Okay, first of all, Ice Black will not be coming into this chapter... In fact, He will actually be coming in a couple more times before we really hit the Ice Black arc of the fic...
(The Ice Black Arc... cue jaws theme tune or some other dun dun duuuunnnnn/foreshadowing of evil events kind of music and you really have a creepy, dramatic title, eh?)

But this chapter is in response to some of you guys wanting to have a training room, as I mentioned in a recent chapter, and to wanting the fic to be more realistic in terms of Jack actually having weaknesses... (Hope I managed it without the characters going too OOC, but you will have to let me know?)
Oh, and thanks to rats xp for the fave and follow, and xXNeverEndingDreamXx for the follow!
Hope you enjoy!

Bunny blinked as he took in the huge room, in the old wing of Santoff Claussen, before turning to North.
"I only suggested this a coupl'a weeks ago... How d'ya get it done so fast, mate?"
North grinned, crossing his arms in satisfaction.
"You have eggs, I have yeti's. Is what you expected, da?"
Bunny nodded, taking in the training room.
Various climbing surfaces, including a rock wall, racks to hold various weapons, a sparring ring, gymnastics equipment, punching bags, sports equiptment, from skipping ropes to running machines... It had it all.
"Nah mate, it's better than I expected. But then, when ain't it, eh? Looks like it takes up half the wing...?"
North shrugged.
"Have not used area in may decades. No point in going to waste, da?"
"Damn straight... Ya do know that yer gonna have a hard job prying Frostbite away from the... well, everything, right?"
"Somehow, I think he will be just as distracted as recently. I fear Ice Black is becoming big problem..."
"Yeah... well then, I guess it's our job to distract him here and there, right mate?"
"Wrong. Christmas is very close, so distracting Jack is your job."
North grinned at the look on Bunny's face, and strolled out.
"Good luck, Bunny!"
Bunny sighed, rolling his eyes.
"Im gonna need it..."
Trying to make the guardian of fun have fun? Looks like he was gonna have his work cut out for him...
_

Jack sighed, as he leant against the wall, watching the Pooka finally seem to give in and do the same.
"Sorry Bunny... Im just not in the mood."
Sure the room was perfect and amazing and normally he would have spent hours there, but with everything that was going on, he was just too pre-occupied.
Bunny rolled his eyes.
"Mate, since when is the guardian of fun not in the mood for fun?"
"Since the guardian of fun started tracking down some one who likes to destroy stuff and try to get me framed for it..."
Bunny sighed.
"Okay, I can see why that might pout a bit of a damper on ya mood mate, but we're all worried about ya. And if ya've got as much information as us, ya know nothin. There's no point in worryin' about it til there is somethin' ya can do about it."
Jackr aised an eyebrow.
"That sounded halfway wise, furball..."
"What d'ya expect? Wisdom comes with age..."
Jack sighed, inwardly, then smiled, rolling his eyes and falling right into the trap the Pooka had set.
"Then let's see what ya got, old timer..."
Bunny grinned, as well, glad to see his plan worked. Jack was just so easy to manipulate sometimes... Even if he had willingly walked into it.
Whatever, Bunny was going to count it as a win.

A couple of hours later, they were both laughing as they competed in various activities.
Climbing, gymnastics, sparring, running, they tried everything, and Jack grinned as he flopped down on one of the benches.
"Okay, you win. You can run further..."
"Of course I can. Im a Pooka..." Bunny said, grinning, as he sat next to the winter spirit. "So, did I manage it?"
"Manage what?"
"To get you to have some fun."
Jack blinked, then rolled his eyes, even as he grinned.
"Yeah, ya managed it. Thanks, I think I needed it."
"No problem Frostbite. Ya know, this means we can just move all of ya stuff here, instead of the warren?"
Jack blinked, then nodded.
"Good plan. Ya busy?"
Bunny grinned.
"Not really, but I sense I'm goin ta be."
"You sensed right."
_

This time, Bunny was the first to flop down, this time agaisnt a tree in the warren.
They had spent the last half an hour making trips to the pole with some of both his and Jacks weapons, and that, joined witht he fact that a storm seemed to be on it's way-evident from the humidity- had him wanting to just sleep.
Jack seemed to be having the same idea, but Bunny blinked as he saw the younger guardians worried expression.
"Ya alright, Frostbite?"
"Huh? Oh, yeah... Just erm... Storm right?"
"Looks like... Ya sure ya're alright?"
Jack was about to nod again, when there was a clap of thunder, and he immediately froze, taking deep breaths.
Bunny was next to him in a flash, seriously panicked.
"Hey! Hey, Jack? Ya okay mate? Its only..."
Then he blinked. Thunder...?
"Jack? What's up? Is it the thunder?"
The winter spirit looked about to deny it, then sighed.
"I-I know. It's stupid... But when I fell through the ice, as a human... The ice sounded just like thunder.. Ive always been... I just..."
He ran a hand through his hair, clearly on edge.
"I just... don't like thunder." He gave a small, self deprecating laugh. "Stupid right? Jack Frost is afraid of thunder..."
"Nah... Not at all, mate."
Bunny shook his head, at the disbelieving look he was given.
"Hey, do ya see me judgin ya?"
"I-Well, no but... Still..."
"Still nothin. Everyone's afraid of somethin."
Jack gave a humourless laugh.
"Yeah... Somethin. Right. Next you'll be tellin me that you don't think it's stupid that I have aquaphobia..."
Bunny had to think for a moment, as he recalled what the phobia was. Then, when he recalled it, he gave the younger guardian a bemused look.
"Fear of drowning? Why would that be stupid?"
"Well, Im a spirit... I can't drown."
"But ya did... It'd be weird if you weren't affected by it in someway."
Jack gave him a bewildered, and slightly challenging look.
"Really? What about thermophobia."
"Yer a winter spirit mate. Ya'd be stupid not to be afraid of the heat. And anyway, it seems you managed to overcome it when ya need to. Not many could say the same about phobia's they have."
Jack snorted.
"Fine, there are reasons for those. But what about Cleisiophobia?"
"I kinda have it myself."
"But you run around in tunnels!"
"There is a big difference between being in a small space and being locked or trapped in a small space."

