Authors note: Halloween has passed, hope you all had a wonderful time getting candy or partying or wearing costumes or just staying in and watching horror movies. :)

As for the story I apologize for the delay, but hope this new chapter will make up for it as things will start to get interesting.

For now I hope you all enjoy this chapter and please leave a review when done, opinions are most welcomed. Again I must warn that this story will contain many sexual scenes and bloody deaths and such.

He took one step, another and another, he was so close, so close to the edge, just one more step and he would be free of it all. Free of the pain, free of the sorrow, betrayal and hurt...

With that in mind he took one more step and...

"That's a long way down" Hans heard, as soon as he heard that he stopped dead in his tracks. Looking towards the sound of the voice he was startled to find that it came from a women.

She was standing besides the tree, her clothes consisted of a light blue denim knee length skirt, a long sleeve white shirt under a spaghetti strap icy blue blouse, her platinum blond hair was done in a messy french braid, her loose strands fell delicately framing her face and blue eyes.

Hans just stared, not responding as his mind wondered if she was actually there or if she was some form of trick conjured up from his mind. If she was real then how long had she been standing there? And why was she there in the middle of the night?

"Sir? Are you okay?" asked the woman again, her voice laced with concern,

"Ah... yes yes I uh... was just taking in the view" lied Hans as he stepped away from the edge and walked closer to the women.

"You sure?" asked the women, Hans nodded to that even when he knew it was a complete lie.

"Oh... okay" she responded though she did not look or sounded convinced of his answer. Placing her hands on her pockets she said "I am heading back to my home, would you like to join me? The forest is not safe at night", Hans hesitated, this scene was just so surreal.

Here he was ready to take his own life when out of nowhere this women appears just in the right time to save his life when he did not want to be saved... was this the worlds cruel joke? To send him somebody when his entire life he had nobody?

He did not know but found himself nodding. Gently she reached, took his arm and said "Come on, I will make you dinner".

With that she slowly guided him away from the place, keeping a hand on his shoulder to keep him steady as he was tipsy.

"My name is Elsa by the way, Elsa Solberg",

"Hans... Hans Westergaar" answered Hans,

"Nice to meet you" said Elsa as she smiled at him, it was the first genuine smile Hans had ever gotten... and it was beautiful...

The house was a 17th century swedish home or at least it was constructed to look like it. Stepping inside Hans shivered a bit as the inside was rather cold compared to the outside.

As promised she led him to the kitchen, sitting him down Hans watched in awe as she managed to wip up a meal in what seemed to be in mere seconds.

Taking a bite out of the meat Hans found it tasted great! The best he had! As he ate he did not notice tears began to stream down his eyes.

Walking over Elsa placed a delicate hand on his shoulder and said "Its okay to cry, I don't know you, but I can tell you went through a lot" she paused and added "You don't need to bottle everything up, its okay to cry, its not a sign of weakness".

The tears spilled even more, it got to the point Hans stopped eating and was just sobbing uncontrollably into his hands. Reaching again Elsa wrapped her arms around him in a hug, allowing Hans to cry there.

Despite his initial reservations Hans allowed her to hug him. He was just to tired, tired of everything, upset and it seems that no matter how hard he tried happiness just seemed so far from his reach.

It was like he was in a hamster wheel, no matter how hard he ran... he just never went anywhere...

Elsa held him close as he cried, rubbing his back gently, shushing him and whispering promises of how everything was going to be okay and how things will get better.

Hans continued till his energy was spent, what happened afterwards he was not fully aware, he did remember getting up on his feet and Elsa taking him somewhere, but nothing else after that.

Clip clop clip clop, that soft sound woke Hans up from his sleep. Looking around he found himself in a closed carriage.

It was dark interior, the couches were a velvet green, curtains were drawn to keep people from peeking in.

Curious Hans pulled on the curtains, allowing him to see outside. The town... it looked so much like the town that was bought along with the castle but... it was alive!

The buildings were all as good as new, painted, people walked around the streets in clothes that looked like it belonged to the victorian times.

Upon seeing this Hans wondered if he had gone to the twilight zone or something as this was not possible.

