Chapter 18: The Truth Come to Light

The moment that Elsa and Jack both shared was then to be followed by the sound of children laughter and chattering from Her palace. They glanced over to the open doorway of the palace, where they saw Jamie and the other kids standing at the open entrance. Seeming to be talking about something. All white exchanging glances to the two winter spirits.

Elsa glanced up at Jack, curiously.

"They're looking at us, aren't they?" Elsa said.

Jack nodded his head.

"Looks like it." Jack said.

The two glanced to each other with the same wonder of what it was they were saying. Only to then realize that they were once more close to each other. Too close for comfort that was. His hands placed atop her beautiful frame. Jack pulled back his arms, grinning as he rubbed the back of his head. Elsa also glanced away from him, blushing. Her eyes shifted back to Jamie and the other children. They must have seen them together and thought that they must like each other.

She certainly didn't wish for them to get any ideas of course. Though at the same time, she couldn't say that it wasn't at all true. Nor could she act like she didn't have feelings she had for Jack. Her eyes shifted to the winter spirit, who was faced away, grinning. It was already clear that he felt the same for her.

It was quiet obvious how they felt about each other. And now it seemed the children had caught on to it.

Pippa came down the stairway of Elsa's Palace. The two of them seeming eager and excited about something. She leaned over to Jamie, whispering into his ear. Causing Jamie to chuckle in anticipation.

Jack turned to the two.

"Hey, what's so funny, you two?" Jack asked, curiously.

Jamie and Pippa both ceased their giggling as they turned to face Jack.

"Uh, nothing." Jamie said, glancing to each other.

"Uh, yeah." Pippa insisted.

"Hey Jack, could we talk for a second?" Pippa asked curiously.

"Uh, sure... okay." Jack said.

Pippa then came up to Jack, taking his hand as he lead him over toward the nearby came up to her. He reached up his hand over her forearm.

"Hey, Elsa, come on!" Jamie proclaimed.

"Let's go play!

Elsa glanced back to Jack and Pippa. Raising an eye brow, she grinned, having an idea as to what they were up to. Jamie continued to tug on her arm before she then turned and followed after him.

"Pippa, slow down." Jack chuckled as they came behind the tree.

"You mind telling me what this is about?"

Pippa leaned to the side for a moment, looking over at Jamie and Elsa as they made their way back to the palace. Once they were out of view, she then turned back to Jack, crossing her arms over her chest, grinning.

"What?" Jack asked, curiously.

"You like her, don't you?" Pippa said.

"Huh?" Jack asked.

"You like Elsa." Pippa insisted to Jack.

Jack paused. Reaching back his hand, he rubbed the back of his head, speechless to say the least. Pippa gasped in awe, shuddering in excitement.

"You do, you do like her!" Pippa proclaimed.

"Hey, hey, quiet down!" Jack said before glancing back toward the palace.

He then turned back to Pippa before sighing.

"Alright, yeah, I do." Jack claimed to her.

"I do like her."

"You have to tell her how you feel!" Pippa insisted to him.

Jack's eyes narrowed before glancing back toward the ice palace. He knew she was right. He knew that he had to tell Elsa how he felt. To show her that the feelings he had for her were so. But what if she didn't feel the same about him? What if she didn't share the same feelings?

But even still, he knew he had to tell her how he felt. He then nodded his head.

"I know I do and I will." Jack insisted.

"But... I've never been in love before. How can I?"

Being riddled with such feels of Love, Jack had no idea how he could confess them to her. He had never been in love before, so all these feelings were quite new to him. And while she was still too young to know anything of love, the stories and fairy tales Pippa had grown up reading had certainly told her much. One way in particular was when a handsome prince offered a maiden a flower.

Pippa gasped in realization, glancing up at Jack.

"I know!" Pippa insisted.

"A flower!"

Jack glanced up to her, curiously.

"A flower?" He asked, curiously.

"Yeah, girl's love flowers!" Pippa insisted, nodding her head.

Jack narrowed his head, pondering. While it was suppose to be spring, all the snow magic had completely covered the ground. There was no flowers here in Burgess or anywhere of the nearby towns. Where was he suppose to find any for Elsa?

Suddenly, Jack then paused, realizing something he remembered from his past. There used to be an old folktale in the old town of Burgess, of a blue ice flower the would only bloom in the mountains during the winter. Jack had often seen the flower from time to time. And with the presence of winter still in Burgess, there was bound to be a flower there.

