YAY the chapter everyone has been waiting for. Reap and Jack finally reunite after such a long separation! How is everyone's holidays? Mine was simple with few gifts but they where perfect. I had a dream that my entire family pitched in to get me tickets to the world premier of Iron Man 3 and that I got to see Robert Downey Jr in the flesh! Well guess what! It didn't happen but I did get 2 Iron Man shirts which I love!

The muse wasn't really working with me on this chapter, it's so hard to write for characters who have already been created. In My Little Ali I had 6 characters that where of my own creation and I could write them easily but this, its really hard! What I am trying to say is that I am not very happy with this chapter. Anyway on with the story!

I don't own anything related to Rise of the Guardians.

"Aniu, Aniu Aurora?" He asked, almost skeptically.

Reap smiled, jumping up and down before she walked over to him and gave him a hug. "Yes Jack it's me. I thought you were dead."

"Well I kind of am, and I though you where dead."

"I kind of am as well." She said, letting go of Jack but not moving away as she really looked at him.

"Hay, what's going on, you too know each other" Grim said, appearing right next to Reap.

"Yes, he was the friend whose family kind of took me in when I wanted to get away from my father." She explained. He had asked her a lot about her past and she had told him as much as she felt comfortable telling him. She always left the part out that her father had abused her a lot. "Jack, you look so different what with the white hair and blue eyes. I mean I never would have recognized you if I hadn't seen that little smile in your eyes that you usually have when you where making other people smile."

"And what about you, with your multicolored hair and eyes. Well, I guess I could still recognize you with that I mean who has hair like yours; all naturally curled into small rings. But the way you talk and hold yourself, it's like you are a completely different person!" Jack exclaimed, his eyes shining. "You seemed to have grown from the girl I once knew."

"Yah I know right! Being on my own and having the responsibilities I have now really helped me break out of that shell and mask you told me I always had on."

"Yaaaaah, about that I am sorry for making you feel like I didn't think highly of you. I just wanted you to see what that man was doing to you" Jack said, holding onto her hand tightly and looking ashamed. "I wanted you to be the person you really are and not hide behind that mask because you felt like you had too."

The last time they had seen each other, Reap had told him in a very quiet way how she felt about him. He hadn't rejected her but he had told her that she had changed, that she wasn't the girl that he had known.

"Wow, cool so you where together when you where alive?" Grim asked bluntly with a straight face.

"Grim!" Reap exclaimed, stomping her foot and turning to him. "Don't be rued!"

"No we weren't, we couldn't be because of her father and the times anyway" Jack said in a hushed voice.

"Oh well that a relief." Grim said with a sigh.

"Grim, for the final time, I am not interested in you that way. Please don't do anything that will make me hurt you" Reap said, placing her hand over her eyes. She froze in though. Jack was still here, as was Sarah. "Oh my god, I know what I have to do" She exclaimed as she looked around for the branch that Sarah had used the spell on.

She flew over to a tall oak tree and sat facing the trunk on a large branch. Everyone could see her sitting there. She took her staff and very lightly taped on the tiny glowing spot. Instantly the form of a sleeping girl appeared, still snoozing.

Reap smiled. "Wakey wakey sleeping beauty." Reap said softly, placing her hand on the child's shoulder and gently shaking her awake.

Sarah opened her eyes and yawned, stretching. "Aniu, I knew you would find me here" She said with a smile. The tree where they were at was the same tree they would always meet up at when they were still alive.

"Of cores I would. After all, I am your friend and guardian now." Reap said, letting her feet and legs dangle over the edge.

Sarah smiled then looked down at her hands. "I still feel like I have more to do. Like my time isn't over yet."

"I know Sarah, and I think I know why. I have a surprise for you" Reap said, offering Sarah her hand.

The girl took it and smiled. "I love surprises!"

"Well at least one of use dose" Reap said as she slowly descended from the trees to the ground, making sure that Jack could not get a really close look at Sarah just yet. "I want to introduce you to an old friend of mine that I thought I would never see ever again" Reap said, beaming.

"Really, who?"

"Jack Frost" She said with a smile and then stepped aside s brother and sister could see each other.

