I'll be here waiting
Hoping, praying that
This light will guide you home
When you're feeling lost I'll leave my love
Hidden in the sun
For when the darkness comes

-When the Darkness Comes, Colbie Calliat

Keira stayed at Santoff Clausen for a whole week. Although she had protested that she would be missed at home, she just wasn't fully recovered. Her legs were far too stiff and she needed to go through physical therapy until she was able to walk properly all the way around the globe. Her smile was so big and bright that even the yetis reciprocated with a large toothie smile.

Tooth was flabbergasted when she found out how nicely kept the yetis' teeth really were. As Yetis are born with all of their teeth fully grown, making them all fairly awkward during their pubescent years. As their teeth where quiet large and either stuck out of their mouths or made some look as though they where forever smiling.

Through out the week, whenever any of the Guardians wanted to talk to Keira, they would always find it nearly impossible.

Jack was always there. He was there when her calves were sore. He was there when she was relaxing on one of North's plush sofas. And he was even there when she was eating.

At one point, Bunnymund even grumbled, "Suck up," as he walked away.

Jack didn't mind that he was stealing all of Keira's time away from the rest of the Guardians, he supposed he was being selfish.

He just wanted her all to himself.

He wanted to be the one to receive each one of her smiles, each laugh, and each blush.

He really wanted it all and he had no idea how to put to terms with it.

It was the evening, after one of her legs began to feel warm again, that Jack felt he could finally say that he really knew Keira.

"So," he began, legs crossed together as he sat on the floor, Keira was snuggled into one of North's sofas again, "what's it like being in high school?"

Keira had a look on her face that suggested that Jack had a second head on his shoulders, "High School?" she asked.

"Yeah," Jack chuckled, "High School, you know that place you go to to learn?"

"Oh ha-ha," Keira reprimanded sarcastically, "well, I guess it's alright. It's kind of boring really."

"Boring?" Jack laughed, he never would put high school as boring, "What about the Football games? With the cheerleaders and stuff?"

"Yeah, I could never be a cheerleader, I would have to stop eating for that." Keira joked, "I don't know, I don't really like going to the football games."

Jack found this really odd as, being the guardian of fun, seeing beefed up guys in heavy armor tackling each other in the mud for a leather ball was the coolest game ever, and he didn't even invent it. That was really saying something.

After noticing Jack's silence of shock, Keira laughed, "I don't know! I did go to a game once before, so at least I know that I don't like them for good reason!"

"Okay then tell me what's not fun about watching two teams fight over a ball?" Jack laughed.

"It's not the game I don't like!" Keira nearly yelled realizing her slip up, "It's what happens at the games that isn't too fun."

Keira then elaborated what had happened when she was a freshman and went to her first football game.

"See, I'm used to being invisible. I walk down the halls at school, and I just keep my head down and I can go about my day. But when I was a freshman, I wanted to make friends and I wanted to be sociable. I wanted to be a new me.

It took a long time to make any friends, It took me a month until I found some girls that took notice of me. It was in P.E -uhh, Physical Education, you know, when the kids go out and do some sports and run- anyways it was then that they had invited me to the football game against our rival school. I was really excited to go, I had never been to a real football game before.

When I got there, It took me forever to find them, they weren't at our meet up point we had agreed on. When I finally decided to just buy my ticket and sit at the bleachers, I found them.

But when I went up to them to say, 'hi,' they just pretended like I wasn't there."

By this time Keira truly looked sad, as if she were about to cry, and when she pouted, Jack swore that he saw it somewhere once before.

"So then what happened?"

"I went home," She shrugged, "and they never talked to me again."

Keira shrugged off her frown and smiled at Jack, hiding her discomfort about her story.

"So wait, did you make any other friends after that?" Jack asked.

"No, not really."

"Why?"

Keira sighed, as if this was a question she was familiar with, "I don't know, I tried making friends. But after a while they would just ignore me."

A few moments passed where they sat in silence, and Jack couldn't stop wondering how odd this girl really was. He had never met anybody, mortal or immortal, that could honestly say they never had any friends.

"No friends at all?"

"No, Jack, no friends."

"You don't even have a best friend?"

"Not one."

"Oh come on, I mean you don't at least talk to somebody during your day?"

"Besides you?" Keira thought for a moment, "I mean I guess I would talk to Jamie, but I guess he started ignoring me too," her voice sounded whiny, like a child that couldn't convince their parents to buy them candy, and her eyes started to well up with tears again.
It wasn't until she blinked her eyes dry again that Jack decided to pick up the conversation again.

"Well surely there is somebody who talks to you!" Jack said hoping to make her forget about Jamie. "What about your teachers?"

Keira just looked at him pointedly, "my teachers forget to call my name during roll call, I don't think they would so much as notice me not being in school."

"Oh, well, what about your Aunt?" Jack asked, "she's the one you live with right?"

