olimacproductions: Ah, but New Zealand isn't that much ahead to Australia, it's like 3 hours.
Guest (Banana): Well your question shall be answer possibly in the next chapter, if not, the chapter after that.
OoPoPcAnDy: Nah, Theodore isn't a Hans (unlike in another one of my stories).
MirkaKaroliina: Ah, okay I see. That's kind of really cool (another reason why Finland is awesome). I highly doubt that Finnish won't survive. If Maori (our native language) is surviving then Finnish will and less people speak it. I could study a lot of languages at my school too (like French, Spanish, Latin, German, Mandarin, Maori, Japanese). Jelsa is coming up! Soon, I hope.
ziabee: Don't worry, neither do I lol. Whoops, looks like Zia is going to get mad. Cool name, so that's how you got your penname, I had been wondering. Yeah Jack will sort him (well maybe not, you may have to read to find out).
maggie98: Elsa may or may not leave, you'll have to wait and see. Cooper is more of a Theodore than Hans. He's just a nice guy, no strings there.
Guest Reviews: Bring on the SpongeBob questions. Oh sorry I kept forgetting about the questions. I can't think of anything now as its late (my time) but I'll try and think of something really good. Chapter 27 is there, FF just hated me. Theodore isn't a bad guy, no plot twists. More of those in future maybe. SBSP; That is said by Sandy in The Smoking Peanut. Yes I am from New Zealand and yes the scenery is amazing. How did my first day of school go you ask? Well considering I don't go to school, it would be quite funny if I turned up. But if I did go to school, it would be waaaaay to early to go back as this time is my summer holidays and usually school kids get approx. end of Nov to end of Jan or early Feb off. I'm actually a University student so I've been off since mid Nov and don't go back to March however since I'm doing Summer School (not like summer school during school level, it helps you do extra papers so you can graduate earlier), I go back on Monday which I'm actually annoyed at.
TPATFan16: Sorry, no needs to place any bets but my money would be on Jack too.
Chapter 29: Second Chances
Elsa's mind went all haywire. Why was Theodore here? Elsa had assumed that he had returned to England after their break up considering he had only come to Burgess to resume their relationship. That prompted the question again in Elsa's mind. Why was he here? Surely not to ask for Elsa to restart their relationship, so much had changed since their breakup. Elsa had realised her hidden feelings for her ex-boyfriend, Jack, and then married him in a jail cell (well more of a holding cell really). Well, Theodore may not know that. Elsa couldn't see how he could have anyway. But that still begged the question why he was here. If it was really to ask for a second chance, why didn't he come back much earlier? They had been broken up for a while now. Did it just take him a while to realise that he wanted her back or something along those lines? Maybe he was afraid that she had moved on (she had of course) and now just decided to come before it could be too late. Another idea came to her; could he be here to return her things? But Elsa wasn't even aware she had left anything at his place, maybe some clothes but she doubted it. Plus he would have done that earlier, maybe just after they had just broken up. So maybe that wasn't a possibility.
Theodore and Elsa just locked eyes. The silence that engulfed them seemed to last forever. The seconds that passed seemed to be more liked hours than seconds. Nothing seemed to happen in those moments. No one spoke, no one breathed, it seemed as if the world had stop spinning to pause that moment. Elsa watched as Theodore played with the insides of his pockets of his jacket. He could feel the awkwardness of the scene as much as everyone else could. Elsa's eyes flickered over to Jack who was giving Theodore a glare. Maybe he was thinking that Theodore had guts to return. He kind of did in Elsa's opinion. Elsa had told him that if she had to choose between him and her ex-boyfriend, the ex-boyfriend would win and he did. Elsa married him.
Elsa drummed her fingers against the door. What was one supposed to say to their ex-boyfriend? Well they hadn't really had a messy breakup. In fact there had been no yelling or fighting. They had broken up on good terms. Theodore had been hurt by the break up, Elsa had been too. At the time being with Theodore was the healthy choice if she wanted to move on from Jack but she didn't want to. This decision led to her breakup with Theodore and her decision to finally marry Jack, the man she really did love.
