Evy Hallow chapter five

Evy Hallow- Chapter five

"But then-" Jack clasped his hands together behind his head and leaned down on a soft pillow and snickered at the whole group.

"It's easier to prevent thieves breaking in, but harder to prevent someone inside slipping out. Don't you agree?"


Four years later in North Workshop:


It was only two months before Christmas. North and the Yetis and especially the Elves were trying to reach their deadline in completing and testing all the Christmas-toys from Norths prototypes and drawings. There was a lot of work that needed to be done.

It was sometimes exhausting, each year more children stars to believe in Santa Claus and each year more toys needed to be made, and every year North needed to make a new road to keep up the deadline.

But by travelling East, using the time zones; not to mention his newest invention, "The Snowballs", North had managed to deliver all the presents to the children on time, and had just enough time to take a small break and eat what some of the children offered him on a plate just beside the fire; milk and cookies.

It was a lot of work and planning but in the end it was worth the effort. Children needed toys and it was his job to make sure they had them, especially the poorer ones who rarely got time to see the wonder outside their cruel reality and let themselves be what they really are; children.

North sat in his workshop, working with great enthusiasm to finish his latest prototypes. Or at least he was supposed to be if it wasn't for Evy and Jack's new little trick in the Main Hall.

"Evy! Jack! Get down from there this instant!" North shouted up at the two mischievous children playing several meters over his head.

Evy was climbing; or rather flying with a rope around the floating Globe.

Like a female Tarzan, she was swinging around it in circles, using the globe and the ceilings as landing points with her strong legs as she jumped up and down, back and forth, like a circling comet around the Globe. Her brother Jack followed and repeated her steps with the same grinning smile on his lips.

Because Evy is immortal and cannot be seriously injured, North wasn't worried she would do any physical harm (the same went for Jack). It was more that she and Jack disturbed the Yetis during their work and was practically screaming at the top of their lungs in excitement.

And when Christmas was around the corner, North's temper was not to be messed with.

"But grandpa…"

"Don't 'but grandpa' with me, young lady. And that order goes for you too Jack. Don't encourage your sister!" North scolded and pointed his thick finger at them.

"Hey, she started it!"

"I don't care who started it, just come…EVY! NO!"

Evy had made the bold decision to remove her hands from the rope and jumped down to catch one of the strange flying inventions North has just built. He had no name for it yet but when it comes to new inventions, North was very sensitive.

"Grandpa! Jack! Look what I can do!"

Sitting there, acting like a cowboy with one hand up, Evy was screaming with joy over the sensation to get carried around on this strange new flying object, which wasn't used to caring so much weight and was having a hard time staying in the air, and being several meters in the air and meters from Norths waving hands.

"EVY, COME DOWN HERE RIGHT NOW!"

The Winter spirit flowed down and leaned against his staff beside North with a silly smile on his face. "Relax, you know she can't be hurt." And with soft blue eyes he looked up at the wild girl that was his daughter/sister.

North smirked and crossed his arms as he towered over the white-haired boy. "I'm not against adventures and exploring, I am the guardian of Wonder after all, but sometimes her energy can be a little bit..." he looked up at the howling girl,"...overwhelming."

Feeling that she was now in bit of trouble, Evy jumped off the flying machine and used the wind to fly, not quite as gracefully as Jack, down to the floor and ran towards them. Approaching North she wrapped her arms around his left leg and with a pair of wide yellow golden eyes she looked innocently up at him.

Her shoulder length black-white hair had been pulled out of the two neat pigtails one of the Elf's helped to braid, was now loose and was curled messily around her face.

She had gone from being a sweet and cute little toddler, Evelyn Nicole Grey has turned into a mini version of her brother Jack Frost- A real Tomboy. She refused to wear any dresses because the skirts made her stumble and it got easily dirty. Instead North arranged couple of fluffy long pants in different colours that went down to her ankles, together with practical blouses and shirts. Clothes fitted for an impulsive and wild tomboy and today she was wearing loose light-blue linen top together with dark grey pants with silver and gold embroidery on.

