Puteri Tina: Yes they did but I can imagine it not going very well.

JackxElsa: The retainer was obviously an old one. Not exactly happened to me, similar thing had happened to me and my brother though. What mini marathon were you watching?

MirkaKaroliina: Since I have no knowledge of geography of Finland, I am going to say the capital.

ElsaSnowQueen2: No it doesn't, been there done that.

Z: Well she didn't sleep with the guy like straight away. It would have taken a while. I can see Elsa sleeping with him to try and move on but I can imagine it not going very well for her. Baby pics? Hmm, maybe. Nah, Nathanial and Elsa never slept together in Elsa's bed. Maybe in like a hotel when they went on trips or something. "Whale a potential intruder" What?

TPATFan16: No, no, no, no. He's the good guy.

Chapter 25: Overheard

Nathanial followed Gustaf along the corridor. Gustaf stopped for a moment and Nathanial flung himself behind a pole while Gustaf turned around to look behind him. Nathanial held his breath. He didn't even dare to breathe. He didn't make a single sound or movement. Slowly Gustaf turned back around shaking his head. He continued along the corridor. They seemed to be walking for a while. Every so often, Gustaf would turn around to look behind him and every time Nathanial would hide himself behind anything; suits of armour, doors, tapestries etc. Nathanial tried not being too obvious with his sneaking. He juts hoped that Gustaf wouldn't see him and ask him what he was doing following him.

Nathanial watched as Gustaf looked sharply around the area and then entered a room. Nathanial quickened his pace and paused outside the door. He opened it a crack and he could see two men in the room, one was Gustaf but he couldn't make out the other man as he had his back to him. Gustaf turned to look at the door and Nathanial quickly ducked out of the way. Nathanial paused for a moment before looking through the crack again. Gustaf and the other man began to talk. Nathanial made sure to listen in.

"I'm telling you, he doesn't want to try and get her back," Gustaf was saying to the other man.

The other man heaved a huge sigh before he began to talk.

"I can't believe this," he said. "All our plans wasted just because you messed it all up. I gave you one mission Gustaf! One!"

"Look sir," Gustaf said. "It's not my fault that he didn't drink the drink."

"You were supposed to make sure that he got the fatal dose not the stupid ambassador," the other man snapped at Gustaf.

"There was a mix up in the kitchens. I couldn't do anything about it."

"Well there is one good thing that came out of this. At least the bloody authorities didn't realise the true intention of what the poisonings about. They think it was something worldwide political."

"But sir," Gustaf said. "Do you really think that if we had succeeded, our plan would have worked? I mean Queen Elsa would be morning the loss of her love one. It would have taken a bit of time for her move on sir."

"I am aware of that," snapped the other man. "The plan was for Nathanial to be the kind and caring man and swoop in when she's vulnerable and we can't even go ahead with the plan at all now."

"Why not sir?"

"Because now it would look very suspicious and suspicion could fall upon Nathanial."

"How do you mean sir?"

"Well you blundering idiot, it would look like the scorned ex-lover out for revenge wouldn't it?"

"Yes I suppose it would sir."

"And worst of all, Queen Elsa could believe those rumours and then she would turn on Nathanial."

"Then how are we to proceed sir?"

"That's the blasted problem isn't it," snapped the other man. "We have to make it look like an accident. One that would turn into a tragedy and give Nathanial to give his regards. Then we can swoop in our plan."

"But sir, I highly doubt the plan would work. After all, what makes you think that Queen Elsa would help you get the throne? I mean the throne would go to the Crown Prince."

"Queen Elsa will help me get the throne to Nathanial. Nathanial has been nothing more than a tool for me to get close to her. Once I am able to get close enough, I will force her to help me and to marry Nathanial. Her marriage to him will give me all the firepower I need to be the power behind the throne and then Sweden and Arendelle will be align and with the Snow Queen by my side, Denmark will be next and soon the entirely of Scandinavia will be mine."

"Sir it is a great plan but how would you accomplish this?"

"By threatening her loved ones of course."

"But sir, couldn't you do that without risking a death? A death will always look bad sir."

"If Queen Elsa was to suddenly ditch Jackson Frost, wouldn't that look very suspicious? Her family would know instantly that something was up."

"Very true sir."

"Wouldn't you want the throne for yourself though sir?"

"No, the power behind the throne is a lot more powerful."

"What about the Crown Prince sir? Wouldn't he get the throne? What about the King?"

"Tragic boating accident and both will not survive it."

"Excellent plan sir."

Nathanial saw the other man turn to face Gustaf and Nathanial got a shock. The other man wasn't just any man. It was his Uncle Cornelis.

Nathanial stumbled backwards. The whole thing was a plot to get his father's throne. With his father and brother out of the way, Nathanial would become king. Any suspicion from their deaths would land on him because he had the most to gain and worse of all his Uncle was planning to take control of other kingdoms with help from Elsa. He didn't know how his Uncle was planning on doing that. Maybe from another political standpoint. Elsa did have a young nephew on the way. Maybe he was planning to marry him off somewhere or maybe do a sneaky war.

