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AN: Sorry this took soooooooo long guys! I was on vacation in the USA. We went shopping. I hate shopping unless its books or video game/movie/comic related stuff. For example I got Starsky and Hutch season 2, avenger's bracelet and a Thor one too. That's the only fun parts. The rest was clothes shopping. Yuck!
"No." Bunny said. "I just find it odd that a scientist, like yourself still believes in us."
"Hate to burst your bubble, but as soon as you stepped through the portal to Asgard, everyone on Asgard can see you, even if they don't believe." Jack said with a shrug. "If we go back to earth and they don't believe they won't see us." He said gesturing to the avengers.
"You burst my bubble." Bunny pouted.
Jack rolled his eyes. "Oh you poor baby." He cooed.
"Daddy!" Amelia whined.
"What?" Jack asked imitating her tone.
"Cam we play hide and seek?" She asked still whining.
"Fine." Jack said exasperatedly. "Do you guys want to play?"
The group of adults looked skeptical, but nodded. After a quick king counter North was made it. The rules were simple; players could only hide outside in the training area or the court room that connected to it. They were not allowed to fly to get to a hiding place.
North started to count down and everyone ran in different directions. Jack stayed to watch were Amelia hid. She went over to the guards and hid behind them.
The assassin ran into the court room and quickly looked around before deciding to hide in the rafters. Jack hopped onto the window sill, then jumped onto the mantel of the fire place and hauled himself up onto the beam. The winter god jumped through the rafters until he was at the centre column and sat leaning up against it. He made sure nothing was hanging over the edge of the beam.
Jack heard footsteps coming into the room. Tony, Steve and Thor each looked around before going to their hiding spots. Tony hid in a cabinet and Steve hid in the curtains next to it. Thor hid under the glass table in the centre of the room. The thunder god was the worst at hiding, but sometimes he picked such bad spots that no one would be stupid enough to hide or look in and never got caught.
The winter spirit listened. He assessed every sound, matching it to a cause. He could hear North finishing his count down and starting to search. He quickly found Sandy. "Ah Sandy! You're too bright to be good at hiding." North laughed. The Christmas spirits boots stomped further away. A couple of minutes later North along with 3 other sets of steps headed closer to the court room.
The winter god could tell each pair from another. He knew that Clint, Natasha and Bunny and of course Sandy who was completely silent was with North. The group was walking closer to Jack. They quickly stopped.
"Hey, there's Tooth." Clint said.
"You ratted me out!" Tooth squealed.
"Sorry." He quickly answered. "Who's still hiding?"
"Tony, Steve, Bruce, Thor, Loki, Amelia and Jack." Bunny said.
"With Loki, you might want to poke everything." Natasha said.
"Why?" North asked confused.
"He can create and control illusions." Clint said.
"Oh great." Bunny mumbled. "Is that even in the rules?"
"Never covered it, so yes." North said. "Let's start poking around."
Jack heard a quiet laugh coming from a vase of flowers. The vase was sitting in the doorway leading out to the training area. North did to. He quickly walked over to the vase and poked it. The vase laughed again. The illusion melted away to reveal a laughing Loki.
"The laughing gave me away, didn't it?" Loki asked. Everyone nodded. "An ant was crawling on my nose!"
The group continued into the court room. North easily spotted Thor. "Thor, I see you!" He laughed.
"Dam it!" Thor spat crawling out from under the table hitting his head in the progress. "Ouch." He mumbled rubbing it.
"What made you think that was a good spot to hide?" Loki asked.
"I didn't think." Thor replied sharply. Jack watched North go over to the cabinets and start to open them.
"That's pretty obvious." Loki smirked.
North got closer and close to the cabinet that Tony was hiding in. The guardian of wonder opened the door and Tony popped out yelling: "Boo!" The guardian didn't even flinch. He raised an eyebrow. "Really, nothing?"
"I've seen much scarier than that from a kitten." North laughed as Tony pouted.
"So we are still missing Jack, Amelia, Steve and Bruce, right?" Clint asked.
"I know where Steve is." Tony said just as the curtains moved. North zeroed in on the movement. He went over and pulled on the curtains. They wouldn't budge.
"I'm not here! Go away!"
"How convincing." Tony said. "Come on. Steve we found you."
"I hate hide and seek." Steve grumbled as he came out from behind the curtains. "I'm surprised. Where's the brainiac?"
"I'm right here." Tony said.
"Not you, banner." Steve said looking around. Tony frowned and stuck his bottom lip out.
"He probably calculated the probability of us finding him in every spot in the entire castle!" Thor laughed.
"You're probably right." Tony giggled. The group of adults continued to look around.
"Do you think they're still outside?" Tooth asked after looking under a bookshelf.
"No I saw Jack run into here." Bunny said. He turned to Tony and Steve. "Do you know where he is?"
"Nope, I haven't seen him." Tony lied. Steve nodded in agreement trying to hide his smile. Bunny narrowed his eyes, but let it slip. Steve and Ronny glance up into the rafters. They couldn't see the assassin among the shadows.
Jack heard the quiet sound of shoes scraping against something. Then a quiet cough and sneeze coming from the fireplace.
"Never thought to look there." Bunny mumbled.
North chuckled as he went over to the fireplace and knocked on the bricks. Bruce fell landing hard on his back. He was covered in black soot. The doctor took off his glasses and tried to wipe them off, but only made them worse.
"Never hiding there again." Bruce coughed.
"Now time to find the kids." Natasha said.
"I say we just give up." Loki said.
"What? No!" Bunny yelled surprised.
"I hate to say this but Loki's right." Thor sighed. "No one has ever found Jack or Amelia when their hiding. They're too good."
"Also it's past Amelia's bed time." Loki said.
"Amelia has a bedtime?" Tooth asked surprised.
"Why wouldn't she?" Thor asked.
"Because her father is Jack Frost." All the guardians said in unison, even Sandy with his dreamsand pictures.
"They've got a point." Tony nodded.
"Anyways, game over?" Thor asked. North nodded, giving up. "Game over!" The thunder god yelled. Everyone covered their ears.
Amelia skipped in from outside with a smug look on her face. Jack dropped from the beam, landing silently behind the adults.
"Where's Jack?" North asked. The girl pointed behind them. Everyone turn to see Jack with the same smug smirk on his face. "That's not creepy at all."
"Okay time to tell. Where were you?" Bunny demanded.
"I hid behind the guards in the training ring." Amelia said.
Bunny turned to Jack and raised an eyebrow. The assassin pointed to the rafters. "How did you get up there without flying?"
"He climbed." Tony said simply.
"You said you didn't see him, mate." Bunny pointed out.
"I lied." Tony shrugged.
Amelia yawned. "Time to go to bed." Jack said.
"I'll show the guardians to their rooms." Loki said. Jack nodded his thanks. He picked Amelia up. She was already asleep when they reached their room. Jack put her in her bed and covered her with a blanket.
The assassin changed back into his old blue sweater and climbed into bed.
AN: I really don't like this chapter. It's really boring, probably my worst one yet.