A/N: Hey you guys! So as promised, here is the next chapter of the story. It's a bit shorter than the rest of the other chapters, but that's because it's mostly Jack tell his story to Elsa! I hope you guys like this chapter, all those lovely reviews make me smile and write faster :3 P.S. If you really want to listen to some music while you read, the song "Good to You" by Mariana's Trench was a HUGE inspiration for this chapter, such a pretty song. But I also really loved the entire mix "The Cold Never Bothered Us Anyway" on 8tracks, it's pretty much the mix that inspired me to write this story, it'f filled with really great songs that make me think of Jelsa. I'm pretty sure you can find it if you just look it up on 8tracks, but if you can't I'll gladly put up a link to this wonderful mix on my profile! I love you guys and enjoy the chapter!

Chapter Four: Moonlight

"It was the night before my sisters birthday a few years ago. She always loves to ice skate for her birthday, but that year, the winter was a little late and the lake wasn't entirely frozen all the way yet, at least not to a point where you didn't have to worry about the ice." Jack started telling his story while Elsa listened in closely. "But she wanted to go skate anyway. She knew what our parents would say, but she also knew that if there was anyone who knew how to get around our parents rules, it was me. I know it must be shocking finding out I was a troublemaker."

"I had no idea." Elsa smiled and laughed a bit.

"Anyway, she came to me and convinced me to take her out there to skate in the middle of the night. On the way there, that's how we found this thing," Jack held out his staff. "It was just sticking out of the freshly fallen snow. I thought it was weird but my sister…she's a lot like Anna, she has an imagination on her and declared me the Guardian of Winter that night." Jack smiled mostly to himself at the memory of it all. "I don't think she meant it literally but, the Man in the Moon must have been listening to her that night."

Elsa looked down at the staff and still wondered why he had to use it, though she knew his story would get to that part soon. She also made note to ask him about this Man in the Moon he just mentioned, it sounded like a fairytale, but the way Jack said it made her think that maybe there was someone up there in the moon.

"While we were skating on the ice of the lake close by, everything was fine. We were both having fun and didn't really give a second thought to the ice, it wasn't until we were getting ready to head back home that the ice started to crack under my sisters feet." Jack said and suddenly Elsa saw the happiness almost vanish completely from his face. "She was getting scared that she was going to fall in and I knew if I didn't calm her down she'd try to run and she would fall in. So I turned it into a game to keep her distracted, I told her to pretend we were playing hopscotch so I could get her away from the cracks in the ice. When she was out of the worst of it, I used this staff to get her to the edge of the ice where she was safe. Only when I got her to safety, I didn't realize that now I was standing on the cracked ice and before I knew it, I fell in."

Suddenly, Jack didn't seem to look so scared anymore to Elsa; he looked almost relieved to be telling this part of the story. She realized that he clearly loved his little sister as much as she loved hers and even just having to remember a time when they were in danger was still enough to make them fear for their sisters.

"I should have drowned, I knew it and so did everyone else. But while I was there in that ice-cold water…I don't know how to explain it really. I felt like the moonlight that was shinning through wasn't just light, I felt like it was someone trying to pull me out of the water, though no one actually was at the time. While I was in that lake, my sister ran for help, she came back with my entire family and the guards from the castle, it took a couple of guards to pull me out and by then I was unconscious. When I did wake back up after being pulled out of the lake, everyone was shocked to even see me breathing because I looked like this now." He gestured towards himself. "Suddenly I had white hair and was as pale as someone who should have been dead. It freaked everyone out and they all kept their distance from me…except for my sister." Jack smiled. "She walked right up to me with a pile of blankets she could barely carry in her arms and wrapped me up. I didn't realize I had fallen into the lake with the staff or that I had even brought it up with me, but once she had me wrapped up she grabbed this thing off the ground and handed it back to me saying that the Guardian of Winter needed his staff to keep protecting everyone. When she handed me the staff, the lake froze over solid as if nothing had ever happened there that night, and out of everyone my sister was the only one who was never afraid of me."

