A month went by and Siobahn had listened to Jack tell tales of being the frost and palling around with Death or Birth or other personifications that seemed so real to him that she was almost believing him herself. She decided that on this day, though, she was going to skip the one on one therapy sessions and watch her patients doing everyday things. She was going to just observe them to see how they acted when she wasn't trying to pull stories out of them or push them out of the room because they had too many. Like Jack, most of the other patients had elaborate stories of their own but they were not as vibrant as Jack's.
No patient rivaled Jack, actually.
"Guess who?" Siobahn heard behind her as her vision was obscured.
"Uh... Thomas?"
"Ew, no." The hands left her face and Jack came around with a very displeased face. "You thought I was that fool?"
"Sorry."
"No worries. Hey, come with me for a moment. I have to show you something!" he said, grabbing her hand and pulling her.
"Jack, where are we going? I have to watch over my other patients."
"It'll only be a second and it's nearby. Come on, I have to prove to somebody that I am who I say I am." He said, dragging her along.
Siobahn complied and they ended up in front of a small forested alcove. The wind was a little cool but nothing to hinder the warmth of the day. She looked at the trees and was surprised to find snow on just the trees in the alcove.
"Come on, Bonnie, I have to show you!" Jack yelled from somewhere in front of her.
She walked into the alcove and saw Jack standing there with snow falling all around him.
"I told you! I am Jack Frost!"
Siobahn looked around and was amazed to see the snow falling down on him as well as the chill she got when she stepped closer to Jack.
Jack looked at her and smiled, holding out his hand to her.
"Come on, I'll show you."
She walked closer and he pulled her close, suddenly the air seeming heavy and cold. She wrapped her arms around him so that she would stay warm and he smiled.
"Cold?"
"Yeah..."
"That's me. I am the frost."
"I think that's just winter coming."
His smile faded and he backed away from Siobahn.
"I thought you were listening to me this whole time about that. Winter is my brother and he can come all he damn well pleases but without me, there is no cold winter. It's just a season, Bonnie."
Siobahn sighed a little and put her hands in her pockets.
"Jack, I'm a therapist that is used to make you realize that what you say is not real. If I start believing everyone, I will be out of a job. Believe me, it's very hard with what you tell me, but I have to keep my profession and my personal opinions separate."
"So you kind of believe me?" he said with a look to her.
"I didn't say that. I said that your arguments are hard to refute. There has to be some progress somewhere and so far, everyone has progressed but you. You're still where you were when I came here and that's bad for me."
"Well, what do you want me to do? Lie about everything? I'm not making things up, Siobahn."
"That's the point of being here, Jack... No one believes that you're telling the truth."
His crystal blue eyes narrowed at her and a harshly cold gust of wind blew in her direction, making her shiver.
"I knew I couldn't trust you. I just knew it was too good to be true. Go be a therapist then. Help those poor people get their lives back in order but I'm perfectly fine. I know who I am."
Siobahn wanted to argue with him but there was no use in doing it. She knew what she was sent to the facility for.

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"So, you help anymore crazies?" Ashton asked when Siobahn walked in the door.
Siobahn sighed as she closed the door behind her and threw her keys in the bowl next to it.
"Not today. I actually made one of my patients very angry so I doubt he'll ever talk with me again."
"What do you mean?"
"It's Jack, the one I tell you about. He keeps thinking that he is going to convince me that he is the personification of Jack Frost but my job is to make him believe he isn't. How am I supposed to deal with that?"
"But don't you believe him just a little? I mean, I'm not actually going to visit the guy which is why you tell me all his stuff but from the way you talk about it, you seem to believe in him too."
Siobahn turned to her as she looked at her with a funny expression.
"What do you mean?"
"You relate your chats with him like you were talking about real people now. And when you talk about the weather or something, you actually relate to things with a sort of... pronoun thing. Like if someone is named Rain and you're talking about them, there's a certain lilt that you do now that's like that. Whether you like it or not, he's totally influenced you and has you wrapped around his crazy little finger."
Siobahn blinked, not realizing that what Ashton was saying was true. Without thinking, Jack really had made her start to believe. She would have to apologize tomorrow when she went in.

