The Final Chapter! OMG! Finally! I've been so excited to post this chapter! Also This was the most difficult chapter because I kept changing the chapter. Hopefully everyone loves it! PLEASE REVIEW!
Chapter 21: Goodbye
I ran to the thin ice and try to rescue Alexandra. I know my heart says she's dead, but a small tiny piece of me believes she is alive. I dived in surprisingly warm water. I found Alexandra and scoped her up, hoping to save her. I reached the surface pulling Alexandra to shore. Elsa and my father help bring Alexandra to land. Father tried saving her, but no life. Elsa and I even tried and she won't come back to life. We all fell silent as the black snow and black ice thawed. We decided to go back to the castle. Father scooped up Alexandra into his arms. All pale and soaked from the water. I can't look at Alexandra without feeling complete guilt or burst into tears. I feel like it's my fault that she died.
When we arrived to the castle, Anna and Kristoff ran and hug Elsa and me. The second they saw Alexandra, they said sorry for our lost. Anna cried and Kristoff comforted her. We did a seeing; all the kingdoms that were there all said "sorry for your lost."
Father said to Alexandra, "I'm sorry for being a monster to you. You are not a monster, Alexandra, I am." Then he left. I was alone with my dead sister.
I decided to say, "Alexandra, thank you for teaching me about having fun. I'm going to miss you. Hell, I don't even know what to do. I broke my promise. I vowed to protect you no matter what. Didrik had to put those nightmares in you and it made you go haywire, if I didn't snap at you," I started to cry and continued, "None of this would have happened. Alexandra, you knew that trouble was coming and I ignored all the signs. You are my sister. You are my best friend. I love you."
Elsa was behind me, crying her eyes out and hugged me.
"I'm so sorry Jack," Elsa cried into my shoulder.
"It's not your fault," I cried.
We just stayed in our hug. I needed this because if she breaks away, I feel like I'm going to fall to the ground unable to get up. The second we break our hug, we walked away from Alexandra in this cold dark room. I look back one more time, hoping she wakes up and says, "Jack, I'm alive and well."
The next day, I refuse to speak or eat anything. Elsa tried having a conversation with me, but failed to make me speak or eat anything. Then my father told when the funeral is and he understands the pain I'm in. The problem is he didn't understand Alexandra as the way I did. He treated her as a monster and yet she turned out to be the nicest person you've ever met. Something about her just made you want to be her friend. Everyone knows her and her power, and they all love her. Father will have to tell everyone how Alexandra dies and hold another funeral with an empty coffin. That made me almost said something. I just hid in my room. Frost and snow were everywhere. I just cried all day and just had an empty feeling all day.
The second day, my room was still covered in snow and frost; I stepped out of my room and went to the kitchen. Elsa and Anna were there.
"Good morning Jack," Elsa said.
"Morning," I said.
Elsa looked like she hadn't heard my voice in a long time more than a day.
"He speaks," Anna exclaims.
"Anna, be quiet everyone might be still asleep," Elsa scolded.
"You said he won't speak to any one and he just spoke," Anna whispered.
"Jack, are you okay," Elsa asked.
"Honestly, I'm not okay. I'm nowhere near okay. I am not excited to go to my sister's funeral and I don't think no one is," I said.
"Jack, please don't shut me out. Don't shut the world! Think about what Alexandra would want you to do," Elsa yelled.
"Jack," Alexandra yelled.
We got in a massive fight. I walked away from her.
"Jack, come back here," She demanded.
"Enough Alexandra," I yelled back at her.
"Why? So you can be Father's perfect son again? I know the truth Jack," She claims.
I stopped in my tracks and turned around and said to Alexandra, "You know nothing, Alexandra."
"Yes, I do Jack," Alexandra said and I noticed my frost and her ice everywhere.
I had this guilty feeling in me. I know we fought about over the most stupid things, but this one hurts. I can't believe she would say that to me. I don't blame her for being sick in this castle. I'm even sick of this place. I wish Father would return soon. I already heard about a storm taking someone. I know it wasn't father. I decided to apologize to Alexandra. I saw ice crept through the whole door. I knocked on the door and said, "Alexandra, please open up."
