Jack Frost x Guardian!Reader

Chapter Fifteen: (Y/n)'s Memories

It's cold and dark down here, and (Y/n) is more alone than she's ever been. Battered from the fall, (Y/n) slowly looks up and notices a Baby Tooth, lying lifelessly on the ground.

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

"(Y/n)... (Y/n)..." and then she feels something. She looks down: There's a soft golden glow, coming from her pocket. (Y/n) jumps, taken aback. She reaches in and pulls out the tooth box as it's pulsing with light.

"(Y/n)..." Baby Tooth gives her a reassuring look. Baby Tooth motions to the box and then looks back at (Y/n). (Y/n) reaches to touch the box, but as she does its 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 (Y/n), you can't have fun all the time." Her father said.

Children are laughing as a familiar girl hangs upside down from a tree limb.

"(Y/n), get down from there!" (Y/n)'s sister said laughing.

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

"You're funny, (Y/n)." A random kid said.

Then there was another memory of (Y/n) and a boy. (Y/n) was getting chased by the boy. "Come on (Y/n)! Get back here!" The boy said

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

(Y/n) walks toward the woods with her sister. Her father, face unseen, calls out to her. "Be careful." (Y/n) shakes her head like she's heard it a million times but never pays it any mind.

"We will," (Y/n) said laughing.

There's a young (Y/n), with (h/l) (h/c) hair, and dark (e/c) eyes. She was dressed in 16th-century clothes. Behind her, there are dark winter trees.

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

"(Y/n), I'm scared." There's a loud CRACCKKK! The ice below him splinters more. He 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?"

(Y/n)'s brother is fighting back tears. "Yes! You always play tricks!"

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

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

"(Y/n)!" Her brother yelled.

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

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

"Did you... did you see that?" The baby tooth in (Y/n)'s hands shakes her head 'no', tweets 'of course not'! "It... it was me! I had a family! I had a brother!" Her excitement suddenly turns to realization. "I saved him"! She looks up at the opening above. The moon peeks out from behind the clouds. (Y/n) 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.