Icy Dream ~ Sequel to Winter Love

4 - Awoken

"...Jack?" She whispered. Jack's previously dead gaze was flickering like a dying light bulb. His entire body violently jerked and his eyes were wide and alive. He fell to his knees, gasping for breath.

"Jack!" Elsa gasped and ran to his side. She grasped his shoulder and asked, "Are you alright?!"

Jack lifted his head and she saw awareness in his eyes. He broke free of her curse. Before she could shake off her shock, Jack surged up and captured her lips with his.

"I love you," he gasped against her lips. He desperately claimed her lips again then drew back and gasped, "I thought you would hate me for leaving you! I thought you would blame me for what happened to your myth! I thought-! It does not matter what I thought. I don't care what you did as the Snow Queen. I love you, Elsa, and will always love you!" Jack crushed his mouth against hers like it was the last kiss they would ever share. Warmth pooled into her mouth and heated Jack's cold lips. Her entire body began to heat from the passion and threatened to melt her icy clothes. Now she remembered the warmth. She was the cause of it not Jack or her tooth box. She created cold whenever she was scared or sad but also created heat when she was content or expressed love. And God, did she love Jack!

Jack's fingers dug into her back and drew her so tightly against him that she could not breathe. The intensity of it all made Elsa feel like she was melting and her legs became soft and wobbly beneath her. How could she ever doubt he would not love her?

Pitch moaned loudly and fell to his knees. She and Jack separated and both looked to Pitch, just remembering he was still there. They got to their feet and automatically reached out to each other and clasped their hands tightly between them and leaned into each other's sides.

Elsa wordlessly handed Jack his staff and he took it with a sweet smile for her. Her heart warmed at the sight and she smiled back at him. No wonder her heart had frozen, with no love she had no warmth. Jack focused his gaze on Pitch and his smile turned to a frown.

"Damn it," Pitch hissed through gritted teeth. "Spirits should not be having such an effect on me!"

"Love is strong, even in spirits," North murmured. "And they clearly have a love so strong that it broke the Snow Queen's curse with Elsa's words. She did not even need to kiss him, it is so great."

Pitch growled then shadows began to grow around him.

"He's gonna escape," Bunnymund hissed.

"Oh no you don't!" North said and surged forward. He grabbed Pitch by the front of his chest and drew him out of the shadows. Without a word from North, Sandy summoned his golden sand and it wrapped around Pitch, trapping him in its golden binds.

"What are you doing?!" Pitch hissed. "You can't kill me! No one can as long as children fear the dark!"

"I know we can't destroy you," North murmured. "But we can undo a wrong before you escape us again!" North turned to her and Jack and said, "Elsa, come here."

Elsa tentatively slipped out of Jack's hold but before she could draw away from him he pulled her back to him and kissed her one more time. She smiled at him then went to North.

With Elsa at his side North stated, "Now when I was human I was a bishop and had the power to conduct marriages. Though I never did it in my era, it should be within my power to conduct divorcees as well."

"Really?!" Elsa gasped excitedly, not expecting this.

North nodded then stated, "By the power of my Guardianship, by the light of the Man in Moon, and by my past as a bishop, I, Nicholas St. North, ask you, Elsa of Arendelle and the Snow Queen, if you wish to divorce this spirit?"

"I do," Elsa replied.

"And do you, Pitch Black, the Nightmare King and Boogeyman, agree to divorce this spirit?" Sandy tightened the sand around him and Pitch grunted painfully.

"If I say yes then do you promise to let me go?" Pitch grumbled. North nodded and Pitch sighed heavily. He hissed, "Fine! I do alright? I concede to the divorce!"

Elsa felt a weight being lifted off her shoulders and she looked up to North with a wide grin. She gasped, "Thank you! How can I ever pay you back?"

"By making my boy the happiest spirit on Earth," North said, nodding to Jack.

Elsa's grin grew larger. She looked to Jack then back to North and laughed, "I'd be glad to!"

"Ugh, please let me go so I can get away from all of this, it's sickening," Pitch murmured.

Elsa ignored him and ran into Jack's arms. He caught her with a laugh and spun her around over his head. She stared into his eyes and saw the familiar crinkle at the edges. Those same eyes were gazing up at her with complete adoration. She could not believe she was worthy of such worship but greedily accepted it.

He lowered her down and she slid her arms around his neck as he did. With one hand on her chin, he directed her mouth to his but he did not need to do that because she was going to kiss him anyways. She was never going to stop kissing him.

Sandy released Pitch from his bounds and he slipped away without her or Jack's notice.

Eventually, North cleared his throat loud enough to draw their attention. Jack and Elsa separated just enough to so their lips were no longer touching and looked to the Guardians.

"We should probably leave here," North stated with a twinkle in his eye.

"You don't need us, do you?" Jack asked.

North smirked and said, "No."

"Then we will see you next winter!" Jack stated with a laugh. He wrapped his arm around Elsa's waist and pointed his staff up. The staff lifted them into the air and they went flying from the pit, into the open air, then caught the winds and rode them until they reached snow. Jack laughed as they flew and it was infectious because Elsa found herself laughing with him. She only stopped when they landed in a patch of soft snow and Jack smothered her laughter with his lips.