RotG - The Guardian of Belief (Jack X Reader)

Chapter 11

[Burgess Primary School, Your POV]

You had just made it to the school, and went straight into the Learning Support class room sighing when you see the Mr Williams wasn't there. You fish out some paper and some pencils and begin letting your mind wonder as you let the pencil fly over the sheet of paper.

Because you had your eyes closed, and your ears turned off you didn't hear the door open, or the first couple of times of someone calling for your attention.

"(Y/N)!" they called again making you jump and grab for your pepper-spray spinning around about to press down the button, when you see it was only (bfn).

"Oh... Hey (bfn)," you say in a dull voice putting the spray away "Err... sorry about that, and um not hearing you. You ok?"

"I think the better question (y/n) is... Are you ok?" they ask sitting down opposite you a kind smile on their face.

"Yeah, I um... Just had a trip down Memory Lane last night," you say "It's ok it was the good memories, sort of the first clips were of my dad, but the rest were alright." you say.

"So why you upset and mopey?" (bfn) asked.

"I am not 'Upset and Mopey'," you say put off slightly.

"(nick-name), I've know you since we were kids," (bfn) said giving an 'yeah right' look to you "I've learnt by now, that you only draw with so... much concentration you shut the world around you out, when something's bothering you."

"Ok," you say taking in a deep breath "There is... something. But one, it's hard to explain and two, hard understand and/or believe in. And you don't need to bother yourself with my problems." you say trying to sound happy not wanting to tell any Guardians stories to (bfn) just yet.

"How's that crush of yours?" you ask, turning the arrow to them. "How'd that date go?"


Before they even said one thing they were saved by Mr. Williams coming in and the bell ringing telling you both they had to go.

"See you later then (y/n)," they say "Hope you feel better."

"Something on you mind then (y/n)?" Mr Williams asked as he was looking over his teacher's diary for that day, spotting your drawings.

"Yeah," you say stashing them away as the kids began coming in "But I'll tell you later Bill, it's a longish story and one that I don't want the kids to hear. It's not bad, just one I think some of them will over react to," you explain.

"Alright..." Mr Williams says not sure "Can you hand out sheet's of paper for the kids for their spelling tests please?" he asked nicely.

Nodding you begin to set pieces of paper at every seat trying to work out how you'd explain the Moonbeam story to Mr Williams as you did.

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At break you asked of the same deal you made with (bfn) on Wednesday so you could spend it talking to Mr Williams.

"So my dear," he asked once he shut the class room door after the last student was out. "What seems to be the problem?"

Not knowing where to begin you go over to your stuff and pull 'The Guardians of Childhood' out and look at it.

"To start with... Do you still truly believe in Santa Clause, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, the Sandman, Jack Frost, and the Boogieman. Because this will hopefully be a whole lot easier and understood better if you did."

"I'm guessing it's been Jack that's been on your mind the last few days then?" he asked getting you to look up with surprise that it was going to be this easy, making him chuckle a bit.

"Honey, when you're a parent of three daughters filled with hope and wonder and dreams, always talking to invisible yet real to them beings, you tend to slip into the same eyes group as you called it while talking to Ronnie and Alice the other day."

"Then yes. Yes it is Jack that I've been talking about," you say hugging the book not wanting to look Bill in the eye. "And yesterday after school was done, as a request from me he came over and I told him that Pitch offered me something to take my fears away. We were just coming round to 'Why he would do that?' when one of his Nightmares came and made Jack leave me, only for it to be a distraction for Pitch to kidnap me.

'I woke up in his lair in the same... setting as..." you pause here feeling Bill will understand you carry on. "But he said that he only wanted me so he could get Jack so he could begin his try of taking over the planet again.

'Jack eventually found me when Pitch offered another deal, about giving me the whereabouts of Him, with me about staying quiet about all that to the Guardians, but I turned it down.

'We got to the Pole, explained what happened when my lantern, err... something I made the night of the power cut," you explain "led me to a locked door. We got it open, and on the wall opposite was a tapestry of someone called Moonbeam, who Sandy said was Manny's big sister and... and me." you pause to see if Bill was getting this, relived by the nod and kind smile you continue.

"Later, he and Jack came round and we had a trip down Memory Lane using Moonbeam and my baby teeth, um... Tooth is the Guardian of Memories and says that that's why she collects them. Anyway...

'Moonbeam's said that she or I? I don't know, was killed by Pitch while trying to protect Manny. And mine showed me and Jack that through out my whole life, I've had Guardians visit me. The very first memory of one my very first nights in the hospital and Manny coming to visit me when everyone else was asleep apparently recognizing me as his sister." you finish.

After a few seconds Mr Williams spoke up.

"So, if I may dear," he said "Why are you so put out today?"

"Moonbeams began with her talking to Nightlight, saying that she didn't want to have a baby brother. And then before she could begin the healing process of Older-Sibling-Tosis, even though she was protecting him, she was killed meaning the month old boy would never know how much he meant to her." you explain hugging the book tighter feeling tears come to your eyes.

"That's what you were upset about?" a new voice said making you look up to see Jack leaning against the door post watching the scene. "(y/n) I'm not sure how much you know about me. But I sort of went the same way you did. One winter's day my little sister and I went skating but I didn't check the ice," he began coming over.

"Eventually it started to crack under her, I had just got her to safety, when I fell in my self. Yeah she was a smidge older than Manny was, but I had Older-Sibling-Tosis too.

'One time I tried wrapping her up in brown paper and stuck stamps over her and gave her to the post man. Only for that to blow in my face when the doof came back meaning I got grounded for two weeks." he mumbled.

"Anyway... As we've already said, when I woke up again I had no clue what-so-ever who I was. Until that Easter four years ago, I didn't know I had a life before I became Jack Frost. Meaning Emma never saw me again, and even though I might of seen her, I had no idea who she was."

You stayed quiet for a bit getting your thought in order with the story Jack just gave out.

"I guess that helped a bit..." you say not quite sure. Then you remembered there was a third party with you. "Oh err... Bill this is Jack Frost, Jack this is Bill Williams," you say getting up and putting the book away.

"Nice to finally meet you son," Mr Williams said holding out his hand smiling.

"Wait you can see me?" Jack asked surprised looking straight at Bill "And you can hear me?"

"Why else do you think I'm holding out my hand to you?" he said shrugging, smiling at how happy Jack seemed to get when the boy took the older man's hand and shook it.

"I'm warning you though boy," he said in barely more than a whisper while you were having a quick sip of (fave drink) "You do anything funny with her, or make her cry, or anything... You'll wish that I can't see you. Understand."

"Sir as a word of a Guardian, I promise I won't let anything happen to her on purpose," Jack said straight faced narrowing his eyes, finally letting go of Bill's hand.

"So why you here Jack?" you asked turning back to him.

"I wanted to check up on you that's why," Jack said shrugging "But I see you're doing alright, I'll come by later. I want to show you something if you trust me to look after you after nightfall."

"Um... Ok," you say smiling playing with your hair feeling you cheeks warm up. "Bye then Jack," with that Jack left.

"I saw that," Mr Williams said smirking gently.

"What?" you ask looking to the man you thought more of your dad than your dad ever was.

"You like him, don't you?" he said setting the students school books at their places.

"Well... maybe a little," you say going to help.

Just then the bell rang and everyone came filing back in and the science lesson started, today much to your disappointment, the lesson was outer space and the planets and such.