Yes, I managed to get a chapter out that wasn't late! Sorry if this chapter isn't the best, I tried to do it quickly so it would be on time. I stayed up late finishing it which is why it's being posted so early in the morning. Anways, thank you for reviewing Autobot-Fangirl0203 for reviewing. Enjoy!

"Ow!"

"Sorry!"

Flora sighed as she brought a tray of sandwiches and lemonade into the living room. The sight she was greeted with was not pleasant. Arrows was desperately trying to teach Jack how to dance, but to no prevail. Her room mate was practically pulling her hair out at the lack of improvement the Guardian of Fun had made in the last few hours. Said winter spirit didn't look much better, his eyebrows were knit in concentration and he looked like he was in pain because of the stiff dress shoes Arrows had forced onto his dirty feet.

Arrows looked up at Flora in relief when she saw the food. "Oh thank god, I was this close to tearing Jack in half." Jack looked at her appalled, but she didn't notice. "Let's take a break and eat before we continue this torture."

"Hey!" Jack cried offended. "I'm not that bad! I blame your lousy teaching skills." Arrows stared at him with daggers as eyes as he mumbled something about shoes.

Flora giggled at their silly little argument. "You guys are so silly. Come on, eat up before it gets cold!" The tired pair of spirits grabbed sandwiches and began munching on them happily.

Jack groaned as he finished off his sandwich and collapsed into a overstuffed chair. "Man I'm tired. You sure are taking North's orders seriously Arrows." Arrows rolled her eyes and smiled as he massaged his own feet.

"Stop being such a drama queen. I'm just trying to save your sorry ass from making a complete fool of yourself." Arrows laughed when Jack pouted at her comment.

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It took the two young spirits another three hours of practising for Jack to finally be able to make it through a song without stepping on his partners feet. Even then though, he still wasn't anywhere close to being good at slow dancing.

"Good job, you're actually getting better." Arrows stated as she adjusted his arm position.

Jack smiled cockily and held his head up higher. "Well, of course I have." Arrows scoffed at that.

Before she was given a chance to shoot Jack a comeback, Flora ran into the room with a huge smile mounted onto her face. "Guys, you need to get dressed up for the ball!" She cried excitedly, pulling her fellow spirits out of the living room and into the hallway. She turned to look at them, with her perfect smile still in place. "Jack, I think North has something for you to wear, sadly I didn't have time to make you a suit. As for you Arrows, I made you a dress while you two were practicing. It's waiting in your room for you. Now, go get ready you two!" Flora dismissed them and Jack flew over to North's while Arrows ran upstairs to her room.

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When Arrows ran into her room, she was greeted with the sight of a gorgeous gown laid out on her bed. It was simple, yet elegant. It was a white dress with a pink skirt. The front part of the skirt ended just above her knees while the back went down to her ankles. There was a red bow that separated the white top from the pink bottom. Arrows smiled as she undressed and quickly put the dress on. How her best friend was able to make her such a beautiful dress in such short time was beyond her, but she figured that she shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth.

"Hurry up Arrows, we're going to be late!" Flora called up from downstairs. Arrows slipped her red converse onto her feet and ran downstairs.

Flora was waiting at the door with a beautiful dress on too. Hers was a soft green that went down to the floor with colourful jewels that spread out the farther down they went. Her friend's hair was down up in a side braid and she was practically bouncing off the walls from excitement.

When she saw her friend come down, she practically squealed. "Oh, you look wonderful Arrows!" Flora cried.

"Thanks, you look really nice yourself. And fantastic job on the dress by the way, it's really awesome!" She smiled as she and Flora walked out of the house and into the garden. Arrows groaned at the thought of having to fly all the way the the North Pole for the third time today. "Can we please take the carriage, though? My wings are still sore from the flights from earlier."

Flora giggled and nodded her head. The two of them skipped over to the back of the house where there stood a old fashioned carriage, the sort that a queen would ride around in on special occasions. The carriage itself was quite odd, actually. It was white with cherub statues on the four corners on top of it and vines ran along the sides of it. In front of it, there were two animals that were attached to it. One was a mighty brown buck, with antlers that branched out in all different directions. The other one was a great white pegasus, with great feathery wings and a flowing mane that shined golden in the dimming sunlight

The two female spirits climbed into the carriage and it immediately took off in the direction of North's workshop.

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"I'm not wearing that."

Bunny sighed at the childish guardian. North had told him to find a suit for Jack to wear to the ball, and it was proving to be a much more difficult task then anticipated. The spirit of winter refused to try on any of the suits that he showed him. He even had the nerve to roll his eyes at a few of them.

"Bunny. . ." Tooth warned. Luckily, he had help, though. His good friend, the Tooth Fairy, agreed to help when he told her his seemingly impossible task. In fact, she seemed overjoyed to help. She smiled at Jack and went to the wardrobe to see the other suits. The Guardian of Memories pulled out a plain white dress shirt with a blue bow-tie. "How about this?" Jack blinked at it and exploded int laughter.

"You don't seriously think I'm going to wear that, do you?" Jack said in between laughter.

Bunnymund rubbed his temples and took a deep breath like how Tooth taught him to. He looked Jack in the eye and threw up his arms in defeat. "Fine! If you're so picky of what you're gonna wear, why don't you choose it yourself?"

