******************Author's Note****************************

I rewrote this chapter! Yay. I think it's better and it follows with an idea I have for the next chapter, which, since I now have a direction, will probably be out before the new year. Depending on how much time I have. So, enjoy the new, shorter, chapter.

"I can't live like this!"

Elsa held herself, even though she wasn't cold.

"Witchcraft."

She was never cold.

"Queen Elsa, are you all right?"

With each step, she moved farther away from the kingdom she loved.

"Monster!"

From the people she loved.

From her sister.

Elsa could hear the voices of the townspeople as they cried out against her. She was, as they had said, a monster. She couldn't stop the replay in her mind, the anger that had been flowing through her, the icy wall between her and Anna, the frozen fountain. Over and over and over again she could see the fear on her sister's face. The fear on everyone's faces. The anger, still flowing through her, she ripped off her final glove. For the first time in her life, Elsa felt free. Heart pounding, eyes gleaming with anticipation, flurries at the ready, Elsa was free. She raised her hands, her voice, and her heart.

She was free.

"Did that feel good?"

Elsa turned around and stood at the top of her icy stairs, now residing in her winter palace. The pale, white-haired boy with the beautiful blue eyes was standing in the middle of the floor, as Elsa had expected. Furious, she quickly stomped down the staircase, train flowing behind her.

"Where have you been?" she exclaimed the moment her foot left the final step. She made an icy chair and pushed Jack into it. "I needed you, Jack, and you didn't help me."

Jack sat, stunned, staring at Elsa's face. He gave her a once-over. "New dress. You make it?"

"Irrelevant," Elsa spat out and made herself a chair across from Jack. "But yes. What happened to you?"

There was a long silence.

A very long silence.

"I had to go," Jack finally said.

"Go where?"

"I won't tell you."

"You won't tell me?" Elsa narrowed her eyes. "You didn't help me because you had to leave to go somewhere that you won't tell me?"

Jack nodded. "That's about right."

"Jack-"

"I won't tell you."

"Fine."

Elsa and Jack sat in their cold chairs, her glaring at him and he avoiding her gaze.