"Okay, on the count of three. One…Two…three!" said Jack.

Lift-off! Jack and Jamie began flying. It was a strange sensation to Jamie, it felt like his insides where getting crushed with the speed they were going at. The cool air brushing against his cheeks. He looked down to see his house get smaller and smaller until it was a mere dot among dots. Then suddenly all the dots were covered by clouds that, from the ground, to someone who was standing still, would have seemed to be moving really fast, but from here it seemed to be completely still.

Jack stopped suddenly as if waiting for something. To Jamie, stopping as quickly as that felt like when he went over a hill in his parent's car really fast and all of his insides began moving up. Then without warning they began flying in the other direction (west). Jamie looked at Jack and noticed that he wasn't looking like his usual smug self. Jack looked down at Jamie and noticed that Jamie was looking at him strangely. He looked kind of...concerned.

"What? Do I have something on my face? Did Bunny draw a mustache on my face again?" asked Jack, trying to put on a goofy grin. However it wasn't fooling Jamie.

"No. No mustache or anything. Well, there's nothing except from that goofy grin anyway." Replied Jamie trying to lighten the mood.

Jack laughed, only slightly more real.

Not very long after, Jack began to slow down. Jamie looked down and he noticed that there was a lake below the low-lying clouds beneath them. As they got closer, he could see their reflections in the water below.

"Is this where you're from?" asked Jamie.

"Sort'a, come on let's get a closer look." said Jack, still not as cocky as he normally was. Jack swan dived towards the water. Jamie hated this; he didn't understand why Jack didn't just float down like normal. On the way down Jamie swallowed several insects, and he felt that strange sensation again. They were heading straight towards the water, but just as they were below the tree-line, Jack began to slow down. Still heading towards the water. Jack then lifted Jamie up onto his shoulders. It felt strange to both Jamie and Jack, although neither knew why. Just as they were about two meters above the water, Jack corrected his orientation, and made himself, and Jamie vertical. When Jack's foot hit the water, the water directly under his foot froze almost instantly. Jack let the ice spread a bit and then he started skating. Soon he had created a path of ice over the lake. It was obvious Jamie and Jack enjoyed this; they were yelling "woohoo!" and Jamie had his arms in the air. To Jamie it felt like he was (At least, what he imagined it would be like to) riding a broom.

However, Jack soon stopped skating and started heading towards land. As soon as he got to land, he said to Jamie, "Okay time to get off kiddo."

"Jack, I'm not a kid anymore! I'm twelve!" This made Jack giggle, and crack a small grin, which soon disappeared. He lifted Jamie off his shoulders and put him on the ground, then he fell onto his back and looked up to the sky. Jamie flopped down beside him.

"So, Where did you come from?", Jamie said as he sat up again, "That's the whole reason we came here. Remember!"

Jack sat up as well, and released a big sigh.

"Yes I remember."

"Well?"

"I came from there." Jack said as he got up, walked forward and pointed towards the waters of the lake.

"What? No way. "

"Yeah, that's where I came from"

"How?"

"Well.. before I became Jack Frost…"

"You were someone before you were Jack Frost?!"Jamie answered as he jumped up and ran next to Jack.

"Yeah, I only found out a couple of months ago, before we battled Pitch."

"Pitch?"

"The boogieman!"

"Ah! How did you become Jack Frost?" asked Jamie getting more and more intrigued by the second.

"Well I don't know how exactly; but the first thing I remember is being under the ice. The water was frozen over. It was cold, dark...and I was scared, I felt suffocated by the darkness. Then I started rising out of the water, and when I got to the surface the ice broke and I was lifted towards the sky. Then I saw the moon...and it seemed to chase the darkness away. It was cold, but I felt so safe." Jack seemed to forget Jamie was there.

"Jack? Jack! Jack!", Jamie called

"Hmm…"asked Jack, he was shaking very slightly

"Don't you remember anything before that?"

"Well, yes and no." Jack said, still shaking slightly. Jamie had a pained expression on his face, trying to comprehend.

"I didn't remember anything before Tooth gave me my teeth back. So I don't remember it like I was there, I remember it like I was watching a movie or something." Jack lied; he now remembered every detail: how it felt, smelt etc.

"So what happened?"

Jack tried to think back but as well as it being the most proud moment from Jacks mortalhood he can remember, it was also the most painful: he died. He still remembered how cold the water was, how the water filled his lungs and froze, and how the darkness seemed to consume him.

"Sorry Jamie but can we go now?" asked Jack

"Yeah I guess." replied Jamie, now noticing Jack was shaking.

Jamie held Jack's hand again and with one leap they were back in the air heading towards the North Pole.


Beta-read by Daughter Earth 89