A/N So another one this time detailing the first time Jackie's powers appeared. Hope you like it please enjoy.
Powers
"Ow!" Jamie heard Sophie shout from what sounded like it came from Jackie's bedroom which was followed closely by the sound of Jackie screaming.
Jamie looked up and hurried to the room thankful that Mom and Dad were out this Christmas.
Jamie opened the door and found Sophie on the floor with a hand covering her forearm. Jackie was screaming, around her, he could see ice forming around her fingertips.
It didn't take a genius to figure out what had happened.
He stepped forward. "Hey, Hey Jackie." He said with a smile. "Hey, it's alright Jackie why don't you tell your uncle Jamie what happened?"
Jackie pointed with her fingers tears still falling down her face. "I hurt Momma!" She cried pointing at Sophie. Jamie turned to Sophie, "Are you ok?".
"It was an accident darling," Sophie said. "You didn't mean it." She said.
"Momma is hurt!" Jackie said the ice spread onto the carpet of her room.
"I know," Jamie said. "And it's ok. You just startled her, she's not mad."
"I'm not mad," Sophie said. "It's alright. It's ok." Slowly Sophie removed her hand from the fingers that had gotten badly frostbitten and held her hand out for her little girl. Jackie could see Sophie's skin had turned blue.
"It's alright," Sophie said softly. "I was just caught off guard. Come here little one." She said.
Jackie looked hesitating.
"It's alright," Sophie said. "I'm not mad. I just wanna hold my baby girl in my arms."
Jackie carefully stood and made her way over to Sophie Sophie wrapped her arms around Sophie's back. The ice didn't stop but it spread on Sophie's clothes instead of her skin.
"It'll be ok," Sophie said with a half glance at Jamie. "We'll all be ok."
"You should go to a hospital," Jamie said afterwards. "Make sure that isn't worse than it is."
Sophie stared at the fingers that Jackie had flash-frozen they had gone numb shortly after Jackie had frozen them.
Sophie looked out into the living room where Jackie was sitting eating ice cream. Then back at Jamie.
"You can't help Sophie if you don't take care of yourself first." He said. "Go. I'll take care of her."
Sophie but her tongue.
Jamie sighed and gave her a hug. "I know it won't always be this simple. But take care of yourself especially when I'm right here."
Sophie stared at Jamie before she sighed. She left to give her child a kiss on the head. "Momma has to go for a bit. But your uncle Jamie will be here." Sophie said.
Jackie looked up at Sophie her bottom lip jutting out. "Did I do something wrong?"
Sophie bent down and stared right at Jackie and caressed her cheek. "What happened this morning was an accident," Sophie said not wanting to lie to her daughter but also wanting to make sure she understood that Sophie was not mad at her. "I'm not mad, but I have to go and get it looked at."
Jackie's lip jutted out and ice started to appear on her hands. "I'm sowwy."
"I know," Sophie said. "And when I get back, we'll decide what to do. In the meantime." Sophie said. "I don't want you to tell granny or grandpa what happened," Sophie said.
Jackie's eyes widened. "Why?" She asked.
Sophie tried to figure out how to best explain it to a three-year-old. "It's just better that they don't know." She said. "Let uncle Jamie explain what happened." She said.
Jackie stared up at Sophie and nodded slowly. Sophie stood and walked over to Jackie.
"Make sure Jackie doesn't have another accident," Sophie whispered. "Especially after mom and dad come back."
"It might not be so bad."
Sophie shook her head. "I can't risk Jackie's life on this." She said. "Please. Jamie."
Jamie looked at his little sister and gave her a hug. "I'll do my best."
"If you have any ideas on how to help her control it." Sophie sighed. "Your welcome to it. I trust you."
Jamie hugged Sophie; Sophie gave Jackie a kiss on the forehead before she left.
Jackie turned to Jamie; her eyes were wide and small. "Did I do bad?" Jackie asked.
Jamie smiled a little and shook his head. "No little one, no," Jamie said. "Your momma is just being cautious."
"Cautious?" Jackie asked. "What does that mean?"
Jamie nodded. "She's being careful," Jamie said. "Your powers can be amazing and can be sued to do good, but other people may not see it that way, may see what you can do as bad, so the fewer people that know. The safer it will be for you."
