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Chapter 7: The 'Great' Escape
A majestic, wonderful, and shining morning has awakened Arendelle in its restful sleep. Everyone bathing by the sunlight hoping to harvest energy from it. Another wonderful day from a wonderful land has begin but to Anna and Jack, it is a start of life in prison and containment, not in jail but in Anna's room.
Both master and butler are grounded because of the rash and immature acts they pulled yesterday and as punishment, they get to spend the whole day together in Anna's room. Truthfully, Anna is the who is grounded but since Jack is her butler who is suppose to keep an eye on her had been involved with her punishment. Jack take this as a light punishment even though it is not really a punishment, it is a warning. Still it doesn't change the fact that they are extremely bored, they have nothing to do inside the Princess' room that Anna suddenly throw a tantrum.
"WAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH" The princess scream in frustration that the whole castle would probably hear her. "I'M SO BORED!, THIS IS SO UNFAIR...MAMA!...PAPA! I WANT TO GET OUT!"
Jack panicked on his mistress sudden burst out. He knew he had to exterminate the flames of anger inside Anna or else he will be also burned by her wrath and fury.
"Now now mistress, you shouldn't scream like that." Jack said with an unsure face on how to calm the mad Princess.
"SHUT UP JACKSON!" She screamed at her butler with a evil and angry aura shrouding her.
Jack shiver on the Princess cold reaction. "But...uhm...mistress your only making it worse." He said nervously with a nervous smile.
The only response he receive from his mistress was a flying pillow smack on the face. He just give up on calming his raging mistress and let her mess up her room. The only thing he can do now is sit in a corner, dodge or catch everything that Anna throws at him, wait for his mistress to stop and calm down, and then he will clean up Anna's room once the rampage is over.
The castle walls near Anna's room tremble and some paintings that is attach to the wall suddenly dropped to the floor due to the echoes and loud and vibrant screams of Princess Anna. The staff and the Royal family can heard everything and only hope that her butler could do anything to calm her down. They are too lazy to confront the Princess because it is too early for this kind of nonsense. So they all put their trust and hope to the miserable butler.
After a few terrible, hopeless, and misfortunate hours, the mad Princess finally took a chill pill and doze off for a moment. Jack took this chance to clean the wrecked room and restore it to its beauty, or at least make it look like a Princess room. The young butler can't believe that his mistress has this hidden 'power' to mess things up badly. Seriously, this girl is much worse than his sister Emma. He clean and repair the whole room from every inch and every corner. Now everything is right in place and the only thing in the room that is now a mess is the bed itself. But it would be dangerous to wake the rampaging beast that sleep on top of it so he decided to wait for Anna to wake up to fix it.
Jack is now hungry and exhausted so he decided that while waiting, he would grab himself breakfast for him and his mistress. He went out of the room and head to the kitchen to prepare food for them both. He show off his skills in cooking that his mother teaches him. Some cooks were impressed on how he handles the knife well, how he slice the bread and fruits, how he mixed all the ingredients, and how he cook the food well. Serving the food in a silver platter and making it look presentable for a royal Princess to eat it. Once everything is finished, he grabbed a tray and put the food he prepared for him and his mistress and head back to the room.
Back at the room, he saw the Princess is still asleep and tip-toed inside to avoid his mistress to be awake. But the Princess suddenly get up because of the sweet aroma of breakfast. She sense the presence of Jack and the food he brought.
"OH!, Jack is that breakfast?" Anna asked with a wonderful and innocent look.
Jack freaked out a bit on the sudden change of behavior of his mistress. "Uhm...yes mistress, I prepared them for you." He said. Who knew food can change a beast to a beauty. and he thought.
The butler then give the food tray with food to Anna and grab his share. The two silently eat their delicious breakfast. Anna would moan when eating because of the flavorful and delicious food she's eating. She eats her breakfast slowly to savor the food, it is by far the best breakfast she had in her own life.
"You made this?" Anna asked Jack while eating.
"Yes mistress" He replied "Do you like it?"
