chapter word count: 528
noir heart: sixty-nine
Rapunzel places two cups of tea on the coffee table in front of them, and avails herself of the white cotton armchair, while Elsa waits patiently on the matching sofa. Since her arrival, the host has been nothing but welcoming and generous, offering hot drinks and cookies, all with a natural and genuine smile. Between that, her upbeat and sunny demeanour as well as her youthful good looks, Elsa can see why Jack fell for her all those years ago. Annoyingly.
"Sorry about what I'm wearing!" Rapunzel titters nervously, noticing the streaks of paint on her chest, "I completely forgot about our appointment."
Elsa forces a smile. "No matter," she attempts something of reassurance, yet feels nothing of the sort. She loops over the cover sheet of her notepad, and produces a pen from her handbag. "Well, as I mentioned when I called, I'm researching into the private lives of some of the more successful detectives, and my first article will be about Jack Frost. I was hoping you could provide some…insight...as to what kind of a man he was, outside of his career?"
Rapunzel nods. "Gotcha. Well...where do I start…" she sighs, and there's a nostalgic smile Elsa does not miss.
"The beginning, usually." Elsa prompts with a hint of pointed sarcasm. Rapunzel seems to be too lost in memory to notice, and reaches for her cup of tea before starting her story.
"Jack and I...he was my moon, I was his sun. Cheesy, I know, but we were in love." she murmurs, eyes off to the side in recollection. Elsa resists the urge to roll her eyes. "I was with friends in a bar when we first met; he'd just graduated from the Police Academy, and was out with his buddies to celebrate becoming a cadet. Hans, Aster and...Arnulf, I think. Anyway, he came up to me. I was, like, 'great, not another guy who thinks my clothes'll magically fall off as soon as he says hi' and...well...he did kinda come off cocky and a little too sure of himself."
Rapunzel sips from her tea, and her eyes crinkle with a smile. Elsa ponders how Jack can make her smile so warmly, despite them being divorced. "He asked me out on a date. Weird, right? We're both in a bar, and he asks me out on a date. Thing is, about nine different guys had hit on me that night, and I was getting pretty pissed off with it, so I shot him down. I said 'no, I'm not looking for a guy who thinks he's God's gift to women'. Now, every other guy had left after that, but he stayed - I was about to tell him to vamoose when he said 'Let's make a bet. I can tell five things about you, just from your body language and what you're wearing, even though we've only just met. If I'm right about those five things, I get to take you out on a date. If I'm wrong, you never see me again. Win-win, right?'"
yeah, I ship Jackunzel too. It's, like, third behind Jelsa and Janna, but it's there. No bearing on the story, though. It'll be solid Elsa for a while.
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