Hello! I origionally wasn't going to put an author's note on this chapter, but guess what! My one-shot series for this AU is up, titled Change. I am taking requests for it, and I have a couple of ideas lined up! Whoo! A shoutout to all of my lovely reviewers!
Enjoy!
EXT. ST. PETERSBURG - NIGHT
a hooded figure with a familiar looking staff rests atop a Post Office box on the
opposite end of the street. The man touches that staff to the ground, sending a streak of frost across the street.
A RUSSIAN BOY approaches a water fountain, turns the handle and moves in for a sip.
But as he does, the water freezes
magically, and the boy's tongue is stuck to the frozen water.
His friends can't help but laugh.
RUSSIAN BOY
(tongue stuck to frozen ice)
Aahhhhh...!
A mail man walks across the street and a PATH OF ICE magically appears
under his feet. He scrambles and BOOM! - lands on his butt
"There he is." James Overland whispered so himself, hearing the achingly familiar laugh of his nephew.
"I never thought I'd hear that sound again." Lucy whispered.
"What happened, do you think?" Monica whispered to Sarah, who shrugged.
"It sounds like he died." George whispered back.
Just behind the man, we see a TRAIL OF FROST climb up the side of a building. We
stay on the frost as it moves up along a rain pipe, and through the windows we see...
A boy trying to feed his gold fish, but a layer of ice suddenly forms along the water surface
and prevents the fish from reaching its food
We move along the side of the building...
A writer in his study sits next to a stack of papers. The window suddenly swings open and a gust
of wind sends the papers flying out the window. We move along the building, across clothes and
power lines as they freeze. We continue to move up, and finally discover the culprit. Jack Frost makes
his way atop a cathedral spire and takes in the view; the full moon bathes the city in moonlight.
JACK
(amused)
Ah, now that, was fun.
(beat)
Hey wind...
Jack chuckles as he calls the wind. The trees begin to sway and leaves fly into the air. Jack grabs
hold of the spire, smiling as the wind blows past.
JACK
take me home!
"Home?" Lucy echoed.
"He found our cabin abandoned, about twenty years after he became a spirit." Emma replied.
Jack lets go and the wind carries him into the air and through the clouds Night turns to day as Jack flies from one horizon to the other.
JACK
Woooooohooooooooo!
EXT. BURGESS - DAY
Jack falls through the clouds, smiling, toward the town of Burgess.
JACK
SNOOOOOWWWW DAAAAYYYYYYY!
Jack continues down and zooms through the streets. Pedestrians clench their jackets and reach for their
hats as gusts of wind, snow, and frost are left in Jack's wake.
EXT. FROZEN POND
Jack flies in, and with the wind behind him skates across an all too familiar pond. As the wind zips across the
pond it knocks a book out of the hands of a little boy walking alone, this is JAMIE
Renee smiles fondly at her son on screen.
JAMIE
whoa, whoa.
Jamie goes to pick up the book and we get a glimpse of the cover- "THEY'RE OUT THERE!-MYSTERIES,
MYTHICAL CREATURES AND THE UNEXPLAINED PHENOMENA." Jack flies into the frame and lands beside Jamie.
JACK
Huh. That looks interesting. Good book?
Suddenly twins CLAUDE and CALEB come barreling past them, rough-housing and
laughing as they slam each other into drifts (all the boys are 8).
Samantha and Ryan rolled their eyes at the twins.
"They're always like that." Samantha said.
CLAUDE AND CALEB
Alright! Yeah! Waahoo! Snooow daaaay!
Jack calls after the boys...
JACK
You're welcome!
JAMIE
(Goes running after them)
Hey guys, wait up! Are you guys coming to the egg hunt Sunday?
CALEB
Yeah, free candy!
CLAUDE
I hope we can find the eggs with all this snow!
Caleb stuffs a handful of snow down his brother's jacket.