The silence was beginning to become unbearable. Even though Elsa loved the quiet, this was a strange type of quiet. It unnerved her and made her feel rather fidgety. She felt that someone should at least break it. Elsa knew that the others were waiting on her to make a move. Elsa was waiting on Theodore to break the quiet. It seemed that unless something didn't break this, they would be stuck in this unbearable silence forever. Elsa decided that should be her. She cleared her throat which made everyone jump at the noise. Elsa forced a smile to come onto her face as she stared up at Theodore.
"What can I do for you Theodore?" she asked trying to sound as polite as she possibly could in the present situation. She was still trying to figure out what prompted her ex-boyfriend to show up. Theodore took a few seconds to respond but he managed to regain himself and come to.
"I've sort of asked you for another chance at us," he said. He looked a bit nervous as if he was afraid that she was going to say no.
Elsa felt her heart dropped when he said this. She had been begging and hoping that hadn't been the reason he had returned. She had hoped beyond anything that he had just come for a completely innocent reason. Elsa felt her heart race a little faster. She didn't really know what to say. Thankfully, Theodore seemed to not have finished so Elsa just let him speak.
"Basically," he continued, "I've been doing a lot of talking to Ashely over the phone as I did go back England. She seems to think that we gave up too fast. I agree with her. I think we can move past whatever was holding us back before. I know you said that if I was to compete with your ex-boyfriend I would lose but I don't think that's true. From what you have told me, he must have hurt you bad. So I think that I can help you move past him and continue our relationship."
"Oh this is awkward," Elsa said.
"What's awkward?" Theodore looked genuinely confused.
"Well you see," Elsa was quite sure how to put this or even how it was going to be received; probably a lot of shouting will occur. "I wasn't lying when I said my ex-boyfriend would win my affections in the end."
"So your ex is no longer your ex?"
"Well kinda," Elsa said. "You see my ex-boyfriend is now my husband."
"You're…husband?" Theodore looked even more confused. "As you have legally married him? As in you both signed the same marriage certificate? As in you have exchanged vows and rings?"
"Yeah," Elsa said slowly.
"Well that was something I wasn't expecting that," Theodore said. "You told me the story of how he hurt you so badly that you couldn't literally be in the same continent as him which is how we came to meet."
"Well yeah that's true," Elsa said in a small voice but Theodore just continued.
"And then you said that he made you extremely depressed that you thought about doing all kinds of things like running away, ending it, leaving forever, you know."
"Er," Elsa looked around at the others in the room. They looked a little shocked at Theodore's words but Anna didn't. Elsa had once confessed how she felt at the time. Anna had often found Elsa crying and paralysed on her bed. Elsa had once told her that she just wanted it to all end and for her not to feel anything more. She didn't want to feel any more. She just couldn't take the pain. Anna had decided to quote Dumbledore in that moment and said that pain is part of being human. Elsa had chuckled a little bit at the quote but she still didn't think she could have handled anything more. Anna had forbidden Elsa from giving up as that wasn't in Elsa's nature. She told her that the Elsa she knew would never have given up and that it always got better. Anna knew that Elsa had been in a very dark place and she was determined to make it a happy and bright place again. From then on, it did. Anna made sure of it. She did everything she could to get Elsa happy and on her feet again. Eventually she succeeded and Elsa didn't think she would have survived if it wasn't for her. It was then did Elsa come to the conclusion that she needed to move on with her life and get some air and some time to herself and away from everything. That was when she had left. Elsa had thought that the best option for her was just running away and trying to move on rather than the others. Thankfully Elsa had Anna to help her back on her feet and not do anything stupid that she would later regret.
"And now you say you married him?" Theodore sounded almost comical which kind of hurt Elsa and by the angry look in Jack's face, him too. Well to be fair, he just been hit with the news that his ex-girlfriend married someone who she had told him had hurt her deeply in the past especially after they had only been broken up for a short time which meant Elsa had moved on fast. That would make anyone confused. So Elsa didn't blame him too much in his reaction to everything. "Well," Theodore's voice softened as he seemed to consider the other side. "You did say you had been together for a long time and loved him before then. So I guess I shouldn't be surprised by this after all." Elsa felt a little better at these words but she still felt like Theodore shouldn't be jumping to conclusions. Elsa had been hurt, yes, but she had moved on and finally married Jack.
