A/N: To clarify anything, Zack is the firstborn, Tifa is the second born, and Marlene is the third and last born. The are all descendants of D.E.'s younger sister, Lily, who has a remarkable resemblance to Marlene and a younger, human D.E.. Cloud is Tifa's boyfriend and Aerith is Zack's girlfriend. For all Final Fantasy VII fans you know that I don't own Zack, Tifa, Aerith, Cloud, or Marlene. They belong to square enix, but they are still my OC'S.

Burgess, (9:30 pm, the day before Christmas Eve on the Western Hemisphere Christmas Eve, sometime during the afternoon on the Eastern Hemisphere)

North flew the sleigh over the starry sky of Burgess and landed it just outside the woods. Jack hopped out dragging D.E. with him. " North," he yelled ," I'll go get the kids! I think they're having a sleepover at Jamie's!"

Then he grabbed her wrist and started dragging her towards Jamie's house.


Burgess-11:30pm

Jack and D.E. were running towards Jamie's house. They had gotten sidetracked and now they were two hours late in meeting back up with the Guardians.

"I can't believe you talked me into a snow-ball fight! Aren't we suppose to be on the job?" D.E. panted. " Man we are screwed!"

" Hey even you can't deny that it was fun, even if you lost." Jack laughed breathlessly.

D.E. raised an eyebrow at him. " I lost? No ,sir, I believe it was you who lost!"

Jack laughed at her. " Um, hello! I am Jack Frost! Lord of Winter and King of Snowball-fights, there is no way I lost."

They stopped running to catch their breath and they walked the rest of the way to Jamie's house. D.E. chuckled ," I think you forgot that we pretty much lived together for three hundred years. I've picked up on some of your tricks."

Jack smiled. " You act like my sister, Emma."

D.E. stopped smiling. " Emma. How? You ... you know about Emma."

Jack didn't notice the fear in her voice. " Yeah, last year when the Guardians and I fought Pitch I got my memories back. The memories from when I was human."

D.E. felt a lump in her throat. " What did you remember? Do you remember ever being engaged to anyone?"

Jacks eyebrows furrowed. " I remember my sister, my mother ,and my father. I also remember my happiest memories from my human life. But I don't remember being engaged to..." Jack's eyes went wide and then he grinned. " Wait, yes I do. I was engaged to this beautiful girl. She was my childhood friend and she was the daughter of a wealthy plantation owner. You would have liked her ,D.E., her name was Susanna Rosella Burgess. Her family actually founded this town." Jack's eyes went from joy to sadness. " She said yes to marrying me, but ... well ... two months before our wedding, sometime in the spring, she went into the woods. Susanna was trying to save her sister ,Lily ,from a pack of wolves. She and her twin brother , Simon, fought the wolves off long enough for the three of them to climb up a tree to escape the wolves. That worked for a little while, but then the wolves started climbing up the tree. Susanna had her brother and her sister jump to another branch, to safety. But went she tried to jump..."

D.E. interrupted, " ... The branch snapped and she fell. Susanna died from the impact and was buried in the woods, by her brother."

Jack looked at her confused. " How did you know that?"

D.E. walked up to him. " Jack, look at me. Don't I look familiar to you?"

Jack raised and eyebrow and squinted at her face. Then Jack's eyed went wide and he gasped ," S-Susanna!"

D.E. turned away from him, tears starting to fill her eyes. " Yes. Jack, I'm so sorry I wanted to tell you about everything. Us, your memories, your family, I wanted to tell you. God, you must hate me."

Jack glided up to her turned her around and put his hands on her shoulders. " Woah, woah, woah. Stop the waterworks, Daffodil." D.E. smiled at his nickname for her. Jack grinned that he was able to make her smile. He said ," Now, no more drama. Trust me, I know from experience, drama leads to kidnapping, and/or confrontations with people you don't want to confront. Now I know you have a reason for not telling me. Now what is it?"

D.E. bit her lip. " Well...on the night you were chosen, the night we met, Man in Moon talked to me ,Jack. He told me ...ahh, he told me that I wasn't allowed to the you about your past life. He said it was important that you didn't know about your human memories."

Jack took this in and nooded. " Okay, was that so hard. Look, Manny was right. I needed to learn about my memories at the right time, and well , fighting Pitch was the right time." D.E. and Jack smiled at each other. Jack grabbed her wrist and started pulling her towards Jamie's house. " Come on, lets go meet the kids. You'll like 'em."

