DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN THE LOVEBIRDS. JACK BELONGS TO JAMIE AND JAMIE BELONGS TO JACK... AND THEY BOTH BELONG TO DREAMWORKS :D
Soo... LOL If you noticed my writing kinda went downhill half-way through the story.. . Twas because I made an awesome balls one before that then the page suddenly reloaded without me saving TTATT and I couldn't remember what I wrote so I TRIED to remake it. :P
Anyways, I know some of you have been rolling all over the floors for my next update... So here it is! The moment you've all been waiting for... WHAT will Jamie do?! O: LE GASHP!
"I have something for you..."
Jack sat, eyeing Jamie as he crossed to the other side to pull out something from under the bed where he sat. 'Something for... me?' He asked himself. What could Jamie have for him? The air in the room suddenly started to warm up. It was still cold but the atmosphere felt strange and warm. Being in Jamie's room just felt so nostalgic for Jack. He missed hanging out in the kid's room. Hanging out in a way that he knows Jack's there and not like the previous nights when the spirit would just stalk him or watch him sleep.
Jamie pulled out the blue box he was messing with before Jack arrived. It had what seemed to be pretty snowflake patterns that glittered and sparkled under the dimly lit moonlight trying to enter the room. It was hard to see but make no mistake, that those designs were of snowflakes. Snowflakes as in Frost? Jack Frost? Jack stared at it. He couldn't think. All his thoughts were lost. Everything just seemed so strange. He was expecting something a bit more dramatic to come out of Jamie on their first meeting in a year. Maybe a little anger? Or soft yelling so that he won't wake up his parents? After all, he left him hanging, without even explaining why. But no, everything was just... Peachy?
Peaceful... Like there was nothing wrong with what had happened before or even what is happening now. And there's no way Jamie could have known Jack had been there all along. He saw the way Jamie acted, he saw the misery and the tears as he watched in silence from a distance. Yet why is everything now so...
'... Normal...'
"Jack?" Jamie broke the chain of thoughts that led Jack to his long pause. He had been staring at the box, holding it but not pulling it away from Jamie when he handed it over. It was like he woke up from a trance. He didn't even notice his hands were on the box. Let alone have his gaze getting so fixated on it.
"Open it, Jack" Jamie smiled. He sat across Jack on the bed. Jack had his body slightly turned towards Jamie with his one leg dangling onto the end of the bed. And the other, relaxed, bent, resting on the the covers. It was a pretty chill look. But the look on Jack's face wasn't one that would compliment his position. His eyes looked lost.
"Jamie..." Jack tried to speak.
"Please, just open it first" Jamie put a hand on one of Jack's who was still holding the box.
Jack eyes softened. His lips turning up a smile that slowly turned into his signature smirk. Not one of the mischievous kind but of the soft one.
"Alright, alright..." Jack surrendered to Jamie's request. He looked down to the box. His let hand brush past the rough glittery patterns that covered it. It felt tingly beneath his fingers as he slide it to by the shape of the edge, grabbing hold of the cover to open the box. He opened it slowly, allowing the suspense to kick in. Curious as he was to know what's inside, he still could not help but play with the excited look on Jamie's face when he anxiously waited for Jack to see his 'little surprise'. Jamie of course, didn't notice. But Jack loved the expressions the boy would make. The way he'd bite his bottom lip as he waited for something to happen or even the toothy smiles he'd get when Jamie tried to play innocent over a little joke.
After all the slight teasing of how long it would take before Jack could open his little box, Jack suddenly felt a burst of happiness as he scanned his eyes through the contents in the container. The feeling flamed out like the sun rising for the early morning. Naturally, he didn't show it. Didn't want to lose his coll over some box filled with trinkets. But they weren't just trinkets. They were important memorabilia that Jamie must have kept hidden for a while. But then if they were things from before he decided to leave, why would he have a picture of him at the workshop in the north pole? Sure he had the picture taken, but couldn't recall ever sending it to Jamie. So why did he have it? There where other things too... Some of the letters Jack was pretty sure he had already taken. Why did they end up in this box?
