A God's Princess
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A God's Princess
Twenty-Three: Shovels & Mistletoes
The next morning Jacqueline leaves to deliver snow, because even though she gave nice winter day the day before she knew some places were schedule for a blizzard and she needed to do that. She couldn't help the smile that would come to her face. Her last stop for the day was Burgess and she tended to always leave it last.
She arrived in the town and saw the believers playing around in the snow. Jack grabbed a snowball and threw it at Jaime.
"Started a snowball fight without me." she says.
"Jack!" they tell her.
"Hi guys!" she tells them.
"How you been?" Monty asks her.
"Fine and all of you?" she asks them.
"Great." They reply to her.
"So, what have you been up too?" Jaime asks.
"Oh you know spreading snow here and there." she tells them. "So, less talking and more playing." She tells them and picks up a snowball and hits some of them getting them to laugh. She plays with the kids for a most of the day until they are called inside. When she makes sure all of them are there she leave toward New York.
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She arrives in New York to see Loki already there.
"Where have you been?" he asks her.
"I wasn't with my boyfriend, I was in Burgess playing with the kids." She tells him because A.) she wouldn't be able to lie in the first place and B.) She wanted her brothers to know that she was dating Bunny.
Loki looked at his little sister and could see the happiness in her face.
"He does realize that if he breaks your heart he will have the Royal Family of Asgard after him…"
"And the Avengers." Tony cuts in.
"I know." Jacqueline tells them both.
"So Snow White you have a boyfriend." Tony says.
"We barely started and no don't make a big deal." Jacqueline says because she really doesn't want to scare Bunny off.
"I heard from Thor's manly murmuring that you began to date the Bunny of Eggs, so that means it's the Easter Bunny." Tony says and Jack blushes. "Oh it so means that, well good for you."
"Oh you guys are not going to make a big deal about this right?" Jack asks hopeful and turns to Loki.
"We are not." Loki says and throws a look to Tony.
"Fine we're not." Tony says with a smile and leaves.
"I saw the smile Tony!" Jack yells after him.
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Jack had reasons to be worried about that smile. She just didn't know it; she left to deliver her snow the next day which left two over-protective brothers free of time. Loki and Thor were in the tower in the living room looking at each other.
"We shall talk to him today." Thor said.
"Of course we are." Loki said. They knew where Bunny lived it wasn't that hard to figure it out. So Loki did a spell to open the portal straight to the Warren.
When they arrived they had their 'Big Brother' stances on. One that they would use against the Easter Bunny at the moment. Though they were going to be careful as well they wouldn't want an angry Jacqueline thrown their way. They wanted to be dramatic and so Thor conjured a rainstorm in the Warren. Bunny who knew his Warren too well and knew that this time of year it didn't get showers especially not like this one, he went to find out.
"Who is…" Bunny didn't get to finish when he saw Thor and Loki standing there. He had a feeling he would get a visit from them soon but he didn't know it would be this soon.
"Aster, I believe we need to talk." Loki said.
"Aye'm not leavin' her." Bunny told them. Thor and Loki looked at Bunny and saw the determination in his eyes.
"Settle down Aster we have not come to make you leave our sister." Thor said but his had his hammer raised.
"You must understand that we have known Jacqueline since the moment she was born and we are not just speaking of her immortal life, we are talking her mortal." Loki said. Bunny stared at both of them. It was rare for them to be so involved in mortal's lives. But for two Gods to pay attention to someone in their mortal life it seemed like Jacqueline was way more important than anyone had every believed.
"Aye understand." He told them.
"Jacqueline is important and you probably got this talk from North already." Loki said. Bunny had indeed gotten the talk from North it hadn't been as scary as he now felt at the moment. Thor and Loki got really close toward Bunny and Loki had one of his knives and Thor had Mjolnir in his hand.
"Yes." He told them, he heard thunder in the Warren and a lot of his egglets were running to hide.
