If our love is tragedy why are you my remedy?
If our love is insanity why are you my clarity?
It was a blue day, Jack's favorite kind of day, when the sky is blue and the clouds are white as snow. He was in some city, messing with the mortals during his favorite time of the year. Winter.
He laughed mischievously at his most recent joke as he landed on a rooftop. "Hey Wind" he shouted out, feeling the sharp breeze that stung his cheeks, "Take me to Jamie!" he laughed out as he flew towards the direction of his favorite small town.
Jack has been a guardian for about five or so years now, and gradually he has noticed he has becoming popular with the kids. When there were snow days he often heard kids shout out "Jack Frost!" and laugh for their snow day.
Jack honestly felt that he loved his job as a guardian, and that his job was the best, as he didn't need to worry about deadlines or worrying about not waking up kids and leaving behind a gift. All he had to do was play a game with a lonely kid, enjoy his pranks, and give kids Snow Days.
Jamie was no longer the little kid he used to be, the adorable brown haired boy who was his first believer. However, he still believed in the Guardians with all his heart, and Jack loved to visit him. In fact, today was Jamie's second semester of High School, Jamie told him all about it just a few days ago, and Jack believed that right about now was the time that he got out.
Jack swooped down low to the gate entrance of Burgess high school, right when the school bell rang sounding the end of the school day.
Jack watched with curiosity as teens with bags slung over their shoulders and a group of preppy girls with ponytails chatted on their cell phones, and he wondered, what would it be like if I was a mortal teen again?
"Jamie!" Jack yelled in surprise as he saw the boy walk out of the schools doors. He had a scarf wrapped around his neck, and he was wearing a thick letterman jacket that had his high school's initials on it. He was cradling a football in one arm, and had his bag slung over his other shoulder. He looked kind of down, as he kept his eyes down on the pavement, with a light frown on his face.
Jack smiled at him, as Jamie walked over to the front gate, and said, "hey, Jamie, how was school?" Jack waved, but when Jamie walked by him he didn't even look up. Jack swooped in front of Jamie to get his attention, "Hey Jamie?" but instead of stopping in front of him he just walked right through him.
Jack gasped as he felt the queasy feeling of having a person walk by him, "Jamie?" Jack looked back at the boy as he walked away from Jack. He didn't believe in him anymore. He was no longer a kid anymore, so it was natural for Jamie to stop believing in him. Whenever there was a kid that stopped believing because of growing up, the guardians wouldn't mind since there were more children that would take the growing teen's place.
As Jack watched Jamie walking home, he noticed two beefy athletic looking teens watching Jamie. One of them was blonde and had a large brow that made him look like a dumb ape, his hair was cut short and and he wore a dumb smirk on his face that squinted his eyes. The other teen was a little shorter, and he had brown hair that hung limp, he had a pimple on his cheek, and bushy eyebrows that made him look like he experienced puberty at an early age.
Jack watched as the two boys smirked at Jamie with a look that Jack knew all too well.
When Jamie came up to them they called out, "Hey squirt," with a look that suggested that they weren't going to be friendly. Jamie seemed to recognize the two boys for his face turned into one with fear. Jack knew that this wasn't going to turn out well. Jack watched as the boys went up to Jamie and said something to him, he didn't know what, but he knew it wasn't good because the Jamie turned and ran.
After seeing the two Ape Teens sneer at Jamie, he turned and ran in the opposite direction, which just so happened to be towards Jack, but Jamie couldn't see him.
Jack ignored the awful queasy feeling when Jamie ran through him again and lifted himself into the air right after him, "Don't worry bud, I got you," Jack said, even though Jamie couldn't hear him.
With a swish of his staff jack put ice on the sidewalk behind Jamie, making the two ape like boys slip and fall on the concrete. Unfortunately, Jack didn't realize that his Ice made Jamie slip as well. Thinking quickly Jack made the ice turn into a slide. "I'll take you home Jamie," Jack told him, flying beside him.
He made Jamie slide into a trash can lid, the lid sliding in front of him. Then after making a little ramp-like bump in the ice, Jamie lifted up a little and landed back down onto the trashcan lid. Jamie's backpack contents making a clanging noise from the sharp landing.
Jack looked behind Jamie to notice that the two apes were sliding on the ice a ways behind Jamie as well. To keep the two ape bullies from following Jamie, he broke off the Ice on the sidewalk and continued the rest of the ice slide onto the street.