But it is important to mention that except Evy's newest talent to walk upside-down, one of her most powerful weapons, which she used regularly; was her charm.

"Don't be mad at me!" She said sweetly and smiled widely, showing all her snow-white sharp (even though she was missing a few) teeth at him. "We were just enjoying the view."

Having a hard time not to melt by Evys innocent eyes and charm North looked down at her and returned the smile. Enchanted he move down and picked her up and Evy kissed affectionately on North's cheek. He gave Evy a slight pinch on her cheek and instructed one of the elfs to fetch a plate of cookies for them and then he sat down on a chair with Evy on his lap.

"Naughty girl, haven't I told you that climbing all over the walls is dangerous, and you were disturbing the workers again."

"I'm not really climbing on the wall and it's not dangerous," Evy said cheerily, "I can walk upside-down if I want!"

"Upside-down?!" North wondered as he picked up a cookie from the plate one of the elves just arrived with together with three cups of milk.

"I walk on the shadows, it's easy! You should try it."

Hearing about Evy's newest trick North looked back at the bemused Jack, wondering if it was he who taught her or…someone else.

"I've seen it myself, she's pretty good," Jack just replied casually as he jumped on one of the wooden bannisters and started to balance on it.

"I believe the shadows would barely hold the gravitation of my stomach if I tried," North chuckled and clapped his red big belly.

"Then you should eat fewer cookies!" Evy said and quickly snatched the cookie away from North fingers and put it into her grinning mouth.

"And you should too my little Sweet-tooth," he said and snatched the cookie back from her.

"Suit yourself," Evy smirked and rubbed his belly with her tiny hand, "and I like you big belly!"

Then she leaned down on North's warm chest and began to chew one of her loose pigtails.

Chucking softly North once again marvelled at how much Evy was like her 'parents'.

Getting older, Evy had just as many questions as her curious brain could create and she got a bad habit chewing her edges of her locks while she was thinking. And sitting on North leg, with her head on his shoulder and by the look of her face, North saw she was thinking about something very seriously.

"North, when is Christmas?" She suddenly asked, still with the pigtail in her mouth.

And how many times had North heard this question before from this stubborn girl?

"Again, not for another three months!"

"Three months!" Evy whined and spit the wet pigtail out from her mouth. "That's forever!"

"Three months is not forever, trust me!"

"Will you take me with you on your sledge this year?" She asked and mimicked the same mischievous grin Jack got, who also heard her question and was showing the same grin behind the slightly tired North's back.

"Why would you want to do that?" North wondered with a bemused smile on his lips. "I'm not going sight-seeing, if that's what you're thinking."

"I want to come along and help you."

North hesitated. "I'm not so sure…"

"Why not?" Fixing North with a defiant look in her eyes. "I'm old enough to see the world, right?! Beside, isn't it good for me in learning how to manage a holiday!"

"Yes it might be good but we are talking about 24-hours travel over the world. You will probably be asleep in the back-seat when only the half road is done. "

"But I haven't been outside the North pole! I want to see!"

By showing her bright yellow, innocent eyes and tugging his beard playfully, North was trapped. "Please, please, please, please!"

"Well…alright, if you really wish." And with this answer Evy gave North a big kiss on the cheek, hugging him tightly and repeatedly cooing in his ear; "Oh, thank-you, thank-you, thank-you", while behind Norths back, Jack grinned and gave two thumbs up to her.

Evy smirked back and quickly and discretely she gave her own small thumbs up without North noticing.

Of course, North wasn't entirely a loving fool and he knew Evy's nature very well. "If you promise me to be a good girl and clean your room better from now on!" And he patted his big hand on Evy's small shoulder, making a small statement who was true the boss in this house.

"But I am cleaning my room!"

