"You didn't have to do that, Jack."

"No, it was necessary."

"They didn't deserve it."

"Yeah, they did. "

"Well, I don't want you to pull any tricks on them anymore!"

"Aw come on Jamie, they were bullying you!" The boys were walking back from the park, where Jamie insisted to go sledding – Jack Frost version. A few older kids spotted Jamie flipping and surviving lethal falls off high hills and decided to make fun of him about it. They threw snowballs, "accidentally" knocked him over and encouraged others to laugh at Jamie as well.

Jamie didn't want to cause a scene (although everyone's eyes were already trained on him), but his sidekick did. Jack threw snowballs out of nowhere and the bullies became pissed off. "Where the hell is all this shit coming from?!" One of them roared as he dodged an oncoming icicle, "What the – no – fuck – what the fuck is this? You're dead, kid! I'll fuck you up!" Jack had to cover Jamie's ears as they ran away.

"I know, but now they think it's me and they're going to come after me more," the kid worried, "Don't do that next time."

The young spirit rolled his eyes. He could not believe what came out of Jamie's mouth. Does he really believe ignoring the problem would solve it? They've got to take revenge! "Whatever. But if they make fun of you again, tell me alright? I'll notify the Tooth Fairy and maybe she can do something about it."

"I don't wanna talk about this anymore." Jamie tugged his sled ahead of Jack, hiding his dragged-down face. The winter guardian mentally hit himself for hurting his favourite kid's feelings and walked a few steps behind him like Jamie wanted in the first place. Little flecks of snowflakes slowly drift onto the sidewalk. One of them lands on Jamie's face.

The two of them trotted along the sidewalk in pure silence. You could probably hear a car honk from three miles away (you probably won't). As tree branches sway in sync, Jack thought up a list of possibilities as to why Jamie was in such a foul mood. Did something happen between him and his parents before Jack arrived? Is he building jealousy against Sophie? What about bullies? Is he being made fun of at school for believing? The winter guardian shook his head to indicate the last idea was complete and utter nonsense. Nonsense, nearly every child in Burgess believes in the guardians.

Jack's second favourite greeted them with a platter of heart-shaped cookies when they arrived at the Bennett's. "Valentine's Day!" she squealed in excitement. "Cookie?"

Jamie tugged at the back of the winter spirit's hoodie. This is their signature move when either of them wanted to warn the other about something. Jack delicately took a cookie and stuffed it in his pocket. "Thanks Soph, I'm gonna save this for later. You know, in case I get hungry or something."

Little Bennett leaned his sled against the wall and sighed. The winter spirit sensed something was off. "So, Valentine's Day is tomorrow Jack, have you got anything special planned?" he added with a smirk.

"Uh, no," Jack snickered. Him doing romantic gestures? In an alternate universe perhaps. "What about you?"

"I wish, that way I could leave the house for a longer time." He furrowed his eyebrows in curiosity.

"How come?"

Jamie looked behind him to see if his mother was watching him. He glowered and whispered, "My mom's been pretty sad these few days. This happens every year around Valentine's Day, but I've never walked in on her crying." His eyebrows curved upwards and bit his lip gently.

"Well what did you do?"

"Nothing!" he freaked, "I didn't know! Everyone's been acting weird lately: Pippa ran away from us yesterday when we asked her to join our snowball fight," Those big brown eyes filled with ideas enlarged and gleamed at Jack with hope. "You can do something can't you? Find someone to make her happy again. Like, the Guardian of Happiness or something!"

There was no Guardian of Happiness, but there sure was a special spirit dedicated to work during this time of the year, Jack thought suspiciously, I'll just have to find her. His eyes narrowed as he beamed down at Jamie. "I have something in mind, don't worry, I just need to find her."

"Oooh, so it's a 'her'," Jamie smiled at Jack with his smug face while the white-haired teen rolled his eyes at his favourite kid.

"Yeah, yeah, hey, you know Cupid? Well, she's sorta like that."

The boy's eyes widened with enthusiasm. "Wow! Who is she?"

"She's-" Rainbows danced across the sky. Everyone who saw began shouting, snapping pictures and pointing. Jack wasn't. "She's Arrow." Jamie was about to say something but he interrupted. "Listen I gotta go – that's North's signal."

And with that he ran a head start to catch up with the wind. He didn't even hear his little boy wish him luck.