Suddenly the carriage stopped and somebody, the driver of the carriage maybe said "Were here your majesty", then the doors opened allowing him to leave.

With dexterity he never knew he had Hans stepped out of the carriage and into an open courtyard of the castle. With awe Hans stared at the beauty before him, yes the castle was pretty looking before, but now it was truly magnificent.

Unknown to him at first he bad began to move, making his way up the stairs and into the castle. It was as if his body knew where to go, so he let it.

Entering it he made his way down the hall and through a pair of double doors which when opened it revealed a world of elegance and beauty unlike anything Hans had ever seen before.

There was fine music playing by a string band, people wore their finest suits and dresses with mask covering their faces as they danced around the mirror ballroom. The awe left Hans as he began to panic, he was sure he stuck out as a sore thumb as he was currently wearing jeans, long sleeve black shirt and a cream color fisherman sweater.

He tried to go back but his body moved forward to join in on the dancing. As he did he noticed his reflection on one of the mirrors. Like everybody else he too was dressed in a suit, it was dark color, fitted, decorated with gold buttons, his shoes were boots that were polished till they reflected the candle lights of the room and to top it off he wore a mask, it was silver and like that of a wolf.

This left Hans wondering about it, was it a dream? Reality? It was just so strange.

As the couples splitting into a couple dance, he found himself arm in arms with that of a lady, she wore a dress made out if peacock feathers, her mask was also that of a peacock and decorated with gold.

As they held one another Hans felt his mouth go dry, his heart race and even his face turn red and by looking at her it was clear that she felt the same way too.

Groaning a bit Hans slowly came to. His cheek was pressed against something soft. Slowly opening his eyes he found himself in a living room, at first he though that he was still i the dream as the living room looked like something out of the victorian times.

But as soon as he got up Hans looked around and saw Elsa Solberg was sitting in a chair. Knitting some socks or maybe a scarf, it was hard to tell.

"Did you sleep well?" asked Elsa as she stopped and put the knitting needles down.

"Yes" said Hans rubbing his eyes, pushing aside the fur throw she had placed on top of him "I don't know why you would take pity on a stranger like me, but thank you",

"Not everybody is bad... even though it seems like it" said Elsa, nodding Hans checked his phone and cursed. It was almost 4 pm and Caleb literally blew up his phone trying to call him.

Panicking Hans jumped to his feet,

"Whats wrong?" asked Elsa confused at his reaction,

"I am sorry, I have to go" said Hans as he quickly ran out, as he did he heard Elsa yell something, but what he did not hear as he made his way out of the home.

Somehow managing to make his way down to the cliff he took his bike and made his way back to the castle.

"Late, I get punished for being late once, that stupid selfish" muttered Hans along with a couple of curses under his breath as he was busy cleaning out the rest of the garden and maping out the different outdoor buildings, gazebos and such.

As he was done he noticed something strange, there were clusters upon clusters of ivy's which had over grown a large part of a section of a garden.

Grumbling at the extra work as ivy vines were hard to get rid off Hans set off to work. Taking out pair of huge garden sheers Hans proceeded to clear away the ivy bit by bit.

As he pulled them off he nearly fell on his ass in shock when he saw the ivy was wrapped around something...

Something which suspiciously looked like a coffin.

Dropping the sheers he ran off to inform his brothers of his findings.

"This is strange" said Lars as he sketched the coffin, the other brothers just looked as Hans finished clearing out the ivy.

The coffin was blue in color, cold to the touch, whether it was marble or not Hans was not sure as he stopped to take a good look at the design of the coffin.

It was designed to look like a funeral bed which was a design quite common among royalty. On the funeral bed was the carving of a man, he was dressed in a military like suit, head tiled to the side, had a sword in hand, it sort of reminded Hans of the design that rested on top of prince alberts tomb.

Moving closer to get a better look Hans narrowed his eyes as he looked at the statues face, it seemed strangely... familiar for some reason.

"So what will we do with it?" asked Jurgen,

"I say we get rid of it, its creepy and will scare everybody away" said Rudi,

"No! We can't do that! This is part of history and should be preserved" complained Lars,

"Hummm maybe Rudi is right" said Caleb as he though then added "Its pretty ugly looking" and soon there was an argument over what to do.

