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Chapter 15: Elsa's Box
Anna took a breath after seeing Elsa give her the okay to start signal, and Kristoff nodded at her encouragingly. She looked at Jack, who was staring at the box of ice with the locket inside with eyes filled with curiosity and wonder, and wasn't nervous anymore. Elsa was watching him with love in her eyes, and Anna knew that everything Elsa stood for and wanted from the world depended on Jack remembering. The tooth fairy knew how hard Elsa worked for everything, and wanted her big sister to get something in return. She cleared her throat to get Jack's attention, and the child-like Guardian turned to face her.
"Jack, we found this in my palace last night, and the Moon told us it needed to go to you," the colorful fairy began, and the curiosity in his blue eyes turned to confusion.
"Why me though?" he asked, and it was Kristoff who answered.
"We're not sure, but it makes sense that this would be meant for you. Look at all the snowflakes, and the box is made of ice. Manny said the box belongs to you, so the box belongs to you," the large man stated, and Anna cut in.
"It has to be important. Maybe there's something about your past you need to remember, since it was found in my palace. Besides, none of us can open it, and we all tried. The Moon wants this to be yours, and wants it to be for your eyes only, which is why Peri couldn't come too," she explained, and Elsa smiled at her cover. Her little sister was finally getting less awkward around people when she needed to tell them things, or wanted them to do something, and Elsa thought it was about time. Jack's mouth formed a little 'o' as he turned back to the box, and he almost looked afraid to touch it. Elsa nodded to Kristoff to get him to encourage Jack to open the box.
"Jack, the box is yours. Open it. We'll leave you alone while you do," he stated, then ushered Anna out of the room so Jack could be 'alone.' He still didn't realize the Lady of the Moon was in the room with him, and he walked over to the window to look up at the bright, full moon shining over the frozen landscape. He sighed and Elsa watched as he ran a hand through his snowy locks of wind-blown hair, and she had a sudden urge to comfort him, which she suppressed.
"Why now? You gave me my memories back and showed me that I was a Guardian, and then you gave me my girlfriend Peri. But then you turned Pitch Black into a Guardian of Childhood, and now you have more memories that only I can see? Why? What do I need to know?" he asked the moon in desperation, and Elsa responded by brightening the light shining on the box, causing it to sparkle in the intense moonlight. He turned his attention back to the box in hand, and he began to trace the snowflake pattern on the edge of the box. He seemed afraid to open the box. She watched as he looked back out at the moonlit North Pole, then rested his hand over the half-snowflake handle of the box's lid.
Elsa watched as the love of her life took a deep breath, then lifted the lid away in one quick motion. Snow began to fall with force in the room, reflecting the bright moonlight and turning everything a bright, magical white. Colors began to fade and change, and the pair watched as their memories took place around them…
An eight-year-old, platinum blonde was playing in the courtyard with her five-year-old, feisty, redheaded sister when a nine-year-old boy came over with his three-year-old sister. He had messy, chestnut brown hair and mischievous brown eyes, and she had long, straight hair of the same shade with choppy bangs and warm, fun-loving brown eyes. He introduced himself as Jackson Overland, saying his sister's name was Emma Overland. The platinum blonde introduced herself as Elsa, and told him her sister's name was Anna. They were the princesses of a kingdom called Arendelle, and the four played all day.
An eight-year-old Elsa made her way to the Overland home one day all alone, and the two siblings were surprised that she had come. The palace gates had just closed, and no one expected to see the older princess leave. She explained to her friends that there had been an accident with Anna and her powers. Despite knowing that she had hurt her own sister, they understood it hadn't been intentional, and Jack swore to help the young princess learn to control her powers so she could see her sister again. Even though there was only an eight month difference between them, he was still older and became very protective of his royal friend, and the two grew closer.
A ten-year-old Jack played with his four-year-old sister Emma in the winter, while Elsa practiced her powers by building snowmen and small forts for snowball fights. Some of the forts were simple and made purely of snow, but some of the forts were more elaborate and made of solid—though translucent—ice, as impressive as the princess's imagination. Jack watched her use her magic with awe and pride clear in his brown eyes, and they had a snowball fight that lasted for hours.
