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Chapter 14: Dreams and Memories

Elsa opened her eyes, and she was standing alone on the North Mountain in Arendelle, wearing a long, white dress made of snow, with an icy blue, sparkling belt at her waist. Her long, platinum blonde hair was pinned up in the bun her mother used to wear but with her bangs curled to frame her face instead of wrapped tightly across the top of her head, and she had one long, icy blue glove on her right hand, and her left hand was bare and exposed. She took off her glove and threw it into the wind, then ran up to her ice castle. She went inside, expecting to be alone, but she heard music coming from the ballroom. She walked in slowly, and saw a figure with snow-white hair, wearing a royal blue suit trimmed in frost and matching slacks, and he leaned against a tall, crooked staff. A smile crossed her face as she ran over to the figure, recognizing him instantly, and she hugged him tightly from behind, glad that her hands didn't go straight through him. He turned and hugged her back, and she buried her face in his chest.

"Hey, Snowflake," he greeted her quietly, and Elsa smiled at the nickname.

"I missed you," she whispered against his suit, and he started to rub her back soothingly.

"I missed you too. But I'm back now, and I'm not going anywhere," he promised his best friend, and she looked up at him with bright blue eyes that were filled with a sparkle she had been missing for centuries.

"Thank you," she said gratefully. He smiled down on her, using the smile he saved specifically for her, and she felt her frozen heart melt at the sight. He leaned down and kissed her forehead lightly, then took a small necklace from the inside pocket of his suit jacket.

"Anything, my queen. Now, I think now is the right time to give this back, since it's our wedding day," Jack told her affectionately, and Elsa's heart began to flutter at the mention of their wedding day. He reached around behind her and secured her necklace, and she looked down to realize it was the locket he gave her when she turned 18. She smiled, and looked up when she felt him gently tug her braid out of its tight bun and let it rest over her left shoulder. She met his eyes and they were full of so much warmth and love it made her heart ache, but it wasn't the pain she remembered. It was a comforting ache, and she liked the feeling.

"If its our wedding day, why are we here?" she asked, assuming Anna would have thrown a huge party for the two of them to celebrate. Jack chuckled affectionately at her, and she noticed a sparkle in his eyes.

"You got scared and ran away, and I knew you would come here so I flew to beat you. Pitch said it was because you were worried I wouldn't want to spend eternity with you, and that you thought I might want to go back to Periwinkle," he told her quietly, and Elsa looked down at her ice covered feet to hide her blush. Her husband tilted her head up to look at him again gently, and his eyes held no blame or sadness in them, for she saw only love as he continued.

"I'm never going to leave you, Elsa. I left you once and I'll never, ever do it again. Guardian's honor," he swore to her. The Snow Queen smiled at his promise, and he pulled her into his arms once more as her world went black.

This time, she opened her eyes to find she was lying in a bed, wearing her new ice dress and boots. She looked around the room and noticed her sister standing at the window, staring out at the snowy landscape as the sky turned from midnight blue to pink as the sun began to peak over the frozen mountains, bringing the new day with it and waking everyone up. She smiled and, feeling strong enough, went to join her sister. She stood next to her and put her hand on the fairy's shoulder, startling the purple-eyed girl. Her little sister turned and hugged her tightly, and the frozen queen hugged her back.

"You're awake. I was really worried," the colorful fairy said, and Elsa looked at her curiously.

"Why? How long was I asleep?" she asked. Her sister shrugged.

"You weren't asleep very long, maybe ten hours, but after everything that happened, I was worried. Pitch gave me your box," she said, and Elsa noticed a slight edge to her voice when she mentioned Pitch. The blonde queen frowned slightly, and Anna was grateful that it wasn't her angry frown, because that frown scared everyone.

"Anna, I know none of you like having Pitch around, but he's a Guardian. He can do this, and like he said last night, he knows Medusa better than any of us. I trust him," she told her little sister, whose purple eyes were still reserved. Elsa sighed.

"Els, I trust you I just, we've been fighting him for three hundred years. What makes you think he can change now?" the Tooth Fairy asked her. The Moon Queen responded without hesitating.

"What makes you think Jack will believe in me after three hundred years, even if he remembers? Anna, it's time for things to change. I think three hundred years is long enough," she said, and noticed as her sister's lavender eyes flashed with understanding, and perhaps accusation.

