Melt for me

Chapter Fourty

                                                                          **Elsa**

My head pounds and pules with a splitting head ache that would make any grown man cry. I wince every so often instead, pushing through the pain like its nothing.  It feels like I was just knocked up side of the head with a hammer.  Jack looks at me with worried eyes. "Hold on a sec, I'm going to try and get you down."  My arms feel strained and awkward, one look tells me why.

I'm hanging from two posts, chained to ether one. Dangling just a bit from the ground.  Jack slips something over my head slowly like he's afraid I might disappear if he touches me. "Here...this belongs to you." The snowflake necklace is glowing an everlasting bright blue. A blue that seems so familiar and yet very far in my mind.

Memorizes come flooding back all at once. I wince because each image makes my head spin. Jack leaving me on the mountain, the ball, the wedding, Gavin's guts laying aimlessly everywhere, Anna screaming my name, Pitches cool lips on my own.  All of it flashes before my eyes but just as soon as it was there, its gone.

Jack jingles the chains a bit, trying to find their weak spot. "Jack! You're back...but why, how?  You left me and-" Jack groans as he hides his face from me. "Ugh, don't remind me...." I scowl at him. "Don't remind you? You left me. On top of a mountain. You ...You said such cruel things that ripped me to bits..Why Jack...? I thought you loved me-" My voice breaks at the end as tears stream down my cheeks.

God...I can't even stand to look at him. If I do I might burst into even more tears. My lip trembles and I keep blinking to hold back the tears. Maybe forgetting would I be easier. Jack kneels in front of me, one hand firmly placed on his heart the over behind his back, like some sort of salute.  "I know that I've hurt you Elsa. Pitch may have made me say those cruel things but I'm the one who left. It was my choice to leave you hurt and confused. I know that no matter what I say, nothing will make it up to you.... But I, Jack Frost promise to protect you with everything I have. Because I love you Elsa and this time-" Jack looks up and locks eyes with me, a glint of determination in his ice blue eyes. "I won't let anyone stand in my way."

My heart flutters like a butterfly captured in someones hand.  This...this bond that we have just formed is very fragile right now. Both of us wanting to trust one another but not wanting to get hurt. Or hurt each other.  Its a balance that will take some time getting used to.

Its a balance that is here because of Pitch. His name makes me feel so numb and angry at the same time. My emotions fighting one another, not knowing what to feel.  On one hand I'm so angry at Pitch for everything he has done to Jack and I. To my kingdom, to Anna. 

But the other...I'm so numb to what is happening right now.  Its like this is one big huge sick dream that won't end.  I just want to wake up to the way things were.... No. No I don't. Because to go back to the way things were would make me...naive Naive and stupid. Now I know who Pitch is and what he can do.

"Now, to get you down," Jack says in a gruff voice. "Wait Jack I don't think you can-"  Jack swings his staff over his head and brings it down on my left chain. Jack's staff shoots blue lighten bolts as it hits the chain with a loud clunk.  Red sparks fly everywhere as the chain dissolves into black grainy sand. "Jack wait, please listen-" He ignores me and swings his staff down on the other chain harder than before.  My hands feel so free and naked with out the chains binding me back.

I look at my hands. So capable of so much destruction. "There is beauty in it but also grave danger.." Although the old trolls face is blurry in my memories, his wise steady voice is not.  I can see him pulling me in with his magic, telling me about my future. How it could be filled with screams of fright and fear but I can control that.  The question is...how? I thought I once knew but now...