Jamie was awoken by Sophie entering the room.

"Get up, it's nearly time for…" She trailed of as she saw jack lying next to him. "Sorry, I'll leave you two alone." She giggled leaving the room. Jack also woke up at the sound of the door being clicked shut.

"What was that about?" Jack asked yawning. He figured they must have fallen asleep on Jamie's bed.

"I don't know. Although I think we should be a bit more careful or Sophie will start telling everybody about us." Jamie said, getting up

"Is that a bad thing?" Jack asked, feeling hurt.

"Only if who she tells doesn't believe in you and then beats me up" Jamie said, trying not to hurt jack anymore after his reaction.

"Who would beat you up?" Jack asked. His expression had changed from hurt to a mixture of confusion and worry.

"It's a long list." Jamie said. He didn't feel like talking about the mocks and beatings he had got over the years.

"Ok." Jack said. He rubbed Jamie's shoulder for a second until Jamie flinched away. "Why does that hurt?"

"It doesn't" Jamie said shyly, backing away from Jack.

"Jamie, let me look." He said, lifting up Jamie's sleeve only to be shocked with what he could see. Next to Jamie's shoulder was a large scar that had only just started to scab over by the looks of it. Jamie winced as the cold air got to it and he immediately pulled his sleeve back down.

"Who did this" Jack asked, suddenly becoming very serious.

"No-one. It doesn't matter" Jamie said, trying to change the subject somehow.

"Jamie. Who did this?" Jack repeated. Jamie felt the room go down to about -2°

"Just some guy."

"Who"

"My…" Jamie couldn't stand to say the rest in fear Jack would hurt the person in question

"Jamie please tell me who. I promise not to hurt them if you don't want me to." Jack said, hoping he could keep his promise.

"My. My dad did this" Jamie said, bursting out in tears.

"WHAT?" Jack shouted, but immediately tried to comfort Jamie with a hug. "Why did he do this to you?"

"When mum and him were fighting, like they usually do, I tried to stop them when my dad threatened her with a knife. So he turned around and stabbed me in the arm and my mom tried to hit me for 'interfering'." Jamie said, clutching jacks hoodie even tighter than before.

"Has this happened before?" Jack asked, starting to rub Jamie's back in an attempt to comfort him.

"Sometimes when I was little, but even more now that I try to help them get over the fighting. To be honest at this point even if they had a divorce I would be happy, as long as they don't kill each other first." Jamie said, starting to cry again.

"Shh, shh. It'll be okay." Jack said softly, trying to comfort him as best he could.

"No it won't! They'll end up killing each other and I and Sophie will be orphans! And then my friends will leave me, and you'll stop loving me" The last 4 words Jamie said made them both mentally cringe so jack tightened in the embrace

"Jamie, I will never stop loving you okay. Even at the end of all time I will still love you just as much as I do now." Jack said reassuringly, now starting to stroke Jamie's hair.

"And that's another thing, you'll live forever because you're immortal and when I die you'll probably just move onto another person and do the same to them!" Jamie said, a tone of worry and anger creeping into his voice.

"Jamie I would never do that. When you, well you know, I don't think I could ever get over not seeing you again." Jack said, trying not to say the truth because, well, Jack would probably try to take his own life like he did when he realised he had seen his own mother die and not known until the day he saw his teeth.

"Jack," Jamie asked, trying to return his voice to normal and stop crying.

"Yeah Jamie." Jack said, allowing Jamie to sit up.

"Could you stop it from snowing in my room, I just saw my laptop go static" Jamie said looking over to his laptop. Both boys saw that it had in fact gone static and the light started to flicker on and off.

"Sorry." Jack said and the room was returned to a near normal state almost immediately.

"Thanks" Jamie said smiling at jack. Although jack did not see this because he was checking the time, 01:12.

"Shit, I forgot about new Zealand!" Jack said getting up.

"What?" Jamie asked, cocking his head to the right.

"There's meant to be 3 feet of snow there by now. I forgot about it, and I'm glad I did!" Jack winked at Jamie.

"Okay, when can you be back?"

"Tomorrow morning. Can't to see you again!" Jack said pecking Jamie on the lips as he grabbed his staff and left.

"Bye!" Jamie called and jack waved back and blew Jamie a kiss.