I don't own RotG, but oh, god, those EYES! *faints*

Jack: *pokes her with his toe* Is it dead...?

"Jack, what's wrong?" Tooth asked, concern filling her voice.

"Yeah, Frostbite, what's eating you?" Bunny echoed Tooth's question with a bit less sentiment.

"What do you think?!" Jack whirled on his fellow Guardians, the true extent of the problem finally showing through, "Just take a wild guess!"

North, Tooth, Bunny, and Sandy stared, awestruck, at the youngest Guardian.

"What is it, Jack?" North asked, "Please, explain."

"I'm a Guardian, now, right?" Jack asked, tensly.

The rest of them nodded, uncertain as to where he was going with this.

"Then why hasn't anything changed?"

A blur of images danced over Sandy's head, forming a question.

"You guys get to be loved!" Jack fumed, "You're Santa and The Easter Bunny and The Tooth Fairy and The Sand Man! You get 'Look what Santa left for you, Alice!' and 'Lets go hunt for Easter Eggs, John!' and 'Oh, wow, the Tooth Fairy came!' and the joy on their faces when they have a really good dream! You get to be warm and cuddly! You get kids that try and stay up all night to see you! But me? I get 'Put on a coat, Billy. You don't want to get nipped on the nose by Jack Frost.' and 'Put your hat on, Jill. You'd hate to get nipped by Jack Frost.' " His face twisted in disgust, and tears glistened in his icy eyes, "No one sits up and waits for me! Snow days don't get a 'Thank you, Jack' or a, 'Yay, Jack Frost.' Not once! Not ever! They still don't believe in me, do they?!"

"Of course they do..." Tooth tried to comfort the snow child, "These thing just take time, Jack, I'm sure they'll - "

"Save it, Tooth." Jack spat, "You don't have to patronize me. I've been invisible for three hundred years. I'm used to it."

With those final words, Jack stormed out of Santoff Clausen into the vast expanse of snow and ice.

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"Why, that little..." Bunnymund was unable to think of a suitable word to describe his current thoughts on Jack as the Frost Sprite stormed away.

"Aster..." North warned, "Calm yourself.

"Calm myself?!" He turned on the elder Guardian with eyes that were bright with anger, "Calm ain't within cooee, now, mate! Not with that little snot running around acting like he's caught in the middle of a Shakespearian tradedy!"

North disregarded Bunnymund's exaggerations.

"The boy has done nothing wrong, Aster." He said, "He is merely...upset."

"Why?" Bunny snapped, "What reason does he have to be upset after all we've given him?"

"He does not feel accepted." North explained, "Does not feel he belongs with us, perhaps."

"Oh, that's a corker of a breakthrough, there." Bunny said, "Here's a nwesflash for you, Nick. He doesn't belong here. We take our jobs seriously, while he lolligags about like the irresponsible little nuisance he is! For three hundred years all he did was get in the way, so why should it be any different - "

"E. Aster Bunnymund, don't you say another word!" Tooth exclaimed.

Bunny and North both froze, shocked at Tooth's outburst.

"He wasn't doing it to be a nuisance, or to get in our way." She said

"Why was he doing it, then?" Bunny demanded, his voice holding the same anger, and bitterness at a lower volume.

"Because he wanted to be noticed." She said, "He's still a child. He died at turning point in his life, and when Manny brought him back, he had no idea what was going on. He was frightened, and alone, and no one knew he was there. And he was still a child. For three hundred years we've been breaking the promises we made when we became Guardians by leaving him to fend for himself."

Realization had slowly wieghed down North's and Bunnymund's expressions as Tooth spoke.

"Now we have a chance to make good on those promises." Tooth continued, her voice softening slightly, "And I don't know about you two, but I'm going to take it."

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Jack kicked savagely at another innocent snow drift, taking his anger out on the frozen powder.

He was still just as invisibe now as he'd ever been. Despite Tooth's efforts, most of the children that had been there that night had forgotten him entirely.

Jamie had held on the longest, but as he'd gotten older, the teasing for his continued belief in the 'imaginary' sprite had become more and more vicious until eventually he had started to lie. He agreed that there was no such thing as Jack Frost, and while, at first, there had been definate indecision and regret behind his words, over time they had started coming easier and easier to him until he, too, had stopped believing.

Sophie was still young enough to insist that Santa and the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy were real, but even in her mind, Jack was a faded memory, like the teddy bear she no longer slept with.

"Something troubling you, Frost?"

He tensed.

He'd know that voice anywhere.

Yep. Jack!angst. I might make another Chapter. Depends.

Edit!

Thanks to popular demand, I have updated this chapter, and am currently writing the next section. CLIFFHANGER! MUAHAHA!

Plenty more angst, and a good ration of whump to come. Thank you for all the reviews and follows!