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Part XI
Sun rays filtered through the tree tops, Elsa slowly woke up from her slumber, slightly disoriented, she looked around, in her arms Jane Porter looked back at her with a small smile and turquoise eyes full with love.
"Did you sleep well, my love?" Jane asked in a low whisper.
"Yes, I did." Elsa answered, amazed with such a perfect view so close to her, a sight she missed dearly for so long.
"You look so peaceful when you sleep" a featherlike caress brushed Elsa's cheek, slender fingers moved slowly tracing her jaw, eyes never leaving the blonde's "I missed waking up to you."
"I missed it too, my dear." Both girls smiled sweetly. Then it happened. Slowly, like on a dream, the brunette leaned over the Queen, the blonde was startled, their lips were about to touch. Finally, after five long years of longing, she would be able to kiss her beloved once again.
"Kima? What are you doing?" Elsa tuned her head to the voice and found Jane standing near her with a bunch of fruits in her arms.
"Wait, what?" The blonde then turned to the girl supposedly in her arms, brown eyes looked back at her, she screamed at the top of her lungs while the small baboon ran away mocking the young Queen.
Elsa grumbled her anger along with a piece of banana, Jane's smirk only kindled her annoyance.
"Oh, please darling, you have to accept that it was funny" the brunette said in attempt to light the mood.
"I am glad you find amusing the assault your little monster almost committed" she said with disdain.
"Kima is hardly a monster, he is a cutie" she said casually caressing his chin much to his pleasure, the small baboon was sitting on Jane's shoulder sharing his food with her
"It is hard for me to understand how both of you got together." The Queen said.
"Well, Kima was injured and lost, he was just a baby. I helped him get well and took care of him. He once had the opportunity to go back to his herd, but apparently he has claimed me as his family." The brunette said with a small smile. "It is different being with Kima than being with Tarzan. Sometimes I felt like I was an intruder in his family and it got worse after my father died. But with this little fellow I feel a perfect match, as if he could understand me. We found each other in times of need, when we both were alone." Elsa felt a pang in her heart for two reasons, first of all, it hurt her the idea of Jane being by herself and far away from everything and everyone she knew. Second, it was the first time she heard about the mysterious man in Jane's life. "But enough about those memories, there are better things to talk about, am I right, darling?"
"I-I agree, dear" Elsa said, Kristoff's words echoed her mind. "Would you mind showing me around? I am aware that it will be hard to find a better guide than you." She said with a small smile which quickly banished once she saw Kima rolling his eyes.
"Nothing could please me more." Both girls linked their arms and walked without a real destination, aiming only to share each other's company.
"Bloody storm" Jane silently whispered, trying hard to summon enough courage to bear with the loud roar of the lightings piercing the sky. It was the first time she was alone during a thunderstorm, she have always had either her father, Tarzan or Elsa to hold her and comfort her, but now her father was dead, she rejected Tarzan's love and Elsa…only heaven's knew about her beloved Elsa. The storm took her by surprise, she was so busy trying to make a knife that she failed to realize the dark clouds in the horizon, now Jane was at least two miles away from the tree house.
The girl hugged herself by the knees, trying not to think about the angry roar from the sky, so she started focusing on other sounds, the animals looking for shelter, the sound of the raindrops against stone, the river flowing to the sea, suddenly, she heard a helpless cry. Moved by curiosity, Jane gathered all the braveness she could and went looking for the source of the noise, which did not took her long. She found a small, malnourished baboon with several injures trapped in a treetop; talking to him in a low tone, the girl reached for the ape and took him with her.
At the beginning, the ape distrusted Jane since he had never seen a monkey so tall and strange, but as the days passed by, both began to open to each other. Jane taught him to understand her language and learned his as well, since he had no name, the girl offered to give him one, he accepted and agreed with his new friend's proposal to have the only word in Swahili the girl knew: Kima.
"…and that way, Kima defeated three crocodiles with just an arm and a rock, or so he says" Jane finished translating the baboon's words for Elsa. Kima smiled a smug grin at the blonde, there were several gaps in his story, besides she thought it was highly improbable for an ape that size to do those kind of things like wrestling crocodiles. The brunette saw the exchange of pointed looks highly amused, those two apparently were going to start an argument, teasing with a smile or an arched eyebrow.
"Sounds like a great adventure" Elsa said at last with a small hint of sarcasm on her voice. The baboon made some noises she got used to hear and Jane laughed hard. "What? What did he say?"
"Oh, nothing darling. He is just being his playful self" she said wiping a tear, out of nothing, she started sobbing, her shoulders shaking. "He has always been so good" then she took the baboon in her arms "Please, Kima, never leave me alone" for an instant, both Elsa and Kima looked to one another lost in confusion, but it did not take long for him to recover and hug Jane back with a victory smile on his face. The blonde huffed but ran a soothing hand over the brunette's back, not even five minutes happened and Jane was back in her normal mood, talking lively about the surroundings, Kima made a few observations as well and the girl politely interpreted.
"Could you teach me?" Elsa asked.
"To speak baboon?" the blonde nodded, Jane smiled and took the Queen's hand, they sat under a tree shade.
"What would you like me to teach you, Your Highness?" a small smile crossed her lips.
"Well, something basic could work, you have always been an excellent professor." Jane's smile broaden but composed herself.
