Authors note: Welcome to the next chapter, the last we left Hans and the strange old man arrived in Arendelle, Hans also encountered Anna and Kristoff, Kristoff sadly was in a wheel chair. What happened while he was gone? Hans did not know but soon he will find out.

I will not reveal too much as I want to keep the rest a secret, a secret which I hope will delight all of you lovely readers. (Wink). Any way on with the new story, please tell me what you think and what improvements I can make on it as your opinions matter.

"Dear Heidi:

How are you? Hope your happy at your home and your business is thriving. As for myself, I am here in Arendelle, hoping to tie up loose ends as I want to before I start my new life. I promise will visit you and your home Austria as soon as possible.

Forever your friend, John Winters"

Finishing the letter Hans sealed it up and placed it on his bag, placed that on before pulling his hood over his head and calling out "I will be back",

"Don't take too long" the old man called out again before Hans headed out of the barn towards Arendelle to send the letters to his friends.

Taking the long way Hans took his time to take in the view of the forest and fields before arriving to town to find a commotion. People had gathered, cheering loudly "God save the queen! Long live Queen Elsa!"

"Elsa" though Hans as he hurried his over to the crowd and peeked through to see a beautiful procession.

Four beautiful dark fjord horses were first seen, on them were four handsomely dressed hussa soldiers , their uniforms were silver and blue, all of them had silver swords.

Then behind them were four white fjord horses, beautiful maidens wore gold dresses with their hair down in curls, town were side by side, holding up a small canopy, keeping the sun out from.

As soon as he saw her, Hans felt his face turn hot red. There she was, Queen Elsa in all her splendor. Her hair in an elaborate bun with braids and a shining crown. The dress she wore was the most beautiful elaborate white crystal dress that seemed to shimmer and change color before his very own eyes, around her shoulder hung a delicate cloak made out of what looked like a thousand butterfly wings with how flowey and delicate it looked. Said cloak was held by the remaining two ladies who held the cloak to keep it from touching the dirty ground as Elsa rode on a regal horse made out of snow and ice.

Entranced Hans moved to get a closer look. She was always beautiful to him, but after so long, seeing her there. It was as if she was even more beautiful than before.

"Move it!" He suddenly heard followed by a shove, the next thing Hans knew he was falling over before landing face first into the ground in front of the horses causing them to be startled.

Covering his head Hans waited in dread as he heard "Out of the queens way you filth!" One of the soldiers yelled.

"No! Don't!" He heard followed by a hush, there was a light thud followed by light clinks of foot steps.

Carefully Hans peeked up to find Elsa before him, with a gentle and kind smile she asked "Are you alright good sir?".

Hans just stared, his voice lost as he stared up to her. Any doubt of wether his feelings for her were gone as at that moment he was most certain that his feelings of love for Elsa were still there.

"Sir? Let me help" Elsa offered as she held out her had, silently nodding Hans took her hand and helped him up.

"Are you hurt?" asked Elsa worried as she reached for Hans, before he could protest she pulled his hood down.

For a moment she seemed surprised but frowned and said "Poor dear" with a flourish of a hand she made a handkerchief out of ice and dapped it to the side of his face, towards his cheek, cleaning a scrape he got.

"There... that's better" said Elsa before offering the handkerchief to Hans who he dumbly took it.

"Your highness?" asked a guard to walked over in case there was any funny business "Is there anything wrong?",

"No, lending a hand" said Elsa, this made Hans snap out of it and give her a clumsy bow before leaving quickly.

"Hump, rude" scoffed the guard who was her head body guard,

"Enough Ulrick" said Elsa sternly,

"But that pheasant did not thank you or addressed to you" Ulrick complained then added "What if he was riff riff?".

To that Elsa laughed and said "You surely must be joking, did you look at him?",

"Yes",

"Did he look like a riff raff to you?" said Elsa as she walked over and got on her horse.

