Tooth returned to the Pole with a very cowed and sniveling Summer in tow, her rage not having calmed down any since taking out her motherly vengeance on the Summer Spirit.

North growled at the heated femail, and folded his arms "You are on Naughty List indefinitely for what you've done. Jack is Guardian now, you had no right to torment him, least of all in off-season."

Summer spat at him, "Oh please North! The only reason you defended Jackie-boy was because out of all of you, he and Sanderson are the most powerful! You ignored him for 300 years, now that he's one of you, now you care suddenly about whether he lives or dies!"

Bunny sneered at her, "Even if he wasn't one of us, you had no right to do that ta him."

Tooth growled at the other lady, and reported "She has something to tell us. Something about Jack."

Summer huffed and said with a hint of haughtiness "You don't know about his staff do you? About how if it gets broken more than twice and he repairs it, how certain instincts and tendencies thought long gone would resurface, changing him from the funloving prankster to the cold, frozen hearted Winter King."

The room fell silent. Though they never admitted it to his face, they all remembered Jack's 'Dark Age'. It hadn't been pretty.

"Jack would become Winter King again?"

Summer sneered at him "You got it. After this happens, you will beg for him to die!"

Bunny smacked her to the ground "Shut it you drongo! Jack would never be that again. Not when he's got somethin' ta fill that hole he had in the Dark Age. It's true we don't know the details, heck North didn't even know about Frostbite's Winter Palace until recently, but we do know, through his own admission, how he felt during that time, and that he never has to feel iot again."

Summer snarled "Fine! But mark me, if he repairs that staff, you will all regret it."

Sandy suddenly 'piped up' showing a picture of Jack, then a snowflake, a crown, then a clock with the infinity symbol on it. Tooth and Bunny looked hopeful and smug at Summer.

"Sandy is right. Jack has always been the King of Winter. Fixing his staff can't turn him into something he already is." Tooth said.

Summer laughed at her, the sound scornful.

"You idiot. King of Winter is different than Winter King. Do you know why I almost killed him? I have been waiting 200 years to get my revenge on the Winter King, for banishing me. For taking my sister Autumn away from me! He may have the nickname Winter King but if the humans only knew what title they were implying...they would scorn him just as venomously as I do."

Tooth couldn't hear anymore. She simply knocked Summer unconscious.

There was a crash from the infirmary, and the four Guardians rushed to see what the ruckus was this time. What they saw filled them with joy and sorrow all at once.

Jack was awake, but he was panicking so hard, reaching for the broken pieces of his staff and ripping out his IVs, Baby Tooth trying to calm him down to no avail. The boy was beyond tired, and his ice-blues danced with high fever.

"Easy mate!" Bunny said, tackling the youth "Easy oi! Easy mate I know it hurts but you gotta lay down! Easy ya brumby!"

Bunny was pained as he was forced to restrain the winter spirit, because Jack had exposed burns that the pooka knew he aggravated by wrapping his arms around the boy. Jack struggled more, now in panicked agony, breaking Bunny's heart with his tortured cries.

Sandy quickly fixed the problem by nailing Jack with a ball of dreamsand, and the boy fell to the floor, a snowball fight in gold above his head.

North set the pieces of Jack's staff on the bed where Tooth was laying him, a look of determination on his face. The others looked to him for an explination, and he simply said

"Jack needs to repair staff. Was the cause of panic I think."

The others nodded, pushing what Summer said out of their minds. Jack needed to be whole again, and he couldn't be fixed if his staff stayed in pieces. They solemnly decided that if their Guardian of Fun closed himself away behind his Dark Age persona, that they would help him through it.

No matter the cost.

Thanks to everyone who reviewed! It really does keep me going. If any of you have any suggestions on new drabbles, PM me and I'll see what I can do!

Until then, enjoy the randomness before this arc comes to a close!