25.
Jack was trying hard not to die of embarrassment.
The way to Elsa's dorm consisted in her father looking straight to him through the rear view mirror, and her mother turning to look at them every once in a while with dreamy eyes and a knowing smile.
Why she was looking at them that way, he had no idea. So he just smiles incredibly awkwardly at her and tried to ignore Adgar's gaze that was threatening to burn through his skull.
What bothered him most, it that Elsa seemed completely oblivious about everything while he was about to jump out of the car.
And it all turned worst once they arrived.
Just as they entered the dorm, Elsa had the brilliant idea to take a shower (not that he actually blamed her) and Elsa's mom entered the room as well to make sure Elsa didn't have any problems. The rest of Elsa's friends arrived right after.
Just to summarize, let's say that Jack had never been so thankful of someone not knowing about his reputation. Kristoff was some kind of gift sent from God right now. Both of them were leaning against the 'kitchen' wall while the rest of Elsa's friends, including Anna and her father, were on the living room in silence.
Everybody was with their gaze stuck on him, he even cleared his throat at least 6 times in hopes of giving them a hint that their gazes were not discreet at all, but it seemed that it made them look at him even more intensely.
He cleared his throat again.
"Hey, are you okay man? Do you need some water or..?" Kristoff asked concerned, noting that Jack had already cleared his throat 7 times. Jack was about to face palm himself.
"No thanks, I'm fine" He said with a forced smile. Still, god bless Kristoff and his cluelessness, it was saving him from being alone.
Kristoff shrugged and began talking about probably his dog again, Jack was really trying to pay attention and ignore the intense gazes, until someone tapped on his shoulder.
Jack blinked in surprise and gazed down at Anna.
Great, now she surely would ask him to leave and to leave her sister alone and to not even breath nea-
"Thank you" Anna said, looking everywhere but his eyes. Jack jaw dropped a bit.
He was about to ask her to repeat what she said.
"Thank you for saving my sister" Anna said struggling with her words, while playing awkwardly with her hair. Jack was still speechless. "What-What I mean to say is…" She said finally looking at his eyes. She inhaled deeply. "I'm sorry"
"W-What?" Jack nearly chocked. He had no idea what on earth this girl was talking about.
"I'm sorry, Jack. I'm sorry for judging." She said. "Elsa was right about you" She whispered. Jack's breath hitched.
"Right about what?" Jack asked.
"Everything, really" She said shrugging. "She said that you deserved a chance, and that we didn't know you to judge" She quietly said. "She really struggled to be you friend you know? She told me that you ignored her at the beginning… but she refused to give up. She really wanted to become your friend" She said, and Jack's eyes widened. "There was even a time when she came and asked me how she could show you that she really wanted to be your friend, even if you didn't want to" She recalled with a small smile gazing down the floor, while Jack was staring at her in disbelief. "She really tried to make me understand that you were not what people really said, and that I shouldn't listen to rumors… But I didn't listen, and for that I'm sorry, because she was right." She looked at him again "She cares about you a lot, you know?" She asked. 'Yes, I know' Jack just stayed quiet. "And I can see now, that you care about her a lot too." Jack's heart stopped, and he inevitably blushed. "I know you're going to take care of her, Jack… And I really hope you can forgive me. I also hope we can be friends" She said sincerely.
"Uh.." Jack was about to open his mouth to say something.
"Okay, Eugene! Your turn!" Rapunzel exclaimed and pushed Flynn forcefully towards Jack.
"Wha- Why I should go next?" Flynn said pouting. Rapunzel raised an eye brow.
"Oh, so you want me to tell Jack what you just told us?" Punzie threatened, Flynn flinched. "You know… How grateful and relieved you are and that maybe you even going to build him a statue-"
"OKAY, OKAY!" Flynn nearly screamed, red of embarrassment. Punzie smirked satisfied. "Thank you… for saving Elsa, I can take it from here now-OUCH!" A pillow collided against his head. He sobbed his head and turned to see Punzie looking at him with a big frown. Flynn rolled his eyes and cleared his throat. "Thank you for saving her, it means a lot to me" Flynn lifted up his hand for Jack to shake, and Jack slowly took it.
