Melting for you

Visitor

Jack's 1st person POV-

"Thanks you, my name is-" She stopped and I saw her fingers slip. She was still holding onto the railing. It happened so fast, I can't even say why I did it. She fell from the rail and her head smashed into the corner on one of the shelves. I flew up and caught her unconscious body. She didn't stir.

"Great, just great. Now how are we supposed to find out who she is?" Bunny shouted, and I furrowed my brows.

"It's not like you gave her a chance! Who knows how long she'd been hanging there! Not that anyone her seemed to notice that she was HANGING THIRTY FEET ABOVE THE GROUND!" I ended in a shout, quieting the room. I didn't know why it made me so angry, besides the fact that the guardians were being so inconsiderate. 

"Do you know her, Jack?" Tooth said, her face painted with one of confusion. I sighed and shook my head before turning to north.

"What do we do with her?" I asked, in a much calmer voice. I felt all eyes on me as I held the mystery visitor with extra care. She was hurt, and if I was the only one willing to help her the so be it.

"I have extra room, come with me. Then we must finish the ceremony!" He added a grand gesture to the end. "The girl can wait" he finished.

We followed him through the workshop, and I felt the girl's body temperature rise with every step. It was surprisingly pleasant, considering I'm the spirit of winter. I swear her hand moved a few times, and her face changed to a small frown. 

"Ahhh...here we are! We can put her in here and one of us will check on her every, hour or so?" He suggested, raising an eyebrow and opening a door to a guest bedroom-like place. We stepped in and I set her on the king-bed, pulling the navy blue duvet over her. 

What if she disappears? I thought.

"She wouldn't have come here for no reason" Tooth said.

"dammit, I said that out loud" I spoke aloud again, and Tooth had a concerned look on her face. 

 "Even if it was to harm us, or the workshop, she wouldn't leave without at least doing what she came here to do" she said, trying to reassure me. Bunny stepped forward, narrowing his eyes at me.

"Why 're you so concerned, Frost? Unless ya do know 'er and you two are working together, try and sabotage us? Maybe Easter? Again?" He accused stepping closer and closer to me. 

"Trust me, we don't know each other" All heads turned to the bed where the girl had raised herself onto her elbows and was smiling at the group. I saw a hint of sadness being hind her eyes, but it was replaced with sock and pain as she gripped the back of her head. "Ow, bloody frickin hell what happened to me?" she said, a bit louder than necessary.

"You fell from the railing and hit your head, you might've been injured worse of Jack hadn't caught you" Tooth said, her voice soft and kind much unlike the tone she'd been using before. 

"Right, thanks for that, I suppose" She muttered awkwardly, sitting up further and trying to hide the painful cringe that passed across her face. I gave a small nod and the room went silent. No one seemed to know what to say. A thought passed through my head and I did a mental double take at the fact that no one thought of it sooner.

"What's your name?" I asked, and the whole room seemed to relax. She smiled and took a deep breath.

"My name is Ember Ash, and yeah it's exactly how it sounds" She said, shrugging and igniting a small flame in her palm. "Corny, right? Leave it to the moon to have the worst taste in names" She joked. Wait...the moon?

"Manny made you?" North spoke up. Sandy, Tooth, Bunny, and I instantly became more interested. She looked around at us, and shifted in the bed; most likely uncomfortable with the sudden attention. 

"Yes, he did" She looked like she wanted to say more, but wasn't sure how.

"When?" The question fell from my mouth without me thinking and it seemed to startle her. everyone looked at her with expectant faces, causing her to sigh and run a hand through her hair. It was just then that her appearance actually registered in my brain. 

Ember had strikingly bright blonde hair, but not the almost-white kind. She was dressed in all black with a long sleeve shirt and vest pair and holed- burned?- black jeans. Tooth had removed her black combat-style boots, but what struck me was how her eyes seemed different. like they had been another color before, and were now this soft sky-blue. 

"Two-hundred eighty years ago..." she blurted, eyes closed like she was bracing for impact. The guardians gasped, and it began to register what she said. Everyone seemed to be bombarding her with questions while I pieced everything together in my head. Manny made her...that she admitted. Two-hundred eighty YEARS AGO?

"You've been a spirit for two-hundred eighty years and yet we have no recollection of who you are whatsoever?" I said, my brows furrowing and confusion rising. "How is that possible?" 

"It's not! She's gotta be lying, mates. There's no way someone could keep hidden from us that long!" Bunny exclaimed. 

"I would have remembered you, from your teeth. and yet I don't recall collecting your teeth" Tooth said, slightly flustered at this predicament. North sighed and massaged his temples. Sandy, sat on a cloud squeezing a sand-stress ball, and bunny's foot hammered the ground subconsciously. 

"Is this really that big of a deal? So she's been hiding for almost 300 years, so what? You know about her now so what's the big whoop?" I interjected, getting frustrated at the guardians for blowing this all out of proportion. They all stared at me and seemed to take my words to heart.

"I guess what we're all so worried about is...why?" She said, looking up at Ember. The fire-girl blinked at her and bit her lip, thinking. Weird habit... I thought.

"Manny told me to"