(about twoish weeks later)
"Girls." Jack whispered in the doorway.
Annaleise tossed in her bed, letting out a slight groan.
"mm. Pappa?" Ellie rubbed her eyes and sat up.
"Annaleise." Jack floated over and gently shook his daughter, hoping to wake her up.
Annaleise rolled over, smacking Jack on the face on accident and snorted.
"Annaleise. Wake. Up."
"mmmm. Pappa, it's too early." Annaleise yawned.
Laurence tiptoed in, sitting on Ellie's bed and bouncing on the mattress.
"Do you girls want to go see the Guardians?" Jack grinned, wiping the hair from Annaleise's mouth.
Annaleise's eyed widened in happiness at the mention of Guardians. She and Ellie always enjoyed the time they could spend with North, Tooth, Sandy and Bunny.
"Just us four? What about mamma?" Ellie asked.
"Mamma had meetings until about one this morning, so she's sleeping in. We will only be gone a couple of hours so we should be back before she wakes up." Jack floated to Ellie, "booping" her nose with his staff.
Annaleise crawled to the edge of her bed and slid off, going to her closet and grabbing an adorable green dress for her and a purple dress for Ellie. She ran over to her sister's bed, pulled Ellie off of the bed and ran into the washroom to change. Ellie opened the doors to the balcony as Annaleise grabbed their hats and gloves.
Within one minute, the girls were all ready to go, even their hair. Ellie grabbed a hold of Jack's staff, Annaleise and Laurence held hands and taking Jack's hand, and were lifted up in the air. Jack floated the kids to the courtyard, looking for the hole-portal Bunny left them to be able to meet.
"One, two, JUMP!" Jack exclaimed, jumping into the rabbit hole, the kids following after.
"WHEEE!" Annaleise and Laurence exclaimed, their arms flailing in the air out of excitedness.
Ellie's eyes wide from sheer terror of falling, clinging onto Jack's chest. Being the first one out of the portal, he barrell rolled with Ellie on his chest, he sat Ellie on the ground, waiting to catch the other two.
"WAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!" Annaleise's excited shouts became clearer and clearer as the two reached the end of the portal. Jack caught Laurence, who flew out first, but missed Annaleise by a few seconds, who was caught by North.
"Well, I caught you just in time, little one!" North chuckled in his Russian accent.
"Uncle North!" Annaleise attempted to wrap her arms around North's chest for a hug, but her little arms couldn't exactly reach all the way around.
"Hello there, svetlkay (firefly)." north said, giving her a hug.
"FROST!" North sat Annaleise down and squeezed Jack as hard as he could.
"G-good to see you North." jack attempted to squeeze out as air felt as if it were being squeezed out of him.
"And you brought the snowflake, and mini-Frost. Vhere is Elsa?" North asked as he bent down to give the prince and princess a hug.
"Elsa had meetings late into this morning, so I figured I would bring the kids for a visit while she slept." jack said.
Elsa yawned and stretched, her eyes heavy with sleep. She was definitely not used to having meetings with the council run this late, but it had to be done. Treaties were NOT her forte, but they had to be reviewed and renewed. She plopped back on her pillows and looked over to her left. No Jack. She sat up, seeing the sun had risen already and decided to finally get out of bed.
Normally, Frederick, the butler would wake the girls up, but today, he was off. Elsa figured it would be a great day to spend with her children and go on a picnic at the lice palace. Up she got, her pale blue nightgown trailing behind her, her hair a mess, and went to Laurence's room to see if he was awake.
"Sweetie." She whispered.
"Are you awake?" She peered into the rom. Empty.
"Maybe he's with the girls." Elsa said to herself.
*knock knock*
"Girls."
"Girls, are you awake?"
She slowly opened the door. The girls weren't there either.
She shouldn't be worried.
"They could be with Anna. Yeah. Anna."
Nope. Elsa saw Anna, Kristoff and Anders prep for their trip to the ice harvesting lakes outside in the stables from the girl's balcony.
Elsa quickly braided her hair and raced back to her room, thowing on a plain purple dress.
"Girls? Laurence? jack?" Elsa called out, worried.
"Jack? Annaleise? Ell-" Elsa saw Kai pass by downstairs, preparing to return to his quarters.
"Kai!" Elsa picked up her dress and scurried down the stairs.
"Good morning your Majesty." Kai bowed.
"Kai, I've said just Elsa."
"Good Morning, Elsa."
"Have you seen the children, and or Jack anywhere?" Elsa clutched her braid.
"I believe sir Jack and the children went outside a little while ago. I haven't seen them since." Kai said, collecting his papers.