"Sure-OUCH!" Jack whined when he felt a pain in his arm, he instantly turned, only to find a mess of red head by his side, frowning at him.
"Ye better trait Elsa right!" Merida exclaimed at him, still frowning "Ye might have save her but if ye break her heart I break ye!"
What.
"He wont break her heart Mer, don't you see how much she cares about her? Or how they look at each other?" Punzie said squealing.
"That doesn't mean I wont keep an eye on him" Merida said, arms crossed on her chest.
Jack's face was burning.
"Woah, Woah, Woah! Why are you talking like they're a couple? They are friends. Just friends" Flynn said waving his arms dramatically.
"Are you kidding, right?" Hiccup said sarcastically
"Punzie yer boyfriend's fucking blind" Merida said
"He doesn't look her with a 'just a friend' look if you ask me" Hiccup said, and Punzie nodded excitedly.
Fucking god.
Jack considered this moment a perfect time to be swallowed by the Earth.
Why was Elsa taking so long anyway?!
x
"Did your bandage got wet, honey?" Idun Winters asked softly to her daughter, that was currently wrapped in a towel.
"No, mama. It's still dry" Elsa responded.
"What do you want to wear?" Idun asked and walked toward the closet that looked like had Elsa's 'actual' clothes.
"Sweatpants and a sweater will be fine" She said, drying herself completely. Idun passed her a light grey pair of sweatpants and a navy blue cozy sweater. Elsa grabbed them both and turned around to put her clothes on. Once she was completely dressed, her mother offered to brush her hair. Elsa gladly accepted.
They both sat down in Elsa's bed while Idun delicately brushed her older daughter's hair. Elsa sighed, closing her eyes. The feeling was really calming.
"Are you okay, sweetie?" Idun asked softly. Elsa opened her eyes slowly and looked straightly at the floor. She sighed again.
"I'm okay now mama" She said. "But I was really scared before" She said whispering. Idun pursed her lips feeling her heart being pressed.
"Do you wanna talk about it?" She asked.
"Not really" Elsa said shaking her head slightly. "It doesn't even feels real. Everything was just so scary" She said whispering. "I really thought I was part of an horror movie, and at that moment I thought there was no way of getting out of it. Until Jack came" She said, and Idun knew her daughter was smiling, even if her back was facing her.
"I'm so sorry, honey" She said sadly.
"Don't be mama. It's not your fault" Elsa said reassuringly. "Plus, I'm much better now. Thanks to you and papa, and the gang, and Jack"
Idun really wanted to let out a giggle at her daughter words.
"Did he asked you out yet?" Idun asked, smiling while she still brushed her hair.
"W-What?! No! No, obviously not mama!" Elsa quickly exclaimed.
"Why not?"
"We're just friends, mama" Elsa said, and she didn't have to turn to look at her mother to know she was raising an eyebrow not believing her. "I swear, plus we just restored our friendship. We had a little issue a few days ago-"
"So that's why you were so upset the other time?" Idun guessed.
"Yeah, but we're okay now. He said sorry and everything's fine now" Elsa said smiling.
"… But you like him" Idun said. Elsa sighed, what was the point on lying anyway?. "I knew it" Idun said with a smile. "He's really handsome" she said with a smirk.
"I know, right?" Elsa agreed, giggling.
"And his hair is so dreamy, is it natural?"
"It is!" Elsa said chuckling.
"He appears to be really unique" Elsa's mother said.
"He is… I really thankful that I got to know him better. He might appear tough, well, maybe he is but… he's also caring, and funny, and interesting. And he's a gentleman, even if he doesn't seems like one" She said with a big smile.
"You lied to me Elsa" Idun said.
"Huh?" Elsa said in confusion, turning to her mother.
"You don't like him" She said with a plain face… to then smile. "You're in love with him, aren't you?"
Elsa blushed furiously, but said nothing.
"You know… He really doesn't look at you like you're just his friend" Idun said with a teasing smile. "We're done!" She said, and got up, gesturing at her daughter to go with her out of her room.
Elsa gulped, and got up, following her mom. But what they saw in the living room was a weird scene.