"I think I know exactly what to give her." Jack proclaimed, glancing to her.

"What?" Pippa asked, curiously.

"You'll see!" Jack Proclaimed before then leaping off into the air.

Pippa glanced up to the winter spirit, watching him fly off.

Jamie and Elsa came up the ice stairway of her palace. As they came up over the top of the stairway, the young boy glanced up at the Snow Queen.

"Hey, wait up, guys!"

Elsa and Jamie glanced down the stairway, where they saw Pippa coming up to them. Elsa then glanced around the clearing, only to see that Jack was nowhere to be seen.

"Pippa, where's Jack?" Elsa asked, curiously.

Pippa paused, glanced over at Jamie,

"Oh, don't worry, he just... had to go get something." Pippa said, grinning.

Elsa gave a sly smirk at the two.

"Oh, is that so?" The Snow queen asked.

"Yep!" Jamie said.

"That's right!" Pippa said, chuckling nervously.

Elsa only grinned down at Pippa, raising an eye brow to the two of. The two of them had that look. She recognized that look. It was the one that Children would usually give whenever they were hiding something. What it was, Elsa had had good idea as to what it might be.

"Hey guys, come on!" Claude called from inside the castle.

The three looked up to the open door of the ice castle, where they saw Caleb, Claude, Monty and Cupcake playing with some of the snowies inside. Jamie turned and came back into the castle. Pippa and Elsa walked inside afterwards. She then glanced up at the snow Queen.

"So, Elsa, could I ask you something?" Pippa asked, curiously.

"Okay, what?" she asked, curiously.

"Do you... like Jack?" Pippa asked.

Elsa felt herself blush at the question. She glanced to the side, brushing her hair behind her ear, smiling. Though she was hardly surprised that they would ask her this. After all, she and Jack weren't exactly subtle about their feeling around the children.

"Well... I mean... uh..." She said, trying to find the right words to say.

She didn't wish to get any of their hopes up. After all, she and Jack had only know each other for only a short time. One could no simply fall in love in such a time. Yet even still, these feelings they had for one another felt so sincere. It was as if she had truly met the one she was destined to be with.

Though her word was not needed. As like Jack, her expression said it all.

"I knew it, I knew it!" Pippa said, excitedly.

"I knew you two liked each other!"

She came up in front of Elsa, jumping up and down in excitement. Elsa shifted her eyes to the side, cupping her hands against her chest. She would have sworn that she had told Anna she had met someone. Even after all this years, her sister was still here with her.

It was at that moment, the snow queen knew there was no point in hiding it.

"I do." She said, glancing up at her.

"I do like Jack."

Jamie and the other children came up to the snow Queen. Hearing her proclaim that she liked Jack had certainly brought a feeling of excitement and anticipation. Most notably, Jamie and Pippa, who shared and ecstatic glance at one another.

"I wonder, does this have something to do with him, having to get something?" Elsa asked, raising an eye brow to them.

Both Jamie and Pippa both exchanged a nervous grin to one another, all but to signify their that her suspicions were so. A sly grin formed atop Elsa's face as she placed her hand over her hip.

"We just thought that, since you like each other, we wanted to help you." Pippa insisted.

"Help us?" Elsa asked.

"Yeah, to show each other how you feel and so that you didn't have to be alone anymore." Jamie insisted to her.

Elsa narrowed her eyes, placing her hand atop her heart. She felt touched by the intentions of Jamie and his friends and appreciated that they wanted to help her and Jack confess these feelings for each other. She glanced down at Bruni, who uttered a chirp, smiling. Seemingly agreeing with Jamie and the children.

"You too?" She asked.

Bruni smiled, nodding his small head. Elsa of which smiled and tapped her finger over his small head.

Elsa narrowed her eyes before turning to face the open doorway. Her thoughts turning to the winter spirit who had captured her very heart. If she was to be honest, it would be good to have someone to be with. To not have to wonder this strange world alone and finally have someone to be with. Sure she had Bruni, Nokk and Gale, but it would be nice to have someone that she truly loved.

"What do you mean they just left?!" North exclaimed in utter disbelief.

The yeti muffled on to North, gesturing over to the fire Place. North cocked his head toward the mantle of the fireplace, where he saw that the snow globes were gone.

"My Snow Globes!" North exclaimed.

