This chapter and all the following chapters will now be in 3rd person. 1st person story was not quite working out for me, I was having difficulty in writing each chapter, and the story was not being written the way I thought I would. So I hope you understand.
P.S There might be many grammatical mistakes in the story mainly because English is not my main language. So please forgive me if I make any mistakes [This goes especially to Grammer Nazis :) ]
Chapter Ten
Elsa walked nervously in her room, pacing back and forth while constantly looking at the clock. She was excited as well as nervous and anxious, this was her first date with someone and she wanted it to be perfect. She was interrupted by a knock on the door, "Elsa" Anna called from outside. If it was anyone else she would've simply ignored them until they would've gone away but Anna wasn't going to leave her until she let her in. "Come in" she said trying best to make her voice sound firm.
Entering the room Anna suddenly noticed the coldness inside and also the fast pacing of her sister. "Elsa, what's wrong?" she asked coming near her. Elsa stopped and looked at her sister with nervousness displayed across her face, "Anna, I'm nervous" she spoke. "Nervous?" she asked.
"This is my first date, what if I ruin it. What if I freeze him and he wouldn't want to talk to me ever again... Anna I'm scared" she sat down on her bed, Anna sat next to her placing her arm around Elsa's shoulder. "Elsa, you're exaggerating, you need to calm down" Elsa took deep breaths, "And besides you sound stupid, him not talking to you ever again?". Elsa nodded at this. "Hey, no matter what happens he won't leave you and you really need to calm down or you'll freeze us both".
After a few minutes of silence and heavy breaths Elsa seemed to calm down. She gave Anna a warm smile. Anna threw herself up from bed, "So what will you be wearing?" she asked making Elsa raise her eyebrow, "Please tell me you won't be wearing this?".
"What's wrong with this?" She got up from her bed and extended her arms looking down at her usual ice dress.
"Oh please, you are not wearing that" Anna said irritated and began to search her wardrobe, "He's already seen you in this like a hundred time or so. Remember the Ball, he wouldn't have kissed you if you weren't wearing a different dress... okay maybe he would have but it made him more desperate to kiss you-" she stopped as she found a dress with a tiny skirt that would've reached above the thighs, "Oh my god. You have to wear this" she held it out infront of her.
"What? Anna I'm not going to wear that"
"I'm joking" she put it back, "And why do you have a dress like that?"
Elsa seemed to be taken aback by her question. Even she didn't know why she kept that dress, "Oh... that, uh... I don't really know". Anna didn't pay attention to her answer, she kept herself occupied in searching for a suitable dress for her beloved sister to wear. After a long while of looking at dresses and constantly repeating "No" she finally picked a dress. It was a red dress with small sparkling dots covered on it. "This!" Anna exclaimed and threw it at her sister, "Wear this". After examining the dress for a while Elsa went into her bathroom to wear it. After a few minutes she came out, the dress sparkled in light and she knew it was the perfect dress for the occasion. "Now undo your hair" Anna commanded.
"Why? I like it this way and so does Connor" Elsa ran her hands through her hair which was in a French braid.
"You know, it won't look so good if-I don't know-someone dropped a bottle of ink on it?" She slowly picked a bottle of ink from a table. "You wouldn't" Elsa said to her taking a few steps back.
"Oh I would. Now do it or..."
"Okay, okay" Elsa said untying the small pins from her hair. She went and stood next to the mirror and kept checking herself. "You look beautiful Elsa, he won't be able to take his eye's off of you" Anna said making Elsa slightly blush.
"Elsa?" Connor politely knocked at her door, "You in there?"
"Coming, just making a final check" she replied.
"Okay, well yo- WHOA!" he gaped as he saw her, she looked beautiful at the Ball but now she looked simply magnificent. "What?" she said as he continually looked at her.
"Nothing just admiring... your beauty" he gestured, "You look beautiful"
"Thank you, and you look handsome" she complemented him to which he let out a small laugh.
"So shall we proceed with our date, Els?"
"Yes, and where are we going?"
"It's a small place I found near the entrance of the forest"
"Then lead on"
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"How much more? You said near the entrace, we passed it about fifteen minutes ago" Elsa complained while following him.
