Prologue

It was a cold December day in the city of Arendelle, and Elsa had gone out for a walk in the snow. She wore a grey hoodie, jeans, snow boots and light blue mittens. Her brunette braid hung out from underneath her warm wool hat. It was just after Christmas and she knew she would be back at school the next week, so she wanted to savour the moment while it lasted.

She passed by Lake Morgan, looking at the smooth, icy surface of the water.

Elsa smiled. She remembered when she and her best friend Jasmine would often ice skate on that lake when they were children. Sadly, Jasmine had moved away some years earlier, so there was no point in skating there anymore.

"Hey, Els!" a voice called. She turned to see a pale-skinned boy in a blue coat and brown pants walking up to her. His eyes were the same icy blue as hers, and he had dyed his black hair white.

"Oh hey Jack!" Elsa recognised the boy as her boyfriend.

Jack smiled. "I had a feeling you'd be out here."

"Well I wanted to remember the old days," Elsa explained.

She and Jack sat on the side of the frozen lake.

Jack put his arm around her. "So, how are you?"

"Pretty good, My grandparents from out of town have been staying for the holidays, so my place has been pretty busy."

"I can imagine."

"What about you, frosty?" She teased him.

"Well, nothing's really new with me. My uncle's busy with his toy store, so there's that."

"Must be getting a lot of kids going to that place at this time of year," Elsa remarked.

"No kidding."

Jack smiled at Elsa. "Hey Els. Ten bucks says you can't go all the way to the middle of the lake and back without falling on that sweet butt of yours."

"Hey! I've got great ass thank you," Elsa smirked with a wink.

"I know you do. I was complimenting it."

Elsa looked out onto the icy lake. She had walked across it many times. This time would be no different. "Make it fifty bucks."

"Sold. I'll sit here and watch."

Elsa slowly got to her feet and put one foot on the ice. "Ha! Piece of cake!"

She slowly began to tiptoe to the center of the lake, with a confident grin on her face.

Jack smirked. "Just you wait. You'll slip."

"I will not!" Elsa said, spinning around to prove him wrong. But as she spun, she did slip on the ice and slid all the way to the center of the lake.

He laughed. "Told ya!"

Elsa sat up and shook her head. "Very funny, Jack Frost! But you owe me twenty-five bucks, since I'm technically in the middle of the lake."

"No I don't. The deal was you had to make the whole round trip."

Elsa sighed. "Fine!"

As she stood back up, she heard a loud cracking sound.

"Umm, what was that?" Elsa wondered, nervously.

"I don't know," Jack replied. "Come back over here."

Elsa took one step forward, but then she heard another crack.

Jack's eyes went wide. "Elsa, the ice is cracking!"

"Wait WHAT!?" Elsa then saw the large cracks forming beneath her.

"Get back over here, fast!"

Elsa tried to run forward but slipped onto her stomach. "Jack, Help!"

Jack got to his feet and slowly started towards her. "I'm coming!"

Elsa felt the ice break beneath her feet and her shoes dipping into the icy cold water. "AHH!"

Just as Jack reached Elsa, the ice underneath her gave way, and she plunged into the icy lake.

Elsa was able to grab Jack's hand and held on. "Oh shit!"

"Hold on, Elsa!" Jack exclaimed.

"Pull me up! I can't swim!"

"I'm trying! You're really heavy!"

Elsa looked at Jack in terror. "J-J-Jack," she said through chattering teeth, "y-your gloves...m-my hand is s-s-slipping...!" As soon as she finished her sentence, Jack lost his grip.

Elsa fell into the water, her arms flailing madly as she struggled in vain to keep her head above the surface. She could feel her entire body growing numb, her movements slowing. She soon fell beneath the water's surface, her limbs barely moving.

"ELSA!" Jack screamed in horror.

Elsa sank deep into the water, the liquid filling her lungs. She saw her hands begin to freeze in the ice beneath her, her veins and skin turning blue. It was when the cold reached her eyes that everything went dark.

When Elsa opened her eyes, she saw that she was standing at the side of the lake. She felt a bit cold but otherwise she felt fine.

"What happened?"

As she looked around, she saw Jack standing on the other side of the lake with some other people. Nearby them was an ambulance.

Elsa looked closely and recognised the people with Jack were her parents.

"Jack! Mom! Dad!" She called over to them.

None of them moved, as if they hadn't heard her. Elsa could see her mother's shoulders shaking; she was crying.

Elsa ran over along the side of the lake and went up to her parents. "Hey Mom, it's okay, I'm right here, see!"

Her mother didn't react. She was sobbing uncontrollably, clinging to Elsa's father. Her father was silent, but it looked like he was focusing all of his energy on not bursting into tears as well.

"It's okay!" Elsa said. As she tried to touch her parents, her hand went straight through them.

"What the?!" Elsa exclaimed.

Elsa then looked at her hand, seeing her skin was paler than usual with a strange pattern on the back that looked like a snowflake.

One of the EMTs approached Elsa's parents. "Mr. and Mrs. Silver, We were able to recover the body."

Elsa's heart then sank.

She looked at the lake and saw something being dragged out of it.

Her parents walked over as the thing Elsa saw was being put in a black rubber bag. They held each other tightly, and Elsa's mother crying even more.

Elsa looked into the bag, and what she saw nearly made her throw up. Lying there, with papery white skin, bulging blue veins, and eyes rolled back, was herself.

"I'm sorry this happened, Mrs. Silver," Jack comforted Elsa's mother. "I tried to save her."

"It's alright son," Elsa's father then said. "You did your best."

Elsa then looked at her reflection in the ice. Her brunette hair was now silver like the ice itself, shiny and glistening in the light.

She clutched her chest and looked at her hands.

"No..." She tried to deny it, but deep inside she knew this was true.

"I...I'm dead."

xXx

Author's note: And after a short hiatus, I have returned. I do hope you enjoy this one. It's very fluffy and smutty. Also if the editing and writing seem different than usual, that's because it's Nona editing the story this time, rather than Matty. She's a great artist and a great writer and deserves a lot of love and this story was inspired by her and is dedicated to her.