Author's Note: Fire v Ice will be updated in the next few days. I've been away, and stupidly left the laptop with Chapter Two behind. In the meantime, please enjoy my first-ever drabble!

Even as he drove away, Jimmy couldn't bring himself to be angry. To hate him. He wanted to; he really, really wanted to. He wanted to be upset, but he couldn't do that, either. Around him, all was new and fresh. The snow on the ground, the air around him, it all had a new taste, a new feel. It was as though he were a child again, experiencing it all for the first time, taking the world in.

All he felt was overwhelming happiness.

For the first time since he was handed over to Darren MacElroy, he was free.