A/N: Hi guys! Thanks for the awesome feedback with the last chapter, although a fair few of you did have a go at Jack for making Elsa cry, and I know there is no excuse for his behavior, but understand that he is acting that way because he is afraid of his feelings and he knows that he will have a huge decision to make, but that will come in the following chapters.
Now I shall stop my ranting before the voice appears and tells me to shut up and get on with the chapter.
So here is chapter 8!
Jack might have said that he wanted Elsa to go back, but the truth was that he wanted her to stay, forever.
So he once again visited the room the three siblings shared, only to find Ms. Darling asleep in a big armchair by the window, her eyes tired from searching the heavens with Marshmallow curled up at her feet.
"Elsa" she mumbled in her sleep "Elsa"
Jack's face hardened.
"He can't both have her lady" he said, still confused about his feelings, but certain that the last thing he wanted was for Elsa to leave Neverland.
Slowly he started easing the open widow closed, making sure not to making sure not to make a noise.
Mary Darling was awoken by a faint click, like a door or window closing. Instantly she went to check her missing children's' beds.
"Olaf? Anna? Elsa?"
Marshmallow then noticed that the balcony window had been closed, he barked to get his mistress's attention.
Mary gasped "The window's closed!"
She ran to it, tugging desperately to get it open again.
On his side of the window, Jack was fighting to keep it closed.
"George!" shouted Mary in her struggle "George come quickly!"
George Darling came running into his children's bedroom in his dressing gown, and ran to his wife's aid.
"It must always stay open for them" said Ms. Darling "Always!"
Eventually, Jack gave up, for the two adults were too strong for him, and he felt that their strength of will might have also been stronger than his.
But how was that possible? All parents wanted was for their children to grow up, wasn't it?
But Elsa's parents seemed to actually care that their children had disappeared.
-x-
Meanwhile, in Neverland, Elsa had burst into tears, but why? She had often fought with boys and lost, so why was it so different with Jack? Why did she have a feeling like something in her chest had smashed to pieces?
Confused with all these emotions, and not wanting her siblings and the lost boys to see her in this state, she went to the only place that she knew she could be alone, the house the boys had built her.
So she ran through the forest, not realizing that a little jealous fairy was following her.
As soon as she had opened the door, she fell onto the leafy floor, not making sure the door was closed, and she cried herself to sleep.
-x-
As soon as Elsa woke up, she knew she wasn't in the forest, unless the forest sawed from side to side.
Hesitantly she opened the door, and she found herself on a ship, that she recognized for she had seen it not two days ago from the sky. But this time the decks were bare of the captain's crew, this was the Nightmare Queen.
She then heard a sober melody coming from the other end of the ship, carefully she left the safety of her small house.
Following the music, she ended up outside a door with a name that she had used in many of her stories.
Captain Pritchard Black
Hesitating for a moment, she opened the door slowly.
There was a short, dark, narrow hallway that lead to a room, bursting with light and the sound of a piano and a terribly broken voice.
The first person she saw was an old man, his hair brushed back into a toupee. The man gestured her to be quiet, once she had reached him she had a complete view of the room, and of who was playing the piano, it was him, the man that haunted her stories.
Pitch Black
"Wrote it 'imself" said Weaseltown in her ear.
Just as the captain's comrade said this, Pitch finished his revolting song about pulling guts out of an innocent man with his hook.
"Elisabeth Darling" he said her name as if she was some sort of prize.
"I'd rather you call me Elsa, if you must call me anything" Elsa replied to the captain, trying to make herself sound more confident than she felt.
"Oh please!" said the captain "I didn't bring you here to have a shouting match" he gestured the table that was set with huge pieces of sea food and large fish, all looked cooked to perfection "Please sit down"
Remembering what her father had said about always accepting an invitation to dinner from a gentleman, but also forgetting what her mother had said about strangers, she carefully took a seat, wishing she was wearing something other than her now dirty baby blue knee length night gown.
"What is it that you wanted me here for then?" said the girl adding a "Sir" as an afterthought.
"I wanted to ask you what brought you to Neverland" he said, gesturing the Duke to pour him a glass of some sort of drink "I mean, I know it was Frost that brought you here but, what made you leave your darling parents and your precious future?"
Elsa was going to answer, but Weaseltown came beside her and opened a jug of bizarre drink.