"Like it? I love it." Anna happily said. "I haven't eaten food like this before. It is delicious."
"Thank you mistress." Jack said happily.
The two continued eating and once they are finished, Jack set the utensils used aside together with the food tray in a corner and called Tooth to return it to the kitchen. Once again they are alone and nothing to do but this time they have their appetites full. Which helps Anna to think to do something fun, and by fun means childish, immature, and rash that will probably get them into trouble again, unless they are caught. With a great idea and a mischievous smile, she finally has a plan in mind and all is left is to convince her butler to join her or at least cover for her.
Of course the butler sense the not-so-brilliant idea of her mistress and have a bad feeling about it. He caught his mistress stealing a glance from him with a mischievous look. He can only assume that Anna wants him to involved with her fun plan , but he has to make his stand and do not let her 'corrupt' him this time.
"Not a chance mistress." Jack said out of the blue.
"You don't even know what will I say."
"You're gonna make me approve to your fun plan again. And I say no to it for it will guarantee us trouble again." He said with a serious face and arms cross on his chest.
"Oh please Jack, this time we won't be in trouble, trust me." Anna pleaded with puppy eyes and a pout causing Jack to groan on annoyance.
The butler is now conflicted whether he approves or not because of that cute face he is seeing from the Princess. He is now standing on his ground, determine to win this 'stubbornness' battle on who will give up first. A few minutes later and Jack can no longer take it, he's been taking too much cuteness damage from the Princess and decided to give up and hear her out. He release a heavy sigh as a sign of defeat.
"Okay fine, what do you have in mind?" Jack asked then close his eyes hoping it is not worse like the last time.
"YESS! I know you can't resist me, even mama and papa can't resist my cuteness." Anna cheerily said. "Now for the fun plan, since we are grounded and everyone is expecting us to be here only in the room, I was thinking of maybe we can get out of this prison and got to town to check everybody out."
Now his fears are confirmed, it is indeed much worse like the last time. 'Hell no' is the word he wants to say but since his on duty, he must avoid foul words. "I forbid you mistress on going on with your plan." He formally said.
"Wait I'm not yet finished. I kindda figured out that's what you would say but let me finish first. Of course we can't do this by ourselves so that's why we are gonna get help from the outside."
"Outside?" Jack thought for a minute then it clicked to him. "Wait, does that mean that you want Tooth to help us?"
"Exactly." Anna proudly said with a determined look and hands on her hips.
"And how do you plan to convince Tooth on that?" Jack asked
"Easy." She then grab a bell and ring it. A few moments passed and the doors to Anna's room opened and Tooth stepped inside.
"You called mistress?" Tooth said while bowing her head.
"Hey Tooth, could you do us a favor and cover for us while we take a stroll in the town." Anna easily asked with a smile.
"Understood mistress." Tooth immediately replied.
The young butler dropped his jaws in shocked on how fastly and easily Tooth agreed on Anna's plan which by the way knows that they will ended up be in trouble. "Tooth! You can't just agree like that." He protested.
"Why not? She is my mistress so I have to do what she ask." Tooth replied.
Jack stammered, not knowing what to tell. He is left speechless on how the maid is also rash just like her mistress. He just let his jaw drop and let it hanging. Tooth and Anna giggled on Jack's reaction and both of them closes Jack's mouth.
"Don't worry Jack, I got your backs. Besides, would you rather stay bored here than go outside and have fun." Tooth said reassuring Jack.
"I rather keep my job."
"Everything is fine Jack, we won't be caught now that Tooth is on our side." Anna now reassuring her butler.
"And why is that?" Jack asked
"It is a long story but trust me, she has her ways." Anna said with a smile.
"But...but..." The young butler once again stammered. Still not sure if this plan is bust-proof.
"Oh quit your whining Jack and get out of here. GO NOW!" Tooth now annoyed commanding or rather forcing him.
She then pushes Jack towards the window with Anna readying a rope made of blankets. Once the last knots are tied, she tosses the rope outside the window and tie the other end to the one of the foot of her bed. Pulling it hard to make sure it is tied tighter. With everything set, Anna's fun plan is set on motion.
