The Queen of Broken Hearts

Half Conscious Phone Call

Kitty sat and watched as the little boy across from her tore into his food as if someone was coming to take it away from him "where are your parents Jack?" She asks him carefully and watches as he frowns and shrugs his shoulders "I don't know, never had any." He says before he continues to eat his grilled cheese "so whose looking after you sweetheart?" Kitty asks with a frown on her face and he looks up with a smile on his face "The wind!" He says happily and Kitty feels awful for the little boy "where have you been sleeping?" She asks and Jack finishes with his grilled cheese and has a drink from the glass of orange juice that Kitty had poured for him "oh in the metal box outside of granny's." He says with a shrug and Kitty realises that he meant the dumpster "oh sweetheart... you can stay here with us, we have more than enough room for all of us, you can meet my husband and my daughter and my godson... they'll all adore you and then you'll never have to sleep outside again." She tells the small boy who looks upset.

"they won't like me... you won't either." He says shaking his head and Kitty tilts her head to the side her ears twitching slightly "why's that?" She asks and the small boy looks nervous "sometimes I do things when I'm scared..." he says holding his stick closer and she realises that the stick he's holding doesn't look like a normal stick because it's got a curve almost hook at the top of it and she notices that on his jumper near the top where his head is has a white almost snowflake looking pattern and she realises it's frost and she thinks about his name again, Jack Frost... "do you have magic Jack?" She asks carefully and he gets nervous "I try not to use it! Really I do! But it's so hard to control, this helps but not much." Jack says shaking the stick and Kitty nods her head moving to go and kneel in front of him "hey it's okay, we can help you with that! Magic is in our family okay? Now how about we get you cleaned up and in some new cosy clothes?" Kitty says grinning and Jack smiles and nods his head, he had never been so grateful for someone's help in his life.

"you really wanna keep me? Even though I might mess up?" He asks and Kitty nods her head "yes I do Jack." She says and the little boy throws himself at Kitty and she catches him in her arms and notices just how light he is, but she hugs him tight to her body and carries him before she remembers and turns back to the table waving her free hand that wasn't holding Jack up and the table is cleared of the plates and the mess making Jacks jaw drop "you have magic." He says and Kitty nods "that I do little one." Kitty says walking up towards the bathroom with Jack still in her arms "how old are you Jack?" She asks the small boy "I was seven before the curse." He explains and Kitty feels awful because he is only seven years old and living in a dumpster, Kitty wonders how she'd never seen him before.

"well here is the shower so I'll show you how it works and leave you to wash up... so if you push this up.... The water comes out and then if you pull it this way it makes the water warmer and then this way... makes it colder... feel the difference?" Kitty says watching as Jack feels the water and he nods his head before Kitty sets him down and adjusts the shower making it shorter so Jack can reach it "I'll go and get you some clothes okay? You can brush your teeth if you want, your tooth brush is beside the sink, it's the blue one okay?" Kitty asks and the little boy nods his head and walks over to the sink as Kitty leaves the room to go and get some clean clothes for the little boy, she looks through a drawer of clothes in the room Jefferson had for Henry because all the clothes were brand new.

She picked out a blue shirt and some jeans for the little boy and she gets him some clean underwear and some clean socks and takes them back to the bathroom for Jack and she sees him brushing his teeth over the sink. She sits the clothes down and gets the small boy a fluffy towel by flicking her wrist making it appear beside the clothes "I'll be back in the kitchen, if you need anything just shout for me okay?" She says and Jack nods his head "Yes, thank you." He says and she smiles leaving the room and pulling the door over but not closing it fully in case the little boy needs something, and she goes to go and sit in the kitchen and takes out her phone to text Jefferson to tell him about Jack.