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Jax swore the air was getting colder by the minute. Even as he was running to the rendezvous spot he and Jane set up, he should have been hot and sweaty. But he just felt cold, his nose was runny and goosebumps went through his arms. It seemed like they weren't planning on leaving his body any time soon. Though he was panting once he reached the old tree swing Jane told him about, close by the observatory and the museum for fairytale artifacts.

It was cloudy by the time Jane and Gil (surprisingly) arrived at the spot. They probably had half an hour until sunset. Jax was practically jumping to the moon while Jane had this determined look. Jax had a strange thought as he saw the pair arrived, most people would begin to despise the son of Gaston after five minutes with the pirate, but it hadn't gotten to Jane. Yet. Jax expected her patience to wear thin but was pleasantly surprised at her endurance.

"And then me and Harry jumped off and the bikes flew right into the wall! I expected a bigger kaboom, but it was still pretty fun." Gil had been telling Jane a story of what he was doing earlier today, and Jane was actually paying attention, unlike most people who tend to tune him out. "Hey, look it's Jax!" Gil smiled at the appearance of his friend and ran to hug him.

Jax stood uncomfortably in Gil's strong embrace. The guy was a hugger, what could he do? "It's good to see you, Gil. You know, again." He was finally let go and once the Hatter fixed his shirt, he nodded towards Jane. "You ready?"

Jane only nodded back.

She looked worried, and though he knew that if she began to rethink this, she could end up not helping at all, leading his friends to suffer in this realm. He knew that, but he couldn't help asking her if she was alright, he didn't want to make her do anything she didn't want to. "Okay, you're ready. Now I've got to ask, are you okay?"

Jane gave an awkward chuckle, "I'm terrified," she answered honestly,  "Oh, completely terrified. But that doesn't mean I'm not gonna try." She said when she saw how concerned Jax's face became.

"Thank you for this. You don't know what it means."

"I know a little bit." She softly added.

"Wait, what are we doing?" Gil cut in the moment, not knowing what the two were planning on doing. "Wait a sec, why aren't you with Harry and Uma? They went to track down Audrey at her cottage."

"He's right, and they've got a good lead so we should hurry this up." She insisted as she took the lead and started a course for the museum.

"So, what is it that we're doing? I thought we were gonna look for your mom?" His eyebrows lowered in confusion as he walked alongside Jax.

"It's more like we're going to look for my mom's old wand." She said quickly, keeping her fast pace.

Jax fell behind Jane as he began to explain the situation to his old friend, "Jane has agreed to help me track down my Wonderland friends so we could all leave before the rest of this kingdom wakes up."