"Don't I get a say?" asked Hans interrupting the argument,

"No!" they shouted making Hans glare in anger. After a while Hans sighted exasperated as it was clear that what he said had no meaning before deciding to turn around and leave.

As he left his mind went back to Elsa and frowned, he did not get to thank her for essentially saving his life. As he got into his bike a smile spread over his face as he got an idea.

Elsa walked out of her home only to be surprised to find Hans waiting for her at her door step. Leaning against his motorcycle he asked "Are you free today?",

"Yes, but what about you? Are you not supposed to be working?" asked Elsa with a smile.

"Its my day off and since were both free" to this Hans paused and held out a motorcycle helmet "How do you feel about a ride around the fjord?",

"I have never been on a motorcycle before" said Elsa honestly as she walked over.

"Always a first time" said Hans and added "I promise you will love it". Walking over Elsa smiled and took the helmet and put it on.

Getting up Hans shed off his jacket and put it on her to give her more protection before they got on the bike and drove away.

As promised Elsa stared in awe as they drove down the road, through the forest and pass the fjord, holding unto Hans she smiled as she felt the wind pass her.

Feeling her held unto him Hans smiled as he was sure she was enjoying it.

Suddenly there was a loud horn, looking back Elsa gasped and clutched unto Hans. Noticing this Hans looked back and cursed when he saw a jeep behind them, it was Rudi and Runos jeep... and it was gaining on them...

"Hold on!" yelled Hans as he sped up, going as fast as it was possible. The jeep caught up to them and bumped his bike. Elsa screamed and clutch unto Hans even more.

Hans kept his head as he kept his eyes on the road, the jeep bumped against the bike causing his bike to swerve. There was laughter coming from the jeep, Hans knew it was Rudi and Runos.

"Die brother die!" He heard Runo taunt, it made him angry! They can torture him but why hurt another!

"Hans there!" suddenly Elsa said as she pointed to an opening in the woods,

"What?! We can hit a tree or something!" shouted Hans as he did not want to takes chances to hurt her.

"Trust me!" yelled Elsa before shrieking when the jeep bumped the bike again. Looking Hans took a deep breath before turning to the opening into the woods.

The tires all bumped and screeched as they went through the mossy and wooden terrain at full speed while the jeep chased after then effortlessly.

Hans swereved and went between trees, desperatly trying to shake Rudi and Runo off of him. Suddenly the front wheel of his bike hit a rock or maybe a branch making it flip over and sending Elsa and Hans flying. Elsa winced as she landed on her side, getting up she shivered, she had some scratches but she was okay, looking at Hans she grew pale in fear.

It seems that Hans body took the most impact when they fell, he lay on the ground, bleeding forehead, his left arm was in a position that no arm should be.

"No, no no no" said Elsa panicking as she ripped off her helmet, went to his side and turned him over, his eyes opened and closed over and over in extreme disorientation before closing them completely. Blood dripped down from his forehead down his face.

Suddenly she heard the screeching of the jeeps wheel as it made its way.

Acting fast Elsa grabbed and pulled Hans, dragging him so they were behind a tree. When she did she noticed there was a hole in the tree.

Gently getting in she pulled Hans in and hid. She heard the car stop, followed by the door opening and foot steps.

"Where did they go?" she heard one said, she held unto Hans praying the roots of the tree would hide them.

"Their around here somewhere, running scared" said another and snorted "Cowards" with that they walked away.

Once far away she placed Hans gently against a root covered in soft moss, running her hands through his hair, moving some strands she said "Don't worry, I will get help".

Leaning in she hesitated before pressing her lips on his forehead. Once pulling away she watched as the area where she kissed had a bit of frost on it before slowly disappearing. After running her hand through his hair again Elsa peeked out of their hideout before leaving quickly.

It was a hunt in Rudi and Runo mind as they tore through the forest, looking for Hans and that person, whoever that was, was a passenger in his bike.

Every so often Rudi stopped and asked "Think he ran away?",

"No way, he is too stupid to find his way out" said Runo before tripping, the two were tipsy as they had been drinking before deciding to get on their car to go home only to run into Hans and deciding to torment him for fun.