"Putting your toys under your bed, under the carpets and throwing them out the window is not a good way to clean away your toys and costumes! Next time, I want to see your clothes in the wardrobe and the toys in the chest, understand?"

North wasn't exaggerating about the mess the 6-year-old Evy have made in her bedroom. It looked like she had set off a bomb in there; toys, clothes, papers, pens and half eaten cookies were everywhere. It was a challenge for him to set a foot in there without making his eyes pop out in shock and frustration. He lost count of times he told Evy to clean her room and be better in taking care of her toys. Of course she cleaned after he scolded but it didn't take long until the room was a war zone again.

Making the small reply Evy made perhaps a hundred times, "sure, I promise," and with that, the little girl jumped down from North's lap and, seeing one of the elves not far away, immediately forgot North's small lecture; "Wanna play hide and seek?"

The elf nodded eagerly.

"Evy, I'm serious!" North said with now a serious tone in his voice. "Dirty room, no helping with the presents!"

"DAH! I will clean my room…later!" Evy whined again without looking back. "Let's ask the others," she said and grasped the elf's little hand and the pair ran out of the hall to look for more elves to join the game, leaving the air flustered with her excitement and forgotten promises.

North made a small sigh as he and Jack watched Evy's small running form disappear and they both moved back to his office. Inside North sat down on his chair and looked over the two very long lists of Naughty and Good children lying on the table. Checking it for perhaps the fifteen time before the big Christmas rush, and for the fifteen time he saw Evy's name on the list.

Not in the Good list, but on the Naughty list, not so far away from Jack Frosts name in the line.

"I see she's a real climber," Jack chuckled as he picked over North shoulder and read Evy's name.

"She's just as impulsive as you are and perhaps with same highly ambitions to not be ignored like Pitch."

"But you still give her Christmas presents?"

"Yes but it getting more and more difficult each year. I need to follow my own rules and not rewarding for her mischiefs."

"Quite hard to follow them when she's such a charmer," Jack smirked.

"And I wonder where she gets it? North said, making a small bemused frown with his eyebrow at the Trickster of Mischief and Snow-days.

"Yeah who could it be?" Jack remarked with big fake innocent eyes as he scratched his head with his staff.

North rolled his eyes and soon they heard Evy's laugher outside the window. North looked out and a small chuckle tore itself from his mouth. With a small hat on her head and a winter jacket, Evy had run outside together with some of the elves and suddenly tripped, falling flat on her face in the cold snow. He was about to open the window and ask Evy if she was alright or wanted to come in when Evy flipped onto her back and was making a snow angel, a big smile still on her face.

The sight was adorable.

"She is still a child and she will grow," North looked back at Jack, "I believe she will learn that she's not the centre of the universe and there are others with feelings and weaker nerves than hers only."

"Hey, is that some sort of a hint?" Jack said and wrinkled his eyebrows and pointed his staff at North.

"Perhaps, but you also need to help me to teach Evy to be more careful, grateful and-"

"OH GRANDPA!" They suddenly heard Evy loudly calling from outside.

Hearing her shout, North opened the window and leaned over the window frame, "what is it Evy?!"

But just as he said this, a freezing snowball smacked him right in the face. Landing back in the snow Evy howled with laughter as North stood paralysed with shock.

"More of what North?" Jack smirked and turned his head outside the window. "Nice hit!" He shouted before quickly moving his head out of the line of fire.

North quickly wiped the snow off of his face. "We will discuss the Christmas trip later," he murmured

"Don't worry, I will teach her with my own medicine right away," Jack said and quickly rushed out from North office to join Evy's little game.

"Kids!" North though as tried to remove a few ices clinging hard to his beard

Outside North heard Jack calling for Evy, and spying out saw Jack scooping some snow off the ground and made a large snowball of it. Hiding it behind his back Jack approached the still laughing girl laying in the snow. "Oh Evy", North heard him saying, with almost too sweet tone.

