Halllo!! Online classes suck! Can we all agree on that?
Anyway thanks so much for the reviews!! I was kind of afraid that the last chapter kind of sucked because there wasn't a big gun fight and that Elsa's still alive but thanks for the positive feedback. And I made a small change on the previous chapter:)
As always, I hope you enjoy the story:
The town was quiet once again. After the days exciting events, most people turned in early.
The people were a bit apprehensive and vocal about the hundreds of Orders soldiers now moving between them but Kris and Rider assured them that they will cause no harm.
And after that didn't work Red told them to shut up and deal with it. Nobody wanting to face Red's wrath just walked away and went to their respective houses.
The Order soldiers were moved into the various bomb shelters, where they could stay without any disapproving eyes staring them down.
Red, Rider and Olaf retired to their living quarters while Rapps and Sven stayed with Elsa and Kris in the medical center. Kris had been put under a sedative to help him sleep after the adrenaline wore off and he started to feel his broken ribs.
Sven sat asleep in between his sibling's beds, with his head resting on his chest. Rapps walked from bed to bed taking notes and checking their medications when a shuffling could be heard coming from Elsa's bed.
Rapps looked from her clipboard and saw Elsa's blinking eyes. She dropped everything and rushed to the bed.
"Hey, you're awake. How are you feeling?" Elsa blinked her eyes again and focused them on Rapps.
"Like I need a cup of coffee."
"Glad to see you sense of humor survived the fall. Speaking of which, we're going to have to talk about that. We all thought you were dead." Rapps said look down at Elsa sadly with tears treating to stream out of her eyes. Elsa then took Rapps's hand.
"Hey it's okay, I'm fine."
A sound to their right made both women turn their head to see Sven stretching his arms over his head. After he dropped his arms he looked over to the bed and smiled.
"Hey there snowbug." He moved closer to the bed.
"Sven.." Elsa's eye's grow large and she rushed to sit up and tried to grab Sven too pull him into a hug but hissed when she moved her right arm. She then just wrapped her left arm around his neck, resting her head and his shoulder. Tears flowing down her cheeks.
"Hey, it's okay."
"You're okay... You're awake." Elsa managed to get out between her tears.
"Yeah, I'm here and I'm okay." He smiled moving to lay Elsa back down on the bed. She hissed again when her arm was moved.
"Yeah, your shoulder and right side of your collarbone got the worst end of that fall. You better be careful because the only thing holding that arm to your body is a few muscles." Rapps said picking up her clipboard. "You're going to have to wear the sling again and this time if you take it off before I tell you, you can I will personally tape it to your body got that?"
"Yes ma'am." Elsa laid back down and caught sight of Kris unconsciousness in the bed next to her. "What happened?" She shot up again.
"He got hit in the ribs with a very suspicious gun and broke two ribs during the ambush." Rapps explained.
"He's been out for two days?" Elsa asked.
"No he got hit by Duke in the ambush a few hours ago."
"Weselton ambushed the base?! When? Where is he? "
"He was placed in a cell after you knocked his lights out with one of Tiana's frying pans." Sven laughed. "She is not happy."
"What are you talking about? I never hit Duke with a pan, much less with one of Tiana's pans. I chose life thank you very much."
"You don't remember stumbling back into the base, seeing Duke standing over Kris and beating him over the head before collapsing?"
"Last thing I remember is regaining consciousness on a ledge of a canyon and trying to figuring out how to get out of there."
"Maybe you hit your head on the way down too, I'm going to have to run some tests..." Noise could be heard outside.
"I'll go check it out." Sven stood up and left the room.
Outside the medical center:
"Sir, you can not enter the general's room. It's strictly of limited especially for people like you."
"People like me? What's that supposed to mean? I demand to be let into this room!"
"I'm telling you I'm a friend of general Winters."
"And I'm telling you, I'm not going to let you in endangering her and major general Bjorgman lives."
"What am I going to do? Smother them with pillows?" The man was getting irritated.
"Hey, what's going on out here?" Sven said as he got outside.
"Brigadier general Carson, this Order soldier requests to enter the general and major general's hospital room. For safety purposes, I am not permitted to allow him in." The soldier answered.
"And I keep telling him I know general Winters and would like to speak with her."
