Again, I'm extremely sorry for the long wait, but it was the end of school and all and my mum forced me to go outside a lot :/ Anyways, here you go! And thank you Autobot-Fangirl0203 for reviewing! Now, to the story!
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"No!" Arrows screeched as North and Bunnymund grabbed the dead boy and ran as fast as they could to the infirmary. Everyone else watched in horror as the two Guardians carried Jack away with a desperate Arrows chasing after them. Jack can't die! Arrows screamed in her mind. He just can't! She was sobbing now. She didn't care who saw her. They would understand, wouldn't they? They all knew that the two young spirits were awfully close, of course she would be mourning for him!
They trio of the living with the dead Guardian of Fun burst through the infirmary's door and placed Jack on a empty bed carefully. North called over a yeti with a stethoscope slung around his neck and a white lab coat covering his furry chest. He said a few words to the yeti in a foreign language. The yeti looked down at Jack in disbelief and called over two more of his brothers.
The three yetis got to work on reviving Jack. They hooked him up to a machine with a bunch of tubes that brought different sorts of liquids to his body. The yeti that had been called over by North (his name was John from what it looked like on the name tag that was pinned to his lab coat) stepped away from the operation and looked over to North. He made a shooing motion and said something in a foreign language which North understood.
The kind old Guardian turned to Arrows with a forced smile on his face. "Dear child, we must leave Jack in the care of the yetis." Arrows was ready to argue but North put up his hand to silence her. "The yetis are good doctors, they will get him back. Do not worry. Now, come we must leave and check on the others." He started taking her arm to lead her away, but she pulled it back to her side in a huff.
"I'm not leaving Jack." She stated firmly. North looked at her and sighed as if he were taking care of a small child. He opened his mouth to speak, only to be cut off by the young spirit. "No, I am not going to leave Jack. I can help I can do something! I'm not going to just leave him." She said with power in her voice.
She backed up to stand beside Jack's bed, blocking the dead spirit from the two Guardian's views. North and Bunnymund looked at each other and came to a silent agreement. Each of them took one of Arrows' arms each and started dragging her out of the room.
She fought back, she had to stay with Jack. It wasn't an option, it was a fact. She was not going to leave him. She started kicking and flailing around, trying to get out of the two Guardian's grasps. It was impossible, they had grips as strong as clamps. "No!" She started yelling. "I can't leave him, I need to stay with him! No!" It wasn't working unfortunately, they were already dragging her down the hall to the globe room where the other spirits were.
"Dammit ya little twit, stop ya yellin'!" Bunny cried out in frustration as him and North placed Arrows in a chair in the globe room. "Yer gunna see yer boyfrien' soon enough." The two men watched her, making sure she wouldn't run back to Jack's infirmary room.
The two men simultaneously looked down as they felt a petite figure try to squeeze their way in between them. "Arrows!" Flora cried as she finally pushed through the two Guardians. "Are you alright, I heard screaming!" The spirit of nature cried as she started inspecting her best friend for any signs of damage.
Arrows chuckled at her friends concern. "Don't worry, I'm fine, just worried. For obvious reasons, though." Her eyes started getting misty as she remembered Jack's limp form. Flora saw it and handed her a handkerchief. She took it graciously.
The group of spirits watched as the spirit of love wept and sobbed and mourned for her dead friend. It seemed that she had cried for at least an hour before she felt a beefy hand on her shoulder. She wiped her nose with her sleeve and looked up at North, who had been the one to snap her out of her fit of tears. Oddly enough he was smiling a shimmering smile. It was obvious that he was overjoyed about something. Arrows wanted to slap him. Jack had just died and he was smiling. Did he even have a reason to be smiling that large?
Then the obvious reason of why the old Guardian was smiling hit her like a brick and she looked at him with hopeful eyes. A nod of confirmation was all she needed before she was out of her chair and tearing her way through the corridors to the infirmary room.