But Keira only scoffed at that, "as if she could see beyond her t.v screen."

If Jack didn't say he wasn't suspicious before than he was definitely suspicious now, the only other person he had ever known for being ignored like that was... himself.

"So wait a minute," Jack said, he was now standing up and pacing around the small living area in the large workshop, "you mean to tell me, that nobody ever takes notice of you?" Keira just watched him pacing and shrugged at him.

"I mean do you often have people just not see you at all?" Jack was starting to get frantic now, "Not one?!"

"Yeah! I guess," Keira shouted back, "I mean it's not that big of a deal! I mean if my parents could even forget about me, then I'm sure that other people could just as easily!"

Then Jack understood, in a moment of pure clarity it clicked. There was something very very wrong going on here.

"We need to get North."

"No! Wait Jack!," Keira called out to him, trying to get up, but she tripped as she only had one leg that worked properly.

Thankfully Jack was there to catch her before she fell.

"Please Jack, this is normal for me, there isn't anything wrong with it," Keira pleaded, she had no idea why she was pleading, but she felt that she needed to protect the way she lived none-the-less.

"Keir," Jack said warningly, yet still with the same kind voice he always used with her, "there is everything wrong with this," he straightened her up, "people who get ignored like you do, are spirits like me."

"But Jack-"

"Please, just do it for the benefit of the doubt," Jack smiled genuinely, "do it for me."

Keira sighed in defeat, she really didn't know what else to say to persuade Jack otherwise. Keira knew that this wasn't odd to her, but it was to Jack. And if Jack wanted to make sure that perhaps she wasn't some strange spirit half-breed or something, then she would let him.

"Okay."

When they went to North, and Jack explained to him their conversation, Keira was certain that Jack was just exaggerating and that North would laugh him off and tell him that everything was fine.

When North gave her a look of worry instead, Keira first felt a small pang of doubt.

It's not like there was something wrong with her for being ignored by people. People ignore each other everyday. It wasn't that big of a deal. It was normal.

Of course being concerned, North decided to call the other guardians over.

When Tooth came and was caught up to speed, Keira felt her pang of doubt burrow deeper into her heart.

By the time all of the guardians were there, staring at he each with concern, the strange hole of doubt grew and morphed and Keira could feel her heart pound painfully in her chest.

"There's nothing wrong with me," Keira gulped nervously as all of the guardians watched her. She had been in a sort of daze while trying to decipher her feelings. If she had missed something they had said, she wouldn't be surprised.

Tooth was the first one to break as she fluttered over to her with her hand on Keira's shoulder, "Oh dear, Of course there isn't anything wrong with you," she reassured her, "It's just that if other people don't see you..."

Tooth trailed off, not because she didn't want to worry Keira with the answer, but because she in fact did not know what that meant.

None of the guardians really knew, and that was what worried them all so much. Nothing like this has ever happened, not that they knew of. This situation could mean anything. Most importantly it could mean that Keira in fact is not human, or that she is a spirit, or that she is a ghost, it could mean anything. How else could a person be forgotten so easily.

"It could mean that you were not meant to be in this world as you are now," Jack finished, stepping up to the plate.

It wasn't as though he had addressed the elephant in the room, It was more like he had blatantly pointed at the world's most enormous elephant that was decked out in bright colors of paint and was stomping around the room shouting, "I'm a rhinoceros!" while tooting on a trumpet.

"When vas the last time, somebody ignored you?" North's thick accent cut in, interrupting the giant imaginary elephant in Keira's head.

"Ummm, Well, I mean I haven't been ignored in a while, but I have been forgotten," Keira answered, and upon the group's questioning glances, she continued, "when I got fired from my job, my boss didn't recognize me."

After saying such a thing out loud, Keira finally realized just how odd that really was, how could her own boss forget about her? He had hired her!

Apparently, that was all the reassuring that North needed.

"Right!" North shouted, as though he had some great epiphany, "There is only one thing we can do!"

"What could we possibly do?!" Jack shouted, obviously this situation was also irritating him. Sandman and Bunnymund just remained silent watching the room while Tooth fluttered around Keira.

"We have no idea what the hell is going on! We have nobody to contact for information! And Keira is having a panic attack!"

Now that Keira noticed, her breathing was coming out in short gasps and her mouth felt extremely dry.

"What could we possibly do?" Jack repeated, deflating after his short outburst.

North just looked at them all with a smile on his face that one could only describe as jolly.

"We can call Man in Moon."

A/N: Heeeeyyyyy, hahaha I'm back!

I know it's been MONTHS, this story has been nagging the back of my mind! It's been crying for some attention, "update me, update me," lol

To be honest I did have a little bit of writers block, I had no idea how to get the plot line moving forward!

TADA! Something is definitely wrong with Keira! hahaha I have planned this from the beginning, I do know how it's going to end! But I'm not gonna tell you ;P

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