This was a shorter chapter and I realize now the flash back Jack has may be a little confusing, but hopefully it isn't too bad. Thank you again for everyone still reading this. I started this a few years ago and still have yet to finish, but I am going full throttle now, so thank you for inspiration!

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"Chaya! Help me!"

Chaya opened her eyes at the sound of her brother's screams. Sitting up in the bed, she reached for the lamp and flicked on the light. She barely needed it with the light of the moon shining brightly through the window. Turning around, she gazed at her little brother, Joey as he tossed and turned in the blankets beside her. Gently she rested her hand on his chest and leaned forward to rest her head on his forehead.

"Shhh, shhh," she soothed as Joey's movements weakened and he opened his eyes and looked at her pitifully.

"I had a nightmare, it was dark and scary," His voice rose to a shrill whimper and Chaya quickly covered his mouth, glancing over to the thick shoulder on the other side of her on a separate bed. She turned back to Joey and lifted him closer to her, wrapping her arms around his shivering body.

"Don't' worry Joey, it was just a nightmare, nothing is going to hurt you here. Now," She moved him closer as Joey relaxed beside her. "Do you think you can go back to sleep, you have to get up for school tomorrow, remember?"

Joey sighed and shifted until he looked up into her face.

"Do I have to go to school? I want to stay at home with Da," Chaya covered his mouth again, looking once more over her shoulder.

"Whispers Joey, you don't want to wake Stoke. Yes of course you have to go to school, you're a big boy now, right?"

Joey nodded reluctantly, his chestnut hair falling over his eyes. Smiling, Chaya combed the hair back with her fingers and sat back on the pillow.

"Remember, after you're done, I'm going to take you skating on the pond. That will be fun, right?"

Joey nodded, still looking more or less subdued. Chaya sighed.

"If I tell you a quick story, will you go to sleep?"

Joey suddenly brightened up and squirmed down into the sheets of the double bed that he Chaya shared and rested his head on her arms.

"Okay, what did I tell last time?"

Joey squinted his eyes as he concentrated and Chaya smiled to hide her laugher. He looked so serious. He opened his eyes wide and held up his fingers.

"Oh, last night the tooth fairy had just taken a tooth from the tiger and she was goin' back to her fairy palace,"

"Oh that's right, well lets see… well the tooth fairy was flying back to her palace, and the tiger tooth was getting really heavy and she didn't know if she could carry it all the way back without dropping it, so she decided to grab some…"

The moon looked on at the sister and brother curled up on the bed, the sister drawing her story in the air before her while the brother sat watching in a childish awe. Shimmering all the more, the moon seemed to smile down at the little pair. Another pair of eyes watched them as well. They were ice cold blue and never took his eyes off of the girl for a moment.

Jack Frost looked up at the sky with a sigh; the northern lights were rippling closer and closer to him. Santa was calling them to the North Pole, no doubt a guardian meeting, but why this night of all nights? It was a peaceful night and nothing seemed to be amiss. Sighing once more, Jack pointed his frosted stick up into the sky and let fly a dash of snowflakes on the young couple he had been watching skate on the pond. He smiled as they laughed with the snowflakes swirling around them. It must be nice to have someone like that to care about you. Shaking his head, Jack jumped off the branch of his tree and caught the winter breeze easily and followed the pattern of the lights. As he ran across the sky, he saw all the houses of the little industrial village and all the lights in the windows. The village had grown since he had watched over it and looked more like a little town with stores and tall buildings and little parks and ponds dotting the landscapes. It was beautiful with all the snow and ice and Jack could not help feeling proud that he had caused all the snow to fall and the water to freeze; winter was by far the best season of them all. There was nothing like it in the world.

It did not take long for Jack to spot the little castle like building of Santa's workshop. It shimmered in the light of Manny the moon and Jack smiled at him as he floated above him, watching over the valleys of the snow below them. Manny was a good friend of the guardians and he was always present at their meetings, day or night, it made no difference to him. Landing lightly, on one of the many little terraces of the workshop, Jack dusted the frost off his frostbitten blue jacket and stepped inside. The business of the workshop always took Jack by surprise, even though he had been there a million times since he had become a guardian. After jumping out of the way of several little elves carrying Christmas lights, Jack spotted Santa by the globe in the middle of the shop. Moving around several more elves, Jack jumped up beside Santa.

"Ah Jack, you're here! You are da first, isn't that a first?" His thick Russian accent dissolved into laugher and his hearty laughing nearly sent him falling off the platform around the globe. Jack chuckled lightly along with him, jumping down as Santa took the stairs. A small hole formed in the ground suddenly and the Easter bunny jumped as the hole closed, leaving a little flower in its place.

"Ah, bunny, you're here, but Jack beat you," Santa's chuckles sounded again as he walked on, leaving Jack and the Australian rabbit to greet each other.

"Goo'day mate, I hope this winter'll clear up for Easte?"

Jack smiled wickedly at him.