A couple of minutes passed before Rudi stopped as he said as he pointed "Woo, look at that!"

Looking at what he was pointing Runo was confused then saw a figure. As the figure got closer they saw it was that of a woman, one with beauty they never knew even existed.

Her skin was as white as pure snow, her form graceful as she moved with a stride that would make even the most professional models look like newbies, her hair was an icy blue, unusual choice of hair dye but it just added more to her beauty as it was cut in a way that made her perfect face stand out and brought attention to her beautiful lips and blue eyes which seem to have a shine to them giving them a hypnotic quality.

"Ohh ain't she pretty?" cooed Runo in a mocking sweet tone "Hey! Want to be with a real man?" they both burst laughing never noticing the cold wind picking up, how ice formed all around them as the women got closer and closer.

They in their drunk state though that her approaching then meant she wanted to be with them and take up their offer. Never once did they notice the glare she was giving them and how her eyes shone with rage as they were busy starring at her breast.

"Aren't you a beau-" Rudi did not finish that, as soon as he reached to touch her the womans arm snapped over, her hand grasped unto his and when it made contact his arm turned blue with frost crystals growing on it before with a rough movement she broke the now ice arm off and dropped it. Once it touched the ground it shattered into many pieces.

Registering what happened Rudi began to scream and how in pure terror and pain. Runo screamed and cursed, move back and forth as he was not sure whether to run or not.

Grabbing him by his neck the woman leaned into Rudis ear and whispered "Pucker up big boy" before forcing her lips unto his.

His screams of terror were silenced as ice overtook his entire body, leaving him frozen and dead in a matter of what seemed like seconds.

"Rudi!" screamed Runo but screamed even more when the woman turned her attention to him, a grin promising him that he will be next.

Turning he tripped as he lost grip on himself before he managed to somehow scramble back up on his feet and run away. The woman just walked slowly as she followed him, she was in no hurry to catch him as she knew the woods better than anybody, he would not be escaping anywhere soon.

Opening his eyes Hans found himself in an office, at first he nearly jumped out of his skin as he noticed it was no office he recognized.

But somehow his body refused to move even more when he heard arguing.

"Why not Elizabeth?! Why can't I be with him?!" he heard a woman screaming, he winced as her tone was like nails on chalkboard to him.

"I already told you why!" said another women's voice, hers was full of exasperation, like she was tired of repeating herself over and over.

"But its not fair! You get to be with the man you love! Why can't I?!" screamed the other women,

"Johannes is different! He is a prince, he has served in the military for years and has many medals! Kristoff is a commoner and an ice harvester! Have you not though of how it would look if you marry him!?",

"I love him! Can't you let me sister?!",

"I never forbidden you, in fact I have been far too lenient by giving you two choices" said the voice calmly "The choices by law are in order for you to marry him he must either complete a 3 year military training or you Annalise must surrender your right to the throne and tittle as princess",

"But thats not fair Elizabeth! You know Kristoff does not want to go into the military and its not fair that I should give up my right",

"Its one or the other Annalise, you cannot have it both ways, now stop acting like a five year old and start acting like the responsible 19 year old you should be".

There was silence before there was a stomp and the voice yelled "You will be sorry Elizabeth!" Followed by a slam of the door.

Beep beep beep the soft sounds of a machine slowly woke Hans up. Turning his head back and forth he groaned, his arm was killing him, moving it he gasped as fresh pain ran all the way up from his hand to his shoulder.

Weakly opening an eye he looked down to find himself in a hospital room.

"Uhg, how did I got here?" turning his head he found Elsa, she was sleeping on a chair, her arms were on top of a table and her head rested on her arms as she slept.

As he stared at her he remembered last events, he remembered how they were chased by Rudi and Runo and how the pair wanted to kill them, what he did not know was how they got out of it alive, but it was clear that Elsa was the reason they were even alive in the first place.

"Not sure how you did it, but you saved my life again Elsa" though Hans as he rested his head against the pillow again, but as he was breathing a sigh of relief the doctor walked in with a couple of cops and Caleb.

