I whisper to him what I want him to do, and he says "no I can't do that," with worry in his eyes.

"You said you would do anything for me to forgive you, now were you lying to me?"

He sighs deeply "no I'll keep my word."

I stick my arrow in the ground and look at the time, back home. 3:00. Eli is out of school in 5 minutes, his bus leaves in 15 minutes and he will be home in 30. The guardians grab on again, I hold onto Jesse's hand and whisper "Eli's' place."

Once we appear there I look at the time again 3:01 "we're going to have to wait for a while. He won't be home for another 29 minutes and that's if there's no traffic or problems so get comfortable," I say bored, I then plop on the couch and turn on the T.V. I see a new episode of supernatural and record it. I look behind me to see everyone else standing there awkwardly, sighing I walk towards Sandman, grab his hand and lead him over to the couch and sit him down, I then go over to North and sit him down next to Sandman. Next, on a different couch I sit Jack and Tooth beside each other. I put Groundhog sorry, Jesse on the chair, and I sit next to Bunny on the last couch. I grab the remote again and flip through the channels. Everyone is uncomfortable but me and Jesse, the only ones who are used to this kind of thing. I put on an old episode of Modern Family, and sink into the couch. After about five minutes everyone is relaxed and laughing.

During the episode I hear barking. My eyes widen and look at the stairs. A furry little, golden retriever, puppy runs down the stairs, and continues to bark at bunnymund and Jesse. "NO! Peanut DOWN!"

"Mate he's harmless."

"He might be a pup but he's not harmless, it took him five minutes to get out of his cage. How long do you think it takes him to tear a gopher in two? Not long I can tell you that. Now if you don't mind I have to go put him back in his cage," I pick up the small golden retriever, bring him upstairs and make sure he can't get out. I go back down and plop on the couch again.

When the episode is over, the next one starts, and about two minutes in, I hear keys jingling at the door. I get up and start to walk over to the door when a hand paw grabs my arm. I look at Bunny and raise an eyebrow, as if to say 'what do you want,' and I hear him say "where are you going mate?"

I laugh and say "did you not hear the keys jingling? Eli's home and I'm going to greet him at the door," he let's go of my arm and turns off the TV, a collective groan emits from the group of people, and they look at me and Bunnymund, all I say is "Elijah's home," they all sigh, get up and we all walk to the door with Jesse trying to go anywhere else, but the door. I grab his hand and drag him there. Eli opens the door and looks up.

All I hear from his mouth is "quae est infernum?" (what the hell)

"I found the person I was looking for," I smile and shove Jesse in front of me.

"Quis est iste irrumator praetor?" he asks as he points at Jesse (who is this fucker)

I laugh "you're speaking Latin, but this is Jesse," and I watch as his eyes widen.

"Doleo te non agnoscis non sum cogitavi et mortuus es," (I'm sorry I did not recognize you that I thought you are dead) he says still speaking Latin. Confused everyone looks at me for help, I sigh and look Eli directly in the eyes and slap him across the face.

"WAS ZUM TEUFEL!" (what the hell) fuck I hit him all the way to German. Sighing again I slap him a little lighter, on the other cheek.

"WHY THE HELL ARE YOU SLAPPING ME?!" finally english.

"You were speaking different languages, let me guess you had Latin last block."

"No I had German."

"So the shock of this many people in your house shocked you into Latin? Good to know."

"But how did you find Jesse I thought he died in a car crash, he shouldn't even be a guardian, why is he so fluffy? What's with the ears on top of his head?"

He was going to ask more questions but I cut him off "we'll get to that in a minute but Jesse has something he wants to say to you," we all look at Jesse trying to escape my grasp.

He stops and looks at me "do I have to?"

"Yes, now say it."

He sighs and says "I'm sorry for everything I've ever said behind your back or to your face that might have been offensive."

Eli looks confused "you've never said anything offensive to my face, what have you said behind my back?" he asks.

Jesse tells him everything that went down a while ago, and Eli proceeds to slap him, while Jack laughs, about a guardian getting slapped by a human, and Elijah gives me a hug.

"All is forgiven if Eli forgives you Jess."

"Don't call me that, but okay fair enough, Elijah can you forgive me please?" he asks.

"Under one condition."

He sighs "and what is that?"

"For the next three years spring shall not wait another six weeks," Bunnymund perks up at this.

"I'm gonna have to pull a lot of strings, and mother nature might want to kill me, but okay."

"Then all is forgiven."

"Same on this end Jess."

"That's a girl name can you please stop calling me that?"

"Nope," I say popping the 'p'

He lets out a sigh "if that's what it takes then I can learn to live with it," I smile and go to speak but bunny beats me to it.

"Isn't he too old to still believe in us?"

"I don't see your point," I say confused .

"He's our oldest believer if he's older than ten." Jack explains.

