Chapter 14: Blackmailed

One year later

"Pens down," said the supervisor at the front of the lecture room.

Elsa put her pen down and turned her paper back over to the front cover and pushed it slightly away from her. She had just finished her final exam of the year. She couldn't believe how fast her year at The University of Burgess as gone. It had seemed like yesterday she had arrived in America but now she was finishing up with her first year.

Her first year in America had been the best year in her life. Sure, she missed her friends and family back home in Arendelle but for the first time in her entire life, she wasn't looking over her shoulder for her father's unforgiving fist. She was actually smiling for once in her life. Her physical scars were finally healing – abet, slowly – but would the mental scars ever heal? The nightmares were slowly getting less frequent but that didn't stop Elsa unable to get sleep most nights. However, things were certainly a lot better at where she was a year ago.

She watched as the supervisor took her exam paper from her. Elsa waited until the supervisor told them all that they could leave which happened only a few moments later. Elsa felt an enormous relief flow through her. She walked down the steps towards the front of the lecture room. She quickly located her bag. She grabbed it and headed out the door.

"Hey Elsa," her friend and classmate, Emma Stevenson, raced up to meet her. Emma was Jamie Bennett's – a really good childhood friend of Jack's – girlfriend. Elsa had met Jamie many times over the course of the year. He and Jack were used to be inseparable until they got different timetables at university. Elsa smiled at Emma. They had been in the same class all year and became really good friends over the duration of the year.

"Hey Em," Elsa replied, her smile still all over her face.

"What did you put down for the case with the company that has a leaky building?" she asked Elsa as they headed out of the Law Building into the sunshine. "I think it was question four."

"The company is liable," Elsa said. "Also the man should sue the company for the leaky building as it wasn't kept in tip-top condition and then the company should sue everyone else as it wasn't like the builder."

"Aw, what?" Emma gave Elsa a horrified look. "I thought the man had to keep the building in repair."

"Nope," Elsa said. "The company signed a contract stating that the building was in tip top shape and it was when the guy rented the building."

"Fuck," Emma swore.

Elsa gave Emma a one hand hug. "It was one question."

"Worth fifteen marks," Emma grimaced. "It was a big short answer question after all."

"It will be fine," Elsa said. "So you get an eighty five out of hundred. That's still pretty good."

"Shut up," Emma gave Elsa a small, playful push while they both laughed.

"Hey guys," Jack and Jamie immediately came out of nowhere. It gave Elsa quite a fright. Jamie gave Emma a small kiss on the lips and a hug. Elsa gave Jack a small smile. Her feelings over the last year for him never went away, in fact, they only strengthened. She never dared tell Jack how she felt. She always thought that it would complicate their friendship. Besides, she knew that Jack would never go for a girl like her. Besides, he had a girlfriend – a girl that Elsa considered to be way above her. Still didn't stop her from getting very jealous. Astrid hadn't stopped sniggering. That had annoyed Elsa to the extent that she would get frustrated whenever she looked at Astrid.

"So, how did it go?" Jamie asked them. Together, they headed off in the direction of the Quad to get some food.

For an answer, Emma groaned in frustration. This just made Jack and Jamie laugh. Emma scowled at them and smacked her boyfriend on the shoulder for laughing. This just made the two boys laugh even harder. They soon entered the Quad and looked around, wondering what they should have to eat.

Elsa soon heard her phone go off. She told Jack to get her a burger and some fries with a coke and gave him some cash to pay for it. Jack gave her two thumbs up to show her that he had heard. Elsa walked away from her friends who were lining up in the line at the burger joint. She looked at the caller ID and saw that it was Miss Waters' office. Over the past year, Elsa went to see her three times a week. Miss Waters had listened to what Elsa had to say and offered her opinion and advice on how to deal with the trauma of her abuse. So far, it had been working which Elsa had been grateful for.

However the therapy hadn't come cheaply. She had gotten two other jobs – one working at the local book store where everyone bought their textbooks and another one proof reading for the English department. She didn't know how she managed to get the jobs or keep up with her all work but somehow, she did. She often found herself working late until the night trying to finish it all. The therapy didn't leave much left in her bank account but she felt like it was worth it. She needed those sessions. She shuddered to think if she allowed all her pain to continue.

"Hello?" Elsa said when answered her phone.

"Miss Winters," the voice of Miss Waters' receptionist, Susie, said, "how are you today?"

"Good," Elsa said in a cherry voice into the phone. "What can I do for you?"

"I've got some bad news," Susie said. "Miss Waters is out of town for your appointment tomorrow and so therefore can't make it."

"That's unfortunate," Elsa said.

"However, Miss Waters is able to reschedule you to Friday at five o'clock," Julie said. "You want that slot?"

"I sure do," Elsa said. "I'll be there."

"Great," Julie said. "I'm booking you in."

"Thanks," Elsa bade Julie goodbye and then hung up the phone. She headed over to the table where Jack and the others were waiting. Jack waved at Elsa to make sure that she knew where they were. Elsa nodded in their direction and made her way towards them. She took a seat next to Jack which he obviously had saved for her. She looked down at the food Jack had ordered for her. It was exactly what she had wanted. It was like he had read her mind – it wasn't her usual order either. She took a big bite of the burger. She loved the way he knows her. She didn't say anything but watched her friends engage in hate comments about the exams. She smiled. She loved these moments.

The day after the exams ended, Jack found himself sitting in a coffee shop in Burgess – outside the university. He had caught a train into the city with the intention of meeting his sister for lunch but she had cancelled at the last minute as she was swamped at work. Instead, he was meeting up with his girlfriend, Jules, who he did need to talk to. He sighed as he stared out of the window. He wasn't looking forward into doing what he was about to do but it was time. The sooner he ripped off that band aid the better. He had planned to do this tomorrow but he thought he should do this soon.

Jules soon walked through the door and smiled at Jack who smiled back. Jules placed her order at the counter before taking a seat next to Jack. Jack stared at her but didn't say anything. A waitress came and placed a cup of coffee in front of Jules before the waitress walked away.

Jules sipped at her coffee. "So," she said. "What did you want to talk about?"

