Arendelle.

Jack loved it there, especially during his season.

The mountains surrounding the city were covered in trees, the ports were always so fun to freeze and iceslide on, much to a certain ice miner's chagrin. His favorite part was the cream and green castle.

The place was so elegant, even compared to his own palace, and the banners lining it always fascinate him. So many nations seemed to be represented here, many of wich he recognized, many still were foreign to him.

The scope of the place gave him shivers, and as he entered the massive gates, his eyes nearly popped from the pure beauty, size, and awe of the interior.

"Wooooooooooow" he whispered, looking up...up...up onto the ceiling. "This one room alone could fit North's entire workshop in it..."

"Excuse me sir."

Jack flinched at the gently harsh tone. He turned and saw Kai, the most trusted servant, a butler so to speak, looking at him with one hand out.

"Your staff please."

Jack held his conduit closer, panic flickering across his face for an instant. "No, I think I'll hold onto it thanks. Bad things happen when I give it to people."

"Then you cannot enter the palace." Kai said patiently. "No weapons inside."

Jack hesitated. He wanted to go in, but he wasn't sure that leaving his conduit behind was such a good idea.

"You swear that nothing will happen to it if I leave it with the other weapons? I'll know if it gets so much as handled wrong."

"I swear on my honor, young prince, your staff will be safe here." Kai said amused, bowing.

Jack hesitantly handed over his conduit, and watched greedily as the man set it gently on the weapons table. "If something...happens, that requires me to use it, I will be getting it back, rules or no."

"Of course. Enjoy the party!"

He was led into the ballroom, and his eyes searched instantly for the one person he longed to see.

"Where are you, Snow Queen?" he mumbled. Then he remembered that she was no more fond of large crowds than himself, and headed for the balcony.

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Queen Elsa was nervous.

She thought her people had embraced her powers. She thought she had fixed everything by thawing the Summer.

She had been wrong.

They still feared her. They still, on some level, thought she was a monster. As the young Queen looked out over the harbor, she wondered if they would ever truly accept her.

"It's too beautiful a night to stand out here by yourself."

That voice! No, it couldn't be. She was just hoping for too much. It was a trick! She dare not turn, lest she be ridiculed by her own mind.

"You are too beautiful to be standing here by yourself.."

The chilled hand on her shoulder, the icy breath on her neck...That couldn't be faked. She smiled and turned around, to look again into his iceblues with wonder, happiness, and relief.

"You came!" she breathed as she embraced him. He wrapped her in his arms and was suprized to find her crying into his shoulder.

"Hey...hey what's wrong?" he lifted her chin so she would look at his concerned face.

"I...I can't let them see, not again. What if they turn on me? No, I have to keep it in."

Jack shook his head, his eyes sparkling

"No! No Elsa, you can't cage them, you know that isn't who you are, truly!" He smiled and frosted the railing "Who we are can never be caged like that, it would break us. No...tell you what, let's dance. In front of everyone. They need to see who you really are, Elsa. They need to love you for you, not for what you can or can't do!"

"I can't Jack!" she shoved him away, "I can't! People get hurt when I let it out. I won't risk it."

He grabbed her again and said firmly.

"Who am I?"

She relaxed under his gaze "Winter. You're winter personified."

"And would the origin, the very essence of your powers allow them to hurt anyone without your consent?"

She smiled again, gaining new confidence as she knew in her heart "No. No you wouldn't."

"Then let's do it. It's time for you, for the second time in your life, to let it all go."

They re-entered the ballroom hand in arm. All present were enjoying themselves, and some even glanced fondly at the well-dressed young man with the ice-colored locks and their Queen.

"I do believe a potential new addition is in order." The head maid, Gerda, whispered happily to Kai as the couple began a slow, graceful dance in the middle of the room.

"It does seem so, my dear." The butler said with a smile, "And may I add that it is about time."

"Jack, everyone is looking." Elsa said, a bit of panic in her voice as he spun her with the tips of his fingers in an elegant twirl.

"Let them in, let them see." He said confidently, "Be the true Queen I know you were born to be. Start feeling, stop conceiling...it's time they know. Now let them know!"

Elsa took a deep breath, and released her joy, her pure elation, as she and Jack continued to dance, and sing with the sound of winter.

"Let it go, let it go. Don't hold it back anymore."

Elsa's ice flung out in spiked waves, only for Jack to smooth and disperse them in a wondrous shower of frost.

"Let it go, let it go, it's time you opened up the door."

Elsa smiled and released again, and frosty horses pranced around, delighting the guests. Her confidence gained, the Snow Queen fully released bursts of ice that turned into beauty before her and the crowd's eyes.

"I don't care what they have to say. Let the storm rage on!"

Jack joined her as he dipped her, the crowd applauding as they spun, now dancing on a sheet of ice.

"The cold never bothered me anyway."

Their lips touched, and the crowd awed and ohhed, and for the first time, the two , the Snow Queen and the Winter King felt their hearts merge as one.

"Ah." Said Kai longingly "She finally found The One."

"Yes." Said Gerda, "He did as well."