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Chapter 10: realizations

Bunny carried Jack under his arm all the way to the nurse's office, despite being very annoyed at Jack because of his constant struggling and yelling demands for his release, Bunny couldn't help but wonder if Jack even realized he was injured. Sure Jack seemed kind of out of it, but his hand was covered in blood after he rubbed the injured area on the back of his head. That should have raised an alarm but much to Bunny's endless surprise, it seemed like Jack hadn't even noticed despite the fact that he was actually 'looking' at his own blood covered hand.

"Bunny, I told you I'm fine!" Jack said as they, much to Bunny's relief, finally reached the nurse's office. "There is no way you're fine with a cut like that on the back of your head. So calm down and let's get this over with." Bunny snapped back, his tone clearly displaying his annoyance. Bunny finally opened the door and roughly dropped Jack on the examination table in the middle of the room. The nurse just stood wide-eyed in her surprise at the sudden appearance of the two males. She quickly snapped out of it when she noticed the blood in Jack's hair.

She let out a sigh and walked over to Jack in order to examine the cut, before she went to crap the disinfectants and a bandage. "You wanna tell me what happened this time, Jack?" Bunny raise an eyebrow at that not aware that Jack had been to the nurse's office before now. The other times it was just minor scratches and Tooth being too overprotective of him, despite knowing he was fully capable of taking care of himself, she just couldn't help being worried and Jack let her as he thought it was cute "I'm not really sure what happened. Though I do have a pretty good idea. I was sitting on the bench during gym class, just minding my own business as usual, while the others were playing soccer. Next thing I know I'm on the ground. I'm assuming that I was hit by the ball or something." Jack said and shrugged like there was nothing he could do about it. Usually he would be able to stop it or at least dodge the ball, but because he was nearly asleep, he couldn't react in time.

The nurse sighed again, and responded while wrapping the bandage on his head "I know you really wanna attend gym class, even if you're just sitting on the bench, but you need to realize it's too dangerous with you not being able to see if something is coming towards you." Bunny froze and stared wide-eyed at the nurse and Jack, not sure, if he heard correct. The nurse noticing Bunny's weird and confused expression, she turned to face him just as she finished wrapping up Jack's head, "guess he didn't tell you?" Bunny nodded, still somewhat dumbstruck at the news.

Jack frowned in annoyance of being ignored "hey, I'm right here, so would you please stop talking about me like I'm not even here?" both of them wearing a sheepish smile upon realization. Jack sighed as he continued, "Before you ask, yes I'm blind. I've been blind since birth. There you know, happy?" Jack hissed out, his anger obvious. The temperature seemed to drop a few degrees in the small room. Bunny looked at Jack in shock, both at the revelations of his blindness, the thought not even occurred to him before, as Jack can move around so freely, but also because he for the first time actually took a close look at Jack's unseeing eyes and felt like slapping himself for missing it before. He has seen the icy blue of Jack's iris before but only now noticed the missing pupils, it was also then he notice the slight, almost unnoticeable glow they had. Just as they did when he confronted him in the hallway, but he shrugged it off like before, thinking it might be due to the lighting of the room.

Jack, hating the awkward silence, got back on his feet and walked out of there. That jolted Bunny out of his shock and he darted after him. The two of them walked in silence back towards the field where they had their class. Bunny kept on trying to help and guide Jack, not noticing and/or forgetting that he was perfectly able to do it on his own. "Would you please just stop?" Jack begged, yet his tone remaining angry and annoyed "this is exactly why I don't want people to know. I may not 'see' like everyone else, but that doesn't equal me being completely helpless. Think about it and try remembering me as you saw me before you found out." He paused for a bit, giving Bunny a chance to think before he continued, "did you notice any differences between me and everyone else?"

Bunny just shook his head, not really wanting to answer and proving Jack right, before he mentally slapped himself at his own stupidity of doing so when talking to a blind guy. Jack burst out laughing at Bunny, "what's so funny?" Bunny asked, slightly offended. Jack responded, his voice still full of laughter as he did "you, shaking your head at a blind guy, seriously what were you thinking?" Bunny's eyes went wide at that 'how did he know that?' "You're thinking 'how did he know', right?" Bunny's jaw dropped in disbelief and Jack continued chuckling in mirth.

"I rely on my other senses to know where I am or what is happening around me. The tiniest sounds, smells and touch that most either don't notice or simply can't detect. I rely on those tiny sensations and with practice, it's almost as good as actually seeing, sometimes even better, for the exception of colors of cause. For an example: Hearing the friction of clothes and the movement of hair against the air, it lets me know when someone shakes or nods their head, that's how I knew you shook your head.

Bunny couldn't fully comprehend the concept but it at least managed to calm him and stop fuzzing about him. It was also then he realized how big of a jerk he's been towards Jack, but didn't really know how to apologize. Yet, he could somehow tell that Jack wouldn't accept his apology anyways. After all, Jack hadn't told anyone, fully aware that he would be treated differently and alienated from his peers. Apologizing now, would only prove his point. It wouldn't be sincere either, it would be out of pity or guilt and that's not what either of them wants.

Now that he thought about it, it all seemed to fit together and all his reasons for disliking Jack just seemed to fall to the ground and shatter at that realization. "Does Tooth know?" Jack looked offended at the question, frowning while he replied, "of cause she does! We've known either since we were 5 years old, there's no way I would be able to have kept it a secret nor did I intend to. The only people who knows is my family, tooth and the school. As much as I hate to do this, I have to trust you not to tell anyone about this, I will find out if you do. But don't even think that just because you now know, it will change anything between us. After all, the fact that you were unaware of my blindness, doesn't excuse your behavior."

Bunny sighed but nodded "I'm aware of that." he paused for a second, before he went on with a soft but sincere tone, "even if we aren't on friendly terms with each other, I know when to keep my mouth shut. It's not my secret to tell. Besides it would ruin your social life at school, I'm not that cruel." Jack smirked as he said "thanks, Kangaroo" before he ran off, leaving a dumbstruck Bunny in the hallway. 'Yep, things won't change a bit.' He thought, both annoyed and amused, before he continued onwards towards class.

'Was it really just my imagination, or did his eyes actually glow?' Bunny shook his head surprised and confused, yet he had a hunch that it wasn't just his eyes playing tricks on him. Then he thought back to all the strange things that happened today and how the temperature in the room seemed to drop when Jack was angered. 'Could Jack somehow be behind that' the thought made him stop dead in his tracks, before he shook his head 'nah, it's impossible'.

A/N: Now Bunny knows about Jack being blind, but also is suspicious of him :) any guesses of what may happen next?