"Ah, that," Jack also took a sip of his coffee. How was he going to phase this? It was finally time to tell her the truth. "I think we should –"

"Break up?" Jules supplied.

Jack stared at her, stunned. He honestly didn't expect that to come out of her mouth. Jules simply smiled again.

"I kind of guessed that is what you wanted," Jules shrugged. "We've drifted further and further away over the past year and just didn't want to admit it to each other."

"Yeah," Jack nodded. It had been true. Over the course of the past year, he and Jules had seen each other less and less until it came to the point when it had been weeks when they didn't see each other. It wasn't because they grew sick of each other. It was just because they seemed to have less and less reasons to hang out with each other. Both were busy with work and university which ate up their time.

"Of course," Jules said, her face falling slightly and a serious look was adopted, "however, there is another reason." She paused as Jack looked slightly confused. "Elsa Winters," Jules stated rather clearly.

"Oh," Jack looked a little guilty. It was true that Elsa may be a part of the reason for his decision to break up with Jules. When he met Elsa, a small hint of a crush started to surface. Over the course of the year, it had grown to the point where he thought that he could easily fall in love with this girl.

"I'm not angry Jack," Jules said. "I know you never cheated on me, well physically anyway. You just fell for this girl and fell out of love with me. It happens."

"Sorry," Jack said. "You are an amazing girl but I just don't think this relationship will work out."

Jack couldn't believe that Jules was taking this so well. However, he was aware of a certain someone who had been flirting with Jules for the last several months. Maybe Jules really wanted to end her relationship with Jack to date this guy who Jack didn't know.

"I feel the same," Jules shrugged again as she drained the last dregs of her coffee. "No point trying to fix something that isn't worth fixing." Jules smiled at Jack. "Just don't break her heart. I have an inkling that Elsa is fragile." Jules got to her feet, patted Jack on the shoulder and left the coffee shop.

Jack sat there feeling a little confused on how everything had gone. He had expected Jules to maybe cry but she didn't. She must have been feeling the same as Jack and realised that the relationship was going nowhere. Jack decided he better not question it. He finished up his coffee and left the shop behind him.

"So she took it really well?" his sister Pippa asked him.

They were doing the dishes. Jack had just finished telling Pippa all about his conversation with Jules earlier that day. Jack had gone over to his mother's house for dinner that night to celebrate him finishing exams. Jack's mother had cooked up a storm for the small family of three to eat. It had all been really good. Jack always considered his mother to be an excellent cook.

Even though Jack's family lived in Burgess, the University of Burgess was a while away and so it made more sense for Jack to board rather than have to deal with the one to two hours commute. Besides, Jack needed to get out on his own and live his own life and be independent. His sister, on the other hand, still lived at home. She was sixteen and was currently still at school. However, she was in the middle of her study leave – a period of time where the seniors get time off to study – and that was why she wasn't at school. Her work had also decided to increase her shifts because of this. Pippa was currently struggling with getting all her study and work done.

"Yeah, she did," Jack said as he handed Pippa a plate he just washed.

"I guess she saw it coming and accepted it," Pippa dried off the plate she was given and put it away.

"Maybe," Jack shrugged.

"So when do we get to meet the famous Elsa Winters?" Pippa smirked. Pippa had already guessed, months ago in fact, that Jack had feelings for Elsa. She often teased him about it never mind that Pippa knew that Jack had a girlfriend. For her, it was the way Jack talked about Elsa and the way he lit up whenever she was mentioned. Jack never did this about Jules. That told Pippa that Jack cared more about Elsa.

Jack scowled at his younger sister. "Elsa is busy."

"That's what you always say," Pippa smirked again.

"Shut up," Jack muttered as he started to wash a pot.

Hans was sitting in his office. His office was rather large and had ceiling to floor glass windows. He sat behind a large desk that had numerous items on it. In front of his desk was a large book case with all kinds of different books on it from books on companies to geography. Hans was currently leaning over his laptop. On it, he was looking at reports for his family's company – Westergaard Industries. His family's company worked in the shipping business and was one of the largest in the world. He sighed as he read the reports. They were just the usual stuff.

He looked out of his window into the corridor beyond it. There were several cubicles outside it that had people answering calls and tapping away at their keyboards. They all seemed too busy to notice what he was up to. He quickly changed what was on the screen from his company's reports to the files of a certain lawyer in Arendelle. He slowly flicked through the names until he saw 'Adgar Winters'. He grinned when he saw it. The lawyer that he was looking at was the Winters' personal lawyer. There were some files that he wanted to look at. He pulled up the file and saw the personal Will of Adgar Winters.

According to the Will, Elsa was Adgar's heir of his company but he also provided quite heavily for Anna for when they came of age – Elsa had to be twenty one and Anna had to be eighteen. Hans folded his fingers together and looked at it. What he had left for Anna – an estate, plenty of money, cars, boats, jewellery – was quite satisfactory for him. It would certainty allow for him to live quite comfortably. However there was one little problem; Elsa. She had been name successor of Adgar's company and his heir. That was a powerful position and he wanted it.

He would never get something like that in his own family. He had twelve brothers to compete with after all. He knew that if he wanted some place of power he would have to marry into another powerful family. The Winters family was a perfect choice. They were wealthy, successful and powerful. They ticked all the boxes. But, then again, there was still the problem that Elsa presented with. She was the heir after all. However, Elsa wasn't in Arendelle. In fact, nobody knew where she was. She could be in Timbuctoo for all they knew. Hans didn't know if this was help or not. Elsa could easily turn up on her twenty first birthday and take what was left for her or she may just remain disappeared for the rest of time. Hans didn't know what would happen if she didn't show up. Would it be Anna that gets the company in the end? Well, if Hans could marry Anna, he could get his hands on a powerful position regardless. Anna's family was already impressed with what he could do. Hans planned to manipulate this in the future.

"What are you doing?" the voice of his brother Mathias could be heard.

Hans looked up and saw his brother by his door. Hans motioned for Mathias to come towards him. Mathias took a look at Hans screen.

"So," Mathias took the mouse and used it to scroll through the Will, "this is what we get right?"

"We?" Hans repeated. "I'm the one who's going it after I get Anna's hand in marriage."

