(I DO NOT OWN ANY OF THE EXISTING CHARACTER EXCEPT MY OWN AND THIS STORY! OK. This time I know I did something right. I'm sorry for apparently spelling Jamie's name wrong but I knew a guy who had it spelled Jaimie too so I just naturally took to that spelling. And I did read a few other stories and I thought it was a bit ridiculous how they fell in love from day one and even shared a dancing scene where Jack started it. I tried for a more natural scene since Jack seems more like the kind who wouldn't know how to dance but be great with jokes. I don't want Fay to be a Mary Sue though. So I'm doing a fail check. I'm gonna end up rewriting anything that has her seeming, well, immortal. Even to immortals...)

How Do You Love Someone?

Chapter 11 - Pasts and Present

The teens had chosen to eat at North's before leaving for Jack's place. The other Guardians had stopped by for that reason also. Sandy had taken up a spot to North's right and Jack to North's left and Bunny had seated himself next to Jack, leaving Fay and Tooth the sit across from them. Tooth's never ending chatter had ended up with her fingers in Fay's mouth. North had given her a slight scold to which Tooth had grinned sheepishly.

Fay had been talking to Sandy who responded to her to the best of his abilities when Tooth had tapped her arm. Whatever the fairy had whispered into her ears had the girl blushing a deep pink that had North laughing as Cupid smiled. He knew something and wasn't telling. Not that anyone had bothered to ask yet. Bunny had helped himself to as many veggies as he could not that Jack was complaining.

"Yeah Sandy. Fay was an adorable child as a human" Tooth said excitedly. Fairies loved to gossip. And this time it was about Fay's past. Interested Jack tried to pull Tooth's strings about the subject.

"Oh! You should have seen her Jack. She had the prettiest shade of green eyes and bright red hair. She loved to run wild in the forest in Ireland" Ireland? Fay was Irish? That must have been where the accent came from. But it probably faded through the years since at times he couldn't even hear it.

"She was pretty for a Celt but the townspeople had their hands full to bursting when she found followers in the younger children. A prank happened almost everyday. If she hadn't died, she would have grown up into a beautiful woman, found a husband and had two kids. But here she is. Seventeen and immortally stuck that way." Cupid laughed but Fay simply chucked a spoonful of gravy at him. When the surprised immortal wiped it off his face he met her pissed off glare. Apparently she didn't think it was funny. Jack wouldn't have either. Death wasn't funny. Even if she was currently sitting at the table 300 years after her death.

"I would rather be stuck as an immortal, hormonal, 17 year old then be a 37 year old Transvestite who could find love before nor after his death." Her words bit down on the immortal hard and let a stunned expression on his face. It was if a mouse had roared like a lion as the table fell silent. Even the Yetis and elves had shut up at her venomous comment. And she hadn't needed to shout.

"I wouldn't bring that up again mate. You took it over the line" Bunny warned Cupid who sat on his other side. The cherub quieted down and Sandy managed to bring a different topic up and Fay's dark mood lifted as suddenly as it had appeared. Jack could understand her irritation. If Cupid had said that to him, the Love spirit wouldn't have just gotten a bit of gravy on his mug. He would have been frozen to the chair until he thawed. And that said a lot about her self control. He could see the anger still there in her golden gaze, but it was fading during the light conversation.

At last, it was time for them to go and Fay was saying her goodbyes for the night, Jack watching her from a few feet above. Her wings sprung from her shoulder blades and unfurled in time to catch a breeze and they were off. She was easily keeping up despite the fact that her wings required a physical effort on her part. He drifted beside her and together they flew in companionable silence to the lake. To his place of his rebirth.

"You were quite the trouble maker when you were young, huh? So was I" He had added that last bit in at her questioning look. She looked interested as she drifted closer to him, wings close enough to clip him if she moved over more.

"You were? Wat did you look like?"

"Yeah! I loved jokes and tricking people. My games were what made me a Guardian. Oh. As for what I looked like...um...Brown hair and brown eyes. I was born in Burgess when it was still only a few huts and villagers. And I woke up with a new life under the ice of this lake" Jack had told her as they landed on the ice. He stood under the moonlight for a moment observing Fay as she took in their surroundings. When her attention returned to him he took it as a motion for him to show her to his home.

The entrance way was behind a large rock that was impossible to see from below. And it was only noticeable if you squinted and stood on your head. Meaning it was pretty impossible. It started as dark tunnels giving way to light ice crystals and smooth cold corridors. The place only held a bedroom and a makeshift bathroom that let out into an underground water system. He was hardly home so he never really bothered to bring anything more then a pair of chests for his clothes and personal items, a nice bed he had found when someone had tossed it out and other recycled things.

"You don't spend a lot of time here do you?" And Jack shook his head as an answer. It was obvious and he hadn't thought about the fact that she might find it uncomfortable to be in an ice chamber with minimal decor and comforts.

"Its a bit like you Jack. Simple. And I like it. It's not complicated like the others. North's is a maze, Tooth's requires you fly constantly, Sandy's is odd and leaves you with a rash from the sand, and Bunny's is comfy but you need to watch where you go. Eggs and dye tulips will ruin your day if you step on them" She stated and sat on the edge of his bed. Now another problem arose. He only had one bed. And he wouldn't go leaving her here alone. The other Guardians would have his head if something happened to her. That is, if he didn't get to do it to himself first.

"There's only one bed... I forgot about that" he admitted sheepishly and she laughed.

"We are adults here. We can be responsible and share" she pointed out. Actually they were both teens but were considered adults 300 years ago; back when they were human. Fay had already tugged the ribbons from around her waist and let her hair down so the silver fabrics wouldn't tangle into impossible knots and was laying down on one side of the bed. Her back faced him and wavy white hair rested on the pillows. Jack swallowed thickly and laid beside her, turning his own back to hers after touching the soft hair.

"Night Frosty"

"Night Fay"

You guys seemed to like the music list I put up and I have decided to put up the list of music I was listening to if I had any playing while I wrote the chapter. Everything is spelled properly so just copy and paste to youtube's search bar.

Creature Feature - A Gorey Demise

Akira Yamaoka - Always on my Mind (Silent Hill Shattered Memories OST)

Nightcore - Forever or Never

And I will give you a few bonus songs here that should have been in Darkness' chapter.

Kamelot - Rule the World

16 Volt - Keep Sleeping

Alice Cooper - Feed My Frankenstein

(Once Again, I ask you to please Review. For those with homework, I'm sorry but it is not a chore. If I don't get reviews then I don't update. That's how it's done. Thank you. Love you all.)