October 31st
"I'm not so sure this a good idea Jamie." Jack protested as Jamie rubbed the white paint along his face and neck. Then he rubbed it along his arms too, making him look paler without actually looking like the typical white most associated with vampires and what-not.
"You're thinking about this too much Jack." He replied as he pulled out a tube of fake blood and studied himself before dusting it along the freshest of the cuts on his wrist, though even those were so faded now that it was tough to really make them out except that Jamie had used paint to make them more obvious. Jack winced as he watched, he couldn't help it; he hadn't seen Jamie do anything like that since he'd stopped him, but then again he didn't follow the boy everywhere as much as he'd like to. It seemed that Jamie had given it up, maybe it was just wishful thinking on Jack's part, but he would like to think that all this time being around Jamie had meant something to the boy. Jamie hadn't mentioned it aloud or by his actions, but he had changed from that first moment that Jack had re-entered his life. He dabbed some "blood" around his mouth and looked in the mirror with a grin; he was all set to scare a bunch of neighborhood kids. He'd gotten Jack to assist him, despite the winter spirit's protests at first. He'd proven that Halloween was the night to scare and people expected it; that was part of the fun. Jack still wasn't fully convinced, but Jamie had managed to talk him into getting Jamie to "float" into the air to scare older kids. They weren't out to scare the younger ones as Jamie had pointed out that it wouldn't be fair because they "scared too easy;" Jack wasn't sure he agreed with that considering he still remembered how "scared" Jamie had been facing down the Boogeyman head on...
Their first targets... some of Jamie's former friends. The they'd been skeptical and unimpressed until Jack had lifted Jamie off the ground and then they'd run for the hills as if they'd been faced with Nightmares! Jack relaxed more and more as the night wore on and the two scared more and more teens. The winter spirit wondered why the heck he hadn't done this before, it was fun! The question of why he hadn't made him remember that he hadn't been here with Jamie up until recently and that dampened his spirits a little, but only for a little while before the two were rolling on the ground in laughter as a group of guys ran off into the night screaming like a bunch of little girls.
"Hey! There's another group! Let's get 'em!" Jamie said, pointing across the street and Jack grinned, zipping across and ready to do his part. Jamie stepped from the curb, the last thing he saw was a pair of headlights and hearing Jack scream his name...