A/N: Hey people! Wrote this at about 1:00 in the morning. Shall we see how this chapter goes? Jamie is thirteen and Sophie is seven.

Special thanks to NorthernMage, you seem to be the only one giving me ideas. But I love them!


Jack wanted to strangle the stupid rabbit. Jamie had asked if the Guardians wanted to go swimming at Jack's pond. Of course, Sandy said no. Sand and water don't go too well. Tooth didn't like water since it was hard to fly after. North agreed to go, only because he had no good excuse to not go.

But Bunny was happy to go, seeing as how Sophie would be there and Easter had finished up. Jack, who obviously hated water, wanted to find some spirit to anger so that she could claim to be too weak after being beaten up to go. She didn't get the chance though. Bunny already decided that she was coming, so that's why she found herself, Bunny, North, Jamie and Sophie all sitting around the pond.

"Come on, Soph. Race you to the water!" Jamie laughed. He and his little sister both ran to the pond and jumped in. They laughed and splashed each other.

"Aren't you guys going to join?" Jamie called to the shore.

North shook his head. "I cannot swim. Bunny loves to swim though," he smirked at Bunny.

"Bunny!" Sophie yelled. "Come swim!"

"Nah, I'm good here, ankle-biter."

Sophie gave him a sad look. Before he could cave in under her look though, he felt something wet and cold hit his back. He froze and turned around. "Really? It's June! Why are you making snowballs?" A blanket of snow had randomly appeared around Jack.

Jack grinned. "Cause why not?" She threw another one, which Bunny dodged.

"Oh it's on, Frostbite."

"You want to have a snowball fight with a winter spirit, Peter Cotton-Tail?"

His response was a snowball aimed right at Jackie's face. She ducked just in time, but Bunny threw another one before she had time to dodge again.

Jamie and Sophie gasped. Jackie never got hit in a snowball fight. She had a slight advantage. But then again, they weren't Guardians like Bunny was.

It became a big battle between Bunny and Jack. Eventually, North joined in. Jamie and Sophie grinned at each other before running out of the water to join in the fun. It must have been an odd sight to see. The Easter Bunny, Santa, Jack Frost and two children having a snowball fight in the middle of June.

Jack was naturally having a blast. She loved snowball fights more than anything else. However, she knew that this fight would end soon. It was really hot out, and it was taking a lot of energy to keep the snow from melting.

One very well-aimed snowball from Jack hit Jamie right in the face. The boy stumbled backwards and ended up landing in the pond. Once his head resurfaced, he started laughing hysterically.

Jack took to the skies and started pelting snow from the air. But she only was in the air for about a minutes before she felt herself slowly sinking towards the ground. It was just too exhausting.

Jamie didn't realize this though. He saw Jack's back turned and her slowing her movements so he took aim and threw a snowball as hard as he could. By some miracle, he managed to hit a very surprised winter spirit right in the back. With no more energy to rebalance herself, Jack tumbled towards the ground and landed in the middle of the pond.

The kids both laughed. But Bunny and North's eyes both grew wide in a panic. Bunny dropped his snowballs and bounded into the pond. "Jack!"

He dove under the water. Jack was sinking towards the bottom. Both he and North knew that Jack couldn't swim. She'd tried to learn before, but every time she got underwater, she had a panic attack. So she never actually learned. He reached out and wrapped his arm around Jack's waist. She was struggling, not realizing that it was Bunny trying to save her. Bunny quickly kicked to upwards and their heads broke the surface.

It was a bit of a struggle to swim to the edge of the pond while keeping the winter spirit's head above the water, but Bunny managed to get both of them to land. North reached out and pulled Jack onto the ground and Bunny quickly hopped beside her.

"What happened?" Jamie asked. He looked scared and confused.

Bunny didn't answer. He turned Jack onto her stomach as she started coughing up water. North pulled her hair back in case she threw up.

As soon as she stopped coughing, Jack curled up into a ball and was shaking uncontrollably. Bunny shot North a concerned look before embracing the girl. "Hey, shh, it's okay Jackie. You're safe.

Jack knew that the kids were watching, so she refused to let herself cry. But try as she might, she couldn't get herself to stop shaking. She was clinging to Bunny like her life depended on it.