"No?" said Ulrick unsure,

"Exactly" said Elsa surely before she made a gesture and the parade continued.

Meanwhile:

Moving through the crowd and making his way to the back alleys Hans hid behind one of the pillars behind a bar. Pressing his hand unto his chest Hans breathed.

His heart was racing so much and so strong he was sure that it would shoot out of his body if it did not calm down.

Looking down at his hand he found he was clutching the handkerchief Elsa had given him. He frowned when he saw it melted in his hand.

Of course it would... true love melts.

With a sight Hans turned the hand, letting the now water drop to the ground before heading to the post where he send the letters before quickly heading back home.

Heading back he stopped and quickly hid when he noticed something. A stranger dressed in dark left the barn he and the old man we're living in.

"That was odd" though Hans as he reached into his pocket and took out a dagger before slowly making his way to the barn.

Sticking his head inside Hans looked around suspiciously while he heard the old man call "John? You there? Don't play tricks on me! I heard you walk in!",

"I am here" said Hans relieved to know the old man was alive, but worried about the stranger. What did he wanted?

Deciding not to say what he witnessed Hans walked over and touched the old man on his shoulder to let him know where he was.

"There you are, I though for a moment I was hearing things" said the old man relieved,

"Sorry about that" said Hans still uneasy before deciding to bring the old man with him wherever he went... just in case...

Days later:

Sitting on a crate the blind beggar minded his own business as Hans was busy moving some bales of hay into the barn. Hans could tell that the beggar felt horrible for not being able to help but Hans did not minded as he rather keep the beggar safe than allow him to help and risk an injury.

"So, did you really get to see queen Elsa?" asked the beggar after a while as he remembered what Hans told him what had happened, "Yes, she was about town" said Hans stopping for a bit.

"Was she how you remembered?" asked the beggar,

"What does it matter?" asked Hans before he continued to work,

"Yes it does, surely you are missed, maybe you kept in contact with Idun or Christopher who surely would want to see you" explained the Beggar, shaking his head Hans said "No, I though it was for the best that I cut off all contact when I left"

There was silence before he beggar said "Elsie loved you you know... she still does",

"How do you know?" asked Hans then joked a little nervously "You don't get into peoples minds and read their thoughts right?",

"No, I do not have such power son" laughed the beggar "Although I wish I did sometimes", Hans laughed at that too "Don't we all" before he continued his work then stopped, though back and asked "Did you just call me son?",

"I did son" said the blind beggar, Hans looked and asked rather surprised "Why?",

"Why not? You have clothed me, given me shoes and a cane, cleaned me, fed me, taken care of me like a loving son would to his father" answered the beggar then added with a slight tone to his voice "If you do not want me to call you that then I will stop",

"No, no, its an honor, I am just surprised as we barely know each other" said Hans,

"And yet you care for this old fool who deserves no pity" said the beggar,

"I am sorry? But why would you see yourself like that? Its not your fault whatever happened to you" said Hans as he did not want to pry for more information as it was clear that this was something the old man did not want to talk about.

"I did deserve it" whispered the beggar as Hans continued his work, the rest of the day was in silence.

After work there was dinner and then rest as Hans got comfortable in his usual sleeping spot on the hay.

Gathering some hay and making it into a sort if make shift pillow Hans pressed his head unto it and went fast asleep as he had a long day ahead of him tomorrow.

Flashback:

A song, haunting, beautiful, it floated through the air and forest, as Hans gathered firewood he stopped and looked. It sounded like...

Curious he placed the wood down on a pile and called to the back of the camp "Varian, will be back". Before Varian could answer Hans had made his way out.

As he left the forest he pulled up the hood, covering his head he followed the song, it went pass the Irish town of Killarney and down a coast, there, nicely tucked away in a corner of the coast was a fisherman's hut, the second floor had a window open and it was there that the song was coming from. Then just as it started it stopped and the window closed seemingly by itself.