"You asked me this five seconds ago" he retorted, "and how can you be so tired? We've only been walking for about five minutes or so"
"Easy for you" she breathed heavily, "You're not wearing high heels and walk... walking on two feet deep snow"
"We're hear" he stood near a wall of leaves and headed inside followed by Elsa. Elsa gaped seeing the place, the ground had been cleared of snow and was covered in grass, there was a small lake which somehow was also not frozen.
"When did you find this?"
"Well, a long time ago, it's not as beautiful as it looked in summer but it will still keep eyes off of us"
"It's still wonderful, I don't know how I missed this?" she pointed towards a picnic basket that had been placed by him before, "And you brought FOOD!"
"You know you're turning into Anna" he teased her.
"Sorry, I'll try to sink back to myself"
"Aww, I was starting to like your 'Anna' side" he drew her closer to himself and kissed her passionately. "Now, how about some food your majesty?" he said in his best regal voice and took out some chocolate croissants, a few chocolate berries and some hot chocolate.
"How's your wound?" she asked him while taking a croissant.
"Oh, it could be better. The medicine is really helping" he sat down next to her, "And may I ask that why do you and Anna go, you know, crazy over chocolate?"
"Well, when Mama was pregnant with Anna she always had a strong obsession with chocolate. When Anna was four she ate her first chocolate and after that she's just obsessed with it... and soon I also became obsessed with it and so did Mama" she smiled at the memory.
"Obsessed? You won't survive a week without chocolate"
"Is that a challenge?" she raised an eyebrow at him. He laughed at this, "Only if you want it to be" he spoke. "You're on" unknowingly she took another bite from her croissant, "Staring from tomorrow"
"Well, if you want to lose then you're on. And worthy of note, don't think of cheating"
Elsa spawned a small snowball and threw it at his face, "Ah, cold"
"Sorry, you're face is like a snowball magnet to me... and I thought that the cold didn't bother you"
"It does... just because my body remains hot that doesn't mean it doesn't... well not too much. Travelling for years my body just accepted the cold weather"
"What happened to you? You know before you left your village?"
"Oh... well, uh, when I was just fifteen I first found my powers. My mom was afraid because she didn't think of it to be normal and then one night I lost control and... I-I... burned down our house. The villagers ran me out of there and after that I just travelled"
"You lost control?"
"Yes, that's why I'm afraid of using them. I just lose control like that. That's why I always kept travelling until I returned here and I ran into you and Anna and after that I'm still here"
"Didn't you ever feel alone?"
"You don't even know. I just isolated my self from the world, I never talked to people nor ever wandered around them. But soon I began to wish I had someone whom I could talk to but I knew I would only end up harming them. But then I met up with Nikolas who treated me like a brother and inducted me into the Outlast until he was blinded by the wealth"
"So what happened between you two?"
"Well, Amicus, our leader, assigned me and him a contract. We needed to find location of a temple or a ruin or something. He said it contained something powerful that would grant us all we could ever hope for, and offered both of us large wealth.
"We both kept working on it for two months or so, growing closer each day but that one day in the warehouse he became blinded by the wealth and then tried to send me to my death but my powers kind of helped me. They saved me from being harmed and using them I came out mostly unharmed. After that I left them but I still feared that they might come back and now they have and I've put you and Anna and everyone in danger"
"Hey, if they come we'll face them, together. And besides you said they wouldn't attack for about a month or so"
"A small theory, they couldn't risk sending too many men to their death. Amicus never trusted a large number of men but you can expect anything from them. I mean, once I got a contract to prank the Duke of Weselton"
Elsa laughed a bit hearing of the little man, "What? You have to tell me what happened?"
"It was during a party where he was invited. The contract said I needed to make it humiliating, like really really humiliating. So I sneaked in and... kind of lighted his butt on fire. He went crazy-"
Elsa laughed picturing the Duke, "How crazy?"
