Chapter 25

Trick

I lied, this didn't just suck. Suck was the understatement of the century! I had to walk around the entire shop to clean it. If I asked for help, snowball to the face. If I tried to summon Nightmares to help me, another snowball to the face. Guess who was watching me the whole time? Jack Frost flew above me, away from reach and watched me. His stupid grin never left his face and he would continue to torment me at the fact that he had my broom and I couldn't reach.

"Keep it up Snowflake! Once floor down, four to go!" I heard Jack say after five hours. Oh sweet god I am in hell. Yeti's and elves would glare at me as I walked by, a few elves even got their revenge on me. I don't know how they managed to do this but while I was walking out of one of the wrapping rooms I opened the door to have a bucket of ice cold water fall on me then I was electricuted... My hair was an absolute mess to say the least and I had a trail of smoke behind me for the next ten minutes.

"Do I smell barbeque?" Jack asked as he howel at me. If looks could kill he would be long gone by now. I growled in agrivation as Jack continued to laugh. While he was preoccupied I used some of my nightmare sand up in a ball and hit him right in the face.

He flipped in the air unfortunately not dropping my broom, damn. But he did dropp his staff. As soon as he did he fell on the floor, landing on his butt. I smiled and dove for the staff.

"Hey no fair!" Jack cried out as I grabbed the staff and started running towards the stairs and running up to the third level.

"All is fair in love and war Jackie boy!" I screamed and ran through the working yetis. A few tried to grab ahold of me but I would quickly move and duck away from them before they could get me.

"Trick!" I heard Jack call after me hot on my trail. I laughed as I ducked under a work table and waited for him to pass by. When he did I jumped out from under the table and ran the way I had came from.

"Trick! Hey where did ya go?!" I heard him call out. I laughed again. For the first time in a long time I was actually having fun.

"Vwhat is going on?" I heard North's voice call out from the lever above me.

"I uh... Trick... and the elves played a joke... sand... she knocked me out of the air and she... ran off with my staff!" I heard Jack say. I looked around for a place to hide. I saw a door with ice for windows to my right. Hoping this would work I truned the knob and found it unlocked. I jumped into the room and hid under once of the desks I saw. This was definately turning out to be a fun little game of ours.

I listened for a few minutes hearing North yell at the yetis to find me and yelling at Jack a little, I felt a little bad for that. Then I heard his footsteps come closer to the room and stop... right in front of the door.

"I vwill be in work room. Tell me when you find her. And bring me tray of cookies!" Oh shit, this was his work room... bad choice!

I kept the staff horizontally at my feet and pulled myself as far back into the deep desk as I could. I shallowed my breathing as I heard North enter the room. I watched his boots make its way around the room before settling into a chair and moving it towards the desk, and me.

"Give me break. She is still same trouble maker as she vwas vwhen she was little girl..." I heard North say before I heard him starting to hack at something. Ice maybe? Soon as the clinking sound continued North started to hum to himself. I continued to sit there under the desk listening to him hum. It was rather soothing and had a pretty tune.

"Vwhere is elves with cookies?" I heard him grumble. I smiled, he always loved his cookies. As if on que three little elves rushed into the room, one of them holding a place full of cookies. I held my breath as they got closer to the desk.

"AH! Finally!" I heard North exclaim before the sound of the crunch of a cookie being eaten. Two of the elves looked up at North as the third aimlessly looked around the room. Please don't see me, please don't see me, please don't! Damn...

The little elf looked at the desk, his eyes traveling to the hold under it, where I hid. He scrunched his little eyes for a moment before they focused on me. He jumped befor jumping up and down and pointing at me.

"Vwhat is it?!" North said agrivatedly from the sound of the elf's bell jingling. That's when he pushed his chair back and looked under the desk, his blue eyes meeting my purple ones.

"Vwell! Look at what vwe have here!" North chuckled. "Not the best spot to hide from me, but a rather good one to hide from Jack." He said as he moved back a little more and let me craw out from under the desk.

