Jack wasn't sure how long he had been asleep, but seeing as he was in a bed in the hospital wing, and there was a sleeping Tooth, in her disguise, asleep on the bed next to him and North, Bunny, and Sandy sitting around him, he had to guess at least a few days.
"Hey kid," Bunny said quietly so not to wake up Tooth "How you feeling?"
"Meh..." Jack said trying to sit up a bit looking around, seeing Harry on the bed opposite him, then...
"The Stone!" Jack said looking around panicked trying to find it.
"Jack, Jack it's alright we got to you and Harry and found you had the stone, and Dumbledore has said it will be destroyed," North said calmly.
Slowly Jack calmed down.
"How long have I been asleep?" he asked looking to the number of gifts (Harry had a bigger pile), get well cards and how messed up Tooth looked.
"At least a couple of weeks," Bunny said, Sandy nodding in agreement.
Just then, Fred and George came in with something behind their backs.
"Jack!" they called out and came over grinning.
"This is great, now all we need is for Harry to wake up by tomorrow and we can play that match against Ravenclaw." Fred said grinning.
"But, Jack woke up sooner because he's magic so he healed faster," George said thinking out loud.
"What have you boys got there?" Madam Pompfrey asked coming out of her office to see what the noise was about.
"Just some get well gifts for the sick and injured Ma'am," Fred said as he and George both pulled from behind their back toilet seats, making Jack laugh so hard, and increasing as Madam Pompfrey got mad and confiscated them and shooed the redheads out.
"What did they mean by saying you were magic Frostbite?" Bunny asked as Jack calmed down.
"They know I'm the real Jack Frost and about you lot and some of my spirit friends," Jack said right away reaching over to help himself to some chocolate frogs and read his cards, the first one being from Elisa.
"What?" Bunny asked "Kid, you were meant to stay under cover remember? And what happened to your hair and eyes to make them white and blue again?"
"Must have turned like that because my guardianship duties were over riding my 'be as human as possible' role" Jack said shrugging.
It had been a few hours since the Guardians had gone, Tooth gave Jack a huge almost bone crushing hug when she woke up.
Jack was playing some 'Win the pot Wizards Chess' with Baby Tooth – they both put something to one side and the winner got both items.
The items in question were a small pile of Bertie Bott's beans and some candy canes, North had left, with Bunny's mini eggs.
Jack was just about to win, when another visitor came in to see him.
"Jack," the voice said making him look up to see Elisa coming over.
"Oh, um hi Elisa," Jack said smiling inviting her over "Er... Thanks for the card and sweets."
"You're welcome," she said "So... Hero of Hogwarts rumour is you and Harry faced, You-Know-Who down there."
"Yep, which reminds me, Harry, Ron and Hermione still need to pay up to me for winning that bet."
"Bet?" Elisa asked confused unsure how a bet was connected to You-Know-Who.
"Well they kept thinking it was Snape who was after the Stone, but I, with my years of street smarts and pick-pocking cheats that I had, was sure that it was Quirrell, but they didn't believe me," Jack began, getting a nod from her to say she was following "So we, well I, said we should bet on it five Galleons. And I won." he said beaming.
"Not to be rude or anything," Elisa said after a moment "But I don't think Ron even has two Galleons." she said "My friends father is in the Ministry of Magic, and he says the Arthur Weasley doesn't get paid all that much because he is always going on about Wizards treating Muggles as equals and not seem as if we're above them."
"Oh," Jack said having a good feeling how that must feel "Well then he can pay for the bet some other way."
Just then Baby Tooth squeaks made Jack look back to the board and a grumpy Baby Tooth glaring at him for taking so long on his go.
"Oh um, Checkmate," Jack said moving his queen.
After a good night's rest thanks to Sandy, Jack woke up bright and early tomorrow and Madam Pompfrey, after checking he was ok, let him leave.
He was only just out of the door way when he was almost bumped into by the Gryffindor Quidditch Team.