D.E. nodded and followed Jack towards the house. Okay, she thought, he knows about one of my secrets and he took it well, but how is he goin to take my BIG secret? D.E. mentally bit her lip. No one could know. No one, not even Jack.


Jamie's Bedroom Window-11:55pm

Jack and D.E. flew up to Jamie's window and peered inside and saw all the kids running around the room, playing. D.E. recognized them, they were the kids in her woods.

" So those the little buggers that helped you last year. So they are smarter than they look." she whispered.

" What? What do you mean?" Jack asked eyebrows raised.

D.E. chuckled ," See the girl with the black hair put into a braid, Marlene I think her name is, she started climbing up a tree in our forest and she nearly fell to her death."

Jack's mouth formed and 'O'. Then he smiled, opened the window ,and said ," Hey ,kids, guess who's here?" All the kids saw Jack, ran to him and they all hugged him at the same time. They manged to tackle him onto the bed.

Jack looked among the kids. " Hey, where's Jamie?"

Suddenly a blur of movement tackled Jacks head ,yelling ," SNEAK ATTACK!"

D.E. burst out laughing and started rolling on the ground as Jack tried to remove Jamie from his face. " Jamie, I can't breath. Get OFF!" Jack laughed as he finally pulled Jamie off.

Jack just looked at her and shouted ," WOW, what a great friend I have. Yep, a true friend just stands there and laughs while you're being suffocated ."

D.E. grinned, shrugged, and sat with her legs crossed as she watched Jack play with the kids. Jamie looked at Jack confused," Jack, who are you talking to?"

D.E.'s grin faded, of course the kids didn't see her. Marlene suddenly piped up," I would ask you the same question ,Jamie. Who are you talking to?"

D.E. looked at Marlene. She had just been sitting there while the kids tackled (from her point of view) ,air. Marlene couldn't see D.E. or Jack. She didn't believe in ethier of them.

Suddenly Marlene got a face-full of snow. She wipped it away and blue dust circled around her eye's. She laughed untill she saw Jack. She gasped ," Jack Frost!"

Jamie smirked. " I believe this is an 'I told you so' momment." D.E. looked at him, then looked at Jack. " He acts to much like you." Jack chuckled. The kids looked at Jack, really confused. Jack noticed. " Hey kids, you know how you couldn't see me before. How I was invisible to you guys. Well I have a friend here with me."

The kids excitedly looked around. Jamie asked ," Where is he?"

D.E. glared at Jamie. " Excuse me, I'm a she!" Jack started cracking up. " Jamie, my friend's a she and she take's great offense to that comment."

Jamie blushed. " Whoops, sorry Ms. ,um... Ms. She." D.E. face-plamed herself. Ms. She!, D.E. thought.

Jack hugged his sides, as if to keep them from bursting open. Once he was done he said ," Kids, if you want to see my friend, you have to believe in her. You have to believe in what she does. Think of spring time, flowers, spring breezes, and picnics in the park." The kids ,even Marlene ( After meeting Jack Frost ,anything was possible in her mind) closed her eyes and imagined the things Jack was telling them about. Then Jack whispered," Think about the name Mother Earth."

D.E. suttered nervously ," Uh...um, J-Jack I don't know if that's such..." D.E. suddenly felt weird. Like the emptyness in her was partially filled.

Suddenly Pippa looked in D.E.'s direction and gasped," I see her!" The kids all opened there eye's. Sophie squeaked ," Pretty!" Cupcake smiled, Claude cheered ,so did Caleb, Jamie gaped at her, Monty gasped, and Marlene simply stared at her with eyes like dinner plates.

D.E. looked at Jack. " Jack is this some sort of sick joke?" Sophie ran up an hugged one of D.E.'s legs. D.E. look at her and tried to pull her off. She looked at the kids and Jack and smirked. " Anyone have a crowbar?" Everyone laughed came up to D.E. and tickled Sophie under her armpits. Sophie squealed and let go of D.E..

D.E. put on a look of fake surprise. " Oh, so that's how you remove toddlers." Jamie smiled at her. " Don't know, but it works on Sophie."