"Okay Jack, you go first." Anna said to Jack while she points out to the window. Signaling him to rappel down outside.
The young butler finally give up on reasoning out these the two ladies and just do what they asked him to do. With his hands firmly holding the rope, he slowly and gently rappel down to the ground. Anna's bedroom is located at the 2nd floor of the castle so it has an huge amount of height down below that it will leave serious injuries if someone falls from that height.
Once down the ground, he signaled Anna quietly with a thumbs up indicating that it is her turn. Anna then position herself outside the window and started to rappel down the ground. Jack looks up and keeps a good eye on Anna in case she falls down so he can catch her. But once she started to rappel down, he's eyes widen and immediately bowed his head down and blushed furiously. He sees inappropriate 'things' that isn't supposed to be seen, especially by men.
Meanwhile, the Princess is taking her time to safely rappel down and notice Jack is bowing down his head, possibly looking away from something. She is trying to think on what Jack is trying to avoid his gaze when it clicked to her. She is wearing her Princess outfit, which means she is wearing a skirt. Realizing this, she also blushed furiously and trying hard to conceal a shriek, a very loud one. She only hopes that her butler would just keep on looking at the ground until she climbed down.
Anna has finally reach the ground with a flustered face, the same goes with Jack. The two are now averting each other's gaze.
"Did you see that?" Anna asked still facing away from Jack.
"See what?" Jack replied pretending to know nothing.
"Nothing. Let's just keep going."
The two started their quiet escape to the castle while trying to erase the memory in their minds on what happened a while ago. Anna then pulled out the cloak that Tooth gave her and wear it to protect her identity. They now find themselves at the courtyard of the castle, so far so good is their little escape but unknown to the two, someone is on their pursuit.
Jack sense the individual's presence and turned around to see who is following them. His eyes narrowed when he saw the person tracking them, it is a knight. He doesn't know the knight's name but he recognize him, it is the knight that throws dagger glares at him. Anna notice Jack's behavior and also turned around to see what he saw. She sighed in relief that it is not her father or anyone that will hinder them but someone that might help them.
"I was told that the Princess is grounded in her room, then why do I find her here in the courtyard?" The knight seriously asked both of them with a strange accent.
"Hi Aster, it's good to see you too." Anna nicely replied with a smile, obviously dodging the question.
"Good to see you your majesty, now please answer my question. What are you doing outside your room?" Aster asked Anna nicely. "And you..." He now faced Jack. "What do you think you're doing? You're suppose to keep her inside her room. Why do they even hire you if you can't even do your job right." He rudely said to the young butler.
"How I do my job is none of your business, buddy. Now if you please do us a favor and go back to your station and eat doughnuts or something." Jack rudely replied. The two men is now engaged in a serious deathly glare contest.
Feeling the tension between the butler and the knight, Anna decided to break the incoming fight. "Okay stop it, both of you." The Princess butted in between the two and faced Aster. "Don't worry Aster, I'll be fine. He is under my authority so don't speak to Jack like that." She calmly said to the knight then faced her butler. "And you, I know it is not right that Aster is being rude to you but that doesn't mean you have to be rude too. You should at least give respect to the head chief of the knights."
Jack furrowed his brows in confusion. "Wait...that's the head chief of the knights?" He asked while pointing his index finger at Aster.
"The head chief of the knights has a name, mate." Aster said to Jack. The butler just clicked his tongue and shows a 'I really don't care' look which annoys the knight. "You really asking for a beating, mate."
Anna had enough and decided to push Aster away. "For the last time, Enough." She strictly said. "Aster, it will be better if you go now and pretend not to see us or talk to us."
"I'm afraid I can't do that, your majesty. I'm under orders from your father that if you somehow escape your room, I will stop you." Aster said to Anna.
"Well then I guess I have no choice." Anna said seems to be surrendering. "Let's go back Jack, Aster is stubborn."
