Cold Against Dark (a Jelsa Fanfiction)

Chapter Three

Early one morning, as the sun was just peering through Elsa's curtains, Pitch had been pacing the room for hours. Something wasn't right and he was pretty sure it had something to do with Jack.

"Frost?" he hissed into the darkness, "Frost show yourself."

"What do you want Pitch," Jack yawned, "It's too early for this..."

Jack wasn't tired, he didn't need sleep, but he liked to wind Pitch up and see him slightly irritated.

"Something smells different about you Jack. You smell like fear..." His voice trailed off, watching Jack's face for any sign that he might be masking something.

The boys face gave away nothing and he just rolled his eyes at the comment. "Pitch, I can assure you, the only fear here is her fear. What would I have t be afraid of?"

Elsa groaned and rolled over in her bed "I can hear you!" she mumbled, before putting her pillow over her head, trying to block out their talking.

Pitch ignored the girl and continued, "All I'm saying Jack, is, I hope you're not going soft on me. Not thinking of running off and joining the Guardians, are you?"

A disgusted look spread across Jack's face, as if Pitch would even dare to suggest such a thing. "The Guardians! I couldn't be a Guardian even if I tried. I make a mess where ever I go - I'm Jack Frost. There is no way I could ever be a Guardian" he ranted and walked away from Pitch.

Elsa groaned again as Jack started to raise his voice. "Shut up" she hissed, "some people aren't immortal and actually have to sleep!"

She hated it when Pitch and Jack argued. She never got any peace. Huffing she sat up, staring angrily at both of them. "Please can you two leave. Just for a day or a night, I don't care! You can come back as soon as the day is up but, I'm 17! I deserve my own privacy and right now I don't have any. I have no privacy, my sleeping pattern is messed up, I have no one but two guys to talk to and you are slowly driving me to insanity!" She yelled the last part before pulling the covers back over her and placing the pillow on her head.

Jack and Pitch looked at each other and then back at Elsa in shook, neither one of them had expected her to be so snappy.

One glance to Pitch set up an evil idea in Jack's head, one that could prove he wasn't going soft, with an evil smirk to match. "Maybe we could go. Just for the night. She does need to be alone" he put emphasis on the word alone to test her reaction.

Elsa lay there motionless, the pillow still over her head, aware that Jack was trying to test her patience. She wasn't going to give in to it.

Pitch's eyes widened as he finally caught on to Jacks plan, his facial features darkened with a sinister twist, "oh yes, we'll leave her alone. How she should be. Maybe we'll go forever then she'll have no one" he chuckled, and Jack joined in.

Before they could do anything, Elsa had sat up, hurled the pillow she was hiding behind across the room and began thrusting her hands towards the two of them, ice spiralling from her finger tips.

Both Pitch and Jack dodged the ice daggers that were cast towards them and they hit the wall, shattering to the floor.

"Stop it! Stop it! STOP IT!" She yelled just as the door flew open to reveal her father stood in his smart uniform and her mother next to her in a regal purple dress.

"Oh Elsa," her father whispered, "what did you do?"

Elsa sank back on her bed and registered the disappointment on her parent's face, especially her fathers.

The girl scanned the room for an answer to her father's question but she knew she couldn't give one as Jack and Pitch were nowhere to be seen.

Her father cleared his throat, straightening his suit "we're going away"

Elsa leapt from her bed and walked towards her parents, furrowing her brows, "what?"

"Going away," her mother repeated, "only for a few days"

Elsa frowned, hurt and confused "why?" They never went away, they never left the kingdom.

"For your cousin, Rapunzel's, wedding in Corona. We're going to see your aunt and uncle while we are there"

The girl felt something deep inside her stomach flip over. Her parents leaving meant she would truly be alone with Jack and Pitch. Despite Anna still being in the castle, she couldn't tell Anna what was going on because she had shut her out for so many years. Her fathers' lessons on how to control her powers.

"Please... don't go." She struggled to find her words, and, in the end, she blurted out, "It's getting stronger. I can't laugh, I can't cry, I can't dream, I can't live without it bursting out!"

A worried look spread across her mother's face as she turned to Elsa's father. "This is too much for her, we shouldn't go. Come here my child..."

Her mother opened her arms to embrace her daughter but instead, Elsa took a step back, "no, don't touch me, I don't want to hurt you."

Defeated, her mother dropped her arm before being guided from the room by The King.

Elsa grabbed her gloves, putting them on as she followed her parents slowly downstairs, watching Anna from the corner of her eye, being careful not to get too close.

"I'm going to miss you!" Anna sighed softly into her mothers' arms as they hugged goodbye.

"We'll just be gone a couple of days my sunshine!" The Queen reassured her daughter, kissing her forehead gently and making her way to the carriage awaiting them outside.

Elsa looked up at her father, nervously playing with her gloved hands. "I can't do this here on my own."

"You can and you must." The King said sternly, before relaxing a little and smiling down at his daughter, "I'm proud of you."

The girl smiled gently back at him, replying softly, "I'll try not to let you down father."