I don't own ROTG so take your time and enjoy the ride.

Alice was training in one of North's many training centers, she had slept two more days after the Pitch kidnapping on Christmas, and it had been three days since she awoke.

"Alice."

She turned from one of the ragged dummies to face North and raised her eyebrows in question.

"Can you please talk to-"

"Stein?" Alice said with sarcasm, "I refuse, he lied right to my face without a second thought. Why should I talk to him?"

North rubbed his face in exhaustion, "Jack."

"What?"

"Can you please talk to Jack."

Alice looked at the floor and got rid of her skates, "Where is he?"

"Where he's been since Christmas," North replied as he turned and left the room.

Alice soon left as well and walked down the corridors to Jack's room, knocking before entering.

"Hey Jack, it's Alice…"

He didn't reply so she walked closer to the bed and sat on its side, "Why aren't you sleeping Jack?"

"Why aren't you sleeping Alice?"

"I slept enough, I need to train."

"…Well I've been doing to same."

"Ah yes, I'm sure you've been doing a lot of training from your window sill."

Jack jumped up from his sill and over to Alice, he stared right into her eyes, "I don't need you to tell me how to train!"

Alice smiled warmly and put one of her hands on Jack's cheek, but his eyes filled with fear and he quickly swatted in away.

Alice was unfazed by the action, "Jack, what happened at Pitch's?"

Jack twirled his staff nervously and Alice slid from the bed to the floor, leaning her back against his bed.

"Jack, come sit," she patted the floor next to her and Jack looked at her with hesitation but eventually sat.

"If I tell you something about me will you tell me about Pitch?"

Jack brought his knees up slightly and looked at the floor, after a little bit he nodded and Alice turned from him to look at Jack's frosty blue walls.

"When I was younger, about thirteen, it was me, my twin sister, and our parents."

"You have a sister?"

Alice looked over at Jack, who was leaning his head on his knees, "Her name is Autumn, we were a weird set of twins, neither of us got our hair and eye color from our parents."

"Purple?"

Alice smiled, "No, she has orange eyes and her hair is black like mine but with an orange tint."

"Such peculiar colors," Jack said with a small laugh.

"Yeah…"

"Why don't you go and find her?"

Alice looked at the wall sadly, "She wouldn't be able to see me," then she sighed, "besides, haven't had the time."

Jack nodded so Alice continued her story.

"So, we were thirteen and happy, Autumn would play pranks and I would sometimes…most of the time go along with it. But eventually it ended, one night it just all stopped," Alice's smile fades as she continues.

"We were robbed."

Jack's eyes widened and Alice's face became fearful, as if it was happening once again.

"They just barged in one night, I remember waking up from my mother's scream, then my father's. The robbers just killed them, without a second thought. Me and Autumn were in the same room, and we were both scared and crying and they were getting closer. 'Get in the closet,' she told me," Alice gave a dry laugh.

"I was always more mature even though she was slightly older, I remember shaking my head and grabbing her hand, but she pushed me into the closet and then they entered. I couldn't see what was happening but I heard them, 'Weren't there supposed to be two?' One of the man's knees popped as he crouched, 'Where is your sister little one?' Autumn was scared, I could feel her fear, but yet she was so brave, 'With a friend…'" Alice smiled as tears streamed down her face.

"There was whispering, the men were whispering something and then…then she screamed…Autumn screamed and there was a thud as she fell on the floor and glass shattered, I think it was one of the lamps falling. She kept screaming for them to stop as the men laughed, they were going to rape her...they were going to rape us. Autumn eventually stopped screaming and I heard a man groan and then another thud.

One of the guys cursed at her and hit her, throwing her against the walls, she had killed on of them, stabbed him with some broken glass. I eventually ran out and told them to stop hurting Autumn, there were two guys left. One of them grabbed my hair and threw me on the floor, he moved on top of me but I was able to knee him in that guy sensitive area. He curled away from me and I used that as a chance to crawl away. I moved toward Autumn and the other guy who was basically laying on top of her, but as I moved closer I noticed he was dead, she had stabbed him too. I shoved the guy off of her and thought nothing of the blood across her shirt. I picked up the man's knife and kneeled next to Autumn, I had completely forgotten about the other guy. I felt someone pull my hair back and turned...and stabbed, when I finally noticed that I had done something the last man was lying of the floor dead, the knife in his chest."

Alice brought her knees up and hugged them, "I had killed someone...we had just killed people..."

"I looked back down at Autumn and smiled, I called out to her, telling her to open her eyes...that it was over...but she didn't open them. That was when I realized that when she stabbed that man he had cut across her chest, like how Pitch had cut me." Alice wiped the tears from her eyes, though they were falling so fast that the wipes gave no aid.

"She was dying, or dead...I didn't really know, but soon after I realized there were police running up the stairs. I remember when they entered they gasped and I just looked at them with fearful, wet eyes, I was holding her hand and pleading with them to save her, I just wanted her to be okay. And for a moment on the way to the hospital I broke, my heart seemed to stop and everything seemed to die. She had died."

"But isn't she alive?"

Alice looked over to Jack and nodded, "They brought her back, the doctors said it was a miracle, but she doesn't remember any of it; all she knows is that our parents died in some type of accident, and that the scar across her chest was in relation to that. But she doesn't know how horrific it truly was, only I remember what had happened and I have no intention of telling her."

