I didn't mention this before, but if you haven't read my Avengers next gen fic then go ahead and read it! Also as I was looking things up I knotised that Jack's little sister's name is Pippa. I personally think she looks like a Sarah so I am gong to keep it like that.

This chapter was really smooth writing, the muse is making me thing of nothing but this! Sometimes its so frustrating but you take what you can get. Though I am have a hard time writing the next chapter. It's probably going to be a shorter chapter to let you see how she interacts with the Guardians.

Thank you to all who have reviewed, sent me pm's, favorited my story, and thoughs who are following it. I greatly thank you! Now enough of my blah blah blahing.

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3 years went by and all she ever did was train and be with GR when he went to gather and ferry the souls. Most of the time he would make copies of himself, don't ask her how she had no clue, and send them to gather while the original stayed behind to teach her. From her teachings she could now teleport, almost, use her staff to call her charges to her and use the curve in the top of the staff like a scythe because of its sharp edge, and she could also become visible to the living from time to time. That was usually her reward when she completed her training.

Though she learned a lot from the Grimm Reaper, she also learned that she had abilities of her own. With one tap of her staff or finger she could make anyone laugh and smile, she could also shift into cretin animals like dogs, cats, and birds. Her skin was always very warm but it never affecting the things around her except when someone touched her they felt warm inside. She could also feel the emotions of the people around her.

When she went with GR, she saw that adult spirits where much more accepting then children's spirits. Most of the time, children died slowly over time but no matter how they died it took a lot of convincing of GR to get them to accept that they were dead. It was very depressing work with a lot of heartache felt by her, but like GR said 'If someone has to do it then why not us, the strong of heart and soul'. He was right, but she found herself feeling sorry for thoughs people and wishing that she could help them live life again.

The anniversary of her 'resurrection' was today and she was currently spending it training once again on feeling lost souls, something she had not mastered yet.

"Are you concentrating?!" GR asked urgently.

"I would be concentrating even more if you weren't asking me more earnestly every few seconds." She said, her eyes closed as she tried to clear her mind.

"Yes but are you concentrating?"

She sighed. "Yes GR I am concentrating but I just can't feel anything. Nothing is touching my mind like you said it would." She said getting up and stretching. She had been sitting on a frozen pond for the better half of the morning trying to feel other souls with her mind.

"That is very strange. I'd have thought that, with you being so sympathetic and empathetic, you could easily feel others that way." He said, sounding a little disappointed.

"What do you mean 'that way'?"

"Well it's different for everyone, just like each soul is different." He stated, pacing.

"You could have told me that before. Mainly because I have been feeling something."

"You have? What?"

"I can't explain it; it's like a pull on my own soul and heart. It almost feels like something is calling to me, right here" She said, placing her hand over her heart.

"A pull good good, that is very good. That is what you normally should be feeling. Where does the feeling pull you to?" He asked.

She looked around, well more like felt around with her spirit, and pointed East Northeast. "That's where I need to go!"

"That that is where you will go, your first charge Reap. I would suggest flying there" GR said, then disappeared.

"Wait you're not coming with me?! WHAT IF I NEED YOUR HELP!" she yelled after him, knowing that he could still hear her. When he didn't answer she glared at the clear night sky. "Could have warned me at least" She sighed then, spreading her wings, took off into the night sky.

She flew for about an hour, the feeling getting stronger in her soul. She landed on another frozen pond, her heart sinking. She was standing on the pond right outside Jack's and Sarah's house. She was back in her town. She looked around, trying to find the lost soul. The feeling was so overpowering that she couldn't find a specific direction.

"Aniu?" A small voice said from the other side of the pond, over to the forest.

Reap turned, hearing her human name and fell to her knees at the site that met her eyes. Right on the other side of the pond was a very small headstone, and sitting on that headstone was a slightly transparent Sarah. She had grown taller, her hair had been cut, but she still looked like the little girl Reap use to play with. "It is you, I knew you were alive!" Sarah said, jumping down and into the snow, not making any sound or tracks.

"Hi Sarah. Do you know why I am here?" She asked, going threw her training but unable to keep tears from her eyes.

"Of course, we are going to play in the snow right?"

"No Sarah, I am here to take you in and take care of you until you are ready to pass." Reap Aniu said, trying not to let the emotion she was feeling get to her.

"What do you mean until I am ready to pass?"

"Look behind you, look at that tomb-stone, look at the snow you have just stepped on." Reap said, pointing her staff to it.

Sarah walked over to the stone, and then backed away quickly. She then looked down at the snow, no foot prints. "But how can that be?"

"What is the last thing you remember?"

"I remember that my family was crying over me, they where sad because the…Doctor said something that I couldn't hear. Then mother said something about losing Jack and…now…wait. I remember the Doctor said something about smallpox. What is that?" Sarah asked, looking up at Reap.

"It is a very fatal disease that kills many people who aren't strong enough to fight it. I am not alive Sarah, I am the Grim Reapers partner, taking in children's souls and taking care of them. They call me Reap now" She said, kneeling down to Sarah and placing a hand on her shoulder.

