Chapter 2 : Frost

Ten years earlier

"Frost come help you Aunt Linda!" Sarah yelled.

I sighed and leaving my room made my way down stairs only to be tripped by Stevie. I fell hard onto my hands and knees, and grunting in pain I got up in time to avoid a kick from Jordan and glared at both of them before walking away, I knew better then to try and get them in trouble for hurting me.

"Finally," Linda said and thrust her baby at me. "Holly needs to be changed then feed."

I carefully held Holly in my arms and looked around for her diaper bag, I didn't see it anywhere in the room.

"Um were is her stuff?" I asked and Linda looked up from her phone to glare at me annoyed that I had pulled her away from whatever she was doing. "Its in the car."

I sighed and walked out of the room and avoiding Jordan and Stevie knocked on Omi's door. When she called out for me to come in, I entered to see her sitting in an old winged backed chair knitting.

"Hi grandma, can you watch Holly for a second while I run out to Aunt Linda's car to get the baby's diaper bag?" I asked in German and hoped she would be in a good enough mood to do something for me.

"That's fine Frost, give her to me." She said and quickly put down her knitting and held out her arms to take Holly, I handed her over and quickly left the room and putting my coat on made my way out side to Linda's and Howard's car.

Howard was their grabbing bags from the trunk of the car and stopped what he was doing to stare at me.

"What do you want girl?" He demand.

Howard had never liked me and the feeling was mutual.

"Aunt Linda told me to get Holly's diaper bag for her." I said emotionless.

Howard narrowed his eyes at me and pulled out a pink bag with a little sheep on it then thrust it at me.

"Anything happens to that baby while we're here and your dead girl." He snapped.

I said nothing just turned and when back inside.

When I entered Omi's room I saw she and Max were talking quietly about what Christmas was about, I snorted as she told make that Christmas was really about sacrifice, these people wouldn't know sacrifice if it smacked them across the heads.

Dinner is like it is every year with Howard complaining, Stevie and Jordan picking on either me or Max and Linda being her normal bitchy self, sometime during dinner Max's gets feed up with everyone and starts screaming at everyone and goes up to his room.

"What did you do?" Tom snapped angrily at me.

"Nothing!" I said and felt my cheek sting from Tom smacking me across the face, I didn't blink or make any signs of pain.

"Go to your room!"

Turning I went upstairs and made my way to my small room barely big enough for a bed and a dresser, I sat down and allowed myself to cry for once.

Once upon a time I had loved my family but as I grew older, I learned that they had never loved me or at the very least tolerated me. I was the child that was never meant to born, Sarah and Tom hadn't wanted children but after having Beth they had changed and learned to love Beth and Max but always hated me for stealing away their golden years.

I cried silently as I stared out the window and wished…wished that someone would take me away from here and love me. I closed my eyes and curled up onto the bed and shivered as the last of my love for my 'family' died and fell head long into sleep.

The dream was…different.

I dreamed that was sitting on a huge throne carved beautiful from ice, in front of me sat a huge table that held a scaled down version of the world floating on the table top…no it was the table top. Leaning forward I saw that my house and the surrounding area was in clear focuses on the floating map, and sucking in a deep breath I blow it out in a stream of snow, ice and freezing cold coating the entire area in a blizzard that would only grow worse as the night progressed.

"This will all be yours soon my child."

I glanced up to see a beautiful tall man with pale skin and long white hair leaning against the side of the table, while he looked no older than 25 there was something about him that told you that he was very old and very tired.

"My time is ending and yours will soon begin, when the time comes my child your life will never again be the same." He said and I wanted to ask him what he was talking about but didn't because I somehow knew that our time together was short and I need to listen to what he was telling me now before it was too late.

"You are a child of winter my dear but not just any child but soon the queen of winter itself. The coming night will be a test to see if you are worthy to take the throne of winter or not but be warned child, to fail is to lose your life. To win is to neither be on the side of the light but not on the side of the dark neither."

I frowned at him, he basically just told me that there was no real way to win but that losing wouldn't be a good idea either.

"Then what do I do if I can't win or lose?" I finally asked.

He smiled kindly at me and gently cupped the side of my face with one hand.

"Go back and live. Live and find happiness where you can." He said and kissed my forehead.

I woke up to find the house pitch black and Max banging on my door, getting up I opened the door to see an upset Max shivering from the cold and I noticed that his breath was fogging up the air in front of him.

"Dad said to come down stairs, the power went out because of the storm." He said threw chattering teeth.

I frowned and noticed that the temperature was freezing but it didn't really bother me, shrugging I followed Max down stairs and saw that everyone was gathered around the fire place which must have been the only source of heat because everyone was gathered around it, pushing each other to get closer to the warmth. I didn't bother to try and get close to the fire, instead I moved over to the far end of the room and sat down.

"We have to go out there! We have to find Beth!" Sarah said and was going on and on about a plan to find Beth. Tom hushes her and says they will go look for her at day light and that they were all staying put until then.

Omi starts yelling about how it was all their waits and that he was coming to get them, I stop listening and stared out the window looking at the snow and ice falling harder and faster while she told everyone about Krampus, and how we would all die etc.

No one said anything for a long time as we all stared at her in disbelieve, the Howard turned to glare angrily at me as if I had caused this to happen.

"This is all your fault!" He snapped and I raised an eyebrow at him.

"How is it my fault that all of your selfishness caused a demon to come and kill us all." I snapped.

I was done with them all and was fed up with the way they all treat me.

"Each and every one of you are selfish, ungrateful, greed bastards who cares only about your self's!"

I stood and stated pacing angrily in front of them. I stopped and turn to point at Linda.

"Your cheating on your husband and can't even take care of your own baby, let alone teach your kids how to act." I said and pointed at Stevie and Jordan.

"You two are complete bullies."

I turned to point at Howard.

"You are a ungrateful ass."

I turned to glare at Sarah.

"You and your husband are just spiteful pricks."

I glanced at Max, who was curled put next to Omi.

"You two are just disappointing."

I marched past them all and head towards the door.

"Where the hell are you going?" Tom yelled.

I paused and turned to look back at the man who was my father and felt…nothing.

"I'm leaving and I'm never coming back!" I said and opened the front door.

"See you all in hell."