A/N Some people said they wanted it, so here it is Jackie's Bedroom version of Coming Home, hope you like it!
Disclaimer: I do not own Rise of the Guardians
"Sarah?" Jackie said into the home phone once Sophie had left after tucking her in and giving her a kiss goodnight, (Something that Sophie hadn't done in a while).
A yawn reached her ears as Sarah answered the phone. "Oh hey Jackie" Sarah said sounding tired. "What's up?"
Jackie suddenly felt bad at calling. It was way past bed time for both Jackie and Sarah, and just because Sophie had given Jackie the next day off school didn't mean that Sarah was going to be given the same privilege.
"Nothing, I'm sorry I woke you." Jackie said suddenly wanting to hang up and not bother Sarah.
"You didn't wake me; I was awake listening to my IPod" Sarah said.
Jackie nodded smiling slightly.
"Greek again?" Jackie asked. Sarah was always attempting to learn more languages so it wasn't uncommon to see a 'learn how to speak' folder on her iPod. When she wasn't doing anything she would put on her earphones press play on her iPod and listen to it.
"Learned that Last month, this is Russian" Sarah said. "I would absolutely love to be able to trade words with Mr. North in his native tongue." Had Jackie been older and not preoccupied with her own anxiety she would have noticed the implication behind Sarah's words. That the words she wanted to trade with him were not kind and of hero worship, but more of anger and resentment.
However Jackie was not older and was focused on something else so all she heard were the words and not the implication behind them, so her response was only "Cool" before going silent again.
They fell into silence for a few minutes before Sarah spoke again. "Jackie, are you ok?"
For some reason, that question brought tears to Jackie's eyes. "I'm Ok" She whispered her voice choked up a bit and frost started to spread around her bed sheets.
Sarah wasn't fooled. "Jackie you know everything's going to be Ok, right?" She said. "I've already handled everything. All you just need to do is come to school tomorrow."
Jackie hesitated before speaking. "I… Mom said I could stay home tomorrow" Jackie said fully expecting Sarah to be angry with her. However, the only thing she heard was a deep sigh before Sarah started to speak.
"Jackie…" She said then as though she had seen a huge surprise she spoke again her tone one of surprise "Oh My Gosh, Jackie, look outside."
Jackie got up out of bed and noticed that it was softly snowing and that the snow and wind was getting faster and faster with each passing minute.
"I see having the guardian of fun as a father has its perks." Sarah said but she didn't sound mad, instead she sounded amused and excited.
"You think this is him?" Jackie asked as she stared out her window with wide-eyes.
"This is occurring minutes after your mother said you could stay home tomorrow, and since you can't do something as grand scale as a town wide snowstorm I'm going to say it was Jack Frost."
Jackie nodded it was true she could create a small snowfall, but nothing as grand scale as what was occurring now.
"But why?"
"Because he loves you? Because he doesn't want you to fall behind? Because it's been ten years since he last created a snow day?" Sarah said. "Who could possibly know what's going on in a 325-year-old winter spirit's brain?" Sarah asked her.
Jackie nodded. "That's true I guess." She said sounding unsure.
Sarah laughed before yawning again. "So you have tomorrow off the hook, are you going to be at school on Tuesday?"
Jackie stayed silent not truly wanting to answer.
Sarah sighed as she guessed the answer. "Ok, Ok if anything that will give me enough time to handle our classmates that still don't believe me, make sure your mom stays inside tomorrow, if it's noticed that she's out of the hospital your reason for not being in school goes out the window."
Jackie nodded "I understand."
"Good," Sarah said. "Is there another reason you called?"
Jackie stayed silent for another moment tears came to her eyes. "He's home" She said. "My daddy's home."
"I know." Sarah said sounding as though she was smiling. "I know."
Jackie didn't know what else to do so instead she just started to cry as she realized that the man she had been waiting for, for the past ten years was finally home.
A/N I'm not exactly pleased with this but I can't honestly think of anyway to improve it (can think of things to add, but it wouldn't improve in anyway) so if anyone has any way they want me to change this feel free to let me know and I will (Note: If I don't like the idea I'm not doing it)
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