"Well I'm sure someone remembers their brotherly love," Mathias gripped Hans' shoulder; a little too tightly. Hans had to stop himself from wincing. That was obviously a hint.

"No, of course not," Hans replied with a fake smile.

Mathias grinned at his brother. "Because surely you will know what will happen if you don't give me what I deserve for helping you."

"Oh don't worry," Hans said, through gritted teeth. "You will."

Mathias grinned once more and left the room. Hans leaned back in his chair and stared at Mathias' retreating back. Mathias had paused at a female co-worker's desk. He did like to flirt with the female staff. They all found it charming. Hans watched his brother get a giggle out of the girl. Was Mathias going to a problem? That is indeed a difficult question. Mathias was more or less blackmailing him. Over the past year, Mathias had helped him get access to all kinds of files – like the Will he was viewing – and helped keep his non-faithful activities out of the public eye and away from Anna. If Anna broke up with him, it would ruin everything – all that they worked for.

By marrying Anna, he would come into a lot of money and Mathias expected to get a portion of that and a decent position in the Winters' Corporation – something in the CFO area perhaps. Mathias was good with numbers. Mathias was in the same boat as he was. They had a lot of older brothers to compete with and there was no way they could get a decent position in the company. Their oldest brother, Viktor, was currently managing the company as their father had retired a few years ago. When their father was in charge, he had place Hans in charge of making sure that the domestic deliveries in The Southern Isles went smoothly. It was a boring and slow job. He had hoped that once Viktor had gotten the top spot, he would get shuffled around into a better job but that never happened. He needed to do something so that he could get what he always wanted.

However that still left the problem of Mathias. What was he going to do about that little problem? If Hans doubled crossed him, Mathias would easily just tell Anna the truth and Hans was sure that he had some kind of evidence. Hans tapped his fingers together and together. Hans knew that without Mathias, Anna may have found out a thing or two by now. At least she was in Switzerland and missed a lot of stuff that went on in The Southern Isles. However, Mathias could hold this over his head until the day he died. Hans needed to get out of this mess. He picked up his phone and dialled a number.

"Falk," he spoke into the phone.

"Yes sir?" the man called Falk answered. Falk was Hans' go to guy. He did the dirty jobs that Hans needed to get done.

"I need you to get the evidence we discussed," Hans said. "It needs to be tonight. Anna may be not eighteen yet but Mathias could tell her anytime."

"Got it sir," Falk hung up the phone.

Hans leaned back in his chair. Things were going to go his way. He could feel it. He let a smile come over his face. The plan was working.

Anna sighed as she watched the clock tick and tick. She had finished her exam but she couldn't leave. Nobody could leave in the last fifteen minutes and she had just finished just over ten minutes ago. She had already doubled and tripled checked her answers. The answers that she didn't know the answers too, she still didn't know. The answers that she was confident in, she was still confident in. She watched as the supervisor walked by her. She quickly turned around and gave Audrey a wink. Audrey was sitting several rows behind from her and a few seats along to the left. Audrey's hazel eyes followed the supervisor walk past her. When it was safe, Audrey returned Anna's wink.

Anna's eyes turned back to her paper. She started to doodle on her paper that had her exam questions on it. She didn't even notice what she was drawing until she saw a little 'K.B' surrounded in a heart just above where question one was. She stared it at. How did that get there? She furious scribbled over it. She was in love with Hans, not that other kid. He was just a friend after all. A friend who made her feel all good inside, a friend who she could never stop thinking about, a friend who made her heart race faster than a speeding train….just a friend right?

"Pens down everyone," the voice of the supervisor suddenly interrupted her thoughts. "Please wait for everyone's paper to be collected before you leave."

Anna handed her paper to the supervisor when she passed her. Anna heaved a sigh of relief. She was done. She was finished. Holidays were just mere seconds away for her. Anna looked back at Audrey who grinned at her. She was tapping her water bottle against her desk as she waited for the supervisor come for her paper. Anna waited impatiently for the supervisor to let them go. She almost willed for the supervisor to say those magic words.

"Come on, come on, come on," she muttered under her breath as the supervisor walked back to the front of the classroom. "I want to go on holiday. I want to go home and have fun this summer."

"You may go," the supervisor said after she placed the exam papers on the teacher's desk.

Anna grabbed her stuff and headed over to her bag. Her bag was the classic black colour but with a pink stripe down it. Anna stuffed her things into the bag and followed the rest of her classmates out of the room. As soon as they left the room, they burst into conversations. Everyone seemed to enjoy the fact that they had finished for the year and that summer was upon them.

It was a hot, hot day. All Anna wanted to do today was go have a swim in the school pool but she had to study and do an exam. At least she was done and she didn't have to think about studying or exams for a while – well at least until her grades were posted. She didn't think she did too badly overall but you never know.

"Yo, Anna!" Audrey was running up to catch up with her. "How do you think you did?"

"Maths isn't my strongest point," Anna sighed. This is why sometimes she wished she was more like Elsa. Elsa was good with numbers but useless with people, so maybe she was indeed the better off one.

"It's not mine either," Audrey shuddered, "and these grades determine what subjects we can take next year."

"They do," Anna shuddered at that too.

They walked down to the cafeteria. Zoë and Céline hadn't quite come down from their exam yet so they started to eat. They were both starving. Anna basically stuffed her mouth full of the hamburger that she had gotten from the cafeteria.

"Good?" Audrey asked. She hadn't yet taken a bite out of her burger. She had been watching Anna take a ginormous bite out of Anna's burger with raised eyebrows. Anna nodded and made agreement sounds which Audrey laughed at.

"Hey guys," Céline and Zoë had finally shown up, each of them were clutching a tray of food. The two girls took a seat next to their friends. Céline collapsed her head on the table.

"I hate exams," Céline moaned.

"There, there," Anna patted her on the back while Zoë sniggered slightly. "It's all over now."

"Thank god."

Anna and the other girls just smiled at Céline. She was just expressing how all of them feel. Anna went back to her burger and somehow a certain shaggy blonde with an adorable dog came into her mind. Out of the corner of her mind, she could see Zoë sniggering to herself. Anna gave her a look that clearly had a scowl written all over it.

