Chapter 7: A Promise To Be Kept
Elsa stood to her feet. Her fists were clenched. Of course Tooth and Bunnymund would show up at the worst timing. The three of them stared down at each other. Each had a look of rage on their faces. Why did they have to turn up and ruin their time together?
"So," spat Bunnymund, "this is what you get up to eh Jack? Making out with this blood-drinker? Where do you're loyalties lie Jack? Obviously not with your own kind."
"It's not like that," Jack said. He looked a little angrier than before.
"Yes it is," Bunnymund said. "You're with Death Dealer Elsa, Jack. She's a powerful and manipulative vampire. Of course you're loyalties do not lie with us. I should've known."
"Wait," Jack looked confused. "How do you know Elsa?"
"We've run into each other a few times," Elsa explained.
"She's that annoying blood-drinker," Bunnymund said. "Out of all the blood-drinkers you choose to fraternise with, you choose my mortal enemy."
"Bunnymund, if you would let me explain –" Jack tried to say but he was cut off.
"I don't care," Bunnymund said. "I don't want to hear it. Vampires are the enemy. It would be like getting into bed with a Nazi. You clearly have no loyalties to us, the Werewolves. After I tell North, he will kick you out of The Guardians. You may even get the death penalty for your actions. For all I know, you could have told her all our secret plans for the war. You could have cost us all our lives. She's a demon, a viper, pure evil. All Vampires care about is the utter destruction of Werewolves."
"Don't call her a demon," Jack shouted at him. "She's far from that. She's so much more."
"She is one," Bunnymund screamed back. "She's a form of pure evil."
Jack was about to reply but Elsa placed her hand on Jack's arm which caused him to look startled and turn to face her. He looked confused. Elsa had a softened expression on her face which seemed to calm Jack down. His face turned from rage to calmness.
"It's okay," Elsa said. "That's what they think we are. It is what they're taught to think."
"See, she admits it," Bunnymund smirked. He seemed to think that he had gotten Elsa.
"I never did," Elsa said. Her previously softened face had turned a little sour. Then her face adopted a sadden expression. "They're right though. Jack, you are a Werewolf, I am a Vampire."
Jack looked at Elsa with a lost look in his eyes.
"I'm finished with you Jack," Bunnymund said. "Since you prefer blood-drinkers as company."
Bunnymund turned to leave, he even had his hand on the door handle, but he realised something. He looked behind him and saw that Tooth hadn't moved. She had her eyes fixed on Elsa and she had a thoughtful look on her face. She seemed to be studying Elsa. Her staring made Elsa feel a little uncomfortable.
"Tooth!" Bunnymund said in a loud voice to her. "Aren't you coming?"
Tooth didn't answer Bunnymund. She was thinking very hard. Finally she spoke after several long minutes.
"Tell me Elsa," she said. "Where did you come from?"
"What?" Elsa was taken aback by the question. "I was born in Arendelle."
"Aha," Tooth said. She had a grin playing around her mouth. "I thought so."
"What is going on here Tooth?" Bunnymund demanded of Tooth.
Tooth turned to face him. "Edmund, haven't you made the connection yet?"
"What connection?" Bunnymund looked lost. He wasn't the only one. Jack and Elsa both had as well.
Tooth sighed. "Bunnymund, where have you heard the town of Arendelle before?"
"I don't think I have."
Tooth sighed again. "Yes you have."
"No I haven't," Bunnymund seemed adamant on this.
"Do you listen to anything that Jack says?" Tooth asked sounding fed up. Bunnymund paused on this. He seemed to be thinking. "Bunnymund, Jack is also from Arendelle."
"What has that got to do with this?" Bunnymund exclaimed. He then paused under a look from Tooth. "Oh," his voice got a lot softer. "She's from Arendelle too but what does that mean?"
Tooth sighed heavily. She obviously thought that Bunnymund was being quite thick.