Jackie frowned. "But I don't want to be bad."
"I know," Jamie said. "And your mother knows too, but other grownups can be hard to convince. Especially when they don't believe in Jack Frost."
Jackie's eyes widened at the name of her father. "Daddy?"
Jamie nodded. "Your daddy, is one of the Guardians do you remember?"
Jackie nodded and ran upstairs Jamie, curious, followed her. She entered Sophie's room and pulled a photo from the dresser and showed it to Jamie. "Guardians." She said. "Santa, Easter Bunny, Tooth Faiwy, Sandman and Daddy."
Jamie smiled. "Yes sweety, your mommy's been teaching you."
Jackie nodded. "Mommy says that Bunny used to be her favouwite." Jackie said. "But then she gwew up and they all stopped coming, 'cept for Daddy."
Jamie nodded. "That's true." He said.
"Mommy says you knew them longer." She said.
"I remember more." Jamie said. "but your Mommy was a year younger than you when she met the guardians for the first time, she met them the same Easter I did."
Jackie's tilted her head.
Jamie smiled and bent down. "Do you want me to tell you some stories?"
Jackie smiled and nodded Jamie held his arms open and Jackie ran into his arms. Jamie picked her up and the walked over to Sophie's bed. Jamie lay on Sophie's bed and gently took the photograph from Jackie's hands.
"Do you know the story of how the Guardians defeated the boogeyman?"
Jackie nodded her head. "I like it," She said.
Jamie smiled. "Do you want to hear it again?"
Jackie nodded her head.
Unfortunately, Sophie was not home by the time mom and dad came home from the Opera that Sophie and Jamie had painstakingly worked really hard to get tickets for.
Jamie had just finished telling Jackie about the time Jack had taken Sophie and Jamie flying one winter day and met the Groundhog and tricked it by making it seem like it had seen its shadow.
(Bunny had been angry about that since the extended six weeks of winter meant that there would probably still be snow come Easter which fell just outside that six-week window. And knowing Jack he would have made certain that snow was falling on Easter day.)
"Where's Sophie?" Sally asked when she entered Sophie's room.
Thinking quickly Jamie spoke. "She had to go out for a while, but she told me she would be back in time for the party."
Jason nodded his head while Sally looked confused.
"What did she need to do?" She asked.
Jamie blanked. "Uh… she just needed to get out of the house for a couple of hours. She'd been looking a little worn-out so I offered to take care of Jackie while she went out."
Jason nodded as though that made perfect sense while Sally still looked worried. Jason put an arm around Sally.
"I'm sure if it's anything serious Sophie will have called us." He said holding his wife in his arm. He stepped forward and held his hands out for Jackie.
Jackie smiled a little and hesitantly reached her hand out. Jamie held back a bit reluctantly but gave in when it looked as though Jason was going to start asking questions.
Jason through little Jackie into the air who laughed and giggled her hands icing over as she did so. Fortunately, Jason still had his leather coat on so he did not feel the ice when she landed on him.
"Again, Again."
"I think that's enough excitement," Jamie said subtly wiping the ice off his father's coat. "In fact, I think it's time for your nap Little Snow Spirit."
Jackie pouted. "I'm not tired."
"I think Jamie is right," Jason said. "How about I tell you a story to help you go to bed?" He said squeezing his grandchild. "How about it?"
"I Can help her," Jamie said. "It's no big deal."
Jason shook his head. "No, it's fine. I want to spend time with my granddaughter anyway."
Jamie wanted to argue it, but he couldn't think of a good enough argument that wouldn't raise any questions. So, he had been forced to concede the point.
By the looks of it, Jackie was already starting to yawn so maybe it wouldn't be so bad.
Still, Jamie stayed outside the bedroom just in case.
"Why don't you pick a book?" Jason told his young grandchild.
Jackie ran to her bookshelf and pulled out "T'was the Night Before Christmas" Jason smiled and picked her up and sat down in the rocking chair that was positioned by her bed.
Jason placed Jackie on his lap opened to page one. Jackie stared at the page and lay on Jason's chest. Jason gave Jackie a quick kiss on the top of her chocolate brown hair before he started to read.
"Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house
Not a Creature was stirring Not even a Mouse…"
Jason continued to read on, as Jackie started to doze off. Her eyes falling closed as Jason's soft voice soothingly read off the poetic story.
Jason didn't care he enjoyed this it was rare that he was able to spend time with his granddaughter, what with work. Despite Sophie trusting them a bit more then she had when Jackie was born. Sophie always insisted on dealing with Bedtime herself.
Jason understood that, but it was nice to do it himself. Took him back to when Sophie and Jamie were children and they would crawl into his lap demanding that they tell them a story before they had to go to bed.
He hadn't realized that he had missed that until Jackie had been born, and he witnessed Sophie doing it all herself.
He was proud of Sophie for trying to be independent but sitting in the rocking chair as Jackie quietly listened slowly falling asleep.
"A Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night" He read finally getting to the final line. He looked down to see that Jackie was sleeping. Jason kissed her chocolate brown hair and carefully placed her into her bed.
He stared at her for a moment, resting peacefully safe in her bed. Her brown hair tied back into pigtails.
He smiled and put a hand on her head and kissed her forehead one final time. "I love you little winter sprite," He said adopting Sophie's pet nickname – fitting considering she was born in winter.
"Dad?" Jason turned to see his daughter staring at him. Her eyes seemed to be flitting between him and his daughter.
"He sweetie, it was getting close to her nap time so I thought I would handle bedtime myself."
"You didn't have to do that," Sophie said stepping forward.
"I know," Jason said hugging his daughter close. "I wanted too."
Jason noticed that Sophie's smile seemed a bit strained but decided not to push. He gave his daughter a hug and left the room. Passing Jamie as he did so.
"I was right outside the door." Jamie said. "IT was fine."
Sophie put her hands to her head. He could see her forearm covered in flesh covered bandages. "I don't know what I'm going to do," Sophie said. "I have classes."
"Aren't most of your classes online?"
Sophie nodded. "Most, a couple, this semester, is at night and I have to be in class."
Jamie stared at her. "Maybe I should come home."
Sophie's eyes widened and she shook her head. "Jamie no, you have work."
"You have a magical half winter sprite who has just shown she's a lot more like her father that previously shown."
"We both knew this was a possibility," Sophie said.
"Knowing it might happen, and having it actually happen are two completely different things," Jamie said.
Sophie shook her head. "You worked hard to get where you are today," Sophie said. "I don't want you to give that up. You have your first movie coming out soon."
"Ok, let's work this out. The first movie I've ever worked on coming out… Or Jackie's magical powers flaring up whenever she's upset or excited causing the potential of appearing anytime anywhere and leaving you alone to deal with the fallout."
Sophie crossed her arms. "I'll be fine."
Jamie held Sophie's frost-bitten arm. "This isn't fine."
Sophie looked away. "You could receive a set back because of this." She said. "I would hate for your career to take a step backward because you decided to take care of us."
"It'll be fine," Jamie said. "You'll need someone who can watch her at night."
Sophie sighed, and she couldn't very well ask any of Jamie's friends to help. They had all stopped believing in the Guardians shortly after the Guardians stopped visiting Jamie. Fiona (Aka Cupcake) had held on the second-longest but even she had been unable to keep her belief and slowly she had stopped believing.
Sophie was well and truly alone.
"Well, I at least racked up enough personal days to take a couple of months off," Jamie said. "I should be good for that."
Sophie stared up at Jamie. Two months with Jamie's help might be good.
"If your sure, your career won't suffer for it," Sophie said. "And you can do it in such a way where mom and dad won't be suspicious…"
Jamie gave his younger sister a hug. "Don't worry Soph," He said. "It will all be fine."
A/N Jackie's eyes and hairs are brown to nonbelievers which is why I mention her hair being brown in Jason's section. Jamie stays for a couple of months he requests a couple of months off... though whethor or not he has to head back for a couple of weeks to finish up production before he can take the two months is up in the air. So yeah, Jackie's ice powers came in. Which is fun. Sophie is mainly just worried that Jackie will be discovered so it will take a while before she sees the beauty in Jackie's gift. But she will when the fear let's up and Jackie gains a bit of control over her gift. If you want me to add more to this, or think it could be imporved in anyway let me know in the comments ciao!