Elsa was fourteen when Anna stopped knocking on her door to ask for company, and fifteen-year-old Jack helped her cope with it. He vowed silently to make sure she never felt lonely when she was with him. He would talk to her about what was happening with his family, he would tell her all the silly things his nine-year-old sister Emma would do, and he would challenge her to describe seemingly impossibly described things. He challenged her to describe colors, from brown, which she described his eyes as the first thing she thought of when he mentioned the color; to blue, which she described as the color of ice, happiness, and the winter sky on a clear day; to white, which she described as the snow she created with her magic; to red, which she described as her sister's hair and fear. He would challenge her to describe how water tastes, which he felt was his most powerful challenge, and was surprised by her answer. She told him water tasted like how love felt, free and contained, safe and dangerous, known to all yet still a mystery. He noticed how her blue eyes sparkled when she described the feeling, and felt exactly what she was saying deep within himself.
A fifteen-year-old Elsa came for a short visit after her parents left for a two week trip to visit a relative she didn't know she had. She froze over the lake outside the Overland home, not caring that it was August since she had magic, and they skated for a few hours. Emma got tired and went to take a nap, and the two fifteen-year-olds stayed outside while Elsa played with her magic distractedly. Jack immediately noticed there was something bothering the princess and asked her what it was. She told him that she had a bad feeling about her parents going on their trip, saying she didn't want them to leave. They had ignored her, thinking she just wanted them to stay so they could help her control her powers, but that wasn't true and they didn't give her a chance to explain. Jack comforted her, and before Elsa had to leave, she confessed that she wanted to hug her sister more than anything. Her best friend promised her that the next time he saw Princess Anna, he would give her a hug for her sister, and Elsa thanked him and left.
Jack was at a funeral, with the twelve-year-old Anna standing alone in between her parents' graves, all dressed in black and looking more alone than anyone Jack had ever seen. After the ceremony, he hugged the girl, saying he was sure her sister would like to hug her more than anything, and that he knew Elsa still loved her.
Elsa was sixteen years old, and Jack had just turned seventeen. Emma was off visiting a friend for the afternoon, so the two best friends were alone. Elsa was dancing across the frozen pond outside the Overland home, practicing elaborate spins and leaps and allowing snowflakes to fly from her fingertips with every movement. Jack was skating nearby, watching her, and felt an overwhelming urge to hold her close to him, to protect her, to make her feel loved. She skated close to him spun into a complicated leap that Jack expertly caught her from. He stood there on the ice for a moment, holding her bridal style. A faint blush grew in her pale cheeks, and her icy blue eyes fluttered shut. He leaned in so their foreheads were touching, and he could feel her cool breath against his lips. They were only inches away now, but before Jack could close the gap and kiss the crown princess of Arendelle, his mother called them in for lunch, and the magical bubble that had seemingly enclosed the two burst. He put her down quickly, rubbing the back of his neck awkwardly to hide a blush, and Elsa's cheeks turned a deep shade of red as they headed for the house.
It was Elsa's eighteenth birthday, and Jack and his sister gave her a simple locket with a snowflake on it, and a blue and a white crystal hanging on either side. She loved it, and after she created a box of ice with a snowflake pattern to protect her new necklace, she invited the two of them to come to her coronation a week later. He agreed, on the terms that he would be the first person to dance with her, which she shyly agreed to.
Jack was sitting towards the back of a small church, watching his best friend become queen. He noticed a small amount of ice form on the sacred orb and scepter she was holding, and watched sadly as she rushed to put her long gloves back on. She didn't trust herself, and she didn't trust her powers.
They were in a large ballroom, and Jack watched as his sister danced with a tall, handsome man who was missing one foot, and yet was still a graceful and talented dancer. He became protective, but everything melted away when the queen came over to tease him about being too defensive of his sister without even knowing the man. He smiled and asked her if she wanted to dance, and she was about to say yes when a brunette girl with a choppy hairdo came over to talk to Elsa. He walked off to give them some privacy.
He watched sadly as his best friend exposed her powers, then chased after her when she ran away from the party. He followed her all the way to the North Mountain, and watched as she built a giant palace of ice. He smiled, and knew an ice palace was the perfect home for a Snow Queen.
