"Get it together."
Elsa paced on the top floor of her castle. The light of the castle had turned red in her stress. Jack sat atop his staff to watch her.
"Control it. Don't feel."
"Elsa, the walls," Jack tried to mention.
"Don't feel." she ceased to notice by herself what Jack couldn't bring to her attention. "Don't feel. Don't feel!" Ice grew and cracked up the walls of her castle, the uncontrollable frost.
"They're here, Elsa."
Elsa had already noticed, however. She was quickly at the castle entrance, peeking through a crack in the door to the outside. She recognized Anna's fiance, Hans. With a flick of her wrist, her snow giant activated and worked to ward off the unwanted visitors. She closed the doors just as two men got hit into some snow, not wanting to see if she would cause injuries.
She rubbed her arms on her way to the staircase. She touched the railing, which Jack had fixed. She lingered on the last step, wondering if she should go outside and give herself up. She was the queen afterall. Perhaps the men were just there to talk sense into her like Anna.
But she had hurt Anna.
"Elsa, there are two men coming towards the doors."
Elsa turned to see Jack behind her. He grabbed her elbow and pulled. Her eyes strayed on the doors for a few seconds longer before picking up her dress and rushing up the stairs after Jack.
The doors burst open as she reached the second flight, and two men with crossbows ran in. The lights on the top floor were now yellow. Jack figured it was because of her fear.
"We got her," one of the men said rather triumphantly when they caught up to Elsa.
"No, please," she pleaded. The man that had spoken lifted his crossbow and shot an arrow at her. Jack stood in front of her. As the arrow passed through him and Elsa's hands went up to guard her face, the tip of his staff glowed and a small shield made of ice rose from the ground. She looked up to see the arrow extending from Jack's spine.
"None of you can hurt me," he hurried to say. She swtiched her gaze to the men that had moved.
"Stay away," she warned. Ridges of ice were sent towards the men that persisted to dodge them. One man was on either side of her now. The first one that moved was the one she trapped up on the wall with spears of ice, one spear threatening his throat. Jack stood ready to aid her again, but she did not need it. As the second man moved, she trapped him between two ice barriers before sending a small wall of ice his way. The door to her balcony was broken through.
"Elsa, what are you doing?" Jack asked. "He's going to fall!"
"Queen Elsa!" Hans advanced on the room. "Don't be the monster they fear you are!"
Her magic on both men halted. "Elsa!" Jack yelled as Hans moved the crossbow of the man on the wall. The arrow fired and shot clean through the ice wire holding up the chandelier. "Elsa, run!" Jack pushed on her back. She toppled over but picked herself back up just in time to get away. The impact, though, knowcked her out.
"We shall take the queen back to Arendelle," Hans announced as he lifted Elsa into his arms. Jack poked the prince.
"I'm here just in case you plan to do anything that might hurt her," he hissed. "I won't let you harm Elsa."