Previously on Frozen...

Eventually, one came into view, and a cloud of mist escaped from my mouth as a sighed in relief. I put on my hood to conceal my unusual white hair and carried Rapunzel to the inn.

"Hello, room for 2." I say and hand over some gold coins.

The clerk eyed me strangely, but said, "Take the room on the far right. Have a good stay."

Chapter 4: Realization

I smiled even though the clerk just frowned back and walked casually like I wasn't holding a royal princess in my arms. The walls were basically just logs piled against each other horizontally and pictures of forests, snow (my personal fave), the queen and king, and the inn when it was still being built.

All in all, it was an inn you couldn't find in the 21st century world I live in.

Finally, I reached the last room on the right and carefully opened the red oak door with the numbers 18 on it. I opened it slowly to not wake up the sleeping Rapunzel. Inside, there was (fortunately) two red oak twin beds, a closet, a mini fireplace, a small stove which included a frying pan, and a matching red oak door leading to the washroom.

Hmm, looks pretty homey in my opinion. Anyways, gotta get this sleeping princess to bed. Ironic she reminds me of Sleeping Beauty. I chuckled at my own thoughts as I softly placed Rapunzel underneath the thick covers of the bed. A small smile graced her facial features. I was about to stand up and check out the room but a soft, sleepy voice startled me.

"Mmm... Princess... of... Mm... Corona... Jack Frost..." Rapunzel mumbled drowsily before turning the other way and started to lightly yet cutely snore.

Is it possible, that she's dreaming about me? Jack Overland Frost? Well, Rapunzel, did look kinda cute...

What am I thinking? I clutched my white hair in frustration. I can't possibly have feelings for her! She's an ordinary human princess and I'm an immortal Guardian in a completely different world. Two worlds apart.

It's just not possible. I sighed as I paced around the room, dangerously silent. I mean, it's just not gonna happen. I doubt anyone would like (as more than a friend) someone like me. What's good about me? I only cause snow days and cause fun or trouble back on Earth.

Even if I find her a little bit cute or even pretty, I can't keep my hopes up. She would die before I die and, as a result, I'd be depressed for the rest of my lifetime... No more fun snow days if I feel like that.

I heavily sighed a tired yet suffering sigh and scratched my head.

With a good night sleep I'll be able to think straight again, hopefully. After safely hiding my staff under the bed, I crawled under the covers. Instead of Sandy wiping Rapunzel out, there was blue sand instead. Images of a princess, king, queen, and a boy with a staff hovered over the sleeping princess's head.

I smirked.

She was dreaming of me. If Sandy isn't doing all the good dreams business, then who is? I got out of my bed and stared intently out of the window. To my utter surprise, a girl made out of blue sand was creating webs of blue sand to other windows to other dreams.

The girl had a big smile on her face as she created dreams.

Huh. Never knew there was a female version of Sandman. Gotta remember to tell this big news to him later. The girl had her blue hair in two low ponytails and was wearing a baby blue dress.

Like Sandy, she was rather short and had a baby face. Blue eyes stared right into my ice ones as I observed Female Sandy. Scared, I hid under the windowsill. What if Female Sandy doesn't like me?

I definitely don't want to be treated like how Sandy attacked Pitch, that's for sure. Eventually, I trailed back into bed and let the Female Sandy lure me to deep slumber. Something I haven't gotten for a long time, since I was making it snow almost everywhere for Christmas.

Snowflakes were gracefully twirling down from the fluffy clouds.

A younger human version of me laughed as I chucked a snowball at my little sister. It looked just like another snow day in my village near the lake I always visited from time to time.

"Hey, Jack, you know I hate snowball fights!" My sister complained and rubbed the snow off her coat.

I cracked a mischievous grin and answered, "Exactly! Heads up!"

Another snowball landed on her shoulder as she gave me a not amused whale expression. However, she gave in, and started throwing snowballs back.

"Oooh, you're gonna regret doing that!" She battle cried as she hurled several snow balls at my laughing face.

A wet substance collided on my face and it wiped off the grin on my face. A dark glare replaced my playful expression.

"This means war!" I yelled and threw more rapidly at my giggling target.

We had an intense snowball fight for an hour or so before we both were too exhausted to even stand up. So, we just lay in the snow and let the cold snow make contact with our bodies.

"I actually can't picture a snow day without you, Jack."

I genuinely smiled. "Yes, my last name isn't 'Frost' for nothing, you know."

She sighed. "Of course, I know. Silly, I have the same last name as you!"

"Oops?"

My sister laughed at my foolishness and got up to my disappointment. "We should be heading back now. Don't want to be late for dinner like last time."

I groaned. "Why? I'd rather stay out here all day! We've at least gotta check out the lake before going back!"

One of the elders spotted us and called out, "Be careful!"

"Of course, we're gonna have some fun!" I answered cheerfully.