The young butler is shock to see his mistress surrender so easily, especially on the head bastard of the knights.
"Come to think of it, Tooth helped us escape so I'll just tell her that Aster prevented us to go." Anna suddenly blurted out causing the knight to stand straight in shock and horrify. "It would be terrible if she figures out you make her efforts a waste." The Princess continued with a chester cat smile.
"Uhm...I'm sure ...that uhm...she will understand." The knight stammered.
"Oh are you sure about that, Aster?" Anna now teasing Aster. "You have your orders from Papa, and she have her others from me so do you think she will be happy about that hmmm?" She said while slowly approaching Aster while the latter is stepping backwards.
The knight stumbled down, sitting on the ground. Anna is now looking down to Aster with a look that captures success. "So Aster, have you think it through yet? Besides that, we still have our little secret we share, haven't we? What do you think will happen when Tooth knows that little secret of ours, hmmm?" Anna now blackmailing Aster.
She's evil. The horrified poor knight on the ground thought. For the sake of his safety, he just surrender to the Princess of Arendelle.
They say men should be superior than women but in this case, it is the other way around or at least it is. Right now, two fine looking men both surrender to Anna at the same day. This girl does have her ways, no wonder she forced 23 of her butlers to quit.
"Fine." Aster gives up and proceed to stand on his feet. "What do you want me to do?" He asked lazily.
Once again, the Princess has triumph on conquering another individual's logical side and celebrate its victory in silence. "Since you're in charge of the knights, I want you to escort me and my butler to the bridge and convince the guards to let us pass."
And so, Aster did what he was told. He lead the way towards the bridge and dismiss the two guards that was on patrol so that Anna and Jack can pass without being noticed. After he is left alone, the knight goes back to the castle hoping that not such encounter with Anna like that will happen in the future again.
Once across, Jack and Anna finally tasted freedom and roam Arendelle like one of its citizen. The two walk side by side and see people preparing for the incoming festival. Thanks to the cloak she wears, people doesn't recognize their Princess is outside the castle taking a walk in the town with her butler. Not much people knew Jack so both of them assume they are safe.
"I just remembered, your sister mentioned about a festival coming." Jack started a conversation while the two are mindlessly walking.
"Oh you know about the festival? That's good then since I won't be explaining things to you." Anna replied. "It is the reason why I want to go out, to see how the people prepare for the festival. And I say it is lively out here." She happily said.
"And are you enjoying are time, mistress?"
"A little bit. It is boring to just walk."
"Well while we find something to do then may I ask something mistress. I'm curious on why that knight is trembling when you say Tooth's name, what is their connection?" Jack asked Anna.
"Oh oh oh... I like their story. Okay I will tell you." Anna excitedly said. "The head chief of the knights before Aster is Tooth's father. Tooth and Aster are childhood friends. Her father would often teach the both of them on how to handle a sword and how to use it. They would spar at the courtyard or at the backyard of the castle."
"Wait, Tooth and the Aster knight lived in the castle?" Jack suddenly asked, interrupting Anna's story.
"No, Tooth and her father lived in the barracks of the castle while Aster lives somewhere in the town." The Princess said.
"Now continuing the story, Aster would always find Tooth intimidating because you know, daughter of the head chief of the knights, and she would always beat Aster on their sparring. Tooth is stronger than you think she is. Years went by and the relationship of the two became stronger, as friends. Then 4 months later after I turned 7, Tooth's father died on action and the whole kingdom mourn for his death, especially Tooth. Of course Aster was there to comfort her and cheer her up. And when they become teenagers, my dad appointed Aster to be the next head chief of the knights. Tooth was very happy for him and Aster was also very happy. She always tell Aster to be careful and always come back alive each time he goes into the field. Her concerns for him made Aster realize the he loves her. Tooth doesn't know this feelings of Aster and as far as I know, Tooth doesn't seem to feel the same way." Anna tells the story with emotion.
"Oh so that secret of yours is that don't tell Tooth that he likes her." The butler said.
