Elsa sighed deeply and answered, "Earlier I was looking at Olaf while he was playing and it made me so happy to watch him. He was so sweet and innocent, like a child; a child that would never grow up. It got me thinking about how I'm eternal now; being an immortal guardian like you and how fortunate I am to spend the rest of eternity with you, protecting all the children of the world. It sounds like a perfect life; a life that would last forever. But then I remembered that nothing lasts forever; I have to watch the world around me age away while I stay the same forever. I've already seen a lot of things change over the past hundred years: The Arandell Kingdom no longer exists, they wrote a story around my legend, I've seen technology advance greatly… I had to watch a lot of people come and go…"
Elsa dropped her head as the pain was coming back, but not as bad as before. Jack could see; no tears, but pain. Jack knew, "Like your family… your sister…"
She looked up at him as the tears began to well up again, "I miss her so much Jack."
Jack held her tightly as he rubbed her back. "I know," he said softly, "I know. I miss her too. But you have to remember that she lived a good full life, and you watched over her the whole time.; you were her guardian and she was your believe her, and you two had the strongest bond that only two sisters could have. You loved her and she loved you."
Elsa looked up at him with a tearful smile, "Thank you Jack. You always know how to make others feel better and you always have the right thing to say. You know she loved you too; she always knew you would be perfect for me and she was right. She loved how you could always bring out our inner children and knew how to see the best out of everything."
"She was better at it than I was," Jack said. "She was so bubbly and just full of energy that half the time it was impossible to keep up with her; always moving, always talking, half the time I couldn't understand her. I think the other half, she couldn't understand herself."
Both Jack and Elsa chuckled softly as they looked at each other. Elsa sighed, "She always carried that spark that always makes me think of her as a little girl. I know it was in her genes because Erik and Lisbet had it too."
Jack nodded in agreement, "They were like little Anna's. If she wasn't a handful enough, they were three handfuls plus one."
Elsa continued, "And then they passed it on from generation to generation, and I- We, were there to watch it all happen."
"We still are," Jack added, "We're still looking over little Annalise, and after all these years I can still see Anna inside her."
"I see it too Jack," Elsa said looking into his eyes, "I always have."
Jack smiled and leaned forward, "You always will."
Elsa smiled, lightly kissed him, and rested her head on his chest as Jack held her longer, rubbing his cheek on the top of her head.
After a while longer, Elsa looked back up at him, "I started thinking about this since I found out I was pregnant. I was thrilled and I still am. There were a million questions racing through my head; Is it going to be a boy or a girl? Is it going to have the same powers as us? Is it going to look more like you? Is it going to look more like me? Maybe it will look like Anna… And that's when I stopped myself and really started thinking… Anna's not around anymore, but this time it hit me how she really isn't with me anymore. I've seen her children grow up, and her children's children, but… she won't… be around to…"
Elsa gave up by that point and burried her face in Jack's body. Jack wouldn't dare complete that thought because he knew that it would just destroy her. What worried him the most was that he didn't know what she was feeling at this point. At least if she was still sobbing he would know what state she was in, but she was just silent. He was giving him no emotion to react to, just pure silence. So they both stayed quiet.
"Here," Jack finally said as he reached his hand into his pocket, "You need this more than I do."
Jack took her hand into his and placed the object in her palm. Elsa observed it and asked, "What's this?"
"It was my winnings from North," Jack smirked, "Supposedly worth more than all the toys in the world."
Elsa opened the pocket watch and looked at its black glass piece, "It doesn't have a clock."
"But it tells you about the best times," Jack said smiling.
Elsa looked into the glass piece as the blurred vision became clear. She saw two little girls playing in the snow. It was her and Anna as little girls. There was a collage of different memories; she and her building a snowman and going ice skating. The images became more colorful as she saw them as adults, repeating the same process; Playing with Olaf and ice skating. Elsa's face illuminated as she saw one more person enter the vision of her pleasant memories: Jack Frost. The overwhelming sensation of glee filled the glass' image with Jack's gift of snowball fights and sleigh rides. Soon Elsa saw herself in the same wedding dress she wore on her wedding day. Anna, as well as the Guardians and her children, cheered excitedly as Jack kissed the bride. This evolved to Jack and Elsa playing with Anna's children, to her grandchildren, as they all grew into adults. The last image that Elsa saw was her crouching by Anna's deathbed, holding her hand and Jack by her side; all of them with tear filled smiles on their faces. The glass piece soon dissolved into black again.
Elsa looked up from the glass up into Jack's eyes with tears in her own. She looked at him with a sad smile and cupped his cheek with her hand, "I love you."
Jack smiled at her with eyes that were on the verge of tears himself, and they kissed passionately. After they parted, Elsa hugged Jack tightly and said, "Thank you so much for helping me get through this Jack. I don't know what I'd do without you."
Jack continued holding her as tight as she held him and said, "You don't have to know. I've got you, and I will never let you go."
Jack used his knuckles to raise Elsa's chin so that they made eye contact and Jack gave her that confident smirk, "Hey, let's get outta here."
Jack shook his head rapidly back and forth making Elsa laugh, "Let's just get outta here!"
"What about the party?" Elsa asked.
"Like they're gonna miss me," Jack said.
Elsa looked over at the door that entered into the workshop, and back at Jack. As much fun as they were having with the others, it would be relaxing to have Jack all to herself; especially for the new year. She smiled up at him, "Let's say goodbye to everyone first."
Jack and Elsa walked into the same area of the workshop where everyone was gathered, all eyes were on them. Tooth flew up to them, "Elsa you're a mess. Are you okay?"
Elsa lowered her head slightly, remembering that she still had makeup stains running down her cheeks. Jack used his ice powers to moisten his fingers with cold water and began to wipe the mess off her face. Elsa effortlessly protested enough for Jack to wipe it off mostly clean. "Darn hormones," Jack answered.
"Still happy that you butted in?" Tooth sassed.
"Is she still crying?" Jack sassed back.
"She would've stopped crying eventually."
"Well I helped make that eventually turn into now."
"Enough you two," Elsa said.
"Sorry," Tooth and Jack said unison.
"Anyway," Elsa said, "We just wanted to let you all to know that we're going home."
"You two are leaving so soon?" Tooth asked. "But it's not even midnight yet."
"We'll see you next year I guess," Jack said.
Tooth rolled her eyes at Jack's cheap joke and continued with Elsa, "Stay a little longer, at least until the countdown."
Elsa eyed at Jack who simply shrugged, leaving the decision to her, "We'll stay for the countdown," Elsa answered, "But after that we're calling it a night."
Tooth let out an excited short squeal and continued onto the party. Jack and Elsa decided to sit together until then.
Author's Notes: The next chapter is the FINAL CHAPTER! So look forward to it. It might be short, but it will be a clean wrap up for this short story that I wrote. I hope you guys have enjoyed it so far, and will be looking forward to the next and last chapter.