A/N: And as promise, here is a new chapter for you all! This chapter is pretty much double the size of the last one, so hopefully this should hold you all over a little better than the short little chapter from last week did. It was hard for me to get writing this chapter, but once I started, I had to stop myself at the ending there, I have to hold some stuff for the next chapter after all ;) While a bunch of stuff happened in this chapter, just imagine what's to come in the next one! I hope all of you lovely readers enjoy! xoxo

Chapter Six: Balance

"Grand Pabbie, what's going on?" Kristoff asked first thing as soon as Grand Pabbie made his way over to where Elsa and Jack were standing. "What is everyone talking about?"

"There's only one way to tell." Grand Pabbie said as he looked up at both Jack and Elsa. "If you two don't mind," He said with a kind smile and held his hands out.

Both Jack and Elsa knelt down to Grand Pabbie's height, Anna could already see some nerves rising up in Elsa as she hesitated to hold Grand Pabbie's hand.

"It's fine, your majesty." Grand Pabbie reassured her as Elsa carefully put her hand in his.

As soon as Grand Pabbie took both of their hands into his, a strange blue light started forming around both of their hands and Grand Pabbie watched the light intently. A few moments later, he let go of both of their hands and the light disappeared.

"It is true, the magic doesn't lie." Grand Pabbie said with a fond smile, shortly after all the trolls broke out into celebration. Olaf seemed happy as well though Anna was sure he didn't really know why everyone was celebrating and he was just going along with it all.

Anna spoke before Elsa could get the chance, knowing that if someone didn't speak soon, it was only a matter of time before the trolls tried to marry both Elsa and Jack along with Kristoff and herself. "What do you mean about the magic? Magic doesn't determine true love…does it?" Anna asked. She had never heard of anything like it before, but then again before Elsa froze Arendelle, she didn't believe in real talking snowmen.

"Not normally, no." Grand Pabbie said. "You and Kristoff are meant to be and the only magic there is love." He said. "But this magic, I should have known it when I first saw it many years ago, but I hadn't seen it in such a long time…I didn't recognize it until a while ago."

"What does that mean?" Elsa finally asked, trying to mask her growing anxiety as best as she could.

"I didn't recognize what kinda of magic was at work on you when you were a child, your majesty. I haven't seen any in all of the other lands for so long, most have forgotten what it even looks like. It's an ancient magic, almost as old as time itself, and it comes from the moon." Grand Pabbie turned around now and pointed up at the full moon hanging in the sky. "The moon never gives powers to just one though, there are many others with magic out there, but none like yours and Jack. The moon always has a reason for it's choices, and it must have seen something in the both of you to give you both the same magic. There was a legend written a long time ago that predicted something like this, that those of the same magic would find each other and true love in one another. They would balance each other out and their magic would no longer be dangerous because they would always have the other by their side. What one is good at, the other might not be, but love can balance anyone out." Grand Pabbie smiled and turned around to grab both Jack and Elsa's hands again as the blue light returned. "You two have that balance, that's what true love is, a balance between what may seem unlikely."

Anna couldn't help but grab Kristoff's hand and squeeze it tightly. She sort of wished that someone would have taken the time to explain to her what true love was before she met Hans and before her heart froze, maybe she would have realized sooner that Kristoff was her true love. But she knew better now and Kristoff was by her side, which was all that really mattered in the end.

"H-How can that be? I just met him." Elsa said. Anna could clearly hear the fear now in her voice. She didn't know what made her sister so scared of the L word, but ever since the whole coronation incident, she wasn't very fond of the word being thrown around in front of her.

"The moon says you two are meant to be, but true love is never really instant. There are many that meet their true love and don't realize it for a while. True love is a funny thing sometimes. But you two were brought together for a reason and weather it was now or a while from now, you two would have eventually met, it was meant to be." Grand Pabbie smiled.

"Elsa?" Anna asked. She knew that when Elsa couldn't hide her fear anymore that she was far more scared than she let on. "Elsa, are you alright?" She asked though she already knew the answer.

Elsa didn't answer, instead she rose from the ground and mounted her horse as quickly as Anna had ever seen her do so before.

"Elsa!" Anna called after her, but Elsa and her horse were already charging off far away. Anna saw Jack out of the corner of her eye get ready to go after her, but she ran to his side and placed a firm hand on his shoulder. "Let her go cool down, I know where she's going out here."

"I hope Marshmallow has melted by now. I really don't want to fall off of another mountain. Again." Kristoff sighed.

"Oh, oh! Are we going to the Ice Palace again?" Olaf asked with a hopeful smile.

"Yep, looks like it." Anna said.

"Yay!" Olaf cheered.

"Ice Palace?" Jack asked.

"Your sister made a palace completely out of ice and your saying I can't go with you guys?" Jack asked in disbelief, as Kristoff and North were getting ready to leave to go find Elsa.

