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I knew where Jamie lived, having dropped him off early in the morning, so I headed over there once the meeting proper was over.

I walked around the fence to the road so I could see the front of his house. It was of a decent size, made from red brick and with a garage and driveway on the right. On the left were steps leading up to a porch, which in turn led to the white painted door. I walked up the path and up the steps to the door and took a deep breath, story clear in my head.

I pressed my finger on the buzzer for a second, letting it ring, then stepped back.

The door opened quickly to reveal an average sized woman with Jamie's dark hair, all tied up in a loose bun. Her face seemed tired, although I imagine dealing with two kids and dog on her own didn't help.

"Hello?" she asked.

"Hello, I was hoping that Jamie was in?" She seemed surprised that someone my age was asking about her son.

"And you are?"

"Jackie, Jackie Davies."

The woman leaned over her shoulder and called into the house.

"Jamie, there's a Jackie at the door for you!"

There was a thunder of footsteps and Jamie hurtled into the doorway.

"Hey Jackie!"

He took one look at my face and his own fell.

"What's up?"

"I can't keep doing the Jack Frost thing."

"Why?"

I'd been working on a story since I left the meeting.

"I got found out. My parents don't mind me going out to practice, but that late is when they draw the line. We can still meet up, just not that late."

"Oh, okay." He looked disappointed for a second, then his face lit up with an idea.

"Hey, can we go there now?"

I blinked in surprise "Now?"

"Yeah, I want to see you practice properly!"

"Oh, I don't know, I can't-"

"Come on! Please."

He looked at me with big pair of puppy eyes which melted even my heart.

"Alright, but please do what I say when we get there, and check with your family first!"

"Can I mum?" he asked, turning to his mum who apparently hadn't been too far away.

"I have no issue with it."

"Who's at the door?"

An older woman that I recognised shuffled into the doorway.

"Mrs Pierce?"

The older woman with greying, bunned hair looked at me through her glasses and smiled.

"Jacqueline! Good to see you, you've grown so much since I last saw you."

"And you've barely aged."

"Oh stop it." She giggled. "I must say, it's nice to see you out and about. You've barely
shown your face since Daniel-"

"Please, let's not." I winced, I really didn't want to talk about that.

"Of course, terrible accident, poor boy, no wonder you retreated like that, you two were so close."

"Please." I begged with gritted teeth.

"Of course, sorry. Anyway, you two go have fun, it'll be good for both of them."

Jamie's mother nodded in agreement.

"Alright, get your coat on."

Once Jamie had got his coat, his mum made us promise to be back by six, which we agreed to.

As we walked to the lake Jamie was hopping up and down with excitement whilst I was more reserved. Mrs Pierce had brought back memories I didn't want to relive, not to mention that I was still rattled by this morning, so despite myself the same scene ran rampant in my mind.

"DANIEL!"

Jamie started talking, and I tried to focus on him, although the scene still went around and around in my mind's eye.

"I can't wait to see what you can do, Jack had some sweet powers and yours are probably just as cool!"

"Well, about that..."

"What?"

"I'm not always in control."

"What do you mean?"

"My powers can get away from me sometimes, usually when I'm afraid, and when that happens things get, scary."

"Really?"

"Yeah, that's why I practice so much, and why I try to stay so reserved, I'm scared that
one wrong move and someone could, someone could get hurt."

"Oooh."

"That's why you need to do what I tell you while I practice, I don't want to risk
anything."

I came to a stop and faced him.

"So promise me, once we get to the lake, you'll do exactly as I say, okay?"

Jamie nodded earnestly, grasping the situation. "I promise."

"Thank you."

We continued walking.

"I never knew you knew Granny Janie." He said.

"She's the social butterfly of the town, she knows everything about everyone and naturally, everyone knows her. What was she doing there anyway? I thought she had her own place."

"She was just visiting for a bit."

Another moment of silence.

"What was she talking about earlier, with Daniel?"

"It's not something I like to talk about."

"Why?"

"Doesn't matter."

"But you were close-"

"I said it doesn't matter!" I yelled turning to face him.

I glared until I realised what I was doing and felt the ice form at my feet. I drew back and tried to regain control over my facial expression to try and get the scared one off Jamie.

"Please, can we drop it?"

Jamie nodded wordlessly, looking more than a little scared.

"I'm sorry, I don't get angry often, but it's a touchy subject."

"It's okay." His voice contradicted his words, but I couldn't think of anything to say to make it better.

We walked the rest of the way in silence.

Once we reached the lake I instructed Jamie to sit in one of the trees as I walked to the centre of the lake and began my normal session.

Tonight I decided to change it up, once the flurry hit its peak I formed an ice bridge.
At the same time I jumped and the leftover ice attached itself to my feet, forming blades. I landed on the bridge and began skating along, extending the bridge with my powers.

I heard an appreciative gasp from Jamie.

"Don't clap yet, I've only done this a few times."

I wobbled slightly as I picked speed, but soon I was confident to start powering along in variously angled ice bridges.

My heart thudded in my chest and a huge grin appeared on my face, I hadn't had this much fun since the snowball fight.

"Wahoo!" I yelled, throwing my arms in the air, a grin forming across my face from the
newly pumping adrenaline.

As soon as I did that I began to wobble, and that wobble was all it took to break my concentration.

I shot off the edge of the bridge and was heading for a sore landing on the frozen surface of the lake. I quickly summoned a flurry of snow beneath me to land on.

I grunted in pain as I landed and sent up the lighter bits of snow into the air, I could still feel the ice, but the snow had at least softened it. Even so there were going to be a few bruises.

My sigh of annoyance was quickly interrupted by laughter.

"Oh man, you were doing so well, then you just went, foowsh thump."

"Foowsh thump?" I asked as I picked myself up and brushed off the snow. I was glad that Jamie seemed to be over earlier.

"Yeah!"

I chuckled "Yeah, I guess that sums it up."

I got him back to his house right on time and after dodging a gossip with Mrs Pierce I started on my own way home.

"Hello again."

I sighed and shoved my hands in my pockets as I replied.

"Hello."

I turned around to see a figure walk out of the shadows, she'd been doing that recently. She was dressed in all black with black, messy hair and not a trace of make up on her sallow face as she spoke.

"So HOG found out, did they?"

"And how would you know about that? Unless you were the one who reported me."

"Oh no, but if it wasn't me, then who, because if someone else knows..."

I tensed as a vision of fire and screaming crossed my mind.

"I'll deal with it."

"My offer still stands. We can leave this place, you and me. No one to tell us what to do, no need to live in fear."

"And it would be just the two of us? Sorry, but my answer's still no."

"I'll be here."

"I just wish you'd leave me alone."

"No you don't, you never know after all."

And with that she disappeared into the shadows again.