Jack was standing right in the middle of the room, red like a tomato, while Merida appeared to be threatening him, Punzie was fangirling, Hiccup and Flynn were arguing, and Anna and Kristoff were snickering about the whole deal. Adgar was seating peacefully in the dining table.
"Uh… What's going on here?" Elsa said and everyone stopped in their tracks. Jack looked at her relieved.
"Oh, nothing! We're just chatting with Jack… getting to know him better" Merida said with a slightly creepy smile. Jack shuddered.
"Are you okay, Jack?" Elsa asked slightly concerned at his state.
"Y-Yeah.. I'm fine" Jack said, but just as he began walking towards her something stopped him.
"So… Jackson, right?" Adgar's powerful voice was heard. Everyone widened their eyes. Jack nodded. "Good, might have a chat with me outside?"
Elsa paled.
"Papa!" She said in a pleading tone.
"Elsa" Adgar said warningly.
"B-But papa!"
"Elsa" he said again, and Elsa sighed in defeat. She knew her father was being serious, so she just gazed at them getting out of the door praying for his father not to be so tough, or not to embarrass her.
"Well… he's screwed" Flynn said, gazing at the now closed door.
x
Jack awkwardly walked behind Adgar through the hall. He really couldn't believe his luck. He knew that coming here was a bad idea.
Adgar took a seat in one bench that was on the hall, just four doors away from Elsa and Anna's dorm, and once he sat down, he gestured at Jack to do the same.
Jack gulped, and took a seat besides him quietly.
"So… What's your complete name?" Adgar asked, and Jack looked at him slightly confused.
"Uh, Jackson Overland Frost, sir" He just answered, watching how Adgar lifted his eye brows in slightly surprise.
"You need to relax, Jack. I brought you here because I wanted to thank you properly. I didn't have the chance in the infirmary and if I did it there, everyone was going to be listening at us" Adgar said, and Jack visibly relaxed.
"It was nothing sir.-" He tried to say
"No, Jack. You're wrong" Adgar said, and based at the floor with a sad face. "It was everything. For me, it was everything." He said quietly. "My family is, the most important thing I have. My daughters and my wife are the reason why I wake up every morning, they are the ones that give me energy to keep on working every day, to become better, a better man. They're everything to me. If anything happened to them, I don't know what I'll do"
Jack was a bit shocked by the man's confession, and by his sad face.
"Even if Elsa said that the little fucker wasn't going to rape her… You saved her life today" He said, and Jack's breath hitched. "If you didn't save her today, and that kid managed to get what he wanted. Elsa's naked body would probably be in the news right now, and she'll go straight to our house to never come out again because of the embarrassment. Elsa's face is already quite famous, there are people already looking up to her since they know she's going to take my place in the future. If her picture was all over the world now, people would never leave it alone. They would never stop." He said. "Or if she agreed to his plan, she would be pretending to be her girlfriend right now, pretending to love him, probably lying to us, just in order to keep herself safe."
Jack's blood builded at the image of Pitch and Elsa being together.
"I've always tried to keep my daughters safe, in every way I could. They were always followed by bodyguards, always with strict curfews, only allowed to go certain places. All in order to keep them safe. Until they told me it was enough, and they were right, I couldn't just keep them imprisoned all their lives. My only condition was for them to enroll here. The 'safest' college of the world. And yet this happens" Adgar said, getting a bit angry. "I really have no enough words to thank you, Jack. You saved my little girl. You really saved her life"
Jack really didn't know how to respond, he just stood there, gazing at him, while blushing.
"I'm so raged still, the only reason keeping me calm right now, is how happy she is despite the circumstances. And that's also thanks to you" He said looking at him, Jack frowned a bit confused. "I've never saw her like this before, this happy. Sure, she'd always been a happy girl, maybe a tad quiet, but always happy. But what I saw today, I had never saw in my whole life." He said. "She was really happy to see us all, but when she saw you, she was so relieved, and happy and calm. It was like she was safe just the moment she saw you"
Jack was really astonished. He was really shocked and incredibly flustered. But he also had a warm feeling inside of him.
