Later that night, after Sophie was asleep, I slipped out of the window. I wanted to see the pond with the full moon reflecting on it. My parents were sort of superstitious, and they wouldn't let me out during a full moon. The pond with the full moon on it made me sad for some reason, but I was distracted by my necklace glowing brighter than ever. As I watched it, the knot turned into a rose in the shape of a heart with vines growing out of it. I flipped it over and saw the name Mary Overland on the previously flat surface. Around it were the words: Aurora, spirit of love and spring. Suddenly the memories came to me:

My former teacher had given me a book of fairy tales for my eighteenth birthday. I had heard them a thousand times, but for some reason reading them was different. I made it halfway through in one day, but was interrupted when my mom shook my shoulder, "Mary, I need to to keep an eye on your siblings for an hour or two. You can take the book, but you should wrap yourself up."

I put on my thickest jacket, not much of a surprise that it wasn't very warm. Then I headed out with my siblings to the lake. Jack wanted to teach Emma to skate, that much I knew. But deep down inside of me a voice said, "It's too warm. They shouldn't skate. Someone will get hurt." But the book was too interesting.

I only looked up when I heard a crack fill the clearing. Emma was staring at the ice, and Jack had taken off his skates. I stood up and watched him save her. Then I realized where he landed, on the broken ice. Before I could yell out a warning, he fell through. I felt like my heart had gone to the same place as I dropped the book and hurried to the shore. I yelled for Emma to go get help as I ripped off my dress.

I slid to the hole and dove in, quickly getting air in my lungs before diving down. I found Jack fast enough, but getting him to the surface would take time, which we didn't have. I grasped him and struggled to get over two hundred pounds to the surface. After a while my thighs burned and my arms were long past numb. Then I hit ice. I stared through the icy water and struggled to find a way out, but all I saw was ice. The ice had frozen too late to save my brother, and also too early. It wasn't fair!

I started hitting the ice with one hand while holding Jack with the other. After way too long, I heard a strange voice, Let him go. I can save you both, but not if you are touching. So unless you want to share a body with your brother forever, let him go.

I instantly let him go, and saw the change come over me. My hair turned bright red, and my under clothes turned into a tunic and breeches. I reached up, and the ice cracked easily, letting me escape. Then I saw the Moon, I'm sorry to lie to you Aurora Borealis, but your brother couldn't be revived with you holding him. He won't remember anything about you. But I need you to be strong. The spirit of spring has always lead the season spirits. So once again you will be in charge of making sure that Jack Frost behaves.

Fear rushed through me, and I flew home to see them crying. They didn't see me, let alone feel when I tried to hug them. I drifted back to the pond, and saw that the whole thing was covered in a layer of frost. Including my book. I sat next to it, and ripped each page out. No book was worth my siblings' lives. I knew that skating was a bad idea, but I was too engrossed in the fairy tales to think straight. Then I left Burgess behind forever feeling shame beyond anything that I had felt before.

I stayed away from Jack for a long time, until one day a giant rabbit appeared in my subterranean home. He had a light dusting of snow on him, and he looked mad. I cautiously approached him, "I hope that you're not mad at me. And are you the Easter bunny?"

He nodded, "I'm not mad at you sheila, I'm mad at that idiot winter spirit that just ruined my egg hunts. Five feet of snow! On Easter Sunday! Why I'm gonna…"

I held up a hand, "I'll deal with it. The snow will be gone tomorrow, but first I need to make sure that this doesn't happen again."

He looked at me curiously, "What can you do that I can't?"

"First, I can withstand the cold. Second, I can scream until people lose their hearing when I get mad. So I am more of a threat than you may imagine."

Locating Jack wasn't hard, he hadn't left Burgess. He obviously didn't recognize me, but I yelled directly in his ear after introducing myself. Once I was finished, I flew around carefully melting the snow. If I melted it too fast, it would flood everything. But I really wished that I could just talk with Jack. When I returned home, the Bunny was there. He introduced himself, "M'name's E. Aster Bunnymund. You've obviously just turned, how old are you?"

"First off, my name is Aurora, like the name of the northern lights. And I was a day over eighteen when I turned. And that was roughly ten years ago."

He looked at me in shock, "Crikey, you're a young'un aren't cha?"

I shrugged, "I'm not sure what you just said. I've never heard someone that speaks like you before."

He chuckled and tried to translate what he said. Then he handed me and egg, "I figured that you love Easter from how you reacted, so I made this for ya."

From that day on, I was friends with the giant Pooka. He did his best to speak using words that I knew, and I often made sure that Easter was sunny and warm. But one year all of my fairies fainted, and I spent three days trying to wake them up. The night after Easter they all woke up, and acted like nothing happened.

Two weeks later Bunnymund came to visit, and he told me the whole story. I wanted to punch Pitch, but I figured that he had enough to worry about. We were talking when we both heard a voice, "Bunny? Where are you?"

We both stepped out of my house and I saw Jack. At first he flinched, then he recognized me, "Mary? I thought that you died trying to save me!"

I laughed, "Aurora is my name now, and you know how threatening I can be."

The three of us talked for hours, and Jack agreed to stay with me because he didn't have his own home. One day I came back and realised that my item of power wasn't working. My Celtic knot allowed me to feel people that I cared about, but I could only feel Jack at that moment. Then I saw a bolt of light shooting toward us, "Jack! Get over here now!"

I wrapped my necklace around his neck as well, and we both clutched it, hoping that it would protect us. As the spell hit us I felt our memories dissolving, but I used my powers to hold onto them and put them in the necklace. Then I separated our memories and made my amulet split into two halves. Then I passed out as the cold enveloped us.

I stepped away from the lake that I nearly drowned in, and heard a crackle behind me. Then I heard one of the only voices that I could instantly recognize, "Mary, please tell me that you have a killer headache too."

I noticed it when he mentioned it, "Yeah, it makes Pitch seem like a happy memory. But on the bright side, we now know why you cause so many problems."

We went back together quietly talking about what we were going to do about this strange place. Sure it was nice having a family, but they were smothering the two of us. Sooner or later not using our powers would cause problems.

A/N: Welcome to the chaos of my mind. I would really appreciate reviews, heck! I might even like flames if they meant that someone cared enough about my story to write!