"JAAAAACK. uhm… Mr Frost…? Never mind… JAAAAACK… " cried out Anna, as she ran down a corridor. "I'm sorry I called you a monster! Please come back! Elsa can see you now! You guys can like, I don't know, get back together? Jaaaaaaaaaaack where are youuuu- OH THE KITCHEN!"
She held her nose high and sniffed, breathing in the aromatic smell of what seemed like a fresh batch of chocolates, made by their in-house chocolatier of course. She eyes glazed over as she inhaled and exhaled the rich smell of cocoa. "Mhmmmmm chocolate." she moaned as she made her way in search of them. Jack Frost could wait. Anything could wait in the name of chocolate. "
Jack? Uhm… Jaaaaack?" Elsa called out with a trace of uncertainty. She still wasn't sure of what she saw, and she sure was terrified of the possibility that someone had been in her room, and then proceeded to jump out of her window.
"Jack?" she said as she poked her head out of the main doors and looked around. She caught sight of a white-haired boy sitting on the steps and heaved a sigh of relief.
A group of children playing in the courtyard caught sight of her greeted her with the enthusiasm only 8 year olds could master. She waved her hand in acknowledgement, and proceeded to sit beside Jack.
"… Hey." she said.
"Oh, you finally can see me now eh?"
"Mhm, yeah. When Anna was having her little mono-, DIAlogue, I could sort of see your outline. It was fuzzy at first, but it became clear towards the end."
"I'm sorry Anna called you a monster. It must have been her emotions talking, she really loves Kristoff you know?"
"Hmph… But that doesn't give her the right to say that about me, I didn't even know that practice EXISTED."
"…I'm sorry."
"It's okay…It wasn't your fault anyways."
An uncomfortable silence befell them, as they both fumbled for things to say.
"…I know how that feels."
"Excuse me?"
"I said. I know how being called a monster feels like."
"Oh really now. Why would anyone call a beautiful queen like you, with ice powers to boot, a monster?"
Elsa stared at Jack disbelievingly. "W-W-wait you know I have powers?"
"Well yeah, I saw you mould that bat out of nothing. It's cool though, I can do something similar. See?" he said, as a small figurine materialised in his palm and held it up to her. "Here, a gift for you."
Elsa reached out to receive it, cradling the delicate doll. "Oh… Oh wow. I-I didn't know there were people like me out there. It's reassuring, I mean, we could work on our powers together, Like there's so many things that we could do! I'm not the only one! I'm not alone!"
Jack chuckled at her excitement, "Sure haha. Just let me know when you're willing to start on Jack Frost's Magical Sculpting Class. Only for gifted people with the powers of winter at their fingertips."
Elsa giggled, before she became silent, as if considering something.
"Hey... You okay? Did I say something wrong?"
"You. You're actually not bad…"
"You think?" Jack asked playfully, raising an eyebrow at her. Elsa felt her cheeks warm up, as she bashfully broke their eye contact. "Yeah… I think we got off on a wrong start. Let's do this again then. Hi, I'm Elsa, Queen Elsa of Aerendelle."
"Jack Frost, Spirit of Winter and Guardian of Fun, otherwise known as harbinger of first snow, a title it seems I must soon relinquish to you." Jack said with a phoney accent, pretending to tip an imaginary hat.
"Oh haha," Elsa laughed nervously, twiddling her thumbs. "The kids wanted me to make it snow, they couldn't wait to build snowmans."
Jack placed a cool palm over Elsa's, stopping her twiddling and forcing her to look into his pale blue eyes. "Elsa. It's okay. I have plenty of other things to do anyways. Wanna see what else is in my job description?" he asked playfully as he glanced at the group of little kids throwing lumps of snow matted with grass and dirt at each other. "Watch," he told Elsa as he floated over to them, leaving her a little dazed at the brief skinship.
Moulding a ball of clean snow, he took aim, and threw it square into a boy's face, knocking him off his feet and into a shallow snow bank behind.
"Hey!" Elsa shouted as she made her way over to them. His job is to bully children by throwing snowballs?! "You can't do that! Apologise to him, right no-…" Elsa trailed off as she watched the boy slowly get to his feet. Instead of crying like what a little-boy-who-has-been-just knocked-off-his-feet should have done, he just laughed as he brushed off the snow.
Jack smiled, as he proceeded to do the same with the rest of the children. Besides the occasional grunt and oof, the children were all smiles and giggles by the time they stood up. Circling them one last time, Jack placed mounds of perfectly made snowballs in strategic locations before stepping back and making his way back to where Elsa stood, watching the children pelt each other with morbid fascination. "They're having… fun. But they can't see you?"