Bunny continued to hold her and rub circles on her back, trying to calm her down. "It's okay. That was years ago, alright? It won't happen again. You're safe, we won't let it happen again."

"Is something wrong with Jackie?" Sophie asked North.

North looked at the two children. "She'll be okay, Sophie. Jack just has some…bad experiences with water." He saw the look of guilt on Jamie's face. "It's okay, Jamie. It wasn't your fault. You didn't know. Besides, normally this wouldn't have happened, Jack should have been able to catch herself. She must have tired herself out creating the snow."

"What does Bunny mean 'it won't happen again'?" Jamie asked.

"I think that's up to Jack if she tells you."

Bunny looked up. "North, I think she's okay, but we should take her to the Pole just in case. We don't want a repeat of last time."

North nodded. "Take your tunnels. I'll make sure Jamie and Sophie get home then I'll meet you there. Come on."

Sophie started whining that she didn't want to go home, but Jamie quickly shushed her. He knew that whatever happened was serious, and he wanted to make sure that Jack was going to be okay. If that meant going home so they could look after her, then that's what he was going to do.

Tap tap tap.

Jamie looked up from his computer. Jack was floating at his window, her grin back on her face. He almost knocked over his desk on his mad dash to open his window.

"Jack! You're back!"

"Of course I'm back. I bounced back after fighting Pitch, you really think a little water scare is going to keep me down?" She was smiling but her smile didn't quite reach her eyes.

Almost timidly, Jamie asked, "Jack, what happened? I didn't mean to hurt you, I swear!"

"Hey, calm down. I know you didn't mean to, Jamie. It was an accident. The whole thing was more my fault than yours, I used up more energy than I should have."

"But what happened when you fell?"

She looked away from him. "I, uh, I can't swim."

He looked surprised. "What? In over 300 years, you never took the time to learn how to swim? Why not?"

"I did try to learn. Recently, in fact. But I've had some bad experiences with water."

"North told me."

"He told you what happened?" Jack looked slightly panicked.

"No, he just said you've had bad experiences." He looked at Jack expectantly.

Jack sighed. "Jamie, you don't want to know what happened."

"Yes I do! You're my best friend Jack, yet I sometimes feel like I barely know you. You know everything about me but you hardly say a thing about yourself. I'm thirteen Jack. You can trust me."

She gave him a small smile. "I know I can. It's not that." She took a deep breath. "It was years ago, before I became a spirit. In fact, it's how I became a spirit." She looked at him. "Before you met me, if someone asked you what a spirit was, what would you say?"

He thought for a moment. "Probably a dead person's soul. You know, like in ghost stories when they say that the dead person's spirit haunts the place. Why?"

"Because that's exactly it. I died, Jamie. I died years ago, when I was seventeen."

Jamie stared at her incredulously. "Whoa wait. You're dead?"

"Technically speaking, yes. When I was seventeen and living in the seventeen hundreds, I took my little sister ice skating to the very pond we were just swimming at. But the ice was thin and it was cracking under my sister's feet. She was only eleven. So I did the only thing I could do. I threw myself to where she was and flung her out of harm's way. But the ice broke under my weight."

Jack gave Jamie a small, sad smile. "I drowned, Jamie. That's why I'm afraid of water. The ice broke from under me and I drowned in that pond."

Jamie didn't say anything for a few seconds. Then he gave Jack a big hug. "That was really brave, Jack. Stupid, but really brave."

"You would've done the same if it was Sophie."

"Yeah, I guess I would have." He looked at Jack guiltily. "I'm so sorry, Jack. I know you said it wasn't my fault but I caused you to fall into that pond again."

Jack put her hand on the young boy's shoulder. "Hey, you couldn't have known. Besides, I kind of got what was coming to me. I did knock you into the pond just a few minutes previous."

"That's true. Karma was served."

"You're not supposed to agree!" She ruffled his hair. "No more sad faces, got it?"

Jamie nodded. "Good. Now, I have to get back and reassure a certain rabbit that my mental health is relatively the same." She shook her head. "You'd never guess he's be the mothering type."

With an eye roll that only a teenager could manage, she jumped out Jamie's window.