and the oxymoron that is 'eternal fear'
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But Winter Must Give Way to Spring by DJFero (orphan_account)
Fandoms: Rise of the Guardians (2012)
31 Dec 2012
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"It's 1914 when he first meets another immortal. Two of them."
"It's in 2005 that he meets Pitch on a battlefield again, in a place he'd never thought he'd find himself: a place too hot for Jack and too bright for Pitch, but there they (awkwardly) are."
Two times that Jack encounters Pitch on the warfront: once during a surprisingly peaceful Christmas between trenches; once while watching over Captain Jamie Bennett, a Marine stationed in Afghanistan who still believes in the spirit of winter, and whom Jack intends to keep alive long enough to spread that belief to children of his own.
At each of these meetings, the Nightmare King manages despite his better nature (or worse, as the case may be) to ease Jack's fears of what that enigmatic spirit called War may bring in the future.
And maybe Pitch does it just because he wants what anyone wants:
To be understood.