Staring at the hole that used to hold my memories, I scooped up the black sand and let it fall through my fingers. It felt like water. As it flowed to the ground, Jack spotted it and growled. "Pitch" he flew around the tooth palace, looking in the shadows. "Come on out Pitch!" he yelled "Don't you want to say goodbye?" No answer "That's not very polite!" A deep laughter rang out from the shadows...

"Well," the voice said "I'm nothing if not polite." Suddenly the man from the forest appeared in front of me. "Hello my dear," He whispered, taking my hand and kissing it. I was too afraid to fight back, what if he used his sand on me again? "So glad you survived." Tooth suddenly snapped out of whatever trance she had been in, and flew towards us. But by the time she got there Pitch had sunk into the shadows once again. "So good to see you, Toothiana! Tell me, how are your fairies?" This seemed to anger Tooth.

A lot

"If you so much as look at one of my fairies again, I'll end you!" Wow, who knew the Tooth Fairy was so… violent?

"Now, now, Toothiana." The boogeyman cooed from the darkness. "No need to get hasty. All I have is one little message for Em-Trix, and I'll be on my way" He appeared in front of me and stared at me with new seriousness. "My dear Emma," He cooed "how confused you must be. Surrounded by these so called 'guardians'. Do you even remember our plan? How you were to join me, so together we could destroy these people who ruined your life. Ah," he sighed at a memory "What a team we were. A team I hope we'll be again, one day…" he dissolved into the shadows… again.

"Pitch!" I screamed "Give me back by teeth!" laughter boomed once again.

"Oh, you want them, do you?" it felt as if he was right at my shoulder, whispering in my ear. "Well, I guess you're going to have to come get them." And then he was gone, but not before leaving a small farewell gift.

He sprinkled black sand into my face, but instead of burning like the last one, it brought back a sliver, a tiny piece of what he had stolen.

I gasped and fell onto my knees as I was pulled headlong into my memory.

"This is your fault!" he yelled as he slapped me across the face. I fell to the ground, and he took this as an opportunity to kick me repeatedly in the gut. He grabbed my arm and yanked me to my feet, shoving me away and into my mother's gravestone. Tears blurred my vision as I stumbled away from the graveyard. "That's right!" he called after me "Just go! I don't need you!"

I was pulled out of the vision just as roughly as I had been pulled into it. I was kneeling on the platform, with Jack holding me close and a worried Tooth hovering close by. I was shivering, but not because of Jack's natural chill, but because of the horrible memory I had just experienced. My memory. Why had Pitch showed me that? I didn't know. There was a whole plethora of things I didn't know, and questions left unanswered. "What happened?" I whispered. My head hurt, my lungs hurt, my stomach hurt, I just all around hurt.

"After Pitch left, you just fell to your knees and stared off into space. You wouldn't answer us, you wouldn't respond to anything. Then you started to whimper and cry" Cry? I felt my cheeks. Sure enough, they were wet "So I tried to comfort you…" He blushed. Huh, who knew winter spirits could blush? Did he even have blood? Did any of us have blood?

"Wait," I said, voicing my most important question aloud "where's Pitch?" Jack sighed and glared at the ground.

"After he… you know… did that to you, he took off." I jumped to my feet, almost knocking Jack over the side of the platform.

"My teeth! I need to find them!" Jack regained his balance and looked at my in shock.

"You can't be serious!" Tooth cried, buzzing over to my side "Go after Pitch? This close to Christmas? That's suicide!" Jack shook his head.

"And after seeing how he… affected you? No, I won't let you!" infuriated. I flew down to him and locked him in a freezing glare. We were nose to nose, glare against glare, and trying not to notice how his breath flushed against my cheeks, I tried to out-glare him.

"You won't let me?" He should have known by now, that was one thing you never said to Trix Fools.

Ever

This was a chance to regain my memories! To see who I really was, maybe even why Pitch is after me!

"You know I don't mean it like that." He said "We need all the help we can get to make sure Christmas goes smoothly. We can't have you injured, captured, or even slightly out of it. We need you, Trix" that was the first time I had ever heard Jack Frost sound so serious, but that couldn't stop me from wondering, what if? "Please," He said, looking into my eyes. "Stay safe" after a long and intense inner turmoil, I sighed and nodded.