"This is all about Jack, isn't it? Your new dress, bringing in Pitch to be a Guardian, your sudden friendship with him, it's all because Jack is dating Periwinkle, isn't it?" Anna demanded, and Elsa was taken aback. She felt like she was in a Nightmare, and quickly glanced around to make sure Pitch wasn't using any of his magic to cause this. Thankfully, she found none, and discreetly pinched herself to make sure it wasn't a dream. That didn't work either, and Elsa felt her heart throb around the snake that was ripping it to shreds. For the first time in forever, her sister didn't believe in her, and didn't trust her to know what she was doing. For the first time in forever—actually, Elsa believed it was the first time ever—Anna thought she was doing something just to get revenge on some guy.

"Anna, I'm not doing this because of Jack. Yes, it hurts that he doesn't believe in me, and it's hurt for three hundred years. Yes, it hurts that he's dating someone else, who happens to be a little like a combination of me and Olaf but with fairy wings. But for as much as I love him and worry about him, my world doesn't revolve around him. It can't revolve around him. I have to worry about you and Kristoff and Faylinn and Sven and Olaf and Eugene and Rapunzel and Pabbie and Pitch, I have to worry about the children of the world, and I now have to worry about Medusa who is trying to kill me by ripping my heart to shreds with a snake. What I'm doing because of him is giving you his memory box so he can remember us. But everything else I've done, I've done because I feel like it's what I need to do to protect everyone, and it's hard having to protect everyone, Anna! I can't protect everyone, and sometimes in order to protect everyone I have to make decisions other people don't like, and I don't like making those decisions! I really don't! But sometimes I have to because everyone is relying on me to know what to do and right now, bringing in Pitch is the only thing I can think of to do to protect everyone!" she said, and based on Anna's shocked look and the sudden quiet in the room, she realized she must have been yelling. The Snow Queen wasn't sure when she started yelling, but there was a light snowfall surrounding them, and a gentle dusting of snow on the furniture in the room.

Just then, Pitch came in with Phil who was carrying a clear glass teapot with a blooming flower inside that Elsa recognized as Chinese jasmine, and a small blue and gold teacup from Vienna, Austria. The two looked at the tense women in shock, then after receiving terrifying glares from the two (which Pitch noticed were exactly the same), Phil set the tea down on the table and left quickly, and Pitch followed suit more slowly, muttering something about waiting outside until they're done. Elsa sighed and slumped back onto the bed, and her sister sat next to her.

"I'm sorry," Anna apologized quietly, and Elsa looked up to see understanding in the girl's purple eyes. She turned and pulled her sister into a hug, one that the feathered girl returned quickly.

"I didn't mean to yell at you…" the Snow Queen apologized, and Anna shrugged.

"I shouldn't have accused you of only doing this because of Jack. I just, you seem like you're getting really close to Pitch, and I worry about you. I don't want you to get as close to Pitch as you were with Jack and have something go wrong," the younger girl admitted quietly, and Elsa smiled.

"Anna, thank you for trying to protect me, but you need to trust me. Please? I trust Pitch, and I need all of you to trust him as well. That's the only way we'll be able to stop Medusa," she asked, and her sister nodded.

"Fine. But I've been rooting for Jelsa for over three hundred years, and that's not going to stop now," Anna teased, and Elsa looked at her incredulously.

"Jelsa?" the Snow Queen asked while trying not to laugh.

"Yeah! You know, Jack and Elsa! It's perfect!" the Tooth Fairy exclaimed, and this time the Queen of Winter did laugh.

Elsa nudged her sister with a smile and stopped the snowfall, then thawed the already settled snow in the room. Her lavender-eyed sister stuck her tongue out at the Guardian of Love before getting up to leave the room. Elsa leaned back on her bed for a minute with a smile before getting herself a cup of tea. She walked over to the window to watch the sunrise, and used her magic to create a couch under the glass to sit on. Pitch walked back into the room just as she finished, and he smiled when he saw the couch.

"Letting something go?" he asked her, and she turned to him with a smirk.

"No. I just wanted somewhere to sit while I drink my tea. Would you care to join me?" she motioned for him to sit, to which he nodded and took her offer. She sat next to him, and they watched the sun rise for a while in silence.

"Did you get enough sleep?" Pitch asked her after a long while, and the platinum blonde sitting across from him nodded.