"The Toothfairy got some of those for me..." Jamie spoke the answer, as if he had read Jack's mind. Jack was about to ask, his expression still dumbfounded, unsure of what was going on.
Again, as if Jamie had just read the Cold Guardians thoughts, Jamie spoke. "She said she was worried about us. She knew how important I was to you... She just visited me one day, the night after Sophie lost a tooth. Normally it was one of her fairies who'd pick it up but that time is was her. She said she wanted to come in person. So she could give me these... " Jamie held his hand to the rim of the box, his fingers curling the fold.
"Tooth?" Jack raised a brow. "But-" Jamie hushed Jack, he wasn't finished
"There's more..." Jamie continued. "She had her fairies sneak in to borrow some of those things from you."
"More like steal them from me..." Jack mumbling, interrupting Jamie. But Jamie just ignored it with a smile.
"She didn't technically steal it. They were mine to begin with. And you took them, remember? I know, Tooth told me about your plan." He smirked, turning the thief blame game around to Jack. If anyone, Jack would definitely have been the real culprit of the whole crime. Tooth would have been an investigator who had been helping the victim.
Jack slumped his posture, showing the guilt he felt after Jamie mentioned what he did. He just wanted to help the boy in some way. But Tooth, meddling in his affairs. What part of his problem did she not understand? Maybe looking to her for advice wasn;t as good as he thought after all... Jack laughed at his thoughts. 'No... She just cared too much...'
"I'm sorry." Jack lifted his head to look at the teen.
"You're forgiven." Jamie lunged himself at Jack, seeking for a hug. It was too fast and sudden, they didn't realize soon enough that they were about to fall of the edge of the bed. Jack was too taken by surprise, he wasn't able to catch his balance in time. They landed hard on the floor, Jamie on Jack.
"Oww..." They sounded her displeasure to the fall as the time same. Hearing that, they looked at each other then laughed a few seconds later.
"I missed you, Jack" Jamie tried to say while doing his best to control his laughter.
"I missed you too, Jamie." Jack leaned his weight on one elbow to ruffle the boy's hair with the other.
"You're gonna stay this time right?" Jamie sounded hopeful. Jack came back, but for what reason? If he really wanted Jamie to move on, he wouldn't have come. He wasn't very fond of not sticking to his plans. That's how stubborn he was. So why now?
Jack thought for a moment. "Well, even if I do go... With Tooth hanging around you giving you these things, you'd probably never stop believing anyways. She probably doesn't even realize that too." Jack laughed. "So yeah, I'll stay." Still on the floor., he slid himself out underneath Jamie and fixed his position.
"And you'll never leave me again?" Jamie brought his face closer to Jack. Their noses only an half an inch apart. His eyes were fixed to Jack's, trying to seek out the truth that would come from what he answer could be.
The closeness of the boy made Jack's cheeks feel a tinge of heat, lightly reddening the said area of his face. Jamie was too close for his comfort. Not that he didn't like it but it was just really close for him. Jack's heart leaped and pounded drastically it was like it was going to pop out of his chest, he wanted to grab it to stop the organ he imagined was trying to make it's way out of his body. But he couldn't move, for even the just slighted movement, could leave him without any more space between them.
"Yes... I"ll never leave you again."
Jamie eyed Jack suspiciously, slowly drawing his head back, not breaking eye contact. "You promise?" He crossed his arms.
"I promise"
With that, Jamie grinned widely. His cheeks glowing red with delight.
"So." Jack started, he needed to catch up with Jamie. He may have been watching him but he didn't really get to understand what has really been going on the kid's life. And how old was Jamie? 15? Not long next year, he'd be 16. But age didn't bother Jack anymore. Because he made a real promise to stay this time. And he wasn't going to hold back on that promise.
"I'm guessing that the guy you left the bar with was Caleb? Or Claude? Damn, those twins." Jack smiled in confusion, starting a topic for his 'catching up' plan.
"You got it right the first time. It was Caleb. And yeah those twins can get pretty confusing to tell apart sometimes." Jamie shared his feelings on the dilemma of having to know twins.
"And that girl... The blonde one who kept clinging to you all night, who was she?"