EXT. JAMIE'S BACKYARD- DAY
The kids arrive at the fence of Jamie's house. Jamie opens up a secret plank, and
heads into his yard. Claude and Caleb are still messing with each other. Meanwhile, Jack
walks unseen along the top of the fence.
Renee clapped her hands over her mouth, remembering what she said. Oh God...
CALEB
(walla)
Stop!
CLAUDE
(walla)
No, you stop!
JAMIE
Whoa, it says here that they found Big Foot hair samples and DNA in Michigan. that's like, super close!
CLAUDE
Here we go again.
"He'll believe almost anything." Renee said, chuckling fondly.
"There's nothing wrong with believing. And it's really hard not to believe in something you've seen." Emma told her.
Jamie arrives at his front gate, sled in hand while SOPHIE (Jamie's 2-year-old sister in fairy wings)
sits down on their greyhound as it lies in the yard.
JAMIE
You saw the video too Claude. He's out there!
CALEB
That's what you said about aliens.
CLAUDE
And the Easter Bunny.
JAMIE
(grabs his sled)
The Easter Bunny is real.
JACK
Oh he's real alright. Real annoying, real grumpy, and really full of himself.
"What happened between those two?" Poppy asked.
"Jack caused a blizzard on Easter. It was an accident."
Jack hops off the fence and walks among the kids, peering over their shoulders as they play in the yard.
CLAUDE
(laughs)
Come on, you guys believe anything.
SOPHIE
(giggles)
EASTER BUNNY! HOP-HOP-HOP
(falls over)
Ow!
Sophie begins to cry.
JAMIE
Mom! Sophie fell again!
JAMIE'S MOM comes outside. Caleb, alongside his brother, stands at the front gate and calls out to Jamie.
JAMIE'S MOM
You okay, Soph.
CLAUDE
Are we sledding or what?
JAMIE'S MOM
Jamie, hat? We don't want Jack Frost nipping at your nose.
"It's an expression... It's been around for ages. It never even crossed my mind..." Sarah said, feeling guilty.
Jamie's mom plunks the hat on his head, tweaks his nose.
JAMIE
Who's Jack Frost?
JAMIE'S MOM
No one, honey, it's just an expression.
"I am so, so sorry." Renee breathed. She couldn't imagine how his mother felt... She felt her heart break. What if that had been Jamie?
"There's no way you could have known." Emma soothed.
JACK
(smile drops- offended)
Hey.
Jack jumps down from the fence as the boys head off.
JACK
(miffed)
Who's Jack Frost.
Jack reaches down and grabs a hand full of snow from off the ground .With his
palm open, jack uses his magic to form a perfect snowball.
He then puckers his lips, and blows onto it with his icy breath. The snowball
turns a light shade of blue. There's something going on here.
EXT. SNOWY HILL
WHOOSH!- the snowball goes flying through the air and - BOOF! - the snowball hits Jamie smack in the back of the head.
Jamie looks up, peeved, and turns.
Then we watch as his face changes... a mischievous sparkle comes into his eyes.
A big smile. Make no mistake, something magical has just happened.
"That's what happened today. He threw a snowball at me. I felt happy all of a sudden, like he was there." Lucy whispered.
JAMIE
(laughing)
Okay, who threw that?
Jack flies in and lands among the group of kids.
JACK
Well, wasn't Bigfoot kiddo.
Jamie scans the horizon for the culprit. His eyes land on a couple kids making snow barricades.
MONTY (oddball with big glasses) with his back turned suddenly gets a
snowball to the back of the head, knocking him face first into the ground.
MONTY
ow!
Monica chuckled at her son.
PIPPA (brainy, pigtails, pink hat) steps forward and - BOOF!
A magical snowball from Jack hits her, knocking her back. Pippa's face changes- a mischievous sparkle.
PIPPA
Jamie Bennett! No fair!
Sarah, George, and Poppy all fight smiles as the Pippa on screen had to push her hat back up out of her eyes. She never took that thing off.
JAMIE
(laughs)
You struck first!