"Well, she did kinda just take off because she found out you guys were each other's true love. I think bringing the problem along is probably not the best idea." Anna said nervously. "But hey, look, you'll have Olaf with you, and the reindeer. The trolls are really fun to be around too. I just think that maybe I should go get Elsa, calm her down a little bit, and then we can all go back home like none of this ever happened." Anna said optimistically.

"You mean I can't go either?" Olaf asked, a sudden wave of sadness washing over his usually happy features.

"I'm sorry Olaf," Anna said as she knelt down to his height. "I need you here to…do a very important mission for me." Anna quickly added. If there was anything Olaf loved more than adventure, it was being given important assignments, or at least assignments that seemed important to him.

"Really?" His face brightened up again, which made Anna smile.

"Yeah, I need you to make sure that Jack doesn't leave your sight until we come back with Elsa, alright?" Anna told him.

"I can do that!" Olaf cheered excitedly now.

"Alright, I'm counting on you Olaf." Anna smiled and gave Olaf a hug before mounting her horse.

"Bye!" Olaf called after everyone with a smile as they rode off on their horses and reindeer headed toward the North Mountain.

After everyone was out of sight, Jack started pacing around and Olaf was watching his every move, just as Anna had asked him to. When Jack got an idea however, he stopped right in his place and looked over at Olaf.

"Hey Olaf, you want to go have some fun?" Jack asked.

"Well…I don't know. Anna told me to watch you, it's my mission." Olaf stated and crossed his arms over his chest while focusing his gaze on Jack.

"Yeah, she did tell you to watch me. But what better way to keep an eye on me than to be right by my side. I don't want to just stand around all day, I know you like to have fun, I'm sure maybe even the trolls want to have a little bit of fun too, right?" Jack asked.

"I do really like having fun," Olaf sighed and thought about Jack's offer for a moment. "Okay, I guess so, but I'm watching you." Olaf said.

Jack started a snowball fight that quickly had all the trolls bursting out in laughter and having fun throwing snow at one another, even North' reindeer got in on the action. Once everyone was occupied with the snow, Jack quickly took Olaf on a ride down one of his ice slides away from the snowball fight that just so happened to be heading in the direction of Elsa's Ice Palace.

It was strange hiking up the North Mountain this time around. The whole trek there was different from the first time Anna had to find the Ice Palace. Nearly everything was thawed out, as it should be for the summer, but the further up the mountain they went, the more familiar the icy cold got. Despite Anna being more used to the cold from Elsa using her powers more often, she was still the coldest one out of the bunch since Kristoff was after all in the ice business, and North was the King of the North Pole. She was glad when after what seemed like days of traveling, though it was only hours, the Ice Palace was just ahead of them, and thankfully Elsa seemed to build a new bridge to it that was a bit more sturdy than the last one.

"Alright, so all I have to do is go up there, talk to Elsa, calm her down, and get her back home. Should be pretty easy." Anna said, mostly for herself, as she dismounted her horse once they crossed the bridge and stared up at the icy steps to the front door of the palace.

"That's what you thought last time and we got thrown out by a giant snow monster, remember?" Kristoff said.

"This time is different. She actually opens doors now and let's me in. Plus, I don't think she'll kick us out with another snow monster, we actually talk now like sisters instead of strangers. It probably helps that Jack isn't here too, so it won't take too long."

"Whatever you say." Kristoff shrugged.

Anna, Kristoff, and North made their way up the stairs and while Sven tried to follow, the ice steps were still too slippery for him and he waited at the bottom of the staircase. Anna knocked on the door this time without hesitation and called out to her sister.

"Elsa, it's me, Anna!" She shouted. "It's just Kristoff, North, and I. No Jack I promise!" She added to perhaps persuade Elsa to open up the door quicker.

After a minute of no response, Anna pulled open the door and if North didn't stop her, she would have slammed right into a solid wall of ice that was on the other side.

"I don't think that's how doors are supposed to work." North said.

"That's a new addition." Anna said as she placed her hand on the solid wall of ice the blocked her from reaching her sister. "At least it's not a snow beast."

"Maybe we should just leave her alone for a little longer?" Kristoff asked.

"No, I have to get to her. I promised her she wouldn't ever have to face this all alone again. I'm going to find a way in there even if I have to climb up to a window and throw myself in there!" Anna said determined as she started searching for something to grab onto on the outside of the palace to start her dangerous climb.

Right as Anna found a niche for her hands and feet and started scaling the wall, Kristoff grabbed her around her waist and pulled her down. "Whoa, slow down there, mountain climber. I'm not letting you scale the side of an ice palace, if you slip and get hurt I'll never forgive myself, and you know Elsa would blame herself too since it was you trying to get to her." Kristoff protested. Anna stopped trying to fight against his grip and let him put her safely down on the floor, knowing that he was right.

"There has to be another way in there." Anna sighed.

"I think I have an idea." North smiled, as he looked up at all the open windows on the palace. "We're going to need all the reindeer though, and my sleigh back at the castle."

"I don't think a sleigh ride is going to get us in there." Kristoff said.

"You've never been in my sleigh." North said.

