Fighting Darkness, Loving Frost
HEY! No more skipping out on the sad chapter. I'm done proscrastinating, I solemnly swear. Hah, I solemnly swear I'm up to no good. YAY HARRY POTTER!
Nothing else to say, and the Guardians have finally left me alone long enough to type this chapter up without one of them reading over my shoulder.
Disclaimer: I do not own Dreamworks or ROTG. I wish I did, but I don't, and that's a fact. *sigh* The sad truth.
JACK P.O.V.
For the second time in a row, I walked into Faith's room to wake her up. I walk in, leave the door cracked slightly open, and let go of my staff, letting it lean against her dresser. I walk over to her, sit on the bed, and smile. I brush some hair out of her face, and lean over whispering for her to get up. Surprisingly, she does, and when she sits up and gets her hands away from her eyes, I can see why it was so easy to wake her up today.
Her beautiful blue eyes have dark circles around them that I suppose she'll cover up later. I had no idea this was going to be so hard. "Morning, Faith."
She looks up at me. "Good morning, Jack."
"You gonna be alright?"
"Yeah." She pauses. "Thanks for waking me up."
"Hey, no prob." I rub the back of my neck once, then stand up. "Guess I better get going." I take a few steps toward the door, but hear her talking to me.
"Jack?"
I turn around, looking into her eyes. "Yeah?"
"Do you think that... That maybe you could come with me?"
"Yeah, sure!" I don't shout, but I certainly express that I'll be happy to come along if she needs someone there with her.
"Alrighty then." She gives me a small smile. "I'll go get ready and we can go."
FAITH P.O.V.
After making sure nothing gave away how restlessly I had slept last night, I met Jack outside my door. "We better get going."
"Yep," I reply.
When we get to the church (because this was inside for some reason), I realize that we got here for the end of it. The only people still here were the two families I switched off living with, and my best friend, Arielle. (Obviously, that's not her name. I'm just choosing not to put her name in for the reasons stated in Chapter two's A/N.)
Arielle leaves the room, and all that's left are my family members. I'm pretty sure none of my siblings but Rachel really get what's going on. They're just a bit young to understand what's happened. I stand there silently and look at them when I feel a squeeze on my hand. I look up. Thanks Jack, I think.
TJ looks away from the spot he's being staring at and flicks his eyes to the left. Then he does a double-take and his eyes widen. "Mommy, Trinity's not gone! She's right here!"
He - He can see me. He can see me! I look at Jack. "How is he able to see me when you guys haven't told anyone about me yet?"
"It must just be the fact that he really doesn't believe his big sister's gone yet." I smile hugely and a few tears start running down my face, escaping their prison.
"Hi TJ," I say quietly. I hold my arms out for a hug, and he lets go of Mommy's hand to fly into them.
"YAY! You're back! I knew you weren't gone!"
This draws everyone else's attention, and before long, I find that TJ, Gavin, Rhyver, Paul, and Ken can see me. Rhyver, the youngest of my siblings, holds out her hands and I take her gently out of Dad's arms. Apparently seeing Rhyver floating is something no one who can't see me can comprehend. But Rachel squints her eyes.
RACHEL P.O.V.
I know she's gone. Fell through the ice, and even though she could swim, the water was too cold, and she was gone quick. But when Rhyver floats, hugging what seems like thin air, I see a flicker of my big sister standing there holding her. I squint my eyes, and I feel my heart beating rapidly. Ken and Paul break away from the hold Mom and Daddy have on their hands, and run, tackling the air. But surprisingly, the air holds them up, and despite what all logic tells me, I start to believe that maybe she is back.
The moment I think that, I can see her again, and I smile, new tears shining on my face. But these are tears of joy. Of course, we wouldn't be able to tell anyone, since there were a lot of witnesses who saw her drown, but... Maybe she could come to visit every once in a while.
She sets the kids down and looks at me smiling. Her face shows that she isn't sure whether I can see her or not. But I can clean that up real quick. "Trinity." I run towards her, almost knocking her back. "Oh, Trinity!"
"Hey, little sis."
"I missed you so much. What happened to you?"
She's crying too, but she calms me down and answers, "I became a Guardian. See? I'm Faith Wonder now." She pulls back, and I can see the subtle changes that distinguish her as one. She wipes her eyes and smiles.
"A Guardian? Of what?"
"Not really sure on that one yet." She laughs, and it's the most beautiful thing I've heard in a week.
"So - They're real? All of them? All you guys are real?"
"Yep, sure are! And what did I tell you?"
I giggle. "I know, I know. You told me they were real before. I just couldn't believe it." I giggle myself. "But I can now."
"Wow. It took me dying for you to believe? Silly Rachel." She shakes her head, still smiling.
FAITH P.O.V.
I back up. "And guess what?" I say to all my siblings.
"What?" They all answer.
"I'm not the only Guardian here."
