The week went on like this, letting Jamie watch me practice and putting up with the shadow girl. Her appearances annoyed me now, but I was able to forget about her at any other point. I had made a friend now, and I wanted to gain HOG's trust after the fiasco the other day. Running away would not be helpful anymore.

The subject of Daniel wasn't brought up again, thank goodness.

Although I should've known it would come back to bite me.

I was training again, but this time I had relaxed enough with Jamie and the technique that I allowed him to skate on my ice bridges. I guided the ice on his skates so that he wouldn't fall off whilst he built momentum. I was fairly relaxed and Jamie was laughing like crazy.

Suddenly he came to a halt and looked up in the sky, causing me to bring his skates to a stop. I couldn't see the expression on his face, but I heard the smile in his voice.

"Jack!"

I spluttered in surprise, "J-Jack? A-as in...?"

Was he being serious?

"Yeah, this is Jackie."

He looked back at me with a grin, which fell as he saw my face.

"Hey what's the matter?"

"N-nothing. I-I shouldn't be here..." I stuttered as I backed away. I remembered Nigel's
warning all too well, I did not want to get in trouble again.

I let the ice bridge come to ground and the ice blades on Jamie's boots melted. He stepped across the frozen lake and looked at me, curious and a little upset.

"What do you mean? I thought you said that your parents didn't want you out let late, not anything about Jack."

"I-I..." I couldn't think straight. Jamie was talking like Jack Frost was actually there, and if he was, then what if that informant was still here, what if they reported me again?
I got off lightly last time, what about this time?

My eyes flicked left and right as I tried to calm down, I could feel ice forming on my hands. I did not need that to happen in front of Jamie, especially not here.

A branch snapping behind me did not help.

I jumped and spun behind me, a few icicles dropping from my hands in sudden panic. Out of the trees came the shadow girl, and any good mood that might have remained disappeared.

"Can you stop doing that?" I said, a frown appearing on my face and relaxing slightly.

"My apologies." Her eyes flicked between the space above Jamie and back to me.

"You know, now would be a good time-"

"No, now's not a good time, can you please...?"

"Jackie? Who's that?" I ignored Jamie as the shadow girl continued speaking.

"Yeah, but if they find out, who knows what may happen. And how could they understand? Times have changed, they don't know what you've been through-"

I turned on her, rage filling my mind for the first ever time. I'd had enough of her, enough of her tempting me, enough of her, just in general!

"Shut up! Who do you think you are!? What do you know about it anyway!? Just, leave me alone!"

My hand flew backwards in rage, which was followed by a gasp from Jamie.

I turned to see a ring of sharp icicles behind me and Jamie clutching his stomach, a look of shock on his face.

"Jamie?" I asked, my rage trickling away and being replaced with concern.

A spot of red ran though his fingers.

"JAMIE!"

I leapt over my ice and caught him as he began to fall, kneeling down beside him.

"No no no no no, not again, please not again."

I saw Jamie's mouth move as he tried to speak.

"Don't speak, we don't know the damage yet, just try to not to move. Keep your hands there, try and put pressure on it."

I tried to ignore the ice forming at my knees from my panic and horror, instead focusing on the black specks on his hands as I tried to think of a plan

"Just nod or shake your head, do you have a phone?"

Jamie nodded.

I frantically searched his pockets, pretending not to see the fern like patterns of frost forming where I touched his coat.

I found it and quickly rang for an ambulance.

"Hello ambulance."

"Hello, it's my friend, I think he's been stabbed by something, it was an accident."

"Slow down, where are you?"

"I-I don't know the official name but locally it's called the Haunted Lake."

"Alright, can I get your names?"

"Jacqueline Davies, and my friend's Jamie Bennet."

"Okay, an ambulance is on the way, try to keep him warm and comfortable."

They hung up.

"Warm huh? I've never been warm in my life." I said bitterly. I took off my coat, which
I'd only worn to appease my parents, and put it over him, then with a sweep of my hand I moved the snow from underneath him. It was the best that someone like me could do.

On that my control broke and tears began to spill from my eyes as my hand went limp and dropped the phone. It landed with a clatter on the ice.

"They're going to think it was you, you know." Said the shadow girl.

"You're still here?" I asked, not looking at her.

"They'll think it was you, they'll look back at the records, then they'll find out about your power."

I looked at my hands, at the frost forming on my fingertips.

"Let's go, together, you and me. They'll never find you and we-."

Her hand touched my shoulder and I flinched at her too warm touch.

"Don't touch me."

"But we can-." She tried again. This time I stood up and moved away.

"DON'T TOUCH ME!"

She looked at with hurt in her eyes as I continued to cry.

"I'm a freak. I'll just hurt everyone."

"Jackie-." I didn't even register Jamie saying my name.

"Just, stay away from me!" I screamed.

With that I turned and ran.

I ran into the forest, my powers causing the snow around me to take a life of its own, creating a snowstorm, which mimicked my own internal storm. I didn't even try to say my mantra, I almost wanted to let it out.

I didn't feel any cold as my mind went back to the ring of icicles, ice formed when I felt a strong emotion, the last HOG meeting, then all the way back to seven years ago.

I cried as I ran, those images running through my head, I couldn't go back now, it was my fault anyway, there was no doubt that an icicle was what caused Jamie's injury.

My icicle.

It grew dark as I grew tired of running and collapsed into the snow. The blizzard increasing in strength as the moon began to shine.

I curled up into a ball as the snow piled on top of me. There was no chance of me dying of cold, even with me only in a t shirt and jeans. But I might as well try to let myself die, that way I can never hurt anyone else.

Still crying I drifted off to sleep.

The shadow girl fought her way through the newly forged snow storm. She needed to find Jackie, it wasn't likely that she would die in this cold, but she needed someone right now, and who better then someone who's as misunderstood as Jackie feels.

It wasn't easy in this snow storm, the snow was so thick that trees and other obstacles seemed to appear out of nowhere and centimetres from her face. There was also a strong wind that almost seemed to come from multiple directions at once, sending the already messy hair of the shadow girl into a frenzy.

She only hoped that a certain Mr. Frost wouldn't interfere and become another obstacle.

It was amusing to watch his face change from baffled to almost sad to horror as it became obvious that Jackie couldn't see him and when the boy fell over. What was more interesting was that Jack Frost and Jackie actually looked a little alike, something about the face shape.

He'd probably stay by the boy for a while, but he wouldn't be affected by the snow storm and could travel faster than she could.

Speaking of the devil she felt a whoosh of wind as he flew past. She flung out her black sand and pulled back as it wrapped around the Spirit of Winter.

"What are you doing?" He cried as she pulled him back, looking almost shocked at the black sand.

"Sorry Mr. Frost, I can't let you interfere, it's not as if she can see you anyway."

Jack scowled and slashed his staff at the shadow girl, sending a rush of ice her way. She put up a wall of black sand to block and send daggers of sand at him. Unable to move as swiftly as before the daggers hit, sending him to ground. The sand expanded, holding him down. Using her sand she teased the staff from the Winter Spirit's hand.

"How about you hang around there for a bit while I find our friend."

Jack only groaned in response.

The shadow girl continued to struggle through the snow, only to trip over something buried in the snow.

It seemed to be roughly human sized, excited she dug into the snow quickly finding Jackie. She seemed unaffected by the snow, but her eyes were red and puffy and the fallen tears had formed a frozen pile beneath her head.

Underneath was a half formed dome of ice that was still growing, fuelled from her terrified dreams and presumably a desire to shut herself off from the world.

After looking over her shoulder to make sure the Jack Frost was still down she gently shook Jackie's shoulder.

"Jackie, Jackie."