A/N: So I guess my plan to not take a year to update failed. Oops.
By the end of the day, Jack's back ached. She'd forgotten how exhausting being a shepherd had been. Still, she couldn't complain much. Olivia had her own chores to do, but whenever she had a break, she would go to the field and keep Jack company.
After eating dinner, Jack took Olivia out into the forest to play. They raced to their favourite climbing tree, and Jack scampered up, Oliva hot on her heels. Unfortunately for Ollie, Jack had longer arms and legs, plus years more experience, so the poor girl had no chance of catching up with her older sister.
"You always win," she whined, as Jack triumphantly sat on the top branch.
"Well I am the master of trees," she bragged.
Ollie stuck her tongue out, "You are not!"
She started to run up faster, trying to reach her sister and give her a shove, but her foot slipped. Olivia gave a cry of surprise, before tumbling out of the tree and falling to the ground.
"Ollie!" Jack screamed. She jumped out of the tree, which was a bad idea, as she was a lot higher up than Olivia had been. Pain struck her ankle when she landed, but she ignored it, and rushed to her sister's side.
"Ollie, are you okay?"
Olivia sat up, and spat on the group. A glob of blood landed on the dirt. Jack was about to panic and rush Olivia home at the sight, but she paused for a moment, and realized that Ollie had spat out her tooth.
The little girl groaned. "That was an adult tooth! I'm going to have a hole in my mouth forever!"
Jack distracted patted her sister's back. "It's alright, Ollie. That's pretty common." She wasn't really paying much attention though. Instead, she was staring at the little white object in the ground, and an idea was forming.
Tooth herself wouldn't be around to collect the tooth. She'd stopped going out about one hundred and forty years before Jack was ever alive. However, a baby tooth would come, and that would allow Jack to contact Tooth.
Of course, Tooth would have no idea who Jack really was. But Tooth was clever. If she was looking for Jack in their current time, and decided to look at Jack and Olivia's memories, she would see how this tooth was lost and she would see where Jack was.
She turned her attention back to Olivia. "Come on kid, let's go home. You can at least get money out of this tooth."
Olivia's eyes lit up. "Oh yeah, the Tooth Fairy will come!"
Jack laughed and ruffled Ollie's hair. "That's right. Come on, I'll race you home!"
She took off running, her sister right behind her.
The Guardians were just about collapsing with exhaustion. They'd been searching for Jack non-stop for two days, and they hadn't found a single clue as to where she had gone.
Bunny was still off searching, but everyone else had given up for the night. Sandy had to give children their good dreams, and North was consoling Tooth, who had almost completely given up hope, despite Bunny's insistence that they would find her.
"Tooth, I know you miss her, but you need to keep together. We can't help Jack if we don't have our heads on straight," he gently reminded the fairy.
She sniffed. "I know. But I can't help it. I'm the Guardian of memory, North, and right now all I can do is think of the memories I have with her."
North sighed. Out of all of them, Tooth's specialty was the least helpful at the moment, as all it was doing was making Tooth sad. "Why don't you return to the Palace and get some sleep? Maybe after a sweet dream from Sandy, you'll feel better."
Tooth reluctantly agreed, and flew back to her home. The baby teeth were all very busy at work, so she didn't want to disturb any of them. She did however, go look at all the stored teeth. Mentioning memories reminded her that she could still see Jack, even if the girl was still missing. Tooth wasn't sure if it would make things easier or worse for her, but she had to try.
She flew to the containers with the last name 'Overland.' There was Jack's face, smiling up at her, as well as Jack's little sister's face. Immediately, Tooth could sense something was different about Olivia's teeth. She grabbed the container and opened it. To her shock, there was an extra tooth in there. Losing adult teeth in the 1700's wasn't that uncommon, but Tooth knew for a fact that Olivia Overland had died with all her adult teeth in her mouth. So how was it possible that a tooth suddenly appeared?
Tentatively, Tooth touched the extra tooth and was dragged back into the memory of how the tooth was lost. She nearly had a heart attack when she saw Jack, until she realized that the tooth must have been lost before Jack died.
Still, that didn't make any sense. How could Olivia have suddenly lost a tooth three hundred years ago, when Tooth was certain she had never lost that tooth?
Then it dawned on her. This memory wasn't before Jack had died. Someone had been messing with time, then suddenly Jack disappeared when she stood on the very spot she had died, and now Oliva had lost a tooth that she had never lost.
Jack was in the past.
Tooth quickly watched Olivia's memories of the past two days. Through Olivia's eyes, she watched Jack fall into the water as the ice broke on the pond. She was shocked when Pitch showed up, plucked Jack out of the water, and carry the unconscious girl back to her house. She was ever more shocked when Jack's father arrived and carried Jack inside, as Tooth remembered seeing in Jack's memories that her father had died about two years before Jack did.
Something was seriously wrong with time, and now Tooth knew that it was Pitch's fault. She pulled herself out of the little girl's memories, and rushed back to the Pole. She knew where Jack was. Now it was only a matter of getting to her.