"Who else is here?" Ken asks.
"Jack Frost!" I answer back. They all look at him in wonder, realizing that me being a Guardian now and getting to personally know some of these people is pretty darn special. "See? I told you he was real, didn't I?"
"Yeah, you did." They all giggle and start asking him a bunch of questions. (And this why I explained that Faith/Trinity has a split family earlier in the story.) I look up, and see that all four of my parents are staring at me. Not through me. At me.
"Trinity?"
I run up and hug all of them. "I'm Faith now. Faith Wonder."
"Oh gosh, Trin! We thought you died!"
"Well, I did. But I became a Guardian. Well, technically I became a Winter Spirit first but oh well..." (Oh, and I'll try not to interrupt you guys' reading anymore this chapter, 'cause I know it can be quite annoying, but Faith took her uh "Guardian vows" her first day of being at the North Pole. I just didn't want to type it up at the time. :) Carry on!)
"It's okay. You can still come see us, right?"
I look around at the four of them. "Well, yeah! Don't know exactly when, but I definitely will come around sometimes. You're my family for goodness sakes!" My face lights up with a big smile. I fill them in on some highlights, LIKE MY TELEPATHY POWERS! Then I hug them all one more time.
"What are the kids all doing over there?"
"Oh, they're probably shooting off questions faster than Jack can answer 'em." They give me dumbfounded looks. "Oh! Right. This is Jack Frost, guys!"
Introductions are made, and I realize that if we don't get going soon, I might not want to leave them. I might not leave them. So they all give hugs and kisses and walk out. Strangely, Arielle walks back in.
"I don't know how they can all be laughing in here, but... Goodbye Trinity." She starts crying and turns around to leave, so with her being my best friend since forever, obviously my first impulse is to snatch her up in a hug. Surprisingly enough, she doesn't walk through me. Wow. It's very easy for people I know to not want to let go of me, isn't it? Well, the more people that believe in me and can spread it around, the better I suppose.
"Hey, it's okay."
"No it's not."
"But I'm not truly gone. Look." She picks her head up and looks at me, still in my hug.
"T-Trinity?"
I chuckle a little. "Yeah. Faith now. Weird how some things work out, isn't it?"
Over the next couple of minutes, we laugh and talk and fill each other up on stuff. I explain to Arielle how all this happened, and we play a couple games with telepathy. It's all so fun. But nothing can last forever, as they say. Once she leaves (making me promise to come see her as much as possible), I turn around to face Jack and the door back outside. I wave to Arielle one last time for now and fly off. But once we're out of sight, I start to feel empty.
JACK P.O.V.
I look at Faith to make sure she's okay, and I see her face fall, making her look more sad the farther we get away from her family and friends.
"You okay, Snowflake?" I ask her, hoping a nickname will cheer her up. She's usually so cheery. It's weird to see her with an expression of anything else.
"I just realized something."
"Yeah? What's that?" I ask gently.
"Even if I do get to come see them, it's never going to be exactly the same. I won't get to stay there like I did before I died. And... I'll miss so much. I'll miss them so much." She starts crying, and we both slow down so we're not flying as fast.
"Hey. I can't promise that it's ever gonna be alright. You're always gonna miss them. But I do know that you're strong enough not to let it weigh you down the rest of your life. And boy, would that be a long time, considering you're immortal now." I pull her into a hug. "C'mere." She cries into my hoodie and I hold her. We stay like that for a long time before she cries herself to sleep and I fly us gently back to North's, still holding onto her.
Hey! I know. So sad, right? It pains me to write it. OH THE AGONY! No, I'm being serious. This will probably be the most painful scene for me to type up.
Good thing, though! My brain is still allowing me to somehow remember most of the dream, so I know a lot of what's happened. And I've asked my mind why I was crying at the lake with Pitch (again, WEIRD), and it hasn't answered back yet. So unless it answers me within the next chapter or two, just depending on how much I have to write to transition this stuff from one scene to the next, I'll have to completely make something up.
I think I was going to say something else, but if I was, I forget what it is. Oops!
So, if any of you have any good stories you think I should read or any suggestions for stories later on in the future you think I should incorporate into my writing, please PM me. Honestly, I just found out about PMing people on FanFiction, like, a day ago! (-D HAHA, nerdy smile. But, hey, that's me. Making up new stuff and using it all the time. I'm pretty sure I've used at least one face of some sort throughout all my A/Ns, but I love that face. (-D (-D (-D
Jack: Alichess, I think you might be annoying some of your readers with the whole repeating thing.
Alichess: Great, just when I thought you guys would actually leave me alone for a day. Dont get me wrong, I like you guys, but seriously? Every day? Don't you have Guardian stuff to do?
Jack: Well, yeah. But -
Alichess: But annoying me is so much more fun than playing in the snow with kids all around the world? I absolutely refuse to believe you five, or even just you, believe that 100% of the time.