Chapter 10.
The room once again is covered with a sheet of snow. Jack sat on the ice chest of drawers in the corner of the room, watching as the twenty-two year old Elsa sleep painfully in her bed. Jack had watched her twist, turn and scream in her sleep all night. As the sun cracks through the clouds and hits the ice palace, Elsa's body jerks up awake.
Elsa looked round drastically to make sure she was still where she was last night; in bed. Her hair came over her eyes and down her back. Her nightdress was a white dress of snow that she made herself last night before going to bed. She took her stand on the cold floor with her bare feet; without being affected. Elsa closed her eyes and with a wave of her hand, the sheet of snow disappears. Afterwards, she made the bed.
Elsa turned to see Jack staring at her from the corner of the room. At first, she's shocked but can't take her gaze off of his. Then her soft features become hard as she screwed her face up in anger, frustration and a little embarrassed.
"What are you still doing here?" She hissed through her teeth. "I thought I told you to go away!"
"You did no such thing." Jack chuckled, floating over to stand on the other side of the bed.
"Well I'm telling you now! Go AWAY!"
"No can do." Jack jumped on the bed Elsa just made, which frustrated her even more. "I'm a spirit so can do what I want."
"I bet your nothing but a pervert or some creep or something or other." Elsa twirled round to not face Jack.
"Wow. Such words coming from a Queen like yourself?" Jack flies over to float in front of her; face to face. With his finger out, he swayed it meaning naughty. "A lady like yourself shouldn't be saying such rude things."
Elsa grabbed Jack's shoulder and shoved him out of the way and walked on to the balcony, leaving Jack in stitches. Elsa looked down at her Kingdom from the top of mountain. Below, she could see it froze over. This caused panic. Froze over? Did she do this? Anna! What if she's frozen down there? What if Elsa's not there to thaw her out? Mental images of that particular summer took over her poor mind the more she thought about it. When she tried not to think about it, she ended up thinking about it even more than she should! Around her, snow fell over the room. Jack stopped laughing and looked at the snow land on his nose. Not his snow. He looked over at Elsa.
"Hey! Hey!" Jack swooshes to her side. "You're snowing the place up. What's the problem?"
"Did I do that!?" Elsa asked. "I don't remember doing that! Oh God! I must have done that!"
"WOW! Hold your horses. That's my snow! Not yours!" Jack calms her. "I did that ages ago, you don't remember?"
"No! I don't! I don't remember snow being anywhere!" Elsa turns to enter her room again, Jack following behind her.
Elsa collapsed on her bed and stares up at the ceiling trying to set things in her head right. It's Jack's job to bring winter to countries and it is winter. It makes sense. But in the back of her mind, all Elsa could see was that dreadful summer last year. Anna perfectly fine and even if she does start to freeze over, Kristoff is there for her to try and thaw her frozen heart. Them two do love each other so. It is improper for a lady her status to show such romantic feelings freely without being properly introduced to each other. So to cover this up, Elsa said their father properly introduced the two sisters to the boy because the boy delivered ice to the palace during summer. Even you know it wasn't true, they had to pretend it's true for the sake of the royal family's image. Elsa also changed the rule so that s princess could marry whoever she love.d Unfortunately, for herself, she couldn't do that. As Queen, it was her job to rule the country, marry a noble to either keep the line blue blood, make peace with another country or to join the two countries together and finally, to produce children to take the throne next. The job of a Queen.
All these thoughts swimming through her head gave her such headaches at times, as they did there and then. She placed a hand over her forehead to calm herself down and closed her eyes in an attempt to block everything out. When she opened them again, she found herself staring into a frozen pool of blue eyes.
"Too close?" Jack laughed.
Elsa twirls out from under his gaze and gets up from the bed, brushing her nightdress down trying to look fierce and bold. "You are well into my personal boundaries and I would prefer it if you were no more than a metre away from me!"
"Okay. I can respect that...but what if I was ninety-nine centimetres away from you? Or ninety-nine point nine nine?" Jack gets closer to Elsa.
