iheartjelsa: Oh no, University is awesome! Much better than school! (I love it when I can sneak off at like midday and go home and relax hehehe and then laugh at all the school kids who finish at like three). And yes I will get stressed, very stress. First day back and already I can see its going to be a busy semester. That could be the cause of updates being slow. Nothing I can do about that. Work comes first.

ElsaTheSnowQueen2: Interesting idea. I have something much different in mind.

Guest: Jelsa may be lacking soon. Sorry. And yes I did have fun at Uni but then the first day back is always the easiest as the lecturers always give the same speech (like on cheating and what's in the course etc. etc). Uni is great. 10th grade (I think that's Year 11 for me) so yeah you're close. Be warned it is a big step.

olimacproductions: Yes I can't build Olaf =( I want to though at some point. Keep at the investigating. But then again I want the poisoner to be a surprise so you may or may not get the guy.

TPATFan16: Uhhhhhhhh...well maybe at some point...later (don't want to give away the plot just yet)

Chapter 12: Christmas

A Month Later (Anna graduated in November)

Christmas time was approaching and Elsa wasn't really in the mood for all the festivities. She was in a rather bad mood herself which had everything and nothing to do with Christmas. She found Anna, Kristof and Olaf decorating a massive tree in the ballroom while singing Christmas carols.

"Could you not?" Elsa said to them.

"But it's Christmas," Kristoff sang.

"What's the matter Elsa?" Anna asked as she put up some Christmas baubles on the tree. "You've been in a grouchy mood all day and all yesterday. Come on lighten up, it's Christmas time!" she sang the last bit.

"Yeah that's exactly why I'm in a bad mood."

"What's wrong with Christmas?" Anna asked Elsa looking shocked.

"Jack's not coming," Elsa collapsed on the ground.

"Oh no," Anna dropped down beside her. "Did he say why?"

"Yeah, he said he has a massive family Christmas. He tried to get out of it but he couldn't."

"That's really unfortunate."

"It is," Elsa got to her feet and forced a smile. "So decorating the tree are we?"

Anna looked a little worried as she handed Elsa a reindeer decoration for her to hang up. They continued decorating the tree and hanging up other decorations around the castle. It did cheer Elsa up a little bit. She did love Christmas especially with all the winter parts to it.

Jack was riding shotgun in his mother's car with his sister in the back as they drove up to his grandfather's house. Jack had fought with his family up to the very moment that he got into the car. His mother knew how important that spending Christmas with Elsa was too Jack was but she also argued that having Christmas with his family was also important. Jack had a mental image of Fred and George Weasley frogmarching their older brother Percy from the Gryffindor dormitory saying that Christmas was a time for family. The picture fitted his situation perfectly.

His mother kept giving him glances and Jack refused to make eye contact. His eyes fell on Pippa who was in the backseat curled up with a pillow resting against the window and she had her headphones in her ears and she was mouthing along to the song she was listening to. Based on her lip movements, Jack had to hazard at a guess she was listening to Billie Jean by Michael Jackson.

"I know you're not happy," his mother said speaking to him for the first time since they had entered the car.

Jack grumbled in response.

"Remind me again why Jack couldn't go and spend Christmas with his Royal girlfriend?" Pippa asked suddenly from the backseat.

"Because this Christmas is important as it's a family Christmas," their mother shot back at her.

Jack and Pippa grumbled in response. Jack then shoved his own headphones into his ears and selected 'Living On A Prayer' by Jon Bon Jovi and laid back and listened to it. His hands did air guitar and air drums in time to the music.

A few hours later they arrived at their grandfather's house. Their grandfather's house was a grand huge building with quite a lot of land. Their grandfather was a builder, or used to be one, so he had purchased a lot of land and built his house from scratch. Their mother pulled into the driveway and stopped the car. Jack could see quite a few other cars so he figured they must not be the first to arrive. Jack and Pippa got out of the car and Jack opened the boot of the car. Jack grabbed his stuff and handed Pippa's stuff to her and she swung it over her shoulder. The three Frosts then headed up to the house. Jack wondered what it was like for his mother to grow up in a place like this.

Jack trudged up to the front door where the door opened to reveal his grandparents standing there looking pleased to see them.

"Caroline," Jack's grandmother said pulling in Jack's mother for a hug.

"Hello Mum," Jack's Mum said to her. "Hey Dad," she said to Jack's grandfather.

"Well come in!" Jack's grandfather said to them.

They all followed them inside the house and into the hallway. They hung up their coats on the coat rack. Jack and Pippa were each directed up to their rooms which were on second floor of the house. Jack and Pippa climbed the stairs with Jack dragging his feet as he went. Jack opened the door to his bedroom. It was nice simple room. It had a double bed with a closet and a desk with some drawers. Jack flung his bag down and then jumped on his bed. He just wished he was in Arendelle with Elsa or that Elsa was with him.

Elsa was in her bedroom on her computer. She was causally scrolling through Facebook. She paused to laugh at her friend's Merdia's update about a bad date she had. Apparently she got stood up by the guy because his girlfriend came back into town. She reminded everyone in her status that this is why she hates men. Elsa had to chortle at the status. Merida never did have good luck when it came to men. Kai then popped his head into Elsa's room.

"Sorry to bother you, your majesty, but there is a Prince Nathanial here to see you," Kai said bowing.

Prince Nathanial? Elsa recognised the name and then it came to her. He was the guy she met in Burgess. The last time Elsa had seen him was at the hospital after they both had been poisoned. Elsa quickly shut the lid of her laptop and headed downstairs into the entrance hall. Prince Nathanial was indeed standing there with a man to his left.