"Yeah, I did," she answered simply and quietly, then pushed open the window to let in the cold, North Pole air.

"Any dreams?" he asked innocently, but noticed something change in the queen's eyes. They began to sparkle, and it was definitely not a reflection of the sunlight shining off the snow outside. He smiled seeing it, and nudged her gently when she didn't answer right away.

"Hmm?" she asked absentmindedly, but seemed to remember what he asked when she saw his smirk and continued, "Oh. Yes." He sighed inwardly as his smirk grew, and decided he was curious enough to ask why the queen was suddenly so distracted.

"Do you trust me enough to tell me what they were about?" Pitch prodded, and she felt a faint blush form in her cheeks, something she noticed Pitch smirking at.

"It was Jack. We were in my ice palace, and it was our wedding day. I had gotten scared and run away, and you told him it was because I was afraid he wouldn't want to stay with me forever and that he would want to go back to Periwinkle, and he decided to fly to my ice palace and wait for me there, knowing I would go there. He promised me he would never leave me again…" she trailed off, still staring out at the frozen tundra that is the North Pole, and Pitch smiled.

"You don't have to be afraid of him, Elsa. I'm with Anna. Jelsa needs to happen," he told her with a huge smile, and she looked over to see his golden eyes laughing at what he said. Elsa couldn't help but start laughing, and her serene expression turned into a happy one, with sparkling eyes that will never quite be like they were around Jack. Pitch smiled at the sight and started laughing also, and it was a sound Pitch Black hadn't heard in centuries. This laugh wasn't his evil, menacing one that he had used for decades that turned into centuries, but it was a happy sound, and surprised the Nightmare King.

"God you really did change when I offered you the chance to become a Guardian. Why?" she asked curiously, hiding behind her free hand in an attempt to stop laughing. Her attempt failed, but she still tried. Pitch just smiled at her.

"You showed me kids could believe without being afraid," he told her honestly, and she stopped laughing and smiled at him.

"They can, and they will. One already does," she said, talking about the young boy who was Pitch's first believer, while the King of Fear smiled at the mention of the boy.

"Thank you for that. But seriously, I'm rooting for Jelsa, and so is everyone else. You're meant to be together. He was the one who protected you from both me and yourself, and was part of what made your love powerful enough to become who you are now. Love like that doesn't happen every day, or every century or even every millennium. Periwinkle is just an obstacle for you to overcome," he reassured her, and the Queen of Winter smiled.

"Thanks, Pitch. Now, speaking of the Guardian of Fun, I think it's time for him to remember his past," she said with a smile, and the two went to find Anna and Kristoff.

She found the entire group of Guardians, minus Jack and thankfully minus his Frost Fairy girlfriend, in the main workshop talking. Anna was holding Elsa's box protectively, and Kristoff had his arms wrapped around her shoulders. Faylinn was sitting on the snowflake protruding from the lid of the box, Eugene was back to painting his purple and gold flowered Easter egg representing Corona, and Pabbie was playing with his dream sand. The Nightmare King and the Snow Queen made their way over to the group, and everyone looked up at the pair. There was one seat left, Elsa created an ice chair next to it, and Pitch took the empty seat that was between Elsa and Kristoff. There was a moment of silence as everyone stared at the snowflake box, then Elsa lifted her chin and assumed her "queen look" (as Jack would have called it) to gather everyone's attention.

"We need a plan," she stated, and looked around to see if anyone had any ideas. She had a vague plan, but she still needed the details.

"Mate, why don't you tell us what you already thought of first, then we'll add to it," Eugene suggested, realizing she already had some ideas, and she smiled gratefully at him.

"We need to set off the Northern Lights, but at a time when someone's around to distract Periwinkle. She can't be around when Jack gets the box. Well, maybe we could put the box in the room I stayed in last night, and Kristoff and Anna could take him to it, telling him it's a new relic you found that no one can open, that you believe is meant to belong to him because of the snowflake pattern on it. Eugene and Pabbie I guess could distract Periwinkle. Do that by any means necessary, whether it's making her show you her powers or even using Pabbie's dream sand to put her to sleep. If you do that, though, she should really be awake by the time Jack comes back," she said, and suddenly realized that she had pretty much figured out their plan. She looked around at the others to see if anyone had any suggestions or questions to ask.

"Why do I have to go too?" Anna asked her sister, and Elsa looked over at her.

