"I'm just worried,"
"I know," he said not caring who heard him, "we all are"
"Jamie?" said jack looking at the crippled old man lying in the bed. The last time he had some to see him Jamie was perfectly healthy and it had only been one year. How could so many things have gone wrong in so little time? "You look awful," jack stuff to his blunt honesty.
"And you look exactly the same as the day I first met you," croaked Jamie. "Do you remember that day? I had almost stopped believing then you made it snow it my bedroom…" Jamie was rambling.
"What's wrong with you?" asked jack scared to touch the fragile old skin.
"I'm dying," Jamie grumped, "it's what happens to us old people."
"I'm older than you," said Jack setting his staff in the window sill.
"I know… how old are you exactly?"
Jack tried to calculate he had been fourteen when he died in the pond, then three hundred years had gone by when he became a guardian, then a little over seventy years after…
"Three hundred and eighty four."
Jamie began coughing in astonishment, "three hundred eighty four!"
"Give or take," amended Jack. He approached his bed ridden friend and sat next to him.
"Don't leave me," whispered Jack, "I don't want you to d… d…" tears began pricking the corners of Jack's eyes.
Jamie put a hand on Jack's face, "I have lived a full life. And you won't be alone," reassured Jaime, "you have all the other guardians and my children, the one who was just in here her name is Jackie I named her after you. And there is still her children as well and their children, and so on and so forth."
Jack shook his head. "No," he said. "Sure I have the other guardians but your children don't believe in me anymore and their children weren't taught about me… you are my last believer."
"I cannot find him!" yelled North, "he seems to be nowhere!"
"No he has to be somewhere!" Tooth refused to give up.
"Where does he like to go?" asked Bunny, jumping up to North so he wouldn't have to shout.
"Burgess!" cried Tooth.
"What?" said both guardians.
"Burgess that's jack's home town, that's where Jamie lives." Tooth explained.
North merely nodded and directed his exhausted reindeer to Burgess.
I know "a new chapter already" but it's spring break and I have time to kill…. R&R please!