"Ya annnnnnnnd what's your point," I say not getting at what they mean.

Tooth flies up to me and says in a calm sweet voice "no kid has ever believed past eleven at most, meaning that he's going to stop believing soon, because his parents are going to tell him that we aren't real. That you're de-."

I cut her off quickly "let's not discuss this in front of Eli okay? He doesn't need to hear this," they all nod, and we go back into the living room where I say to them all "that's all I need you for so, you can go back to your regular lives. Thank you for coming with me."

North speaks up "we still need you to defeat Pitch."

I sigh "yes I know that but everyone needs a good night's rest before we can get to it"

They all nod and leave, all but one. Bunnymund. "Can we speak alone mate?" he asks.

I nod "Eli go put on supernatural I'll be down in a minute," he gets up and goes down stairs, "what would you like to talk about?"

"I want to talk about the first day we met you," his eyes showing danger, I shift on my feet.

"I've said sorry what else do you want from me?" I inquire.

"I want to know why you did it."

I sigh "I thought I lost Elijah I've sa-"

"No, the real reason," he says as he steps forward.

"That is the real reason," I say getting annoyed.

"Then why do you care for this kid so much?" he demands.

"Don't take that tone with me in my home," I declare pissed, with my hands clenched at my sides.

"I can speak to you anyway I want mate," he jabs his finger into my chest.

"Touch me again and you will regret it." he smirks and jabs my chest again. I grab his arm, flip him over my shoulder and step on his neck. Not hard enough he can't get oxygen in, but hard enough so he has to try and breath. "I told you, you would regret it, Aster." he grabs my foot and goes to trip me, but I move my other foot slightly and he freezes, with wide eyes, "I don't suggest you do that, wouldn't want me to hurt your little friend. Would you?" he shakes his head a little. "Good now that we know that I can kick your ass, don't speak to me like that in my home. Got it?" he nods his head "good." I get off of him and help him up "Now go, home Bunny, you have things you need to take care of and so do I."

I start to walk down stairs until I hear him behind me "Mate, I never got an answer."

I smirk "no one ever said you were going to get one," I hear behind me two thumps on the ground and a hole sealing.

As I get down stairs Eli starts speaking "sooooooo what was that about?"

I let out a hearty laugh "I know where your mind has gone, but no I don't like him and he doesn't like me."

He frowns "how can you know, for sure?"

I want to say 'well I just attacked him up stairs' but instead I leave it at "I just know. Now. Are we going to watch Sam and Dean fight monsters or are we just going to sit here and talk?" I ask sarcastically.

"Fine. Let's watch," he turns on Netflix "what episode are you on?"

"I might just be on episode 16 of season 12."

"Good that's where I am too." I raise my eyebrow "what late night binge watching is a thing you know," I nod and look to the T.V.

After an episode Eli's out cold. I turn off the TV, pick him up and bring him to his room. I tuck him in and sit on, what used to be, my bed. I slept over a lot so they just gave me my own bed, and they never took it out. I smile at Elijah's sleeping form. I stand and open the window. I jump out, stick one of my arrows in the ground and whisper where I want to go. I look around and get a flashback.

Flashback

I see something go through the jet engine and it goes up in flames. I slam the window shut and hug Eli, I whisper in his ear "stay strong. For me. I love you Eli I don't know what I would do without you." confused Eli looks at me as he's about to speak, but the flight attendant comes out and yells to all of the passengers "STAY CALM AND PUT YOUR HEAD BETWEEN YOUR KNEES TO STAY SAFE! WE ARE GOING DOWN!" Eli goes to put his head between his knees but I stop him "they do that to kill you when the plane goes down your head will hit the seat in front of your and snap your neck." he looks at me and nods as if to say 'I trust you'. We sit there and wait for the crash. I open my window and look out. We are so close to the ground, I grab my pillow from behind my head and shove it in front of Eli's face just in time for the crash. My head flies to the side and smashes into the window killing me instantly. Eli's head flies forward and hits the pillow which softens some of the blow but not all of it.

End of flashback

A few tears slip from my eyes and I quickly wipe them. I've been trying to find out what went through the jet engine. But all hope got lost when the last of the mess got cleaned up. I look around until I see something I've never seen before. Looking around I realize I've never gone this far from the crash site before. I look at what's on the tree. I take one of my arrows and poke it. I become aware of the fact that it's not going anywhere and look at it closer. Black sand under ice. How the hell did it get here? Looking back at my death I see something black go through the engine. Knowing where the sand and the ice that lasts this long, came from, I go to the pole and ask North where I can find Jack.

"He might be in Burgess," I leave without letting him finish.

When I find Jack he's having a snowball fight with a couple kids. I run up to him. "JACK!" I call to him.

He turns and looks at me, "Hey Siren," he says as he, runs, glides up to me. "You wanna get in on a snowball fight?" he questions as he doges one.