"What's your name soldier?" Sven asked.
"Jason R. James, sir."
"So you're J.R.J." Sven realized and a smile spread across his face.
"Excuse me sir?" Jason asked.
"Nothing. It alright David. He can come in. Please follow me to their room." Sven stepped aside so Jason could enter. As they walked Sven said, "You're the soldier that stood in the line of fire earlier. That was quite a risky move. What made you do it?" Sven asked.
"As I said sir, I am tired of fighting. This war has cost us all more than we have gained. I lost my mother and both of my sisters because of it and I almost lost the woman I love as well. The Order has kept love ones apart from to long. It's time for it to end." Jason answered.
"Wise words. Well here we are." Sven entered the room with Jason following. Jason's eyes immediately fell on Elsa and he rushed forward to her.
He took her in his embrace and kissed her. Rapps blushed and looked away but Sven could only stare with his mouth open. 'This dude just kissed my sister!'
He was about to say something when Rapps grabbed his arm and dragged him away.
"I thought I'd lost you. Everyone here was talking about how you...were killed in an ambush. I didn't want to believe it... but I remembered seeing your team without you and I had to accept that you were... gone but then Eugene told me you were okay... I just... I just had to come and see for myself. I... "Jason was cut off by Elsa kissing him again.
"You talk to much." She laughed.
"Aw gross! I didn't need to wake up to that!" They heard Kris exclaim from the other side of the room. "Just so you know pal, the moment I'm allowed to get out of here, you and I are going to have a little chat about this."
"I'd like to included in that chat!" Sven yelled for outside the room.
"Guys!" Elsa groaned as she fell back onto the bed. While Jason was a bit nervous.
An hour later:
The team, along with Jason, had gathered in Elsa and Kris's hospital room ready to discuss their next move.
"Okay when Anna and Charles arrive, we can start the meeting. Speaking of which, where is Anna? I haven't seen her since I woke up." The room went silent.
"I knew we forgot something!" Rider said.
"What are you talking about?" Elsa looked around the room confused. She looked at Kris. "Kristoff?"
"Well uhm Charles and Anna won't be able to make it." Rider answered getting an elbow from Rapps.
"Why not?" Elsa was getting nervous. 'What happened to Anna?'
"Uhm well Charles, sadly passed away due to an injuries caused by a landmine after we got ambushed couple of days ago." Rapps answered.
Elsa's heart rate was picking up fast, her heart monitor was proof of that. She was afraid.
"Elsa calm down. Anna's fine." Red reassured her.
"Then where is she?"
"We don't know.."
"YOU DON'T KNOW?!" Elsa shouted. "How can you say she fine if you know where she is?!"
"Elsa calm down." Kris tried.
"Where is she Kristoff? Where is my little sister?"
"We don't know. She left base with one of the Order's Jeeps a few hours before they attacked."
"So she's basically been gone for a day and none of you went after her?"
"We were going to but we got a little busy, with you know fighting for our lives." Rider commented.
"So we have no idea where she's going? She didn't say anything to anyone?"
"No, but we do know she left shortly after I gave her your letter." Kris said.
Elsa's eyes went wide.
"What? What is it?" Jason asked.
"She has the necklace."
Jason now mirrored Elsa's expression.
"She wouldn't. Would she?"
"It's Anna, she would." Elsa said.
"What? What what is going on here?" Olaf tried to make sense of the situation.
"She's heading to the base." Elsa said trying to get of her bed.
"What? How do you know that?" Kris asked.
"She has the necklace."
14 years ago:
Elsa, Anna and Jason were walking back from the park and Anna was complaining.
"Why do we have to go home now? It's still early."
"You know the rules Anna. The Order wants everyone in their houses by curfew." Elsa said trying to her sister to stop complaining.
"I don't care! I want to play in the park!" Anna was starting to trow a tantrum. Elsa shot Jason a 'Help me.' look which Jason immediately understood.
"Hey, would it cheer you up if we go get some ice-cream before we head home?" Anna immediately perked up.
"Last one at the ice-cream shop is a rotten egg!"Anna started sprinting down the road to the ice cream shop.
Elsa looked at Jason with a disapproving face."What?"
"Ice cream? Really Jas? Now she'll never calm down enough to go to bed tonight."
