What I Am

by bizzick

Elsa only remembers one night, one nightmare. The day she almost killed her sister and shunned Jack Frost. Years later Elsa is about to be cornanated and Jack reappears in her life, urging Elsa to let it go. Although when Elsa does she plunges Arendelle into an eternal winter and not even Jack can save her. Can Anna a sister Elsa shunned and ignored all her life save the monster?

Prologue:

Learning to love the nightmare

(Elsa POV)

The faint summer breeze was making light tapping sounds and bright, beautiful lights danced in front of my eyelids. I heard Anna's giggling and the slow, unmatched creak of the French doors being opened to let him in. I pretended I was deeply sleeping but I couldn't resist when I was awoken by the familiar weight of the two children pressing down on me.

I opened my big blue eyes and my face was centimetres from Anna and Jack. I knew what they wanted but I grumbled and brushed Anna away. Then she said something that made my heart leap with joy.

'Do You Wanna Build A Snowman?'

That begging was too much and the excitement was overwhelming. As I was dragged to the Great Hall, it blossomed inside me the acceptance of my gift and of the beauty of winter and it released my inner eight year old child. Anna and Jack were dragging me down the stairs and as I hushed them, Anna tickled me tempting me to do the magic to fight off her tiny fingers. The flurries of snowflakes burst out of my hands as my eyes meet with Jack's. The fluffy mounds of snows made a winter wonderland and I stamped my feet sending glossy, blue ice spiraling across the room. Anna and Jack were staring in wonder when I grabbed them and made them ice skates.

Anna was wobbly with her skills, but Jack and I were almost professionals and I smiled a dazzling flash of snow white teeth. My magic created a swooping ice slide and Anna was hopping around plain glee all over her face. She tumbled down and then swooped up into the sky like a bird and I worked fast creating more slides to match Anna's increasing speed. I slipped backwards and Jack ran to catch me. The icy blast had gone awry and it hit Anna through the head right through a curl which was now an ice white.

I stumbled away from Jack and raced towards Anna. I clutched her to my chest, my belief that winter and ice and snow was good slowly faded. Then over my sobs I heard Jack calling my name. I knew that if I did not believe in him that he would fade. My worry was increasing then and the frozen spikes were getting out of hand. I looked at him and whispered: 'I am sorry.' I said before my palms made an icy blast and I fired it straight through his heart.

(Jack POV)

The icy bolt shot through my heart and I stumbled outside. I collapsed and then waking up a few minutes but with hair as white as snow and a bent, crooked staff and as I place it on the floor, ice spirals from it. I look up for the man in the moon and he shows my new name. Jack Frost. I am just like Elsa now, one of ice and snow.

The streams of frost spewed forth and I stared. Thin trails of ice lead into the woods and I ran after the royal family watching Elsa whom clung like a monkey to Brighton loyal advisor. I watched as the Trolls showed Elsa's future one of isolation and fear. I wanted to run out and shout, protest that the powers weren't wrong but they wouldn't see me. Anna looked well but Elsa was terrified and her parents forced her to conceal, don't feel it and most importantly don't let it show by wearing gloves and locking her in a room. They thought they were protecting Anna, but my heart screamed for the aging beautiful woman before me.

They were only protecting Elsa from herself.