My ego gets the best of me as I forget why I came "I'm from Canada I always wanna get in a snowball fight," I smirk. "But first you might have to get these kids to believe in me, or they won't know what hit 'em," I laugh.

He makes a hand gesture to follow him, and he goes over to the kids, with me going after him. "HEY GUYS, and girls," he gets their attention. "I want you to meet someone, she's another guardian."

The kids look around a little, until we hear a confused "where is she?" come from a blond haired girl.

"She's standing right beside me soph," he puts his hand and my head and I turn, my head, and look at him "she's this tall, has blond hair like you, beautiful sea blue eyes, she's wearing black from head to toe, well but her blue hat, green bracelets and red headphones," they all close their eyes.

"One get your hand off my head, and two what are they doing?"

"They're picturing you in their heads, to get a general image on you," he responds taking his hand away from my head.

When the little girl opens her eyes she gasps, smiles and comments "you're really pretty."

I smile as I feel heat rise in my cheeks, "thank you. You're beautiful as well." the smile on her face gets bigger.

When the rest of the kids around open their eyes, they crowd me, and start shooting questions at me "what's your name?, how did you die?, when did you become a guardian?" the more questions asked the more anxious I get. The more anxious I get the harder it is to breath.

Jack realizes that my breath is getting quicker, so he puts a hand on my back and says to the kids "give her some space she'll answer your questions, just give her some breathing room," with a smile on his face.

I smile at him and turn to the kids "my name is Siren, I would prefer not to say how I died, I became a guardian five years ago, but I became an official guardian a couple of days ago," I see a hand raise.

"What's the diff-r-ence between a guardian and an oissial guardian," a child who lost one of their front teeth asks.

"The difference between the two is that a guardian can do whatever they want whenever they want, and are usually lesser known. An official guardian has to be there when one of their other official guardians' call and usually more known," I respond.

I see another hand go up "are you and Jack together?" it was the little girl that Jack called Soph.

I shake my head "no me and Jack aren't together," I smile "now who wants to get back to the snowball fight," I cheer.

After about an hour of throwing snowballs, making teams, being cold, and having fun, all the kids go inside. Jack smiles at me "I thought you said you weren't good with kids."

I laugh, and fall backwards into a pile of snow, "they'll learn to hate me, all kids do."

He sits beside me "why do you say that?"

I push myself up into a sitting position "like I said they all do," I shiver.

"You cold?" he questions.

"I'm from Canada it's a disgrace to be cold, and if you are it's your own damn fault," I say jokingly.

"That doesn't answer the question, are you cold?"

"Ya, a little but so what if I am?" I watch him as he quickly takes off his hoodie to reveal, a white t-shirt underneath. I raise an eyebrow "what are you doing?"

"Giving you my hoodie what else?" as he puts it in my lap.

"I'm good, I don't need it, I got my own," I say giving him back his hoodie and pointing to the one currently on my body.

"I insist," he says giving me the frost covered hoodie again.

I know I'm not going to win but I give it back, "I'm fine really, you know what give me a second," I dig in my quiver, pull out a toque and gloves.

He smiles "you always have those on you?"

"When I was alive my mom told me, 'bring gloves just incase, you never know when it's going to snow,' so I've brought gloves and a toque with me wherever I go, after I learned what happens when it snows and you don't have gloves," I laugh at the memory of me freezing my ass of in the middle of May, on my birthday none the less.

"Well your mom is a smart woman," he scoots closer to me.

"Oh and by the way," I punch him in the arm lightly "that's for making it snow on my birthday the year I turned 10," I laugh at the end.

He chuckles "no problem." I look up at the sky as I lay back down. "Why don't you like flying?" Jack inquires. "You closed your eyes and held your breath when you were on North's sleigh."

"That's a story for another time," I close my eyes.

"Come on please tell me," he begs with puppy dog eyes.

"Nope, it's for me to know and for you to find out. OH and the reason I came to find you is to ask you where were you about five years ago?" I sit up and look at him.

"Why would you want to know that?" his tone flatens.

"I have my reasons. Tell me where you were and I'll tell you why I'm afraid of flying," I bribe.

"Tempting but I can't tell you that."

"Please I really want to know," desperation clear in my voice.

"I can't the others made me swear not to tell," he looks down.

"I know it was a fight with Pitch, I just want to know what happened."

His eyes widen "who told you?" he asks angrily, as he stands.

"Who told me what?" I question, getting up myself.

"WHO TOLD YOU THERE WAS A FIGHT WITH PITCH?!" he screams, in my face.

"No one told me anything."
"THEN HOW DO YOU KNOW?!"
"BECAUSE I DO NOW ANSWER THE FUCKING QUESTION!"

He looks at the ground, again "I told you I can't," and with that he fly's away.