Jack Frost grinned amused as he followed the two children down the stairs. He laughed with them, and shouted to little Ali, "Watch out! Don't let the evil dragon get you!" She squealed in delight.
The older girl on the couch, Ash, seemed upset that they were having so much fun.
"Okay, enough with the dragon." She said to the children, who were immediately deflated.
Jack frowned and said, "What gives? We're just having some fun!" She ignored him, obviously. She was out of his age range. Usually no one believed in much of anything once they turned 14, except boys, shopping, and make up of course. The little boy echoed his statement.
"Maybe, But do you think Jack would have much fun if you got his wing torn off?"
Jack straightened up from where he leaned against the banister, temporarily confused at this statement, but then realized what she was saying. He materialized a pair of small icy wings over his back and leaned over one shoulder to break one off. He proceeded to put on And put on an Extravagant show of pain and agony, falling it to the ground and tumbling down the stairs. He laid there limp for a few moments before sitting up with a dorky grin on his face.
Ali watched this display before replying with a guilty "no."
"Do you want Jack to not have fun?" She proceeded to question.
Jack then responded - knowing she couldn't hear him - By saying "If I didn't have fun, I wouldn't be Jack Frost!" With a sense of mock-sincerity. "Not having fun would kill me!"
Again Ali responded, still sounding genuinely upset, with another "no..." However, Grey made an attempt to stifle his laughter. The small, dark headed girl went upstairs with the dragon named Jack.
"Why did you have to make me want to laugh when she was getting on us?" Grey asked. "That wasn't nice!"
"I was Just having some fun. It's what I do." Jack told him.
"But it still wasn't nice!" Grey Informed him again.
"But it was fun." Jack repeated. "All the same, I digress. I'm sorry."
Ali had turned the T.V. on while they were talking and a voice just finished informed Them about the latest team victory... Or loss. Jack couldn't tell which one - it was too late in the report. However the next issue was far more interesting, especially to the spirit of Winter: an apparently extinct volcano had erupted in Washington. Jack walked over and leaned on the back of the couch to listen.
"What's so interesting?" Little Ali asked him. He was hesitant to say anything to the little girl about the explosion or seriousness of the matter. He tentatively opened his mouth to talk, but at that moment Ash leaned against the couch beside him, listening to figure out what the story was about.
Then she said to the children, "Lets go upstairs, we can play shoots and ladders."
The children happily agreed, ignorant to the devastation on the news. Jack would have liked to follow them, but he lingered a few more minutes to find out more about the baffling eruption. Things considered dead typically didn't suddenly return to live without... Intervention.