"Queen Elsa," he said giving her a bow and a kiss on her hand. "Sorry for the intrusion but I had to make sure that you had quite recovered from our little misadventure in America."

"Oh I have indeed," Elsa replied, "and I hope that you have as well?"

"Completely, thanks for asking your majesty."

"What are your plans for Christmas?" Elsa asked as Kai took Nathanial's coat and bag.

"Oh nothing much," Nathanial replied with a smile. "My parents are visiting my younger sister who lives in Finland and her boyfriend."

"Oh that sounds nice, what about your older brother?"

"Visiting his wife's family in Greece."

"Sounds like you're out of family members to spend Christmas with."

"I am rather."

Elsa was then struck by a thought. "Would you like to have Christmas with us? Arendelle can put on a good show."

The company would be nice, Elsa thought.

"Well that's one invitation that we cannot refuse, right Gustaf?" Nathanial said to the man standing next to him.

"No sir," the man called Gustaf said.

"Then your majesty, we would be honoured to accept," Nathanial said bowing low.

Elsa smiled at the pair of them. Elsa then asked if Nathanial would like something to eat while Kai took their bags up to their rooms for them. Nathanial happily accepted and he followed Elsa into the dining room where the servants quickly whipped them all up something to eat. Elsa sat next to Nathanial and they delved right into conversation. The topics ranged from many different things from the boy that Nathanial's sister was living with in Finland (apparently it's looking quite serious for them) and then they somehow wormed their way back onto the poisoning. Nathanial shared Elsa views on the poisoning. He did believe that the ambassador was potentially not the intended target despite being the first to be poisoned and die. Nathanial was interested in Elsa's point on that the poisoner may be one of the people sitting at the table. Nathanial cast his mind around for anyone in particular he thought was good but he couldn't think of one that he believed was capable. Elsa guessed that he felt the same as her and that it seemed hard to accept that someone was capable of poisoning a group of people and killing more than half.

Elsa and Nathanial continued their conversation and by the end of it, they were both laughing quite hard.

One Week Later

With Christmas time just around the corner, Anna found herself more concerned with her wedding rather than Christmas itself. New ideas about her wedding just popped into her head at the most random moments and she would have to immediately ask Kristoff what he thought of the idea even if it was waking him up at three am. It took Anna a while before she actually got round to buying everyone's Christmas presents. Usually she would have them done by the very beginning of December (and she usually was the first one to have any Christmas presents at all which often put pressure on others as they hadn't even gone shopping) but this time she was really leaving it to the last minute. Thankfully she had managed to get everyone's presents in the nick of time.

She and Kristoff were in the library working on some wedding stuff. They were both trying to decide on a theme for the wedding. Anna suggested a colour themed wedding like red or green (she may have been thinking those colours as it was Christmas time) but Kristoff wanted an actual theme. When Anna had asked for an example all Kristoff could think of was an under the sea theme and Anna said no but she knew Kristoff was joking.

Anna then looked out the window. She could see Elsa deep in conversation with Prince Nathanial. They were walking through the gardens together while they were talking. Anna could see Elsa laughing at something that Nathanial had said. Anna thought that there was something about them but she couldn't place her finger on it.

"What are you looking at?" Kristoff asked.

"Oh just Elsa and Nathanial," Anna said sighing.

"What's that sigh for?"

"I don't know. It almost seems as if," Anna cast her mind around for the right word, "that they're almost flirting with each other. Well more him than her. Elsa is in love with Jack."

"You think Nathanial is flirting with Elsa?"

"Maybe."

Kristoff took a look out the window.

"Hmm, it looks like she may be flirting back a bit," Kristoff observed.

"No she isn't," Anna rushed back to the window.

Elsa and Nathanial had taken a seat and were continued talking. They watched as Nathanial said goodbye to Elsa and kissed her hand before walking away.

"Okay scratch that," Kristoff said. "She's not flirting, he most definitely is though."

"See?" Anna snapped. "I told you."

"Okay calm down," Kristoff said. "Let's just get back to wedding stuff."

"Okay, okay," Anna said calming down.

She and Kristoff continued working on their wedding. They didn't get a theme picked out as Anna's mind was elsewhere. Kristoff noticed this and offered for them to continue another time which Anna happily agreed. She bounced off out of the room and she found Elsa heading into her own room. Anna decided to have it out with Elsa. She quickly followed Elsa into her room. Elsa looked quite surprised to see Elsa there.

"May I help you?" Elsa asked.

"Yes," Anna took a deep breath. "Why have you been spending so much time with Prince Nathanial?"

"Because it's my job as the host and as he's the guest, I have to," Elsa said as if it was the most obvious thing on the planet.

"Okay I get that," Anna said taking a seat, "but there's a difference between hosting and flirting."

"I am not flirting," Elsa said clearly offended. "In case you haven't noticed, I have a boyfriend who I love very much."

"Who you haven't seen in like a month and before that like three months," Anna said. "Clearly you can't handle a long distance relationship."

Elsa sighed. "You're right Anna but I don't want to give up on my relationship with Jack. I do love him so much but," Elsa sighed once again, "I feel as if we're drifting apart. I can't do anything about it. He lives in American and I live here, in Norway."

"I can see the problem," Anna then smiled. "But hey, you and Jack are meant to be so that means everything will work itself out, you just have to see."

"Was it really that necessary for that to rhyme?"

"Yes indeed it did, now can you stop acting like a little kid?"

"Seriously, you're doing this?"

"Well it is a crime for one not to rhyme, so yes, I am."

Elsa just rolled her eyes as Anna laughed.

A/N: So I hope everyone enjoyed this update. Please review =)