[I typed this on my phone. Sorry if there are any mistakes. Note: of there are no italics and instead Caps, or instead of tab, I'm on my phone.]
"I'm curious about something."
The old Cossack looked up from the block of ice in his hands and immediately broke into a huge smile, seeing the large gray Pooka in the doorway.
"Bunny!" He exclaimed, setting down the block of ice and throwing his hands in the air dramatically. "I did not know you were coming! What happened? What is news?"
A small smile twitched at the ends of Bunny's whiskers at North's enthusiasms as he shook his head. "Nothing, just a question." Pause. "Kind of about Jack."
"Oh?" Huge black eyebrows disappeared onto snowy hair as North spoke. "What did he do? I thought he was on bed behavior?"
"He is," Bunny assured him. "Uh, can I come in?"
North gestured for Bunny to enter, Bunny's large feet sending vibrations through the floor as he hoped in, closing the door behind him. "It's something else."
"Then say that 'something else'!" North exclaimed, making had movements to accompany his speech. "Why you do sneaky-sneaky, like a bandit?"
Bynny shot an irritated look at North and shifted his weight to his right foot, seemingly hesitating. "It's something that's been bugging me for a really long time, something icons never wrap my head around. It's just ... why did Jack help us? In the beginning, he didn't even WANT to be a Guardian, quote, 'You're all hard work and deadlines, and I'm snowballs and fun times."
"What are you saying, Bunny?" North's brow was furrowed thoughtfully, one large hand striking his beard absentmindedly.
"Jack had no reason to help us, other than 'Man in Moon says you will' and blackmailing him with his memories, but he could have gotten the latter - the only thing he cared about - by teaming up with Pitch. He didn't have to save the children of the world, don't even have to stay by our side for so long. He didn't attack us, although we'd ignored him for so long and I was always pretty terrible to him since the blizzard of '68. He could have frozen us all into ice cubes - he did it to the elves." Bunny stopped to inhale and ponder his next words. "I guess what I'm asking," he continued slowly, "is why he helped the children. He saved our sorry behinds, true, but he was mostly aiming to protect the children. He was so good with them, too, knew how to make them laugh and have fun, but he isn't have to bother. Their well-being didn't affect him; hell, most of ten couldn't even see him! So ... why?"
North was set for a while, fingers tapping on the table and the other had still stroking his beard as he thought, a distant look in his baby blue eyes.
"I think, Bunny," he said finally, dragging each word out carefully, a smile forming slowly with each syllable. "That is what makes Jack a true Guardian.
Bunny grinned. "I think you're right."