"Oh my gosh, that was so much fun!" Olaf laughed as he landed on freshly fallen snow.

"See, I told you we would have fun." Jack smiled and looked up to see that they landed right where he wanted them to, just outside of Elsa's Ice Palace he had only ever heard about, but didn't know just how grand it was until he was standing right in front of it.

"Oh, we're at the Ice Palace, I wonder if Anna is here?" Olaf asked curiously as he marched up the steps to the front door and pulled it open to reveal the same ice wall that deterred Anna, Kristoff, and North.

"I don't think they're in there buddy. They might have left to give Elsa more space, clearly she didn't want any visitors." Jack said.

"We should probably go back to the trolls then." Olaf started walking down the stairs, but he stopped when he realized Jack wasn't following him. "What are you doing?"

"Olaf, if I let every closed door in my face stop me, I wouldn't have much excitement in my life." Jack said with a smile as he tapped the side of the palace with his staff.

Slowly, ice stairs started jetting out of the side of the palace and forming a staircase right up to the open balcony up above them.

"I don't know, what if Elsa get's mad?" Olaf asked.

"Well, I think you're pretty safe from Elsa, and I can handle myself around some ice magic. We should be fine." Jack shrugged as he started going up the ice stairs. "Are you coming?" He called behind him down to Olaf.

"I have a bad feeling about this." Olaf said nervously, and he was rarely nervous, but he knew that when Elsa wanted space, it was best to leave her be until Anna talked to her. But Olaf followed Jack anyway up the stairs and hoped that Elsa wouldn't be too mad at them.

Elsa was sitting down quietly in the middle of the empty open floor of her icy palace, trying to clear her mind with some magical distractions. She knew that she shouldn't have blocked off the door, she didn't want to shut Anna out like that, but she just wanted to clear her mind by herself for a while longer. Elsa didn't want to risk hurting Anna with her magic right now while her emotions were unstable, not after what happened last time. At least up here in her Ice Palace, she could let her powers go a bit and try to forget all the thoughts racing through her mind. Anna was safer that way after all, and for that matter, so was everyone else.

She had tried letting it snow in the main hall of the castle, but then the snow reminded her of the snowball fights that Jack was so famous for. She attempted to just have a few snowflakes blow around, but those reminded her of Jack as well. It wasn't until she attempted to build another snowman and instead an icy rabbit formed and started hopping around at her side that she knew trying to keep her mind off of her supposed true love was going to be nearly impossible. She made the rabbit disappear and tried to think of something else to build to keep her mind busy while she waited for Anna to return and this time, she would let her in.

Moments later, Elsa felt the nudge of an icy rabbit's nose under her hand and she looked over at it curiously. "I thought I made you disappear." Elsa said under her breath as she looked at the rabbit in amazement.

"Nope, that one's mine." Elsa heard a familiar voice behind her. The rabbit hopped over to it's owner before disappearing into this air and Elsa rose to her feet before turning to see Jack standing behind her and Olaf trying to hop over the edge of the balcony before scurrying over to Elsa's side with a broad smile on his face.

"How did you get in here?" Elsa asked. "I wanted to be left alone for a reason."

"It's a palace made of ice and I have ice powers too, remember?" Jack asked with a smirk. "I built a staircase on the side of the walls and climbed on up here."

"I'd appreciate it if you took those stairs back out of here." Elsa sighed.

"I know I asked you this before and the first answer didn't go over so well, the second answer was a bit better but…I don't think it was the whole answer really. You wouldn't be acting like this if it had been the whole answer." Jack said. "Why won't you tell me why you're so afraid, Elsa? What is there to be afraid of? Anna is alive, Arendelle is thawed; you don't have to keep being scared of yourself anymore or what you can do, but for some reason you still are. Why?" He asked and took a few steps towards Elsa before he stopped when he saw the icy floors beneath his feet start to change color to a vibrant red and he was able to see that Elsa was bracing herself to build up another wall, a real one this time, to keep him from coming any closer.

"Just…please leave me alone." Elsa pleaded, she didn't want to break down right here in front of him, but tears were threatening to fall and all she wanted more than anything was to put as much distance between herself and Jack as she could.

Jack stood in place; not making another move while Elsa relaxed. She turned to leave the room and grabbed Olaf's hand so that he would follow her out of the room. When Jack heard a door close somewhere in the distance, Jack started to make his way through the castle and knocking on every door he came across until he finally got Elsa's response from the other side of the door.

"Go away." Elsa called from the other side of the door.

"Can't get rid of me that easily. I'll just wait here then until you open the door." Jack said as he sat down on the floor, his back to the door. If he didn't know any better, he'd say it almost felt as if he could reach out through the door and Elsa would be right there on the other side. There was the same warmth radiating from the door that he felt when he held Elsa's hand and when she kissed him on the cheek last night.

"You're going to be waiting for a while then." Elsa called back.

"That's alright, I've got time." Jack shrugged as he made himself comfortable. "I think you'll be surprised by just how patient I can be."