"What?" Anna asked rather angrily.

"Nothing," Zoë said but she still was sniggering, only this time under her breath, which clearly told Anna that she knew something that she didn't.

"What?" Anna asked again but this time, a lot more forcibly.

"You just have that look on your face again," Zoë said.

"I don't have a look," Anna said, desperately trying to make her face as passive as possible.

"Oh yes you do my friend," Zoë responded, pointing at Anna with her fork. "You're thinking about someone aren't you? May it be your handsome boyfriend Hans? Or is it about a certain ice boy back in Arendelle?"

Anna turned bright red. "There is no such ice boy back in Arendelle!"

Anna hated the fact that she knew about Kristoff. For an answer, Zoë took Anna's exam paper out of her bag while Anna spluttered her protests. Zoë flicked through it until she came to what she wanted. She grinned very widely before showing the other three girls what Anna had written. Anna sank low in her seat, desperately hoping that she would turn invisible. Her friends loved to tease her about her – probably Anna was so easy to tease. She always gave them a good reaction which always made them laugh.

"Fine," Anna finally said after several long seconds. "There…. may…. be… an…. ice… guy…back….. in…. Arendelle." She really drew out the words as she spoke. Her face reddened with each passing word. This only made Zoë snigger even harder. This earned a scowl from Anna.

"Okay, guys, all jokes aside," Audrey said.

"All jokes aside?" Zoë said. "I didn't agree to this!"

Audrey gave her friend a look before she continued. "Anna, what about Hans? I thought you were crazy in love with this guy."

Anna took a deep breath, "I thought I was. But would I be if I was having feelings for someone else?"

"Well not always," Céline said. "My dad fell in love with his second wife while he was still married to my mum but that didn't mean he loved my mother any less."

"Your father had an affair," Anna said. "I have this teeny tiny crush on another guy."

"True," Céline said. "Dad had a three year affair, divorced my mother and now I have a step-mum, two half-brothers and a step-sister."

"So what are you going to do?" Audrey asked Anna.

"What do you guys think?" Anna said. "Hans is a great guy, he treats me a princess but Kristoff is so sweet and we always have a good time together."

"What do you feel around Hans compared to Kristoff?" Audrey said. "Like who makes your heart race faster? Who can't you stop thinking about? Who do you look forward to see? Who makes you feel special?"

Anna bowed her head. She thought hard about what Audrey had said to her. On one hand, she had Hans; a great guy who definitely makes her feel like she's on cloud nine and the man who she believed she was in love in. However, on the other hand, she had Kristoff – the guy who makes her heart race faster than the space shuttle, the guy who can always make her laugh, who can always make her smile even when she had the most frustrating and annoying day. Anna sighed. She guessed she had her answer.

"You feel better now?" Audrey said.

"Yeah," Anna sighed again.

"Know who you want to choose?"

"Yeah," Anna said. "Did this work for you?"

"I'm not dating anyone," Audrey quickly said, sounding very defensive, while sideways glancing at Céline. Anna and Zoë exchanged looks while Audrey and Céline were looking the other way. They didn't say anything but just ate their food.

Falk quickly unlocked the window he was hovering outside. It was a cloudy night which covered the moon and thus there was no light from it. It gave him some cover. He was currently at Mathias Westergaard's apartment in The Southern Isles. He figured that whatever Mathias was hiding, he would find it here. Sure, Mathias had a couple of other places but this was his base of operations. It was bound to be here. If it wasn't, Falk would probably have to go back to the drawing board.

A small click was then heard and Falk pulled the window open using his black gloved hands. He threw his black duffle bag through the window before Falk climbed through it and closed it behind him. Falk had already disabled the alarm from the outside. It wasn't that hard to hack into Mathias' security system and disabling the alarm system. When Falk turned around, he found himself in Mathias' master bedroom. Falk treaded on a bra and some panties when he started to walk towards the door. Guess Mathias had some female company over quite recently. Thankfully, that female company and Mathias wasn't in the apartment. According to his research, Mathias – and presumably whatever female was in his bed recently – was at his parents' house for the weekend. His boss, Hans, was also there. Hans was making sure that Mathias didn't catch wind of their little plan that was underway.

Falk left the bedroom and continued down the hallway. He was looking for Mathias' study. There was a certain safe in there he wanted to check out. Rumour was that Mathias liked to keep all his personal and private stuff in there. However, finding it wasn't easy. Hans hadn't exactly been able to disclose the location or the combination to the safe. Although, that didn't mean that Falk was going to give up. Falk was good at his job. This wasn't going to be difficult for him – just annoying.

He entered the study – surprisingly, it was unlocked. The study was a large room with a desk in the middle. A large bookcase and a painting were behind the desk. This was starting to look like some cheesy movie. Falk tried to open the painting. It wouldn't budge. He even took the painting off. It revealed nothing. He then tried the bookcase. It too didn't reveal any secret safe. Falk actually felt disappointed. He actually thought that this was going to be like the movies. He sighed. Guess it was time to enter the real world. He sat at the desk and drummed his fingers against the oak wood. He started to look through the drawers. There was nothing of interest to him. Apart from some bills, some bank account details and some other miscellaneous documents, there was nothing there. Hmm, Falk thought, where could that evidence be hiding? He thought that maybe Mathias' computer could be of some interest. Falk opened it and started to hack it. He found what he expected to find; work that he had brought home, photos from trips and a lot of miscellaneous stuff that wasn't at all suspicious. He sighed. So much for hacking his computer.

Falk continued to search around the study and found nothing. He started to search other rooms; the bedroom, Mathias' library, his kitchen, the lounge, his man cave room. There was nothing here. That was his conclusion. Normally, he would probably leave around now – Mathias had a housekeeper who could show up at any time if he didn't keep an eye on the time – but Hans was paying him big bucks to deliver him the goods and Falk wasn't going to get paid the full amount unless he did the job he was hired to do. Falk re-entered the study. He didn't know what else he could find in here but it wouldn't hurt to do another search. Falk checked his watch. He knew that the housekeeper's shift started at six and it was four thirty in the morning. So he had about an hour or an hour and a half before he had to get moving. So he quickly got back to searching. He ended up drifting from Mathias' study and his bedroom. He was sure that one of the rooms had the secret he wanted. Those were Mathias private rooms. The kind of evidence that they were dealing with would be something that Mathias would want to keep close which is why Falk thought that it would be in one of those two rooms.