She burst through the door just in time to see the monitor of Jack's heart start moving. It wasn't much, but it was something. Jack's alive! Arrows thought to herself in relief as a smile of her own found its way to her mouth. She could see the subtle movement of his chest as he breathed and started crying again. This time though, the tears were because of happiness and relief instead of sadness. Jack was alive, and she had a damn good reason to be happy.
Flora, North and the other spirits arrived at the infirmary and saw Arrows hugging the boy that lived. They all smiled at the sight and left once again to let the two friends have their moment.
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Arrows ended up finding a chair in the room and moved it so it was beside Jack's bed. She ended up falling asleep as she sat by Jack's side, with his hand entwined with hers
She dreamed during that rest, for the first time in years. She dreamed she was in a palace made of white marble with gold statues and a ceiling made of stained glass, lighting the room in a rainbow of colours.
She stood on a balcony, with two grand staircases that led down to a vast dance floor, which was currently filled with men and women dressed in fancy outfits as they danced. She herself wore a light pink dress with white jewels adorning it. Her gown hit the floor with a small train. It was a truly lovely gown, but what really made her awestruck was her necklace. It was made of a silver chain that was so fine it was barely visible. On it hung a pendant of a rose. What made the necklace so breathe taking was that the rose was made entirely of ruby and emerald.
Arrows took her eyes away from her necklace (which she had taken off to get a better look at) and looked around the ballroom again. She could see a few people that she knew dancing together. She could see Toothiana dancing with North, Flora was dancing with Bunnymund, everyone was dancing with a partner. Except for her and as far as she could see, one other spirit. She felt a soft, almost shy tap on her shoulder. She turned around to see Jack awkwardly standing there in a white dress shirt and blue cape.
The female spirit smiled as Jack looked down at his bare feet. "Hey Jack." Arrows said in hopes of starting a conversation with him. He looked up at her and she almost laughed as a slight lavender colour covered the Guardian's entire face. He was blushing.
He cleared his throat and avoided eye contact with the spirit of love. "Hello Arrows." He said rather robotic, as if he didn't want to say it and was being forced to.
Jack cleared his throat again and opened his mouth to say something, only to cough loudly. This happened a few more times until Arrows rolled her eyes and spoke up. "Would you like to dance?" She could see the relief cover Jack's face like a veil and he laughed.
"Yeah, that would be nice." He held out his hand - which she took graciously - and led her down the stairs to the dance floor.
When they arrived in the crowd of dancing couples, Jack stiffened and began to blush a deep indigo. Once again, he cleared his throat and began looking around at the other dancing couples. They were all slow dancing, which meant that they would have to, too.
Arrows laughed as Jack's eyes widened and he looked back at her for help. The idiot didn't know how to slow dance. She took his left hand and held it up with their fingers entwined. His face became darker and she giggled. A goofy, lopsided smile found it's way to his lips and a matching one formed on her lips.
Next, she took his right hand and placed it on her hip. This made the cocky spirit's eyes widen and he tried to pull his hand back, but she held it there. He stopped fighting after a few moments and relaxed, his face becoming lighter, but not quite the snow-white that she was used to.
The pair was almost ready to begin their dance, but there was one more problem the spirit of love had to take care of. She moved closer to her dance partner so she could almost feel his chest move as he breathed. His face turned darker once again and he stepped backwards, away from her.
"C – can we not be so close?" He stammered when she moved against him once again.
His question made Arrows giggle. She leaned up and said into his ear: "No, it ruins the dance." Wow, where did that come from? Jack just laughed and rested his chin on her head in response.
The pair danced slowly in circles for a few minutes before Jack broke the silence. "This is nice." He said just above a whisper.
"Yeah, it is." Came Arrows muffled reply (it was muffled because she had her face rested against Jack's chest.) She opened her eyes to look up at Jack and was surprised to see that no one else was in the grand ballroom.
"Hey," She said. "Where is everyone?" Jack looked down at her.
"Shh, don't speak, you'll ruin the moment." He purred as he closed his eyes in serenity.