The yeti mumbled one more. As if to tell North that he told him so. North turned back to the Yeti.

"Where did he go?" North asked.

The Yeti shrugged to him, having no idea of where he and Elsa had gone. North glanced away, sighing as he placed his hands over his side.

"This is not Good!" North said, shaking his head.

"Pitch is now where to be found and now Jack and Elsa go missing."

He had asked this one thing of Jack and now he goes ahead and pulls something like this. While this was to be expected of him, he would have thought the talk he had with him would have convinced him how dire it was to protect Elsa.

North glanced up at the Globe, which was still covered with ice. Though the children's lights beneath the ice continued to shine as bright as before. Which could only mean that the children still believed in them. Thus Pitch had not yet deterred their believe in any of them. Thus that begged the question, what was it that he was up to?

"North?!"

North cocked his head as he glanced over to the stairway, where he saw Bunny coming up the stairway. Along with Tooth and Sandy.

"Bunny, Sandy, Tooth!" North asked.

Tooth zipped about the workshop.

"Wait, where's Jack and Elsa?" Tooth asked, glancing back to North.

"They're gone." North proclaimed.

"Gone?!" Tooth proclaimed

"Where did they go?

"I'm not sure!" North said, shaking his head.

"Did you find Pitch?"

Bunny shook his head.

"No sign of the old Boogieman anywhere." Bunny insisted to him.

"Must have crawled back under whatever bed he came from."

North cocked his head to the side, his expression unfazed by Bunny's explanation. He was hardly convinced that Pitch would give us this easily. For him to just come out of hiding and attack one of them, it could only mean there was enough fear to give him strength again. But for him to just only to disappear as quickly as he did.

Pitch was up to something really bad. He could feel it. In his belly.

North shook his head.

"No, No, Pitch wouldn't give us so easily." North proclaimed to them.

"He's up to something really bad. I feel it..."

"In you belly, yeah, we get it, North." Bunny said to North.

"But would you mind telling us what all of this is about?"

North cocked is head too Bunny, Tooth and Sandy.

"Ever since Elsa shown up, you've been more paranoid then usual." Bunny insisted to him

Tooth flew up from Behind Bunny.

"Bunny's right, North." she said.

"You have been acting strange ever since Elsa came along."

Sandy nodded his head in agreement.

"You know something about her, so would you mind spilling the beans here." Bunny asked, curiously.

North paused for a moment, placing his large hands over his hips. He then sighed. He knew he had to tell them about Elsa at some point.

"North?" Tooth asked.

North turned back to them.

"Have any of you heard the tale of Arrendelle?" North asked to them.

Bunny and Tooth glanced to each other, curiously.

"Arrendelle, the Kingdom that was cursed with an eternal winter?" Tooth asked, having heard the tale before.

"What about it?" Bunny asked.

North's gave then shifted to the globe that was covered with ice. As if to insist that what happened to that Kingdom long ago, would soon happen as well to the very world itself. Bunny turned back to North.

"Wait, your not saying..." Bunny asked, curiously.

North nodded his head.

"Elsa was the one who cursed Arrendelle with her powers all those years ago." North proclaimed to them.

"She was one of the sisters."

"You mean, Elsa is the one from the tale?" Tooth then said.

Noth gestured a nod of his head.

"Yes and Manny believes what happened to Arendelle will happen again," North insisted.

"Without Anna, Elsa's fear may just cause to lose control of her powers again."

"And that in turn gives Pitch power." Bunny finished.

"But with Anna gone, how can help Elsa control her powers?" Tooth asked.

Sandy turned back to Bunny, shaking his head in confusion.

"Hold on a minute, what about Pitch?" Bunny asked.

"Did we all just forget how he suddenly just disappeared? I mean, he's got his powers back do why hasn't he come after us yet?"

"Unless, he doesn't." North then said.

North pondered for a moment, stroking his long thick which beard. A single person with a hint of fear was enough to make Pitch stronger. But if Pitch was not attacking them like before, it could only mean that he did not posses the strength he craved from fear. Which could only mean that Elsa's fear was not as it was long ago. But how could that be?

Only Anna could help Elsa control her powers. It was their love for each other that helped Anna overcome her fear. So if it was not Anna, then who?

North then widened his eyes in realization.

"Jack!" North said.

Tooth, Bunny and Sandy turned to North, curiously.

"What?" Tooth asked.

"Come, I think I know where they have gone." North proclaimed.