Sarah gasped. "Jack! Jack it's really you!"

"Sarah! It's my little sister Sarah!" Jack exclaimed, tears forming. He knelt down as Sarah ran over to him and practically pushed him into the snow. Everyone laughed at the happy reunion, everyone but Reap and GR.

"You know that she is going to have to leave him at some point." GR said, looking down at Reap.

"Yes, but I had a feeling that this is what she was waiting for" Reap said with a sad smile.

Jacks face slowly turned from pure joy to confusion then to shock. "You are not alive, are you?"

"No, I died a few years after you did. The pelage was awful. I stayed to watch over the rest of the family. I know I couldn't do anything for them but I just couldn't leave them." Sarah confessed, still hugging Jack like her life depended on it. She then looked back at Reap.

Reap sighed in sadness. There it was, the look that each child gave her when they were ready. The look of sad and happy realization. She walked over to the two and placed a hand on Jacks shoulder. "Jack, it's time."

"Time for what?"

"Time for me to go and be with our family" Sarah said as she slowly let go of him.

Jack just held on tighter. "But I just got to see her, after thinking she was gone. You can't take her away from me!"

"Jack, I have to go. I have to tell everyone you are still down here. Please Jack, this feeling is so overwhelming it's almost painful. You would only be hurting me by keeping me here. Jack, the point is I am not a peace, we got to say good bye. I also wanted to say thank you for saving my life" Sarah said in the voice of an aging soul. She kissed her brother on his cool cheek, then walked over to Reap and took her hand.

Reaps wings appeared as she raised her staff, a tear forming in her eye and then they were gone, Jack being held by North and Sandy. Reap and Sarah where flying up to the golden gates of heaven. They reached the gates in no time, the ground nice and soft on their feet. The gates opened and the entire family was there to greet Sarah. The first thing she did was yell that Jack was OK and run to her mother. The entire family shared in one big hug.

Reap smile and turned, ready to go back to the living world.

"Wait, Aniu please wait"

Reap turned around, the mother was walking to the edge of the gates. "Aniu, thank you for looking after Sarah and even Jack when you did. He is not going to be happy with you."

"Yah I know. I practically took away his family, but it's my job."

"I know, and I thank you for it. But I want you to tell Jack that we are all very proud of him and that we love him. Also, could you tell him that he is very much twitterpated?"

"Twitterpated? What does that mean?"

"He will know, could you do that for us?"

"It would be my pleasure and honor" Reap said with a smile before jumping off the cloud and back into the world.

She landed on the little bolder in the middle of the frozen pond. Jack was on his knees, his face in his hands, crying. Her heart contracted with sorrow for him. She could feel what he felt.

"Jack, I am sorry I had to do this, but if she had stayed it would have pained her to the point of becoming so enraged that it would have caused other's to feel stressed and possibly get hurt." Reap explained, walking over to him and placing her hand on his shoulder.

Without warming Jack jumped up and backed away from her, a look of rage on his face. "How could you take my family away from me! She was all I had!"

"She was a spirit who was ready to cross over. Jack, I am going to miss her as well but I had to do it."

"No you're not! You never cared for her! You never cared for Sarah!" Jack yelled. Jamie and the rest of his group where standing on the edge of the frozen pond.

"Come on children, this is something that needs to be done without an audience" North said, ushering them back into the town.

Reap stared at the fuming Jack, his face almost back to the color it was when he was alive. Her shock slowly turned to impassiveness on the surface, but underneath she was hurt and angry and afraid. Someone who she had cared about, trusted and practically loved was yelling at her with such fury it cut her to the core. Someone who she had admired now hated her.

"I didn't care for her. You think I didn't care for her? The one who brought me to your family, my very first friend, the one who first accepted me as part of her family. Sarah, the child who, when I lived with my father, made everything bearable because she would always make me smile and laugh like you did. Is that the child who you think I don't care about?!"

Jack glared at her, but said nothing. He didn't make eye contact with her. "I hate you, and I never want to see you again."

"Well it's a good think this is a big world." She said in a soft voice, her eyes filling with tears. "Oh and before I go your mother told me that you where twitterpated, whatever that means. And that they are very proud of you and they love you."