Elsa realized then that her and Jack were a lot more alike than she originally thought. Anna had never been afraid of her powers, in fact when they were younger, Anna loved Elsa's powers much like she does now. Remembering all the time she missed with Anna because of her self-isolation made her heart break, but Jack had never hurt his sister as far as Elsa knew right now, he never had to have his sister forget all of his powers to protect her because he struck her in the head with an icy blast, or in her heart for that matter.

"It took everyone else a while to get used to what I could do, but my sister loved my powers from the start. She loved the ice rinks, the snowball fights, and the mountains of snow I could build up so we could go sledding down them. I think after they saw that I wasn't going to hurt anyone, everyone just got used to me being able to do what I do, like you with the ice rinks in the middle of town." Jack said.

"It wasn't always like that." Elsa said.

"I heard about the whole eternal winter thing. I mean, I don't know what happened but I just know that it happened." Jack clarified. "The Man in the Moon works in strange ways sometimes." He added with a shrug.

"Who is The Man in the Moon?" Elsa finally asked.

Jack looked over at her shocked and when he realized that Elsa really had no idea what he was talking about, he almost couldn't believe it. "You don't know about The Man in the Moon?" He asked her and she shook her head in response. "It's this story, or fairytale really I guess. It's a story about a man who lives on the moon who protects the dreams of children. Keeps them safe from nightmares and everything like that. When I was a kid I always had this nightmare about drowning, but when I was actually drowning I wasn't afraid at all, I like to think it's because of the Man in the Moon that I wasn't afraid and maybe he helped out a little bit there. Maybe he got a little heavy handed with giving me these powers but, I couldn't imagine not having them anymore." Jack smiled.

"Does he ever answer back?" Elsa asked curiously. "The Man in the Moon, I mean, does he ever say anything?"

"He doesn't really work like that." Jack said fondly as he glanced up at the moon now. "He's silent but he does answer sometimes with his light. I figure if he was able to save me with just his light, he can do a lot with that moonlight of his."

Elsa looked up at the moon now as well and she could almost see what Jack was talking about. It felt like there was someone up there, watching down on everyone and everything that the moonlight touched. It was comforting in a way to think that there could be someone who had a reason for giving out these wonderful powers, someone to watch over all of the children and keep them safe. But while The Man in the Moon may have given Jack his powers for saving his sister and wanting to keep him alive, all Elsa had ever done with her powers before The Great Thaw was hurt Anna and curse Arendelle to a winter that was so cold it seemed like it would never end. Why would someone that sounds so wonderful like The Man in the Moon ever let someone like her have these powers just to hurt others for so long?

Jack picked up on Elsa's growing sadness and knew he had to do something to distract her. So he went with the only way he knew how to redirect everyone's attention, by making them have fun. He held out the end of his staff in front of Elsa and an image of a rabbit started to form before it jumped to life, the ice crystals that made up the image were shimmering in the moonlight and made the rabbit seem even more magical than it already was. The rabbit hopped around Elsa in the air but it wasn't until the rabbit stopped right in front of Elsa's face and touched her nose with it's ice cold nose that Jack saw a smile return to Elsa's face. Once Elsa smiled, the rabbit disappeared and seemed to melt into the ground.

"Well, it's no talking snowman but that's the best that I can do." Jack said and he swore he heard Elsa laugh a bit. "How did you make him by the way?"

"I really don't remember." Elsa shrugged. "I was just happy to finally be free and away from ever hurting anyone."

"Happiness is a pretty powerful thing." Jack said. "I think that's how I've always had a pretty good handle on this. My sister was never scared of me, so I never had a reason to be scared. As long as I had her on my side, not much else mattered."

"What about the people of your kingdom? Weren't they scared of you?" Elsa asked.

"Sure, for a while. Everyone is scared of something they don't know about at first. Fear is powerful too. I did get scared every once in a while that maybe I'd slip up and my sister would get hurt. But she takes after me you know," Jack smiled. "Whenever she saw that I was starting to get scared, she would distract me with fun the same way I distracted her."

"Did she ever get hurt?" Elsa asked, barely above a whisper.