"He sat on the cake and it melted completely, what's even more he was wearing leather pants and they got stuck on the steel platter. After that I ran away before the guards decided to find who did that to him"
"You are so cruel" Elsa said barely containing her laughter, "Did they always give you sorts of contracts?". Connor's smile faded a bit hearing her question, "Not really, most them were assassination contracts and only a few were like those". Elsa noticed his smiled fading and gently grabbed his arm, "Hey you don't have to be sad about what you did before. The past is gone, everything you did was just to survive"
"Elsa I was a killer" he said coldly, Elsa made a large snowball and threw it at him. It hit his face before he could react. "Again!" he compalined, wiping the snow off of his face again, "You know I will enjoy teasing you with chocolate this week"
"You can try, but if you're not forgetting I'm not Anna" before Connor could reply Elsa pressed her lips to his.
After a long kiss they both seperated. "You know we should head back the sun's going down and if we don't come back till then Anna will kill us" Connor spoke getting up and holding his hand for Elsa to reach. Elsa frowned, "Okay".
Walking back they came across a clear space filled with snow, seeing the opportunity for revenge he made a snowball and aimed it at Elsa's head, "Payback time" he muttered and threw the ball with hit her at the back of her head. She turned around to see him grinning, "You did not just start a snowball fight with the Snow Queen" she spawned a large snowball, about the size of a watermelon, and hurled it at him. Before it could hit him a large flaming wall appeared in front of him, melting the snowmelon right away. "Whoa... oh, yeah!" he became over joyed and also curious how that happened. His powers protected him without him even triggering them.
"That's cheating" Elsa complained as she saw his wall of flame.
"And that's not" he retracted seeing Elsa forming dozens of snowballs. Just before they hit them he made a streak of flame melting them, and just before Elsa could react he made a large snowball and threw it at her. "Ow, that hurt" she said rubbing her eyes.
"Wait, let me look" he went near her and suddenly noticed a huge devilish grin on Elsa's face. "Uh oh" before he realized he was buried in a heap of snow.
"Dwat ish cheathing" he mumbled raising his arm from under the pile of snow.
"It's not cheating unless the other person plays by the same rules" she extended her hand for him to grab, he did but instead of getting up he pulled Elsa down with him. "My dress" she said, looking at her dress which was now covered in snow.
"Pswaybask" he shook his head and moved his tongue in his mouth as if waking it up again, "Payback"
Elsa formed another snowball and dropped it on his face. "Seriously, if you don't stop throwing snowballs at my face than I'll...-"
"Then you'll what?"
"There are a lot of things that I can do... like I could bribe Anna to tease you for a whole day or maybe I could just kiss you"
"Oh, I cannot think of a worse way of revenge" she leaned her face closer to his. "Well I am devious when it comes to revenge" and connected his lips to hers.
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"Sir, the Assassin's you sent have come back and I'm... afraid there is bad news" Nikolas turned his face to look at the servant, hearing the word 'Bad news' sent a rush of fury in him. "SEND THEM IN" he commanded him. He ran outside and after a few moments Corvo stepped in.
"Corvo, what news of the mission?" he asked him in rage.
"Master, everything was going according to plan. But then someone saw us and we had no other option than to attack. There were only two a man and a woman-"
"I SEND YOU TO A SIMPLE MISSION, COLLECT INFORMATION FROM REGINALD AND COME BACK. EVEN THE SIMPLEST TASKS YOU CANNOT DO" he yelled at him, his voice echoing in the room.
"Listen. The man, he was one of us. Master this person, if I didn't hallucinate, was Connor"
"That is stupid. He died two years ago"
"It was him, he fought like us and believe me when I tell you, his face is one that I will never forget. It was HIM. He's alive"
"What happened to Jack and Marcus?"
"They didn't make it"
"Curses... leave me be. And tell Richard to gather more men, we need all the help we can get if we are to find this Temple. We need to grow our order into something bigger and more powerful"
Corvo left and soon he was left alone with his thoughts.
"So my friend, you have returned from the dead" he whispered to himself, "Well then lets see if you still remember your friends and most especially lets see if you remember your past"
OH GOD THIS CHAPTER SEEMED IMPOSSIBLE FOR ME TO WRITE. JEEZ. I SUCK AT WRITING ROMANTIC THINGS. I had a serious Writer Block, but thanks to my friend Car54 for his help. Thanks buddy. Anyway I hope you guys liked this chapter.