"So," I said "What's this I'm hearing about Christmas?"

I can't believe it.

My precious Alice

With those Guardians.

Frost thought I had left.

Foolish spirit

How could I leave, when she was right there?

I could go out right then and grab her.

Take her away.

No

That's not the plan

I must be patient

If I am, she will be mine again.

I looked in again on the scene, my precious Alice was kneeling on the floor, and she looked upset, well of course she did with that memory. But something else was making me angry.

That boy was holding her, comforting her.

Too close to her.

"I'll have to keep my eye on you, Frost"


After they filled me in on the plan, I was rushed to the Pole and ushered into the globe room.

"After what happened to Easter last year," Tooth had said "We can't take any chances. There are five rooms of toys, I'll take one, North will too, so will Sandy and Bunny, but you and Jack are going to share a room." She had stopped flying again and giggled loudly "Okay, I don't mean it like that." Barely concealing her blush, she flew away to the room she would guard, leaving me alone with the others.

"Ya sure we can trust the Sheila?" Bunny eyed me warily. North's great laugh boomed while he was making his way to his own room.

"We of course can! Friend of Jack is friend of ours, no?" He disappeared into his room for only a second before poking his head out and smiling. "Or…a more than friend?" It was my turn to blush.

Me and Jack weren't anything, right? We were just friends. He was just a guy. Just a guy with magical powers… who can fly. And has white hair. And blue eyes, oh, his eyes…

No! We were just friends.

But just in case…

I looked at him through the corner of my eye, sure that my giant blanket of hair was concealing me. To my surprise, he was not glaring at North, or even playing with snow like he normally does. He was looking at me.

I quickly cleared my throat and gestured towards the rooms. "So!" I said, louder than intentioned. "Guarding, uh, Christmas! We should go, um, do that… Like now." I picked a room at random and quickly dove into it.

I couldn't do this

Not to Jack… Or you know, Tooth and the rest of them either.

Oh, who was I kidding? Yes, I had feelings for Jack. Good or bad, I didn't know yet. But they were there, and they were tearing me apart. I let out a frustrated cry and kicked a toy, a small rag doll. Then I remembered that that toy could be the difference in saving the children, so I flew over and scooped it up, fawning over it as if I were its mother. I looked closer at the doll, it looked like… me? It had my hair, although made of yarn, it was the right color. Its button eyes somehow reflected every color of the rainbow. It was even wearing the dress North had given me to replace my old t-shirt. My staring was interrupted by a voice.

"Are you okay?" It was Jack. I looked over my shoulder and saw he was in his favorite position, owling on top of his staff, looking at me curiously. "Whatcha got there?" I looked back down at the doll. Its yarn hair was bright red, its dress was green, and its button eyes were dull and lifeless. Startled, I threw the doll back into the pile. Jack flew up and grabbed it, holding it up by one foot. "A rag doll?" he said. I decided not to tell him. I mean, it was probably just a trick of the eye. I shook my head and forgot about it.

"So," I said "What are we supposed to do..?" He laughed.

"We stay here," he said "and guard the toys" Well, thank you captain obvious. I sighed and sat down next to the pile of toys.

"This is gonna be fun…" I mumbled, before gently falling asleep.

I awoke after who knows how long, to someone gently pushing my shoulder. "Trix," they called "Trix, you need to get up." I pushed the hand away and moaned. Suddenly, I could feel hot breath against my cheeks; I opened my eyes and saw crystal blue ones less than a foot in front of me. "Time to wake up" the eyes whispered. Then he stood up and began to walk away. "It's your turn to guard," he called over his shoulder "I'm gonna go terrorize the elves" and then he was gone.

I was alone

This would be my only chance.

I had to…

So I swallowed my fear and flew out the window.

My first mistake.

Hey! im sorry for not updating... please forgive me?

Anyways, about the link to 'Luck's Always to Blame' on my profile? I DID NOT WRITE THAT STORY

I PUT THE LINK THERE BECAUSE I THINK PEOPLE SHOULD READ IT

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Also, to say im sorry, i'll probably post two chapters today *claps*

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