"You're the Guardian of Memories. Make up something about the Moon telling you it holds important memories in it. He'll believe you," she assured her younger sister, whose mouth formed a small 'o' in recognition before she nodded.

"Ok, that all makes sense, but what am I going to do?" Pitch asked her, and Elsa felt a little guilty at what she was going to answer him with.

"Jack doesn't trust you, and I don't know that he'd leave his girlfriend alone with you. He might because Eugene and Pabbie will be there, but I'm not sure so—" she started explaining, but Pitch caught on and cut her off.

"So I'm supposed to stay away," he finished, and she nodded.

"You can start off in the room, but if Jack is reluctant to leave her alone because you're in there, come to a different room with me to wait. I'm sorry," she told him honestly, and he shrugged it off.

"I get it," he said simply, but Elsa noticed something in his yellow eyes and knew he wasn't as okay with it as he tried to make everyone believe. She looked at him sympathetically, but he shrugged her off once again.

"Hey, we're all rooting for Jelsa, and until we do this, he won't be able to see you. This needs to happen," he told her with confidence and conviction clear in his voice, and Elsa smiled when all her Guardians began to agree with him.

"Let's do this!" Kristoff said eagerly, and Elsa smiled at him and stood, melting her chair again.

"Alright. Kristoff, activate the Northern Lights to get them here. Eugene, Pabbie, figure out how you're going to distract Periwinkle. Pitch, I'm sorry you can't do much, but you can come with me and Anna to put the box in the room," she said, and the dark man shrugged and followed the two sisters to Elsa's workshop bedroom.

Elsa quickly cleaned up the room—with Pitch's help—so Jack wouldn't notice someone used it last night, then created a crystal pedestal in the center of the room that they set the box on. All three focused on making every possible detail perfect before going out to meet with the others. Kristoff had already activated the Guardian Call, and since everyone was ready and knew what their part in the plan was, all they had to do was wait. They didn't have to wait long, because a short five minutes after they all settled in to wait for their favorite Guardian of Fun, said Guardian flew into the workshop with his pixie girlfriend in tow. Everyone greeted them, including the invisible Elsa, and she felt her heart begin to ache slightly when she saw them.

"So, what's the emergency?" Jack demanded, and all the Guardians knew it was time for their plan to go into action.

"Jack, follow me," Kristoff told him, and Jack began to follow the bigger man and tooth fairy with his girlfriend trailing behind him. Anna turned and noticed before they left the room, and frowned slightly.

"Peri, you need to stay here. This is important, and it's something Jack has to do alone," she told the winged girl, who immediately pouted.

"Why can't I come?" she demanded, and Elsa was reminded of a toddler throwing a tantrum. Jack looked around the room and pulled her against him protectively, and everyone knew it was because of the Nightmare King in the room.

"Yeah, why can't she come?" he asked hesitantly, and Kristoff glared at the young spirit.

"Jack, this is important, and we need you to put your duties as a Guardian before your girlfriend for a few minutes while we show you this. She'll be fine out here until you come back," the Guardian of Wonder scolded the white-haired boy in front of him, who blushed faintly in embarrassment. He looked around the room reluctantly, and Elsa was about to tell Pitch to follow her when Periwinkle looked at him with wide blue eyes and nodded slightly.

"Jack, this is your job. Go. I'll be fine with Sandy and Bunny and Pitch for a few minutes," she assured him, and Elsa let out a sigh of relief. She nodded to the guys to be ready to distract her, and Jack kissed her cheek before following Anna and Kristoff down the hall. Periwinkle sat with the other three Guardians to wait, and when they started distracting her with painting and sand images, Elsa ran after her sister, brother-in-law, and best friend.

She caught up with them just before they brought Jack into the room, and went in ahead of them, being careful not to alert Jack that she was there. She made sure the moonlight was shining directly on the box when Jack walked in, then moved to an empty stretch of wall she could lean against to watch Jack's facial expressions. She gave Anna an "A-Okay" sign with her right hand, telling her sister it was time to start their story.

I'm with Anna and Pitch. Jelsa needs to happen. What did you think? Is the story too slow? Or is the drama building nicely? Leave a review and let me know!

Question: What would you do if you were Elsa and discovered that your Guardians were rooting for Jelsa?

Thanks for reading! Snowflakes of fun and love to you all!