A/N:Hey y'll!Hope everyone had an awesome year in 2005 and an even better one in 2006.Well,I'll be updating this off and on...along with other fanfics through out the month.Which I'd now like to use the phrase b/c I see it as fitful,"Don't bite off more then you can chew..." Yeah,that's me alright.I'm currently struggling with how to end Beyond A Different Horizon,should there be some sort of plot twist in it where everything somehow reverts back to normal (which is to say how things would be if The Last Phoenix had been done differently at the end) or go ahead and work with the current time (along with charator's Skyler or Sky Jake and Haley's younger currently 9-year-old Brother and Jake and Rose's daugther,5-year-old Casandra or Cassie) which I already have made out a plotline for them of how Jake will somehow work around his busy schedule to teach Skyler to be the American Dragon (which will of course take place when he's older) but that leaves a gap for four years or everything can go back and I could do another version of how Jake and Rose decide to go about dealing with the fact that Jake was arrested.Keep in mind the things I mentioned the Dragon Council acutally decided for Jake in the last ch. of The Last Phoenix.I know this is confusing,but I need a vote of which way I should go.Also,I'm not going to follow by the script...but I've seen Ski Trip enough to know what happens.The will be the one where Trixie and Rose become roomates...

Continueing...

Trixie Carson made her way reluctantly around the bend of her school on the slippery sidewalk,her snow board tucked under her arm and her knapsack secure on her shoulders,the idea of going down huge Mountains made her heart pound excitedly but going to mainly help console her best friend's infirmity over a girl he just on and of saw was almost too much.However,she tried her best to seem like she was up to it when she caught sight of them and they both waved to her,just nearly missing a patch of ice splattered with snow as she approached,

"Yo,don't even think for a second that this trip is all gonna be for you two,"she told them matter-of-factly,making it evident she was still wasn't happy they had signed all three of them up yesterday without talking with her about it first,"In fact,I sort of want to get away from New York for a few days and get some real use out of all this snow.Know what I'm sayin?"

Jake nodded his head in agreement as they walked the rest of the way to the patiently park Bus that was emitting a deep rumbling noise,"Right.I think it'll be the perfect way to think about making a new approach on Rose,"the corners of his mouth curled up in a dreamily wistful smile,"Man,out lips were just inches apart and then..."

"Whoa!"Trixie intervened on his distant daydream,causing all them of them to duck in unison as some snow balls were being thrown their way,"Okay,all clear."she told them promptly once there was a clear ceasefire,but the next time she met her best friend's face with a slightly patronizing frown,"Jakey,not to put a damper on you're desire to even be in the same room with Rose.But if it was going to happen between the two of you...I don't know,don't you think it kind of maybe would have happened already."

"Yeah,man."Spud joined in suddenly and inquired Jake in an almost clamanting voice as if to suggest something,"What is with the two of you always kissing and not?"he crossed his arms over his to get his point across officially,"I'm growing impatient with you two,when are we going to see some lip lock action?"

"Well,"Jake began casually,his mind adrift in other thoughts as they near the tall and lean entrance to the bus in the ever extending line of kids eager to board,"I've got Dragon duties and Rose has aerobics or something."

Trixie let the boys carry on their conversation on their own terms,as she allowed her own inner worries surface at that instant.Worries like her Mother sometimes having to work endless hours to semi-support the expenses her Father's life-of-passion couldn't pay for,his constant absense yet still occasionally attempted desire to stay in contact with his family and of course,the ever growing burden that her family and her like were beginning to fall on hard times.Sure,she had always had a fairly easy life but sometimes her homelife seemed so stressful for Trixie that she found it best not to spend too much time there,espeically by herself.As they moved on,the only thing she noticed at the moment were the decreasing steps that were becoming available but the very instant her she sensed someone else in lying in their wake and her friend now uttering the fated word "D" that most of the world probably wasn't ready for,she instictively slapped her dark brownish palm on Jake's mouth as they approached their strangely amused-appearing,convinced yet naive Mythobiologist Teacher,

"Why Mr. Long,I didn't know you and you're little friends were coming along on the Ski Trip,"Professer Rotwood accosted the young teens with slightly exaggerative interest,an ulterior motive easily detectable in his eyes,"What fun this weekend will be."

Without too much worry,the gang piled onto the exceedingly crowding bus and too center seats,Jake in front and Trixie and Spud behind him,as Mr. Rootwood went on to blather on about this and that.Still as everything was going on,the thoughts that were still teeming in Trixie's mind were distracting her and she had to turn to the window to keep from spilling them out there in front of everyone.So as the bus finally rolled away from the curb and travelled steadily,Trixie sat with her eyes glued to her reflection,her breath misting onto the surface and then instantly reverting back to her.When Spud or Jake would inquire her on something,she'd merely awnser in her usual,diva way or just shrugg it off.Because the next thing she knew,she was back outside in the bitter cold and staring at the lodge,so turning to nod in satisfactory agreement with her friends.

Once they were inside and walking up the long flight of stairs,Jake turned to Trixie,"Sorry me and Spud kind of signed all three of us up without telling you first."he told her apologenically but he added persuasively."And we're still on for teachin' Spud to ski and snowboardin',right?"

Trixie mock grinned at Jake in spite of herself,"Yeah,I guess that's enough to make me forgive you two,"she replied in a cloyed voice,as she veered her gaze down to the sheet of paper she had in her hand once they had reached the top of the stairs and were heading down the hall,"Room 215,that's me."