Falk sighed as he leaned against the blank space behind the painting. He had just examined it in case there was any evidence that there was something behind it. He looked at his watch. It was five-fifteen am. Unless he had some kind of brain blast in the next ten minutes, he had to leave before Mathias' housekeeper showed up. He whacked his head against the wall several times. Think, he told himself over and over again. He then did a particularly hard whack against the wall. He stopped. There was something about the whack. He placed his ear against the wall and tapped. It sounded hollow. There was something behind it. He quickly examined the wall. He managed to find hinges. He pulled on the other side and the wall swung open. It revealed a medium sized opening with a safe built it. Guess Mathias did do the cheesy movie thing and hide a safe behind the wall.

Falk searched the contents of what was behind the wall. There were just some important looking documents. There wasn't anything there that was of interest to him. There were things like documents Mathias needed for pending court cases – Falk knew that some company was suing him for something and Falk didn't know all of the details – and documents for the Westergaard's company. Nothing that spoke of blackmail. Falk decided that he should check the safe.

Falk paused at the safe. He didn't know the combination but that wasn't a problem. He pulled out his stethoscope and placed the end piece against the safe while putting in the ear pieces into his ears. He carefully twisted the dial while listening very closely to the sounds the tumblers were making. Whenever he heard a click, he knew he got the right number. The safe opened after about half an hour of careful and deliberate hard work. When he opened the safe he found things that bank details, Mathias' passport, his Will and what Falk was looking for; a small USB stick. There had to be something very important on it for it to be in the safe. He grinned when he found it. He quickly pulled out his laptop – his tiny one which he used to transport around – and inserted it into his laptop. He pulled up a file that was labelled HWE. Falk theorised that stood for Hans Westergaard Evidence. When he opened up the file, he knew why Hans wanted it. There were nothing but photos and a couple of videos that showed Hans cheating with a different girl each time.

Falk knew that Hans had a girlfriend who was wealthy and came from a successful family. Hans wasn't exactly the favourite of his brother who was in charge of his family's company. Since his girlfriend came from a very successful company, Hans probably thought that she could get him a decent position there. It also didn't hurt that her large figure bank account would also be a sweet part of the package. If she discovered that he was being unfaithful, she would ditch him faster than a speeding bullet leaving a gun. Hans would not want that. Falk grinned as he put the USB stick into his pocket and tidied everything away so that the housekeeper wouldn't find anything out of place and get suspicious. Speaking of the housekeeper, she should be here any moment now and Falk needed to get out before the cops were called.

Falk quickly gathered up his stuff and headed back into the bedroom where he had come in. He quickly ducked out of the open window and closed it before he left. He quickly dashed over to his car – a black Mercedes – and threw his stuff into the back before getting in behind the wheel. The sun was starting to rise now. He should get out of here before someone noticed a strange car parked on the street. He pulled out his phone and dialled Hans' number. It rang only once before Hans answered.

"This better be good Falk," Hans did not sound like he enjoyed being woken up at six-thirty in the morning but Falk knew that Hans would want the good news as soon as possible.

"I have the evidence that you want," Falk responded as he turned the USB stick over in his free hand. His eyes saw a car park in the driveway and a woman got out. From this distance, he couldn't make out much – just that she was a woman in dark hair, professionally dressed and carrying a large black shoulder bag. Falk knew that this must be the housekeeper. She was bang on time.

"Excellent," Hans' voice suddenly changed. He sounded a lot happier now.

"I can have it at your place in an hour," Falk said.

"Good, bring it here," Hans said before he promptly hung up on him.

Falk put his phone away and drummed his fingers against his steering wheel. He watched the housekeeper gather her supplies out of her car, lock the car and walk up to the door before letting herself in. It had been a little too close for comfort. He had only just got the evidence in time. Thankfully, he didn't have to make a second trip here. Falk started up his car and drove away. Nobody saw him leave.

Hans drummed his fingers against his dining room table while sipping a glass of white wine. A little USB could be felt in the pocket of his pants. He was in his apartment and was enjoying the moment he was in. It was time for the shoe to be on the other foot. Mathias no longer had the upper hand. This time, it was Hans who did. Hans checked his watch. It showed him that it was a quarter past seven. He had expected Mathias to show up at seven. He was late. Hans hated it when people were late. It showed disrespect in his opinion.

He heard the door open and some footsteps in the hall followed by his brother's voice calling out his name. Hans replied by calling out his location. Soon his older brother came into view. Mathias smiled at Hans as he walked in and placed his hands on one of the dining room table. Hans just stared at him, resisting the urge to grin maliciously. He had to be very careful on how he was going to handle this. He wanted to milk this for all it was worth.

"Hello Mathias," Hans said, simply.

"Hans, you look strange," Mathias replied. Mathias had folded his arms and stared at his younger brothers.

"Maybe because I have this," Hans pulled out the USB stick and showed it to his brother. Mathias' face fell as he recognised what was in Hans' hand. Guess they were just going to dive right into.

"Where did you get that?" he said as he tried to control his anger.

"I think you know," Hans smiled wildly.

Mathias made a wild snatch for the USB stick but Hans reacted faster. He had seen it coming. He quickly pulled his hand backwards and Mathias, who was impeded by the table, couldn't reach it.

"Give that back," he snarled.

"I think I won't," Hans put the USB stick on the ground and smashed it with his boot. Mathias couldn't believe what he was seeing. Well, Hans would feel the same way if his plans were self-destructing before his very eyes. "I think that's what you call checkmate."

"This isn't over Hans," Mathias said.

"I believe it is," Hans smile got wilder. "This is all the evidence you have on me and all those girls. Even if you told Anna the truth, there would be no way she would believe you over me. I mean who would believe you, a jealous, egotistical and hateful brother, over her kind, caring and loveable boyfriend? Don't worry, when I take over Winters' Corporation, I'll make sure that you have a nice job. Maybe like a mail delivery person." Hans let out a laugh.