She wouldn't answer and I just opened the door. I saw her crying. My guilt went from bad to worse the second I saw her like this. I ran to her side and said, "Alexandra, I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to yell at you. Please stop crying!"
"What do you want," Alexandra asked.
"To make sure everything will be okay," I said.
"I don't know, Jack," Alexandra said.
"I promise I won't shut you out like that again," I said, "Want to go ice skating?"
"Even if I die before you," Alexandra said, "Whenever you fall in love Jack, Don't shut her out, promise me even after I die."
"Even if you die I promise not to shut you out or my future love," I said.
"Good. Let's go skating," Alexandra said.
"Elsa, I promise I won't shut you out," I said.
"What," Elsa said.
"I promised Alexandra when I was almost nineteen, that if I love someone so much that I promise not to shut them out," I said.
"She made you promise," Elsa asked with a half-smile, "Tell me more stories of Alexandra!"
All day, I was telling all the stories of Alexandra and me. Even Father joined, he had a giant smile on his face every time or he would say "Why didn't you guys tell me that?" We would laugh and he would laugh to. We all need a little of Alexandra's magic. I love telling the story of Alexandra and her favorite book. She used her ice powers and made ice sculptures of the characters and reenacts them. I watched her do this. I was more focused on how detailed she would make them. They were so detailed that you can see every detail of the character.
Everyone enjoyed the stories, especially Elsa. Father turned in after the ice sculptures story because he just like the idea of Alexandra being so happy with one little book, of fairy tales. Anna and Kristoff left after I told the story of what happened before we came to Arendelle. Everyone left after when she first discovered her powers. Oh, that story had to be cleaned up majorly only Father, Elsa, and I only know the true story. I said "This is how she discovered her powers. She was three years old and was playing by the pond by the flower beds. She saw a fish and she touched the water and it froze. She didn't know what to do so she walked on the ice. I yelled, "Alexandra!" She looked up and said "Look what I made!" gesturing to the pond. Then our father heard the noise and scolded her because the ice could have been thin. She said she made the ice. Our Father had to explain to her not to show her powers to anyone."
Yeah, I know terrible story. Though, it was cute enough, to show father being a good father and Alexandra acting like an innocent child. I know Elsa stiffed up when I said I'll tell you the story of how Alexandra found out her powers. She stayed behind and mouthed "Liar."
"Hey, it worked," I whispered.
"You only said that to make your father look good," Elsa said.
"I know," I replied.
"It's getting late, let's go to bed," Elsa said.
We walked hand in hand and went to bed.
The funeral was today. Everyone came because Alexandra was the hero of Arendelle. I know she would want me to be happy that she lived her life, but I can't be happy. Not about her death because she was my best friend and I was hers. The world just seems to be a lot colder now. I heard a knock on the door.
"Jack," a female voice asked, "May I come in?"
"Yes," I replied.
The door opened and Elsa walks in. She looks like she had been crying as much as I did. We had a moment of silence until she broke it.
"You know you couldn't do anything to save her," Elsa said.
"There is always a way, but we were all to stun on what happened. I wish she didn't die the way she did," I replied.
"Me too. Hans murdered her and you know we couldn't do anything. He was going to kill us to, Jack! She saved us, Jack. Don't you see that was her way of sacrificing herself for the greater good? Saving her family," Elsa said.
"I know she killed herself to save us, Elsa. She stomped the ice first and when he fell he got her. I don't think that's considered murder. I miss Alexandra," I said.
"I miss her too, Jack. Your father misses her dearly. He even told me that he regrets hurting her. He wishes she didn't kill herself to save his life. He said in quote 'If I could switch spots with Alexandra, I would in a heartbeat,'" Elsa said, "He needs you as much as you need your father. As much as I need you and you need me."
"He really said that? To be honest, I'm not ready for the funeral," I said.