Elsa a little intimidated moves further away from him. Never anyone in her life be as bold like this. Anna didn't count. She was a girl, she was family and Elsa loved Anna. Jack however, he's a boy, not family and Elsa only despises him.
"Jeez relax! Good thing I found you when I did. Who better to teach you to relax than myself?" laughs Jack. "Hurray and change out of your nightdress. I want to build an igloo!"
Elsa looks down at herself. She was in her nightdress the whole time!? Her hair was messy too? Elsa found her pale face go red tomato. I bet I looked stupid when I was trying to look intimidating in this state, she thought. With her rest in position, she freely expels the snow replacing it with blue ice into her beautiful tight blue dress. Now with a brush, she tries to up-do her hair. But Elsa is Queen. Queen's have hairstylists that do their hair for them in fancy ways. So after many failed attempts on trying to make it look presentable, she gave up and just put it in a messy side plait. It will do for building an igloo.
New Year's Eve 2013
The Guardians all in the room listened while doing other stuff. It was New Year's Eve after all, not Jack's History Eve. Though the Man in Moon gave them the night off to relax and have their job's taken under control, the Guardians couldn't help but do some work as it is all they know to do. Jack lay with his feet up and hands behind his back on the ice sofa with his magical staff being held by his right foot. Bunny continued to get ready for Easter by painting many Easter eggs in his little basket. Tooth made more teeth-holders for children loosing their first tooth. North starts to make plans for next Christmas and Sandy, bored like Jack, sits on the ice sofa below his feet creating images with his hand.
"Sounds like you're a perve for Sheila." Bunny continues painting the eggs. "Sheila got spunk, huh?"
"Oh no. Lust was not at play here, cotton-tail and yes. Elsa was very good looking."
"Jamie lost another tooth." Tooth smiles, holding up a white tooth with a little bit of gum and blood on it.
Immediately, all Guardians went over to observe.
Jack laughs. "I had nothing to do with it this time Kiddo." he says to himself.
"Jamie? As in Ankle-Biter's big brother?"
"Yep! Yep!" Tooth smiles.
"The last light..." North smiles.
Sandy claps his hand.
It's weird. It's always the smallest things that bring the Guardians together. They're their own little family. Tooth then gives the Tooth to a fellow Baby Tooth and off the little one flies to the Tooth Palace to put it in Jamie Bennett's tooth-holder. Bunny then begins painting but his eyes drift to Jack lazily walks over to the couch before collapsing on it.
"So you became a root rat, Jack?"
"Bunny!" Tooth feels her cheeks grow red from what Bunny just said.
"Now now Bunny." North points the carving knife at him. "No need for that talk."
Jack on the other hand laughs it off. "I wasn't constantly looking for sex Peter Rabbit."
Sandy walks over to Jack and with his sand, makes a question mark. What happens next Jack?
"Well...where did I get to...oh yeah!"
Arendelle Winter 1866
The week went past as normal. She'd wake up from another nightmare, the place filled with snow and ice. Elsa would fix her bed, dress blah blah blah. I'd be there to annoy her every morning and drag her out to have fun, which she did. Snowballs, snowmen, sledging, igloos, snow-angels...we also created monsters with the snow and watched them fight! It always ended as a draw. We also had an ice fight ourself! I always won to her annoyance. At the end of the day, I always let her fly with me in the midnight sky. The end would night with her starting up another argument about something or other yet I didn't care. We've had so many fights over the years it's hard to keep up with ALL of them...
"Do you have to go?" Jack, as usual, was pestering Elsa while floating about in mid-air.
"Shut-up, shut-up, shut-up!" Elsa repeated three times while cleaning away her belongings she took up with her. "I came up here to relax and I get stuck with an ass like you!"
"Wow Elsa. That hurt me real deep." Jack exaggerates to annoy Elsa off more.
Elsa was always the most perfect lady you'd ever meet. She was strong will, polite, well-mannered and spoke proper. Her back and shoulders were always straight and she always showed little emotion andn she was skilled in sewing if anything else. However, since Jack started to hang around, a side of Elsa that she didn't even know herself existed began to show. Elsa was irritable and very mean when she wanted to be and spoke words no lady should ever say. Not even alone with friends or family, especially Anna. Yet Jack...why him? ?
