New Guardian (ON HOLD)

Chapter 34

I'm skipping forward about :/ 2 years maybe. This is going to be after the Jack X OC phase (She and Jack break up). So... the song I'm using is 'Almost Lover' by A Fine Frenzy

I'm going to go backward in the next chapters, but I wanted to something like this. Physically Phoenix is 18, but she's mentally she's almost 20, just clearafying. I'll post a time line in the next chapter to help those confused by all the time changes.

(Phoenix pov) Last time they spoke before they broke up

"Jack, you hardly ever come around any more," I complained with a fake pout face.

"It's not easy having to protect the kids who belive." Jack was hanging upside down from his staff. I saw the lights that signaled an emergancy guardian meeting.

"You have to go." I finished putting the last detail on the picture I was just drawing of Jack hanging upside down. I gave him a peck on the cheek before he flew off.

*After they broke up, About 2 weeks after*

"Your fingertips across my skin

The palm trees swaying in the wind

Images,"

I choked, continuing to walk around the small island that I was staying on for the time being.

"You sang me Spanish lullabies

The sweetest sadness in your eyes

Clever trick," I remembered the pain in Jack's icy blue eyes as he officialy broke up with me. We hadn't really broken up before, but when he came back, thats when he made it official.

"Well, I'd never want to see you unhappy

I thought you'd want the same for me,"

"Goodbye, my almost lover

Goodbye, my hopeless dream

I'm trying not to think about you

Can't you just let me be." He and the other guaridians refused to leave me alone the first couple of days, but I finally got them to leave me alone by threatening them.

"So long, my luckless romance

My back is turned on you

Shoulda known you'd bring me heartache

Almost lovers always do."

"We walked along a crowded street

You took my hand and danced with me

Images." I felt a tear roll down my cheek thinking of that. I had laughed, mostly because he was one of the worst dancers in the world.

"And when you left you kissed my lips

You told me you would never, never forget

These images." I sat on a bench by the ocean, watching the seagulls and the waves.

"Well, I'd never want to see you unhappy

I thought you'd want the same for me,"

"Goodbye, my almost lover

Goodbye, my hopeless dream

I'm trying not to think about you

Can't you just let me be.

So long, my luckless romance

My back is turned on you

Shoulda known you'd bring me heartache

Almost lovers always do." As I looked out, all I could see was Jack. The time we had gone to a small, deserted, beach where he froze some of the water so I could walk out on to it and see the waves up close.

"I cannot go to the ocean," I started to walk to my car. My heart sank when I remembered how Jack had sat in it once, freezing it, so I had to walk to school that day.

"I cannot drive the streets at night,

I cannot wake up in the morning

Without you on my mind

So you're gone and I'm haunted

And I'll bet you are just fine

Did I make it that easy to walk

Right in and out of my life." Jack was probably making it snow, having Fun.

"Goodbye, my almost lover

Goodbye, my hopeless dream

I'm trying not to think about you

Can't you just let me be

So long, my luckless romance

My back is turned on you

Shoulda known you'd bring me heartache

Almost lovers always do."

I pulled into my drive way, opened the door and looked around once the light was on. It was almost Halloween, one of the favorites of my holidays, but I couldn't really be happy, knowing that Jack or even Bunny might come and try to see me. There was a soft meow that came from outside, which got my attention, and I opened the door.

I hadn't realized that it was raining outside, and the poor kitten was soaking. "Oh, poor baby," I picked it up and grabbed a towel, wrapping it in it so the kitten could dry off. I got a bowl and put some water in it, and looked to see if I could find anything that it could eat. When I walked to were I had left the kitten, I didn't see it. A meow came from down the hall. "Kitty?" No, meow.

I walked down the hall, and saw the kitten all puffed out and back arched. It hissed, and a figure stepped from the shadows. "Pi-" I stopped mid-growl. My throat closed, and I froze in place. The kitten let a small meow and went behind me.

"Hello, Phoenix," the figure stepped into the light. "It's been a long time, almost 10 years."

I took a step back, "You, you, you were imprisioned."

The grinned, which made me shutter, "I escaped, solely to get my revenge." I was thrown back, and something hard hit my head. I blacked out, seeing him walk toward me.

JSYK it's not Pitch.