Jack had a speedy recovery, and was well enough to finish his classwork in time before the semester ended. The whole time, though, he thought about what Vlad said to him: how he suspected that Jack knew about the impending doom. Why else would he and Maddie tell Vlad to move aside while Jack took the hit instead? To that end, during the break, he conducted some tests on himself, both by himself and with the assistance of other doctors, Vlad and Maddie. In the end, it was certain that Jack has ESP. He could pull a phone out of a pocket just as would it start to ring. He could answer a door before the person on the other side had a chance to ring the doorbell. Further tests concluded that the ectoplasm in his blood and DNA helped to amplify this ability.

Maddie remained by his side throughout the whole ordeal. So was Vlad. After Jack and Maddie got married not long after graduation, Vlad, a self-made man, gave them his old brownstone house in Amity Park: a town where ghost activity was high. Seeing that Jack was a half-ghost, Vlad figured he would fit in well with the supernatural crowd that lived there. After all, he owed the guy for saving his life!

Jack originally made the portal to try and get ghosts to come out, so he can hunt them down and put them back in. But since the accident, he had a change of heart. He was part ghost, therefore, hunting ghosts would be the same as hunting (half of) his own kind…I think. When he and Maddie moved in to their new Amity Park home, he made it a long-term mission to get humans and ghosts to be able to co-exist in peace or whatever.

To his surprise, many of the Amity Park ghosts already knew who he was. Word travels fast in the "Ghost Zone". As it turns out, Jack was the very first of his kind—something the ghosts called a "halfa", shorthand for half-a-human, half-a-ghost. Frostbite, a ghost from an area in the Ghost Zone called the 'Far Frozen', prophesied the dawning of a halfa for decades, and that some day he will bring about peace between the living and the dead. Jack was flattered, and allowed the ghosts to stop by and worship him, until his fifteen minutes ran out and they reduced to treating him like everybody else in the area.

In the subsequent years, Jack and Maddie had two children, Danny and Jazz. They were both half-ghost, just like their dad. The kids themselves didn't know about their powers, nor did they ever use them beforehand (even by accident), until they had to have it explicitly spelled out to them by their parents. It happened one night, when Danny was around 10 and Jazz a year or so older.

"Children," said Maddie sitting before them in the living room, "I suppose you are wondering who that glowing man was that you saw me in bed with last night."

"Who was it, Mommy?" said Danny.

Maddie sighed, "It was your father."

Danny was shocked in disbelief. Jazz was emotionless.

"NO!" Danny interjected, "It couldn't be Daddy. That's the same excuse you made when I saw you kissing Santa Claus."

"Danny," said Jazz, "That was Dad too." Jazz, being the elder child, was naturally the more understanding of the two.

"Besides, you two both know that we don't believe in Santa Claus," said Maddie.

Jack's voice sounded from the far end of the room, "I DO!"

"Anyway," Maddie cleared her throat, "Your father is what they call a halfa. Half man, half ghost."

At last Jazz's face showed signs of significant expression. Danny turned awestruck.

"Daddy's a ghost?" the children said in disbelief and excitement, respectively.

"In a way, yes. And when we had you, the ectoplasm in his DNA and blood…were carried over to you."

Jazz returned to straight up no-nonsense disbelief, "That's the stupidest thing I ever heard."

But Danny was quite the opposite: "We can turn into ghosts!"

Maddie smiled, "Jazz, did you or Danny ever disappear into thin air or walk through walls without knowing what you were doing?"

"…No," said the children.

"I want you to close your eyes and concentrate, and think to yourself 'I want to turn into a ghost'."

"This explanation session goes on for half an hour, give or take a second, but your mother successfully made her point, and you and Jazz take it well," explained Clockwork, "It's so boring and tediously mushy; even I fall asleep just by watching this,"

Danny, who has been munching away on a bowl of buttered popcorn (good butter, I might add).

"You wanna fast forward while I refill my bowl?" Danny suggested.

"By all means."

Danny stood up. Clockwork shot a time beam at the screen, speeding up the tape up to the next good part.