"You little bastard," Mathias growled.

"Right back at you big brother," Hans toasted him with his wine.

"I'm home!" Anna shouted into the hallway of her aunt and uncle's house.

"Hello dear," her uncle said as he walked towards her. He gave her a small peck on her cheek and Anna did the same to him. It felt good to be home for the holidays. She was looking forward to her summer holidays. She didn't have to do anything but put her feet up and relax. No more studying either which was the main thing for Anna.

"Astrid is in the pool if you want to join her," Uncle Klaus said.

"Hmm, I think I just might," Anna said with a gleeful smile on her face. A swim in their pool sounded quite the thing after a tiring flight. Anna had to get up at six am just to make her flight. She just wanted to kick off her shoes, put her feet up and relax. "Just let me go put this up in my room." She gestured towards her bags.

"Of course," her uncle said, smiling.

Anna quickly headed upstairs while carrying her luggage. Once inside her room, she collapsed onto her bed. It finally had sunk in. She had a whole summer of freedom ahead of her. No more work or studying. She just had three months of fun and laughter to experience. Anna didn't bother to unpack her stuff. They would be slowly unpacked over the course of the holidays unless Aunt Greta gets too tired of it and does it for her which usually happened. Anna grabbed her swimsuit and quickly changed in her ensuite bathroom.

At the pool, she found her family smiling and waving. She had a feeling that it was going to be a good summer.

A couple of days later, Anna was walking down the main streets of Arendelle. In her hand was a coffee from Starbucks. She had needed the caffeine rush. She sipped it as she walked down and looked into the store windows. She stopped by some clothing stores and peered at the latest fashions. She did need a new summer wardrobe. She peered at the outfit that one of the manikins was wearing. It did look kind of cute. She sipped her coffee as she examined it. However, it was the wrong colour. That shade of orange just doesn't go well with her skin tone. Anna sighed and moved on. Maybe in the next shop she would have better luck.

"Anna!" Anna turned around and saw some guy waving at her and racing towards her. She paused as she looked at him. He looked familiar however his name was just not coming to her.

"Anna," the man smiled at her, "judging by that blank space you don't recognise me. It's me Mathias, Hans' older brother."

"Oh," Anna suddenly remembered how she knew Mathias. They had all met at the Westergaard Christmas party last year. Hans had brought her along and she had gotten to meet all of his twelve brothers. Thankfully she had already met a couple of them – like Mikael and Erik – so it wasn't like a room of complete strangers. It had been a bit overwhelming meeting the entirety of Hans' family. She had really wanted to give a good impression as she wanted them to like her. Hans had told her that they had liked her which had made Anna smile.

"Excellent," Mathias said. "I've unlocked a memory in your brain."

"Yeah you have," Anna laughed as they continued up the street together.

"So what have you been up to?" Mathias asked.

"Oh just browsing the shops," Anna shrugged.

"Anything interesting?"

"Not really," Anna shrugged again. "I kind of want Uncle Klaus and Aunt Greta to take me to Paris for some shopping but that's a pipe dream."

Mathias let out a small laugh. "Well, I know that Hans has some business in Paris in August. Why not make it one big trip?"

"Oh that is a cool idea!" Anna thought that Mathias was making a lot of sense. If she could convince her aunt and uncle about this double trip to Paris is a good idea, she could be on a flight this time next month.

"Why not we go and talk to Hans about this?" Mathias said. "He's in Arendelle this week sorting out some loose ends for our brother and head of the company, Viktor."

"Another good idea," Anna said. "I didn't know he was in town."

"He probably didn't want to bother you since he probably doesn't have a lot of time on his hands."

"Aw, that's it," Anna sighed lovely. "He probably didn't want me to get my hopes up."

"Well his apartment is just around the corner, why don't we go and say hello and see what he thinks about this Paris trip?"

Anna could have practically run to Hans' apartment but she wanted to appear cool for Mathias. Mathias could be, one day, her future brother-in-law. She didn't want to appear too crazy too soon. That was going to be revealed when it is too late for him to do anything about it. Anna chuckled about this to herself. Together, Mathias and Anna made their way up the high street and turned onto Hans' street.

Anna was excited to learn that Hans was back in Arendelle. He didn't often come into Arendelle much as work kept him away which Anna was never happy about. She couldn't wait to see the surprised expression on his face when he sees her standing at his door. Anna was just a few paces behind Mathias when they came upon Hans' apartment building. The door manager, recognising Mathias, opened the door for them and tipped his hat to them while he greeted them.

The elevator doors opened for them and they stepped inside. They went up a number of floors before the elevator opened onto Hans' floor. They walked along the corridor until they came to Hans' door. Anna held up her fist to knock onto Hans' door but Mathias simply opened the door with his key. Anna looked at him, shocked.

"He's expecting me," Mathias shrugged.

Anna still thought it was a little rude. You don't barge into someone's home like this but she decided to let it go and go with the flow. Maybe Mathias did this kind of stuff all the time. Maybe Hans really didn't mind it.

"Hans?" Anna said into the empty apartment. She thought it was a little strange that she couldn't see or hear Hans anywhere. Maybe Mathias was wrong and that Hans was out.

"Check the bedroom," Mathias said. "He's probably in there."

Anna kept thinking that this was rude. She should've knocked and if there was no answer, then perhaps call Hans. Mathias seemed not to have a held respect for manners. Anna had just had the thought of leaving when Mathias took off down the corridor towards Hans' bedroom.

"Mathias," Anna whispered, sharply. What was Hans going to say when he had discovered that the pair of them had barged into his home and then into his bedroom? She shuddered to think. Mathias pushed open the bedroom door and Anna gasped with shock at the scene that lay beyond her.

Hans was lying – naked – on top of some other girl with his lips firmly planted on her neck. Hans looked up when the door was opened. His face froze solid when he saw who was standing in his bedroom door frame. He quickly pulled his bedroom sheets over himself in his hurry to get off the girl. Anna felt tears come to her eyes as she all this happened. Anna's heart had shattered as she saw what Hans had been doing. She rushed out of the apartment while Hans stumbled in his way to follow her.