"Well yeah, that's my job. To make sure they have fun. And yeah, it's normal for them to not see me. Jack Frost stories are rare around here, they can't see me unless they believe in me so…" Jack replied.
"Doesn't it hurt?" Elsa asked, referring to the second part of his reply.
"You wanna try?" Jack replied, mistaking Elsa's question to be about his snowballs.
"Wait what?"
But alas, Elsa turned around too late to avoid the snowball barrelling towards her.
Oof! She staggered back and rubbed her eyes. When she opened them, the everything seemed to sparkle with a lively vigour. The trees looked alive, though they were partially buried snow. The children looked adorable, even with snot running from their noses (an after effect of being smacked with countless snowballs). And Jack, Oh Jack, with his wonderful mussed up hair, looked extremely huggable.
Suddenly feeling as if all those paperwork and queenly responsibilities were all taken care of for her , she moulded a snowball in her hand and flung it at Jack.
It turns out that being a Queen with magical powers doesn't entitle you to perfect aim, as Elsa's snowball flew a good two metres away from Jack. Jack laughed, a warm and soothing timbre that only Elsa could hear.
She pouted, "Hey! That's not funny!" and then attempted to throw a few more snowballs, all of them flying terribly off laughter only crescendoed.
"Well let's see whether you're still laughing after this!" she muttered, as she created a massive amount of snow and dropped it over Jack's head.
She made a small fort and hid behind it, anticipating his comeback. For a while, all she could hear was her heart beats, fuelled by adrenaline.
Da thump.
Da thump.
Da thump.
Minutes passed, and Elsa poked her head above her impromptu fort to check for the enemy's movement.
But the mound was still, and Elsa wondered if she had taken it too far. "Jack!" she cried out as she ran towards the mound. She started to dig for Jack, before an icy grip encircled her wrist and pulled her into the snow mound. She yelped as she struggled against her captor, a laughing Spirit of Winter. She struggled to stand, only to be pulled back into the snow and against a surprisingly warm chest.
They lay there for a while, breaths coming out in short puffs due to exertion.
His eyes, they're so blue.
Her eyes, the lights in them are dancing like the Northern Lights.
A good minute passed, before Elsa pushed herself off Jack, and dusted the snow off herself, her cheeks an alarming shade of red. Jack used his staff to help himself up as they both attempted to regain their composure.
"Weeeeell…" Jack started.
"Thank you." Elsa said, with no hint of any other emotion except from gratefulness.
"For?" Jack asked, puzzled at the sudden show of gratitude for who-knows-what he did.
"For playing with the children. For showing me that powers like mine can do so much more than just architectural wonders. For being my friend, even if it's just for today."
"Oh. It's nothing really" Jack muttered, trying to sound as nonchalant as possible. Trying to pretend as if Elsa's affirmation of his efforts did not warm the very corners of his heart. "I would do it anytime. And hey, do I look like someone who has one time friendship flings?"
"Oh no no no I didn't mean to insinuate that you're a cheap person that extends his friendship on a one-day-only basis I just wanted to say that I really appreciate your company even if you, I don't know, have to leave or something." Elsa floundered, trying to find an appropriate and non-offensive response.
Jack rolled his eyeballs, "Chill Elsa, I was just joking."
"Oh haha." she laughed nervously
"But seriously though, I do have to leave in a few days. Gotta' bring snow to other places, yeah?"
"Oh…" Elsa felt her heart sink to her belly.
"But hey, when I'm still free, wanna' build a snowman?" Jack asked, with a mischievous glint in his eyes.
"Only the BIGGEST snowman that ever existed." Elsa shot back with a challenging tone.
"First one to build a 32 feet snowman wins!"
"You're on!"
And after that afternoon filled with laughter, the courtyard of Aerendelle's castle was left strewn with bits of enchanted snow, all paperwork and Guardian-like responsibilities forgotten.
Never in their wildest dreams would have the two imagined that the children they had played with would go home to relay to their mothers, fathers, grandparents and basically everyone they knew that they've caught Queen Elsa talking to herself and throwing snowballs at nothing.
Nor did any of them notice a little strawberry blonde, whose mouth was stained with chocolate, watching over them silently from the kitchen window.
Hello! Sorry for the late update HAHA I was busy lusting after Starbucks and shopping for new school shoes ^^;;;
I've been reading other Jelsa fics too, and I suddenly feel that my writing is very convoluted (?) Please do leave feedback and advise me on this ;_; List things you like, things you don't like, things you want incorporated into the story!
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