Tooth turned to Jack. "May I see the photo please?"
It took Jack a few seconds to figure out what she was talking about. Elsa was completely lost herself. To her, Bunnymund seemed to have no clue what Tooth was talking about but to Elsa, she thought that maybe Tooth knew that Elsa's and Jack's history but for the photo that she was talking about, that was where Elsa was lost. How Tooth knew about their history was beyond her. She doubted that Jack could have told them about her otherwise Tooth and Bunnymund would have known her earlier. She probably would have met Jack earlier. However, maybe they didn't recognise her.
Jack took out his wallet and handed over a small photograph. Elsa didn't get a peek at it. She wondered what it was. It had to be something important or Tooth wouldn't have asked for it. Tooth took the photograph from Jack and stared at it. Her face broke into two as a smile emerged on her face.
"I thought so," she said.
Bunnymund took the photo and stared at it. Unlike Tooth who had smiled at the photo, he looked confused and angry. He looked like he didn't know what he should make of it all. He passed the photo back to Jack and he stared at his friend.
"What is this?" he demanded of Jack.
Elsa took the photo off Jack. She got a shock even though she was expecting to see what she saw. It was a photograph of her from when she was still a human and lived in Arendelle. She was dressed in her long blue dress with a high collar. Her mother's broach was dead centre on the neck. She remembered having this photo taken. It had been initially set up so her father could have updated photographs of both his children on his desk. Elsa had talked to Jack a few days prior and had told him that she was having a photograph taken. He had asked for one and so Elsa had asked the photographer for a spare one. He had agreed and so Elsa was able to present Jack with a photograph of her. This was the same photograph that Elsa had given Jack all those years ago.
It looked faded with age. There was several fold lines across the photograph. Apart from that, the photograph looked like it was in relatively good condition. Elsa couldn't believe that Jack still had this photograph of her. She had given it to him so long ago that she had thought that maybe it had been lost in time.
In response to Bunnymund's question, Jack just shrugged. Maybe he didn't know what he should say. It seemed to Elsa that Tooth did though.
"Edmund," Tooth placed her hand on Bunnymund's upper arm which seemed to calm him down. "Elsa is the girl that Jack has been yapping on about. She's the girl that Jack loved years ago and could never let go of that love. She's the girl in the photo. She means everything to him."
Bunnymund started to splutter. "What?" he managed to get out. "You mean that they know each other when they were human?"
"More than that," Tooth said. "They loved each other." She then turned to Elsa. "Why didn't you guys ever get married and lived happily ever after? The way that Jack tells the story, you guys seemed perfect to each other."
"Things got in the way," Elsa explained. "I was born into the Winters' family which was a powerful family in Norway, still is actually. The Winters had a lot of money, had high ranking status. They were practically royalty in Arendelle; they were the descendants of the Arendelle family – the founding family of Arendelle – after all."
"While Elsa lived in the high society life," Jack said, "I wasn't. My family, the Frosts, were from the other end of the society spectrum. My family owned a store in Arendelle, Elsa's family own a business empire."
"So because of your statuses, you couldn't be together?" Tooth asked.
"Well yes," Elsa said. "My father would have killed me if he knew I was more than just friends with Jack."
"So he knew that you and Jack were friends?" Bunnymund seemed now interested in Elsa's and Jack's story.
"Well we had been friends since we were little kids," Elsa said. "Our friendship encouraged my father to pay for Jack to have private tuition with me. Father saw how well we got on and he was eager for me to have as many friends as possible. Besides, Mother loved Jack's family shop and often got on with Jack's mother."
"So what happened next in the story?" Tooth looked eager. "Did you guys ever runaway together only be tragically stopped by Elsa's parents?"
All the anger and that fact that they saw a Vampire with a Werewolf were all gone. They all seemed more intrigued with what had happened between Elsa and Jack all those years ago. Tooth seemed more eager than Bunnymund though. It looked like she was watching her favourite TV show.