"Anna!" Hans yelled after her but she ignored him. Tears continued to stream down her face as she ran out of the apartment. "Anna!"

Anna rushed into the elevator and paused to catch her breath as the elevator doors shut. She was glad that there was no one else in the elevator with her or that Hans or Mathias had followed her out of the apartment. She wiped her tears and looked at herself in her compact mirror. She was a mess but she didn't care. Hans had just been caught cheating – a thing that she thought he would never do. Hans had given the impression that he was a good guy; nice and kind. The key word was 'impression'. He had ended up being everything that the media had said about him; that he was a player, reckless, unfaithful and that he broke women's hearts wherever he went.

Guess her father and sister were right all along.

Anna shuddered at that thought. Elsa had told her what was to be expected from dating Hans. She had told her he had been a player. At the time, she thought that Elsa had being her usual frustrating self but now, looking at it from the other side, maybe Elsa had just being a big sister to her and just looking out for her. How could she have not seen this coming? How did she not realise that she was being blinded to the truth?

Well in her defence, Hans was a charmer. He was charismatic. He could manipulate women and charm them into believing his words. Anna could have slammed her fist against the mirror walls in the elevator in her anger. She was just so frustrated at what was going on in her life. Everything was just tumbling down around her. The walls of her life were crumbling down.

The elevator doors pinged and opened. Anna quickly walked out of the lobby with her head down so that people didn't see that she had been crying quite badly. Once outside, she hailed a taxi and gave the driver her house address. She just wanted to go home as soon as possible. The driver seemed to give her a sympathetic look as if he knew that she had been crying. Anna got home only a short while later. She tore into her room and threw herself onto her bed, still crying and feeling very hurt at Hans' betrayal. Her father and sister both had warned her about Hans. Why the fuck didn't she listen to them? Why did she have to believe that Hans was a good guy?

Anna just slowly sobbed onto her pillow – staining it with her tears as she did. She felt like such a fool for not seeing this coming. She had honestly believed him when he had said that all the stuff written about him was lies. It was such a stab in the back. The knife was imbedded very deeply into it and it felt like the look of pure shock and surprise that Hans had given her had twisted it.

"Anna?" the voice of her cousin, Astrid Winters, came with the sound of her gently knocking.

Anna sat up as her cousin walked into her room and sat on her bed. Astrid must have heard her crying. "You okay?" she gently asked. "I heard you crying."

"It's….it's…..it's…." Anna tried to say through her sobs. She just couldn't get the words out. To admit it was a lot harder than she thought. "Hans!" she finally got out her mouth.

"What about him?" a darken look crossed Astrid's face only a moment after she had asked her question. She scowled for a little bit. It seemed like she had figured out what was making Anna cry. "Did that fucking bastard cheat on you?"

"Yes!" Anna cried even hard.

"That fucking no good evil bastard," Astrid said. "What a slut."

"Yeah," Anna wiped away the tears from her eyes.

"Anna, a man who cheats isn't the kind of guy you should get involved with," Astrid said. "Believe me, I know." Astrid scowled again. Her own boyfriend of a year had cheated on her with multiple girls when she was seventeen. Astrid hadn't been too impressed. She had cried and cried over that until she realised that he wasn't worth the tears. She had dumped his sorry arse when he came crawling back to her when he dumped the girls he had cheated on her with. "Hans doesn't deserve your love Anna. If he is willing to throw it around like this then he is a no good rotten bastard."

"True!" Anna knew that Astrid was saying the truth. If Hans didn't care about their relationship then why should she? However it didn't matter what Astrid said. It didn't matter that Astrid was making complete sense. It didn't matter than Hans was a bastard. All that mattered was that Anna's heart had been shattered. She had put her trust and love in a man who turned out to be nothing but scum.

"You okay?" Astrid noticed Anna's crestfallen face.

"I just want to sit here and cry," Anna replied.

"Okay," Astrid said, gently. "Go ahead and do that."

Anna's eyes swelled up again and tears poured from her face. Astrid gave her a hug while Anna rested her head on Astrid's shoulder. There was a knock on the door and Astrid's mother – Anna's Aunt Greta – walked into the room. She spotted the scene before her and her face instantly looked concerned.

"Everyone okay?" she asked, her face shifting from her daughter to her niece.

"Yeah," Astrid told her mother. "Anna's just having a rough time today."

"School, friends, family or boyfriend?" Aunt Greta asked.

"Boyfriend," Anna and Astrid said in unison.

"Ah," Aunt Greta said. "I'll go get the ice cream."

"Thanks mum," Astrid smiled. She looked at Anna. "Yeah, we will need some."

Aunt Greta smiled and then walked out of the room. She came back with a small tub of ice cream and three spoons. She sat down and all of them ate some ice cream.

"So what happened with Hans?" Aunt Greta asked.

"Bastard cheated on Anna," Astrid said. She then quickly looked a little stricken at her use of language in front of her mother but her mother didn't seem to care.

"Well it's his loss," Aunt Greta said. "If he wants to cheat on a beautiful, intelligent, smart and sophisticated woman then he obviously has no taste."

"No taste at all," Astrid nodded, agreeing with her mother.

"Thanks guys," Anna said after eating a scoop of ice cream, "for all the comfort."

"You're welcome," the other two Winters said together with big smiles on their faces.

That night Anna lay on her bed and stared up at her ceiling. She was all cried out – her pillow was stained with her tears. How could Hans do this to her? Anna kept asking that question over and over again in her mind. She thought that they would good but it turned out he was just some spineless bastard who was probably only interested in her because of her name and money. Her father did warn her about those kinds of guys and the kind of guy Hans was. Ugh, why didn't she listen to her father when she had the chance? It would have saved her from all this hurt she was feeling now.

However, she didn't think she was angry at her relationship being over. Truth be told, she was going to break up with Hans anyway. Her friends had made her see that she wasn't really in love with Hans – she had only thought she was. Her feelings towards another guy were making themselves known to her. So she wasn't made at the end of her relationship, she was mad at being betrayed like this. She just wished she hadn't gone with Mathias but in fact, simply texted Hans the next day to meet up and tell him then. Well, she thought as she punched her pillow into shape, at least she knew the kind of guy Hans really was which she supposed was a good thing. That way she was no longer blinded to it all. She now knew why Hans didn't tell her why he was in Arendelle; so that he could hang out with his fucking mistress.