"Oh that, yeah... That was Angel, new student. Just joined this semester." Jamie answered. Shying his face away from Jack. He felt a bit embarrassed at the thought of Jack seeing how clingy a girl was getting to him. He didn't like her of course. It was just that he knew if he Jack had seen her, which he did, he'd be teasing him of her all night. And no one likes that.
"She was pretty." Jack hummed his words, smirking at Jamie. Jamie knew it, he was going to start at it again, like what happened with Cupcake and Pippa. "Do you like her?"
Jamie cringed at the way jack stretched the word 'like'. "Uh, NO. She doesn't seem like my type."
Jack widen his eyes sarcastically in surprise. "Type, huh? So you have TYPE? Since when did you have a type Mr. Bennett?" The guardian played with Jamie's words.
"I didn't mean it like that! I just wasn't attracted to her, I guess..." Jamie chortled in embarrassment.
"Why not? I'd say she was pretty hott" Jack winked. "And she seemed nice AND she can sing pretty damn well." Jack lifted himself into the air, turning his body to lay on his back, his head upside down to look at Jamie.
"Sure she's nice and all that but she wasn't so... Uhhh.. We don't really have that much in common I guess?" Jamie tilted his head pretty far to the side, trying to follow Jack upside down view.
Jack laughed as Jamie tried to follow. "Okay, what about that other girl?"
"You mean Kai?" Jamie said her name excitedly.
"Yeah her. Kai was it? She seemed so familiar... from Japan, I'm guessing?" Jack scratched his chin.
"Yeah. Actually, you probably do know her. She can see you guys." Jamie smiled, he knew that with that answer, he'd be able to get revenge on Jack teasing by surprising him with that kind of news.
"WHAT?!" Jack turned over, falling onto the cold floor like he just rolled off a bed.
Jamie laughed so hard at his reaction. Jack looked so stunned, and confused with what he just told him. "Kai, foreign exchange student. She hanged with us because Caleb was the president of our class and when she got assigned to us, he volunteered to house her. So we hang out a lot. turns out she's a pretty cool girl. She said she can see things like a few ghostly apparitions and stuff. And she sees you, all of you" Jamie explained.
"But-how? I've met psychics before and they never seem to see me..." Jack asked. "They seems to sense me but then that was pretty normal probably" He mumbled ti himself quick under hi breath. Jamie didn't really hear but he knew it wasn't of much importance anyways.
"So you find her cool? Does that make her your type?" Jack pouted playfully with his words.
"She could be." Jamie played back.
The thought to the new Japanese girl being with Jamie made Jack feel a little jealous. But why should he feel jealous? Jamie wasn't his, he loved the boy to death but his decisions in love weren't his to make. For he also knew nothing of that topic.
Jamie could feel the tension in the air hovering above Jack. Not just feel it, as in he literally could see it. There were a few snowflakes that kind of twirled and scrambled over his head like a mini blizzard or something. And for some reason, Jack didn't notice it. Was he jealous? Over some girl who he said he could possibly like? True enough he liked Kai, possibly even developed a bit of a crush on her. But only because he found it cool that she was one of the only people he knew of his age, who could still see the Guardians. They had a common interest, one of the few things that normally start a romance. Jack couldn't blame Jamie for finding the girl interesting. But nontheless Jamie cared too much for Jack to allow him to continue to suffer any longer. He decided to lessen on the teasing.
"She's interesting that. After all we both can see and she knows you. As in-" Jamie snickered before he could continue, trying to control his laughter from peaking. "As in you met her before. You guys played together one Christmas when she had to spend it alone. She said she at first thought you were a woman." Jamie couldn't control his laughter any longer, he burst out in uncontrollable tears of joy and amusement.
"A woman?! What do you mean by that?!" Jack's hand twitched, his face with the look of disgust. "I thought she met me? How could she have thought I was a chick?" Jack asked again. Jamie couldn't reply right away, he was still busy trying to catch his breath so explain himself better.
"She-" Jamie laughed. "In her-" He laughed again. "Japan, had this" He laughed harder.
"Out with it James." Jack sounded impatient to Jamie's paused filled attempt to explain.
"Alright, alright!" Jamie lifted his hands up to surrender. As quick as that he regained control of his emotions once again. "Yuki-onna"
"Yuki-whatta?"