"Frost," Oliver said getting his attention first "Is Harry awake?"
"Harry...?" Jack asked confused "Sorry Cap'n you need to be a bit more specific on to who you're talking about."
"Harry Potter. The Seek..." Oliver began pausing when he saw Jack's smirk.
Katie and Angelina realized as well and looked away.
Sighing Oliver tried again.
"Is our friend, Harry Potter, awake?" he asked.
"That's better," Jack said smiling "But no. No he's not. And seeing how panicked you lot are, I guess we don't have a back up Seeker."
"Nope. But we do have a back up Chaser, because we thought you'd still be out too," Katie said.
"Then let me be the Seeker instead." Jack said smiling.
"But you haven't been practicing Harry's roles in the plans I came up with to beat the Ravenclaws." Oliver said.
"I grew up on the streets, I can improvise, I can to it." Jack said almost begging "Trust me."
"Yeah come Oliver trust him," Fred said smiling "Besides all it is, is flying around until the Snitch is found and then get there before the other Seeker."
"Yeah besides we need all the points we can get if we want to try and get a chance at that House Cup," George said.
"Fine," Oliver said checking his watch "Have you had breakfast yet Frost?" he asked.
"Not yet, I was actually on my way there now." Jack said smiling.
"Well have it as soon as you can, I'll go tell the teachers the match is on," he said then looking to the girls said "You two go find Alicia and tell her we need her for this match."
Nodding they all divided and within one and a half hours everyone was on the Quidditch Pitch.
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"And we got word there has been a change to the positions for the Gryffindor Team today folks," Lee Jordon said through his mike "It seems due to Potter still in bed in the Hospital Wing, Frost has taken his spot and Alicia Spinnet has taken over the spot for third Chaser."
There were cheers from the crowds when Jack's and Harry's names were called out and they two teams came onto the pitch, Ravenclaw playing in deep blue.
The Captains shook hands, they all mounted their brooms and they were off.
"Gryffindor in position, Quaffle taken my Katie Belle as she heads for the Ravenclaw goal posts," Lee commentated.
Jack rose up high to get the full view of the Pitch and looked for the Snitch, keeping an eye on the Ravenclaw Seeker at the same time.
It was a few minutes of flying around and dodging players and Bludgers before Jack saw a glint of gold fluttering around the Ravenclaw goal posts where Derrick, the name of their Seeker was currently looking.
Getting an idea, Jack span around and headed for the Gryffindor goal speeding up the pitch.
"Wait a minute everyone it looks like Frost has seen the Snitch!" Lee called out all eyes on Jack, and just as he had planned, Derrick came racing after him.
"Yes, yes, nearly," Jack said to himself, "Now!" he pulled up just in time to miss the post of the center goal, letting Derrick collide with it, and zoomed back to the other end spotted the Snitch and snatched it holding it up for everyone to see.
There were explosive cheers coming from the Gryffindor's, and some less explosive cheers from Ravenclaw and Huffpuff.
Because of this match, Gryffindor had gained back those points that they had lost, plus an extra 30 points.
So now, instead of being in way behind last, they were in second, behind Slytherin my 110 points, there was still a few days left before the End Of Term feast, surely they could get that many points in that time.
As that day got closer though, it seemed less possible for it to happen.
One day before the Feast, word got out that Harry had finally woken up, so Jack, Ron and Hermione went to go see him.
"Just five minutes..." Jack heard Harry whine a little to Madam Pomfrey as he turned up a bit late, Ron and Hermione already there.
"Absolutely not."
"You let Professor Dumbledore in..."
"Well, of course, that was the Head Master, quite different. You need rest."
"I am resting, look lying down and everything. Oh go on Madam Pomfrey..."
"Yeah go on Madam Pomfrey," Jack called from the door way "Besides you let my friends and family in when I was still in there."
"Oh, very well," she said in the end "But five minutes only."
And she let Jack, Ron and Hermione in.
"Harry!" Hermione called out looking as if she wanted to hug him, but upon seeing the bruises and that chose not to.