Elsa took my hand and gave me a reassuring squeeze and said, "I know you are not ready. I think no one was ready. I bet Alexandra wasn't ready."
I gave her a half smile and said, "I love you."
"I love you, too," Elsa said, "Ready to go down stairs?"
"I'll never be ready, Elsa," I replied.
"I know," Elsa said.
We both head out to where the funeral is being held at. I looked around the room, I thought what Alexandra would say, "So many sad people and I bet half of these people don't even like the person. They are all sad because the person is gone, but they're also happy because the person lived. I think the sadness over takes the happiness. It makes it worse that they make everything in black and make it all depressing."
That thought made me smile. I asked for a splash of color in the decorations. Anna insisted on painting a portrait of her. I agreed to it. I saw a glimpse of it earlier today and I was amazed. Elsa walked away for a second. I'm standing alone and everything around me reminds me of Alexandra.
It was a summer afternoon. It was a beautiful day. Alexandra was only fourteen. She was sitting on a window still, reading her favorite book. She looked all at peace. I was doing paperwork because our father was away for some reason.
"Jack," Alexandra said.
I stopped what I was doing and looked up at her and said, "Yes?"
"Why are we cooped up inside when it's so beautiful outside," Alexandra asked.
"What do you want to do then," I asked.
"Let's go ice skating," Alexandra said and she stomped her foot down to make ice all around the library.
"Alexandra," I scolded her.
She made skates for us and skate towards me and said, "Just have some fun, Jack."
I never skated before. She skated as if she done it her whole life. I learned that night she did this right under Father's nose. I was so clumsy, that she taught me how to skate. We skated for hours.
I laughed and said, "That was so much fun!"
She laughed at me because I didn't had this much fun in years.
I laughed at the memory.
"What got you all giggly all of a sudden," Elsa asked.
"I just thought about the first time I ice skated," I replied.
"That must have been a funny story," Elsa said.
"It is, and it's that kind of personal story to tell, but I'll tell it later," I said.
"Fine. Do you know what to say," Elsa asked.
"I do," I said.
"Good, let's go find our seats," Elsa said.
When everyone was settled in, the priest started to say a prayer on how she'll always be alive in our memories and in our hearts. Then Father spoke up and said how lucky he had Alexandra as a daughter, and he wish our mother saw how beautiful she is. He cried at the end, I guess he did have a change of heart after all because He read a personal letter from Alexandra. I don't know when she sent that letter, but it said "No matter what, father, that life will bring. I will always love you." Everyone cried especially me.
When it was my turn to say something about Alexandra, I said, "Alexandra. What can you say about her? She was my sister. She was my best friend and now she's gone. She may live in our hearts and memories. She will live in a spirit form. The world will be different without her. Life will be weird without her here with us. Every time I look at the corpse of my sister, I hope she wakes up and be her normal self. This is goodbye my sister. Goodbye, my best friend, I hope we'll meet again."
Everything that happened after my little goodbye was a blur. That day was a blur. All I remembered was Elsa dubbing today as Ice Princess Day for the honor of Alexandra.
"A few years later, I propose to Elsa and she said yes. Then a little down the road, Elsa had a baby girl and we named her Alexandra. That is now a family name. The painting Anna made is still hanging on the wall in the Arendelle Castle. Anna named the painting "Ice Queen." I said, "Answer your question about my past?"
"Yes, but what if she is alive," Jamie asked.
It's been a hundred years since Jamie became a guardian of believing.
"Jamie, if she was alive, she is impossible to find. She covers her tracks like crazy. You can even ask North," I said.
"I did and he said he won't tell me," Jamie frowned.
"Jack, you got a visitor," Bunny said.
"Who," I asked.
Then Elsa came in with her beautiful ice blue dress and her hair up in her messy braid. She looks like she'd been crying.
"Elsa," I asked, "What's wrong?"
"Jack," Elsa said, "It's Alexandra. She's in trouble."
Sorry for the cliffhanger! The sequel is offical! I don't know when the first chapter will be up exactly, but it will be soon. I just need to plot it out