"Maybe,"

Before he could say anything else, Sandy and Tooth arrived in the workshop and Santa reappeared, clapping his hands in delight at the gathering.

"Good, good, you're all here. Manny wants to show you something,"

"Manny? Does he have another guardian for us?" Tooth asked, her hands held close to her heart and a big smile on her face. Sandy jiggled his head in excitement, sand twinkling to the ground around him at the movement. The Easter bunny closed his eyes and sighed.

"Oh please no, we don't need no one else, eh? I'm I right?" Jack pushed passed the bunny and looked up at Manny who shone through the skylight windows.

"What is it Manny?"

All the guardians stopped talking and looked at the moon, as hopeful as Jack; Santa looked on and smiled as the moon shone brighter and its light fell upon the stone floor of the workshop. They all stepped back as a shape began to appear. It did not look like anything much, but as it took more form, it appeared to be a young girl, her dark hair waving around her shoulders. Her eyes were bright gold and they shone out at the guardians as if she was there with them. The Easter bunny, who had covered his eyes with his ears as the figure had appeared, peeked out and stood straight again. His eyes were baffled as if he had expected something different.

"Well who is that?"

Santa spread his arms wide.

"Dat is our new guardian!"

Tooth tilted her head.

"But who is she?"

Santa shrugged.

"I don't know, but I listen to Manny da moon and he says dat she is our new guardian!"

Tooth shook her head and the bunny still looked baffled. A sandy question mark bounced on top of Sandy's head as he held his hands akimbo, shaking his head. Only Jack seemed to look any closer at the figure still floating before them. Presently the figure turned in the light of the moon and bent down to receive a little boy who ran to her and wrapped his arms around the girl as she picked him up. Jack tilted his head as the guardians debated amongst themselves behind him. Something about this girl looked familiar to him.

"Wait, wait, I know this girl,"

The guardians paused behind him as Jack turned around, pointing at the figure still holding the little boy in the air.

"You know dis girl, Jack?"

Jack nodded.

"She lives in my town, she walks home from school and that little boy is her brother, I've seen them at the pond, she skates with him,"

Bunny gave him a patronizing look.

"So you know this girl, how often do you see her ,eh?"

Jack glared at him.

"Stop fooling around, I just see her sometimes, when I'm freezing the ponds and making the snow, she can't see me,"

Santa's eyes widened.

"You mean she does no believe in us?"

Jack shrugged.

"I guess not, but she tells her brother about us sometimes at the pond, I think she just has too much to do, she doesn't have time for us I guess,"

Santa huffed and puffed a great deal and turned around for several minutes until he stood still again.

"Well, we'll have to change dat, Manny tells me she will come to us, so we must know when she will do dis,"

Santa turned to Jack, his hands folded on his broad chest, his two tattoos gleaming in the moonlight. He had a defiant glint in his eyes.

"Watch her closely Jack,"

Jack blinked as the memory played over in his head. He'd taken Santa's command to heart and probably a little farther, having not taken his eyes off the girl at all by day and night. It had been several days and nothing appeared to be happening. She may not believe as a child in the guardians, but he believed she was too busy to let herself enjoy the little things in life.

Heaving a sigh, Jack tilted his head as the little boy beside the girl yawned and closed his eyes. His breath soon grew steady and he was asleep. As gently as she could, the girl kissed her little brother on the forehead and placed him back on his side with the covers up around his chin. Jack had expected her to turn over and fall asleep as well, but she didn't, instead she stood up and crept around the second bed in the cramped room, opening the window until she could stick her head out. For a moment her beautiful golden eyes fell on Jack and he thought he had been spotted, but they seemed to see right through him and soon she had turned her head up toward the moon, the rays casting a silver light on her pale face. Jack sighed. She still didn't see him. Lighting off the branch he stood on, Jack crept soundlessly up to the window. Before he reached it, the girl looked back at the older boy in the bed behind her, before she stuck her leg out of the window and then the other until she was standing on the thin covering of snow in front of the window. Jack froze. Hugging herself for the cold, the girl stepped right up to Jack, her eyes still on the moon. Jack could not move and his gaze was frozen on her golden eyes.

"Give him courage for tomorrow, please? He'll need it," She whispered this message to the moon. As she turned around, Jack let out the breath he had been holding. The chilled air hit the girl on the back of the neck and she turned around again, her eyes seeming to bore into Jack's a split second before she smiled and looked up at the moon once more.

"Jack Frost, make sure the pond is still frozen for tomorrow," And with that she turned and stepped back into her house and shut the window behind her. Jack cocked his head and jumped up onto the windowsill, staring into the fogged glass at her. Her unbelief was so believing that it almost seemed as if she were desperate to believe in the guardians and the stories she told her brother. Smiling at her head laying on the pillow he blew gently on the window, leaving a frozen pattern.

"Don't worry about the pond, I'll take care of it,"

This story does pick up a lot more, I just wanted to give a good sense of how Chaya is living and her family story. Everything is about to change. Let me know in reviews if you guys like/dislike his story