"So let's come to an understanding." Loki said.
"Shall you break our sister heart we shall skin you, I believe Father will like a new rug in the Palace." Thor said. Bunny looked at him.
"Look at it this way you will be surrounded by royalty and probably Jacqueline will step on you." Loki said that told him he had spent too much with Darcy and Tony.
"Aye will no' break her heart." He told them.
"Aye you give us your word, but sometimes it can be broken." Thor told him.
"Oi, we will probably get into fights but aye won't break her heart." He tells them because Bunny knows that relationships have bumps in the road. He had seen Tooth and North get into fights it was not pretty the mini-fairies could glare almost holes into North's head if it was possible.
"That is the true, but if you break her heart or cheat on her we will come get you and there will be nowhere you can hide that we won't find you, Heimdallr will find you." Loki tells him. Bunny pales when he sees Thor's hammer swirl.
"Be afraid for the Avengers love Jacqueline and they will hunt you down too." Thor tells him.
"The Avenger's." Bunny says he knew Jacqueline was living with the group but he didn't know. The two Gods give him a look and Loki opens the portal and they leave but not before scaring Bunny by thumping a lightning strike close to his feet if he hadn't jumped away.
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A few hours later Jacqueline goes to the Warren and she sees that the floor is a bit wet and she wonders why? She gets a bit closer and she sees the ground scorched and she knows only one thing that can make that kind of mark.
"Aster!" she screams because it kind of worries her that her brothers had done something. "Aster!"
"Sheila aye'm right here." He says. Jacqueline sees him and goes to hug him tight.
"Are you alright, they didn't do anything bad to you right?" she asks him.
"I'm fine, they just gave me the shovel talk it was expected." he tells her and he finds it nice that she cares like this.
"Sorry, they didn't get Tony in here did they?" she asks.
"No." Bunny told her.
"Good." She tells him. Bunny gives her a soft kiss and she smiles.
"So, wat brings ya here." He says with a smile.
"Came to visit you." She says. "If that's alright you're not busy are you." She asks him.
"Just painting some eggs want to help?" he asks.
"Okay." She says and they walk to the clear eggs so she can help him. They paint mostly is Jacqueline painting the coating and Bunny does the designs.
"Will you be coming to the Pole on Christmas?" Bunny asks.
"Yes, I'm going to split my time from the Pole and Avengers Tower the two days." She tells him.
"Really." He tells her.
"Yes, I have two families I get to spend the holidays with and I'm not going to give one of them up." Jack tells him and Bunny smiles.
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Later after many shared kisses Jacqueline left to Avenger's Tower and when she arrived she throws a pair of snowballs at both Thor and Loki's heads and hugs them too.
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The day finally came it was Christmas Eve and Avenger's Tower came alive with Christmas Songs since the morning. Clint had begged JARVIS to cut the music off but Tony had pretty much ordered it so. The Avengers first had to deal for something with PR for the group and then something for S.H.I.E.L.D. before they were left alone which was around 2 o'clock. They invited to their group Coulson, Dr. Selvig, Hill and Fury for the Christmas Eve celebration they would have. They had to finish preparing for Christmas; they were putting up stockings when Darcy looked at Jacqueline.
"Hey, Snow your close to the Big Man, how many presents have you gotten?" Darcy asked. The rest of the Avengers turned to Jack and she looked at them.
"I hold the record for being in the naughty list." She tells them.
"No way." Tony says surprised. "I should hold that record."
"I don't think it's supposed to be something your proud of." Coulson tells him. Tony still high-fives Jacqueline for it and he smiles.
"Still awesome." Darcy says.
"Do you think you might get a present from the Big Man this year?" Pepper asks.
"I don't know, but I am going out with him today." Jacqueline tells them.
"So that's why you're leaving us early." Steve tells her. Jacqueline and Steve hear the other Avengers gasp and they look at them.