"Oh piss off Jack! I'm trying to get ready here!" Elsa hisses.
"Oh come on Elsa, I will not tolerate a lady like yourself talk like that!" Jack laughs.
Elsa did not laugh. Elsa was furious at that point. She came to relax and instead got this little pest on her shoulder that she just can't get rid of. Was there anyway of getting rid of Jack?
...
Apparently not. Elsa thought she was fine. She arrived home in the same clothes she left in. Immediately, her proper lady act hit the play button as soon as people of Arendelle greeted her back from her trip. At the palace waiting for her was Anna who was the happiest person to see her. As soon as Elsa appeared, Anna ran up to Elsa and jumped her, smothering her in her bears hugs.
"Oh Elsa! I've missed you so much!" Anna yelped.
"But I was only gone for a week!" Elsa laughs, hugging her sister back.
"I know, I know."
"Well, this is a touching picture."
A familar voice sent goosebumps all over Elsa's body. Her eye's widen as she realized who was talking. Ever so slightly, she looked up. There. There he was. Jack Frost floating above them, laughing. Elsa couldn't help but swear in her head. The pain she tried to get away from has followed her back home! Elsa was smart. She knew if she spoke now, not only will Jack hear her but everyone else would too and if she insults Jack, everyone will think she's insulting them instead. So instead Elsa simply tried to ignore.
"I'm sorry Anna. It's been a long trip from the mountains and back, do you mind if I have my bath then bed and supper later?"
"Why of course your majesty." Anna bows and giggles, skipping off to tell the maids and cooks Elsa's request.
At that point Elsa quick marched to her bedroo, her head; a ticking time bomb. She walked all the way up flights of stairs ignoring everyone and everything that past her on their way up. Jack, still in the air, kept up with her fine and followed every move Elsa made. When she got to the door, she opened it and Jack flew in. Afterwards she slammed it hard as she coloud before turning to Jack. Her face was really red and she tried her best to hold it in but just lost it completely.
"What are you doing here, Jack!?" She demands.
"So this is where the Queen herself sleeps." Jack laughs kicking his feet about he room. He then jumps onto her bed and stretches on it. "I should feel privileged."
Elsa stomped over to him with a frown on her face, not impressed with Jack at all.
"Get out." She ordered him. "Get out just...GO!"
"Give me three good reasons why I should go?" Jack smirked at Elsa rubbing his hand on the back of his head while lying on the bed with one leg straight and the other bent.
"You're intruding." Elsa folds her arms over her chest.
"Not good enough."
"You're annoying me."
"Hm. That makes me want to stay even more." Jack chuckled. "Last reason."
"I'm getting a bath now and would like some privacy!" Elsa blushed.
Jack sat up on his bed and looked around the room.
"There's nothing here." Jack pointed out.
On that point, maids came in with the tin bath and set it in the middle of the room. They all came in with pots of hot water to fill the small bathtub and then put a screen around the bath. Once the maids bowed to the Queen, they all scuttled out to give Elsa her privacy, except for one who stayed to help Elsa out of her clothes. The bed was in the position where is sat behind the screen where the bath was so Jack could see everything. When Elsa was behind the screen with the maid unbuttoning her dress behind her, she looked at Jack with a red tomato face. Her eyes begged him to leave. Jack nodded, respecting her privacy and slip out through the window to leave Elsa at peace in her bath.
Sorry it took sooooo long to update. GCSEs. CRAZY! I decided to leave school and go to tech. Also, for the summer, I wanted to do something...CRAZY. Something I've never done before. Dye my hair pink. To do that though, I've had to bleach my brunette hair. It came out kind of yellow but lots of people think I suit it. It's also patchy so I've flicked my hair to the side and put a hair decoration to cover the brunette spots so it doesn't look that bad.
Hope you enjoy this chapter xxx
~ChibiNagisaSakura