"Yeah... I didn't know what room this was I just ran into it and hid." I said holding Jack's staff in my hands sheepishly.

North laughed and looked at the plate of cookies before grabbing it and offering me one. I gladly took a chocolate chip cookie and nibbled on it. North smiled before taking a cookie as well.

"Some things never change." He said to me. I knew what he was talking about.

I giggled as I hid under North's desk. It was my favorite hiding place! Phil never found me here. My small body hid in the back of the desk.

"Vwhat do you mean you can't find her?!" North said as Phil spoke in his yeti jibber jabber. "She is sneaky, make sure she is not tormenting yetis or elves again. The tape incident is still being cleaned up. Phil replied then walked off.

North sighed and walked over and sat in his chair. He then looked down and smiled at me under the desk. "Looks like I vwon hide and seek." I smiled and crawled out and hugged him.

"Yep! Phil will never find me here!" I said proudly. North just laughed and handed me a cookie.

I looked at him as he smiled at me. "You are remembering a lot right now."

"Yeah I have remembered quite alot about how I use to spend time with you and the others." I said finishing my cookie.

"And your family?" He said leaning back in his chair.

I shook my head. "No I remember nothing about them, or how I died." I said nonchalantly. But on the inside I was dying to know something about them. I knew I was some how related to Jamie and Sophie but how was still a mystery.

North stood and put a hand on my shoulder. "You vwill in time. We all did and so vwill you." he said smiling.

"North I can't find..." Jack said running in before seeing the both of us. "Found you!" He said pointing at me.

"No. North and his..." SMACK! God damn his snowballs! North laughed at us, putting his hands on his belly. I wipped the snow off of my face.

"Alright you two. Trick if you let Jack have his staff back you can have some help in cleaning." North said.

I looked at Jack as he made another snowball as if daring me to say no. "Alright." I said tossing him the staff. Jack caught in his free hand and dropped the snowball.

"Ok Snowflake back to cleaning." Jack said in a serious tone, he failed miserably. Jack Frost serious? That is like Bunny doing ballet, I giggled at that thought.

"Alright" I huffed as I satarted to walk out the door. "But first." I then summoned my Nightmares. I looked at North as he stared at one of the black birds. "I'll be good, I promise." I said before leaving the room to finish cleaning the mess.

Finally after twelve more hours of cleaning I was done! Even with the help of my Nightmares, which the elves and yetis did not like one bit, it took that long. I thought about how long it would of taken to clean by myself and I shuttered. I would be here till after Easter, which was in three weeks.

"Great job Trick!" I heard North say as he walked up behind me. I smiled as I made my Nightmares disappear before another elf had a heart attck. I was tired, very tired. Hell who wouldn't after cleaning North's shop. The yetis were back to working on their toys and the elves were back to making mayhem.

"Thank you..." I replied. Jack landed and smiled at me. I looked up at North and he chuckled, knowing what I was thinking.

"Give her the broom back. But remembber Trick, you are helping when it comes close to Christmas, another way of saying sorry just to make sure we have enough toys. North said and I just nodded. Jack walked over and handed it to me. As soon as I did the end burst to life with the fire. I smiled and held it closer to me, it was one of the only things I had besides my mask.

"Thanks... well I believe I have over stayed my welcome." I said tiredly.

"Nonsence!" North exclaimed.

"I can't I have some... things I need to do" I said before getting on my broom. I hovered about ten feet from the ground as I looked at them.

"You are welcome to come back, as long as you don't destroy shop again" North warned.

I smiled. "I'll remember that. Later." I then flew out of the shop and out into the cold air. I think it is time to go home I thought to myself as I watched the sunset over the horizon.

Author's Note: A total of 17 hours of cleaning the shop for North! And that is after the Yetis cleaned a chunk of the mess! Wow I feel sorry for her...

Well the night is still very young here so I may do one more chapter. It's Saturday of course I'm going to type one more chapter! But I'm probably going to do a few things first before I do so it may be posted sometime after midnight.

Thank you all for reading. Feel free to comment on how you thought the chapter went. Much love to all!