"Ooh Snow and Capsicle look at that." Tony says, they both look up to see the mistletoe hovering on top of them. They both blushed, Tony had told everyone that he had a floating mistletoe for the holidays and that people would have to follow the rules. Jacqueline and Steve look at each other and Jack just moves and kisses his cheek that gets Steve to blush.
"So Clint are we baking the cookies?" Jacqueline asks him.
"Yep." Clint says.
While Clint and Jacqueline baked sweets for the entire population in the tower and for Santa the others were worrying about the food. It was a bit more organized than Thanksgiving and now they had more hands to help well Director Fury didn't help he just stood there. The Flying Mistletoe of Doom had already caught Thor and Jane, Thor and Loki (Darcy and Tony took pictures), Jane and Bruce, Steve and Darcy, Jacqueline and Fury (Tony took pictures and wouldn't stop laughing), Tony and Pepper, Pepper and Coulson, Fury and Hill (Tony took pictures), Natasha and Clint, Tony and Steve (Darcy and Jack took pictures) so far.
When they finished the baking and they were going to hold the food for a while.
"Okay now that cooking is done, Snow White and I have a surprise for you guys so go change into something warm." Tony told everyone. Everyone gave Jack and Tony suspicious looks but did as they were told.
When they were changed into something warm they followed Tony and Jack to one of the empty rooms in the tower.
"What is this for Stark, Frost?" Fury asked.
"Well none of us have been able to get out enjoy the snow because we get mugged and as much as I enjoy the attention…"
"I thought you guys would like to play in the snow." Jack says and opens the door. Everyone looks inside to see the room filled with snow and there are even trees inside and rocks making it a wonderland just for them.
"Cool!" Clint says getting inside. Everyone goes inside and looks at the snow. Jacqueline gets one of her snowballs and hits Bruce on his face everyone freezes and then he begins to laugh. Thor follows Jacks lead and begins to throw snow, Tony is next than Steve, Jack has to his Natasha who catches the snowball and sends it her way. The Avengers and everyone else begins to pelt each other with snowballs there are no teams and is free for all.
"I can't believe this one of the most powerful having fun like children." Fury tells Coulson.
"Well it is Christmas sir." Coulson says.
"Think of it as training." Jack says and hits Coulson that gets him inside the fight.
When the fight is done everyone moves to do snow angels. Than Jacqueline and Loki talk and hills are coming off the ground, where Tony now gets why Jacqueline wanted sleds. The team moves to riding down the hills with laughs. The Flying Mistletoe of Doom has already gotten victims too Darcy and Loki (who liked the kiss more than they will admit), Tony and Jack, Coulson and Steve, Jane and Steve.
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They all move to get ready for the dinner and all of them are in the high. When they get back to the large dining table Steve is the one that can get them to their prayer before they dig into the food. After the food is done they move to the living room and lay around they had just began to trade stories and watch Christmas movies. Steve told them of his Christmas, Coulson also shared, Darcy told them too and Jane. Then came a question.
"So Jackie; Rudolf is he real?" Clint asks. Everyone turns to Jack and she blushes blue.
"Yes." She tells them.
"I saw that blush there is a story there." Tony says.
"Were you involved in that?" Steve asks.
"Maybe." Jacqueline tells them.
"That is a yes, story time." Tony says to get smack lightly by Pepper.
"You don't have to tell us." Pepper says but she is curious like everyone else. Jack shrugs and gets her story teller on.
"Let me see, well that particular Christmas Eve, some Spring and Summer Sprites tried to take over my season." She tells them.
"Wait the Sprites?" Clint asks.
"You've seen Jacqueline's Sprites, the other Elemental have Sprites of their own." Loki tells them, Jacqueline clears her throat and continues the story.
"Well I don't get along with them or the Spring and Summer Spirits, very well because they tended to beat me up a lot and got me in some trouble." She says and everyone sees how she is lost in the story they were surprised Jacqueline got bullied. "So I tried to sneak inside the Pole again…"
"What do you mean again?" Coulson asked and Jacqueline smiles.
