replied as a yeti came in with the evening meal, mostly consisting of light foods this time. Jack smiled at the array of food, some yogurt, smoothies and a few cheeses and mini sandwiches. Jamie smiled a little, thanking the yeti who warbled happily before leaving the two to eat in peace. Jack reached for the juice but his arm wasn't long enough to reach at this moment since it would hurt his other arm. Jamie, seeing Jack miss by a few inches, handed him the glass.

"Thanks." Jack drink the juice, when there's a knock it's a yeti and he appeared to have wraps and cotton balls; it was time to check the wounds.

"Now? Can't this wait until after we've eaten?" Jamie asked the yeti.

The yeti nodded and left the room; Jack was hiding now under the bed, he had pulled out his IV during that. He absolutely wasn't going to let them touch him anymore.

"Jack, stop hiding and come finish your lunch." Jack had taken his lunch with him and was eating; he had finished it and was hiding from the yetis. Jamie sighed and tugged Jack from under the bed gently.

"NO!" Jack hissed and bit... or nibbled on Jamie's finger, before he ran back under again.

"Ow, geez..." Jamie left the room for a few minutes. When he came back in he had all the supplies he needed to re-do the leg bandage. He crawled under the bed to start working since he's pretty sure he's not going to get Jack out from under it any time soon. Jack squealed and struggled, keeping his legs and arms away from Jamie's reach; he growled.

"NO." Jamie ignored the growl, shifting about to get the bandage off, though it took some doing. Jack hissed and bit Jamie's fingers again, not too hard but enough to draw blood.

"Ow, cut it out." Jamie maneuvered to sit on him to get it re-wrapped though he doubted the wrappings will be needed for much longer. Jack wiggled and struggled, biting his leg; hard this time. Jamie grunted a little, but managed to wrap up the leg again.

"There, all done." He got off Jack then, careful not to hit the injured part of the leg as he did. As a last response, Jack hissed at Jamie like 'don't do it again;' he scrambled out from under the bed. Jamie just gave him a look that said 'Really?' Jack showed his not-really-sharp but white teeth and make a sound like yes. Jamie snorted a little, settling back in the chair; not at all intimidated. Jack was bored again, looking outside he wished to be free... flying about the clouds. Jamie thought about what he could do to ease the boredom for a little while. Jack squealed when Bunny accidentally fell into the room.

"Oh, it's only you Bunny."

"Sorry mate." Bunny picked up a few toys he'd dropped.

"Bunch of elves got in me way and I can't completely see over all this." Jack winced.

"Y-yeah guess so." Jack had to take in a couple big deep breaths.

"Be seein' ya." He said once he'd gotten them all and walked off; Jack let out all the air he was holding in slightly; trying to beat back the flashbacks. Jamie reached for Jack's hand to squeeze it reassuringly; Jack smiled, looking at Jamie.

"My little light." It's all he whispered before unconsciousness swept over him. Jamie smiled a little, he gently pressed a kiss to Jack's forehead as he slept to finish healing. It's several weeks before Jack awoke again, he had fallen into a slight coma due to overdose of painkillers. Jamie was dozing by the time Jack woke again. Jack grunted.

"J-jamie." He reached out for him. Jamie stirred a little at the sound of his name; Jack panicked a little, he couldn't see as he was just waking up.

"J-JAMIE."

"Jack?" Jamie murmured sleepily, roused from his sleep. Jack reached out to him.

"J-Jamie. Jamie, I can't see." Jack whined, shaking like a leaf; he obviously couldn't see. Jamie gently took Jack's hand, wiping away the sleep from his eyes to see if that helped. Jack was able to see Jamie then and he hugged him tightly; his arm was healed but his leg was still healing, apparently poisonous ants had bitten and rotted his skin and bone so it was regrowing back. Jamie hugged Jack back.

"You were out for quite a while, although considering how bad your leg was I'm not surprised. It's been some rough days for ya."

"I was out for how long... Jamie?" He looked at him, concerned.

"Ugh, my head it hurts now too."

"Almost a month."

"A MONTH!" Jack gawked at the one he loved in shock.

"A few days short of one actually." Jack yipped a little as the feeling returned to his body, but it was like pins and needles; he squirmed a bit and couldn't sit still with that feeling, it's awful.

"Oooo, that feeling huh? I hate that feeling too... let me see if I can't help." Jamie began rubbing his hands along one of Jack's arms, producing a small amount of heat, it was a trick his mother had once done on him and it had worked. He wasn't sure it would work on Jack... being a winter spirit and that he was one too but it couldn't hurt to try could it? Jack squirmed, twitched and whined as it was an uncomfortable feeling either way.

"J-Jamie, that's making me uncomfortable." He warned as his body didn't like heat much, Jack groaned as the pins and needles grew more and more.

"OUCH MAKE IT STOP!" Jamie winced when the uncomfortable feeling became painful.

"Sorry, didn't know if it would work anyway." Jack whined.

"This sucks." He squirmed this way and that, trying to end his pain. Jamie frowned thoughtfully, wondering if the opposite would work. Well... at least it wouldn't hurt... Jamie lightly touched a finger to one of Jack's hands, sending a tiny bit of frost along his skin. Jack gasped.

