Thank you all for the awesome reviews and comments. It was surprisingly hard to write this chapter out and I almost didnt write it but them I rememberd why I was writing it. To show the connections she has to all the guardians and Grim.

I am not very happy with how this chapter ended but I was running on fumes, what with work and the real world.

Thank you to everyone who has favorited or are following this story, it helps to fuel every writers creativity to know people are reading their work XD

Now enough of my babbling!

It was true; Grim had a crush on Reap. A big one. Whenever they were together he would always ask what her favorite things where, what she likes, if she had been married. It was unnerving to Reap, so when she left for the party North threw every year, she left with a sigh of relief. Grim had to stay behind like she did the first year because of training. He was having trouble controlling the pack over long distances and keeping track of all of them when he sent them out.

"Excited about the party?" GR's 'clone' asked as they flew to the Pole.

"Could you tell?" She asked nervously.

"You talk in your sleep" GR said. Even though she was the Reaper, she still got existed from taking in all the children's souls. Even their souls would get exhausted and they would all crash in one big pile.

"Oh, sorry."

"Well most of the time it's quite entertaining. There was this one time you sat bolt upright, screamed at the top of your lungs, smiled then fell back into the pile. Another time you started laughing maniacally in your sleep. I wonder if Sandy has some invisible dream-sand that he sends your way."

"No that's just me being my adorably eccentric self" She said with a smile. Yes she had been greatly looking forward to seeing the Guardians. She did think of GR as the father she never had but being with him all the time was taking its toll on her calm domineer.

The past two parties there had been a theme. The first was tropical paradise where North actually dressed up in a grass skirt and coconut bra, and that was it. He was actually a very good hula dancer. She also learned from the rest of the guardians about the entire world and each culture which helped with her gathering souls.

The last theme had been more like a pot-luck with the idea of make something that seams gross but tasted fabulous. She had made candy covered bugs. It had been a fun time of playing chicken with the odd food.

This year was more of a Halloween thing of dressing up. She had chosen to be a black Angel. She had the black outfit and everything and could keep her wings out even with her feet on the ground. GR was going as himself, not really festive but easy.

They landed on the porch right outside and the place looked like it always did in December. It was December 22nd, the day the party started and would go on until North came back on the 26th. The lining of the Pole was covered in icicles that shined green, gold, silver, and red. Large glass red and green balls hung on each of the corners and inside there was already music being played by the elves.

She opened the door and was immediately tackled into the air by Tooth. "Reap it's so good to see you. I am so glad you finally lost your last two baby teeth! And your adult teeth are coming in nicely" She said, intruding her fingers into Reaps' mouth once again.

"Yes well I guess I finally accumulated enough happy memories to fill them" Reap said with Tooth's fingers still in her mouth.

"Tooth, don't crowed her again! Let her rest up. Hay Reap, long time no see" Bunny said, coming from behind.

"It has Bunny, nice human costume. Never thought I would see you without fur. You look good" She said with a smile. All his fur, except for his ears, tail, and a cloth around his waist, was gone leaving tattoos where his black fur was on his pale skin.

"Thanks, nice black angel look. Seams your powers are growing stronger." Bunny said with a smile, and a hug which he shivered from the cold that was clinging to her cloths.

"Or she is getting more focused, but I doubt that" North said, from his pedestal next to the globe.

Everyone was dressed up, with the exception of GR. Bunny was playing human, Tooth had on a Toto and slippers so she was a ballerina, Sandy had shaped himself into a dragon like human creature from the myths but in his own little size, and North was dressed in very strange multicolored cloths.

"What are you North?" Reap asked.

"I am a hippy, man. Peace" He said his accent very heavy. Obviously he had hit the eggnog a little early.

"What's a hippy?"

"It's something from the future. About 250 years from now" Bunny said, drinking some eggnog himself. "Wow that's strong!"

"Aww, look you two, you are standing under the mistletoe!" Tooth exclaimed.

"I wish to trade my spot!" She exclaimed.

"With who?" Bunny asked.

Reap snapped her fingers and, in a puff of black smoke, traded spots with Tooth. "Wait I can trade my position with someone else?! Brilliant!" she exclaimed before blushing as Bunny and Tooth kissed under the mistletoe.

"Bunny and Tooth sitting in tree, K.I.S.S.I.N.G.!" North exclaimed before falling to the ground, asleep.

