This chapter has been revised and lengthened. Rereading may be required for those who have read the past version.
Liza Sparks flies across the sky rising oh so high and falling just to pull up at the last moment. She is a young woman with tan flawless skin and ruby hair. She wears a yellow tank top and a pair of cut off jeans that show off her shapely limbs. She is a free spirit who enjoys some variation in life so when she finds herself diving from the sky for the tenth time she gets very bored. I need friends but no one is really that interesting or sane in this world. What should I do now….? I could go annoy Frost and melt some of his flurries into rain. Ya that sounds like fun. He is all about fun anyways. As she continues her mental ramblings she flies faster and faster to her destination, Burgess, knowing that Jack Frost would be there of all places spreading snow in late April. He always liked that place. Should have known it was his home town. When she arrives Jack is too busy talking with Sandman to notice she is there. Figures.
She swiftly sets to work flying to each cloud heating them to the point the snow turns to warm rain while occasionally ducking behind a tree or house when Jack raised his voice excitedly while talking to Sandy. How can Jack get so excited talking to someone who can't speak themselves? A small voice in the back of her head simply says, I wish he would talk to me like that again instead of favoring the guardians. Pushing that thought away she smirks when she finishes. Much better. Liza turns away from Jack landing to look for a hiding spot excited to see Jack's reaction to seeing the rain. She is too busy thinking of his reaction that she doesn't realize he saw her and her gift. He furiously flies to her seeing red.
"Liza! What did you do to my beautiful snow? I promised the kids a snow day tomorrow. NOT rain." She jumps and spins around at the sound of his voice surprised that he ended his "conversation" with the silent man to pay any attention to her actions. The anger flaring in his pale blue eyes is almost enough to make me apologize. Almost. Maybe if he stopped hanging out with those backstabbing Guardians I would, but that's not going to happen. She thinks to herself before opting to respond to his accusations.
"Woah tiger. Kids love mud pies." Liza smiles triumphantly They just don't love me.
"I promised the kids! This is what their belief in me is solely based on! Unlike you the kids believe in me. That means I have a job, as a guardian, to make sure they have fun!" He slams his staff against the ground and ice springs from it in a large fern pattern.
"Your point is? You act as if I am supposed to care. Everyone is forgotten eventually." Her tone snide hinting at past angers and frustrations. she stands a little straighter fire crawling up her arms in pure fury.
"Are you still mad at me for accepting the position as Guardian?! That was 5 years ago! I thought you would have forgiven me by now! I thought we were friends!" His anger rising in his tone the veins in his forehead nearly visible.
"We were! You know I hate them. You always have known. You betrayed me by becoming one of them." Her voice rises. "You abandoned me. Even though I was the only one there for you when you became who you are you left me. You were my only friend and now that you up and left I am the only one I have. I am the only one watching out for me." Her eyes begin to water as she finishes speaking. She slouches just a tad and the fire dies on her skin. The anger is smothered by a long held pain. It hurts her being mad at him. She knows it would be easier to simply forgive him. But that doesn't change what he did… What they did… I have to defend myself so it never happens again… I was already let down once... His eyes lose their rage and become as soft as his snow white hair.
"Why do you hate them? Not once in 300 years have you told me or even hinted at why. Please tell me. I just wanna help." His voice is quiet and full of hope that she will explain her pains.
"Ask your precious guardians. I am sure they would looove to tell you." She continues to speak in a irritated tone just to cover up the pain this conversation is bringing her and she turns away the ice giving soft cracks under her feet.
"I want to hear it from you." His entire posture, from his slumped shoulders to his pleading eyes, begs to know why she is so upset with his friends so that he doesn't lose her as one permanently. Why won't she tell me? He wonders to himself.
I can't tell him. No matter how mad I am at him for joining them I can't be so selfish to tell him what they are really like. He has such a precious bond with them. They make him happy. I can't take that from him no matter how lonely I get. The northern lights reflect their light off of his face and she turns to greet their luminescence. At least now I don't have to tell him. Yet...
"You have to go." She states her voice bland to hide the discontent she feels. Hearing this he flies in front of her so their eyes meet once more.
"Come with me? Please? I know you don't want to see them but maybe if you talk to them you will see they aren't so bad. Maybe you can all finally get along."
"No" Her tone is stern and unwavering yet this only hides the fact she is ready to cry as soon as he should leave. He looks at her dejectedly for a moment before looking away. Jack flies north after making the rain into snow once more. Delicately the flakes fall to the ground and Liza catches one on my palm. She can't help but smile at his persistence. Realizing how distant she was from her best friend, She sinks slowly to the ground letting the snow land in her hair contrasting against the red strands before melting. Her mind then wanders to what happened between her and the Guardians all those years ago and sits in the snow her tears now freely falling.