Elsa was scared. How did Jack manage to lure her to do this? And here of all places! She swallowed hard, trying to breathe quietly, but her heart was jumping against her chest as if it was trying to flee. She and Jack Frost were standing in the middle of the Great Hall. Just the two of them. In the Great Hall. Where she had hurt her sister just a few months ago, and now she was going to use her powers again.
"Don't be scared Elsa, you can't hurt me with your magic," Jack said, trying to reassure her.
"A-Are you sure? You can't be sure! Maybe my magic is different than yours and I- I"
"You end up killing me? No, I don't think you can~"
And what if I do?"
Jack sighed, this child was truly scared.
"Alright then, let me see. Ah," he held forth his staff, set it down and it stood there by itself. "If you can break my staff with your powers, you can kill me, if you can't you can barely even hurt me." Jack smiled to himself, that was a great plan, he thought to himself. The staff was just an object, the child wouldn't mind using her powers on an inanimate object, right? Though, he didn't know if what he said was true, however, he was quite sure the child couldn't hurt him. "What are you waiting for?" he urged at Elsa.
Elsa looked at the staff in front of her, covered in snow particles, standing straight up and down as if someone was holding it in place. She shifted her look between Jack and the staff, and drew her breath, raising her hands, but nothing happened. No, her fingers shook ever so slightly. She was too scared.
Jack did all he could in his powers not to roll his eyes and sigh with impatience, however he went over to Elsa and gave her a big, long hug.
Elsa did not see that coming. She was still standing there with her arms raised, her powers built up inside of her, scared of releasing it when Jack swooped down and held her tight, she gave a small sniff, and suddenly, all the cold she had built up inside, all her fear and her worries and her memories burst forwards. Ice crystals shot through the room, ice formed on the floor, the walls cracked when the ice expanded, and her powers blew straight through Jack Frost who got thrown off her with such force, he landed several feet away from her. Elsa wanted to scream, but not a sound came from her lips, she simply fell to her knees and gasped for breath, she had killed him! She had killed her only friend in the whole wide world and now she was all alone. She curled up and started to cry, her small form sobbing heavily and around her, snow started to fall, whipping up a small snow storm, the whole room dropping several degrees in temperature.
Jack was also heaving for breath on the ground, he had gotten the air knocked out of him, but he had hardly been hurt by the ice Elsa had sent at him, just as he had thought. He stirred and got to his feet, in the few seconds it had taken it to get to his feet again, the whole room was in uproar.
"Elsa," he announced himself before he bent down to hug her again, he could feel the wind slash at him, the snow crystals got flung in his face, but such simple matters of weather, he simply shrugged off. "Elsa, listen to me, you don't have to be scared anymore, I won't leave you alone, I promise…"
It took a good while before Elsa's sobs subdued and the room grew quiet and still once more. Jack helped her sit up. Elsa looked down in the ground, she felt pathetic. "I'm sorry, Jack… It was all just so similar to the night I hurt my sister. I- I almost killed her…"
Jack shook his head and tightened his arms around her. "Do you want to talk about it?"
Elsa didn't say anything, just rested herself against his chest. He felt safe. He felt like he could be trusted. He felt like he cared about her, so she simply nodded at that and started on her story.