"Fine, let's begin." She made a series of weird noises that Elsa had no idea on how to reproduce. "Just try it, Elsa. Focus on my lips" feeling a blush grow, the blonde obliged and directed her eyes to those lips she knew so well. It took them at least fifteen minutes to achieve some of the basic sounds.
"It is harder than it looks" Elsa said confused with the enunciation of certain sound.
"No, it is not…try again, place the middle part of your tongue on your palate" The Queen tried the sound once more and failed. "Oh, please, Elsa, you know how to move your tongue!" both girls blushed furiously. "Uh, I mean…to place it on the right place" Jane used all her will power to not facepalm herself "you know what I am trying to say." Elsa decided to let it go and followed the instructions, finally achieving the desired enunciation. "Fantastic, Elsa!" the brunette said "now try to say the whole sentence to Kima." Taking a deep breath, she turned to Kima and did what she asked, the Queen thought she was doing a great job until he started making angry noises and ran away.
"Fine, so where did I go wrong?" she asked annoyed.
"Well, you made an explosive sound instead of a bilabial sound on the second set, so instead of telling Kima you wanted to be his friend, you said you wanted him as your dinner."
"All of that because of that sound?"
"Among some other mistakes" Jane shrugged.
"You are the worst" the Queen said in a playful manner "I bet you can understand that in any language."
"You are just mad I can speak Baboon better than you." She smirked.
"With all the practice you have had, it is out of question." Elsa pushed her lightly, but since Jane was starting to stand up, she lost balance and pulled the blonde with her.
It was a like a déjà vu having the Queen on top of her, so close and yet so far. None of them dared to move an inch, Elsa's braid slightly tickling between Jane's breasts, the brunette marvelled at the sight of light filtering through strands of platinum blonde hair, of fair skin reflecting the light, she moved slowly and gently cupped the cheek from the girl atop of her.
"I must be dreaming once more" Elsa thought, but that warm hand on her made her think the opposite.
"You are breathtaking, my darling" Jane said in a soft whisper. Instinct and longing pushed Elsa to do a bolder move, she lowered to the girl beneath her, and never breaking eye contact in fear to find once more it was all a trick of her mind. They were so close she could even feel Jane's warm breath against her lips, they were about to kiss when a rude shove on the shoulder moved her aside, Kima was back with his angry noises. Both girls laughed, one to mask her nervousness, the other to hide the rage rising. That damned baboon. "Come on, Elsa" the brunette said standing up and moving as fast as she could to avoid the awkwardness "I want to show you some more places."
Kima climbed up to Jane's shoulder in a swift motion and turned to the Queen with a smug grin on his face. "Trust me, I would have you as my dinner." She muttered under her breath.
The sun was setting in the horizon, the sky seemed to be on fire, reflecting on the water the vivid yellow, red and orange colours from dusk, both girls stared at the image in a comfortable silence.
"This is so different from Arendelle" the young Queen said "I know is the same sunset, yet it feels like witnessing it for the first time in forever."
"Sometimes, you can be very poetic, darling" the naturalist said with a small smile. Elsa blushed and took out a small pouch from her bag and offered it to the girl beside her.
"May I tempt you?" Jane looked at her with an arched eyebrow but took it anyway, her jaw dropping.
"Are these…mint candies?"
"Have one and tell me" the brunette obliged and popped a marble like pale green candy in her mouth, shutting her eyes in delight.
"I really, really miss these" she said giving one to Kima, the ape looked at it and ate the candy, shortly he was asking for another.
"It looks like your little monster has a sweet tooth too." Elsa giggles
"Shto callin' Kima a munshta" Jane mumbled with her mouth full of candy, the Queen laughed openly much to the brunette's delight, it felt so good to be like that with her, being so free.
"Join us to dinner tonight, Kristoff and me"
"Elsa, I do not know if…"
"Please, just tonight. I miss having you with me. I will even escort you back home"
"You will not take a 'no' for an answer, right?"
"You know me pretty well, Miss Porter." The blonde smiled and Jane took Elsa's hand in hers.
"Then lead the way, Your Highness. I am at your service."
A bonfire in the middle of the campsite crackled along with Kristoff's lute, the blonde man was sitting on the floor with his back against a giant ice cube and humming a tune. He missed the cold and the ice…he also missed Sven and Anna, not precisely in that order, but ice was his entire life. He was so lost in his song, he did not realized Elsa had just returned.
"It sounds like a nice song." The Queen said in a friendly tone.
"Elsa! You're back!" He stood up and noticed a brunette girl with her. "And you came with Jane!"
"How do you know my name?" She asked.
"Oh, Elsa never stops talking about you, neither Anna, but mostly Elsa" the Queen's pale skin turned a crimson colour. "Anyways, I'm Kristoff Bjorgman." He said reaching out his hand to the girl for a handshake.
"Jane Porter" the girl said smiling, she was about to shake his hand, when a loud yell startled them, in an instant, Kristoff was in the floor with a tanned muscular man wrestling him. The men in charge of the expedition ran towards the commotion to break the fight. "Stop!" The girl screamed at the top of her lungs, both men were finally restrained by the sailors. Jane turned to the tall brunette man and spoke to him in a language that sounded a lot like Baboon. "Tarzan, what are you doing here?"