Sarah shook her head. "I can't be dead. I can't I was sapos to take care of the others when Jack fell into the ice and never came back" Sarah said in tears.

"Wait, Jack died?!"

"Yes, just a few months after you did. The ice around this pond was very thin and he saved me from falling in." Sarah said, placing her head on Reaps shoulder.

"Oh, I didn't know."

"How could you not know, you are the Grim Reaper!"

"Technically I am his partner, and you are my first charge so I just started" Reap said, sounding pathetic. "I wish I had known."

"Well, I can't be dead. I have to take care of everyone else!"

Meanwhile, up in the sky, GR was keeping track of her progress.

How is she doing?

"Not to good I am afraid. She is letting her emotions get the better of her." GR said to Manny Moon.

Maybe that is a good thing; compassion with children is the best thing after all.

"Let's just see." GR stated.

"Sarah, I am sorry, but you are dead. And I am here to take care of you until you are ready to pass. I will do whatever I can to help you" Reap said, opening her arms, inviting Sarah into a hug.

Sarah looked at her, and then practically ran into her arms, crying. "Why did this have to happen?! My family is already heartbroken because of Jack! It's just not fair!"

"I know, trust me no one knows that more than I do but everything happens for a reason Sarah."

"Why did this happen?"

"I think that's up to you to find out, and I will help you in any way I can." Reap said, placing her back on her feet. "What does your heart say?"

Sarah looked down, almost listening. "I think it is saying that I have to stay here. I can't leave them even if I am dead. Plus there is something that I have to do, and it's here, I can feel it."

"Then you can stay, if you need me, call me. I will come back for you eventually ok. I don't know when but I will come and get you. You can't cross to the other side without me. Once you have that feeling, come and find me or wait for me, I will find you."

"How?"

"Every soul is different, and I can see that and sense it, I will find you."

"How will I know when I am ready?"

"Well, GR told me that you get this feeling of accomplishment as well as a feeling that you don't belong here anymore. Almost like something is calling to you from beyond. Or so I'm told" Reap said with a smile. Some instinct deep down inside her told her to pluck a stick from a nearby tree. As she did it glowed a faint blue and gold. "This is something that will help you. I don't know how but you will know when to use it"

Sarah took the stick and smiled. "Thanks Reap, I really did miss you, Jack too. I will see you when we next meet." She smiled and gave Reap a big hug.

"Be safe little one, and stay strong. Everything has an end and with that end comes new beginnings" Reap said, breaking the hug and with a wave goodbye, took off.

You where saying GR?

"Not too bad, though she didn't really accomplish her mission." GR said before porting back to Reaps side. "Well, that went well."

"Thanks, I think. She wasn't ready to cross over. She had something to do."

"So I saw. You know that's dangerous, leaving a spirit alone like that. She could turn into a poltergeist and hurt someone without thinking."

"I don't think she will do that. And if she does she will use my gift."

"What was it and how did you do it?"

"I think it's a sleeping spell, and I just thought of it and it happened." She shrugged before landing in an opened field. "But enough of that, I have a bone to pick with you. Why didn't you tell me Jack died?!"

"Because I didn't take him to the afterlife."

"Now that, I just can't believe. I can't believe that Jack would go to the afterlife just like that. He would be thinking of his family, his siblings, Sarah. He would be like Sarah, have unfinished business."

"As I said before, I did not take his soul to the afterlife, I promise you."

"Then what happened to him?!"

GR thought for a moment before Manny Moon told him not to tell her. "I can't say."

"You can't or you won't."

"I can't, and don't ask why. There are things that I don't even know Reap, now drop it, you have more souls to take care of."

Reap glared at him, her curly hair covering the left side of her face before she took off.

GR shook his head. "I was there though, about to take him. I remember that day to well."

ooOOoo

It was late February; GR was on his way to collect the lost soul of Jack, Aniu's friend. He had fallen into the ice water and never emerged. He had split himself to save Reap the heartache of finding out that her best friend had died so soon.

He was at the pond before some unknown force stopped him. No GR, I have plans for this boy.

"Really? But he won't remember who he was or anything from his past!"

Yes I know. But he will remember one day.

He couldn't argue with the big man, so he hung back and watched as the now Jack Frost floated out of the frozen pond and into the world again.

ooOOoo

He hated not being able to tell Reap about that day, but he was under orders. He turned to face the moon. "What are you up to big man? What do you have planed?" but like always with questions about anything specific, there was no reply.

"Ah well, it's almost time for North's big pre Christmas party." GR said aloud.

"Will I still be able to go with what I have to do?" Reap asked, coming back with 5 children's souls.

"Wow that was fast."

"I just told them that I could help them" Reap said.

"It's…..the Grim Reaper. We really are dead." One boy said.

"Eh well I lived a good life" Another boy said.

"You are only a child" Reap said, eyeing him.

"I said good not long. I am ready to move on" He said, sighing, the feeling of belonging somewhere else taking hold.

"We all are" A 12 year old girl with blond curls and rags said, holding her sisters hands.