"I wanted to," Jack said in a small voice.
"Didn't Elsa?" Tooth's face fell.
"I couldn't," Elsa said. "I had commitments to my family and I couldn't leave everything behind. Besides, my wedding was the next year. I couldn't miss that."
"Wait – wedding?" Tooth exclaimed.
"Elsa was engaged to a man called Mikael Westergaard," Jack said looking sour. "He was more of her class."
"So no living happily ever after?" Tooth looked upset.
"No," Elsa shook her head. "We didn't get our chance back then. Everything was against us; my family, my status, being Turned. Now in this day in age, we have finally be reunited but still everything is against us. Bunnymund showed me that."
Elsa bowed her head. Her hope of being back together with Jack was fading very quickly. Bunnymund's reaction had showed her that trying to be with Jack was impossible. She was a Vampire, he was a Werewolf. There was no way that they could be together. It seemed like their love was cursed. They couldn't be together once before and now they couldn't be together again. Elsa's thoughts were interrupted by a sudden sound. She looked up and saw that Tooth and punched the wall in frustration.
"If only this blasted war wasn't going on," Tooth said. "Then Elsa and Jack could be together."
"You're seriously okay with this?" Bunnymund looked shocked at Tooth's words.
"So what if Jack is a Werewolf?" Tooth said. "So what if Elsa is a Vampire? Their love goes back over a century. We need to fix this so they can be together again."
"You're serious," Bunnymund repeated as he folded his arms. "We are going to let Jack end up with a blood-drinker?"
"Can you stop saying that?" Jack said, clearly infuriated.
"Yes," Tooth glared at him. "The way Jack spoke about her, she is clearly incredibly special to him."
"I get that but –"
"But nothing," Tooth said firmly. "I'm a sucker for old romance tales and this one fits the bill."
"So we're helping them?" Bunnymund said.
"Yes," Tooth nodded.
"How?" Bunnymund looked at a loss.
"We need to beat this stupid war," Tooth said. "It isn't right that Jack and Elsa can't be together because of some silly war."
"Huh?" Elsa and Jack were looking as lost as Bunnymund was.
"The war is the thing that is in the way," Tooth said. "What purpose does it serve?"
"None," Jack said. "Tooth is right. The war is the stupid thing that is going here. Together we can stop it, I'm sure of it."
Jack turned to Elsa. She nodded to Jack.
"The war is costing people their lives," she said. "We don't even know why Pitch Black and Tsar Lunar are even fighting in the first place." She then turned to Tooth. "Tell me Tooth, how did you know that I was the girl that Jack was talking about?"
"Your scarf," Tooth pointed at it. Elsa looked down and she realised she was still wearing it. Elsa blushed slightly. "Jack told me that scarf used to belong to a woman he loved. It seemed very important to him that he wouldn't have just given it up to some random person. The conclusion was very obvious to me."
"I see," Elsa nodded. "The scarf had been a present from Jack to me when I had turned sixteen. He had been very embarrassed when he handed the scarf to me all those years ago. It just made him cuter."
Tooth laughed. "Sounds great."
"So why help me?" Elsa asked. It had been preying on her mind. "I am a blood-drinker as Bunnymund would put it. Why help the enemy?"
"To be honest," Tooth said, "I've never been into the war like Bunnymund is. I always thought it was a waste of time and if it is preventing my best friend from finding love, then why bother with it all?"
"For the glory of our brothers and sisters," Bunnymund said. He looked angry. "Are you really saying that you feel nothing for the fallen ones?"
"Not at all," Tooth said. "I'm saying that enough is enough. This war is getting out of hand. Like Elsa says, why did the war even start? Pitch and Manny have been fight for years, it is time for it to end."
"But working with a blood-drinker is practically treason."
"Not when you think about it," Jack said. "Manny never really cared about that kind of stuff. He was more concerned with making sure that his Werewolves weren't ending up dead because of a Vampire."
