Jack Frost x Guardian!Reader

Chapter Fourteen: Jack's Memories

It's cold and dark down here, and Jack is more alone than he's ever been. Battered from the fall, Jack slowly looks up and notices a Baby Tooth, lying lifelessly on the ground.

"Baby Tooth!" He pulls himself to her and cradles her in his hands. "You alright?" Baby Tooth nods, but she's hurt, and cold. Jack does his best to shield her from the cold. "Sorry, all I can do is keep you cold. Jack sits up and holds Baby Tooth in his hands. "Pitch was right - I make a mess of everything." Jack is devastated. Baby Tooth's never seen him like this; it's heartbreaking...then she gets a thought. Her expression hardens with determination. She wriggles deep into his pocket. "Hey?" Jack leans back and begins to close his eyes when he hears something.

"Jack... Jack..." and then he feels something. He looks down: There's a soft golden glow, coming from his pocket. Jack jumps, taken aback. He reaches in and pulls out the tooth box as it's pulsing with light.

"Jack..." Baby Tooth gives him a reassuring look. Baby Tooth motions to the box and then looks back at Jack. Jack reaches to touch the box, but as he does it's top magically unfolds to reveal a handful of baby teeth then the box and everything else glows a bright white light the walls of the fissure seem to suddenly fall away.

MEMORIES:

"Come on Jack, you can't have fun all the time." His mother said. Children are laughing as a familiar boy hangs upside down from a tree limb.

"Jack, get down from there!" Jack's sister said laughing.

A happy family is at a roaring fire as the same boy jokes around with antlers on his head.

"You're funny, Jack." A random kid said.

Then there was another memory of Jack and a girl. Jack was casing the girl. "Come on (Y/n)! Get back here!"

The girl now known as (Y/n) laughed. "You'll have to catch me first!" She laughed and continued to run.

Jack walks toward the woods with his sister. His mother, face unseen, calls out to him. "Be careful." Jack shakes his head like he's heard it a million times but never pays it any mind.

"We will," Jack said laughing.

There's a young Jack, with brown hair, and brown eyes. He was dressed as we first saw him in 16th-century clothes. Behind him, there are dark winter trees.

Jack is calm and serious. "It's okay. It's okay. Don't look down, just look at me." Jack reaches slowly down and removes the second of two rudimentary ice skates, leaving him barefoot on the surface of a familiar frozen pond and now he sees, a girl of about four with an uncanny resemblance to Jamie's sister Sophie standing in her skates, rooted to the spot. A spider's web of cracks emanates from where she stands.

"Jack, I'm scared." There's a loud CRACCKKK! The ice below her splinters more. She wobbles as it starts to separate.

"I know, I know...but you're gonna be alright. You're not gonna fall in. We're gonna have a little fun instead."

"No we're not!"

"Would I trick you?"

Jack's sister is fighting back tears. "Yes! You always play tricks!"

Jack chuckles. "Well, alright. Well, not, not this time. I promise. I promise you're gonna be...you're gonna be fine." Jack fixes her gaze...holds it...there's nothing but the two of them. "You have to believe in me." Jack's sister pauses a moment, then smiles through her fear. And just like that, Jack's demeanor changes. A light is switched on inside him and the last thing that could be happening is what is actually happening. Jack continued casually, playfully. "You wanna play a game? We're going to play Hopscotch! Like we play every day!" Jack's sister looks more reassured. "It's as easy as...one...whoaaaa..." Jack shows his sister the first leap, but mugs for her, almost losing his balance and then catching himself. She laughs.

"Two..." Then he jumps again. "Three!" He turns toward her with his arms spread out. "Alright..." He reaches down to pick up a familiar-looking stick lying on the ice. He extends it towards her- "Now it's your turn." Jack's sister looks down. She is trying to gather her courage. Jack, never breaking his gaze on her, "One..." Jack continued softly. She hops, wobbling, but catching her balance. "That's it, that's it...two..." She's almost there, Jack's staff just beyond her reach. "Three." She grabs hold of Jack's staff and in one massive effort, he slings her with all his might to safety. But the movement propels him into the cracked ice. He looks up to see his sister safe and he smiles and then plunges into the dark cold water. "Whoa..."

"Jack!" His sister yelled.

Jack falls back into the icy water, with a SPLASH! Jack's hands claw through the water towards it, but it's helpless. The moon glows bright...brighter... Jack's body begins to glow, bathed in moonlight. pushed on his face, becoming brighter and brighter until his brown hair turns white, and his icy blue eyes opened.

The icy walls rush back in as Jack is reeling from the memory. He sees Baby Tooth, and (Y/n).

"Did you... did you see that?" The baby tooth in Jack's hands shakes her head 'no', tweets 'of course not'! "It... it was me! I had a family! I had a sister!" His excitement suddenly turns to realization. "I saved her"! He looks up at the opening above. The moon peeks out from behind the clouds. Jack whispers up to Manny. "That's why you chose me." "I'm, I'm a Guardian." The Moon seems to shine a little brighter. The Baby Teeth with the two winter spirits, try to take flight but they sputter and lands back in the palm of Jack's hand.

"We have to get out of here." Jack said. Jack and (Y/n) look down at the two halves of their staff and pick them up. They try to fit them back together, but nothing happens. They try again, this time using every ounce of strength left in them. The Baby Teeth watch, their eyes widening as, a spark of blue light shoots off the two staff's. The two winter spirits continue to push, until the icy blue light spreads and melds the two ends of the two staffs back together. Jack and smile.

Suddenly Jack, with (Y/n), and the Baby Teeth tucked safely in their sweaters, shoot up, and out of the fissure, high into the sky and through the clouds.

"Come on Baby Tooth! I owe you one." Jack and (Y/n) yell, at the two Baby Teeth.