Always with you

Hello there. How are you all? thank you for taking time to read my story. This is my first fanfic ever so I hope you like it . excuse me if my English is bad it's not my native language but I hope you would enjoy reading it. there will be a mild crossover and future chapters maybe rated T due to mention of blood . please review

Chapter 1: Aftermath

It's been a long day and the guardians were returning to the north pole after their battle with the boogeyman and boy they were tired, in fact bunnymund was so tired to even care about his fear of heights. He sat back and observed his friends from time to time and watch how tooth was leaning her head on her crossed arms and enjoying the breeze that is ruffling her feathers , she was so quiet , which surprised bunny he didn't know that she knew the meaning of quite.

Next his eyes fell on north , who was driving the sleigh while occasionally looking over his shoulders to check on his teammates. Bunny was so relieved that north is back to his jolly capable self instead of the barley can walk on his own old man that he temporally become during the battle , he always saw north as a fearless courageous swordsman and even though north can get under his skin with his constant rubbish of Christmas is better than Easter , he held nothing but respect for the old Cossack and didn't want anything like that to happen to him again.

Then his gaze shifted to sandy. The oldest of the guardians was sleeping contently on jack's lap while his head was lying on jack's chest. The sandman apparently was dreaming about eggnogs and punishing north's elves if the flying eggnog's mugs above his head and him whipping the elves with his dream whips was any indication , he looked so peaceful in his sleep and with the constant rise and fall of his chest and his short stature even bunny couldn't resist thinking how adorable sandy was in his sleep , well not as much as his googies that's for sure, he looked like a toddler and the way jack was warping his arms around him further emphasized this , which made bunny chuckle . bunnymund was reculant to turn his eyes away from sandy and he's not the only one the rest of the guardians, minus one, were also reculant as if sandy would disappear if they turned their eyes away. And can you blame them, sandy was "gone" and they felt helpless without him . The sight of him being struck in the back and turning into nightmare sand was still fresh in their mind . The guardians had to make sure sandy was back and that they were not dreaming because they couldn't experience losing him again not just because they need him to keep the children's believe in them, but also because he is a valuable friend and member of their team .

After making sure that sandy isn't disappearing any time soon bunny rested his eyes on the person sandy has his head on , Jack frost . Like sandy, he was asleep, with one hand warped around sandy as if he was his teddy bear, which is kind of cute, and the other was holding his staff, which had beautiful frost pattern around it ( yes even buunymund with his dislike of the cold thinks that the frost pattern is beautiful). As he looked at the boy he remembered the adventures of the past few days from when the man in moon had chosen him to the moment that jack took his oath as a guardian. He recalled how mean he was to the kid taunting him about his invisibility and lack of believers and how his eyes reflected the pain and hurt when bunny mentioned it . he owed jack an apology especially after what he had said to him last Easter . He was so shocked of having a child pass right through him as if he were a ghost it made him question his own existence and wondered how jack lived with this for the last 3 centuries?, and how did this not break him? It truly showed how strong the boy is . The kid didn't give up after all these years and he kept smiling and laughing . It was hard not to develop some form of respect for the winter spirit especially when he returned to help them after the guardians turned their backs on him. Bunny couldn't be more thankful or grateful . Yeah he owed the kid big time. This caught bunny's attention how he didn't notice that he kept calling jack a kid and a boy . Now that all this pitch fiasco was over he took a good look at the sprite , he really did look like a kid not older than 14 , which made bunny feel even more guilty. How did he not realize this before ?!

Jack is a CHILD! And bunny did nothing but insult jack instead of helping him. How could be a guardian if made a child feel pain?

The more bunny thought about it and the more he looked at jack the guiltier he felt . At this moment, bunny decided that he would start over with the kid and make it up to him even if it took eternity.

After what felt like forever (In bunny's eyes) the guardians finally reached the north pole each of them got off and were tired except for two who slept contently next to each other . North noticed so did the other two this and head back to the sleigh to wake the sleeping guardians. Even thought North didn't want to because both sandy and jack looked so peaceful in their sleep , and he hated to wake them up from it . But he can't leave them sleeping on the sleigh he wanted to take them to one of his many guest rooms at the pole . North reached his hand to Sandy's shoulder to and shook it , which only caused Sandy to snuggle deeper (if that was even possible) to Jack's chest, and Jake warped his arm more tightly around Sandy.

Tooth could barley hold back an "AWWW" at the site and looked pleadingly at North to let them sleep. North couldn't disagree so he called Phil to bring pillows and blankets for all of them. When bunny asked Why? North simply answered "to join them of course why else ?

Tooth couldn't be more happy and lied next to Jack, while baby tooth sat on Jack's shoulder and snuggled to his neck . Bunny rolled his eyes at North's and Tooth's antics, but he didn't disagree and went to the sleigh and sat across the other three eh four if you include baby tooth , which you should(he was not going to join them in their snuggle he has his pride you know) . And lastly came North after he took the pillows and blankets from Phil , gave each one of the two items to bunny and tooth and adjusted Jack's head so he could put a pillow behind him. Sandy didn't seem to need a pillow since his head is rested on Jack's chest and because of that position both the sleeping guardians shared a blanket .

After all of this was done , North sat a little far from bunny and went to sleep.

Once all the remaining guardians were asleep, Phil snuck in , took his camera out and snapped shot at the five guardians sleeping in the sleigh. He just couldn't resist ,the sight was just heartwarming and then left the guardians to their peaceful slumber.

"Maybe I could use a picture as a blackmail to North to give us more vacations the leprecoun would definitely love to see this , or to Jack so he could stop sneaking inside the work shop , even though he doesn't need to do that anymore. Either way he is putting this picture for good use