"It's about time Sigourney." "I don't need your attitude Winter." "Yes, but you do need your mortality, and that's something I can give back to you." Shit. "What do you want Winter?" "I want you to get some things for me." "And what's that?" He's really dragging this out, probably because I'm here begging. Damn him. Damn him, and Jack too. "I need you to go to the forest in the south and collect some pixies for me." "Pixies?" What, more mythical creatures? Am I really one to talk? I'm a Sprite after all.
"They're normally kindred spirits however, there's something going on, and I need you to investigate. Collect a few and bring them back and we have a deal." "What's the catch?" "You go with Jack." "Fine, but I want it in writing." He stops in his tracks. His frost eyebrows extending and thickening. "What did you just say to me?" "I want this deal in writing. I'm not going to Antarctica with Jack to collect some little evil shits for you just to have you back out on me." "What kind of wordless cheat do you take me for?" "The kind who tries to claim a sixteen year old girl by drowning her." "That was Jack's doing." "You could have stopped him, we both know that. So I want it in writing, I travel South and get the damned things for you, and you give me back my humanity, after that, I get to live a long mortal life, when I die, we'll figure out the rest then. Agreed?" "Fine."
He snaps and there's the contract on his desk. I start reading it to make sure it covers anything and doesn't have any loopholes. "Winter, what's this?" "What's what?" "The default section?" "That? You expect me to trust you completely? You fail, you go under the North forest until I decide I want to let you out. That could be a decade, could be a century. Could be for eternity, depends on how I feel." I bite my cheek, otherwise everything that I need is in the contract exactly as I want it. I'm not going to get a better deal.
"Fine, I'll sign." The pen that appears stabs into my hand as I pick it up with ice shards and I sign in my own blood. There's no backing out after this point. I'm locked in. "Oh and one more thing Sigourney, don't contact your family again, or the contract will be void." "Fine." and with that I leave the office to run into Jack. "Ready to leave Frosty?" "Let's go!"
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Thawed
Hayran KurguThe Sequel to 'Frozen Chemicals' Sigourney fights to regain her humanity (the key to her mortality) by striking a deal with Father Winter, but it'll force her to work with her, once love - now stranger, Jack Frost. She'll have to move beyond her ha...