"That is true," Bunnymund said. He paused in thought. "Manny never really did seem too concerned with the war. But why isn't he?"s
"Maybe because he knows it is a waste of time?" suggested Tooth.
"Who is this Manny you guys are talking about?" Elsa asked. She had been a little lost for the latest part of their conversation.
"Oh Manny is North's nickname for Tsar Lunar," Jack explained to her.
"Oh," Elsa smiled, "okay then."
"Well we will be going," Tooth said. She smiled at the pair of them. Maybe she loved seeing them interacting the way they are. "Don't worry about your secret getting out. We will keep it hush, hush."
"We will?" Bunnymund said but a look from Tooth shut him up.
"We really appreciate it," Jack said.
Tooth grinned before she dragged Bunnymund out of the room. Elsa breathed a sigh of relief. That could have gone either really badly or really well. She had been expecting the former rather than the latter though. She had expected there to be some kind of battle which would cause great damage to some side which probably would have been her.
"Well that went better than expected," Jack said.
"Agreed," Elsa said. "Do you think that they will keep their promise?"
"Yes," Jack nodded. "I have complete faith in them."
"That's good," Elsa smiled at Jack.
"How about a walk in the moonlight?" Jack suggested. "The moon likes Werewolves."
"There is no moon," Elsa laughed. "It's all cloudy."
"How about a walk under the clouds instead?" Jack laughed too.
Elsa slipped her hand into Jack's which made him blush. "Sounds good to me."
Elsa and Jack headed out of Jack's apartment still hand in hand. Jack locked up his apartment before heading down the stairs with Elsa. Together they walked out of his building and into the street outside. The streetlights were still not working but Elsa didn't mind. Her world was brighter than ever with Jack by her side.
Elsa looked up at the night sky. Pity it was so cloudy. There were no stars or no moon to light their journey with. Ah well, Elsa didn't want to focus in on the negatives. She had Jack by her side. She didn't know how much longer that would be able to stay like that. Tooth and Bunnymund may have agreed to keep their secret but Bunnymund didn't look too happy about finding his buddy with a Vampire. Elsa wondered if he would stay loyal to Jack or to his Werewolf kind? Elsa hoped that he wouldn't say anything. Tooth seemed to have him on a short leash. Bunnymund did seem to be pretty whipped but would Tooth be able to keep him from saying anything? This is assuming that Tooth wouldn't say anything herself. But Jack seemed to have faith in his friends and Elsa didn't have anything to doubt his word so Elsa smiled inside.
"So," Jack said with a sneaky smile to her, "what are you thinking about. Is it happening to be someone devilishly handsome like me?"
Elsa laughed. "Well you do happen to occupy my thoughts a lot."
"Of course," Jack grinned broadly.
They continued to walk until they came to the same park that they had met. Elsa got into the swings while Jack stood up behind her on the swings. Together they swung back and forwards on the swings like they did when they were a little children. Then they journeyed down the slide together. It reminded her of how they used to play on the playgrounds in Arendelle when they were little children.
"Just like when we were little," Elsa said laughing at the bottom of the slide.
"Those playgrounds were the best," Jack said. "Especially the one that your father had commissioned. It had all the best rides. It had a flying fox, swings, monkey bars, the whole lot."
"That playground really was the best," Elsa sighed.
Jack pulled her in close for a hug. Jack's strength had increased since their last time together. It was almost bone crushing but Elsa just laughed. They walked from the park together. They walked in silence for a few seconds. Elsa and Jack had reached a point in their lives that they don't need words to say what they mean anymore. Their looks and body language were all that was needed. Jack smiled down warmly at her and she smiled warmly up at him. His smile always made her melt inside.
"Nice night, huh," Jack said.
"Gorgeous," Elsa said. "Very clear night and no wind."
"Indeed," Jack said.