Without my sister's consent, I grabbed her hand and forced her to come to the lake with me.

"Jack, we're going to get in trouble again," she commented.

"Sooo?" I smirked.

My sister sighed and eventually also started to ice skate. A smile blossomed on her face and she started to laugh. But, she stopped to catch her breath, and the ice started to crack underneath her.

"It's okay, it's okay. Just don't look down. Look at me." I reassured while making full eye contact with my sister's terrified ones.

"Jack, I'm scared," she said with a scared tone.

"I know, I know," I smiled gently, "you're gonna be alright. You're not gonna fall in, uh, we're gonna have a little fun instead!"

"No, we're not!"

"Would I trick you?"

"Yes, you always play tricks!"

"Oh," I laughed, "not this time, I promise. I promise, you're gonna be fine."

It broke my heart to see her terrified expression so I enthusiastically said, "You have to believe in me. You want to play a game? We're gonna play hopscotch!"

"Like we play every day," I continued.

"It's as easy as one..." I took a step forward like hopscotch and ignored the cracking ice.

To my relief, my sister smiled and laughed.

"Two... Three! Alright." I hopped another two times across solid ice.

"Now, it's your turn, one..."

She hopped once and gasped.

"That's it, that's it. Two..."

I held out a nearby stick towards her.

"Three!"

My sister clutched on the stick and I safely put her on the more solid ice. She smiled and laughed. However, I did not realize, that I replaced her on the thin ice.

To my absolute horror, the ice gave in.

"Jack!" My sister cried with wide brown eyes.

I submerged inside the freezing water and eventually the darkness enveloped the world like shadows.

I woke up in cold sweat. By instinct, I looked around, terrified. Instead of the cold darkness, the inn room came to my view.

I sighed. It was only just a bad dream. Did Pitch cause that? Or was that just my memory? Perhaps there's an alternate Pitch just like how there's a Female Sandy here in Corona.

"Are you okay?"

A worried Rapunzel stared at me from the other bed.

"Oh," I chuckled while fixing my hair, "I'm fine."

"Nightmare?"

"Yeah. It was when I was still human back in my world..." I trailed off.

The princess sat up and gazed at me eagerly. "Tell me, Jack! Please?"

"Okay, princess, but promise you won't interrupt me until the end."

"I promise!"

I stood up and fixed my bed first. I could feel Rapunzel's intense stare piercing me. Then, I retrieved my staff and sat on the bed.

"Well, it's a long story... but, here goes nothing. Back then, I had a sister. Her name was Mary Katherine Frost. She was four years younger than me, if I remember correctly. It happened 300 years ago in my village. It was a snow day and I convinced my sister to skate with me on the local frozen lake. So, we had fun and skated. But, the ice started to crack around her."

Rapunzel gasped softly.

I stared at the floor. "I reassured her that she would be alright and nothing would happen to her. I told Mary to pretend that we were playing hopscotch just like how we do every day. She hopped towards my stick," I held out the staff, "and I placed her on more solid ice with this stick. But, I didn't realize that I replaced my sister's spot on the cracking ice."

The blonde princess stared at me sadly.

"I... I drowned in the water. My sister was calling out my name with t-tears... I-I... Died that day." I solemnly stated with a cold tone.

"If only I wasn't that stupid to skate on that lake, I knew winter was coming to and end... It was late January already. It's all my fault that my sister almost died that day. I'm happy that I died instead of her," I lowered my head so my ice blue eyes were covered by my snow white bangs.

After a few moments of awkward silence, Rapunzel said, "Oh, Jack, I'm so sorry. I never realized-"

"The past is the past. I can only change the present." I cut her off.

If she said more, I'd just might cry. I didn't want to show my vulnerability in front of her.

She cleared her throat and changed the topic, "So, do you want to get back to your world or not?"

I laughed and the tension in the atmosphere vanished. "Of course, I do. Some countries aren't getting snow right now and it's Christmas there!"

Rapunzel smiled. "Well, then we better get on our way. The lantern festival should be in the capital city, I think."

"You think? Let's hope your right. What's so special about the 'lights' anyways?"

"I dunno, I just find them... Interesting?" The princess shrugged her shoulders.

"Blondie, you have gotta have a better reason than that. If that's your reason for leaving the tower... it's a pretty lame reason, no offense," I truthfully commented.

"No, it's not and don't call me Blondie!"

"Okay, princess."

"Or that."

"Fine, Punz."

"Punz? Sounds like the word fun."

I started walking out the door and the annoyed princess reluctantly followed me.

A/N:Wow, I got 1 more review than I expected. xD Thank you so much! FYI, I'll probably be updating this story either on Sunday, Tuesday, or Wednesday. Since I have no activities or sports after school on those days so far. Honestly, I'm not sure what Jack's sister's name actually is, but she kinda looks like a Mary to me.