"Well, there he goes" Reap said with a smile. She took a glass and had a sip. It burned when it first hit her throat but the cream in the Nog eased in the aftertaste. She smiled. "I see why people like this drink!"

"Yes and don't have too much of it now!" Tooth said. "You don't know how much you can take."

"Yes mother, I understand" Reap teased.

"Um, excuse me" A small voice said from the window. There was a little girl floating outside in rags. She looked no more than 7 years old. Reap instantly went into work mode with her staff in her hand. She opened the window and sat on the sill. "Hello, what is your name?"

"Teralin" She said in a quiet voice. "And I am very scared"

"It's ok, what are you scared of?"

"I don't know, I was about to fall off a large cliff, then I closed my eyes and was flying to here" She said, starting to sob.

Reap took the child and placed her on her lap. "I know it's scary, but you have nothing to fear now. You are with me and I will help you in any way I can." She said with a smile, kissing the top of Teralins head.

"Help me with what?"

"With crossing over."

"To where?"

"The afterlife."

"Oh, so I really did fall off that cliff. Well at least it didn't hurt" Teralin said with a slight smile.

"No it didn't hurt, and that is a good thing. So tell me about yourself" Reap said, bringing Teralin into the workshop but staying on the sill of the window.

Tooth, Bunny, and Sandman watched as the frightened child very quickly began to explain things very enthusiastically and with much joy.

"Wow she works fast" Tooth said with a dazzling smile, enjoying the child's story.

"Yes she dose. There is something about her that makes children at ease. Something that I could never do." GR said, taking a bit of cake.

"Well, isn't it obvious?" Bunny asked. "She doesn't sugar coat anything, she answers everything truthfully but always says that she is there to help and fallowed thru with what she says. She is honest and her happiness and joy is just so infectious you can't be in a bad mood around her."

GR thought for a moment then nodded her head. "Yes, I can see that now. Even I can't be that down-in-the-dump when I am around her. I just feel like I have to smile."

Without warning an alarm went off. Reap jumped and would have fell to her death if she didn't have her wings. At the sound of the alarm, North sobered right out of his sleep and strided over to a wall of glowing lights.

"Someone is trying to brake in on the North side. Phil, go check it out" He said pointing to a lighter colored Yeti. Phil said something in Yeti speak and went off. North fallowed him shortly after when one of the lights began flashing.

"What was that all about?" Reap asked as Teralin held her hand for dear life.

"Like he said, someone was trying to break in. It's almost like a futuristic guard dog" Tooth said to Reap. She still hadn't gotten use to all the new gadgets and gizmos in each of the guardians' palaces. All these flashing lights and buttons that set different things off. It was very strange and such a shock when she first pushed a button and something jumped out at her.

North came back a few moments later to Tooth and Bunny dancing with Sandy and reap to the side having a quiet conversation. "Looks like we have another legendary figure that Many Moon has called into the world. His name is Jack Frost. He wanted to see if my workshop was real and he was trying to get in. Boys." He sighed, sitting down.

"Why didn't you let him in North?" Reap asked.

"Because if I just let anyone in then my workshop would be more crowded then it normally is. Now would you like to help make some toys?"

"Would I EVER! But I must get Teralin to her family." She said, picking the little girl up and holding the child to her hip like a mother would.

"You never stop doing your job do you?" North asked, smiling.

"Only when there are no more souls to ferry." She said with a smile and disappeared out the window.

"So how is that new recruit coming along?" North asked GR.

GR visibly sighed in frustration. "He never leaves Reap alone. I have to pry him off of her most of the time. But when he actually focuses on the task he is not that bad."

"Any chance we will be seeing him?"

"Not at least until next year. I just got him into training a month ago after all" GR said before going over to a chair and sitting down. Reap then rematerialized again as she flew back thru the window.

"Did I miss anything?" she asked.

"Just talking about the new recruit to the soul gang" Bunny interjected. He saw Reap sigh in frustration just as GR had.

"He is like an annoying little brother who is trying to, um, what is the word where you complement someone and makes moves on them?"

"Flirt" Bunny suggested.

"Yes, flirt. He is flirting with me and it's getting to be very uncomfortable. I keep telling him that I don't like him that way. Oh and by the way does that happen often?"

"What guys flirting with girls?" North asked.

"No, Many Moon creating legendary figures out of the blue."