"It was either ice-cream or caring a crying child back home disturbing the entire neighborhood."
"Alright, point taken. Now come on, let's go find her before she orders the entire store." Elsa laughed as she grabbed Jason's wrists and started dragging him down the street.
After they had bought their ice cream, something caught Elsa's eye in the window display next to the ice cream shop. A snowflake necklace with shiny stones on each end and one in the middle.
"Wow, what a pretty necklace." Elsa said in amazement.
"Yeah it is. It would look great on you." Jason commented.
"You think so?"
"I know so."
"I don't know, it looks a little plain to me." Anna said with a mouth full of ice cream. "I prefer something with diamonds or candy! Maybe a candy necklace! Ahhh a chocolate necklace!!"
"You have sugar on the brain. Come on." Elsa laughed taking Anna's hand heading home. "You coming Jas?"
"Yeah in a minute. I'll catch up." He said still looking at the necklace.
Later at the Arendelle Jason had shown up a few minutes later with a small black box in hand.
"For you." He held it out to Elsa. She took it with a confused look and gasped when she opened it.
"You got me the necklace?"
"Yeah." She stared at it in amazement before her face turned serious.
"No Jas, I can't accept this. I know how expensive it was and with the taxes rising again we need to save all the money we can to help our parents. We may never know when we might be able to help out."
"It's not our job to worry about the money."
"It's kind of hard not to worry if you have to see the begging faces or hear the pleading screams of people, good people before the Order soldier pulls them away from their loved ones and pulls that trigger."
"Yeah that's the worst. The Order sucks." Anna said sitting on the couch next to Elsa.
"Okay how about this. This necklace symbolizes hope, hope of all this ending, hope that one day kids can be care free and not have to worry about the things you said." Jason said taking the necklace out of the box.
"Jason, only way that's going to happen is if The Order falls." Elsa said.
"Then it's for that as well. Hope that the Order will one day fall and we'll all be free."
"Okay, it's a symbol of hope but hope can only do so much."
"Yeah I know but what if, I promise you for as long as this necklace is a symbol of hope for you, I'll do everything in my power to make sure that The Order will fall. I'll do all I can to make sure we'll be free."
"Alright but I promise the same. As long as the necklace is a symbol of hope, I'll do everything I can to make sure The Order falls." Elsa took the necklace and put it around her neck.
"I promise too! The necklace will be like a lucky charm. If we have to necklace we can defeat the evil Order and play in the park alllll day!" Anna jumped on the couch with her arms above her head.
"Alright calm down, it's still just a necklace. It's not magical."
"You'd be surprised what a little hope and a sprinkel of luck can do." Jason winked at Elsa causing her to blush.
"Yeah! With a little bit of luck I'll bring the Order down! When I wear that necklace, I'll make sure those meanies pay for being so mean!"
Present:
"It was only supposed to symbolic, but she took it a bit further. She saw it still gave hope so she is doing everything in her power to bring The Order down."
"You really believe that she'll remember that from when she was a kid?" Rider asked.
"That wasn't the only time Anna referred to it as 'a lucky charm'. She believed it more, the older she got." Jason said.
"Even if she believes the thing is lucky, so what? Why would she run to the base with literally only a necklace? She's not that stupid."
"She doesn't just see a necklace that symbolizes something. She sees a promise. A promise she intends to keep now that she has her 'lucky charm' back."
"That is a lot of hopeful optimism."
"It's Anna, what do you expect?" Elsa chuckled. "If she's going to the base we better get going to make sure she isn't killed. She'll have trouble getting past all the guards."
"Well actually, she'll just have to worry about 20% of the base's guards." Jason said.
"What? Why? Where the other 80%?"
"Over there, over here and a little bit somewhere in between." He pointed to places in the base.
"You mean they sent most of the guards here?" Kris asked not believe what he heard.
"The only reason it's so heavily guarded is because they knew the Resistance base was nearby. They thought if they can wipe you out here, so many people wouldn't be needed there." Jason explained.
"Well then, that makes it easier for us." Red said.
"Much easier. Now come on, let's go save my sister and stop this war once and for all."
Another chapter yay!Jason seems to have been a hopeless romantic and optimis from a young age :PAs always, until next time :)