juliet •peter pan•

ONE HUNDRED

They drove as fast as they could to the wall of ice surrounding the town. Juliet sat in the backseat with the staff and David and Hook sat up front with the walkie talkie. Once they arrived, David rushed out of the car still holding the walkie talkie. Hook was about to follow him when Juliet started rapping on the window. She had to be let out because the backseat doors wouldn't open from the inside. After a moment, Juliet joined the two men with the staff. David held the walkie talkie up so that he could speak to Elsa.

"Elsa?" He asked. "Elsa. How's Emma?" Juliet set the staff against the wall and folded her arms as they waited for Elsa's response.

"She's freezing, turning blue." Elsa stammered, sounding worried. The signal from the walkie talkie was a bit static-y on the other side of the wall. Juliet looked over at Hook, who looked distraught.

"No." He lamented, then started attacking the wall with his hook. "Emma!" He shouted, but his hook wasn't doing any good. The wall must have been very thick. He went to jab at the wall again, but his arm was grabbed by David.

"It's not gonna help." He kept looking at Hook as he spoke into the walkie talkie. "Elsa, listen to me. I need you to find a way out."

"I need Anna." She protested. David sighed.

"Well, we don't have her right now, but we have a way to find her. And we will. But right now you're gonna have to do this on your own."

"I can't control this." Elsa cried.

"I know how you feel, you're trapped." David attempted to comfort her. "It's a battle you can't win but it's exactly the kind of battle you have to fight. Or you'll die." On the other end, Elsa sighed.

"No, I won't." She said almost sounding ashamed. "I'll survive. But Emma..." David shook his head. This was not acceptable.

"Survival isn't enough. You have to live." That seemed to spark something in Elsa, because Juliet could hear a hitch in her breath from over the walkie-talkie.

"Where did you hear that?" She asked desperately. Juliet raised her eyebrows in confusion. What was Elsa talking about?

"You know where." David answered, still leaving Juliet very confused.

"Anna? You knew her?" Elsa sounded hopeful all of a sudden.

"Yeah, I did. She helped me once, a long time ago, to become who I am. She saved my life. And yours. And now I need you to save Emma's. I didn't know much about Anna, but she wouldn't want you to live alone in an ice cave, which is where you'll be if you don't melt that ice. Now do it." Juliet uncrossed her arms. She was impressed by David's motivational speech and she prepared herself for the wall coming down.

David looked back at the other two after a moment, unsure of whether the speech had worked. Juliet gave him a half smile and a thumbs up, trying to stay positive. She didn't know much about Elsa's power, but she had to have been pretty powerful in order to create an ice wall surrounding the town. Juliet knew what it was like to be in Elsa's shoes, sort of. She remembered how panicked she felt before she could fully control her magic. Worried about hurting people, feeling like she's doing something wrong.

Because of those experiences, Juliet looked up to the top of the wall and back to her eye level, silently chanting to herself.

"Come on, Elsa. You can do this. It's just a wall." She knew Elsa couldn't hear her, but it felt good to try and help a little, since her fireballs couldn't melt the wall.

After a few minutes, the three heard a noise. As they turned to see where the noise was coming from, little blue snowflakes were projecting out of a little hole in the ice. A hole that kept getting bigger every second.