Jack's piercing blue eyes never left him as they moved to the closest living room area in Santoff Clausen.
Jack had once again been cleaned up, his teeth beginning to decay for whatever reason. Grunting Jack focused his Ice over the top of his teeth, crafting a set of retainer like devices in order to slow the decomposition.
Bunny stood by the fireplace, looking anywhere but at Jack. Tooth's gaze fluttered between the two as North sat down in his armchair.
"Jack. Glaring daggers at Bunny will not change what happened. Now tell me how long ago did this start happening?" North asked, finally pulling Jack's attention away from the flinching Pooka warrior. Jack pondered the question for what seemed like an age.
"What year…Is it?" He asked back, his voice gaining some strength upon his useage of it. It was still coarse and croaky but at least it was an improvement on not being able to speak at all.
"2012." North replied. His age was getting to him again. He'd even forgotten the year.
The decaying child thought for a few moments, his eyes fixed on the fire held within the fireplace. Scenes flashed before his eyes as he struggled to remember the exact time that the decay had begun occour.
"About two hundred and ….ninety nine years ago….started after the first year of my existence. I watched a doctor from a seaside fishing town…. patch up sailors and so I learnt how to patch myself up… I didn't realise it had fallen off until I looked down at my hand. It burned so much…like molten fire. The first time I did the stitching It hurt so much…. After about 100 years almost every part of my body had fallen apart all except for my head and torso… No the one part of my body that I never wanted to sever, was torn off when I was attacked by a moronic, freakish kangaroo creature known as Bunnymund. Shortly after the altercation between him and me, my body lifted my head up and sewed it back on. Over the rest of the days following, pretty much everything went to hell. My jaw fell off when I was biting something, my eye popped out of its socket, my ear fell off... It seems to be accelerating." Jack said slowly, taking breaks between sentances. At the end of his story, he rubbed his throat. Pulling his hand away, sections of skin pulled away with it, leaving behind the dark brown red flesh of his throat.
The room was silent as he finished his tale, watching as he made no reaction to the skin being pulled away. He just seemed to sigh in defeat.
"Jack…. Why did you not come to anyone sooner? Surely Mother Nature would have helped you. Did you not even try to ask Manny for assistance?" North asked, concern in his voice.
"I did ask Mother Nature… But she threw me aside as if I was a overused dog toy. Not worth her time. Not even worth helping. And Manny? He saw what was happening to me first, saw me completely falling to pieces, heard my cries for help. And did nothing." Jack snarled, looking right into North's eyes. Through the ragdoll like boys eyes Santa saw the attempts to get help, saw him being pushed away by Manny and Mother Nature as if some failed experiment , an abomination, that they threw away.
"Jack….Jack I'm sorry for almost killing you or harming you. You caused a storm on Easter Sunday in '68. And I just got so frustrated. Why?" Bunnymund asked slowly, moving closer to the Stitched boy.
"Mother Nature had just cast me away again. I was so desperate for help. The flesh of my legs had completely rotted. I could feel insects crawling on me, in me. I just wanted to be whole again. Her casting me away was the last straw. I went back to the place it where it all began and started a full on blizzard. I had no concept of time. Years felt like minutes to me. I let all my anger, betrayal and grief go into the storm. Animals and Humans alike died that day, but this was unknown to me when Miss Death came to town. Shortly after my little tantrum, as Death called it, The rabbit showed up. And what happened between us, you already know. "
The frozen boy looked around the room watching as each one of the guardians looked down avoiding his gaze. He went to yawn and his jaw tore off and landed on the floor. Rolling his eye, he reached down and picked it up. Sitting back up he realised that all eyes were back on him. Lifting it up to its usual place , he quickly snapped it back into place with a grunt. Bunnymund turned green again and even Tooth looked squeamish.
Jack sighed heavily, before saying
"One day, I hope that I will just fall asleep one day, and never wake up again."
Authors Note: Hi alll~! I do apologise for the delay! I've had a few virus's ransack my laptop so this got wiped a few times! But its all fixed now
Thankyou to all who I met at Supanova Perth! Our group went on stage and won Best Group in the Standard competition on Saturday. We were 50 Shades of Cosplay! XD
Divided will be updated soon. I have had to rewrite most of it, but it is on the way!
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