"Okay, I will." Jack answered. He marched over to the wardrobe and started scanning the clothes. While he did so, he mumbled. "No . . No . . Why would anyone even wear that? Nope . . Not that one . . Ah, now that's more like it!" He pulled out cream dress pants and a navy blue button-up shirt.

Tooth smiled at the clothes and nodded. "That's really nice Jack." She glanced at the wall clock and smiled. "You better change quickly, there isn't a lot of time left!" With that said, the female guardian left, with Bunnymund at her heels.

After they left, Jack took to work on putting the clothing on. He refused to wear shoes, though. They could force him to wear a suit, but they couldn't force him to wear shoes. When he was dressed in his classy outfit, he went to the mirror mounted on the wall and messed his hair up a bit so it looked the way he liked it to look. Satisfied with his appearance, he walked down the hall and around a few corners to the ballroom where the dance was being held.

The first thing he noticed when he walked into the vast room was how many people there were. With just one glance around the room, Jack could tell that more than just the spirits that were at the meeting were there. There were Guardians, spirits, yetis, elves, Jack even thought he was a few faeries in the mix.

The second thing he noticed were what the people were wearing. Most of them were wearing fancy suits and fluffy dresses that made girls trip when they walked. Jack felt under dressed in just a pair of slacks and a dress shirt. But before he could feel too bad about what he was wearing, he felt a shy tap on his shoulder.

He turned around to find his good friend Arrows standing there, looking as if she wanted to go hide in a corner. Jack smirked "I guess she isn't that into parties," He guessed.

"Hey Arrows." The Guardian of Fun greeted her with a friendly voice.

"Hey Jack." She replied and he could practically see the weights getting lifted off her shoulders. "Flora must have left her or something," Jack wondered, there weren't any other reasons he could think of that would make her come over to him like that.

An awkward silence enveloped the two seemingly young spirits until Jack unceremoniously cleared his throat. "So, um, you look nice tonight." He rubbed the back of his neck, a bad habit that always makes an appearance when the spirit of winter is nervous.

Arrows looked down at her dress and started playing with the skirt. "Yeah, Flora made it for me when we were practising." She looked up at her friend and smirked. "Hopefully when you dance you won't make a fool of yourself by being as bad as you were at my house." And with that the awkward air between the two was gone, melted like snow in spring.

Jack scoffed. "Oh please have a little faith in me! And you're the one who taught me, so if I mess up badly then your the one to blame." He smiled as he teased her.

She playfully rolled her eyes and her lips curved upwards into a gentle smile. "Well then don't mess up and we'll both be happy." They laughed as silence hugged the duo again. Arrows' ears perked up when she heard a slow song start to play. It was one of her favourite songs, I Won't Give Up by Jason Mraz. She started humming along and blushed when she noticed Jack looking at her.

He looked down at his feet as he shuffled them a bit before meeting her gaze again. The cocky Guardian of Fun and spirit of winter nervous? That wasn't something you saw everyday.

"Hey, do you want to dance?" He asked and Arrows was at a loss of words. He wanted to dance with her? Why? Probably just because they were close and practically every other person or creature in the room were dancing with someone else.

"Sure." Arrows finally said and he led her onto the dance floor. The Jack put his hands on her hips without hesitation and she lazily put her arms around his neck. They started turning slowly in circles like they had done at her house and like they had done in her dream.

The pair didn't talk for awhile, they didn't feel they needed to and felt that it would ruin whatever it was that was happening. But, Jack spoke just when the silence was bordering the line that passed from serenity to awkwardness.

"So, how are you?" He asked almost as quietly as a whisper. It was a pretty silly question, but for some reason it seemed to fit into the situation.

Arrows smiled. "I'm good, how are you?"

"For a guy that was just dead, I'm doing pretty
good." The two laughed.

They didn't talk for another little bit, instead they just danced around in the rhythmic circles and managed to not bump into any of the other people dancing. Arrows saw Flora smiling at her from outside the dance floor, and she waved a little to her.

Jack cleared his throat for the second time that night. "So, I hear that you were with me a lot when I was in the infirmary. Did you actually visit me that much?" It was a harmless question, but it still made Arrows' face flush a light pink.

"Yeah, I was worried about you. I mean, if you didn't save me from the dust you probably wouldn't have died." She felt Jack shift slightly. "Thank you for that by the way, I don't think I've gotten around to saying that to you yet."

Jack chuckled lightly and hazel eyes met oceans of blue. "I'm happy I saved you, though. I don't think I would be able to live with myself if I knew that I let you die while I lived."

They stopped spinning and the pair of spirits flushed violet and pink. Jack looked around the room in a desperate attempt to not look at his friend. "Is that true?" She asked him simply.

He met her gaze again and chuckled before he swallowed, making his Adam's apple bob. "Yeah, it is."

They looked at each other for a few seconds before Arrows could see him slowly leaning towards her. And she was leaning towards him, and they were inches away . . .

Suddenly, she felt someone pulling her back and upwards into the air.

"Arrows!" was the last thing she heard before she was pulled through a window and into the freezing Northern air.

She just had enough time to see a familiar set of red eyes glinting with malice before she blacked out.

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