Ch 3
When it was morning, Jack was the one who came down to check on me. As he came in, he saw me sleeping on the bed with the gray cover up to my shoulder.
He hesitated but unlocked the door and walked in. He bent down next to me and saw my eyes closed and my brown hair almost covering one side of my face. He came and gently brushed it behind my ear.
As he pulled his hand away, my blue eyes fluttered open and saw him there. I looked at him and then sat up. He stood up and cleared his throat and said "if you want, you've been invited to eat breakfast with us in the main hall." I nodded and said "will you take me?" It was jack's turn to nod.
I stood up and followed him, still in my blue dress.
As we walked down to the main hall, I looked around at all the little things and was almost amazed. As we got to the main hall, I stopped in front of the table. All the guardians were sitting at the table.
North was at the end of the table, Sandy, tooth and bunny were at one side and jack was on the other side with an empty seat next to him.
I stood there and looked at all the guardians and then north said with his deep voice "Welcome! Have a seat." I walked over to the seat next to Jack and sat down. I dint say anything and then the plates arrived.
I looked at the yetis and said thank you as one placed a plate in front of me. Everyone started eating and I ate slowly.
After a couple of minutes of the guardians talking between themselves, I heard a question directed to me. "So my dear. What is your name? "I looked at him and said "my name is Rayna." "So Rayna, how long have you had this power?"
I thought and said "a couple of months, maybe a year or two." They all looked surprises. "You've only had your power for that short of a time?" Asked tooth.
I looked at her and nodded. "How did you get your power?" Asked Sandy with signs. "One night, it was freezing in my room and the window burst open and let in cold air. I went to close it but I fell out of the window and into the cold. I had stayed there all night and the next thing I knew, I had powers when I woke up."
Bunny looked at me and said "how come you don't have white hair like frosty over there?" I could tell he still dint trust me but at least he talked to me.
I looked over at Jack who was also interested in knowing. I looked at his hair and said "I don't know. It never occurred to me that my hair would turn white." And I turned back and looked at bunny and said "I guess my hair just dint want to change colour." And I heard a small laugh from the others.
As we kept eating, North asked another question "so, how did you end up staying with pitch?" I swallowed hard and said "he found me after that I ran away." "Why did you run away?" I heard the tooth fairy's voice ask.
I looked down at my plate and said with a sadder voice "I was playing with my sister a couple of days after that I had gotten my powers. I still dint know all of them, I just thought that I could only make snowflakes. So we were playing and then when I tripped, the ground froze and my sister was standing there and the ice went right to her. I saw that the ice was going up her boots.
As I ran to her and took her hand, ice started forming on her arm to. I saw it spread all over her body. I screamed and my parents came and took her inside, almost completely frozen. I knew that I was the one who did that to my little sister so I ran away. Pitch found me when I was hiding under a tree one night and told me that I could go with him. When I asked him to see if my sister was ok, he told me that she had frozen solid."
I choked on the last word and everything went silent. I pulled back my chair and said "thank you for breakfast" and walked down the hallway back to the cells, not daring to look any of them in the eyes.
The guardians all looked at each other and they all had a mix of sadness and shock in their eyes. Bunny was the first to speak "I knew she couldn't be trusted, she froze her own sister." But as he said that, the tooth fairy hit him upside the head. "Ow!"
"Can't you tell that she is crushed? She wanted to protect her sister, not hurt her." And at that, the rooms went silent again.
Tooth got up and said "I'll go check on her" and flew away. "She's right. Last night she called herself a monster. You don't call yourself that unless you believe it. She's hurt. Jack, what is it?" He said while seeing Jack staring at the edge if the table and then the floor. "It's... Nothing."
And he got up and walked away. On the edge of the table where I had put my hands to pull away and on the ground were I walked away, it was covered in a thin layer of ice.
Jack walked downstairs to the cell and stopped as he heard tooth's voice speaking to me. "Don't worry, its ok. I'm sure your sister knows that you love her, It's was an accident." "But It's my fault. It's my fault that she's dead. She thought it was a game, she thought that the ice was just a trick." And I choked up in my last words.
"Don't be so hard on yourself." The tooth fairy said. At that, jack stepped out and said "tooth's right. You shouldn't be so hard on yourself." And as tooth saw Jack, she said "I'm gonna go get you something warm to drink ok." And she flew away.
I was still slouched over but I had whipped away any tears leaking from my eyes and took deep breaths. Jack came over to my bed and sat down next to me. "You know it could have happened to anyone. It was an accident, don't break your head over it. Hey at least she had fun with you before..." He paused but I finished his sentence and said "before I froze her."
And that was the last straw, I had put my hands over my eyes, bent down on my knees and cried my eyes out. Jack wrapped his arms around me and tried to tell me it was ok, but it dint help.
Soon, frost started spreading from where I was. Jack got up and kneeled in front of me. "Hey. Hey, It's ok. I'm here, I'm here. Don't worry, you're not alone." As he said that, I lifted my head and looked at him.
He gave me a little smile and I smiled back and laughed a bit. I sat up straight and whipped the tears away with the back of my hands. "Oh my gosh, I'm such a mess. Sorry about that" and I whipped the tears away.
"Don't worry about It" and as I took a deep breath, I heard north come down the stairs. "Rayna, if you would like it better than staying down here, you can have a room upstairs." I looked up at him and said "I'd like that very much."
