Chapter 3: Bonding
"Wake up! Wake up!" He could hear someone telling him to wake up but all he saw was the darkness that surrounded him. It was so dark. He tried to listen to the voice, he tried to focus on something besides the darkness, he tried to open his eyes but they wouldn't open. He felt as if someone had glued them shut. He had to escape this darkness it was swallowing him whole. "Wake up!" The voice was becoming more frantic. He tried going towards it but it was so dark he couldn't tell where he was going. "Wake up!" He could feel cold hands grip his shoulders, his eyes flew open, his hand shot out and grabbed a slender neck. "Frost giant!" He yelled. As his vision adjusted to the light he could make out frightened ice blue eyes.
"N..nn..ooo." She stuttered. "It's Elsa. Remember?"
Slowly he released her as realization came across his features. "Yes. I do apologize. You frightened me is all." He spoke slowly trying to make sense of what just took place.
"Are you ok? I could hear you yelling and when I came to check on you you kept tossing around in your sleep." Elsa spoke gently as not to frighten him again.
"I should be asking you if you're ok. I almost killed you." He shook his head as he spoke. How could he ever think she had been a frost giant. She was too gentle, too caring, she could never be a frost giant.
"Yes but only because I frightened you. I should have known better than to try and wake you. But I feared if I didn't you would hurt yourself. That must have been a really bad nightmare you were having. Do you need to talk about it."
She spoke so kindly to him but he could tell she was still a bit shaken up. "No it's best that I don't talk about it." He spoke quietly.
Elsa nodded her head. "I understand. At least let me take your mind off of it." She smiled as she spoke the last part.
Loki nodded and he couldn't help but smile back. Her smile was perfect but there was a glint of mischief in her eyes. Elsa pulled Loki up and dragged him out of the castle. She took a second to breathe in the cool winter air then she stood in front of Loki. He had a confused look on his face as she spoke. "Stay right here and close your eyes. No peeking I'll be right back." Loki did as he was instructed a bit unsure of what to expect. Elsa walked a little bit away from Loki and reached into the snow. She slowly started to form a snowball being as quiet as she could. Once she had finished she waited a bit as she could tell Loki was starting to become impatient. She let out a small laugh as she saw him standing in the snow with an annoyed look on his face. She threw the snowball at him while she yelled, "Open your eyes!" Loki didn't have enough time to react as the snowball hit him square in the face. Elsa burst out laughing as Loki looked at her dumbfounded. When he recovered he noticed Elsa still laughing and threw a snowball of his own. The snowball hit Elsa on the side of her face and she stopped laughing instantly. Loki laughed at this and noticed a look of pure mischief on Elsa's face as she said, "Oh it's on!" Elsa and Loki began their own snowball fight and neither had the upper hand. They threw snowballs left and right as they ran around in the snow. Let's end this, Elsa thought. Elsa raised her arms over her head as a wave of snow formed. As she threw her arms forward the snow piled on top of Loki. When the snow cleared all Elsa saw was Lokis snow covered head sticking out of the pile of snow. Elsa started laughing once again until she saw Loki disappear. She didn't even have the chance to recover before Loki tackled her into the snow pile. Elsa let out a small scream as she hit the cold snow. She pulled herself out of the snow and stared at Loki. "How did you do that?" She asked.
"What? Tackle you?" He said knowing fully well what she asking about. Elsa put her hands on her hips and glared at him.
"No disappear. I've never seen anyone do that before." Elsa responded genuinely curious.
"You have your powers and I have mine." Loki responded simply. Loki smirked at the irritated look on her face.
"Fine." Elsa said as she waved him away. "Keep your secrets. And to think that I was going to show you something that would blow your mind." Elsa began walking back to the castle knowing that Loki would surely follow her.
"Ok. Let's make a deal." Loki said wanting to know what she was going to show him. Elsa stopped walking and turned back slightly. She nodded her head for him to continue. "You show me this thing that will blow my mind and I'll show you how I can disappear if it truly does indeed blow my mind. And if it doesn't then you will have to forever wonder how I disappear." Loki stuck his hand out for Elsa to shake.
Elsa simply said, "Deal." And continued walking back to the castle. Loki stood for awhile stunned. No one had ever treated him like she did. She was truly a mystery.
"Aren't you coming? We wouldn't want you to catch a cold now would we?" Elsa called back to him. Loki could have sworn he saw her wink it could have been his eyes playing tricks on him however. Loki hurried to catch up to her and when he did he causally said, "I've already seen the castle. It's not exactly mind blowing."
Elsa glared at him as she said, "Just shut up and follow me." Yes, Loki thought, she truly is a mystery. Elsa led Loki throughout the castle to the highest point. Once there Elsa pulled herself onto the roof and sat waiting. Loki followed suit and looked at the sky.
"What exactly are we waiting for?" He asked now fully believing nothing was going to happen.
"Look." Elsa said pointing somewhere in the sky. "There." Loki squinted his eyes and he could make out a tiny star in the distance.
"That's it? That's supposed to blow my mind?" Loki stood up, ready to get off this roof.
Elsa pulled him back down and said, "Wait. Keep watching." Loki huffed and continued watching the tiny star. Suddenly the star began to grow and once it looked about the size of a normal star it seemed to explode as the sky filled with the colors of the rainbow. Lokis eyes widened. It was truly beautiful. He was left speechless.
"It happens every night. I don't know why or how but it does. Everyone hates the winter but this, this is why I love it." Elsa spoke softly as she continued to stare at the sky.
Loki turned to look at her. Her eyes shone with the colors in the sky, the smallest of smiles on her face. "You were right. It did blow my mind." Loki admitted.
Elsa turned to face him. "I knew it would. You don't have to show me how you disappear. Keep it to yourself. No one needs to know how you do it just that you do. It makes you special. It keeps you interesting." Elsa smiled as she stood up and climbed back into the castle. "Good night Loki." Elsa slowly walked further into the castle. Loki sat watching the sky for just a bit longer then he whispered, "Good night my snow queen."
