Sophie Vs. State: Jamie's death

Chapter One

Jack flew around in the night time wind. After the town of burgess was completely covered in snow and everywhere else in the world had been visited, this was his past time. He'd peek into the windows to see how the children he looked after were doing. He hated seeing them grow up, but loved to see their wishes fulfilled.

Like Cupcake, or so Jamie and the others called her, grew up to become a children's book Illustrator. She drew tons of Unicorns, I should add. One of the children that was friends with Jamie became a scientist in astronomy, and another was a high school teacher. The siblings had grown up with not too good jobs, but they did have wonderful family. One got married and was going to have a child soon. The other was married, but no child.

But this made Jack wonder. How were Jamie and Sophie doing? He had not officially seen them in months. He'd come by, but none of them were home. Looking around the town, he decided he'd go look to see how his two favorite children, or adults, were doing. He flew down, past the houses, until he reached the house of the Bennett family. Jack landed on the porch and knocked on the door.

"Hello?" He asked. No one answered.

"Jamie! Sophie! It's me!" Jack called, knocking harder on the door. He tapped the door with his frost staff, making the door turn blue with frost. Were they not home? Or Did they stop believing.

"J-jack!?" A voice from behind gasped.

Jack turned around to see the Police car pulling away from the house and a 17 year old Sophie standing in front of the porch, staring at Jack. Jack smiled, opening his arms so the teen could hug him. Sophie ran into him, almost knocking him to the ground. He hugged Sophie back, but realized something. Sophie was crying?

"Jack! Y-you're back! I…I…I can't believe it!" Sophie pulled back, looking Jack in the eyes. Her own green eyes were filled with heart-breaking tears and she had to sniff quite a lot.

"I-I know! B-buy hey, you don't have to cry about it!" Jack said, putting his hand on her shoulder.

"J-jack, I'm not crying over seeing you. D-don't get me wrong, I missed you so much but…!but….." She trailed off, walking towards the door and unlocking it.

"But what?" Jack asked, looking at her with curious eyes.

"Come inside, please." Sophie sighed, opening the door and motioning the winter spirit inside.

One the two were inside the rather warm house, sitting across over each other in the living room, Sophie finally told Jack her problem.

"So, Um, You noticed the Police Car that dropped me off, right?" She began with a stutter.

"Um….Yeah?" Jack was confused.

"I was just at the police station being questioned for a rather new case." Sophie said, tears all readying reforming in her eyes.

"And what is the case about?" Jack leaning closer to Sophie yet still in his chair. He sensed that something was horribly wrong. It scared him.

"A few days ago….Actually just two days ago….Jamie was found dead." Sophie sniffed, holding in her tears the best she could.

"!" Jack's eyes widen. Jamie? Dead? HOW!? Anger built up into him. His grip on his frost staff harden and the anger he had made the house temperature drop dramatically. Sophie sneezed due to this. Jack did not realize this however.

"How!? Why!? Jamie can't be dead!?" His yelled, the wind circling around him. He stared at Sophie for answers, tears even in his own eyes. He was oblivious to what he was doing and how it affected the young girl.

"I don't know! The police told me they found him dead and they started questioning me as if I were the killer!" Sophie screamed out. Jack let go of his staff and the wind and cold stopped.

"…Why you?" He questioned after a moment of silence.

"They tell me they have to question everyone close to Jamie, but Jamie doesn't have friends and they didn't even question momma and papa! I think they think I'm the killer!" Sophie said, slopping back in her chair.

"…But there is no way in the man in the moon's sight that this could this be your fault." Jack said.

Sophie stood up. Her blond, messy hair covering half her face. Her eyes were narrow and what you could see of her eyes were blocked by tears. Her cheeks were red and she had a frown on her face.

"I know! Me even hurting brother is the last thing I could ever do! I'd rather die myself then see him get hurt! I have no idea why they want to push the case on me! The sad thing is that my mother and father might not believe me and there is really no one to help me!" Sophie cried out, her fists balled up and her nails digging into the inside of her hands.

"We could help you, Sophie." Jack offered.

"HOW!? Me and Jamie are the only people related to the case that can see you, and Jamie is gone!" Sophie hissed.

"Just because nobody can see use does not mean we can't help you with your problem. You might not be a child anymore, but that doesn't mean we must stop caring for you." Jack stood up, grabbing Sophie's wrists. He looked into her eyes, trying to make her trust him.

"Now I know I can turn hard times into fun times, but this one is one of the only times I cannot. This doesn't mean I still can't help." Jack said. Sophie let a tear fall off her face and onto the wooden floor. She pulled her hand away from the spirit and walked towards the hallway into another room.

"I'm going to bed now." She almost whispered.

"Stop." Jack Frost suddenly appeared in front of her, stopping her from going anywhere.

"What now?" She asked.

"It's been awhile since you saw Eastermund right?" He asked, smirking.

"What about Bunnymund?"

"Maybe I can turn the frown upside down for a while. Maybe you could hang out with the other guardians for a while, and then we ask for help."

Sophie stared at Jack for a few seconds, then smiled.

"Sure. Why not?"