"'Yuki onna. Snow lady. she only knew of one myth that had a relation to snow and ice. And since she saw you playing with the snow using your 'snow magic'" Jamie said the last part sarcastically with air quotes. "-She thought you were Yuki onna. The snow woman."
"Snow woman, really?" Jack raise his brow in disbelief.
"Don't worry, Jack. She now knows you're not a girl." Jamie assured Jack with a pat on the back.
"Now, about the way your reacted after you fell... Were you jealous? Of the possibility of me and Kai? Jamie teased, sliding his hand around Jack, taking his neck in a lock.
"Jealous? Of what?" Jack blushed, how could Jamie have known?
"Uhh, weather control? You head had a sudden make-over hairdo that looked like a bit of blizzard." Jamie answered as if reading Jack's thoughts. "Don't worry, Jack. No matter what kind of girl comes along, she can never get between us. You could say you're like that once relationship that I can never break up with. it's like we're married!" He teased Jack, freeing him from his lock and hugging him in a couple-like way with his face pouted and eyes as big as the moon.
'Married?' Jack thought. He imagined being with Jamie forever but the though of marriage never actually crossed his mind. He didn't Jamie in that way. That would have been wrong on so many levels. But did he find the terms Jamie used pleasing to his ear? It made him blush a little.
Jamie noticed the blush on Jack's cheeks, making own glow of the same color. Was Jack just thinking of what he thinks he's thinking? Jamie shook his head, brushing the thought away. "I meant we're best buds to the end. Ya know that, right?" Jamie leaned closer, clarifying the sentence with his tone.
Jamie was close yet again. Too close. Jamie didn't realize it right away but by the time he did, he quickly pulled back, turning his face away from the ice prince. They both blushed in silence, feeling their hearts races from the awkwardness that has befallen them.
"It's getting late, don't you have school?" Jack asked, trying to change the strange, unfamiliar atmosphere that clouded the room.
"Uh, yeah. School night, I almost forgot." Jamie let out a nervous chuckle before making his way to the bed.
Jack helped himself up to the window, his staff giving him balance as he still leaned in from the ledge to say his lasts to Jamie. "Goodnight James, I'll see you again tomorrow.."
"Tomorrow? So soon? Really? That's unlike you..." Jamie slouched back into his bed, snuggling up to ready himself for a good night's rest.
"You don't like? I promised I'd stay remember? I'll keep bothering you till you're so sick and tired of me, you'd shoo me away yourself." Jack joked.
"I'd never push you away, Jack." Jamie's voice, calm compared to Jack's loud, laughing one. Jack felt like he had said something that might have offended Jamie. He too, knew that Jamie would never do that. He just wanted to joke around before leaving.
"Good night, buddy..." He whispered after noticing Jamie's eyes starting to drop, resisting the drowsiness that had been calling him.
"G'nigh-Jah-" Jamie mumbled, sinking his body into the comfort of his warm bed.
Jack stared at the now sleeping Jamie. He didn't have to follow him around in silence anymore. What made him do that? He wasn't so sure either on why it took him so long to decide to finally see his favorite child. But before that, he has some other business to attend to... He needed explanations on why Tooth had to meddle in his affairs.
And so Jack left room, his arms spread wide, making his journey to the tooth palace.
I know, i know there's so much fluff here but I REALLY wanted to lighten up the mood of the story. After all, the past few chapters have been quite depressing and I wanted my story to have more 'umphf' than that :P
So here's chapter 5. Hope you enjoyed. Surely you have finally noticed the REAL romance starting to bloom ;) took a while, buuut they're getting there xD
I noticed my story is starting to look like it's straying away from the title. Which could be a bit misleading but trust me, when I say 'letters' i don't just mean written letters. I means many things. Like L from 'The L word'. Though we all know it's really lesbian... But still. And yeah, I may or may not change the title if i can think of a better one. I don't want you all to hate me because I can't seem to stick with the summary of the story D:
So keep the reviews comin'. it helps inspire me to write more and update more often. I have school in a couple of days but if I hear this is still getting hits I may still bring myself to write more.
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