(Hey! I recently saw the movie and fell in love. And this just wouldn't leave me alone. For those following me for my Wolf's Rain fic, I'm working on it. I saw the anime ages ago almost 14 years ago and loved it. But it made me cray for an hour after the end. So I'm finding it tough to hop back into the story. ANYWAY. Enough with my chattering, I DO NOT OWN ANY OF THE EXISTING CHARACTER EXCEPT MY OWN AND THIS STORY! Plus this is Jack OC. I'm gonna try to make this slow and if it's too painful for you guys I don't care. They will get there when I want them too.

How Do You Love Someone?

Chapter 1 - A New Beginning

It was the mirth in the children's eyes that had given her the only idea she could think of. The heat was coming to close. The twins didn't
see the flames arching over the door. It was a game to them. They had taken her joke, something only mentioned in words with no intention
behind them, and made it literal. The four kids that she kept watch over, the little things she adored as they fluttered around her during
her pranks around town, had set fire to the crotched old man's house. The older two had rushed out just in time for her to dash in only to
find the younger pair giggling and surrounded by flames. She had glimpsed the aged wooden beam on the ceiling as it stated to sag and one
side had crashed through the back door; the entrance way had just barely supported the heavy log of the old hut. And the damaged
center had sagged inward starting to split and quickly she used the farming scythe she had made a habit of carring around three years ago
to brace the center of the beam. Both objects groaned, one under the weight of the other and the twins, only 6 years of age, hadn't
stopped their fit of giggles. And this was because they thought it was a prank. A prank. And it had been her words that had led
them to it. Now her words could fix this.

"Mia! Milo! Let's try another prank." that had the children's attention. Brown eyes, sparkling in the fire. had lit upon her and she
pulled her cloak free from her shoulders. Drawing them close to the door, which groaned under the stress of holding up the ceiling beam,
she pulled the cloak around them and they clutched at it curiously. She hardly ever took it off.

"You need to tackle Archer and Devin. Knock them into the snow for leaving you here, okay?On my count..." She had held up her hand
showing off her five digits. The twins looked excited as she began ticking off the fingers and they rushed to the door.

"2, 1, now!" and they were out, rolling in the snow. Her cloak had dropped just outside the burning building. The floor under her was
catching and the flames licked up the walls, consuming everything they could. There came a massive groan from the thick log above her head,
the scythe cracked and finally shattered. The last thing she saw was the children's laughing turn to horror and then blinding pain pulled
her vision from her.

'They are safe now.' The darkness swirled around her mixing with the tones of the flames around her. Those colors were fading fast.

'I saved them. I just wish, I could have watched them grow up. Never had I felt like this before. I don't... I don't wanna die. I want to
live on. For them, if not for myself. I must... hang on. It hurts. I must ... remember who I am. My name... is ...my name is...is...I
can't remember...'

And the world faded into nothing. No more pain. No more colors, And no more mischief.

"Hello child. I'm the Man in the Moon. And I have a proposition for you. All you must do, is accept."

'I do...'

(Hey. I'm not going to talk much but I ask you to please Review. For those with homework, I'm sorry but it is not a chore. If I don't get reviews then I don't update. That's how it's done. Thank you. . Love you all)