Now even more curious Hans turned around and went back to town, buying some liquor and food, since it would be rude to knock on a door and visit I expectantly without a gift. With items in hand Hans made his way back to the home, there he pulled down his hood and ran his hand through his hair as he did not want the people living inside to think he was some kind of robber or something, then he knocked on the door, before waiting.

It took about a minute before the door opened up slightly, peeking from it was an old man, maybe in his late flurries give or take with peppered red hair and green eyes which looked at Hans in confusion.

"What do you want?" He asked, his tone suggested that if Hans did anything wrong he would be sorry,

Giving a nod of respect Hans said "I apologize for disturbing, but I-",

"You heard her did you not?" The man quickly said, this was not how Hans wanted to bring up the subject, but decided to go with it and nodded.

"I figured, but your the first not to try to break in here uninvited" commented the man, looking Hans notes the man had an arm hide hidden behind him, probably concealing a gun or a knife.

"I would not for that would be rude" said Hans then gestured to the bread, meat and liquor he brought "I also know it would be rude to come in uninvited without a gift".

The man looked between him and the items before saying "I don't want to risk letting you in and hurting my daughter",

"That's fine, we can talk outside if you like or in town" offered Hans "I will buy you a drink".

This seemed to ease the mans worry a bit, handing the offering Hans said "My name is John Winters",

"Joseph, Joseph Walsh" said the man as he took the items,

"Nice to meet you" said Hans then added "Is there a pub your interested in where we can meet and talk?"

Eyes peeled open, turning to the side Hans saw it was daytime. Slowly sitting up he rubbed his eyes of sleep before getting up and getting ready to go to work.

After taking care of the old man Hans packed up and left, making his way to the field.

"Psss psss" he heard making him stop, turning he looked around to find a small wolf pup on the side of the path. Wary as the mother could be nearby Hans joked "Were you talking to me?",

"No, I was talking to the tree next to you, of course I was talking to you" said the wolf pup rather insulted which startled Hans.

"You talk?!",

"Now you are surprised, what happened to the other night when we spoke?" said the wolf who when Hans got a better look he noted the eclipsed moon on his forehead.

"Point taken" said Hans then asked "Going my way?",

"No, I actually was hoping to talk to you as I have a favor to ask" said the wolf,

"Really?" asked Hans as he walked, the wolf pup walked besides him as he explained "I have children you see, 2 sons, they are growing boys but sadly due to the lack of territory we have lost a lot of our food sources, so I was hoping maybe you can find some food for us".

"How?" asked Hans baffled as he was not sure how he could do that,

"You can figure something out, you are smart... for a human that is" said the wolf then added "Come through for me and I shall give you a useful item".

Hans though, he wanted to refused but the last thing he needed was those wolfs coming down and feasting on the cattle and innocent. So he nodded and said "Give me sometime, I will see what I can do".

Nodding his head the wolf said "Thank you" before taking off into the woods.

Hans watched for a bit before going to work on the fields.

Later that day:

Keeping an eye out Hans managed to gather some animal carcasses. Some of big animals, others small, mostly fresh. He took and gather them in a secret part of the forest, going back and forth between doing that and the field work.

The sun began to set behind the mountains which marked the end of the work day. Packing up his tools Hans turned to leave only to be startled when he noticed Anna and Kristoff at the edge of the field.

Keeping calm Hans walked, going to make his way back home only to stop when Anna and Kristoff got in the way.

"Sir" Anna began, looking down Hans was careful to keep his face hidden as he said "Yes?",

"The reindeer are okay" began Kristoff, then Anna added "Thank you, we don't know what you did, but whatever you did... thank you" the two smiled, Anna resting a hand on Kristoff shoulder.

It made Hans smile a bit, it was very sweet that the two were so in love. Concerning that the two were in rocky ground the last time he saw them.

