Short Stories and Oneshots

#Believing Is Seeing - Part 2

Jack was having a blast in Burgess, and had to hide a smug grin hearing Jamie talk about some game he had been playing and how cool Jack_Fr05t was and how he was the undisputed King of the game.

It was always nice to be appreciated, even if it was going to take at least a century before his name spread through the chat boards out into the real world. He didn't care how much work he had to put into it...he would get people to start believing in him enough to have a solid belief base.

He had already pegged Jamie as a future believer, if he played his cards right. The kid was a conspiracy nut and even had an account on his personal website.

Jack was rather proud of "SpiritOfWinter", since it was the official website for people who were interested in "Jack Frost", whether it was the older stories or the new ones he had been spawning every year since Elsa helped him set it up.

He even had one of those 'internet trends' going on where kids would dare each other to go out during winter to spot "Jack Frost" and challenge him to a snowball fight.

That had been one of the biggest sources for belief, because several children and teenagers had posted videos of an invisible hand drawing random pictures or even words in their native language on the swiftly frozen over window. People kept claiming it was a hoax, but plenty of others ate it up. After all, it was hard to dispute evidence like a window swiftly freezing over and having images appear as if drawn by an invisible hand when there wasn't anyone there and there was no scientific explanation for it outside of a winter spirit having fun.

To top it all off, Jack decided to be creative about the whole thing and always topped off the videos with the image of his staff at the end.

It was his way of saying "Jack Frost was here, and he's very real".

Parents seemed to tolerate his odd site because he had a very strict no-tolerance policy regarding adult content. He didn't mind a little light swearing, but anything over PG-13 was often taken off rather quickly if it went against the content rules.

Fortunately, most of the fans were willing to adhere to the policy and if they felt Jack had taken something off unfairly, he tended to give them a chance to explain why it didn't go against the content rules.

He had gotten a lot better at picking out the stuff that didn't belong and was rather fair about allowing a few things to slip through the cracks so long as no one else became offended by it.

(He did not think of the R-rated pictures or the weird "doujinshi" Anna claimed to have found. He wasn't going to touch that subject with any length of pole and he refused to even think of looking them up for fear of what he would find. Some people had seriously twisted ideas of what was acceptable and he would like to keep his mind free of such depravity, thank you very much).

The only consolation he had from the fact Jamie walked through him and was more int4erested in talking about tooth-fairy money was that he was almost positive the kid had seen glimpses of Jack Frost out of the corner of his eye and the knowledge that Jamie did believe somewhat in a winter spirit possibly being real when he countered his mother's comment of an old man with the fact that Jack was a teenager with a shepherd's crook for a staff when she brought up his name.

Jack grinned later that night and thought about 'frosting' the window. Considering how excited Jamie was about possibly seeing Tooth, he wasn't going to ruin that for him. He could always do it later tomorrow.

He knew Jamie had a phone, because one of the games he had been debating with the others was a popular mobile game.

Jack only had a smart phone for the games and the fact it let him talk to Elsa and Anna when he was busy during winter. That and it let people 'tag' Jack Frost on certain apps, thus making it easier for his fans/believers to buy into the idea that "Jack Frost" was a legitimate spirit for kids to track down and have snowball fights with.