"I just hope you're going to take care of my little girl" Adgar said.
"Of course, sir" Jack said sincerely.
"She really cares about you, so I guess I don't need to tell you what's going to happen if you play with her feelings, right?" Adgar said, raising a brow.
"O-Of course not, sir." Jack said stuttering. "I really care about her as well. She's really important to me, and she has been there for me overtime I needed. She's really kind, and supporting and caring. She has a big heart, sir. I would never hurt her" Jack said with a small smile.
"I'm glad to hear that, Jack" Adgar said. "Also, I'm very sorry about your family" He said with a sad face.
Jack was instantly taken aback. What? Could Elsa had told him? That seemed very unlikely. But how did he know?
Watching Jack's confused and shocked face, instantly told Adgar that he wasn't expect him to know.
"A few years back…" He started, and Jack gazed at him " I got really interested in making business with your father." He said, and Jack blinked in surprise. "I wanted to take Overland Ice Rinks out of the country, all over the world. Make it international." He continued. "Now, being honest, it was mostly because Elsa loved those rinks so much. She really wanted one in Arendelle. So I really thought it was going to be an amazing idea, plus, my daughter would be happy. I had all the contacts, so I was going to offer your dad a partnership, so I could take you out in the world" He said. "Too bad, the accident took place before I could call your dad, it was such terrible news to hear. So, I dropped the project right at the moment, mostly because I knew that the son that survived needed some time to grieve, I didn't want to overwhelm him, plus you were still very young at the moment"
Jack was speechless.
"I'm very sorry, Jack. It must been horrible" Adgar said sincerely.
"It was" Jack said. "It was impossible to deal with till just a few weeks" He said quietly. "But I'm fine now, thanks to your daughter. She practically dragged me out of everything" He said with an almost imperceptible smile.
"I'm glad to hear that, Jack" Adgar said proudly. "You're good for each other"
Jack said nothing. He really couldn't any way, it seemed he was having a heart attack.
"We're done then, I need to talk to Kristoff now" Adgar said, and Jack chuckled. They both got up and went to the dorm.
Everyone was expecting them with scared looks, Elsa was practically dying.
Once she saw Jack, she immediately rushed to him.
"What did he told you?" She asked nervously, and Jack chuckled.
"He just wanted to thank me" He said smirking.
"Really? It's that all? Did he embarrass me?" Elsa asked.
"Relax, princess. He didn't" He said, Elsa was about to open her mouth again.
"Kristoff, your turn" Adgar said from the door, Kristoff nearly fainted.
"W-What?!" Anna screamed. "Papa? Are you serious?!"
"Very" he simply said.
"Oh my gosh! Papa forget it! This is so embarrassing! Mama say something!" Anna exclaimed, and saw Kristoff already walking towards the door. "Kristoff don't go! Oh my freaking god this is so embarrassing!" Anna whined, but Kristoff and her father were already outside.
"Kristoff's even more screwed than Jack" Flynn said with wide eyes. Hiccup nodded.
A.N.:
Hey guys! So, here's chapter 25, and I know its a bit short, but I needed this scenes separately! Plus, its kind of fluffy so…. I really hope you like it!
Following chapters are lovely, and I really exited for them :)
Anyway, there's just one thing I wanna say today.
I don't know if you've heard, but yesterday ( Monday 28) a plane crashed in Medellin killing almost an entire soccer team, among some journalists and normal passengers. There were only 6 survivors and 76 dead (at the moment).
Here in America Latina were really shook about this tragedy, it's been just a terrible and gloom day, were so shocked and devastated about everything that happened. So many children are left with no dads, so many families are not complete anymore and its really all to devastating.
It was one on the main reasons why I couldn't write much today I couldn't stop thinking about it mostly because my boyfriend is a soccer player as well, almost everyone is just pending on news, since nothing is so clear yet, and we all need answers for our deceased latin brothers and sisters.
So, if you can, it'll be really nice if you pray for the Chapecoense Brazilian soccer team families, they need it right now, we all need it right now. #ForçaChape.
I hope you all have a really nice day, and don't forget to be grateful always.
We'll read each other tomorrow!
Silvana.