The Frozen Heart

Chapter 5

Your POV

I wait and wait and wait.  Not needing to sleep has its pros and cons.  I'm waiting for Jack wherever he went, but I want the time to go quicker.

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I've been pacing, for who knows how long.  I have absolutely no concept of time now, it's incredible the other Guardians have never been late to anything because what I think would be 10 minutes would easily pass as 3 minutes.  The sun goes by faster, and I've noticed some changes.  It's supposed to be summer, so why are the leaves dried and blown off the trees?  It's June! I think.  I look back at my house for the first time in a while, but where is it?  No no, it's not gone, but it's.. gone?  There's rumble, and old wood.  How can that be?  

I take this time now to actually look at my surroundings, everything has changed.  The houses that belonged to my neighbors were gone.  The trees are much larger, and the cars are really different.  Where are their wheels?

I'm suddenly sick to my stomach, why?  I can barely walk now, I fall onto my knees.  My lungs are forcing me to cough out nothing but air.  My knotted hair is in my face, but whenenever i go to push it back, it just stay with my hand.  My hair's starting to fall out.  I scream with a feeble voice, and rock backward away from the clump of hair.  What's happening?

Jacks POV

I watched her pace for 4 years.  It's incredible she lasted this long without believers.  I've been trying my best to regulate the seasons, but I only control the snow and somewhat the temperature.  I've been covering her for awhile now.  It hurts, seeing how she hasn't moved from her path of waiting and loneliness.  

I'm watching from behind the trunk of a tree whenever she stops.  She actually stops, for the first time in 4 years.  She suddenly looks around, as if she's actually seeing the world around her for the first time.  She has noticed it, right?  She suddenly collapses, and starts dry heaving.  I whip around and lean against the tree convering my ears with my hands.  It still didn't block out the scream.  She's deteriorating, all these years are catching up.

No, no I can't interfere.  It's better for both of us right?  I soften the pressure on my ears to hear a faint sobbing.  I can't do this anymore,  I whip around the tree and run towards her.  She doesn't look up but I hug her tightly anyway.

"J-Jack?" she gasps, gripping my arms.  It feels so good, and I know deep down I should've done this sooner.  

Your POV

Something new feels so right being with Jack again.  He's teaching me things about my duties, but there's something more.  I need Jack, like all the time.  I'm growing stronger by the day, especially now that Jack lent me some of his Power from his believers.  

Jacks POV

I've made a horrible mistake.  I'm growing weaker, not by much, but it's definitely noticable.  But I knew that it would keep her civil, not like...

"Jack!" I hear (f/n) shout.  Having a broken train of thought, I continue and turn to a hilarious sight.  (F/n) has her hair all wrapped up with leaves and birds and squirrels.  Her arms are straight out equipped with all kinds of birds.  It was pretty funny, I smirk, but not has funny as this.  I wind up and make a loud clap real close to her.  The birds screech and sqeak but left unattractive remains behind, all over her clothes and hair.  Her face goes from cheerful to absolutely crushed.  Her eyes darken, and so does the atmosphere around us.  The air is chilly and a breeze sweeps by, leaving the lush field we are in to look like a barren landscape.  My spine erupted the eeriest chills that I wanted to cry.  I can't take my eyes off of (f/n), she was terrifying.  Her skin was a chill grey, and her eyes were brutal and unforgiving.  Her teeth were bared.  It was just a prank, gross, but harmless.  I've never been weaker.

Your POV

I laugh to myself, he actually thought he could get away with that?  All he does is play disgusting tricks on everybody and gets no consequences!  Memories arise of all the mean tricks he has played on me in the past.  I feel somewhat homocidal, but I know I could never kill him.  Emotionally, but I'm dependent on him.  I'm not sure why, but I need him, always.  I see a doe and her fawn, run in terror.  "No, wait." I think to myself.  I only want to scare Jack, not innocent creatures.  I immediately stop, allowing the clouds to open up, letting sunlight back in.  One by one, the animals come back.  I feel so powerful, I can literally feel my body and essence pulsing.  I never want this feeling to go away.  I look at Jack, who's paler than usual.  Serves him the right.

Jacks POV

That scene, it took a huge toll on me.  I feel so weak, but I won't let her see it.  She won't be able to stop.  This has gone almost to the point of no return.  She's taking all of my Power.  I know now, she won't stop, even after I'm gone.  She'll just go right on to the next, one by one.  And the replacement Guardians too.  She'll be truly immortal then.  I haven't realized what I really have done, until now.

A/N

Sorry it's kind of short, it's almost like a filler chapter, but yet it kind of isn't???? I'm not sure, but I'm going to try and write on a more consistent schedule, I'm thinking about writing on every Friday, publishing as well.  I might post in between Fridays, but I'm going to try very hard to keep every Friday to writing. Phew, okay.  If I forget (which is usually what the reason to not writing) then kindly remind me and I'll get on it.  So yeah, adios xx

(sorry for any errors, I still need to go back and fix typos and whatnotto my chapters)