"Yes," Elsa said. "So is there anything we can help you with?"
"Nope," Theodore said. "You just answered all my questions. I wish you all the luck in the world."
"Thanks," Elsa smiled.
"Tally-ho!" Theodore said.
"Bye," Elsa said a little awkwardly closing the door behind Theodore.
"That creep," Jack said as soon as the door clicked shut. "Trying to make a move on my wife while I was here? The jerk."
Elsa couldn't help but laughing. Jack had never liked Theodore and it didn't take a genius to know why.
"Now, now," Elsa said moving towards him and giving him a small kiss. "He didn't know that you and I are together. I'm sure that if he knew that it was you, he would have asked for a private conversation."
"Yeah maybe," Jack muttered. "I still don't like the guy. I think he's up to something."
"Who knows?" Elsa said shrugging her shoulders.
The door then opened again that very moment. They all looked up expecting it to be Theodore returning for some reason, maybe to fight for his cause but it wasn't. Bunnymund entered the apartment and grinned at them all. They all waved and grinned back. It was nice to see Bunnymund again considering that Elsa had a lot she wanted to talk about with him since hearing the big reveal that she had with Merida and Rapunzel.
"Hey," Bunnymund said to them all.
"Hey," they all said to him.
"Um, Jack," Bunnymund said. "I'm glad your back but could I speak to you in private?"
"Um," Jack glanced at Elsa. "You know we all know why you want to do that?"
"How come?" Bunnymund was puzzled.
"We've discussed it in full," Anna said.
"You know about my secret teapot collection?" Bunnymund said sounding outraged. He glared at Jack. "You promised me man that wouldn't tell anyone!"
"Okay," Anna said. "Not what we thought you were going to say. Really teapots? I would have imagined you to be more of an art collector."
"So what did you think I was going to say?" Bunnymund asked ignoring Anna completely.
"A confession of your love for Tooth," Rapunzel smirked. She looked as if she had been dying to say that ever since Bunnymund had walked into the room.
"What?" thundered Bunnymund. He tried to look outrage at what Rapunzel had said but he had gone bright red which gave it away.
"Admit it," Rapunzel said poking him. "You're jealous!"
"I am not!" Bunnymund shouted.
"Come on!" Rapunzel repeated the word every time she poked him.
"Can't we act like grownups?" Elsa sighed. "Bunnymund just tell her otherwise it's going to get worse. Trust me – I've had this done to me multiple times. She won't give up until she gets what she wants."
"Fine," Bunnymund burst out. He looked as if he had enough of Rapunzel's games. "Fine, you are right."
"Say it," Rapunzel whispered into his ear. "Say the words."
"Fine," Bunnymund said clearly exhausted with the whole thing. "I may be in love with Tooth, alright?"
"Well I think you should tell her," Elsa said quite suddenly which made everyone look over at her.
"What?" that seemed to be Bunnymund's go to word at the moment. He didn't seem to understand why Elsa thought that he should inform Tooth of his feelings for her. He seemed to think that the whole idea of it was crazy.
"Well yeah," Elsa shrugged. She seemed to think it was a good idea. She had been the one who initially told Tooth to tell Bunnymund how she felt. Even though it hadn't worked out the way she wanted it to, Tooth was glad that she hadn't continued sleeping with Bunnymund when all it would do would be to increase her feelings for him and make her continuously jealous when he would talk about dating other girls.
"Won't she just laugh at me?" Bunnymund said. "She told me she was in love with me and I said I didn't feel the same so she ended things with me. Now I realise I do have feelings with her at the same time she just happens to be going out with someone else? She will think this is some kind of joke."
"Be that as it may," Elsa said. "You just won't feel right until you've told her. Soon it will burst out of you at the wrong moment. Is that what you want?"
"Well what if she thinks I only like her since she's no longer on the market?"
"Do you?" Anna asked.
"I don't know," Bunnymund said. "I never really thought about that. I suppose not. I mean, when I was dating other girls at the time we were together, I just didn't feel like myself while I was with them. I just couldn't work any of my usual moves but when I tried them on Tooth, they did seem to work."
"Well there you are," Anna said. "You did have feelings for her, you just didn't realise that you had."
"You really think so?" Bunnymund asked.
