A mother belief
Summary: It does not take Mrs. Bennett long before she sees Jack Frost. (one-shot)
It started with Jamie pictures.
She would always see someone else in them. Someone that wasn't the other kids that Jamie brings home. White hair, pale skin and blue hoodie a staff in his hand always with a smile. He does not show up in one drawing, but all of them since he first appeared. Even her daughter always adds him in her own pictures.
At first, she thought it was just an imagery friend, but surely both of her kids wouldn't add him in their own drawing if that was the case. She had not heard of this before and while she isn't too sure what to make of it. She figured that whoever it was didn't mean any harm because he's always playing, always seemed to be having fun, always seen flying and Mrs. Bennett isn't too sure what to make of it. Other then the fact that he isn't human because humans didn't fly and there's more at play then her kid's imaginations.
Until her son brings it up at dinner one night.
"Can we leave the window open mum?"
"What for sweetie?"
"To let Jack Frost in that way he knows he welcome."
"Jack, Jack, Jack, big brother Jack," Sophia said.
She raised an eyebrow at this. Jamie had always wanted a big brother and so who was she to turn it down.
"Alright. Only one window."
"Thanks mum."
"What about bunny?" Sophia asked.
"Sorry, Soph. Bunny a bit busy to come around."
"Aww."
She wonders who Bunny was before her mind pushes it aside and focus on her dinner. She tried not to notice the cold air that comes in the moment Jamie opened the window. Or, the frost on the window that appeared shorty after.
Mrs. Bennett started to notice from then on, that Jamie was not the only one that talked about Jack Frost.
"Did Jack come today?"
"No. He said he had to go to Russia."
"But he be back on Monday and we can have a snowball fight."
"Yeah."
She hears similar talk and for a moment she wonders who Jack is because almost every kid in the town knew about him. What she finds odd is other adults started to noticed.
"He's always going on about some Jack Frost," one of her co-workers said.
"Yours two. Mine do as will. Do you know anyone by the name?"
"Nope, I don't know anyone with the surname of Frost."
She does. Will not personally, but she heard of the myth. Jack Frost she brought it up to her son the day he lost his tooth and when a cold chill came in the air.
Maybe, just maybe he was real?
Mrs. Bennett shakes her head.
She would hear about him a lot from her own son. Jamie was always up late talking to a Jack Frost and whoever this Jack was she would need to have a seriously chat with this person about not keeping her son up late on a weekday.
By the time Mrs. Bennett does see Jack Frost he's walking through the open window. The one in the kitchen that Jamie leaves open and if it wasn't for her children drawing. She would've hit him over the head with a pan, for breaking in. However, she spotted him right away because she didn't know too many teens with white hair and pale skin.
"So, your Jack Frost?"
"You can see me?" Jack asked.
"Yes. Am I not meant to?"
Jack hand tighten around his staff.
"Will normally adults don't."
She crossed her arms given him a stare he looked ready to bolt.
"Oh, no you're not leaving I need a chat with you."
"Did I do something wrong?" he asked.
It was like talking to a scared animal one ready to flee the moment it looked like he was in the wrong and for a second, she wonders what he has been through to look such way.
"Nothing at all. I just need a chat with you about not keeping my son up so late on weekdays."
Jack chuckles.
"Sorry, about that we got carried away."
It would take her awhile for Mrs. Bennett to understand that she wasn't actually meant to see Jack Frost, but by the time she did come to that realization. She would find that she was not the only adult in town that believed in Jack Frost, after all it did explain one mystery that everyone had about Jack pond.
The pond that was always frozen no matter the year. The one that was frozen shortly after the death of Jackson Overland and this was how Jack Frost ended up with the whole town of Burgess being able to see him.
It was also how Mrs. Bennett soon turned the spare room into Jack room because immortal teens or not they need a place to stay that isn't in a tree. She tried not to think about Santa, Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and the Sandman approval for given their Jack a place to stay because that was a little too much for her brain to handle.