The Invisible (Jelsa)

Chapter XXIII

Her resolve held up much longer than anticipated, Jack would later reminisce. He was banned from his bedroom for the whole Wynter fiasco for three whole months. It was worth it, though, Wynter Frost was the name that was stuck with him.

Time seemed to fly by for the family. The amount of children between Anna and Elsa went from 8 to 13 in just five short years. Anna had a pair of twins at the 27- a boy named Cham and a girl named Rizpah. Once again, she was pleased to discover neither of them carried the dreaded white hair.

Elsa, on the other hand, had three more girls and was disappointed to see one of them was not born with white hair, joining her older siblings Eira and Izo as somewhat outcasts, according to the older siblings. First came Azura two years after the the twin boys, and then three years later was another set of twins- Neela and Nevada. Nevada was strikingly normal.

A couple months after the birth of the newest set of twins, Elsa was ill in her bed. "I'm not sick Jack, I just ate some fish that was maybe a day over it's time." She insisted, spending her morning barfing in a bucket, "Where's Heimdall?"

"With the tutor, in the middle of lessons." Jack sat on the bed, "Can I bring you any food?" Elsa shuddered.

"That's the last thing I want right now, Jack." She winced, "Just go and get him. I need to talk to him."

Jack stood, but hesitated at the door. "About what?" He asked.

"Birthrights." She said and Jack froze.

"You said you were just feeling sick, why are you-," He stuttered, but Elsa waved her hand to dismiss him.

"Oh Jack, I'm not dying. It's something I've been meaning to talk to him about for awhile now." She said, smiling and settling back on her pillows, "I've been so busy that this is the first free-time I've had in weeks."

Jack accepted this, and nodding, walked leisurely to where the older children's tutor room was. At the age of six, the children began their schooling and the King and Queen were quite strict about their learning. Three children came rocketing down the hall, weaving underneath his legs. One of the projectiles knocked him to the left a couple paces and he heard a shocked, "Sorry Uncle Jack!" It took Jack a couple moments to register the children and he sighed in frustration.

"Azura!" He snapped, "Come here! You two, Cham and Rizpah." He said and the three kids sorrowfully came back, heads ducked low between their shoulder blades.

"What has Mom and Aunt Anna said about running inside?" He asked, and all the children sank lower.

"It's not proper to do?" Cham replied.

"But no one is rarely in this hall!" Rizpah bursted, and Jack narrowed his eyes.

"Sorry papa." Azura whimpered, and he had a feeling that her two older cousins roped her into this mess. Thank god Anna's twins only had another year before the majority of time was spent learning math and reading.

"It's a bright sunny day, summer is almost here. Why don't you go outside?" He asked, getting on his knees to look at the three. To be honest, he didn't care about them running around most of the time. This hallway, not only littered with expensive glass vases and crystal chalices among the walls, was near where the children were styding, and therefore they might distract the class. He'd never hear the end of it from Beryl, Elsa's chosen teacher, if they had to stop arithmetic to yell at the little ones.

"No one to watch us." Cham looked a different way, "Mom and dad are of visiting family and the maids say we get into too much trouble if we're not watched outside."

"Which is why you're not being watched now?" He asked dryly. Even his twin boys, Izo and Wynter, were not as much danger and messes packed into Anna's children, "Look, Queen Elsa wants to see Heimdall, and I'm fetching him. After I get him, I'll take you outside to play." The lights in their eyes lit up, and the nodded ethusiastically.