This was actually written yesterday, but I didn't post it then because whenever I post two chapter the same day, a lot of people skip the first one. Seriously, how many of you who were reading back then skipped Cold And Dark? It was posted a few hours before Once Upon A Time, In Antarctica (and in the middle of the night, too). So, that means I don't have to write a chapter today.


"Look, daddy, it's Jack Frost!" Jade said, pointing at someone to the side.

Jamie laughed and ruffled her hair. This Jack Frost legend was getting popular with the little ones, it seemed. Kids got toys modelled after him for Christmas, there was some ice cream brand named after him and they even dressed like him for Halloween. Jamie remembered he had done that as well, once. With a white wig and a blue hoodie, like that action figure he received for Christmas. These days, they seemed to favor the Winter Prince look. Like this kid.

The costume was certainly convincing. Jamie wondered where he had gotten the cloak. Or the crown. It looked like actual ice rather than the clear plastic he normally saw. The teen had even pushed it so far as to not wear shoes. He might be regretting that decision now, as small snowflakes had started to fall.

The teen was a little old to be trick-or-treating, but he looked like he was handing out candies rather than gathering them himself. The kids surrounding him seemed to know him. Jade let go of his hand, gathered her pale blue princess dress with one hand and skipped away to join the group. A little wary of letting his young daughter alone with a strange teenager, Jamie followed.

He noticed some puzzled parents looking at the crowd of kids and shaking their heads. Some called their children back to their side. None of them paid the teen at the center any heed. The elaborately costumed boy shooed the kids away with a grin after giving them treats. Jade reached him as the crowd dissipated, holding up her candy bag.

"Trick or treat?"

The white haired boy dropped a treat in her bag before ruffling her hair.

"Happy Halloween, little Jade."

The teen straightened and his eyes met Jamie's. He froze. He couldn't read the emotions in those too-familiar frosty blue eyes, but he looked like he had just seen a ghost. Jamie tried to place him. He could swear he knew the kid, but the costume made it hard to figure out from where. Especially when that costume looked so real he couldn't imagine him any other way. This couldn't possibly be the boys natural skin tone.

Yet a part of him believed that it was. That this boy really did look like the personification of winter. That he was Jack Frost in truth. It was that same part of him that fondly remembered playing outside in the snow and making up stories with his friends about the Spirit of Winter.

When the silence had stretched long enough, Jamie cleared his throat.

"Nice costume."

"Thanks."

A new awkward silence settle between the two until the teen reached into his pocket. He all but ran away after shoving a piece of snowflake-shaped candy in Jamie's hand.

"Happy Halloween."


I'll admit the whole "Jack takes over Halloween" thing was just so I could do that. I'm not even sorry.

For those of you who missed the note in the previous chapter (since it was not originally there) I finished the "Pitch shops at IKEA" comic. It's on tumblr and deviantart (I'm sisaat on both sites). The tumblr link is on my profile. It's already the most popular thing I've posted there.

I have no idea how I wrote two chapters and made a comic yesterday. By the way, I'm on vacations again. I'd like to say you can expect more chapters, but I said that last time too and it didn't happen.