CLAUDE
Oh!
Suddenly we see Caleb struck in the side of the head with one of Jack's snowballs; Claude can't help but laugh.
JACK
Free for all!
And just like that we find ourselves in a take-no-prisoners snowball fight,
the kids pummeling each other mercilessly.
JACK
Alright, who needs ammo?
Jack supplies the kids with more snowballs. The kids are loving this.
JACK
(walla)
Look at that.
The mayhem continues as Jamie, using his sled as a shield, is knocked
backwards into a snowman, crushing it underneath him.
A snowball flies overhead and hits CUPCAKE, a tough third grader as wide
as she is tall, in the back of the head.
Dread sets in among the other kids, Cupcake squints- gunslinger eyes.
Alex can't help but laugh.
"She's not as scary as she seems. She absolutely adores Jake." he said.
CUPCAKE
Grrrrrrrrrrrr...
PIPPA
Crud, I hit Cupcake.
MONTY
She hit Cupcake.
CLAUDE
You hit Cupcake?
Jamie is flat on his back, terrified. He looks up to see Cupcake
standing over him. Then, BOOF! jack hits Cupcake with a magical snowball.
The kids gasp in horror.
CLAUDE
Oh!
CALEB
Did you throw that?
MONTY
no.
PIPPA
Wasn't me.
A moment, and then Cupcake starts laughing as Jack's magic takes hold.
Cupcake chases the kids down the hill, holding the head of her snowman in
her hands. Jack, all the while, runs along side taking pleasure in the excitement.
"That's Jack. If you didn't have a friend he'd make one for you." Emily said, smiling.
JAMIE
(walla)
Hey, come on. Stop!
CLAUDE
(walla)
You can't catch me.
JACK
Ooh, little slippery!
Jack jumps ahead, blasting a sheet of ice behind him. The kids fall to the
ground, except for Jamie, who lands on his sled, and slides head first down the sheet of ice into town.
JAMIE
Whooaaooah!
JAMIE
(walla)
Aha, whoa!
KIDS
(walla)
Jamie! Turn, turn! that's the street! What are you doing? Stop! There's traffic!
Renee gasped and covered her eyes.
"Jack would never endanger him. He'll be safe." Lucy assured the other woman.
"I still can't look." Renee said.
Jamie suddenly shoots between the trees and careens past a set of parked cars.
Jack's path of ice covers the street. As Jamie turns, his speed only escalates, sending
him directly into traffic. Jamie barely misses a moving trick, spinning it out of control and causing a four car pile up.
JAMIE
Whoa!
JACK
Whoa, don't worry kid, I gotcha.
Jamie looks back, then quickly ahead again as terror comes into his eyes. Jack can't help but smile.
JACK
Hold on. It's gonna be alright.
JAMIE
Ahhh! No, no, no, no...
JACK
Keep up with me kid! Take a left.
"I'm sorry, but your son is the most reckless person I've seen in a long time." Lucas said, holding his breath.
"He gave me more grey hairs than age." Lucy said.
"Aye." her brother agreed.
Jamie rockets through a pedestrian intersection, narrowly missing those in the crosswalk.
DOG WALKER(O.S.)
Hey, slow down!
JAMIE
Whoa, no, no, no, no...
Jack flies over to the far side of the street, sending the streak of ice and Jamie up onto the sidewalk.
JACK
Yeah!
PEDESTRIAN #1 (O.S)
Is that Jamie Bennett?
JAMIE
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa
PEDESTRIAN #2 (O.S)
Hey! Watch it!
JACK
There you go!
JAMIE
No! No!
PEDESTRIAN #3 (O.S.)
Look at that dude!
Jamie flies off the sidewalk and back into the middle of the street, almost knocking
over a postman. As Jack flies by Jamie's side he sees the look of excitement come into
Jamie's face. Jack smiles, knowing he's responsible.
Jack sees an oncoming snowplow and quickly jumps ahead, carried by the wind, to divert the ice trail.