"Yes?" Evy said and looked up at Jack, and then with great surprise she was greeted with a face-full of snow.

This caused her jumping up from the ground, moved her arms and legs wildly, spitting out snow and screamed with top of her lungs Jacks name and soon began a wild chasing after a laughing Jack Frost over the tundra.

With his hands holding his big stomach, North roared with laughter over this very amusing sight.

Evy was definitely a small version of Jack. She wanted to be the centre of all attention and let nothing pass her by and be unpunished.

But North was serious about teaching Evy proper manners and learning to be less selfish and more conscious of the world outside her own.

It was a little bit thoughtless of her to make such a comment about his stomach and hitting a snowball right in his face. North took it with a laugh but not everyone would take the comment as light-hearted as he did. Evy needed to learn to not push all the buttons on person's feelings and nerves. Like when she was four years old and played with the buttons on the control panel of the Globe, making the Globe move faster, slower and backwards, which she and the elves thought was very funny.

Cute and funny, but very bad for the Globes technical system.

To get some inspiration and an energy kick for his next project, North took a cookie from a plate on the table, without looking. But just as he was open his mouth to bite it, North's half-closed eyes saw something on it that made him suddenly drop it by shock. For a moment he could have sworn he thought he saw a small black spider on it.

But looking down at the cookie that was now several pieces on the floor, he saw no spider. Was it his imagination? A trick by the shadows or the light from the window? Was it because of stress, lack of sleep or Evy's never ending energy? He wasn't sure.

Either way, Santa Claus, with his big and jolly stomach didn't eat a single cookie the whole afternoon.


Outside North workshop.


She had run ahead of him.

He tried to catch up but she was quite good at running and hiding behind the snow and stones. Every second, she reached down, picked up some snow and made it into snowballs and tried to eying it right on Jack. She put up a good fight, she managed to get a few good shots but Jack was a true veteran.

To avoid any more of his snowballs, Evy ran and ducked behind a large pile of snow and stayed hidden, listening to Jack's oncoming footsteps. She was about to throw a snowball, when out of nowhere, a large snowball smashed onto her head. Evy looked up to see Jack laughing at her from atop the pile of snow she was hiding.

In return she threw a snowball right into Jacks open mouth and he choked on the frost. He cried out as he spit out the snow, but not in anger as he'd almost seen it coming and instead of hitting back, Jack laughed with her.

Together in a rich and hearty sound their laughter could be heard all over the tundra. Perhaps throughout the whole North Pole.

Jumping down, Jack scrubbed his hand through her black-white, curly hair that was now missing a hat as Evy grasped her short arms around his waist and hugged him affectionately.

It began to snow and seizing the moment Evy threw herself onto the snow and titled her head up and started to catch snowflakes with her tongue. New fresh white snowflakes fell down and placed like glittered small crystals on her hair. The contrast was sharp but pleasing and when Evy succeeded to catch a snowflake and let it melt inside her mouth, she blow out small fog from her lips into the air.

Jack smiled over the sight of his happy little sister.

"Come and join me!" Evy said and grabbed him by the legs and pulled him down into the snow beside her.

Smiling, Jack adjusted his back comfortable in the snow and together they started to catch snowflakes with their tongues. It was fun and they both must looked a little bit hilarious to any onlookers having their mouth open and tongues out like dogs.

But soon Evy got tired of this little game and the little girl looked a bit absent again. Jack noticed that her mind was now elsewhere as she looked up to the white cloudy sky, chewing on her pigtail again.

"Jack, what's the spring like?" She asked, still looking up in the sky.

"It`s very green and warm," Jack answered, looking up to into the endless sky.

He felt Evy's small body moving closer and settled next to him. "With green leaves, green grass and green bushes like in the picture books?"

Jack looked down on her and lifted his hand to brush some snow tenderly off of Evy's hair. "Yes but so much better!" He said smiling.