"Exactly. You catch up fast Jack, I like that." Anna smiled.
"So that's why that good-for-nothing knight keeps sending me death glares, he's jealous." Jack said with a smirk.
Anna laugh at Jack's remarks. "Yeah he is. He thinks Tooth likes you and you're flirting with her." Then she thought of something. "Are you flirting with her?" She asked her butler.
"I'm not, mistress. I can't be with anyone for the moment since I have my responsibilities. Even there is someone that catches my attention."Jack mindlessly blurted out, his eyes widen in realization and curse himself. Now the Princess won't rest until she knows the person that Jack likes.
His words triggered a very excited Anna. She is now curious and wants to know the person's identity. "Ohhh who is this person? Who is she? Who is she? Who is she? Who is she? Who is she?" She excitedly repeating the question. "Is she here at Arendelle or back at your homeland? Is she a childhood friend of yours? Is she the same age as you? Have you kiss together? Have you bathe together?" Then she gasped. "Have you done it?" Question after question she asked Jack, not giving him a chance to answer and even if she does, the butler will not answer.
Jack is taken aback by the question Anna throws at him, especially the last one. "What the... Alright first of all I'm not gonna answer your questions, some of them are inappropriate. Second is that even if you force me, I'm still not gonna tell you. And lastly, I will never ever give you any answers."
His rejection of answering the questions makes the Princess to be more reluctant and keep firing the questions while they are walking. A little by little, the voice of the Princess is getting more louder while interrogating her butler and still Jack won't talk. Some people would glance at the both of them because of Anna's loud voice of questioning, Jack is starting to become embarrass of the attention they're getting. Knowing the Princess, she will ask the whole day if he didn't spill the beans so he thought of something to shut the Princess up and to avoid attention.
A swift moment where no one takes a glance at them and he fastly cover Anna's mouth and drag her in a alley. Of course Anna would think the wrong intentions of why Jack is doing this kind of things, so she tries to struggle out of Jack's grasp to run away from the 'pervert' that is trying to 'harass' her. The butler notice the discomfort he's giving on his mistress so he let her go. They are now alone in a alley with both have different thoughts on what's gonna happen.
Anna having different inappropriate thoughts, backed away from Jack and make sure to keep a distance between the two of them. Jack is left wondering why the Princess is avoiding her, a few moments later his common sense came back and realize what she was thinking.
"It is not what you think mistress." Jack reasoned. "I'm not...gonna do...uhm that. I'm sorry if I suddenly drag you in here but I have a good reason for that." He said nervously, hoping that Anna would understand him.
"Okay, why drag me here?" Anna said with her guard up in case something does happen, which will not.
"You are getting loud and lively out there that people are noticing, you are getting attention. If we stay out there for long, people will recognize you. So I suggest we travel quietly." The butler said, trying to reassure his mistress.
"Oh is that so? Okay then." Anna said fully trusting her butler again.
The Princess then walked out the alley with Jack following her. They continue their little walk when the both of them run into someone that knows Jack. It would be a trouble if that someone would expose him right then so he need to do something fast. The man is slowly approaching the two and before he can even greet Jack, the butler cover his mouth and drag him to an empty alley, just like he did with Anna, which left the Princess wondering what it is her butler doing now.
Once they are out of sight, Jack let go. "Okay before you hit me or something I'm so sorry I did that. So we cool, Kristoff?"
"What the heck... you just dragged me here in the alley like you're gonna beat me up and steal from me. Why do that?" Kristoff complained and demanded answers from Jack.
But before Jack could answer, the mistress stepped in. "Seriously Jack, what's with you and alleys?"
Both heads turned to the Princess. The two have different actions on seeing Anna, Jack feared that Kristoff will recognize her, and Kristoff shocked to see the woman of her dreams in front of her.
"Is that who I think it is?" Kristoff whispered to Jack.
The butler decided to trust Kristoff since lying won't do any good and just tell him the truth. "Yes, please don't tell anyone." Jack whispered back and Kristoff nod.
