Winter Is Coming

Artemis woke up peacefully, sitting up and out stretching her arms. The school announced that it would be closing due to a blizzard warning yesterday. So she didn't even bother setting her alarm, letting her sleep until late 9 O'Clock. She was not only happy to have no school, but she was thrilled that Jack might visit. It seemed that once he did visit, she couldn't let him leave. Something had changed over the years of him visiting, but she really couldn't figure it out.

She shook herself away from the thoughts and swung her feet over the bed and ran out to her balcony doors. Swinging them open, she entered the bitter cold air. It was snowing, heavily in fact. Artemis walked straight into a mountain of snow, her foot sinking straight into it. A chill ran up and down her spine but she kept moving out forward. No one was really outside, some were shoveling their driveways at the most. The wind seemed like it could cut her skin as it blew at her from the side. Her hair flew up and all around getting tangled, making her have to push it away from her face.

Her eyes scanned the area in amazement.

"You outdid yourself Jack" She giggled and climbed back into her room shutting the doors. She smiled and brushed the excess snow away and started to get dressed. Not a moment to soon of placing her shirt on, her balcony doors swung open, letting in a familiar face. A blue hooded figure walked in bare foot wearing simple tan pants. Artemis blushed slightly realizing he could have come in any other moment with her not wearing a shirt, unless he knew...But she shook that horrid idea away.

"Jack!" She exclaimed a little loudly.

"Heh...A little birdie told me you were impressed" He stated turning to her grinning.

"There are no birds Old Man~" She retorted slyly. He scoffed and let out a noise that would similar to someone gasping out.

"Stop calling me that" He barked out playfully, he knew he was old, but he honestly didn't know how old. But he still didn't appreciate her calling him Old Man Winter. Artemis just laughed lightly and went to get a jacket. Grabbing it off the hook she turned back around to see Jack wasn't there, she slipped her jacket on looking around for him. She turned around only to yelp out lightly. She turned around to face an upside down Jack.

"Gotcha" He said laughing as he fell back down to normal level. Artemis caught her breath and grabbed one of her stuffed animals and beat him with it. After a while his smile eventually faded.

"Do you like the snow day?" He asked a little unsure. She looked at him as if he had lost his head.

"Of course why?" She asked raising a brow at him.

"Good, i won't be back for a while so i figured you should have some fun" He grinned and walked to the door.

"Wait what?" She asked a little frightened of not seeing him. She couldn't imagine why he couldn't stay for a couple more moments now.

"There is some problems with the guardians, looks like Pitch need to learn another lesson huh?" He chuckled lightly glancing over at her pouting face.

"I'll be back!" He said as if stating the obvious. She still looked unsure about the whole thing. She wanted to complain and whine about how he should stay. But instead she bit her lip and took off her jacket.

"Fine" She managed to say without stuttering. He sighed looking back at her for a few moments.

"I'm old give me a break" He tried to crack up a joke, which only got her a faint smile. He couldn't imagine why she would be like this, when he left she was never like this. But then she came up to him, the floors creaking slightly as she approached. She took a lock of his hair around her finger twirling it around.

"Try not to break a hip Pa" She said smiling staring at his white hair, down to his blue eyes. He seemed a bit lonely, but that was how he liked it. He sighed slowly, not exactly complaining on how she was touching his hair, or how close she was to him. In fact he didn't want to move, he actually liked it. Looking at her for a brief moment he finally realized that she was worried, she was old enough to realize everything. After all she was 14.

"Try not to fall in love with another snow spirit" He grinned at her now priceless face as he hopped out the door laughing. Leaving her with her mouth wide open...

"JACK!"