And as promised, ladies and gentlemen, here's your epilogue- the last thing that ties the whole story up!
Pabbie had warned Jack about aging and losing his powers, but he certainly couldn't have foreseen the memories returning.
It hit Jack almost like a sledgehammer one night- too intense and vivid and familiar to be a mere dream. A force of sensations and images that rushed into his mind, faces and places and sounds he knew deep down had encountered before. Laughter, firelight, snowy woods, crisp wind. Brown hair. Brown eyes. Not just his own, but his mother's...his sister's...
Sister?
Her brown eyes widening in fear as the ice cracked beneath his bare feet plunging him into the cold and the darkness below-
"Jack!"
He couldn't breathe. It was dim and empty and freezing and then all of a sudden...it wasn't. Above him, the moon glowed bright, and Jack gasped- air pushing through his lungs- rising into the sky and the stars and life-
"Jack!"
He opened his eyes and there she was. Skin and hair as pale as the moon itself.
"Are you okay?" Elsa asked worriedly.
"I had a sister," Jack croaked. "I saved her."
"So you died...saving your sister?"
"Yes!"
"And the moon resurrected you?"
"Yup, exactly."
Elsa blinked. "If you were resurrected on the day I was born... Then this probably can't have been more than twenty-five years ago." She got out of their bed and started pacing the room, leaving patches of ice where she stepped.
Jack watched her. "Yeah, I suppose so?"
"So if that's the case, then your sister is still out there."
Jack's mouth dropped open. She's right.
"I have to find her," he said at once. "Go back to where I came from...where I was...I'm remembering it all now." He grabbed Elsa excitedly. "The Moon- he knew what he was doing all along!"
They held onto each other tightly, stupid happy with the possibilities that could be realized.
"We'll find your family, Jack," Elsa promised. "We'll find them." Jack nodded fiercely. He already considered their quest a success.
Now that fate had brought them together, there was nothing the two of them couldn't do.
The future's open wide
I'll stop the world and melt with you
I've seen some changes but it's getting better all the time
There's nothing you and I won't do
I'll stop the world and melt with you