My Great-Great-Great-Great-So-and-So Uncle Jack

Bunnymund raced through his tunnels towards Burgess. Easter was still a good few months away and he was ahead of his usual production schedule. When he had realized this he had decided to take a few hours off in order to go visit his favorite little ankle biter.

When he exited his tunnel in the forest surrounding Jack's lake he shivered as the cold winter air blew through his fur. He also noticed that it was snowing, which probably meant Jack was nearby, and (most likely) causing trouble.

Bunny shook off those thoughts and hurried in the direction of Sophie and Jamie's house in hopes of playing with Sophie for a few hours before he had to get back to work, and grumbling under his breath about a certain annoying winter spirit and his tendency to make everything colder than it needed to be as he went.

As he approached the Bennett house, he wasn't very surprised to see Jack and Jamie in the midst of a snowball fight in Jamie's front yard while Sophie did her best to play too, but her little toddler legs were unable to keep up with the bigger boys. Not that she seemed to mind as she ran giggling around the yard. However, when she spotted Bunnymund she dropped the sloppy snowball that had been in her hand, and raced over to him and hugging him around his fuzzy leg.

"Easter Bunny, hop, hop, hop!" She cheered, bringing the Pooka to the other two's attention.

A fond smile spread across Bunny's as he reached down and mussed up the girl's already choppy locks. "Hey there, little ankle biter," he said. "Mind if I come for a visit?"

The little girl squealed with joy and jumped up and down enthusiastically.

The smile was wiped off his face when a snowball hit him there. The Pooka turned and glared at the one who threw it. "An' what was that for, Mate?" he asked Jack, who had that smirk on his face. The smirk he always had when someone was about to be on the receiving end of one of his pranks.

"Shouldn't you ask permission before taking her off somewhere?" asked Jack his smirk widening as he spoke.

Jamie, who seemed to have caught on to something Bunny was missing, snickered into his hand.

Bunny gave the winter spirit a deadpan glare. "I can't very well ask her mother's permission, now can I?" He said, "Being that I highly doubt she can see me and all."

He couldn't help but get the feeling that he was about to walk into a trap.

Jack's grin got even wider. "No, but she's got an Uncle in town that can."

Bunny's eyes widened in surprise and interest. While it wasn't impossible, it was very rare that a human would be able to continue seeing people like them after they reached adulthood. And those that did were usually very interesting to meet, if a little on the strange side.

However Bunny's was starting to grow worried about how hard Jamie was snickering.

"Alright, I'll ask him, where is he?" Bunny asked, shaking off the growing dread, and reminding himself that he was a Pooka Warrior, and he could take whatever Jack was fixing to dish out.

Jack tapped his chin, like he was thinking hard about the question, but the mischievous twinkle in his eyes suggested otherwise. "Hmm… I wonder…" he said loftily. He then glanced at the snickering ten year old next to him. "Hey Jamie, do the Kangaroo a favor and point out your favorite Uncle for him."

By now Jamie was shaking with laughter, as he lifted his finger up...

… And pointed directly at Jack.

Bunny who had been about to snap at Jack for calling him a Kangaroo again, felt his ears lay back in shock. He gaped at the two boys for a full minute.

Jack and Jamie burst out laughing at the look on his face. Sophie soon joined in, even though Bunny doubted she even got the joke.

"You- you gotta be kidding, right Mate?" Bunny said once he found his voice again. "This is just a joke Jack put you up too. Crikey you almost had me going there," he said with a weak laugh.

Jamie managed to reign in his laughter as he shook his head at Bunny. "Nope," he said. "I had to do a report on my Family's history about a week ago, and Jack helped me with it."

"You remember how I told you I had a sister back when I was mortal?" Jack pitched in, with a huge grin on his face. After Bunny gave a weak nod he continued, "As it turns out she grew up and eventually married a man who's last name was Bennett. A few generations later…" He made a grand sweeping gesture towards Jamie, "Ta-daa!"

"But-but-but," Bunny stammered, his brain trying process this new information. He glanced down at Sophie, the sweet little toddler who had managed to sneak into his Warren. "Then she's related to you too?"

"Well I would hope so, considering she's my little sister," said Jamie dryly, making Jack snicker.

Bunnymund slumped against the fence surrounding the yard as he tried to wrap his head around the fact that the little girl he was so fond of was a blood relation to the annoying brat who kept sneaking into his warren and putting snow in his bed and freezing his feet to the floor.

Sophie sensing his distress wrapped her arms around his waist as far as she could.

Bunnymund stared down at her. "How can someone as sweet as you be related to that annoying bugger," he asked her softly, ignoring Jack's squawk of protest.

Sophie just looked up at him with her big cute eyes and said, "Bunny play, play, please."

He chuckled, knowing he couldn't say no to her. "Alright Ankle Biter. I'll play with you."

"Ah-bup-bup," Jack interrupted cheerfully, "you said you'd ask permission first. If you don't I can't let you play with my darling niece."

Bunnymund sent Jack a glare. He was tempted to just ignore him, knowing that the winter spirit was probably going to milk this situation for all it was worth, but he had said he would ask. "Can I take Sophie to play?" he asked through clenched teeth.

Jack glanced skyward as if he was mulling it over. "Jee, I don't know…"

Bunny gave his fellow Guardian a deadpan glare, then spun Sophie around so her cuteness was directed at Jack. "You want to say no to this face, Mate?" he asked.

"Please, Uncle Jackie," said Sophie.

Jack caved. "Alright, but don't take her too far and be careful." He then flew up so that he was right in Bunnymund's face. "I really mean that," he continued, his voice serious. "If anything happens to her I'll turn your entire Warren into an ice cube."

Bunny took a step back in surprise. It wasn't often you saw Jack this serious. "What kind of person do you think I am, Mate? I wouldn't let anything happen to her."

Jack gave a shrug, his smile returning, but this time it seemed to have an air of sadness to it. "I know, but they're my sister's great-great-whatever grandkids. I don't want anything to happen to them."

Jack then spun back around and pelted Jamie with a snowball that he'd conjured up. "Now where were we, squirt?"

Jamie laughed, and soon the to were back to their snowball fight as though they had never left it.

Bunnymund gently led Sophie by the hand away from the roughhousing to play a different game. As they went he glanced down at the girl, and marveled at the irony of the whole thing. His personal favorite child was the who knows how many great grand niece of Jack Frost. Who would have thought it.

"Just don't ever grow up to be like him," Bunny muttered to her softly.

Sophie only giggled in response.

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A/N I keep reading stories where Jamie is researching his family tree and discovering that he and Jack are related, and I like those stories. But so far I haven't found one that tells about the other Guardian's reactions to this discovery. I can picture this as being a possible reaction for Bunnymund, and I can so see Jack taking advantage of the fact. I may or my not do the other Guardians' reactions. I don't see any of their reaction's being quiet as interesting as Bunny's but we'll see.