"Muscat?"
Elsa looked at the drink in disgust, she had drunk small glasses of wine and champagne at the balls that her father had obliged her to go to, but she had been banned from spirits.
"I'm a young lady" she said, unsure of how to refuse without sounding rude"
"Oh" said the pirate in surprise "Rum then?"
Pitch seemed to get frustrated at his first mate "Duke, get out of the way" the captain then seemed to put up a pleasant façade "Sorry for the interruption, please continue my dear"
The captain's final words made her flinch, but she tried to stay focused on giving the pirate a valid answer.
"Well, my parents wanted me to grow up-"
"Oh growing up is such a bother!" said the captain, cutting her off "You've got expectations, and the pimples, and then the feelings come" he said picking his glass up "Frost is so lucky to not to be burdened by them"
Elsa, who had been looking down at the intricate cutlery, looked up at Pitch in shock.
Pitch looked at the blond that had tears building up in her eyes "Oh no" said the captain, putting his glass down "He cannot love, it's part of the riddle of his being"
For some reason, the pain that Elsa had had in her chest earlier in her chest cam e back, and the tears started flow down.
"Cigar?" asked Weaseltown, not being used to this kind of situation. His action lead to the captain plunging his hook into the guts of a huge lobster that was on the table, this made the pirate let go of the lid of the box, just missing his fingers.
During all of this, Elsa was just looking down at her lap. She heard movement, and a shuffle of big leather boots.
"There there" said Captain Black said, moving her hair out of her face with his hook "it doesn't have to be this way, there's always the option of becoming a pirate me hearty"
This made Elsa giggle lightly.
"Well, I've always thought of calling myself-"she said hesitantly.
"Yes?" asked Pitch intently.
"Neck Cracker Carrie" she said with a small smile on her face.
The captain seemed pleased "Oh what a wonderful name!" he said standing up and looking at his first mate who tapped on his cup as a sign of applause "That's we'll call you if you join us" finished the captain.
"But what would I do?" asked the girl "I couldn't possibly be expected to pillage!"
The captain seemed to think "You could possibly, tell stories?"
-x-
"And they all lived happily ever after" finished Elsa, as the crew of the Nightmare Queen looked and listened to her intently as she finished the story about Cinderella, and the deck blew up with applause.
Elsa was amazed at the feedback for one of her stories, for she had never had the courage to tell them in front of a crowd before for she knew that it was frowned upon in her society.
Pitch guided her back to her cabin, as he assured her that he would give her time to make her decision.
"I assure you that none of my crew will follow you" said Pitch "My new obsession is you my dear, not Frost and his whereabouts"
A chuckle went across the ship, but Elsa was not sure if it was a laugh because the captain used to have an obsession with killing Jack or if it was because what the captain was saying wasn't the truth, Elsa hopped it was the earlier.
"What would mother think" said Elsa, trying to play along with the crew "Of me becoming a pirate"
The girl's comment seemed to go over the pirates' heads.
"Until we meet again, my dear"
Those were the last words that she heard the captain say before he closed the door.
But what she did not know, was that this whole conspiracy had only been possible thanks to a little rainbow colored fairy, who was now being kept hostage below deck, not knowing that she had now doomed her best, and only friend.
-x-
When Elsa finally woke up, it was daylight, and she could no work out if the encounter with the pirates was a dream or reality, she decided it must have been the later, for once she left her cabin, she could see large boot prints around her small house.
And then she realized that the boys must have been worried, so she quickly ran to the tree, without even checking if there were spies, because surely Captain Black would keep his word, surely the parrot in a not so far away tree that was watching her intently that she hadn't seen wasn't his, surely it would all be smooth sailing from here, right?
So without a second thought, Elsa opened the door to the hide out, not even thinking twice before going in.
-x-
But at the table, thinking back to her final words to the pirates, what would her mother think? But the more she thought about her mother, the less she could remember.
"Anna" she said calmly, but she was not heard over the ruckus that the others were making "Anna!"
The room went silent
"Yes?" she said, looking at her, paint and dirt coating he face.
Elsa swallowed "What is your father's name?"
Anna looked at her sister in confusion "My father's name?" she barely had to think two seconds before answering the question, with an name that was not the one Elsa was hopping to hear "Jack!"
This panicked the eldest Darling "Olaf? Who is your mother?"
