Ch 5 Snowflake
Jamie couldn't believe the sight before his eyes. His living room was beyond trashed, and it was only 10 o'clock. It's a little too early to see Jack Frost running around appearing to chasing nothing, in his opinion. Sophie just stood there giggling from behind the flipped sofa, while wearing a spaghetti streamer on her head for a helmet. He assumed she either used the couch for a fort, or a shield... Or both... Either way they needed a new couch. He frowned for a moment before despising how to get his best friends attention.
"Jack!" He shouts making the winter spirit stop in his air born tracks. He floated to the ground with looking at him with a worried expression, Jacks eyes flashed with another emotion but before he could find out, he'd already masked it. Jack slowly raise his hands in a cautious manor.
"Hey Jamie, listen I just need you to-" he started off, but it was to late Jamie has already looked about ready to... Do something violent. But instead Jamie let an aggravated groan escape his lips, and slapped his face with him palm. He dragged his palm up to his forehead and started to massage away the oncoming headache.
"Why me?" Jamie mutters weakly.
"Hey don't worry, me and Snowflake'll have the place fixed up in no time" Jack says poking Jamie's shoulder with the crook of his staff.
"What? Ow!" Jamie says rubbing his arm before swatting the icy weapon away.
"Sorry that was suppose to be encouraging" Jack says
"How?" Jamie asks looking up at him in bewilderment.
"... It just is" Jack says slinging his staff behind his back casually.
"Uh huh..." He says not believing him. He walks over to the table and picks up a palm sized red ball, glances back at Jack for a moment before smiling.
"So before I forget I'd like you to meet snowflake" he says gesturing to the empty air.
"Snowflake?" Jamie asks confused then looks back at Jack.
"Yea she's a new addition to the winter group" Jack answers smiling.
"You just gotta believe" he adds gesturing to the boys heart.
Jamie closes his eyes for a moment, then opens them just in time to be jumped on by the fur ball. He let out a yelp as he fell with the dog on top of him.
"No snowflake stop!" Jack yells prying the wolf away from the slightly traumatized boy.
"Bad!" He says sternly pulling on her collar while pointing his finger at her nose in warning. Jack looks over expecting Jamie to glare or shout at him.
"She's so cool!" He shouts in amazement, siting up on the floor to get a better look at the wolf pup. Jack looks over at him puzzled.
"Where'd you get her?" He asks now petting the dog who's still being held back by Jack.
"She was a present from North" he answers as Sophie comes over from behind the couch fort.
"Fluffy!" She says childishly as she gently pat the wolfs white fur.
"Yea very fluffy" Jamie says looking at his now covered in hair palm for a moment then shook it off.
"I didn't know she sheds! Great now I have to brush her!" Jack complains mentally. The loose fur strands started to melt after hitting the floor.
"Well that's new" Jack says out loud mostly to himself.
~Later that night~
"Now for the billionth time what is this color?" Jack asks with a strained voice, holding up a simple pink colored card. Jamie and Sophie had this coloring set when they were little so it should've been simple to use right? Or at least that's what he thought anyways.
The wolf simply tilts her head innocently and didn't answer.
He threw the cards up in the air dramatically.
"That's it! I quit!" He says flopping onto the couch in defeat. He buried his face in a pillow for a good ten minutes in self pitying mode.
"I hate responsibility!" He mumbled into his now frozen pillow.
"What's 3+1?" Jamie asks the wolf pup. There were then four distinct taps from a single tiny paw. Jacks head shot up, in shock. He fell off the front of the couch and dragged himself to the kitchen on all fours, to see Jamie teaching Snowflake math.
"How in the- what the- when did-" his eyes were wide and his hair was not his usual style from built up stress.
"Jack?" Jamie asks interrupting his rant,
"Yea?" He asks.
"Breath" Jamie says calmly before turning back to his wolf partner.
Jack frowns at him,
"Oh yea well... I don't need to breath!" He said in triumph standing tall and proud, but it seems Jamie is unaware of his statement so he gives up and sat across from them making mental notes on how to teach Snowflake.
"So...Why is Snowflake sitting on the table?" Jack asks suddenly realizing this.
"Because-" Jamie got cut off by the front door slamming open
"Jamie! Open up you little brat!" An angry voice yells from the halls. Jamie's face paled instantly.
"Oh no Brian's back" Jamie thought. The door was then violently kicked in.
"Where are you? Come out come out wherever you are" Brian's voice said sending chills down his spine.
"Jack?" Jamie asks trembling. Heavy boots stomped clear through the halls.
Jack held a finger to his lips.
"Shh, just get Sophie, and take this" he whispers handing him a magic snow globe he borrowed from North.
"Just say the place you wanna go and shake it" he explained in a minimum of 3 seconds, before standing up while grabbing his staff.
"Jamie!" The voice yelled more ticked off.
"I'll hold him off just go!" He shouts shoving the boy towards the other room just as Brian sauntered in. As Jamie scampered away the man stumbled against the wall with bleary eyes.
"He's drunk, I can smell the whiskey from over here" he thought wrinkling his nose in disgust. Jack froze Brian's boots to the ground with a smirk.
"What the he-" Jack quickly froze the guys lips shut, cutting off his curse word. The man let out a muffled growl and gruffly bent over groggily unlacing his frozen boot straps, and yanked both his feet out of the shoes.
"Sophie!" Jamie shouted running around the living room snow globe in arms, trying to find the currently hiding girl. She was hiding behind the sofa, shaking in the corner of the wall.
"Over here!" The girl says shakily standing up. Jamie rushes over but trips over a stuffed toy. The snow globe rolls away from his grasp.
"Are you kidding me?!" He muttered going to make a grab for it when he saw a pair of bare feet block his vision... And they weren't Jack Frost's... He looks up to see Brian staring down at him with a smirk.
Intensity huh? Ok so I re-read it and fixed up a few mistakes, such as the new dads name? The first time I wrote this chap. He was referred to "the drunkard"... When i reread it I was like... He should at least have a name! I forgot to mention this last time but I'd like to say happy thanksgiving! Kinda late but oh well!