"Of course," Elsa said.
"I don't know," Bunnymund said. "I'm still quite nervous about telling her. I'm not sure it's the right thing to do."
"Of course it is," Elsa said. "Just go tell her the next time you see her."
Bunnymund still looked a little sceptical but he nodded anyway.
One Week Later
It took Bunnymund one whole week to finally get the nerve up to go talk to Tooth. She had been quite busy with work and hanging out with Cooper. Just hearting that name made Bunnymund's blood boil. He had debated back and forward about what he was really feeling for Tooth. At first, he didn't think he had any feelings for Tooth. He thought he always saw her as just a really good friend and nothing more. He just thought that he honestly hated Cooper although he couldn't see why he did. Now, he knew. He hated him because he was jealous. He was jealous that he was dating Tooth. Those feelings that Bunnymund didn't think he had, not only existed, were stronger than he thought. He had just reckoned in the beginning that maybe he just liked Tooth but it wasn't anything like that. He was in love with her. He didn't know how or where it all came from but he knew it and now apparently did everyone else. His behaviour must be very transparent.
He was walking up to Tooth's apartment. A bout of courage was allowing him to do this. He didn't think he could do it otherwise. It had taken him a long time to get that courage though. It almost got to the point where he thought never get it. Bunnymund just had to focus on what the mission was. He just had to tell her. There were two things that would happen when he told her. A possible one is that Tooth will admit that she still likes him and wishes for a relationship. However it could be possible that even if she still felt the same way, she wouldn't act on it. After all, she was with Cooper. They had been going out for nearly a month now, just over three weeks. Would she leave him for Bunnymund? Judging by what he saw when they were together, she did like him a lot. However Bunnymund was comforted by the thought that Elsa broke up with Theodore despite being nearly in love with him to go back to Jack. That gave Bunnymund a bit of a smile.
The other alternative, of course, was that Tooth would say that she was over him. Bunnymund wouldn't blame her if she said that. Bunnymund did have his chance and he blew it. He threw it away and in the process basically threw her in the direction of Cooper. Bunnymund just wished that things weren't this hard. He just hoped that if Tooth was going to let him down, she would let him down gently.
Bunnymund walked up to her apartment door and knocked. There was no answer. Perhaps that Tooth was out. Bunnymund sat down next to the door, pulled out his phone and started to play around on it until Tooth came home. He knew he could just leave and come back later but if he did that, he would never tell her. About an hour later, he finally heard voices. At first he thought it could just be a neighbour but the figures of Tooth and Cooper came into view. Tooth was laughing at something that Cooper had just said. When they stumbled onto Bunnymund, they both looked bemused at finding Bunnymund but Tooth smiled at him all the same.
"Bunny," Tooth said. "What can I do for you?"
"Could I speak to you?" Bunnymund asked. "Alone," he gestured towards Cooper.
"Sure," Tooth said. She turned to Cooper. "So I'll see you tomorrow?"
"Sure," Cooper said. He gave her a kiss on the cheek which made a rage bubble within Bunnymund. "See ya!" he waved goodbye before he left them alone.
Tooth unlocked her door and let Bunnymund inside. Tooth took off her coat, hung it on the hook before throwing her purse and keys on the counter. That was when she looked at Bunnymund.
"So what's up?" she said.
"Er," Bunnymund began. What was he supposed to say? How was he going to say that he was in love with her and not sound like an idiot? Bunnymund started to get even more nervous. His heart raced even faster and he wiped his sweaty palms on the inside pockets of his jeans. This must have been how she felt when she was about to tell him that she was in love with him. Bunnymund just hoped that she still felt that way and didn't move on. That would kind of put his plans to shame.
"Bunny?" she asked sweetly. "Are you okay? You look a little nervous."
"I love you," Bunnymund suddenly burst out.
"What?" Tooth said sounding extremely confused now.
"I'm sorry for just saying it like that," Bunnymund said. "But recently I've come to the realisation that I do actually have feelings for you even though I said I didn't. I'm sorry but I'm in love with you and I'm hoping that you feel the same way."
Tooth didn't say anything. She just stared at Bunnymund with her mouth open.
A/N: I hope that everyone enjoyed this update. Please review =)
