The Last Light

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Jack stood by Jamie's window, watching him talk to a stuffed rabbit, "Okay, look, you and I are obviously at what they call a crossroads. So, here's what's gonna happen, if- if it wasn't a dream, and if you are real, then you have to prove it. Like, right now." Jack crouches and listens, "I believed in you for a long time, okay? Like, my whole life in fact. So you kind of owe me now. You don't have to do much - just a little sign so I know. Anything. Anything at all." Nothing happens, so his expression falls.

"I knew it." Jamie drops the rabbit off the bed.

Jack looks saddened. He enters through the window and starts drawing. Jamie hears something and turns to the window. Frost appears on a lower windowpane, then a design is drawn out using an invisible finger - an egg with dots and squiggles decorating it. Jamie gasps in shock as he realizes what it is, looking down at his rabbit, then back to the window. In the next windowpane up, more frost appears.

Jamie whispers in shock, "He's real..."

The new design is in the shape of a crouched rabbit. Jack concentrates on the shape he's made and pulls the frost off the glass - into a 3D rabbit that hops around Jamie's room.

"Woah! Hahaha!" Jamie bounces on the bed and laughs some more. Jack watches and laughs along. Jamie touches the rabbit and it bursts into snow inside of his room. "Woah!" He laughs some more, then gasps, "... Snow?" A snowflake lands on Jamie's nose, "Jack Frost..."

Jack spins to face Jamie's back, "Did he just say--"

Jamie stands back up on his bed, "Jack Frost?" He starts looking around his room and stares at Jack. Jack gasps, "He said it again! He said-- You said--" Jamie's mouth agape, looking right at Jack, "Jack Frost!"

Jack stares at Jamie, "That's right! But- but that's me! Jack Frost! That's my name! You said my name!" Jamie is still gaping at him. "Wait, c- can you hear me?" Jack questions. Jamie nods with a smile. "Can- can you... can you see me?" Jack laughs in shock, "He sees me! He- he sees me!" He does a backflip in joy onto Jamie's table.

"You just made it snow!" Jamie laughs.

"I know!"

"In my room!"

"I know!" Jack bounds off the bed and back near the window.

"You're real?" Jamie's voice rises in excitement.

"Yeah, man- Who do you think brings you all the blizzards, and- and the snow days? And you remember when you went flying on that sled the other day?"

"That was you?!"

"That was me!!"

"Cool!" Jamie starts bouncing on the bed as he speaks.

"Right?"

"But what about the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy, like, I mean-"

Jack picks up Jamie's stuffed rabbit, "We- Real, real, real! Every one of us is real!"

"I knew it!"

"Jamie!" Jamie stops bouncing at the sound of his mother, "Who're you talking to?"

"Uhm..." He looks at Jack as he cocks his head at the door, "Jack Frost?"

Mrs. Bennett laughs, "Okay..."

Jamie and Jack laugh together, then the windows flutter open wider. North's sleigh is on a crash course with Jamie's street. Jack flies out of the house as North tries to get his sleigh under control, "Whoa whoa whoa!" It careens to a halt and the reindeer runs off, "Ah, come back!"

Tooth rests her hand on North's shoulder, "North are you okay?" North grunts, "Is official. My powers are kaput!" The sleigh settles with a thud.

Tooth gasps, "Look!" She jumps off the sleigh, but can't fly, "Jack!" She stumbles to her feet, "Jack!"

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