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Chapter 7 Home

The walk home was silent. Jamie was ignoring her as usual and Dawn was way to busy in her own thoughts to worry about what to say to her younger brother. When they came up to their house, Jamie veered off to the pond where she noticed the white haired blue eyed spirit waiting for him.

She said nothing, her own experiences with the spirit had made her realize that it could be trusted.

She opened the door to her home and closed it, leaning against it. "I'm home" She called to her mother. Her mother came out of the kitchen, still dressed in a nurse's uniform on her chest was name tag that she could just make out spelling her mother's name Katherine letting Dawn know that her mother had just arrived home from her shift at the hospital.

"Dawn? How was your first day of school?" Her mother asked.

Dawn shrugged and looked around not really wanting to get into it. "Where's Sophie?" She asked her mother.

Her mother pointed up the stairs "Sophie is napping" Her mother said. "And Jamie is outside playing with his friends I take it?" She asked Dawn her eyebrow raised clearly expecting an answer.

Dawn nodded, paused for a moment and then decided to tell her mother what she saw. "I saw him outside playing with a white haired boy." She confessed to her mother.

Her mother nodded as though this information was old news. "Yes, I've noticed that he's been playing with that boy a lot since the frost came in this year. I believe Jamie has taken to calling him Jack Frost."

Dawn looked at her mother in surprise. "And your ok with him playing with a winter spirit?" Dawn asked cataloguing the spirits name away for future reference. "Not all spirits are benevolent creatures." She warned her mother; afraid that if she let this one benevolent spirit pass, she would let all spirits pass. Dawn had to learned that hard lesson the hard way.

Her mother nodded. "I know Dawn, but I have been told that this spirit could be trusted."

Dawn looked at her mother suspiciously. "By who?"

Dawn's mother looked at her daughter and bit her lip. "An acquaintance" She finally said.

Dawn's eyes widened not at all fooled. "No way! Your still in contact with him? I thought you ended contact with him after he got you pregnant." The since I've never even seen you two in the same room together went completely unsaid, but Dawn's mother could hear the words loud and clear.

Dawn's mother shook her head. "I'm not in contact with him, he's in contact with me, you know that Dawn."

Dawn sighed. Her father and the other gods could always reach you if they need to, but if you needed to reach them, it was always a: perhaps they're actually listening, or maybe there just ignoring you. You never really got a clear answer from them, but they always expected a clear and decisive answer from who ever it was they were contacting when they tried to get a hold of you. It was so annoying.

"He told me shortly after I noticed that Jamie was spending time with the spirit. I was wondering if I should keep Jamie away from the winter spirit and he showed up quite literally out of no where and told me that there was nothing to worry about, that the spirit was harmless, that the boy just wanted to have some fun, so I have allowed it. I do not willingly talk to him Dawn, but he had the information I needed to help my son, I would have been foolish not to listen."

Dawn waved her hand. "Ok, ok" She said. "I know the spirit is trustworthy, that boy is half the reason I survived the trip to camp half-blood. I just wanted to know your reasons, I had been afraid that you would think all sprits or mythological creatures were kind, ... and well... not all of them are."

Katherine stepped forward. "I know, Dawn trust me I know." She said putting a hand on her shoulder. Dawn flinched a little at the contact not having expected it. Her mother noticed the reaction and quickly withdrew her hand.

"I'm sorry." Katherine said. "I didn't mean to make you feel uncomfortable."

Dawn didn't want to (couldn't) lie and say she was fine, but she also did not want to tell the truth, so instead she changed the subject as fast as she could to the first thing she could think of. "My teacher wants to get me a tutor" She said.

Katherine nodded unsurprised by this knowledge and willingly allowed the subject change to which Dawn was grateful. "I know, she called to let me know, swore to me it wouldn't cost any extra."

Dawn nodded and shook her head and looked down guilt seeping in she hadn't even considered that the tutoring would cost extra. "I'm sorry, for being so difficult" Dawn said.

Her mother shook her head. "It's not your fault Dawn," She said bending down to look her daughter in the eye. "It never was."

Dawn suddenly had the feeling they were no longer talking about grades and sidestepped out of her mothers gaze. "I should head upstairs and get started on my homework" She said. "Don't want to fall anymore behind then I already am." That was-at the very least-true, she truly did not want to fall behind in class. She could get away with saying that.

Her mother stared at her worriedly. "Dawn?"

Dawn shook her head. "I don't want to talk about it" She said.

Her mother stepped back to give Dawn her space. "Alright Dawn, we don't have to talk about it now." she said refusing to show just how much it pained her inside to know what was wrong but have absolutely no idea how to help her daughter.

A/N Dawn's fatal flaw is actually a pretty big one: She can't tell an out right lie. She can tell a half truth, and be sarcastic (Cause generally when you're sarcastic your not actively trying to deceive - the other person is supposed to be aware it's sarcasm) and keep silent however outright lies she cannot say. Which is why you'll see her tell half truths but she'll never say a lie.

Speaking of if at any point you see her say something that's not true please PM me and I'll rectify as soon as possible.

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