The memories ended there briefly, but the light in the room didn't change. He picked up the locket reverently and opened it, and a new memory washed over him…
He was touring Elsa's ice palace with the young woman who built it, admiring every detail she pointed out and even some she didn't. His breath was taken away as she led him into a huge ballroom with a large snowflake in the center of the floor and a stage tucked against the wall, perfect for the enchanted, ice crafted orchestra playing on it. They walked in as one song ended, and a new song played. This song was about freeing yourself and learning to fly, and he finally asked the queen for a dance. She accepted, and her first dance as queen was with her lifetime companion—who was quickly becoming more than just a friend—as they twirled around the ballroom made of ice, feeling like they were flying.
The memory ended, but when he put the locket back in the box, new memories flashed before his eyes…
He was skating in the courtyard where he first met Elsa ten years prior, watching as she reconnected with Anna and smiling as Olaf the talking snowman helped the younger sister learn to skate. Once Anna was confident enough to not need Elsa right by her side, he borrowed the new queen and together they skated, performing elaborate tricks that they had mastered after ten years of skating together on the lake behind the Overland home.
Elsa, Anna, a redhead named Merida, the brunette that came to talk to Elsa when Jack asked her to dance named Rapunzel, Rapunzel's husband Eugene, a blonde ice-harvester named Kristoff, Emma, and Jack were all enjoying dinner in the huge dining room of Arendelle's castle after all the party guests left. They were laughing and telling stories, and each one was different. There were conversations about frying pans that led into everyone's backstories, and Jack learned that each of the girls in Elsa's family possessed a magic that their parents did not have. In the end, the four girls decided to call themselves the Four Seasons, after Jack commented that together they represented the seasons in nature, and everyone seemed happy.
Anna had married Kristoff two months later, and Jack was his best man. Anna had chosen to honor her family and decided on a "Four Seasons" theme. Her two cousins were the maid of honor and matron of honor, and each wore a dress to represent their season. Elsa wore a dress made of ice that complimented her and her season perfectly, and she walked her sister down the aisle. Kristoff cried, and the entire kingdom knew no one could be happier.
Four months after the Great Freeze, Jack was about to turn nineteen, and he knew Elsa had been looking for a way to marry someone who wasn't a royal. He hoped that she had found a way to make it work, because if she had, he was planning on proposing to his lifetime best friend. They had been through everything together, and he didn't want that to change. He loved winter because of her, so he only hoped she would say yes. That day she came to visit him, wearing her locket. He always loved seeing her locket on her because it showed that she actually liked it. He picked her up and spun her around, which made her laugh. His heart melted at the sound, mainly because he knew she didn't get to laugh very often, so it made him happy that he could make her laugh. Emma started laughing at them too, but ran off without explaining why, thoroughly confusing the queen. They talked for hours, and before she left, she told him she thought the weather might drop enough for the lake to freeze, causing Jack to smile since he always loved skating with her.
The final memory was one Jack recognized. It was the memory of how he died, but ended with a broken hearted Elsa crying at the edge of the pond until her powers became too strong and destroyed her, freezing the entire world. Her powers crafted a new form for her, and the winter didn't end until eighteen years later, when Anna broke the curse and finally allowed her sister to move on to the next life. But what he saw next was nothing like he would have ever expected.
He watched as Elsa became what he thought was the Man in the Moon. He watched as she resurrected him and tried to tell him who he was, then felt her frustration and pain when she realized he couldn't hear her because he didn't believe in her. He watched her battle Pitch alone, since she didn't have anyone to help her. He watched her revive Grand Pabbie, who was Kristoff's troll grandfather who saved Anna's life when Elsa accidentally hit her with her powers, and saw the short, stone man turn into a figure made of golden sand and become the Sandman. He saw Kristoff die and be revived to become Nicholas St. North, and bring wonder to the children of the world as Santa Claus. He watched as Elsa brought her sister back to life as the Tooth Fairy, and revived her long dead niece named Faylinn as a small fairy that looked exactly like her mother, who Jack knew as Baby Tooth. He watched as Eugene eventually died in battle, and saw him be revived as the six-foot-tall Easter Bunny. He saw them fight against Pitch and defeat him every time he became too strong. Finally, he saw her choose him as the next Guardian, and watched as her eyes lit up in pride when he finally realized who he was.
