Jack laid on the ground of the room, he had fallen into a light sleep; his body was relaxed, the only thing that was not peaceful about it was the scar or tick tock. Jamie wasn't sure how it was that Jack could be comfortable on the floor, but he figured after a while that Jack could probably sleep anywhere he needed to by now. There were less comfortable things than sleeping on the floor after all. Jamie curled up on the bed with his notes, adding what he remembered had happened to him as well as his thoughts on what had occurred from Jack's other half... it had been exceedingly painful... like something was trying to devour him from the inside. Jack slept on only to wake lightly, his eyes were dark; chuckling quietly Jakoul stretched out his limbs.

"Damn took forever for you to realize I'm not 'nothing' Jack." Jamie slept on the bed, one hand curled over the open book to the side as the last of his notes for the day trailed off:

I don't know if Jack will ever accept that he has another side to him, one that was active for so long that it was like second nature until he and I met face to face. I have a feeling this other side of him is dange

The word cut off because Jamie had fallen asleep in the middle of writing. He chuckled.

"Oh you're right about that Jamie... oh you're right about that." Jakoul opened the window, taking off on the winds towards the town of Burgess tonight no one outside was going to survive. Jamie shifted in his sleep with a soft whimper, the darkness seeping over the bond he'd made unwittingly those years ago... He snickered as many people were in shock that Jack would do this again.

"Let's get one thing straight people... I'M NOT YOUR NICE LITTLE WINTER SPIRIT! I'M JAKOUL FROST!" The last of the words were said as the area was attacked with a major storm, anyone outside froze solid or died. People screamed, some were fortunate enough to be inside... including Jamie's mother and sister, fortunately enough... but there were many people who weren't so fortunate. A handful who had been outside managed to make it indoors before everything was frozen over. Cackling before sunrise was all that they heard as Jakoul left as Jack was waking up; landing on the floor Jakoul closed his eyes as Jack opened his. Jamie rolled over on the bed, whimpering in the grip of a nightmare until he rolled right off the bed, landing out of sight on the other side with a resounding 'thump.' Waking him, he panted a little, staring at the wall... a dream... it had been a dream... Jack looked over at Jamie in worry.

"Jamie?"

"Ow... Not a nice way to wake up." Jamie said, trying to joke over it as he sat up, rubbing his head with one hand.

"You ok?" Jack was more concerned for Jamie than ever.

"I think I'll live. Never heard of anyone keeling over because they just fell out of bed." Jamie replied as he stood up and looked around for his book. It had flipped over the bed when the covers had shifted and off to a previous page:

May 5th, 2012

It's not been long since Spring really took over and Jack had to leave, but I still miss him. I feel like he's really part of my family. I love him like a brother, and yet... not. I can't really describe it in words. I tried asking my mom about it. She told me that sometimes people love others who aren't related to them more than family or a friend. I told her it couldn't be anything like what was in the movies. She just laughed at that and said she agreed, but that sometimes special bonds form despite our age and that science just couldn't explain something like that. It was a connection between two people that was beyond understanding. I guess mom doesn't know everything. I use to think she did.

Jack looked at the page.

"Jamie what's this page about?" He pointed to that one.

"Hmm?" Jamie glanced over at the book and he flushed a little after reading the passage.

"Umm..." How was he going to explain this? He didn't really know.

"I... uh..." He fumbled with the words. Jack ignored the fumbling and decided not to push it so he stood up heading downstairs, ignoring the fact that Burgess lights were half out because a lot of kids had died last night. Jamie sighed, though not necessarily in relief. It was more in frustration that he couldn't find the right words to explain it. He couldn't even explain it himself really. Why was it so complicated to figure out how he felt? He knew he loved Jack, that was what it was about, but... how could he explain that? He flipped back to the last page with a sigh and finished the word he'd begun. On a moment's thought he went in search for a calendar to see if he could date the new entry before he started another one. None of the other Guardians were around, or at least they didn't seem to be. North and Tooth were in a meeting room talking quietly with Sandy while Bunny had gone to Burgess to discreetly to do damage control. It wasn't supposed to be like this... it was the middle of Spring! His magic melted a lot of the snow and returned the streets and the city to mostly a semblance of order... though he didn't melt all of the snow since that would be too much for scientists to explain and they didn't need that kind of a mess here in Burgess... or anywhere really. Jack yawned making a ice cold hot chocolate sitting in the rafters smiling at the vast snowy plains. When Bunny returned after hours, he met with the other three Guardians who looked uncertainly and they all began to play a game of Rock, Paper, Scissors in pairs. Bunny won out over Sandy and North won out over Tooth; Tooth and Sandy looked at one another before playing a last game... Tooth lost. With a sigh she went off to find Jack. Jack was enjoying a game of match with Jamie with a piece of glass, Jack had him try to match a frost drawing as close as he could get it.

Jamie was doing his best to match the various drawings. His were a little off, but he was getting better with each drawing.

"Hey Jamie... can I talk to Jack a second?" Jamie looked up from his latest drawing of a dog and nodded.

"I think North wanted to give you a tour." Jamie grins a little and runs off to find North. Jack looks at Tooth with a smile. " 'Sup Tooth, what's going on?" Tooth winces a little.

"Jack... a lot of... a lot of Burgess was wiped out last night in a snowstorm."

"What?" His eyes grew wide and worried.

"How can that be possible... I was here all night."

"We don't think you were..." Tooth trailed off, with a sigh she began to explain her theory... which was exactly what Jamie had said just the other night. Jack looked up confused once more on that.

"How can there be split personalities?"

"We're not sure exactly... but... it does happen in spirits. It's not common, but Jack... you were alone for so long that it's not unthinkable." Tooth thought after a moment.

"We're just sorry we didn't see it before... that we didn't do what we could before it happened."

There was a whisper in Jack's head.

"Kill them." Jack shook his head.

"I know it will take time for you to trust us, but... we're here for you now. We always will be." Jack took Tooth's hand, gently squeezing as his head hurt; with that the darker counterpart hissed at the light that was Tooth, at the moment falling back to wait until night when Jack was more vulnerable. Tooth smiled a little as she squeezed back.

"Let's go find Jamie... see if he hasn't been dragged to the testing room yet... or dragged North there." She giggled a little as she gently tugged at Jack's hand. Jack followed Tooth, wary slightly as what the others might be thinking; he finally noticed all the lights gone on Burgess, it was almost black... tears came in small waves but slowly evened out. Tooth gently tugged Jack away from the globe, murmuring softly.

"Come on, don't worry about it now. Also... just so you know, we don't think Jamie is aware of it yet. We haven't told him." Jack looked at tooth.

"I t-think he already does." Jack felt his heart hurt a little more at the fact. Tooth looks at Jack in surprise.

"I can't imagine how." She seemed puzzled, but Jack was right. Jamie DID know; he'd known the moment it had happened because his nightmares had shown him. He wasn't thinking about that now though as he had pushed it from his mind so not to worry North who was watching him as he tested out a remote control car alongside a few yetis. Jack shivered.

"He just knows Tooth." He walked by her to the window, ignoring the others at that moment.

"Hmmm." It was all she had to say on the matter, she wasn't sure if she should be happy about that or not because Jamie hadn't seemed bothered to her. Tooth tugged Jack into the room where there were happy warbles from nearby yetis and several remote control cars suddenly zoomed towards both Jack and Tooth. Tooth flew up out of the way of the cars.