"So Jack, are you gonna introduce me to your friend?" The hooded Princess asked. But before Jack can introduce Kristoff, he beat him to it and introduce himself.
"My name is Kristoff, Princess Anna." Kristoff introduce himself and bowed his head.
Anna is a little bit shock to know someone has indentified her. But since Jack trust the guy, she might as well trust him. "Wow, you recognize me even though I wear a cloak. By the way, how do you know it is me?"
"Well...Jack said to me days ago that he works as your butler so when I see him at the street with a mysterious person, I kindda figured out it is you since he needs to be with you all the time, right?"
"I like your deducting skills." Anna said to Kristoff with a smile.
The huge blonde man froze at his feet. He never thought the he will be meeting the Princess, let alone talk to her. It is a dream come true for Kristoff and he want to cherish that moment forever. Right now, he need to think of something to at least spend time with the Princess, that he loves, for a day. He will make this moments counts.
"Well, what makes you go out in your castle , your majesty? You here to see how we prepare for the festival?" Kristoff asked.
"Oh yes, we are." Anna happily replied. "Which reminds me, Jack can we please go now?" She asked her butler.
Kristoff panicked a little bit. He can't let this chance go away easily. "Uhm...your majesty, would you mind if I go with you, uhm go with you and Jack?"
Anna think for a moment and decided the more the merrier. "Okay, if it is fine with Jack that is." Then all heads turn to Jack.
"Why not, as long as you keep your mouth shut Kristoff." Jack agreed.
With everything solved, Anna and Jack now resume their little walk at the town with Kristoff leading the way. Jack and Anna followed him. The Princess is enjoying herself sightseeing the town and the people that work hard for the incoming festival while Jack walk beside Kristoff and whisper something to him that greatly confuse him.
"Dude, your digging your own grave."
"What? Why?" Kristoff whispered back.
"This girl, she is not what you she think is."
"What you don't think I can't handle a highly energetic, trouble making, annoying, mischievous and childish Princess?"
Even though the two men are whispering, Anna can't help the feeling that someone is talking about her and felt a little insulted. She just feel the need to smack the heads of the two men in front of her.
"Wow, you like her huh."
"Uhm...yes, please don't tell her." Kristoff blushed a little in his confession.
"Don't worry dude, your secret's safe with me." Jack swear to his friend. "You are something are you, despite on what you think of Princess Anna you still like her."
"I didn't like her because of what I think of her. I like her because of what I know of her."
"Wow, that was deep. Are you a love expert or something?"
"Well, my family is."
" Have you made a move on her?"
"Not much, I just gave her this special flowers she likes every spring. She doesn't even know it was me who send it."
"By special flowers, you mean sundrop flowers?" Jack asked while the bad experience he had on his first day of the job return to him.
"Yes, those one." Kristoff whispered happily.
"Oh I see." He said with a sweet smile then suddenly, he punch Kristoff in the arm, hard. The blond man wince in pain and rubbed his arm to relieve the pain away. Meanwhile, the Princess at the back of the two was surprised to see Jack hurt the stranger, wondering if he said something bad at him.
"What was that for?" Kristoff said with an unhappy look.
"Oh nothing, just a bad memory that came back to me and my body reacted without even thinking. I'm sorry are you hurt?" Jack apologize with a sincere face and a sweet smile.
Kristoff need to pretend not to be hurt in front of the lady she loves, so shrug the pain off and stretch his arms to make it look like he is okay. "No, not at all." He proudly said. "Shall we keep going?"
Anna and Jack nodded and resumes their walk. Kristoff walk faster ahead and make sure to keep a distance from Jack. He feels the murderous content behind Jack's smile and make sure to keep an eye on him. With Jack's rage slowly fading away, he just enjoys the sight that is in their surroundings to help him calm down. The butler and the Princess walk together, they rely on their guide and hoping that in their little walk, something interesting will happen.
AN: Chapter 7 done
For those who don't understand why Jack punch Kristoff, read Chapter 5.
Hope you enjoy it well. :)