"I always tried to get into the Pole before now, so anyway that day I was going to sneak in I mean it was Christmas Eve so Phil would have been too busy to notice me inside the shop and I could get in."
"Phil?" Clint asks looking at Coulson.
"The Head Yeti, I always tried to sneak into the Pole it had become much of a game and me trying to see how strong the Pole defenses were for them. That and Phil is pretty nice when he wasn't kicking me out of the Pole, so anyways I tried to sneak in and I kind of made some elves slip and Phil found me and took me out before North caught me so once I was out I was debating whether I would go to Asgard or deliver snow." Jack told them. "So I didn't notice the sprites come at me at the time, so when they did I attacked back the thing was that they were saying something I got angry and I created a blizzard to stop the Sprites from attacking me but I didn't realize that I actually blocked a lot of the sight for North. I tried to stop it but as I saw in the sky I saw Rudolph heading the sleigh it was cool. I did get scolded by Phil for the blizzard few months later. So that is what happened."
"Wait did you tell Phil that you were attacked?" Steve asked.
"No." Jacqueline told them she looks at the clock and sees that is eight. She stands and looks at them. "Well guys I have to go see you guys tomorrow."
"Be careful Jacqueline." Loki and Thor tell her.
"He's making a list and checking it twice, gonna find out who's been naughty and nice." She sings.
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Jacqueline arrives at the Pole to see all the Yetis moving and also the Elves. She looks to see Tooth flying there with her fairies and Jacqueline's Sprites are there too.
"Jacqueline you're here." Tooth says.
"Yeah, I said I would come, where is North?" she asked.
"Mate is freakin' out about the list." Bunny tells her and she smiles at him.
"Hi Bunny." She says and goes straight to his arms. Tooth can't help but smile.
"You guys are going to keep watch?" Jack asks.
"Yes, Sandy is already out there." Tooth tells her and she gasps a little. Bunny and Jacqueline look at her before she points up and they both see the mistletoe that one of the fairies is carrying. Bunny kisses Jacqueline and they both are smiling in the kiss.
They all help North load up the sleigh and are in their positions to go spread Christmas cheer. Jacqueline is jumping on her toes already. North just laughs.
"North please be careful." Tooth tells him.
"I vill." He tells her with a smile and hugs her before she sees the mistletoe that one of Jacqueline's Sprites has above their head and North laughs before he kisses Tooth sweetly. Jacqueline kisses Bunny before she follows North to the sleigh.
"Let's go." Jacqueline says. North gets the reigns and they get into the air.
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Jacqueline is very excited as she delivered snow as they visit the town and states. It is also a bit exhausting and she is helping with the guiding with the sleigh. North brings her cookies and they share.
"Tis fun Da" he asks her.
"Yes it is." She tells him. "Who's next?" she asks.
"Burgess." North tells her. They arrive and Jack makes it special. Sandy has done his job and everyone is already sleeping. Jack gets her gift from her bag that is for Jaime from her pocket and North nods before he slides into the houses.
When North comes back he has a small present and gives it to Jacqueline.
"Jaime vants you to have it." he tells her.
"Okay, so let's continue." She says with a smile.
They ride all over the world even Avengers Tower and she laughs but quiets down as well. She knows Sandy must have to be really working in the Tower just so Natasha and Clint wouldn't wake up.
"You made cookies." North tells her.
"I promise to make some once I get to the Pole." She tells him. Bunny and Tooth are telling them if something is wrong as they travel.
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When they finally arrive to the Pole both of them are tired from spreading the gifts and snow around the world. Bunny and Tooth have them before the Yetis are taking the sleigh and putting the reindeer before they could have their own celebration.
"Maybe both of ya should sleep." Bunny tells them.
"Nay, we shall celebrate." North says.