They came to a large field where Elsa knew where children loved to take their pets and have fun in the field. They walked onto the field.
"Good place for a picnic," Jack said to her.
Elsa did a sly smile. "Are you asking me out on a date Jackson Overland Frost?"
"Er," Jack suddenly blushed. Elsa laughed. It was adorable that even after all this time, she could still make Jack blush.
Elsa smiled. "I would love to. It reminds me the picnics we used to have in Arendelle."
"Indeed," Jack smiled. "Under the fresh moonlight or the glorious sun."
"We did have a few," Elsa smiled too.
She then looked up at the sky and saw that the clouds were disappearing and moving through the sky. Stars glistened down upon them and smiled at the couple below them. Elsa smiled up at them. She started making out consultations in the sky. She learned all about Astrometry growing up. She knew quite a few consultations and she could see quite a number of them. Her eyes then drifted onto the moon. The moon was so lovely and bright tonight. It gave off a brilliant aura. It was so full tonight…wait full?
Elsa then realised what she was looking up at. In the sky, there was a full moon dominating the sky. She had forgotten that the full moon was tonight. She knew it was soon but she didn't realise that it was tonight. After all her careful planning, she had been thrown off by this simple error. Elsa quickly looked over at Jack. He was staring at the moon, transfixed. Elsa felt terror fly through her. Jack was a Werewolf. During the full moon, Werewolves transform into a powerful, unstoppable beast that not even the best Vampires can fully combat on their own. Sometimes not even several Vampires can combat a fully transformed Werewolf. Elsa wanted to run, she needed to get out of here as soon as possible or she could get ripped apart but her feet wouldn't move, she was frozen to the spot as she watched the scene take place before her.
Jack started to breathe heavily as the moon power him into transforming. He let out a snarl mixed with some kind of growl. His clothes started to rip as he grew bigger. Hair sprouted all over his face and body which grew long lengths. His face extended into snout like shape and his teeth grew longer and sharpened. A long breath came out of Jack's nostrils which had a grunting sound to it. Jack's arms lengthened and Jack's fingernails and toenails grew into claws. It even sprouted out of Jack's shoes. Jack let out a long howl which caused shivers to go down Elsa's back. Jack then went down on all fours with a loud thudding noise and turned to face Elsa. His yellow eyes glared into Elsa's red eyes. All Jack's kindness had gone when the eyes turned from blue to yellow. The eyes glared into Elsa which caused Elsa to take a step back.
Elsa soon found herself face to face with a fully transformed Werewolf.
A/N: Uh-oh! Looks like Elsa is a lot of trouble. Can she get out of it? Also is Tooth and Bunnymund going to kept their secret? Anyway, I hope that everyone enjoyed this chapter. Please review =)
Reviews:
Guest: Glad that you enjoyed A Royal Encounter! I did enjoy writing it. Are you going to read A Royal Lifestyle, the sequel? That's if you haven't yet though. Thanks for the nice words! Glad you enjoyed the chapter too!
Guestie: Yeah it was intense, I think it just got worst in this chapter.
Jelsalover3: Wow, what awesome comments. Updating as requested.
abbyb11507: Yay! Glad that you like the story.
DarkQueenofWonderland: Elsa may not have to run then but maybe she should now. Glad you have been enjoying the story so far though!
lollipop3056: This chapter will reveal what happened to Elsa. Thanks so much for the nice words!
Kat-IllumintaedPurity: Glad you found it exciting. To be or not to be, that is indeed the question which is not fully answered in the chapter. Who knows what they will end up doing? Bunnymund seems pretty fired up about Elsa's and Jack's relationship.
Guest: Thanks so much, glad that you enjoyed the scarf bit. Updating as requested.
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ElsaTheSnowQueen2: Thanks so much! This should answer your question about Bunny and Tooth.
Frostbite Productions: Ah okay, doing the Spiderman/Jelsa crossover I see. There have been some fan pictures about that.
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