After the lawyer wished her to get well and left, Lizzie wanted those kids in her room, immediately.
"Yea, I mean we always knew." Said Jamie with a shrug
"You knew?! What do you mean you knew? I don't know if you guys have noticed but I'm not the motherly type. I'm 321 years old! Practically 21!" She exclaimed
Jamie stood in front of her with Sophie who had a neon pink cast on her right arm. They looked down and frowned.
"Come on guys, what's wrong?"asked Jack
"We didn't think you'd want us. I mean you seem pretty upset about it. I guess we just miss our mom. " Said Jamie a little hesitant on the word mom.
Lizzie sighed and exchanged looks with Jack and his odd brown hair. She knew what it was like to lose someone she loved. Wait, that's it, it was happening again. The past repeating itself. She lost Ms. Bennett, someone she loved! She knew what would come next. She hid her worried expression.
"Alright guys, come on up." She said as she patted the end of her bed. Jamie pushed Sophie atop and then got on. Lizzie took both of their hands and held them.
"I love you guys, you know that? I'd die for you. I would be happy to be to take care of you as soon as I get out of this hospital... But I can't..." She didn't want to say what would happen so she said something else.
"It's Pitch, he's back and having you two will get you in danger, so do you have a friends house you can stay at?" She asked.
He nodded
"Good and hey," she said as she lifted his chin. "It's gonna be okay, I miss her too." She said as she pulled both of them into a hug.
"Now go take Sophie and call his mom."
He took Sophie and walked out of the room.
"Hi Bunny..." said little Sophie as she walked out.
Bunny watched Sophie walk out and then back at the ground, glaring. What was his problem?
-Two days later-
Tooth came back from Lizzie's castle with a change of clothes, in fact the only pair that wasn't covered in blood. Just her old tank top and skinny jeans with boots. Then Tooth tossed in a leather jacket just for fun. The guardians waited in the lobby as she got ready.
She walked past the mirror next to her bed but stopped and rushed back. She hasn't gotten a good look at herself lately at all. She looked deathly pale and she had little circles under her eyes. She looked at her hair. It looked like its normal wavy self not to mention the large streaks of brown hair in it! She gasped and took a step back. Even though she had a little bit left, She needed to get her powers back pronto. The longer she was powerless the more she would start to turn into a human. Then came the risk of her getting hypothermia again. Her thoughts were yet again interrupted by violent coughing.
"Ugh *cough* god- *cough* aw dammit." She complained with her coughing finally ending. Jack left his staff in the room so she grabbed that before she left and pretended it was a walking stick in the hallways. She made her way to the lobby and saw that Jack was the only one sitting there.
"The others went to go get the slei- car, they went to go and get the car." He said with a nervous laugh.
"Nice save."
She sat down and handed him his staff which immediately lit up with blue swirls to his touch. He dropped it quickly.
"Maybe I should hold on to that." She said bending over and picking it up. A little girl in a wheelchair rolled up next to her carrying a bag of sunflower seeds. Her head was completely clear of hair and she had an IV plugged in her wrist. Her blue eyes were the only touch of color. She looked about 8.
"Why are you here?" She asked Lizzie
Lizzie looked over to her and smiled. "I was in a car accident... Are you here for chemo?" She asked
"Yes, it's my third time." She said with pride.
"What's your name sweetheart?"
"Emily." She said "I've got brain cancer, I like your hair."
"Thanks, I just got it done." She scoffed
"I wish I had hair again."
"Well I think your still beautiful without it."
"I'm not, I'm ugly. That's what all the boys say at school. And I'm probably never gonna be the same again." Emily sighed
Lizzie looked at the sunflower seeds in Emily's lap and an idea popped in her head.
"You see this seed?" She asked as she leaned over and plucked one out if the bag.
"This seed is just a regular seed. Nothing special about it. That's what others think no?" She said as she flipped it over in her hand.
"But on the inside..." She said with the seed now in between her index finger and her thumb, she focused on the seed and charmed it with the little magic she had left.
The tip of the seed cracked, then it blossomed into a huge sunflower as big as the palm of her hand.
"Comes something beautiful..." Lizzie finished
Emily gasped and clapped at the trick. Lizzie placed the blossomed seed in Emily's hand.
"You gotta be like that seed Emily, you can't care what anyone else thinks about you because it's what's on the inside that counts, okay?"
Emily nodded. "Are you an angel?" She asked
"Let's just say... That I'm a guardian, I look after children." Lizzie smiled
"Hey, it's here." Said Jack from behind her now standing.
"Okay." She replied
Emily looked at Jack and gasped. She whispered into Lizzie's ear.
"Yes that is Jack Frost."
*whisper whisper*
"Yes the one from the song"
*whisper*
"No he does not nip at people's noses and he won't do it to you." She said now looking at Emily.
Lizzie stood up with the staff and Emily sat up in her wheel chair and hugged her around the waist which she returned.
"Bye Emily!" She hollered as she walked out of the door with Jack. It was lightly snowing.
"I thought only the sun could make stuff grow." Said Jack
"It's a star remember?"
"Ah, yea, sorry."
They walked to the woods where Jack said they were and there was no one there but Sandy. The two waved.
"Sandy where is everybody?" Asked Jack
Sandy formed a sand image above his head. A nightmare.