Jack tapped his staff against the window. " Hey, guys, Bunny, Tooth ,North ,Sandy ,and a few other friends of mine are waiting. You wanna see them?" The kids cheered and allowed Jack and D.E. to pick them up and fly them all out the window.


Burgess 12:00 pm Midnight.

D.E. ,Jack ,and the kids were almost to the edge of the woods. Sophie squealed as D.E. carried her, and began to play with D.E.'s long brown hair. D.E. smiled at the little girl. She's so cute ,she though.

Jamie noticed D.E. and Sophie. " Oh, sorry about Sophie." D.E. looked at him. " No its alright. I actually like it."

Marlene came up to D.E. and said," Escuse me Miss, but you seem to know our names, but we dont really know yours. Isn't it Mother Earth?"

D.E. glanced at Marlene before quickly looking away. God, looking at her makes me hurt, D.E. though. " My name is Mother Earth, but I prefere to be called Daughter Earth. D.E. for short."

Marlene came up and took D.E.'s free hand. D.E. flinched at the touch.

Durning most of the walk D.E. talked to most of the kids and got to know them better, except for Marlene. Everytime D.E. looked at Marlene she looked away thinking, Is she a ghost come back to haunt me?

When they finally reached the sleigh, they were greeted by Kilowani. " Were the heck have you two been! It's been three hours. This bench was starting to become uncomfortable!"

Jack turned to the kids. " Okay kids, listen think about summer, fire and volcanoes."

Jamie looked and Jack with his eyebrows raised. " What are we meeting? A fire demon."

D.E. smirked at Kilowani. "Close."

Kilowani yelled," HEY!"

Jack rolled his eyes and continued ," Also think about the changing of the leaves, of costumes, candy and Halloween. Think of the names Kilowani and Jackie Lantern."

Monty looked up confused, " A Jack-o-Lantern!"

Jackie yelled ," EXCUSE ME, I AM NOT A JACK-O-LANTERN! MY NAME IS JACKIE LANTERN!"

All the kids jumped at Jackie's sudden outburst. Jackie's eyes went wide when she realized that the kids could she her. Kilowani laughed ," Wow, that was hilarious. You totally acted like the kids couldn't see you."

Cupcake raised an eyebrow. " We can see you too, Kilowani." Kilowani's eyes went wider than the moon itself. Then she screamed and ran behind Bunny. " AAAHHHHHH! BUNNY KEEP THE LITTLE DEVILS AWAY FROM ME!"

The kids looked confused. Jamie looked at Jack. " Did we do something wrong?"

Cupcake smirked at Jamie. " I would scream and run away to if I knew you dorks could see me."

Kilowani stared at Cupcake. " Who is that kid?"

D.E. rolled her eyes. " That's Cupcake. She's like the Kilowani of their group."

Kilowani's eyes got wide. She walked up and held out her hand to Cupcake. " My names Kilowani, nice to meet you kid." The kids started laughing untill they heard angry voices coming down the street.

Then four adults and four teenagers came running down this street, every one of them furious. THe adults approached, and the teenaged girl with straight black hair shouted ," MARLENE ABIGALE FAIR, WHAT ARE YOU DOING OUT HERE AT THIS TIME OF NIGHT!"

The kids started to panic. The adults couldn't see the immortals, so they had no excuse. Then the woman, whom D.E. figured was Jamie's mom, yelled ," JAMIE JACKSON BENNET, YOU ARE IN BIG TROUBLE YOUNG MAN!"

D.E. looked at Marlene and shout to her ," Marlene I need you to sing what I sing. Trust me." Marlene looked at her like she was crazy, but didn't object. Then D.E and Marlene started singing a lullaby in unison,

Little Sister,

are you cold,

Do you need,

someone for you to hold,

Little sister,

There's a storm,

Come inside,

Where its warm,

Little Sister, Little Sister,

Does the storm frighten thee,

Close your eye's,

And I'll hold you closer to me,

O' Little Sister,

I will hold you,

Safe away from the storm,

In our little cottage for two,

Little Sister,

won't you dry your eyes,

For soon the sun will come,

And there will be clear skies.

The adults stopped their advance. Marlene's mother's eyes went wide. " Marlene, were did you learn that song?"

A/N: By the way that lullaby is all me. Yep I wrote it. Reviews/comments/critistisms welcome. They make the story come faster.