Something wasn't right, Arrows could feel it. That wasn't Jack's voice, it was someone else's. His eyes opened and they weren't his. They were Mor's. She stumbled away from Jack in shock. "Wake up, Arrows." He had spoken in the other voice again, it wasn't his.
Arrows could feel a pair of invisible hands rocking her slowly. "Wake up, it's time to go, Arrows." The voice spoke again, this time without using Jack as a puppet. "Arrows!"
The dream slammed shut like a book as the spirit of love was flung harshly back into reality.
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Arrows woke up in the same seat she had fallen asleep in, still beside Jack's hospitable bed. She looked at her arm and saw a delicate pair of hands placed on it, as if they had just shaken her awake (which they had.) She looked up and saw her best friend, Flora looking down at her with a concerned look on her face. The spirit of nature took her hands away and looked at Arrows hand, which was still interlocked with Jack's.
Arrows cleared her throat and gently pulled her hand from Jack's grasp. She heard him mutter something that sounded like a mumbled "no, don't go" in his sleeping state. She blushed and stood up from the comfortable chair.
She turned to Flora. "Is it time to go already?" She asked and Flora's eyes widened in shock.
"Arrows, already? You've been here for more than a day." Arrows jumped in shock and her brown eyes grew to the size of saucers.
"A day!" She shrieked. "I've only been sleeping for no more than a few hours, not a whole day!" She looked over to the clock on the wall, and to her surprise it said 5:28 pm. She had fallen to sleep at around 4:45 pm. They had been here for more than a day.
"Crap!" She screamed and started to leave. "The cherubs, who's giving them orders? I need to go make people fall in love!" She started fixing her clothing and made to leave, only to find Flora stopping her.
"Calm down! I've been to the cottage and I put Cupid in charge, he knows what to do." Arrows' shoulders sunk in relief. "And either way, you already got at least one person falling in love." Flora giggled and Arrows raised her eyebrow, she didn't get the joke.
Flora huffed. "Isn't it obvious?" Arrows just shook her head. "Oh for Manny's sake. Jack likes you! And you like him too."
The spirit of love's eyes widened. "H - he does not! A – and I don't like him! Gosh, we're just friends! I mean, yeah we're good friends and we're different genders and everything. But that doesn't mean we like each other in that way!" Arrows continued to argue against Flora and her roommate held up her hand to silence her.
The smaller spirit giggled and rolled her eyes at her friends arguing. "Considering when I came in here to wake you, you and Jack were holding hands and both of you were muttering each others name in your sleep, I find that hard to believe. You both like each other and you know it." Arrows looked at jack in surprise. They had been muttering each others names while they slept? Weird.
She heard Flora giggle and turned back to look at her, her face burning a deep red. "Anyways," The spirit of nature said. "Let's get going, you can visit your boyfriend later to see how he's going. Meet me in the hall afterwards." And with that her Flora walked out of the room and Arrows was left alone with the sleeping Guardian.
She stood there awkwardly for a few moments, avoiding looking at her friend. Does he actually like me? Arrows wondered. She laughed. No, he can have any spirit he wants, he wouldn't settle for me. I'm nothing compared to a Guardian. He couldn't like me. Why do I care so much? I shouldn't care this much. Do I like him? She shook her head. No, I don't. I mean he's cute and all and he's funny. She found herself smiling. And he is really nice. He always cares for kids, too and all. Arrows' found herself reaching down to brush some of his bangs out of his eyes. Her eyes widened. Stop! No don't do that! Don't think like that! She shook her head again and made to leave the room.
"Arrows." She heard his voice mumble from his bed. Her face lit up in a blush and she turned around to look back at her sleeping friend
"Good bye Jack. I'll be back soon, don't worry." With that she left the room to go meet up with Flora.
A goofy smile crept its way up to her mouth as she thought about her sleeping friend and the way he had said her name. Actually, maybe it isn't such a crazy idea.
Yeah, Arrows is confused and Jack is alive! Yay! Anyways, thank you for reading and I'll update soon, I promise! Feel free to review!