The room finally turned back to normal, and Jack was left reeling from the shock. He had just seen his entire human life, and parts of his immortal life that had been contained in a small box of ice. He realized this box of ice had been crafted right in front of him, and that the locket he picked up was something he had personally given the creator. His mind replayed the image of his old friends becoming the Guardians he had known them to be for so long, and couldn't erase the image of the girl he once loved becoming the moon. He finally looked up, and realized in shock that the girl from his memories was standing in the room with him, leaning against the wall next to the window. She was watching him with a deep concern evident in her eyes, and he felt his heart melt at the sight. This wasn't like anything he felt around Periwinkle. That was nice, but he realized now it wasn't truly love. He slowly covered the box again, and made his way closer to the queen he loved in his old life, and still loved now that he remembered. He took in her upgraded appearance, and knew it happened recently since even when he became a Guardian, she was still wearing the same dress and hairdo she used before he died. Her eyes lit up with a disbelieving edge to them when he started walking towards her.
"Elsa," he whispered, and watched as the Snow Queen looked like she was about to cry.
"You believe in me…?" she asked hesitantly, and the Guardian of Fun nodded. As soon as he did, he was wrapped in a huge hug, and he pulled her close immediately. Elsa had heard once that one of the best feelings in the world is when you hug someone you love and they hug you back tighter, and she couldn't have agreed more.
She buried her face in his hoodie, and her shoulders shook as she began to cry. Snow started to fall lightly in the room as he rubbed her back soothingly. He just held her protectively while she let it all go, and eventually she calmed down. When she pulled back to look at him, he noticed trails of frost marking a path down her cheeks from crying, and didn't remember her ever looking more beautiful.
"I believe in you. Thank you," he said as he helped her thaw the frost on her cheeks, and she looked up at him in confusion.
"Why would you thank me?" she asked, and watched as his blue eyes sparkled in amusement. Her heart melted at the sight.
"You believed in me enough that you gave me another chance," he said, somewhat vaguely. She had given him another chance at life, another chance at love, and another chance at being with her forever. Elsa still wasn't sure that he would want to be with her, but she could only hope she wouldn't end up with a broken heart.
"Of course I did. Now, we should probably go tell the others it worked…" she trailed off, not wanting to hope for too much, and Jack smiled as he reached down and took her hand.
"Yes, yes we should. And I have a certain relationship to end," the Guardian of Fun said with a smile, and the Snow Queen ducked her head to hide a blush as she led her best friend and almost lover to the center of the workshop.
She let go of Jack's hand when they got there, since Periwinkle couldn't see Elsa and she didn't want Jack to look strange, but she had a huge smile on her face and a light in her eyes that her family hadn't seen in centuries. Even Pitch smiled at the sight of the Guardian of Love happy. They all knew it had worked, and somehow managed to contain their excitement until Jack had gotten rid of the Frost Fairy he had been dating for the past few weeks.
Their breakup wasn't pretty. Periwinkle knew there was something the Guardians had done to him to make him dump her, despite Jack's attempts at calming her down. He tried time and time again to explain that the Moon had simply helped him remember some very important things from his past that were coming into play now, and that he didn't want her to be a part of it. He told her it was just that some things came up that were more important to him right now and he needed to focus on them, but she didn't take that well. She screamed incoherently at him for several minutes before he told her it was time for her to leave, but her last statement was perfectly clear.
"Good luck being happy with some moon girl!" she screamed at him before flying out of the workshop.
The minute she said that, Elsa began to feel a growing pain in her chest, but only when the fairy had left the workshop did it get worse. She had thought the last pain was the worst she would experience, but she was wrong. This pain had her collapsed in a ball on the floor, screaming and writhing in agony. Jack was freaking out, screaming at everyone around him to fix the girl he loved, but the queen couldn't hear anything over her own pained screams. Jack's scared and worried blue eyes were the last things Elsa saw before her world turned black.
Oooooh suspense! What do you think will happen to her? And did you like the Jelsa bits in his memories? I thought those were fun to write.
If you were Periwinkle, how would you have reacted to the breakup? If you were Jack, what would you have done to calm her down?
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