"Oh your awake" said the doctor sounding concerned, Hans nodded, walking over the doctor ran some test and checked his left arm which was in a full cast when done Hans asked "What happened?",

"Thats what we are trying to figure out" said the police officer as he took out a notepad and pen while explaining "Your girlfriend over there brought you our station all bloody and mangled, she claimed you two were attacked by your brothers?",

"No, she is not my girlfriend, she is just a friend, but yes we were attacked, my brothers Rudi and Runo tried to run us over with their jeep" began Hans,

"Officers pay no mind Hans here tends to have a wild imagination he-",

"Don't believe me!? Go to the road that goes through the fjord! I am sure you will find tire tracks there! And better go to the forest on the side! You will find more tracks and where they tried to run us over!" snapped Hans angry that Caleb dared to paint him as a liar.

Caleb was taken aback by Hans angry outburst but before he could say anything Elsa rose from her sleep.

Rubbing her eyes Elsa looked and asked "What happened?",

"Nothing Elsa" hissed Hans angrily as the police officer wrote down his statement,

"Anything else?", before Hans could say the door burst open and Danny ran in. Looking at Hans she threw herself on him, Hans grimaced in both pain and disgust, pain as she latched unto his broken arm causing it to throb in pain and disgust as he remembered as clear as day her cheating on him.

Pushing her away Hans said "Doctor can you please send Danny away and not allow her near me?",

"Hans?" asked Danny confused, growling Hans said "I hope that mans dick was worth it! Cause you can forget about us marrying or even being together!",

"What are you talking about?" asked Danny nervously,

"I saw you sucking Calebs dick!" yelled Hans exploding,

"Excuse me?!" yelled both Danny and Caleb outraged,

"I saw you two in the parking lot! You were sucking him as he rode you like a horse!" yelled Hans outraged,

"Thats it! Your insane!" Caleb yelled back,

"I saw what I saw!" screamed Hans even louder as his face turned a bright shade of red in anger.

Seeing how things progressed the doctor nervously decided to deescalate the situation before it got worse.

"Uhhh I think you should all leave" said the doctor,

"Yes I uh... " with that the police left as they knew they did not want to be here for the argument.

"Listen here you!" yelled Caleb as he walked over, ready to strangle Hans with his bare hands for his accusations while Danny wailed and cried.

"You two need to leave!" said The doctor firmly as he grabbed both Caleb and Danny by the arm before roughly escorting them out.

"And take your dirty whore with you! You two deserve each other!" Hans screamed in anger.

Leaning his head back he breathed to catch his breath and calm down a bit. Then looked at Elsa and said "Sorry you have to see that",

"Its okay" said Elsa with a smile "I am sure that Caleb had it coming to him" then frowned and asked "About Danny...", Hans sighted yet again and said "Its alright... I should have known better, but better now than after she and I are married",

"I guess you dodged a bullet" said Elsa with a small smile,

"Not the first time" chuckled Hans then asked "Elsa, where did Rudi and Runo go?",

"Probably somewhere in the forest, lets just let the police handle that" said Elsa and Hans could not agree more.

Whimpering against a tree Runo lay half frozen, he shivered, not able to move as a shadow was cast over him.

"Please... mercy..." Runon was barely able to croak out as the woman with blue had approached him.

Barks were heard through the forest as tracking dogs and police officers were sent to find Rudi and Runo. Their car had been found where Hans said and there was evidence that collaborated his story about how the twins tried to run him and his friend over, but still there was no sign of either twin.

"Where are they?" asked one police officer,

"Not sure, but we will find and apprehend them" said another when they heard a yell, dropping everything they ran over to a rookie cop which had been employed just shy out of the academy.

He was terrified, "Rookie whats wrong?!", the rookie said nothing as he pointed, turning their flashlights over they saw a horrible sight.

They found Rudi, his whole body was frozen to the point that it had frost and icicles growing on it, his face was frozen in a moment of sheer terror.

It was truly a horrible sight and not just because of how Rudi was, but because he was frozen, it was summer, so how was Rudi frozen in such a way?!

Taking out the satelite phone the police officer called in back up and that it was an emergency.

"What is out there?",

"Look there is a logical explanation for this!",

"Explain then!"

There was silence as in truth, they did not know what or how could this have happened...

To be continued...