Chapter Two - Into The Rabbit Hole


After being sucked into the blue box, they found themselves standing in a snow covered clearing, the guardians looked around.

"Well, that didn't work" Bunny said, annoyed.

Jack rolled his eyes and pointed behind them to a small town of little wooden houses that had been Burgess in 1702.

"Oh look!" Tooth squeaked, "It's Jack!" she said as she saw a young boy who was facing away from them. The boy had white blonde hair like Jack had now.

"No, that's not me" Jack told them, "I didn't have white hair back then". He looked around and spotted himself sitting outside in the snow, he remembered what was happening today. "I'm over there, my sister, today is her birthday" he said as he points.

Bunny and Tooth glanced at each other, "What'da mean ya hair wasn't always white?" Bunny asked.

"If we're doing this, I'm leaving you in suspense" Jack said as they made their way over to his younger self.

A man that looked a lot like Jack left the small house and sat down beside Jack.

"Oh Jackkie, your sister is stubborn, she just doesn't want to get out" he sighed.

"Who is zhat?" North asked.

"That is my father" Jack replied.

"How do you know it's a girl?" Young Jack asked his dad.

"Call it a father's intuition, I knew you were a boy too"

"Really, because mom told me you thought I was a girl too"

"Don't listen to your mom, she's full of baloney", Jack laughed. A woman came out of the house and nodded at Jack's dad.

"Well Jack, looks like we can meet your sister now"

"How old were you there Jack" Tooth asked.

"I was seven"

"What's her name?" Tooth cooed as the wall of the small wooden house became transparent, and they could see Jack holding her.

"Her name was Emma" Jack told them, "She was a handful"

The memory began to fade, and new one replaced it.

"Where are we now?" Tooth asked as the scenery around them changed to springtime.

"I'm not sure I-" Jack suddenly stopped talking and he looked like he had seen a ghost. He was staring at someone behind them, the guardians turned and saw a young girl. She was quite pale, and had hair the colour of moonlight and eyes as dark as the night sky. Jack smiled, "This is three years after the first one." They all quieted down as the memory began.

"Wow... She so pwetty" little Emma said, looking at the girl. She toddled away from Jack without him noticing, and walked right up to the girl. Emma pulled on the skirt of her dress, the girl looked down to the small child smiling. "You are soooo pwetty" Emma told her.

"Aww, thank you, what's your name?" she asked Emma, in the back ground, Jack realized that Emma was no longer walking beside him and was looking frantically around him.

"My name's Emma" she told her.

"Well, Emma is a really pretty name for a really pretty girl, I'm Catherine" the girl, Catherine, told her, but she noticed Jack freaking out, and spoke to Emma again, "Is that your brother?" she asked while pointing to Jack.

"That's my bwig bwother Jwack!" she cried happily. Jack whipped his head around, hearing Emma's voice, saw Emma and walked quickly towards them.

"Emma! You can't just wander off like that, I-" he froze as he looked at Catherine.

"Haha! You liked her don't ya mate?" Bunny asked Jack teasingly.

Jack smiled, "Yeah, I did." But then he got the sad look in his eyes that they had all seen earlier and quieted down.

"Hi, I'm Catherine. You're Jack?" Catherine asked him with a sweet smile.

"Yeah, I'm Jack," Jack paused, "I haven't seen you before." he stated, it was meant to be a question.

"No, I just moved here with my father yesterday" Catherine told him.

"Well, do you like it here?" Jack asked.

"Yeah, it's beautiful, but I don't really know anyone" She said.

"Well, now you know me. I'm Jackson Overland." Jack said as he held out his hand for a handshake.

"I'm Catherine Nocte-Caelum" she said and shook Jack's hand.

"Aww! You two are so cute!" Tooth squealed.

"Well, don't get too attached" Jack said ominously.

The rest of the guardians looked at him, but before any other comments could be made, they were shot into a new memory.