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The Guardians and Pitch looked at Jack in complete surprise. Tooth broke the silence and threw her arms around Jack, "Jack. I didn't know."
Jack was shocked by the hug, he stood there still silent.
Bunny looked at him with new eyes, his ears flat, "Jack, you saved your sister at the price of your life."
North also gazed at him in wonder, "You are best Guardian."
Jack's head dropped and he gazed at the grave, "But... She still died."
Death gave a frustrated yell, "You're completely missing the point!"
He grabbed Jack by his hoodie and pulled him towards his grave, "Did you know that your sister blamed herself for your death?!"
He pointed to the scrawls on the back of Jack's grave.
Jack was nimble
Jack was quick
Jack saved my life
when the ice wasn't thick
...
The ice was thin
And when it cracked
It took away
My brother Jack
...
My heart, it broke
My heart, it cried
A part of me gone
When Jack had died
...
That is it
No more to tell
Though sometimes I wish
That it was me that fell
Jack was sobbing silently, but Death still continued, "She hardly spoke. Any mention of you would make her cry. She always avoided the lake."
Death took a deep breath, "Your best friend, Nicholas Bennett, confronted her one day." Death shook his head, "Nicholas caught my attention. Nicholas had accepted your death calmly and had went on laughing and playing. Flee was mad at him. She thought that he hadn't really been your friend then. On that day, he had come to your house to comfort her and she had yelled at him saying that he wasn't really Jack's friend."
Death got a far away look, "She wanted to know how could he still be happy? How could he still laugh? Jack was gone."
Jack was on his knees, and Death knelt down next to him, "He looked her in the eyes and said simply, 'It's what Jack would've wanted.'"
Jack turned his head, and Death stood up,"That day he took her to the lake and she poured her heart out to him, saying how it was her fault that Jack had died. How she wished that it was her that fell. He looked at her surprised, then took her hands, 'Jack would've never forgiven himself if you had fell. Never wish that ever.'" Death gazed off into the distance again, leaning on his scythe, "Nicholas looked at the lake, 'It was Jack's choice. He loved you. He protected you. Live like Jack would want you to.' She went to the lake almost daily after that." Death chuckled, "One day she came back laughing. Nick had thought she was crazy, but then she said, 'Jack's okay, he's- he's different now, but he's alive.'" Death repeated the words like he had heard them yesterday.
Then, he knelt down next to the grave and read,
"Jack was nimble
Jack was quick
Jack saved his sister
With a little trick
...
He played a game
Said they'd have fun
He didn't know
He'd soon be gone
...
He made a promise
That she'd be okay
And then the lake
Took him away
...
His sister was hurt
She felt betrayed
She never forgot
The promise he'd made
...
A year passed
And she came to the lake
She still felt that she,
Like that ice, would soon break
...
She yelled at the lake
For taking her Jack
She cried and she begged
For her brother back
...
Suddenly, snow
came down like lace
She looked up
and a snowflake kissed her face
...
A smile grew
As she looked up at the sky
She wiped away
the tears she'd cried
...
She remembered the words
Her brother had said
The words that had hurt
Now that Jack was dead
...
That snowflake was followed
By a joyful laugh
She saw a boy
With white hair and a staff
...
She laughed but the boy
With the wind, flew away
She wished he'd come back
Wished that he'd stay
...
But she went home knowing
Jack was right all along
That she'd be okay now
All her hurt was now gone"
Grief knelt down next to Death and read the last words, "Jack, you were my hero and guardian. I've always believed in you and still do. Jack, I love you."
Grief stood up and wrapped Jack up in a hug. He sobbed into her shoulder. She rubbed circles on his back, "She saw you, Jack. She grew up, fell in love, she married Nicholas. Her kids always loved the story of how Uncle Jack saved their mother. They loved the stories of the Winter Prince. You didn't come back to Burgess for a while, but she knew that if you could have you would've. She lived a long, happy life. You gave that to her, Jack."