Anna turned on her side to face her walk in wardrobe. Well it was like her aunt and cousin said; it was Hans' lost. The last thing that Anna thought before she finally drifted off to sleep was the satisfaction that Hans must be feeling like a total idiot for messing up whatever plan he had been trying to achieve – whether it was getting Anna's money or other parts of her inheritance – had no chance of working.

As she dreamed, a certain blonde boy who liked to work with ice kept popping in and out of her dream. Anna's face, while she slept, smiled.

Elsa was running back to her dorm. She was running a little late for her psychologist appointment. She had stayed back after class to talk to her law lecturer about the lecture and they had just kept talking and talking. Elsa hadn't even realised how much time had gone by until her eyes had caught site of the clock on the wall. She had given her law lecturer a quick goodbye before running off.

Elsa quickly dropped off her bag and books at the dorm before throwing on a jacket and grabbing her purse which she swung over her shoulder. Elsa looked at the clock. She didn't have a lot of time but she figured if she hurried, she could make it. Elsa passed Honey and her other roommates plus her other friends on her way out.

"Elsa, it's movie night," Gogo said to her.

"Sorry, got to skip," Elsa said. Elsa hadn't exactly been forthcoming about her therapy. It would be hard for her to explain away. None of her friends know anything about her past history. Elsa had pretty much had to make it up as she went along. She had pretended that she came from a good family but that didn't stop them wondering why Elsa didn't stay in contact with her sister – the remaining member of her non-extended family. Elsa just quickly changed the subject which just added to the suspiciousness that her friends possessed.

"Where are you going at this time of night?" Honey asked.

"You're going to miss The Sound of Music!" Tooth said.

"As much as that pains me," Elsa had seen that movie at least a dozen times. She liked it but she was prepared to give it a miss next time. She wasn't missing anything. It was in Tooth's top three movies. They were bound to watch it again on the next movie night they have. "I have to go to a study group tonight." Study group was usually Elsa's go to response. Her friends didn't really know her law friends that well. Well except for Emma.

"Is Emma going to be there?" Honey asked her.

"No she's coming tonight," Jamie said, answering the question instead of Elsa.

"Wrong class anyway," Elsa checked her watch. "It's my other law class. Sorry, got to go."

Elsa raced out of the dorm before they could question her story any further. It didn't take Elsa too long to get to her therapist's – Miss Waters – office. Miss Water's receptionist smiled at her as she walked through the door.

"Sorry I'm late," Elsa said, looking a little guilty.

"Don't worry," Julie said, smiling at Elsa. "You're not late. Miss Waters is still in with her previous patient."

"Thanks," Elsa smiled back and sat down at one of the available seats. The office was empty apart from Julie who was at her desk, tapping away at her computer. There was a small coffee table next to her seat with some magazines on it. Elsa picked up one and flicked through it. It was the usual trashy stories in it but there were some good stories in there as well. Elsa heard Miss Water's door open but she didn't look up. Miss Waters seemed to be still talking to her patient.

"Thank you Miss Waters," the voice of the patient was very familiar. Elsa paused as she stared at a story about Jennifer Lawrence. Why did she know that voice? Where had she heard it before? Elsa looked up as the other person approached her. Elsa got a massive shock when she saw who it was she was looking at.

"Elsa?"

"Jack?" Elsa replied.

The voice belonged to Jack Frost.

A/N: Okay first off, happy Easter everyone. I hope that everyone had a great one. Secondly, sorry been totally AWOL. Uni work has been a pain and taking up all my time so that's why this has taken a long time to work on. I don't know how often I can update but I do try and update as soon as I can. Sorry it's been taking so long to do. Now onto the chapter, so Hans is revealed to be a cheater which leads to his break up with Anna (also got some Kristanna in there) and Elsa and Jack find out that they both see the same therapist. I know this chapter is a time jump chapter but it's time to get this story rolling. What's going to happen next? Also I finally put in Jamie Bennett - about time he showed up. Also Jack's sister has appeared - his mother is not that far behind. This chapter did end of a cliff-hanger. So what do you guys all think is going to happen between Jack and Elsa. Will they reveal their past to each other or will neither or one reveal? Who knows what will happen? Also, we still have to see what Pitch and Vincent Frost are up to. More on them in the future. Final note; the law stuff in the chapter was provided by my brother, the law graduate so credit to him.

Hope everyone enjoyed this update. Please review =)

Reviews:

Anonymous: Hmm, I can see where that is coming from. I hope the same thing as you.

AFallenAngel1221: Thanks so much.

JackElsaforev: Yeah he was. Plot twist. Sorry, didn't quite get the rest of that review. Sorry.

Layla MT: Sorry but I don't speak or read Spanish. Maybe you could repeat it in English if possible?

Phoenix: Yeah it is actually. It's cool.

Reallifewinterwoman: Yay! Oh on that, you may just have to wait and see. Ah on your story, I prefer to read stories that are consistent with the source material and since you have Jack and Anna as brother and sister and Jack as the king, kind of puts me off sorry. I wish you all the luck with that story. Your English is pretty good.

Little Timothy: Thanks so much.

Guest: Thanks so much.

MixyBell: Ah sorry about that.

Guest: They probably will.

Acceptable Gentleman: Thanks so much. It will be interesting to see that. Hopefully you enjoy the way I do it.

Guest: Thanks. I hope it is!

heartfulyumi: Yeah they both were. The past is indeed going to come for Jack.

AnthroDragon: They only record phone calls. The meeting was done privately. What were the other bullet holes?

sanaa11: Yes he was. More on that in future chapters.

150Songs: Thanks so much! I hope it stays on your favourite list.

Silent reader: Thanks! I do try and update ASAP even though it takes me ages to.

NIresda123: Yeah Elsa needs therapy for what she's been through. So am I actually. Well real life and stories do blend. Thanks.