Assuming an air of cool that seemed to evaporate some of her previous worries back home,Trixie moved towards the door with the crimson-painted numbers,215,in the center of it.Clutching the brass knob,she twisted slowly and the door swung back almost a foot to reveal Rose causally folding some of her cloths from out of the unphased within the realm of her own eagerness to start the next day performing winter sports,Trixie started in but was jolted out when she felt someone grab her wrist and yank her clean out of the doorframe,only to come face-to-face with a flabbergasted Jake,

"You're rooming with Rose?"

Piqued from being thoughtlessly out of her moment of calm,she plucked her friend's hands off her shoulders and pitched them forward,"Not if you don't let me through the door I aint,"she told him rigidly,feeling herself instantly put-off,"It's just Rose.I could have been paired up with anyone."

"Okay,here's the deal.You two are to stay up all night giggling and girl-talking...you know all that junk.Then tommorow you can give me the 411 on her hopes...dreams..."he began to tell her rapidly,then shifted into a trimuphant performance,pump his fist up and down,"Then yeah baby,I'm in!"

"You're kidding me?"Trixie said questioningly,surprised.Then she contiued when she could plainingly see he wasn't."Jakey,girl talk is not my speed.For as long as we've known each other,you should know that!Trixie does not do the girly-headed hair-braiding,nail painting,boy talkin'..."

Jake flashed a her a quick grin and offered impulsively,"I'll give you ten bucks."

"Make it twenty and I'll tape homegirl catchin' up on her Z's."She comprised a bit greedily,their understanding both on the same page as they bumped fists and Jake slipped her the partially rolled bill from his pocket,thrilled into thinking she had just goodnaturedly scammed her friend out of some of his extra pocket she re-entered the room with her arms wide-open and a enthusastic grin plastered on her face as she advanced on a petrified Rose,"Rose!Hey,girl.Give me a hug!"

Rose froze in place as was engulfed into the girl she knew only knew as one of Jake's close friends's arms,"Oh!Uh,hi there.Um..."she faltered with the name momentarily,as Trixie backed off of her and walked over to the bed near the window,racketing her mind for it hastily,"Um...Tracie,was it?"

"Trixie,actually."She replied simply,as she tossed her belongings onto the bed and flung herself onto it as well to begin digging around it's contents for the new Ipod her Father had sent her other the holidays,"Don't sweat it though,we don't really know one another that much anyways."her sudden upbeat attitude somehow began to feel too phoney to her and she decided to drop it altogether as she rested her back againist the backboad of her queen sized bed,stretched out and ankles crossed she inquired Rose curiously when she spotted some strange work-out instruments on the foot of Rose's bed."So,I guess you must go to the gym and take alot of aerobic classes,huh?"

Recovering,she resumed unpacking and replied calmly,"I guess you could say that,my families really into the whole health routine and I kind of got caught up with it when I was younger..."her words suddenly trailed off into an stoic silence,as she pulled on a framed photograph and reached over with a wide smile directed at the center of it,to place it on the small,medium-brown nightstand between the two beds facing her,she stood back and admired it with a slightly cocked head and longing sighed,"Do you ever know what it's like to feel something towards someone and not know if they feel it back?"

Trixie paused from place two tiny ear pieces into her lobes and found herself instantly reminded of her Father,she loved him but she didn't know she matched up above his job,finally she returned a deep sigh and replied frankly,"I know exactly how that feels."but before she could go further,a thought struck her and she stated to Rose knowingly,as had always been confident in straightout distinguishments,"It's Jake,isn't it?You wonder if he's ticked off by you bailing on him all the time when you guys make plans."

"Well...yes."Rose turned her cyanean eyes straight into Trixie's,astonished beyond her control she asked her a little too stringently,"How do you know that?"but when she saw her comment had tooken Trixie by surprise as well,she resurfaced by trying in a more softened tone,her eyes wide and seemingly innocent."I mean...I didn't know he had told you that.He's not too mad about yesterday,is he?The only reason I had to ditch was because I had gotten too caught up that I hadn't realized that I'd nearly..."

"Chill girl,he's just wondering the same thing about you."Trixie had to laugh at how commical Jake and Rose's relationship so far was,but she sobered when she detected serious guilt in the girl's expression,"Hey,don't be go too hard on yourself.I only meant that you guys are busy with you're own lifes and don't always have time to talk,"she stopped for a moment to summon some casualness as she proceeded to ask in a now more concerned tone,"You gonna be okay?Seriously though,Jake isn't mad at you and he even said he wanted to talk to you about something which he should tell you himself.."

Rose sighed heavily,"Yeah,I'll be alright."she caressed the photoone last timewith her gaze and concerntrated on pulling some supplies out that she tucked quickly under her arm to keep out of view from Rose,"I have to go change..."she said under her breath sadly,as she turned her back to enter the bathroom but not before looking over her shoulder at Trixie with a quick glance and told her with a warm smile,"Jake must be lucky to have a friend like you,I wish I could be more of one to him."

Although her last comment could have been tooken lightly enough,Trixie for whatever reason that was,could sense there was more meaning to it then that.Especially with the emphasis Rose had bothered to put on the word,"could" when sounded suspicous to her.But before she could inquire her on what she meant,Rose was already out of the doorframe and the door swinged shut behind her.Now consumed with more questioning thoughts and still unresolved homelife,Trixie reluctantly pulled the tape recorder from her back pack and switched it to recording under her pillow as she had promised.With that,shescooped up her Ipod,cancelled out any other sounds of noise with hiphop music plugged into her ears and headed out to take a stroll around the Ski lodge for a little time to think to herself.

K'...next ch. will be a surprise!Completely unexpected and sure to be great. BTW,I hope I got most of the scenes right from the acutal ep with some of my own added.But overall,I think it's well done.Byez

LP