There was a grumble from the side of the table where Anna sat, about Olaf getting the "easy question", but both Elsa and her little brother ignored them.
"You are my mother Elsa" said Olaf with an adorable little smile.
"And isn't she just first class!" said Dash over the shouting that had started again.
And that's when Jack flew in, holing like a wolf.
"There is a new pirate aboard the Nightmare Queen" said Jack, picking two swords out of a basket "The mermaids say she is called Neck Cracker Carrie"
All the younger children looked at each other "Another adventure guys! Come on!" shouted Nemo as the all got up to get swords of their own.
"Neck Cracker Carrie?" said Hiccup "She sounds quite fearsome"
This brought a smirk to Elsa's face.
"Na" said Jack "She's just a story teller"
This made the girl cross.
"Just a story teller?" she asked in disgust "Neck Cracker Carrie could be a brave swordsman!"
This only made Jack laugh "Brave or not, I shall run her through" he said these last words while bringing one of his swords down onto a water melon that was on the table, slicing it in two.
Elsa could hardly control her rage now. She went to the other end of the room, and pulled out her own sword.
"Well brace yourself Jack Frost, for I am Neck Cracker Carrie!"
They all looked at her in confusion.
"Mother?" said the triplets in shock.
"Elsa?" said her sister in confusion.
Elsa just put on a contempt façade "It is true Anna, your sister has been invited, to piracy"
Jack just looked at her with a hurt stare, but to Elsa, it just felt like pay back.
"But mother!" said Jamie "Black is a fiend!"
"And a bounder!" added Dash.
While the boys had been warning her, Jack had come closer to Elsa, looking at her as if she had destroyed all his hopes and dreams.
"On the contrary" said Elsa, looking at Jack straight in the eyes "I find Captain Black, to be a man of Feeling"
Jack looked at her shocked, then he lunged at her. He himself didn't know if it was out of anger or frustration or even confusion, but it happened, and he was going to regret it later.
Elsa, who hadn't been expecting Jack's outburst, lost her grip on her blade, making it clatter to the floor, giving Jack the opportunity to put his sword to her throat. All the other children gasped.
"Mother and Father are fighting again" said Nemo.
Elsa tried to keep her calm, for could feel the blade grazing her skin.
"Sir, you are both ungallant, and deficient" she said, trying to keep her voice from wavering.
"How am I deficient?" asked Jack, anger lacing his voice.
Elsa shook her head "You're just a boy"
Jack's grip on his sword lessened, and he let the sword drop from Elsa's throat.
"Are you ready to be a pirate mother?" asked Olaf.
Elsa looked at her brother and sister
"No" at this Jack smiled but then "We're going home"
Jack stood there frozen, was she seriously thinking of leaving Neverland? Of leaving him?
Elsa went over to her siblings who had been protesting.
"Leave Neverland?"
She kneeled down to be at Olaf's level "We must" she said, her voice filled with sadness and regret "We have forgotten our parents"
Jack heard this, and realized what she was saying was true, what could he remember about his parents? Barely the color of their eyes.
"We must leave at once" said Elsa "Before we, in turn have forgotten"
Anna stood up from where she had kneeled down too, her face filled with realization "I've forgotten, my parents" she looked at her sister "We must leave!"
"No!" all the lost boys started surrounding them, as if it would stop them from leaving.
Jack turned around, he could feel he had brought this on himself.
"If you wish it" he said, it was barely audible over the shouting of the boys, but it was heard.
"'If you wish it'?" asked Dash incredulously
Jack could feel that if he didn't leave soon, the boys would see a side that they had never seen before, the weak side he had only let one person see, the person who was now ready to leave him.
"IF YOU WISH IT!" he said, his voice braking at the end, just as he flew off, not seeing the hurt look Elsa was giving him, she had been sure he would fight to keep her here, so why hadn't he?
A/N: Wow, that's a lot of writing!
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed it, and thank you so much to those who reviewed on the last chapter and gave Jack a piece of their mind, so many thanks to Elsa Lovers Fans, Elsa Fanlovers, joyfuljellybean, Thumbelina Lover, TPATFan16, and all the others that I might hav left out because you didn't leave a review but read the chapter, you're all amazing, and as you can see, Jack got what was coming for him.
Lots of Pay back and revengynous to your enemies
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