Jack Frost x Guardian!Reader

Chapter Thirteen

Previously:

"No." Jack and (Y/n) whispered.

Bunny peaks through the bushes to take in the scene of an Easter Egg hunt.

"There are no eggs. There's none anywhere. I give up. Come on, let's go."

"I don't understand" Bunny checks the eggs in his basket, then looks back toward the kids.

"Maybe he just hid them really well this year." Bunny, egg basket in hand, approaches a group of kids who seem to be wandering around searching halfheartedly, disappointed, and listless.

"Kids! Oi!"

"I checked everywhere! There's nothing!"

Bunny steps towards them. "Yes, there is! There is! I mean these aren't my best-lookin' googies, but they'll do in a pinch!" He holds out a broken Easter egg. The kids just stare.

"I can't believe it."

"I know."

"There's no such thing as the Easter Bunny."

The girl turns to leave.

"What?"

"Easter's over. Forget this."

It's only then that we realize he's too late. The spark of childhood has already been extinguished in all of them.

"No! Wrong! Not, not true! I'm right in front of ya, mate!"

"There's no such thing. I know." The kids walk through Bunnymund as if he were a ghost. Bunny is stunned by this and finally realizes..."

"Now come on. I don't understand. Why wouldn't he come? Let's get out of here. Easter Bunny, where are you? This is the worst Easter ever."

"They don't see me. They don't see me."

Jack and (Y/n) are watching this all unfold and it's heartbreaking because they know it's their fault. Tooth flies to Bunny's side. Jack and (Y/n) hear a rustle in the bushes behind hear a russel in a bush behind them.

"Jack and (Y/n), where were you?"

The two winter spirits see North, with his scimitars drawn and having just come from battle. He's exhausted, wild-eyed, distraught. "The Nightmares attacked the tunnels. They smashed every egg and crushed every basket. Nothing made it to the surface."

"Jack! (Y/n)!" Tooth rejoins the group. "Where did you get those?" Jack looks down at the tooth box in his hand, then back to Tooth. "I was...it's..."

"Where's Baby Tooth? Oh Jack, what have you done?"

"Wait now hold on!" (Y/n) tried to help Jack.

"That is why you weren't here?" North steps forward to confront Jack. "You were with Pitch?"

"No, listen, listen...we're sorry. we didn't mean for this to happen."

"They have to go."

The two turn to see Bunny disheartened.

"What?"

"We should never have trusted you! Easter is new beginnings, new life. Easter is about hope. And now it's gone." Bunny turns away and moves toward the park, looking at the sign that reads, 'Easter Egg Hunt.' This is like a punch in The two winter spirits' guts. They look back to Tooth and North, both of whom look away, too hurt by Jack and (Y/n). They look at them with a pained expression. This is exactly what Pitch said would happen. Jack reaches into his pocket, pulls out the tiny Russian nesting doll that North had given him, drops the doll to the ground, and takes off with (Y/n) following. As Jack and (Y/n) leave, carried off by the wind, the tiny Russian nesting doll is laying on the ground.