"Not really but the past 3 years we have had 3. You, Grim, and now Jack Frost. Apparently Jack Frost came to be after you did. He wouldn't say anything else."

"Wait a moment, what did this kid look like?" Bunny asked.

"Hmm, he had ice blue eyes, white hair, a brown peasant coat, brown slacks that went down to mid calf, and no shoes."

"Did he have a curved hook like staff?"

"Why yes he did, and he was flying outside a window."

"Ug, that kid was the one who messed with my egg hunt this Easter over in North America! So that's his name! Uh when I get my hands on him…"

"Bunny, calm down. It was just a onetime thing. He may still be learning how to control his powers. He probably won't do it again." Tooth said reassuringly to the now fuming Bunnymund.

"I am still going to have a word with that little brat" Bunny said, taking another mouthful of Nog.

"So Reap, lest start on those toys!" North said, leading her down a flight of stairs. She had never been down this way; she was practically giddy with anticipation. They got into a small room then went down.

"Welcome to the workshop" North said, opening the door for her. She saw an army of Yetis all working on toys.

"I thought the elves made the toys"

"We just let them believe that" North whispered to Reap. A group of elves where practically setting each other on fire. One went zooming out and up to the ceiling before they heard a small explosion before the little elf came sailing back to the floor, now black. "Very nice, keep up good work!"

Reap shook her head. "How do you keep them from blowing up the entire building?"

"We have our ways" He said as they went over to a calmer room. All the yetis where painting toys but one spot was clear. "I hear from GR you like painting, and that you are very good?"

"Well, I can paint" She said modestly.

"How about you paint something that you love, a toy, an instrument, an item that you love and paint it onto that large canvas" He said with a smile. "If you run out of paint just ask one of the yetis and they will get you more."

"What should I do when I am finished?" She asked, turning around, but North was gone. "Does he do that a lot?"

All the yetis nodded and watched her. She took a deep breath and really looked at the life size canvas. The one thing that she loved that reminded her of the good times she had at home was a piano. She also loved Aniu, her spirit guide who had disappeared since their first meeting. She knew what she would paint, a piano that had wolves etched all over it and wolf paws for legs, so she began.

3 hours later, and 5 trips to the paint room and she was finished. She sat down and looked behind her. The yetis where staring at her painting. She smiled and turned back to admire her work before her jaw dropped. Instead of a painting, there was a piano, an exact replica of the one she had painted, color, detail, even the little wolf standing right on the top looking down at the keys where all perfectly etched to look identical to her painting.

"Now that is a work of art!" North said, patting her on the back.

"But…it…..you…I was…I didn't….How?"

"A magician never reveals secrets" North said, winking at her.

"So this is where you have been all this time. Wow, nice Piano" Bunny said.

Tooth flew over to it, placing a hand on the wolf then playing a cord. "Perfectly tuned. Does anyone know how to play?"

"I do, that's why I painted it. It was the only time I felt safe at home. My father loved to hear me playing it and I loved to play it." She said sitting down and playing around with random notes before she breathed in and began to play 'Oh Christmas Tree' at first in a nice flowing way, then she began to let loose and put a little Jazz kick in it that she never knew she could. Something about playing the piano made her feel so much better about everything.

"My mother was right, music really dose calm the soul" She said as she finished playing her piano. It was her present this year from North. It would stay in the main room so when she visited she could just sit down and play for everyone to hear. "Thank you North" She said with a smile and, surprising everyone, gave him a big hug without any hesitation. She had still been a little off about North because he seemed like he was a lot like her father, without all the mean, but she had decided while she was playing that she had nothing to be afraid of ever again.

As the party continued over the week, she learned more about what the future was going to be like and more about the world today and the other guardians, how they had come to be guardians.

Christmas Eve came and it seemed to fly by because, before she knew it, North was taking off in his slay, that Reap drooled over, and was gone. They had the workshop to themselves and the first thing they wanted to do was hear more of Reaps piano talent. She smiled and played whatever they wanted her to play, well that she knew of. Tooth wanted her to play something called 'It's Raining Men' and Sandy wanted her to play 'Rhythm of Love'. It was hard to tell them no, but she couldn't play them. All too soon, North came back and Reap and GR were out the door going back into their world.

Like I said before, not to happy with the way this chapter ended. Comments, questions, concerns? Hit me up in the reviews!

LOVE TO ALL!