Chapter Seven

Connor at 17

"Dad, do you have to go?" Connor spoke with teary eyes.

His father kneeled next to his chair where he sat "Yes, I have to" he replied to him.

"Why?"

"Because this is the only way I will be able to keep you and your mom from starving"

"We can find another way"

"No we cannot. Look if something happens to me I need you to be strong" he put his hand on his shoulder "I need you to be strong for you, for me and most especially for your mother, promise me"

"I promise"

He put his hand into his pocket and took out a beautiful gold ring with a small diamond.

"This ring belonged to your Grandmother, now I want you to have this" he gave it to him "Someday you will meet someone, and that someone will complete your entire life, she'll fill all gaps and heal all wounds in your life"

He embraced him. Someone knocked at the door. "Look, I have to go now. Remember be strong"

He stopped near the door, and looked back at him one last time, he smiled and left.


"WOW, THATS... AMAZING" Looking at the Ice Castle Elsa built, it was simply amazing. I couldn't believe that she single handed built that using her powers.

"Thank you" she replied as she regained her breath.

We left Arendele after an hour after breakfast. Elsa had the smart idea to go on foot, and soon she began to regret it, "This was a horrible idea" she complained while we were treading up the North Mountain, which took about four hours. Right now she sat down besides a huge white rock. I, on the other hand, simply stood in awe admiring her castle.

"Wanna go inside?" she spoke as she got up. She began climbing the stairs, I hesitated as I was about to follow her. As I took took my first step, the huge rock came into life. He-which I presumed was Marshmallow, roared so loudly that I thought he might leave me deaf. He picked me up and was about to toss me but Elsa immediately stopped him, "Marshmallow, Put him DOWN!" She ordered him, "He's a friend, we don't hurt friends" she furthermore tried to convince him.

Instead of tossing me down the mountain he simply dropped me and went back into his rock form.

"Ow!" I landed on my already injured shoulder, the stitches didn't open but it hurt like hell. Elsa ran towards me, "Are you alright?" she said with a worried look. "I'm... fine" I got up, "You know when you told me there was another one of your snowmen here, I thought-"

"You thought it was another Olaf?" she laughed, "Sorry, I guess I should've told you about him"

We both went inside the castle. Inside the castle looked even more beautiful, the walls, stairs, everything inside and outside was made of Ice. She took me to the upper level, which in contrast to the lower, was a bit messy. There were masses of ice, shards of a chandelier, broken balcony railing and a broken door that lead to it. "What the hell happened here?" I asked her. Looking at her face I could tell that she forgot about this mess, and when I said a 'bit mess' I actually meant a large mess.

"Oh, uh... when I was attacked by the Duke's men I... kind of got angry and this was the result"

She waved her hands in different animations, and suddenly everything began to come back to it's place, the shards turned back into a chandelier that simply left me amazed. Everything came back to order. "Okay, I've got admit. This castle is something amazing. But why did you make it?"

"Well when I ran away from Arendele I wanted to live here, alone"

"Alone?"

"Well I didn't want to hurt anybody"

"So you ran here. Made this castle and just decided to live here. You know for a Queen that is a terrible decision"

"Oh please"

"So, should we experiment with your powers?" she asked me changing the subject. I nodded in agreement, we both headed outside and as we descended down the stair leading out I especially kept an eye at Marshmallow, in case he wanted to attack again. "So til now, what can you do with them" she asked about my powers. "Nothing" I spoke, "As I told you I can't control them"

"Well I'm going to teach you" she came near me, "Concentrate, feel the power inside of you, and command it. Don't let yourself lose infront of it" she told me.

I raised my hand, concentrated, concentrated harder, nothing happened. "Try again" she spoke.


About two hours or so I practiced with my powers, thanks to her I finally learned how to control them, well not entirely perfect, but at a content of which I could successfully throw fire balls, shoot flames and even conjure up a fire covered sword.

It was all thanks to Elsa, these past two hours she tried her best to teach me and succeeded. I couldn't thank her enough. I know that I'm more powerful than this, somehow I wanted to find more out of my powers but still my fear of losing control didn't fade away. I threw a fire ball at the ground melting the snow around us, we both sat down.

"Wow, you're a good learner" Elsa was exhausted, even though she didn't show it.

"I've got a good teacher"

"Oh please" she smiled. She became lost in thought and frowned.

"What's wrong?" I asked in concern.

"Nothing, just thinking how are we going to walk all the way back?"

"It was your idea... and why?"

"Uh... well you know how Anna teased me about being fat?"

"Wait, you made us walk to the top of the mountain just because Anna teased you?"

"I guess?"

I sighed and laid on the ground with Elsa following me.

Before we both knew it we fell asleep.


I don't know how much time passed since we both had been sleeping. It was night of course, I tried to wake Elsa up but she didn't wake up, at all-not even a single reaction from her. We couldn't stay here though, so I did what I had to, I picked her up slowly and for someone surprisingly she weighed less than a feather. I began to tread down the mountain, it would take twice more time than that took us to come up here.


After six hours of walking we finally reached the castle, Elsa was still sleeping, she was a heavy sleeper. I slowly walked to her room and placed her on her bed. Before I left she grabbed my hand, I turned back to her. "Please... stay" she mumbled, she was still in sleep I suppose, only partly awake.

"Uh... I don't think I should, I... better get to my room"

"No you aren't" she mumbled again and this time she froze my hand to hers. I tired to remove my hand from her but she completely forze them both together. I thought of using my powers but it might hurt her or even burn her hand. So anyway I submitted, but still I wasn't getting in bed with her, it wasn't the right thing to do. Even if she requested it.

I grabbed a nearby chair and put it near Elsa's bed and sat on it. She looked so peaceful and innocent as she slept.

It was going to be a long night, again.