"Oh Harry, we were sure you and Jack were going to – Dumbledore was so worried – "
"The whole school's been talking about it," said Ron, pulling up a seat "What really happened?"
Surprised Harry turned to Jack "You haven't told them yet?" he asked.
"All I said was that 'They still owe me 5 Galleons,'" Jack said smirking and playing with his wand "And so do you, although Ron if you can't pay me that you can give me some of your Wizard Cards instead."
Rolling his eyes, Harry went into the story of what happened in the last chamber.
Ron and Hermione were a great audience.
When it came to the part when Harry got the Stone out of the Mirror Jack questioned about it.
"Dumbledore said I was able to get it, because I wanted to find the stone, but not use it."Harry said in reply before he carried on to what was under Quirrell's turban and got a scream from Hermione.
"So that it then?" Ron said when the story was done "The Stone's gone, and Flamel's just going to die?"
"That's what I asked," Harry said "But Dumbledore thinks that – what was it? 'to the well organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.'"
"Or the start of one," Jack mutter to himself, tickling Baby Tooth gently in thanks after she snuck him some of Harry's sweets.
"I always said he was off his rocker," Ron said looking quite impressed at how mad Dumbledore was.
"So what happened to you two?" Harry asked.
"Well I got back alright," Hermione said "I brought Ron around, that took a bit of time and he had some injuries but nothing too bad. We got passed Fluffy, and were on our way to the Owlery when Jack's friends came over asked us where he was so we told them, and they headed there and not two minutes later Dumbledore came into the Entrance Hall as well. He already knew – he just asked 'Harry's gone after him hasn't he?' and headed off to the third floor."
"D'you think he meant you to do it?" Ron asked "Sending you your father's cloak and everything?"
This got Jack to thinking. What if he did mean for Harry to do it? He got the path to it set up. The tasks were done so three mere first years could get through them. And what of the fact that no teacher seemed to believe them when they said there was someone after the Stone?
"Well," Hermione exploded "If he did – I mean to say – that's terrible – you could have been killed!"
"No, it isn't," said Harry thoughtfully. "He's a funny man, Dumbledore. I don't think it was a mistake he let me find out how that mirror worked."
"Yep, Dumbledore's barking alright," Ron said proudly.
"Yeah so anyway, you have got to be there for the end-of-term feast tomorrow," Jack said changing the subject. "The points have all been counted and Slytherin have won - "
"But it's only by 110 points to us, thanks to Jack taking your place in that Quidditch match against Ravenclaw," Ron said smiling.
"Yeah, but the food will still be good," Jack finished.
At that moment Madam Pomfrey came bustling over.
"You've had nearly fifteen minutes, now, OUT," she said shooing Jack, Ron, and Hermione away.
For the rest of the day, Jack was spending it in the room of requirement with Elisa.
She had been surprised when Jack had showed it to her a few days ago – a room that can give you whatever you want or need.
At the moment thanks to Jack needing a place to cool off a bit thanks to the weather, the room was a winter wonderland with snowdrifts, an ice ring, and a table where they can have hot cocoa together.
"This is nice," Elisa said looking around. "A little bit of winter in summer. And we didn't need to travel to the southern hemisphere to get it."
"It's not too cold is it?" Jack asked helping himself to some snacks.
"Nope, I like cold more than heat anyway," she said smiling "Heat makes you all tired and sticky and sweaty, and you can't do anything with it. With cold you can build snowmen, forts, make snow angels, curl up with friends to keep warm, and I love snow."
"Really?" Jack asked "Even though there are *62 things that can go wrong with it?"
"Oh I'm sure there's not that many," Elisa said rolling her eyes and going over to the ice ring. "*Besides, snow is soft and it melts. Not like some manmade things like bricks or concrete."
Smiling Jack finished his snacks and went over to join her.
It was almost 10pm when they left the room and went back to their dormitories.
AN: *Both lines from Milo Murphy's Law Season 1 episode 7A