"J-jamie." The feeling of needles slowly receded.

"Omg... again."

"That better?" Jamie asked curiously.

"Y-yes, more around my right leg please." Jack groaned slightly in pain and slightly in euphoria from the frost. Jamie nodded, lightly touching Jack's leg and sending his frost spiraling down along the leg as instructed.

"Anywhere else?" Jack panted, slightly aroused oddly, but he shook his head.

"Nothing else."

"Alright then." Jamie toyed with the idea of sending more, just to see what Jack would do, but he discarded the idea after a moment. That didn't keep him from accidentally icing the sheet next to Jack's hand though. Not that Jamie noticed as he walked over to the window, frosting it a bit. He would have to keep in mind for the future that ice for Jack was a lot like heat for people. Jack shivered, quivered, and was slightly and oddly aroused even more.

"Oh god yes..." He whined a little when the wind came in warmly, taking away his icy coolness. Jamie quirked an eyebrow at Jack. Chilling the wind and wondering why it would be warm here... Well that didn't matter too much he supposed. As an afterthought, Jamie chilled the entire room to freezing. It was sort of an experiment. Jack 'ahhed' in relief and slowly floated up by the wind, like a baby in a hammock it rocked him like it used to when he was a beginning spirit. His concentration on the wind was destroyed by a yeti opening the door for his check up, making Jack hiss and take off out the window easily. Jamie growled at the yeti and went after Jack. Jack only hissed at Jamie in response to his yells of 'come back.'

"WIND FASTER!" Jack begged it. Jamie eventually caught up to Jack and gently grabbed his hand.

"Come on now... I promise no more interruptions. Just come back... please..." There were still a few things Jamie had wanted to try, that yeti had poor timing... Jack sighed, pulling not as hard, but still following Jamie back. Once back in the room, Jamie makes sure the room is sealed with ice after settling Jack back in the bed. He gently closed the window too. Not that he was keeping out the wind... but he did want to experiment a little and that meant having the window closed for now. Jack looked curiously at Jamie.

"Jamie?"

"Hmmm?" Jamie turned to look at Jack as he concentrated on lowering the temperature of the room again. It was really kind of nice honestly, then again, being freezing it was definitely something that he couldn't help but enjoy since he was - after all - a winter spirit like Jack. Jack shivered, arousal poking through when he felt Jamie use his powers to cool him down; it made him feel energized as well as strong.

"Was there something you wanted?" Jamie asked after a moment, he shifted the room's temperature to below freezing by a single degree, testing to see how cold he could make the room really, without bursting the window though he'd a good idea that it'd have to be super cold to actually bust the windows... colder than the pole itself actually which Jamie didn't think he could manage a temperature THAT low... Jack squirmed, his body throbbing now from the thrums of the close winter spirit that was Jamie. In a way, that was a mating ritual; the beginning of one for winter spirits. First they lowered the temperature as low as possible then they'd feed their lover forbidden fruit and then they'd strip them and start process of pleasuring their mate. Jamie was completely oblivious to the whole ritual thing, he hadn't been a winter spirit long enough to learn about it. He was just experimenting. He looked at Jack curiously, he'd a pretty good idea of the effect the cold was having. Okay... time for experiment two... He settled in his chair and sent some frost sliding along the floor towards Jack from the other end of the room. It was so thin that it wouldn't be visible unless one looked at it just right. Jamie was still wondering, as the frost slowly crept towards Jack, if the other winter spirit would answer. Jack looked about before seeing the super thin layer, returning one thinner and tiny letters saying 'I love you' in cursive spread across to Jamie. Jack groggily laid back down and hugged himself; he wanted nothing more than to rid himself of his libido. Jamie smiled a little at that, his own frost curling around to avoid Jack's. He wanted to see how close it would have to be before Jack would notice it... well, besides with sight. He was more than a little certain about its effect on said winter spirit... but he'd no real idea WHY that was... not that the 'why' was really important for the little experiment as it slowly crept closer, creeping beneath the chair Jamie was sitting in and towards the bed as Jamie wondered why Jack hadn't answered his question but then shrugged it off. Maybe it had been a question itself... one he hadn't exactly answered, but then again he wasn't sure he should... Not that he wanted to lie or hide it, just that he wanted to see for himself the results. Jack shivered a bit, having felt more changes in the atmosphere. The frost slowly made its way up one bed post just behind Jack, curling about it gently before spreading to the tips of the sheets. Jack gasped slightly, touching the frost and sending it crinkling back to the floor; he shivered, it gave him goosebumps when Jamie did that.