Jamie then yelled as an oncoming truck was heading straight at him, "Woah!" Jack laughed as he led the ice slide around the truck, and towards a curb ramp. Which, just so happened to make Jamie slide through an intersection. Fortunately, the green light hadn't changed, so Jamie got onto the side walk safely without getting hit by oncoming traffic.
Jamie continued to slide, only faster now as the momentum of going down hill and gravity propelled him forward. Jack then turned him down the street towards the park near Jamie's house, where he slid him down to a halt in front of the statue of a young family, with a man, woman, and child that was hugging her mother around her waist.
Suddenly feeling a moment of deja vu, Jamie got up and looked around his surroundings. With a scrunch on his brow, he noticed the statue behind him, and then raised a hand towards his front tooth.
"There's the little Freshie!" turning towards the direction of the yell, Jamie saw as the two bullies revealed themselves across the other side of the street. He got up and putting his back pack over both of his shoulders he ran down the street towards his house, he didn't stop until he was safe behind his front door.
"How was school honey?" called Jamie Bennett's mother from the kitchen. He passed by the living room where his little sister, Sophie, was watching T.V and up the stairs after calling out, "It was fine," and slammed his bed room door behind him.
Jack circled the old deep red rug that belonged in North's giant workshop. "Man, Jamie just forgot about me, he walked right through me," Jack said recounting the story to North himself who was eating from a plate of cookies by the fireplace. The Christmas season was now over, and North was enjoying a much needed break from inventing some new toys for next year.
"Maybe, boy just need reminder," North said enthusiastically with his Russian accent.
"But how? Jamie's growing up, it's natural for him to stop believing in me," Jack said while freezing an Elf that was carrying a plate of drinks, the elf falling down on his side with a frozen smile.
"Mate, sometimes things just need to be left as they are," Bunnymund said from the other side of the room with his arms crossed, Sandman standing behind him with a nod.
"yeah," Tooth agreed, "don't worry Jack, just because he's stopped believing in you doesn't mean that he doesn't remember a Jack Frost," she said giving him a smile and a kind hand on his cold shoulder.
North smiled, "yeah, just because kids no longer believe in me, doesn't mean they forget me!" he said while waving his thick arms around.
Jack shrugged it off and said, "yeah, but that's cause you're Santa Clause, who can forget you!" turning back around to face the large believing globe in the middle of the room.
North then looked over to Sandy and said, "well, he is right bout that, who can forget me" he laughed.
"Oh and then I found out that Jamie is being bullied as well," Jack recalled, "took him on a new 'freak accident' to help him get home, and even then he didn't remember me!" Jack said in frustration.
"Jack," Tooth looked over at him with a sympathetic expression, "maybe you should just let it go, It's time to let Jamie grow up," she advised him.
"Yeah Mate, don't worry, you always find kids who believe in you around," Bunnymund said sitting down on one of North's large red arm chairs.
"Yeah, I know you guys are right," Jack said brushing some of his hair out of his face. If only Jamie still believed in him, it was only two days ago that Jack had talked to him about school. Jamie was so excited, talking about how he was going to try out for the football team.
Jack was also worried about those bullies, just because he helped Jack escape the first time didn't mean that those boys would forget about Jamie. And that also meant that jack wouldn't always be around to help Jamie out.
"I got it!" Jack suddenly yelled out, surprising the other guardians. "What is it?" Tooth said flying towards him.
"I know what I can do! I'll just follow Jamie around school for a while, until he at least remembers me!" Jack grinned at his idea.
The other guardians looked at each other with worried looks, their plan on getting Jack to forget about Jamie failed. Bunnymund sat up in his arm chair and said, "mate, I don't think that's a good idea," but Jack ignored Bunnymund's warning and just kept going.
"It's a brilliant idea! The teens there don't believe in us anymore, so I don't need to worry about being seen, I can just follow Jamie around a little and give him little hints!" Jack grinned wide waving his arms around at his brilliant idea.
"I gotta go!" Jack said rising into the air, "I know what I should do first!" going straight for one of the open windows at the top of North's workshop.
"Jack, wait!," Tooth called out, but it was too late. Jack was already gone determined that his idea was flawless.
A/N: Okay, bear with me here, I'm putting some chapters together that I find are too short. I was looking at all the chapters I had and I thought to myself that it made my story feel unnecessarily long to get to the plot.
I added chapter 2 onto this one, and edited it so it made more sense! I will also continue editing my other chapters together.
Please let me know if you see a mistake! :P Thanks!