"We want to reward you" said Kristoff,

"Oh no, no need, helping is what I do" said Hans waiving it off,

"Please, at least let us open our home to you for dinner" insisted Anna,

"I am sorry, but I can't accept" Hans insisted back,

"Why? Don't worry about how you dress, we are casual" promised Kristoff,

"No, it's not that" said Hans then explained as gently as he could "I have my father back home, he is very sensitive and it would not feel right to leave him behind knowing I will eat fine and he will not, even if I bring food I don't dare to leave him alone as I fear he will get hurt if I leave him alone".

Kristoff and Anna listened before nodding as they understood before Anna offered "What if we made both of you dinner to go? We make it and pack it up, you can take it home and eat it with your father".

It was a nice offer, Hans wanted to refuse as he did not want to impose but knowing Anna she would not back away and would have kept insisting so he said "That sounds nice, thank you",

"Then it's settled, stop by tomorrow after work and we shall have it ready for you" said Kristoff, with that he and Anna left.

Watching Anna push Kristoff away Hans could not help but feel a little jealous.

Seeing them both now, together and happy despite the fact that Kristoff was completely paralyzed. That was true love for Hans.

With that he continued his way to his own home. As he did he stopped when he saw a flash, turning he spotted a huge wolf, followed by two pups, the wolf he recognized the pups were new and they were truly beautiful, one was pure silver with dark markings of the moon in its forehead, the other was pure gold with red marks of the sun on its forehead.

The two pups had their mouths full of meat from the pile of carcasses he had left for them in the forest to find while the large wolf, their father dragged along a deer, maybe to eat later.

Spotting him the three stopped, bow their heads to Hans, Hans returned the gesture by bowing his own head before they each wen to their own homes.

Laughs were heard coming from the pub as Hans and Joseph had a jolly good time drinking, eating and sharing stories.

"Your such a card John, I am so glad I did not shoot you" laughed Joseph as he took another swig of the bottle of drink,

"I am glad you did not, don't feel like having another hole to patch up" laughed Hans as he raised his drink then stopped and asked "So, that song, it was your daughter?",

"Yes, my only daughter" said Joseph, his eyes lighting up "My only treasure, my pearl, my most precious one",

"She sounds special" said Hans,

"Of course she is, she is my princess, a heart of gold, the kindest soul with the voice of an angel, I wonder how I was lucky enough to end up with a daughter like her" said Joseph.

"End up?" asked Hans curious,

"Her mother passed away giving birth to her... it's just been me and my daughter for years now" said Joseph sadly,

"I am sorry" said Hans, Joseph just sulked and drank.

It was pass midnight when they decided to go back home, Hans had to help Joseph back to his home as he was so drunk he could not stand much less walk so Hans ended up carrying the guy back to his home.

Arriving there Hans searched through Joseph for a key which he used to open the door, dragging him inside where he placed him on a cot that was in the room.

"There" said Hans as he tucked the man in before turning around and leaving. Careful to lock the door behind him.

As he turned to leave he suddenly heard a slam which started him, looking around in the dark Hans found nobody. "That was strange" though Hans before looking back at the home only to noticed, even for a brief second a figure on the window. It was gone so fast as one minute it was there then the next it was not.

"That was strange" though Hans before shrugging it off and leaving, not thinking about it too much.

A loud slam woke Hans up, jumping from his bed his first instinct was to reach for the scythe he had only to stop when he saw it was the blind man. He was in the middle of what looks like trying to make breakfast... but obviously failing.

"Uh... this is not what it looks like" he said, to which Hans sighted, seems this will be just another day.

To be continue...

Fun fact: Elsie, Idun and Christopher are the fake names Hans gave to Kristoff, Elsa and Idunna when telling his story to the beggar.

Authors note: Finally after all this time Elsa and Hans see one another again. Seems things have gone well for Elsa as she is an all powerful queen. :)

Any way hope you all enjoy the chapter of this story! It was long and hard work! Please review to let me know what you all think, but for now I bid you adue and will post the sequel of this story as soon as possible. Take care.