Austrian: You've asked a very good question but since the answer is a huge spoiler, you gotta wait. Viel Spaß mit dem neuen Kapitel, meine Freundin (ich glaube, dass du Mädchen bist...)
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CHAPTER 4: An Arranged Marriage
"An arranged marriage? Jack, have you actually lost your mind?!"
"Some people sure, love yelling at my face." the Captain murmured with a dry humour, remember the earlier incident of Queen Elsa shouting at him.
"You damn son of a-, you're even more disgusting than two weeks of spoiled egg, and yes, I've tasted it... You will sell the ship and start a new life, won't you? You can't do this to me, Jack! This ship is everything, being a pirate is everything that I have! You can't take that from me!"
"Merida." Jack simply called out her name, he was sitting on his usual spot calmly.
Merida, who was fuming and constantly breaking his stuff around the room, finally stopped having her anger crisis and settled down on the chair, which was in front of Jack.
"I can't go back to Dunbroch." she murmured quietly, her whole angriness vanished away.
Jack smiled sadly and sincerely, it was a rare smile that he reserved for only the people he truly cared about. He removed his pirate hat, put it on the table. He always did this when he wanted to be friendly, sincere or... himself. He put his hand on Merida's left arm, which was laying on the table while the redhead woman was massaging her knuckles with her right hand.
"I am not leaving this ship, and if I did, I wouldn't sell it and would make you the Captain." he soothed her, he was stroking her arm with a friendly grin on his face.
Merida couldn't help but let her lips curl up slightly, her blue eyes softened. "I have totally freaked out, I am sorry." she mumbled in an apologetic tone.
"Don't be. I should have told you earlier... Anyway, how does the crew treat our queen? How has she been feeling about this place since these past two days?" Jack accepted her apology and changed the topic.
Merida frowned, seemed like she was deep in thought. "As you ordered, we don't physically hurt her, but we are still tough and firm. She doesn't like the crew, especially me." she answered and shrugged somewhere in the middle of her speech.
Jack nodded in confirmation while his fingers were playing with a pen. His feet were on the table. "Perfect... She has to hate this place. She will leave here as soon as we marry." he explained curtly.
Then he began to bite his bottom lip, obviously was feeling a bit nervous... Which was unusual if you'd ask Merida. Jack Frost had never shown weakness, even his nervousness. He was always calm and collected.
"Why do you want her to hate this place?" Merida interrogated him while she was grabbing a big red apple from her navy blue trousers' pocket.
She took a huge, very loud bite from the apple. Jack was chewing his inside cheek while she was chewing her apple.
"She shouldn't stay here... We wouldn't want another princessto fall in love with the idea of being a pirate and staying in this ship, would we?" he raised an eyebrow as he stared at Merida with meaningful, allusive eyes.
Merida simply snorted, finished chewing her first bite as a mischievous smirk tugged to her lips. "Well, you don't have to worry about the queen. There are no other royalties who are like me." she challenged him, her smirk turned to a proudful one.
Jack shook his head. "She is nearly 23 and still single. I doubt she is like the stereotype... She will leave this ship once we marry. I won't take a step back from my decision, so please be a jerk to her. I don't want her to like this place." he declared his thoughts with a sharp determination.
The redhead woman, who was taking another large bite from her apple, couldn't help but admire him. "Aye aye, Captain! You can trust me!" she suddenly got up from her seat and yelled joyfully, threw her fist to the air.
Jack's twitched into an amused smile. "I know... You never break my trust."
Merida grinned in joy, felt even more proud of herself... However, her grin faded and a deep frown spread over to her face. "We do have a problem about though. Hiccup and Astrid are really kind toward the queen." she informed the Captain with a stretched tone.
"We don't need to worry about them... They are not a part of this ship anyway." Jack responded curtly, didn't even seem bothered.
"If you say so. I should leave now." Merida excused herself when she immediately understood that Jack was finished with this conversation, his mind has already been wandering off once again.
How typical of him. He always carried the pressure on his shoulders, always refused to ask help. There was always something that prepossessed his mind.
Merida walked to the door, opened it with a swift movement. Nevertheless, her feet declined to leave the Captain's cabinet. She sighed and turned to Jack.
"You don't need to marry her to use her power, Jack. You could have just threatened her... Why would a pirate like you want to marry a queen?" Merida couldn't help but ask, the curiosity was gnawing her.
Jack, whose dark gaze was on the floor, dramatically raised his chin and locked his blue eyes on the redheaded woman. Before he said something, he grabbed two glasses and a bottle of rum. He poured the rum to the glasses, stretched out one glass to Merida. The young woman accepted the drink without hesitation.
"Merida... You may wanna sit down."
Elsa, the Queen of Arendelle watched the enormous sea with sad, exhausted eyes. The wind was blowing not very softly but also not very harshly, a piece her hair fell to her face. Her nails were clenched to the wooden railing, lips were trembling, face was sorrowful.
She had to marry someone or else, there a chance that she won't be allowed to see her beloved sister. It was a great risk that she did not want to take.
Nevertheless, imagining spending her night with a man she is not in love with, even the idea of someone touching her was driving her crazy, in a bad way. She didn't want to marry, she loved being a bachelorette, having her freedom. Having a husband meant a problem that had to deal with. Having a husband who didn't love her and she didn't love her back would stay with her by the rest of life... Losing her freedom was the greatest fear of her life, besides losing the people she had truly cared about.
Elsa of Arendelle did not want to marry, but she did not want to lose the people she had loved either.
Maybe this wasn't a bad chance after all... Maybe marrying Captain Jack Frost was her escape.
With that sudden thought, Elsa knitted her eyebrows and began to walk to the Captain's cabinet with determined footsteps. She knocked on the door and entered the room, wasn't bothered by the fact that she didn't hear a response.
It was now or never. She didn't want to wait, didn't want to think further or have regrets... It was time to be brave and get what she had wanted.
"Captain Jack Frost, I accept your proposal." she declared her thoughts with a courageous tone, eyebrows were still knitted together, her features were tight and determined more than ever.
Jack Frost, whose boots were on the table, who was drinking rum, looked at the queen with astonishment. His mesmerizing blue eyes were wide, his jaw was opened slightly.
Seeing his ego, stupid smugness falling apart... Oh much satisfactory was that sight.
"But I do have a few conditions. First, I will immediately leave this place after we marry. Secondly, no touching. We won't kiss, hug or do the other things, I will be legally your wife but that won't give you any privileges to touch me. Lastly and most importantly, once we finish our business, you and your crew will never step on Arendelle ever again, you will leave me and my kingdom alone." Elsa didn't let him speak while she was explaining the circumstances. Her hands were on the table, she leaned a little to show how much confident she was.
The usual cunning, mischievous, smug smirk that Elsa absolutely hated appeared on the young man's face. "As you wish, my queen. I accept your terms and will keep my promise."
The queen let her features to soften at that confession. She shouldn't have trusted him this much, but she had no other options. She had to take the risk... Plus, he seemed like he really meant those words.
"Then let's marry, Jack Frost."
"Eager, aren't we?"
His smug smirk never died, not even when a knife, which was made of ice was very close to his throat.
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