Bunny couldn't believe what he was hearing.
Jack Frost was insecure about a couple of phobias, and how he thought people would react about them? He sighed.
"Right, now ya listen 'ere. First, ya have no reason ta be insecure about a few phobias. Trust me, no-one's gonna be judgin ya, especially not me. Second, ya should have more faith in yerself. Fear of heat, yet ya visit Tooth all the time, ya followed BT almost to the bloody equator, ya'v tried to visit hotter climates... Mate, fighting yer fears like that takes some real will power..."
"Really? Everytime I come across a storm, I head in the other direction."
"And I'd probably do the same."
"Yeah. Right."
"Damn it, Frostbite, aren't ya listenin ta me? Anyway, it's not the best idea to fly in a storm anyway. That's just stupid. And who wouldn't be affected by being reminded of when they died every time they heard thunder?"
Jack opened his mouth to speak again, then closed it, sighing.
"Not just thunder... There was another reason I didn't like guns... Didn't like the wars... To top off all the violence and pain and blood, every time a cannon fired, every time a gun went off... All I could see was ice cracking and I didn't know why. I couldn't remember anything, so I had no idea what the visions meant..."
He had the faraway look in his eyes that showed he was thinking back to his past, and Bunny was not about to let him go off into a trance.
He grabbed the younger guradians shoulder, and gave him a small shake.
"Hey, now ya listen ta me. Ya're one of most 'get back up and never gonna keep me down' spirits I know. But it's okay to show some weakness sometimes Jack."

Jack snorted, fixing him with a disbelieving look, clearly still half in the past.
"Really? Because over 300 years alone, I learnt a different message. You learn to look after yourself. You learn to rely on no-one but yourself. You learn to get yourself up and keep yourself going because there is no-one there to help you!"
Just like that, in the same matter of fact, yet pained voice, Jack let it all come out.
"You learn to bury and ignore your fears, or you learn to run from them... You learn to stop facing them after a while, because they never go away! None of it ever goes away! None of it! And you know what makes it worse? I can't dwell on any of it, because if I do, I risk losing control! You know something else Im afraid of? What Im really afraid of? Im afraid of losing control... of getting angry... Because whenever I do, someone gets hurt! I can't even focus on my fears, because then I risk losing it! Tell me, just how do you expect me to be able to brush it all off? Believe everything is okay? Well I can't do that! 300 years is a long bloody time, and I cant!"
Like that, everything came out, and that, coupled with the underlying frustration at the recent problems he was facing andthe lingering emotions from the short flashbacks from a few moments earlier had Jack wanting to lash out... Wanting to...
He span and lashed out, channelling all of the pent up energy into a single punch. As soon as his skin touched the tree he was aiming for, it turned to ice, which promptly shattered under the force he threw against it.
Then he sank to the floor, taking deep breaths.
Bunny, still frozen to the spot by the suddeness of the tirade, and wondering just how long the younger guardian had been holding all of that in, took a few seconds to regain movement, at which point, Jack seemed to have recovered slightly.
"S-sorry... I didn't... Didn't mean to..."
The rest of what he was going to say was cut off as the Pooka pulled him into a hug.
At first, Jack seemed to want to fight it, then he gave in.

"Sorry..."
"No, I'm sorry Jack... You shouldn't a had to go through all that... At least when ya became a guardian, I should'a made sure you were okay..."
"I-Im fine..."
"Really? The shards of ice would indicate otherwise..."
Jack sighed, as he pulled back.
"I-I just... After so long keeping everything in, you can't really... tell... anyone..."
"Yeah... But at least we made a start, eh mate?"
He gave a small smile.
"Yeah..."
"And at least this kinda explains the anger management issues I've heard about- Hey!"
This was in responce to being hit with a snowball.
"That's just rude."
"So was the anger management quip."
"... Okay, fair enough. And remind me never to get you mad, eh? Or to at least have a tree nearb-"
Another clap of thunder had Jack jumping slightly, and shivering as the heat and humidity seemed to rise even higher.
Bunny smiled, wrapping an arm around Jack's shoulders.
"Come on, mate. Let's head to the Pole. Maybe we can channel that anger into something more productive... I still say ya cheated with the fighting staffs."
Jack gave him a grateful smile, which quickly morphed to a grin.
"You're on..."
_

Half an hour later, and Bunny was grinning as the younger guardian raced against the rotating rock wall, climbing with an uncanny speed and attempting to match the pace of the machine.
He knew he had a task ahead of him. It was about time Jack started to learn what it meant to be part of a group. About time he started to learn that he didn't need to be invincible. About time he learnt that he didn't have to keep everything in and that there were people who wouldn't judge him as he was used to...
And about time Bunny actually stepped up to the role.

Woah... How did it turn to such angstyness? I don't even know... And to think I started out with the idea of having this as something small and filler...ey at the start of this chapter...
Ah well, I got some more bromancey shizzle in there, and hopefully rubes99 will approve! (In response to her request of showing that even Jack has his weaknesses... There we go, quite a few in one fell swoop, and I may be revisiting them soon, depending on what everyone thinks :D)
Hopefully it wasn't too OOC?

And don't worry! Jack's back to his usual bad-ass...ness next chapter :D

So... what did you think? (I wasn't sure about the very last little section, so thoughts?)
Please review and let me know!
Oh, and hope you enjoyed, Rubes!

Raven xx