"There were some close calls sometimes, especially in the beginning. But she never let me believe for a minute that it was my fault. She'd always say that I still had to get used to my new superpowers." Jack said with a small laugh. "Everyone gets hurt at some point Elsa, weather they trip and fall or get a broken heart."

"But I froze my sisters heart. She died to save me." Elsa said.

"She seems pretty alive to me." Jack said. Part of him wanted to reach out and comfort Elsa, but he knew Elsa was the type of person who preferred her space and for now, he kept his distance. "How did she survive?"

"She was frozen solid and…I told her that I loved her. True love thawed her heart and all of Arendelle really." Elsa said.

"You saved your sister and you still blame yourself for her being frozen?" Jack asked.

"What if I freeze her again?" Elsa asked and her bright blue eyes were fixated on Jack now, he could see the hint of a few tears building up in them. "What if the next time I freeze her, my love for her isn't enough to thaw her out and she's frozen forever?"

"You can't think like that, that's the fear talking." Jack said. "Besides, you know how to thaw everything out now, if anyone should be worried here it's me, I've never been great at thawing things out."

"What if it's not enough?" Elsa asked, her voice had grown so small and filled with so much fear.

"Love is always more than enough." Jack said. He hadn't realized he grabbed Elsa's hand until he felt her grab his hand right back.

She looked down at their hands now and quickly let go, Elsa hadn't even realized it was Jack's hand she had been holding onto so tightly until she looked down. There was a certain kind of warmth that had come from his hands though, not the kind that came from Anna's that faded away the longer she held her sisters hand because her cold would always eventually take over, but it was a lasting kind of warmth. Something that stayed with her even when she pulled her hands away from his. She didn't know if he noticed it as well, but she almost hoped that he did since she could feel the beginnings of a blush forming on her cheeks and was hoping that the moonlight didn't let Jack see that. They sat there together in a comfortable silence for a few minutes until a familiar rabbit started hopping around in the air again around Elsa. She had never tried making something like the rabbit's Jack seemed to be able to make so easily, so she held out her hand and tried. It took her a couple of tries before a rabbit just like Jack's formed in the palm of her hand and started hopping around in the air right alongside his.

Jack was surprised when Elsa accepted his offer to walk her to her room that night, he expected a variety of responses from her, but he never expected that she would accept. He felt some nerves creeping back in on him, but he pushed them aside and could still hear Anna's words of advice echoing in his mind. Jack didn't know why all the sudden he was nervous around Elsa again though, out there telling his story he was fine, but now he couldn't find the words to say. He was thankful when Elsa finally decided to speak and break the silence.

"Thank you for telling me your story." Elsa said, her voice echoed off of the quiet halls that surrounded them.

"Anytime." Jack smiled. "Maybe I'll get to hear your story all the way one of these days. No pressure or anything, just you know, when you feel like it." He added nervously at the end.

"Sure." Elsa smiled and Jack felt relieved when she didn't shut down on him at the mention of it.

Before Jack knew it, they were standing outside of Elsa's door. He felt almost like someone had frozen him in place, it wasn't until Elsa opened up her door that he realized he should at least say goodnight.

"Goodnight Elsa." Jack smiled and gave an awkward half-bow which made Elsa giggle.

"Goodnight Jack." Elsa smiled back.

Elsa didn't know what made her do what she did, but she leaned forward and kissed Jack quickly on the cheek. By the time the shocked look on his face registered in her mind that she had just kissed Jack, she felt a fiery blush creeping up her cheeks and she quickly retreated into her room, shutting the door behind her and leaving Jack standing outside her door shocked and confused.

Once Elsa was gone, Jack knew he was blushing a bit as well, but he mostly couldn't believe that Elsa had actually just kissed him. It was the first thing he had ever seen Elsa do on an impulse, almost everything she did was planned out and thought up in her head, everything she said was something she had run through her mind at least a hundred times before speaking. Now all the sudden, she did something she didn't think about for hours on end before actually doing it, she just outright did it. Jack knew there was a spontaneous fun side to Elsa, there must have been in order for her to make someone as fun-loving as Olaf, she just kept it buried by layers of fear and he just got to see a tiny glimpse of what was hidden under it all.