"I want to see it!" Evy mumbled as she cuddled up against him.

"Now?"

"Yes, now! I want to see how the grass feels under my feet. I want to see how a tree looks like and climb up at them like a monkey. I only have seen chopped wood and trees in the picture books. Why isn't there a single tree here? " Evy looked up at Jacks face with a determined fire dancing in her golden eyes. "Why isn't there any trees here Jack?"

Jack sighed and crossed his other arm under his head. There were lots of questions in Evy's mind that demanded to be answered and of course he was willingly helping her to solve them. But sometimes Evy's curiosity was hard to please and the questions was sometimes hard to give a good answer to because he was just a boy and still a young spirit himself.

"Because it's too cold here and trees and grass needs warmth and a lot of sun to survive." He said simply.

"But we live! We are standing here with bare feet in the snow and I'm not freezing at all!" Evy said and dig her small blue shoes North had given her into the snow.

"That's because you and I are capable to handle cold and snow. Trees don't, they sleep during the winters, letting the snow cover them like blankets."

"Is there any trees or grass under the snow here?" Evy curiously tugged her hands under the cold snow, inspecting if there were any rots or grass under it.

"No, North Pole always cold and mostly made of ice. Nothing grows here."

"Except me, did you know that I`ve just grown two centimetres last month," she said proudly.

"Congratulations, you're soon to be a big girl!" Jack said smiling, happy to switch the topic into an easier one.

"I hope I will be tall as you," Evy said happily and then she looked over North workshop not away from them and watching the elves having their own snow-ball fights and she thought for a while.

Then she turned her head and looked back to her brother lying down in the snow, with his arms crossed under his head and still catching snow-flakes with his tongue.

"Jack, could we just…you know…see the spring! Just a small bit!"

"It`s not spring now, it`s autumn!" Jack said as he managed to catch another snow-flake with his pink tongue.

"What's autumn?"

"It's another season that comes after summer and before winter. Instead of blooming and getting greener, the trees and the flowers are wilting and turning into warm golden colours like brown, yellow, orange and red. That's the time I approach and start making frost on the grounds."

"So it's your season now?"

"Almost! Some parts of the countries I have already taken care of but there are some areas left that are still too warm for me to visit."

"It is, wow!" And jumping up, she seized Jack's hand and pulled her surprised brother up to his feet and held his hands in a death grip. "Please show me this autumn Jack! Please, please, please! Just a little!"

"Why?"

"I want to see the golden leaves and see how you make frosts with your staff!"

Grinning with mischievous delight Jack chuckled. "Always persuasive! If you promise me one thing."

"What is that?"

"Clean your room better."

Evy crossed her arms and pursed her lips in sourly pout and gave the same stubborn look Jack himself often did to the guardians. "Why is everyone telling me to clean my room when everyone already knows that I will mess up again? It`s no use and it so boooring!"

"Do it for North or else it will be no sledge drive," Jack teasingly mumbled into Evy's face and gave a small wink, "do it for him, you know he will be happy."

"Then you show me this "Autumn" and I promise I will clean my room better and be a good girl!"

Jack shook his head as he found himself surrendering, like North, over her stubbornness and charm. And before he could make any last slight attempt to argue, Evy quickly moved around and jumped up to his back. Jack hoisted her small body as he felt Evy's weight leaning forward, pressing her chest against his back and grasped her arms tightly around his throat.

He coughed slightly, "only a glimpse, Dah?"

"DAH!" Evy grinned cheerily; showing the big gaps between her teeth.

Then the Wind caught them and lifted the siblings right up into the air, over the heads of surprised the little elves who had been playing together with them, over the top of Norths workshop.

Soon the Wind began heading towards the fast land, with two naughty and laughing children in her strong but tender grasp.

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What a manipulative little charmer she is! ;-D

But I can tell you; this little Angel got horns under her wild white-black hair.

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