JACK
Whoa
Jamie's sled suddenly turns, narrowly missing the oncoming truck and
barrels towards Jack's newly formed ice ramp...
JAMIE
AAAAHHHHHHHHHH!
Jamie closes his eyes as the ramp launches Jamie over the street, high into
the air, and toward the statue of Thaddeus Burgess, colonial settler- 1680.
"That's us. Thaddeus and I and our children. Their ages are off though. Jack looks about twelve or thirteen, and Emma about nine." Lucy realized.
"It's three hundred years later, it can't be totally accurate." Emma laughed.
Jamie's friends stand in awe, mouths wide open, as he sails through the air.
Jamie opens his eyes and the look of fear suddenly turns to joy. Jack looks on smiling.
Jamie lands safely in a large mount of snow. jack jumps onto the statue of Thaddeus Burgess.
PIPPA (O.S.)
Oh my gosh!
JACK
Yeah!
Jamie's friend all come running to Jamie's aide, scared. But Jamie gets up.
KIDS
Wow, that looks serious! Jamie! Jamie, are you alright? Is he okay?
JAMIE
Whoaaa! Did you guys see that? It was amazing! I slid- I
did a jump and i slid under a car- ERF!
A sofa from the moving van suddenly knocks Jamie down...
The whole room cringed in unison
JACK
Whoops.
KIDS
(Cringing)
Ooooh!
There's a moment of silence as the ids wait to see if Jamie is
okay. Then Jamie rises up from behind the sofa, grinning, a new
gap in his smile. He holds up a tooth..
JAMIE
Cool! A Tooth!
"Renee, you can look now." Lucas said. She opened her eyes.
KIDS
(walla)
Dude, that means cash! Tooth Fairy cash! I love the Tooth Fairy!
JACK
(his fun cut short)
Oh no...
"Poor Jack..." Heather whispered, her heart breaking at the look on his face.
KIDS
(walla)
That's totally awesome. You lucky bug! Lucky!
JACK
No!
"Oh son..." Lucy breathed.
JAMIE
I gotta put this under my pillow!
KIDS
(walla)
I wish I lost my tooth.
JACK
Ah, wait a minute! Come on, hold on, hold on! What about all that
fun we just had! That wasn't the Tooth Fairy, that was me!
"He's still alone. Three hundred years and no one has seen him?" James Bennett demanded. Emma nodded.
"I should have done something..." she whispered.
"Why didn't you?" Monica asked.
"I was scared to face him. The last time we'd seen each other he died, and I knew I'd had to have walked through him multiple times... I couldn't do it." Emma whispered.
"He could never be angry with you, Emma. You had him wrapped around your little finger." James Overland told his niece. She shrugged.
"I know that now, but I didn't then."
KIDS
I lost two teeth in one day once- remember that?!
What are you gonna spend your money on?
What are you gonna buy? How much do you think she's going to leave?
As Jack looks down from the statue his frustration grows. Storm clouds overhead
rumble and darken. Flurries of snow begin to intensify.
KIDS
(walla)
Ah, it's hot cocoa time.
Jack jumps down from the statue, trying to engage the kids.
But it's too late, the kids take off. Jack blocks Jamie's way as the boy comes running at him.
JACK
What's a guy gotta do to get a little attention around here!
WHOOOSH! Jamie runs right through Jack, as if he were a ghost.
"How is he still sane?" George asked.
"I still don't know, honestly. I at least had Father Time." Emma replied.
Jack is left momentarily shaken, then...
CUPCAKE
(mocking her friends)
"Oh, I'm cold, I'm cold, I'm coold!"
KIDS (O.S)
Somebody take a picture. Hey, stop! That was really awesome.
They're gone. Jack was along again. His temper subsides.
He whips up a little wind and disappears at it begins to snow.
Lucy's heart shattered.
"He looked so lost." she whispered. Emma hugged her mother.
"He's not anymore." she said.