A/N: Hi guys! Thanks so much for the support on the story! I'm glad you guys have enjoyed it so far. I apologize for the long wait, things got crazy with lots of homework to get caught up on after being sick. Thanks for being patient, so without further wait, here is the story!
Autumn's house was furnished with blood red cushioned seats and couches, cobwebs, dim orange and black lights, and a black and white checkered floor made of marble. Half made costumes were thrown about, in the corner was a table with a sewing machine and piles cloth on it. The kitchen was in the far right corner of the room, and the oven looked like it was in the process of making what I guessed was some kind of candy. A large bowl of sweets sat on a round wooden table next to the door and a plastic hand held it up. I picked a Red Hot and popped it in my mouth with a smile. "Oh darling, you are soooo typical. Powers of fire, take the red hot!" Autumn waved her arms around and twirled as she said this, doing her own mad thing.
"You could say the same about yourself! Look at this place, it looks like Halloween puked on everything!" I gestured around the room.
Autumn grinned, "Touche."
Jack and Eric came in behind us looking around the room in awe. I chuckled, "Yeah, yeah. Spirit of Halloween, keep your jaws shut you gawking baboons." Autumn yelled, smiling and waving her hands about.
"Sorry!" Jack held his hands out in mock surrender. Maybe he wasn't so bad after all.
"I don't know about the rest of you," I yawned, "but I'm exhausted. Same bedroom as before?" I glanced at Autumn and pointed up the stairs.
"Yes ma'm. Let me give you boys the grand tour, I think Ava knows this place already. See you tomorrow love." Autumn waved me away and gestured for the boys to follow. I laughed as she launched into telling the boys the details of her latest candy scheme.
I climbed up the stairs and looked around. Not much was different. Same old wooden table, decorated with jack 'o lanterns and candy. The large hall was lined with doors that led to the bedrooms, and the bathroom. I walked to the room that I had always used. The handle was melted a bit from my warm touch. Inside the room was a full sized bed with red sheets, a bookshelf filled with a few random books I had brought over the years, and a small round wooden table with a jack 'o lantern on top. I collapsed onto the bed and fell asleep almost instantly.
"You thought you could just leave? Darling, you will be sorrily mistaken." my father stood looming above me. I was expecting this.
"Get out of my head, father. You lied and hurt me. You don't get your daughter back." I closed my eyes and rubbed my temples slowly. He wasn't going to give up.
"Darling, I was trying to protect you. I was teaching you to hate your enemy." his face spoke true, but his words were corrupt.
"You were teaching me? Father, what you did was beat me. Plain and simple. I already hated Jack Frost. There was NO point in doing what you did. I will never come home. I'm staying somewhere safe. I didn't see your evil. I do now, so unless by some miracle you can change, you'll never see me again. Goodbye." I closed my eyes and pinched my arm.
I opened my eyes slowly and sat up. My eyes focused on a figure with a blue hoodie and white hair sitting at the foot of the bed. I jumped out of bed with a yelp, "What the hell?" my body had already started heating itself and fire was tickling the tips of my fingers.
"Sorry! Sorry..don't cook me!" Jack held his hands up in surrender
"What are you doing in here?" I asked
"I was watching you sleep." he replied in a matter of fact tone
"Oh. Well in that case, you sound completely sane! I don't know what I was thinking, I mean, it's totally normal for some guy I barely know to just watch me sleep." my voice dripped with sarcasm
"Sorry, it's just...I had no idea Pitch had a daughter. I actually never knew there was any other spirit besides the Guardians and Pitch."
"Seriously?" I asked, "It seems like they would have told you.. I mean I know the Easter Rabbit has a few grudges against some spirits, especially the ground hog. They got into a tunnel accident once."
Jack shook his head, "No."
"Hey, I'm sorry for everything that went down yesterday. Did my father hurt you?" I had been worrying about this a bit last night.
"Not bad, he hit me in the head with my staff and knocked me out. About yesterday, I mean... maybe we should try this again. I think we got off on the wrong foot..."
"Yeah. I think you're right. Where do you want to start?"
"Well, neither of us know much about each other...maybe just start there?"
"Alright..." I sighed, "I guess I'll start from the beginning. My parents met before the Dark Ages. They got married and spent some time together, then they worked together and rose to power, which was the start of the Dark Ages. They had me not long after, and after I turned six the Guardians came to be. They took down my parents and punished them by taking away my mother. I don't really remember much about it, just seeing them drag her away...she was crying, I was crying, my father was hugging me. We were on our own after that. Banished under the bed. I took care of him, he was miserable after she was taken away. Eventually he got the idea that he could get revenge. You joined the Guardians and took him down. That whole time I was still in that hell hole being watched by the fearlings. After the Guardians defeated my father we were left with almost nothing. Eventually my father mastered his powers again, and we were planning on attacking you after I had finished training on my four hundred eighteenth birthday. I left and captured you. Eric told me what my father had done right after father shut the door in my face. That's pretty much it. I mean, there's more in between the big stuff, but I'd rather not get into it now." I finished, remembering all the things too personal to share with Jack.
"Wow. Well, I guess it's my turn." Jack ran a hand through his hair. "I died before I was brought back as a spirit. During our battle with Pitch I was given my teeth, which contain childhood memories. In my human life I had a mother and a sister, so kind of the opposite of you I guess. I was a troublemaker and played lots of jokes on people. One day I took my sister ice skating and to save her from falling through the thin ice I used a stick to fling her out of the way and fell in myself. I came back to this giant moon shining down on me. All he said was that I was Jack Frost. I started a life of freedom and jokes, but no one could see me. I don't know how much contact you've had with the human world, but if a child doesn't believe in you, they can't see you. So I was on my own for three hundred years, and then the Man in The Moon told the Guardians that Pitch was coming back, and that I was to be the new Guardian. Bunny and two of the yetis stuffed me in this giant bag and tossed me through this portal. They told me I was a Guardian and I flipped out. But I tagged along with them when Tooth was in trouble. I found out about the memories in my teeth and stuck with them. I guess along the way I discovered who I really was. I met this kid named Jamie and his friends. They believed in me, so I decided to become a Guardian, to protect them. I've just been doing my job and bringing fun to the kids for the last ten years. Jamie went off to college, so I've started playing with his sister Sofie more often. I had just finished putting her to bed when we met." Jack seemed nervous telling me this, because he kept running his hand through his hair. The fact that he had been alone so long struck me. I had been with my father my whole life. It might not have been the greatest, but it was better than being alone.
"I had no idea you were alone for so long. I mean, not having someone there...I'm sorry Jack."
"Sorry for what?"
"Sorry for hating you for something you had every reason to do. For not seeing through my father's lies before. For everything."
Jack was silent for a moment. Then, "I forgive you."