"Plus I promise to bake cookies." Jacqueline tells Bunny's fur.
"Sheila ya can barely walk." Bunny tells her, he knows he is not going to win so he just carries her bridal style to the kitchen. Where thanks to the magic she can make the cookie faster and they leave the kitchen faster.
"Merry Christmas!" North says. They first go to have Christmas breakfast and the table is filled with a lot of food and the entire are laughing happy that the holiday went without troubles. Jack laughs with her friends and boyfriend. All the Guardians gather around the main room and smile, as some of the hot chocolate is brought out. North puts a little vodka on his and Jacqueline cools hers down.
"Presents!" Tooth cheers.
"Sometimes aye don' even know who gets more excited ya or North." Bunny tells her. Jacqueline touches his shoulder lightly and he smiles before he put his arm around her. Jacqueline cuddles with him.
"Sandy are you tired too?" Jack asks. Sandy nods his head but smiles; they both looks up to see another mistletoe there and Jack kissed his cheek that got him chuckling.
"Fairies have caught us too." North said. Jacqueline laughs.
"I got caught under the mistletoe way to many times this year." Jack tells him.
"Now presents." North says. Some of the Yetis come and drop some presents on all the Guardians laps. "Enjoy." Everyone opens their presents. Tooth got a bracelet and she kisses North as a thank-you. Sandy gets a new book; Bunny gets something for his Warren. Jack opens her gift and she has a set of snow-globes.
"To travel faster." North tells her.
"Thank-you." She says hugging him. Tooth gave them presents which tend to be something for their teeth. Sandy gives them a bag of dream-sand for them. Bunny gives them all herbs for them for teas. But he doesn't give that to Jack; he gives her a little egg.
"Open it." he tells her. Jacqueline does and she sees that inside is a necklace of an Easter egg.
"Oh, Aster is really pretty." She tells him. She puts it on and looks at Aster before giving him a kiss. Jacqueline gives them their gifts. She gives North a polish for his swords; she gives Sandy a sculpture made of sand and ice. She gives Tooth a replica of her and some of her fairies. She than gives Bunny the last gift. Bunny opens it and he is shocked inside is a boomerang made of a wood he doesn't recognize.
"It looks beautiful, Sheila." He tells her.
They all lay down and North falls asleep, which is normal. Jack knows she has to leave. She gets up from Bunny's arms and stretches.
"Ya leaving?" Bunny asks.
"Yeah." Jack says. She puts her presents in one of the bags. She is about to leave and Bunny wraps his arms around her so they can kiss in private. Jacqueline kisses him back and the kiss gets a bit deeper Bunny licks her bottom lip and she gasps. They both kiss and before he lets go she has a bit bruise lips and Bunny chuckles a bit.
"Merry Christmas Bunny." She says.
"Merry Christmas Jacqueline." He says. She kisses his nose and Bunny laughs.
"I'll see you later." She tells him.
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Jacqueline arrives to Avengers Tower and everyone is already waiting for her.
"Snowflake your home." Tony says. "Hurry up we've been waiting for you." Pepper hits him with her elbow.
"Hey guys." She tells them.
"So let's open presents!" Clint says. Everyone began to pass around the gifts so they wouldn't fight.
Everyone got their gifts and began to rip into them like no one else. Thor was very happy with his gifts and he told everyone. Loki got his gifts and he was thankful, Jacqueline couldn't keep the smile of her face. Steve felt happy about being with a family surrounded like this. Jane was shocked by her gifts especially Thor's which was a bracelet with a hammer there, Darcy got gift cards for her Ipod, Bruce got books and a portrait. Clint got new arrows and Natasha some knives, Tony got new ties, sunglasses and a machine he could destroy and bring back better, Pepper got gift cards.
Everyone were happy with their gifts and it was all warm and fuzzy for everyone. Jacqueline was able to go to sleep her exhaustion of the night before.
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