"Thank you Kai. I'll see you and Gerda later, yes?" Elsa asked.
"Of course your maj- Elsa."
Elsa nodded, picked up her dress and ran out to the courtyard. As she ran through the snow, her foot got caught in a hole. Toppling over, feeling as if the breath had been knocked out of her, she caught herself with a blast of ice.
"OWWWW." She exclaimed, grabbing her right ankle. She looked closer at the hole and dropped a small pebble into the opening. SHe placed her ear at the top and waited to hear at least some form of "tap" or "plop". No sound. It kept falling.
"FROST." She growled. Waking up with no one next to her was one thing. But with all three children gone and no husband in site, it definitely would cause a reason to be upset. She clenched her fists together, frost beginning to form around her knuckled. She looked down and quickly stopped. No. Ice wasn't the way to solve this. She had a right to be upset. Oh the words Jack would hear when they return.
"Tooth! I don't have any cavities!" Laurence exclaimed.
Tooth fluttered down and took a peek into Laurence's mouth.
"You have teeth like your father. Perfectly white, no cavities and straight!" Tooth was excited to see another young one keeping up on his dental routine.
"Tooth! i lost another one last month" Ellie smiled, showing the empty spot where a tooth was beginning to grow on her lower right side.
"You did! Your adult teeth will be here in no time!" Tooth smiled, giving the princess a hug.
"Bunny, are you going to visit Arendelle next Easter?" Annaleise asked, taking a hold of Bunnymund's paw.
"If I can make it from Japan to London in seconds, I can sure stop by Arendelle for a jiffy." Bunny said, handing Annaleise a chocolate egg, Annaleise gladly accepting it.
"Thank you!" She hugged the rabbit's arm.
"Welcome fireball." He shouted back.
"Oi, Frost. Are you sure Elsa's okay with you not bring her here?"
"She's sleeping, she probably won't even notice we are gone." Jack said, a snowball forming in his hand.
Sandy, making figures of horses for Ellie, turned around and heard a slight "thump." He knew who it was, and she sure wasn't happy. Sandy floated over to Jack and Bunny trying to get their attention, pointing behind them.
"What is it Sandy?" Jack asked.
Sandy did a motion for "turn around".
"What, what's behind us?" Bunny asked.
Sandy facepalmed his forehead, flew over to Jack and turned him around.
Jack met nose to nose with Elsa. A not so very happy Elsa.
"Uh, morning?" Jack nervously asked. He could tell her by her eyes that she was pretty tired still, and this may have not been the best thing to do without her.
"Do you know worried I was when the girls and Laurence weren't in their rooms? I looked all over for them, only to find a portal hole right in the middle of the courtyard. DO you know how it feels? Wha-" Elsa angrily asked, but was interrupted by Laurence tugging on the skirt of her dress.
"Mamma, are we in twobble?" Laurence asked.
Elsa couldn't find the words to say next as she saw her son's adorable eyes look sad.
"N-no! Why would you be in trouble? Your father just needs to have some sense knocked into him." She knelt down and patted his head.
"Papa thought that you needed a day off, so we came down here." Ellie said, taking her mothers hand.
How could Elsa resist those adorable eyes? All of her children had adorable eyes.
"Mamma, we're cavity free!" Annaleise grinned, showing off her pearly whites.
"They do have very good oral hygiene. You did pretty well teaching them, Elsa." Tooth smiled.
Elsa looked back at Jack and sighed, shaking her head. Her eyes started fluttering, the sleepiness returning. Sandy hadn't been near her so he wasn't the reason why she was so sleepy. Elsa began wobbling over to Jack, her eyes growing heavy with sleep.
"I've got a...bone to...pick….with….." Elsa fell back asleep in Jack's arms, softly snoring, letting out a sleepy sigh.
"Sorry for making this so short, guys. I think i should take them home." Jack swung Elsa over both of his arms, holding her bridal style. The guardians understood and cleared a path for the Frost family. Bunny tapped his foot on the ground and a portal appeared in front of the Frosts, a walk-in portal to make things easier.
The girls waved to everyone, everyone waved back, Laurence gave a bow and followed. Back to Arendelle, back to bed went Elsa, and to breakfast went Jack, the girls and Laurence. Pancakes, which Jack made, were ate, milk drank, baths taken and to the library they went; spending the rest of the day reading together as Elsa slept the whole afternoon through.
Sorry if the chapter seems so rushed. It was a last minute thing and took like a an hour (well, about an hour and a half while watching a missed episode of Doctor Who) to type out. Anyways, here's a short read, preparing you for the next few chapters. The Guardians will show up in part 2, I promise.