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A figure in a dark cloak walked down the street, looking at all of the homeless people that were huddled up under their makeshift blankets of newspaper and holey blankets. He stopped briefly in front of each homeless person before he found the one he was looking for.
"This one... This one will be the one."
He lifted the small pair of goggles that were over his eyes and looked at the homeless man again. He knelt beside him and stared at the homeless man's face for a moment. He grinned and stuck the goggles back on, the man's image suddenly becoming an x-ray of everything that was in the man's body. Veins, muscles, bones, everything was in the goggles. There was also a number beside each one of them and the lowest number that was red was near the heart. The man nodded and watched for the moment as the number slowly clicked down.
"Five... four... three... two... one... Time to go."
He touched the man's heart and the man suddenly jerked for a moment and then let out his last breath, slouching more against the wall and becoming pale. The man nodded again, standing up and pulling out a sheet of parchment paper. He pulled out a pen and marked off something.
"Homeless man of heart attack. Done. Let's see... I've got all of my natural deaths done today so I guess we'll move on to my partnered ones." He rolled up the parchment and pulled out another. "Let's see, I've got car crash on the Interstate... kid falls out of tree... eh, we can have that one be a miracle for today. I don't want to do that one." He marked it off. "Ah, here we go! I get to partner up with Jack Frost on this one. Dumbass locks himself in company freezer as joke. This one will be good."
He laughed a little and moved out of the way as some people walked over to the dead homeless man and pressed his ear.
"Yo, Time!"
Something crackled and someone cleared their throat.
"What is it, Death, I have things I need to do. It's a tight schedule today."
"Well, I need to know where that dumbass is for the freezer and what Interstate the car crash is going to be on."
"Interstate is on I-65 sometime in the evening. Only four people die. Pain will be with you as well as Sleep. He's the cause of it this time."
"Alright then. So where's the freezer guy?"
"Somewhere in Switzerland. You'll have to talk to Jack Frost about it."
"Yeah I know. Thanks, I'll get a hold of him."
"I sent out his schedule but he's been a little slacking lately. I haven't heard from him personally in about a year or two actually. Winter has been forwarding his messages of completion to me."
"Odd... Jack Frost usually comes to you after the day has ended with a completed report." Death said with a frown.
A man bumped into him and he fell forward, falling to the ground. He caught himself with his hands but one of his hands popped off and flew across the road and he growled.
"Damn. Lost my hand again... Hold on..."
He pulled off the black hood and looked around when a woman screamed. He looked at her and she grabbed her chest, falling to the ground.
"Whoops. Uh, Time, I got an Untimely here... Sorry..."
"Damn it, Death. Just find Jack Frost and do your job... correctly! Let me send Life over there."
Death looked at the lady and kicked her foot as Life appeared beside him, her ever pregnant belly showing under her white flowing dress.
"Death, stop scaring people."
"I lost my hand!" he said, holding it up with the other.
Life knelt down and touched the lady as other people had come to help her and the woman made a miraculous recovery. She put her hands on her hips and looked at Death.
"You're more trouble than you're worth."
"You're just pissed off because we're always in competition. Oh, that reminds me, kid's going to fall out of a tree today. I don't feel like going. Have him miraculously live."
Life scoffed. "You're so gross. Fine... Oh, by the way, I'm winning."
Death made a face at her and looked at his hand as Life left the scene. He pressed his fingers to his ear.
"Hey, Jack Frost, where you at?" There was no response and Death made a face. "Jack Frost, come in... Hello!"
"Will you hush up! I'm working."
"Winter? Where's Jack Frost?"
"I don't know. I'm not my brother's keeper."
"He works with you 50% of the time!"
"Get off this line, Shini!"
"I love you too, Old Man Winter." He yelled.
Death looked at his hand again and sighed. He would have to find Jack Frost himself.

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looks like jack is not very happy. and what's this? everything at work? and why doesn't winter know where jack frost is? shouldn't he?

oh and life is pregnant because she's life so... yeah. and death is sometimes called shini or shinigami (death gods) and he called winter old man because of old man winter and winter is actually the same age as jack frost. and when life said she was winning, it's because on the world clock, there is more life than death