"So, what happened after that?"

"We were taken in by our aunt, she was nice but eventually we moved out and went to college using our parents money they had given to us. I was in my first year of college when I died, I also had a part time job. I don't have any of those things anymore..."

Jack smiled, "But you have us."

Alice smiled back but then it faded as she sighed and hugged her knees, "Yeah, but sometimes I just wish Autumn was with me, that I could see her and she could see me..."

Jack looked at his wall and patted her shoulder as she cried a little longer.

After a few moments of silence Jack asked, "How can you be so happy then?"

Alice looked up with confusion, "I don't...?"

"How can you be so happy and...normal even though your parents died and you and your sister almost got raped?" Jack looked at her with a slight anger, "You remember but yet your soul doesn't seem to hurt at all, why?!"

Alice was slightly taken back and quickly stood, "I had no choice! There was a time where I would cry myself to sleep and hate the world but then Autumn got released and I had to act like everything was normal, because for her it was!"

Jack stood as well, "But you and Autumn aren't together anymore, yet you're still happy, you stopped acting a while ago didn't you?"

Her anger faded and she looked at Jack with a blank stare, "I did...eventually things did become alright and I realized I couldn't keep passing through time, I had to start living."

"B-But don't you wake up at night remembering that night?"

Alice looked at Jack's scared face sadly, "Yes, but they're just bad dreams, memories of what has already happened."

"...Does Stein know...does anyone?"

Alice smiled lightly, "Only Manny, and now you."

Jack smiled a little as well but it soon faded as he sat on the edge of his bed and began to speak.

"P-Pitch...he-he took away my staff and locked me in a cage..."

Alice sat on the edge of the bed as well and looked at Jack with concern as he continued.

"He said I was his and that he would kill everyone so he could have me," Jack looked up from the floor and straight at Alice, "He was touching me...he wouldn't stop even though I asked and begged, and no one was coming to save me-"

"Bunny saved you, Jack, he came and saved you."

"But he took so long and Pitch...he almost..."

Alice placed her hand on his cheek, "I get it Jack...but don't worry, we'll protect you. I promise you're going to be alright, I won't let him hurt you or anyone else."

Jack nodded slightly and Alice pulled him into a hug, Jack hesitated before hugging her back.

Eventually the two ended up laying on Jack's bed together, just talking for a while before finally getting sleepy.

"Are you cold?" Jack asked with concern and a yawn.

Alice smiled and huddled his blankets closer to herself, "I'm fine...just really tired."

Jack chuckled, "I guess...we needed the...sleep," he said between yawns.

Alice yawned as well and soon both were fast asleep.

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As Jack awoke in the morning he felt a stirring next to him and saw Alice thrashing about, he quickly jostled her awoke and she sat right up.

"Nightmare?"

Alice looked at him with confusion, "No actually, slept like a log, you?"

"B-But you were moving a lot."

"Well, I don't remember any nightmares, this has actually been the best sleep I had in a while. Now answer my question, did you have one?"

Jack quickly shook his head and looked very confused, "No, but are you sure you didn't have a nightmare?"

Alice got out of the bed and laced up her boots, "Positive, now how about we eat?"

Alice began walking to the door but stopped and turned to see Jack still in the bed looking confused, "Are you coming?"

Jack snapped out of his small daze and walked over to the door, "Uh...yeah..."

But just before she opened the door Jack stopped her, she looked over at him with confusion.

"Uh, what?"

Jack looked just as confused as her, "Why did you still believe in us?"

Alice smiled and turned to fully face Jack, "I had a grandmother, she was my mother's mother, she lived with my aunt, the one that took me and Autumn in. She would always tell us these wonderful stories, Autumn eventually grew up and forgot the stories, she use to call me mad when I would yell at her for not flossing one night."

Her and Jack shared a laugh, then Jack asked, "What happened to her, is she still alive?"

"No," Alice said sadly, "She died three years later, it was Halloween night and me and Autumn had just turned 17."

"I-I'm sorry-"

"Don't worry about it," Alice opened the door and motioned out of it, "Shall we eat?"

Jack grinned and nodded.

The two walked down the corridor together but before entering the kitchen Jack suddenly stopped and Alice turned with confusion

"What now Frost?"

"Your birthday's on Halloween."

"Yeah...and?"

"Well one, that is ironic, and two, why didn't you tell anyone!"

Alice stared at the grinning Frost with confusion, "I-I'm not really sure, I didn't remember until I said it...I think."

Jack started to float around with excitement, "We should have a party!"

"That really isn't necessary-"

"Oh, but it is," Jack landed on the ground and dashed into the kitchen, he pointed right at Stein who was eating an omelet, "When is your birthday?"

Stein's eyes widened at Jack's outburst and he gently placed his fork down before answering the question, "November first."

Before the other Guardians could speak Jack laughed, "Alice's is Halloween and yours is the day after," then he turned to the rest of the Guardians, "I think we should have a party!"

Jack, Tooth, and Sandy flew around excitable, Bunny shrugged but yet had a smile on his face, and North just looked at Alice with confusion as she sat next to him on the new round table.

"We talked," Alice said quietly and North gave a booming laugh and started cheering for both the parties to be had and the smiling Jack Frost.

Next chapter should be a happy one, and if there is any confusion about anything so far just ask with a review and I will try my best to explain. Now then, I hope you all enjoyed!