Nathanial knew what he must do. He must warn his father. His father and brother were about to embark on that boating trip down to Germany in just a couple of days. Nathanial must be quick. Nathanial quickly ran as fast as he could to his father's room but he stopped. He didn't have any proof. His father would believe him but without proof he could do nothing. Nathanial quickly raced to his Uncle's room. He knew his Uncle wasn't inside it. He quickly opened the door and started his search. He couldn't find anything that would incriminate his Uncle. He then heard movement. He quickly straightened up and he found his Aunt walk into his room.

"Nathanial what are you doing in here?" she asked.

"I thought that Uncle Cornelis borrowed my book but it doesn't appear to be here," Nathanial said.

"Oh your brother borrowed that," his Aunt said with a smile.

"Thank you," Nathanial said walking out of the room.

When he was further enough away from the room, he let out a sigh of relief. That was close, too close. He decided to go check on Gustaf's room. He journeyed down to the servants' quarters. He managed to find Gustaf's room without difficulty. Here he searched high and low. His Uncle was smart, Gustaf not so much. He figured that if anyone was leaving clues around, it would be Gustaf.

Nathanial's determination was rewarded. He found a plane ticket in Gustaf's name to Burgess. When Nathanial checked the dates, it definitely proved that Gustaf was in the country at the right time for the poisonings to take place. This proved that that Gustaf had indeed been in the area at the right time. This was a step in the right direction. Nathanial continued along with his search. He soon managed to find a box that had what looked like chemicals in it. Nathanial had always been excellent in chemistry. He soon added up the chemicals in the box and soon came to the conclusion that if used correctly, these chemicals could create a powerful poison. But Gustaf didn't do chemistry at school. He did things like Maths and English, if Nathanial remembered correctly. Then it came to him. His Uncle was a chemistry genius. He had a PHD in it. That was the missing piece.

His Uncle had managed to get the chemicals from the lab that was named after him and then told Gustaf how to make the poison. Gustaf would then make the poison, it didn't take a genius to follow instructions, and then use that poison on them all at the dinner. Gustaf wouldn't have been able to bring the chemicals over though, customs would have stopped him. That only left one possibility; he made it over there with chemicals he had there as well. Someone must have supplied him with him. His Uncle had labs in the states. Maybe he fed them all a lie about needing to have them for experimental purposes? That could explain some things.

Nathanial quickly took out his phone and took pictures of everything he had found and then put it back. If Gustaf had discovered they were missing, then Nathanial could inadvertently tip his Uncle off to what he was doing. Nathanial didn't want that to happen. Nathanial then put everything back where he found before he scurried off and out of the servants area.

Nathanial then scurried along to his father's room. He knocked on the door and his father let him in.

"Nathanial," he boomed. "What can I do for you?"

"Father, may I talk to you alone?"

"Sure thing son," his father the led him into his study and closed the door behind him.

When he did that, Nathanial proceeded into informing his father on everything he had discovered. His father looked more and more concerned as he went on.

"A plot?" he said. "To take over the kingdom?"

"I'm afraid so."

"But why would they need Queen Elsa?"

"I have no idea father."

"Do you have any proof?"

Nathanial showed his father the pictures on his phone. His father grew even more worried and concerned that he did before.

"This certainly proves that Gustaf is responsible," his father said. "But what about Cornelis?"

"I'm working on that."

"Then do it silently and sneakily," his father said. "If this is indeed true, and I believe you when you say it, then we have to tread carefully."

"I agree father."

"Good, then go and do some more detective work."

Nathanial nodded and then hurried from the room.

Elsa was on her computer. She then quickly checked her emails. She found one from Rapunzel congratulating on her upcoming marriage. She also included pictures for wedding dresses and links to sites about wedding themes. Elsa let out a small laugh before she typed out a reply. Elsa then proceeded to checking out the sights. They were obviously all meant as a joke. Some of the themes were so ludicrous that Elsa was considering doing some of them for the pure insanity of it. However she couldn't see the bishop in a pirate's costume. She gave another laugh trying to picture that.

The next email was from Merida which pretty much detailed the same thing. She also typed a reply with the information that Merida wanted such as the date of the wedding hadn't exactly been decided. Elsa laughed at the joke that Merida had signed off on which she always did. Elsa then checked out the rest of her new emails. One she discovered surprised her. It was from Nathanial. Elsa then clicked on it to open it.

Elsa,

I am writing this to inform you that I have discovered who was behind that little incident that occurred during our first meeting together. Needless to say, I shall not reveal who it is in case this falls into the wrong hands. Email may be risky as it is always out there on the internet but there is no way else I can get this information to you. Visiting may look suspicious and I can't risk that.

I'll give you more information when I can. I'm just letting you know that I'm doing all I can. Just keep Jack safe for now.

N

Elsa stared at the email. It didn't make a lot of sense. Apparently Nathanial had done it and figured out who was behind it but he couldn't reveal who they were. Was he really that paranoid? Elsa shut the lid of her laptop and continued to think. Everything sounded so serious. She thought that maybe she should go to Sweden, herself but she didn't think that would be the best thing to do just yet. Maybe she should just continue what she's doing and pretend that she didn't have a clue about any of this. That may be the safest thing for her to do. Elsa thought that maybe a lot more was at risk than she previously thought.

A/N: Wow, so much happening in this one chapter. Didn't anyone see this coming? I hope that everyone enjoyed this chapter. Please review =)