Title: Saved

Summery: Five times the guardians unknowingly saved Jack, and the one time they knew.

Tooth

Years after North and his Red-Nosed reindeer had saved the winter child, Jack was running. Running as fast as he could to get away from the angry sprites.

Jack had only been doing his job, but, like every year, the other seasonal spirits wanted to stop him from doing his job.

Fall hated him because, in her mind, Jack destroyed all her hard work. Spring hated him because, according to her, Jack never left when winter was over. Summer hated Jack because... well Jack wasn't really sure why Summer hated him.

Right before every change of the seasons, Fall, Spring, and Summer would track down and beat him to a bloody pulp to try and "stop him from ruining spring/fall."

So yes, Jack was running away from them, like he did most years. There where a few times, when Jack had let them beat him up, but that is another story for another time.

Jack had been running away for over two hours. Immortals had a much better stamina then mortals, but even they couldn't run forever. Jack was beginning to tire. The only thing keeping Jack going was his fear of what they would do to him if he was caught.

He looked back and saw that the other seasonal spirits where catching up. The winter child tried to run faster. He was able to put on another burst of speed, but knew he wasn't going to outrun them this year.

Normally, Jack wouldn't care. However, a few days before this he had tried to get into North's workshop so he could thank him for saving his life the night he lost control of his powers, as he had tried to do since that night. The yetis didn't his presence to much, and threw him out of the workshop. He had landed funny rolled down a snowy hill. By the time he stopped rolling, he was black and blue with cuts all over his body. These injuries had yet to heal, an Jack didn't believe he could take a beating on top of his current injuries.

Looking back and the seasonals, he was surprised to see they had slowed down and where starring at a small hummingbird that was in between them.

"Leave," Spring orderded. "This is between us and him."

Sounds cane from the bird. It was clear that the others understood what the bird was saying, but Jack couldn't understand a word of it.

"No," Fall said suddenly, "No need to tell your mother."

The bird began to chirp again. After a moment, the older spirits looked at the Winter Child with a glare. "You got lucky this time, Frost," Summer spat. "Be glad this mini tooth was here to save you." With that, Fall, Spring, and Summer left.

"Mini tooth," Jack thought, looking at it. Suddnly he realized, it wasn't a bird at all, but one of the Tooth Fairy's many helpers.

"Thank you, little Baby Tooth," Jack said. "And thank your mother, too." The mini tooth chirped some more before flying away.

"The Tooth Fairy saved me...Kinda," Jack thought before flying away to spread winter.