The years past by. Those years felt very short for someone that had lived for hundreds of years.

"I saw him, I saw Jack Frost." A child outburst with a smile as he looked out from his window.

"Sure you did Jack." Jamie told the boy before carrying him to the bed, but he couldn't help but look out himself just a little bit. But nothing was there.

"Tell me a story, please." Jack begged his father whom obliged. He told the child about the time when a little boy had gotten the chance to save the world together with the guardians. The Easter Bunny, The Tooth fairy, Santa Claus, Sandman and Jack Frost. It was a story his son had heard many times before, but he never got bored of it. Neither did Jack Frost. He sat outside the window and listened to the story. The story that Jamie thought was a childhood fantasy, but actually were memories.

As the story came to its end, Jack had already fallen asleep. Jamie rose from the bedside and were about to walk out of the room when he noticed the snow gently falling down outside. He walked up to the window and opened it. Looking out in all directions he saw no one else than a couple of passerby's. Even when he looked straight into Jack's eyes for a couple of seconds, he still couldn't see him. But Jack could see him as clearly as if it had been daytime.

As the cold wind made itself reminded, Jamie shivered and closed the window. Jack leaned back with a sigh. Now a days he had stopped seeing Jamie every day he was in Burgess. And he no longer stayed as many weeks after the winter seasons ending as possible just to be close to him. But he still stopped by, and he would probably never stop doing so for as long as Jamie was there. Every time Jack felt lonely while in Burgess or close by, he immediately went to Jamie. Even though he could no longer see Jack, it was still comforting to be close to him and remembering the times they had together.

"Jack!" Toothiana said happy but surprised, before she flied into the arms of the young spirit, giving him a big hug.

"Hey, what's up?" Jack asked laughing once he was released from the tooth fairy's grip. It always felt nice to visit the North pole, there was snow everywhere and North's workshop was filled with all the fun a child, or a mischievous spirit, could wish for. Well, almost everything.

"Bad news, I'm afraid." North said as he shook his head.
"Manny thinks Pitch will be back for revenge soon." Tooth said as she laid a hand on jack's shoulder. "We don't know how much of his power he has been able to regain, maybe he's still too weak to do anything. But be careful just in case, and keep your eyes open." She then warned.

Bunnymund came in shortly afterwards and they explained once again that Pitch might be back and they had to be careful. Sandy had left long before Jack had arrived, and Toothiana left shortly after Bunny had gotten there. Both of them had to work every night and day, and as long as it wasn't anything urgent and dangerous, like when Pitch last had attacked with full power without giving them any time, then it was better for them to go back to work and keep the children believeing and their powers on top.

There was still some time until Easter and Christmas had already passed, so non of them was in a hurry for their job. And the weather wouldn't go berserk just because Jack disappeared for a day or two. So those three stayed in the workshop, planning on what they would do if Pitch was indeed back with full power. But Manny had only warned them that Pitch was back, not that he actually would do anything. He might not have any plans at all for the moment.

After some speculations and planning for the worst case scenario, they decided to put it aside for now. But they didn't depart immediately. Instead they spoke about what had happened since the last time they saw each other. After all, North had been too busy to meet the other guardians during the time around Christmas, and Jack usually didn't meet North and Bunny if they weren't calling him there.

Usually it was Tooth or Sandy he met. Sandy while he worked, and Tooth because she looked for him sometimes while collecting teeth. Now a days she had started to collect teeth together with her little fairies. He visited North a little now and then, but their relationship had been a bit strained lately because of Jack's meetings with Jamie. North was afraid that Jack would get hurt once Jamie was gone if he didn't let go, he was certain that Jack was already hurt just by the fact that Jamie couldn't see him anymore. And Jack didn't want to listen to reason and advice's. He saw Bunnymund even rarer. Bunny wasn't angry at Jack anymore, and they could get along pretty well even though the young spirit sometimes went on the Pookas nerves. But if the others weren't there then they usually didn't meet up.

"And Jamie?" North asked. While telling them about everything that had happened since last time they had seen each other, Jack had deliberately held Jamie out of it.
"What about him?" Jack asked, not able to look straight into the old mans eyes.

"Bloody hell Jack, let it go. He has grown up, he won't be able to see you again." Bunny outburst when he understood what was going on. The others knew about Jack's unwillingness to leave Burgess and Jamie, but most of them stayed out of it. In the beginning all of them had tried to convince him to let it go, but after some time they had stopped. The more they tried, the more Jack distanced himself from them.

Bunny hadn't meant to sound so mean, he was just worried like everybody else. It took some seconds for him to realize what he had said and how Jack might feel because of it. "I'm sorry mate, I didn't mean..."

"You have nothing to do with it." Jack said, interrupting Bunny. "I bring joy to children, I do my duty as a guardian. Whatever I do outside of that is non of your business, so leave me alone." Jack told them angrily and went for the door.