Jamie's lips twitched with amusement at that, but he didn't send the frost to touch Jack; halting it where it was. He already knew what Jack's reaction was when it touched him. So on to the last little experiment he'd thought of. He got up and went over to the window, opening it just a hair to let in a little bit of wind for him to control. He then send the cool breeze that he'd harnessed over Jack, first ruffling his hair and then moving down from there to skim over his body to his toes. Jack gasped, holding his arms close to him and sending the wind back yipping, as the wind had ruffled him, and the frost was very much annoying now. Jamie let the bit of wind back out the window and frosted the glass to make a few patterns, as if he'd intended that all along though he'd sensed Jack's annoyance with the wind. Well, he hadn't meant to annoy him, but okay. Well the experiments had been interesting... to say the least and after a moment of doodling in his frost he returned to the chair. Jack slowly fell asleep, but he was still in pain from his lack of release. As Jack slept, Jamie used a bit of his frost to deal with the pain he sensed. He wasn't sure if Jack would be happy about that or not, but he wasn't going to leave him in any sort of pain either and figured Jack would sleep better without said pain. Jack giggled during the ministrations, but slowly released and turned on his side, happy and peaceful dreams were a mix of the beach and the snowy pond they both knew too well that was his pond. Jamie watched Jack sleep for a while before eventually curling up in the large chair to doze off himself, a slight smile on his face as the cold settled around him like a blanket he remembered from his childhood days; lulling him to sleep. Jack awoke a few hours later, it was lunch time and he whined as they had to unwrap his leg and take a blood sample from the wound that was now like a black raisin on his leg. Jamie was quiet though the yetis had made quite the ruckus that morning to wake him up so he'd unfreeze the door so they could just come in with the noon meal. Jamie watched, wondering what they wanted the sample for though he gently rubbed a hand along Jack's arm in an effort to soothe him, he didn't eat until they had left the two of them in peace to eat the meal they'd brought. Jack felt the numbness in his leg and it felt like a chunk of flesh missing.

"J-jamie why does it feel like I'm missing pieces of my leg?" Jamie just shrugged as he handed Jack a sandwich. He wasn't sure he wanted to know the answer to that himself... Jack ate the sandwich fast.

"Boy, you were hungry." Jamie comments, eating his own sandwich. The yetis return with a small desert for Jack, though one mutters to Jamie that it will help Jack so he hands a small treat to Jamie that isn't laced with medicine.

"Oh boy, apple pie." Jack was salivating then, he was hungry; very much so. Jamie chuckled, cutting Jack a good sized slice from the pie before getting some himself. He also put some ice cream on his. Jack ate it real fast.

"MMMM" Suddenly he felt like he was on a cloud.

"OMG SO GOOOOD!" Jamie chuckled around a bite.

"If I didn't know any better I'd say this pie is like a drug to you."

"A drug, no; it's delicious." Jack squealed and looked like a mini chibi person for a moment.

"So good." Jamie chuckled.

"I meant that you were addicted to it." Jack smiled.

"W-what? It's the best thing I'm addicted to!" He giggled again, feeling a little high thanks to the medicine.

"OMG EVERYTHING JUST FEELS SO AMAZING JAMIE! LAY IN BED WITH ME!" He yelled, he didn't know why but he felt so happy and bubbly, and really was feeling good.

"Um, okay." Jamie settled into the bed once he finished his slice of pie. Jack giggled and turned, hugging Jamie closely.

"You're so soft my little angel light." Jack giggled more and more before falling asleep. Soft? What the heck was Jack talking about? Well... he guessed it didn't matter since Jack had fallen asleep. Jack talked a little in his sleep, whining a name, but Jamie knew this name very well.

"Emma." Jack whined again.

"Emma, sl-slow down Em..." His sentence cut off there as he turned and kicked Jamie in the balls on accident. Jamie winced at the kick, curling up as the pain shot through him; he'd been almost asleep himself when that had happened... He wasn't going to sleep now anytime soon... Jack groaned, tossing and turning until morning before finally he was snoring; still only whispering his sister's name as well as his mother and father's. When Jack woke up again, Jamie was curled up at the foot of the bed; it was the only way he'd managed to get any sleep.

"J-Jamie?" Jack looked at him strangely, and worriedly.

"W-what are you doing down there?" Jamie yawned as he began to stir, slowly stretching before he realized Jack was awake.

"Morning."

"Morning" Jack groaned, he wanted to be free; like really free, be flying upon wind and making it snow wherever he went... but no, he had a freaking rotted leg bone.

"How are you feeling?" Jamie asked, though he was checking a few sore spots on himself, he'd ended up with a small bruise on one leg, but nothing more.

"Fine, but I want to be out of here, like now, Jamie." Jack begged him to let him try walking out and to go flying, make snow somewhere.

"Well, you shouldn't do anything on your own, but granted that you behave I'll take you outside." Jack nodded his head really fast in answer.

"Yes, please, anything."

"Alright, no flying off or making snow or anything. We don't know how well the medicine that's healing your leg will react to your powers and we don't need a blizzard rattling the workshop." Jack whined.

"Not even a snowball? Please at least let me make a snowball." He whined as they were floating out the window.

"No. Not until North gives the okay. As I just said, we don't know what will happen if you do." Jack whined.

"Fine." He decided to make handmade ones instead, and hit Jamie with them because he was pouty and fussy about not making his own. Jamie chuckled, making one by hand too and tossing it back at Jack. Jack's snowballs smashed into Jamie, before he could blink he was buried; Jamie laughed, making the mound of snow he was, shake and he formed snowballs out of the snow that buried him to pelt Jack with. Jack squealed and half ran, half walked since his leg was still healing.