"Twitterpated. Twitterpated?! Why would I be twitterpated, and with who?!" Jack sprang over to her. His eyes, searching then became wide with surprise. "Oh there is no way in hell I am twitterpated with you, never in a million years!" He yelled out, backing away from her.

"Fine, good bye Frost" She said with a glare. One of her charges ran over to him, stomped on his foot, then ran back as she opened her wings and flew away finally letting go of her emotions. He hated her, for doing something that was better for Sarah. He hated her because of what she was doing. He hated her. Her stomach contorted and her heart practically fell to the ground far below her. She flew, and flew and flew for hours trying to fly away from the overwhelming feeling of sorrow and guilt. She felt guilty for having to take Sarah away from him but it was her job.

"Reap, its ok. We still like you" Tiana said, a little browned haired girl she had taken in a few years ago.

Reap smiled, her eyes red and puffy. "I know kids, and I thank you" She said, trying to smile as she landed in a clearing in the middle of a large redwood tree forest. "Would you mind leaving me for a little while please? I need to be alone for a little to think" She asked.

The children, bless their hearts, said nothing as they got up and walked away. She placed her face in her hands and wept, letting all of her emotions out. She didn't know how long she was crying but when she looked up, the sun was beginning to set.

"Poor poor little reaper." A voice said from the shadows. A calm and calculation voice that made every hair on her body stand.

Reap shot to her feet, holding her staff out in front of her as she looked around. "What do you want Pitch. Another few teeth knocked out because I would be more than happy to oblige."

"Oh, funny. No I am here because I saw the way Jack treated you."

"How? Your nightmares dragged you into oblivion."

"I have my ways, but that is for another time. You know Reap, I am just like you."

"That, I seriously doubt. You're not handsome enough." She growled out.

"As always, a little sass with everything you say. I am just like you. We both have jobs to do, like the guardians yes, but our jobs are darker then there's. Like you, I am hated for doing what I have to do. I am hated by the people who are most important to me." Pitch said, coming out of the shadows. His gold eyes peering down at Reap like a predator.

"So, you hate yourself? Because the only one important to you is yourself." She sassed, leaning on her staff.

"Oh such a snap! So much confidence. But I know better." He said with a smile, walking towards her. "Join me, and no one will hurt you and you can get back at Jack for treating you that way. Join me and I can promise you will never be alone."

Reap smiled. "You know nothing of me because if you did know me then you wouldn't have said that. He may have treated me like crap and it may have hurt but I would never want to hurt him back in any way. I understand the way he feels about me because I can feel it, I don't hold anything against him."

"Loyalty, so powerful and such a weakness, but you forget what I do. I do know you. I know what you are afraid of. You may not have very many fears but what you are afraid of, they are big." He said with joy.

"I am not afraid of anything" She said swinging her staff at him, but he disappeared into the shadow of a tree.

"Everyone is afraid of something, and I know everyone's fears. You are afraid of being abandoned by the very people you care about; you are afraid that you will let them down and disappoint them; but most of all, you are afraid that someone will treat you like your father did. Hitting you and dominating over you. Oh what a glorious fear." Pitch said in wonder.

"STOP!" She yelled, slamming her staff on the ground, rippling the shadows, forcing Pitch to reveal himself. "You know nothing! I will never join you so leave!" and she took off into the sky, calling her charges to her.

"Very well. You're right about one thing, I don't know you as well as I would like. But I will bide my time and get my revenge." Pitch said, glaring at Reaps shrinking form before disappearing all together.

GR walked out of the shadows again with a recorder. He had recorded the entire conversation. "See Jack, she still is loyal to you. Even though you tossed her away like a handful of slush in a snowball fight. Let go of your pride, you know that what she did was for the best. Go to her" GR said, and then took his finger on the record button. "I hope you know what you are doing Manny." GR said as he pocketed the recorder.

Do I ever?

Well, not what you where expecting now was it? I bet you thought they would have a very happy reunion and fall in love! Well I think that this is what would really happen if the events happened this way. I do love a little angst!

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