"Then take my hand, and hold on tight" Reap said to them all. They did and they disappeared, rising up. They came to the entrance to heaven, Valhalla, the Afterlife, every entrance to every paradise in each religion. Each child went to their relatives who had passed before them. They yelled their thanks then disappeared.

Reap smiled, the feeling of being able to bring peace to lost souls was overwhelming, but also saddening because she could not join them. "Power has a price" she told herself. GR had always reminded her of that little face about being the powerful people they were. As she descended back to the mortal world, she looked upon her old village and saw Sarah, a little spec of light in the distance. "I do hope she is alright."

"About going to the party" GR said as she landed back on the earth. "Yes you can go, but you still have a job. Until you learn to project and separate yourself properly so to efficiently do your job, you will still need to do your work by yourself. When you do learn this you still must take care of the children, you the original. Do you understand? This ability is not an excuse not to do your job."

"Yes GR, I do understand." She sighed.

"Come, there is someone else who will be joining us."

"Really? Who?"

"Someone who will help prepare and warn people that there will be a death with Grims."

"Oh, so another partner?"

"No, you are my partner; you do your own work. He will be my assistant, sending Grims out into the world." GR said as he landed in a graveyard.

There in the middle of the tombstone covered field was a young man about 14 years of age, falling to the ground, shivering. She could feel his life force depleting, leaving him. He was slowly dying.

"Did you watch me die?" She asked in a very soft voice.

"Yes, I watched everything that night. Before your soul woke I sent your father to Hell without hesitation. Your mother was given forgiveness for not protecting you and taken into God's hands."

"But if she did protect me she would have died before she did. He would have killed her back then."

"Yes, but you where given to her by God to be protected by her, not the other way around. You have much strength and such an inner sense of fairness. A good judge of character and honesty in all that you do. You protect and also make people smile and feel happy because you want them to be happy and safe. You want them to forget their troubles like you wanted to forget yours. That was once of the reasons Manny Moon chose you." GR said then looked upon the body of the boy, being covered by the blowing snow.

His hair was as black a coal and his eyes as blue as the sea. He rose, looked around, and froze when he saw Reap and GR. "Am I dead?"

"You where, you have been reborn to help a great cause, but only if you accept such a great responsibility." GR said, offering the young man a wand like stick which, upon closer inspection, was made of bone.

The boy reached for it but GR took it out of his reach. "You must think about this, you will not go to the afterlife, nor will you be able to be seen by others except in your animal form. You will be the pack leader of the Grims, the black dogs that give mortals the warning that there will be a death in the family to help them except that fact. You must be cretin you are ready for this." GR finished, offering the wand again.

The boy didn't hesitate. He took it and nodded. "I will help"

"You are now Grim Dustin Proten. You know me, and this is Reap Aniu Aurora. She is my partner; she takes in and takes care of children's souls."

He turned to look at her, his eyes going wide. "An Angel" He spoke softly.

"No, I am not an Angel. I am simply…me?" She said in confusion as Grim strided over to her, took her hand, and kissed the back of it.

"Never have I seen such beauty in any women before now." He said in a hushed, dramatic voice.

"Um, thank you, I think. It's nice to meet you too Grim" She said with a smile, rubbing the back of her hand on her shirt.

"Please call me Dustin, Aniu" He said with a bright smile.

"Oh no, I don't feel comfortable calling you that. After all we are working together, so please call me Reap. I'm glad to be working with someone else" She said in a nervous voice.

"As am I. I look forward to working with you." Grim said with a sigh.

"Actually Grim, you will be working with me. She has her own job, you are like my assistant, and you also may take over my job one day." GR said, taking Grim's shoulder and leading him away from Reap.

She sighed, a little uncomfortable with Grims' forwardness. She followed them to an opening where GR howled. Other howls met his as a large number of black dogs came rushing towards Grim. They jumped on him and started licking his face.

There was one white wolf like creature on the border of the forest, looking at them all. Reap patted her leg and whistled for the wolf to come closer. Surprisingly the wolf responded earnestly, sat next to her, and began to lick her hand. She knelt down and let the wolf lick her face.

"That is your namesake, Aniu the great white wolf of the North. She is a spirit guide and it looks like she has chosen you." GR said, watching the pack lick every inch of Grim.

"She is so beautiful. I love her already." Reap said, scratching Aniu behind the ear.

"Remember, even though she has chosen you, she is still a wild wolf spirit. She will help you bear your responsibilities and make thing easier when you feel tired or sad. It also seems that you have an admirer." GR said.

"Who?"

"Grim."

"Really?! Well I don't really like him that way. At least not yet. I may but I don't know" She said, standing back up.

"Be careful about letting anyone have your heart Reap. I don't want to see you get hurt." GR said.

"I will be, I promise" She said, watching as Grim took command of the pack with one flick of the bone wand.

Sooo another character added to the story. I wonder how this is going to pan out. Wait, what am I saying. I am the author I know how it's going to go! Its going to go *A big huge explosion sounds as I explain in great detail how the entire story is going to pan out* and that is that, I am not going to repeat myself on this. Pleas review or hit me up with questions by sending a pm!

LOVE TO ALL!