"Why aren't you wearing shoes." Elsa snarked, placing mini sardine-pie hors d'oeuvres on her plate.
"You wanna pay the Cordwainer for a nice pair?" Jack said, scooping the decorative icing flowers off the back of the wedding cake with his index finger. "Besides, nothing wrong with being barefoot."
"You're not cold?" She asked, rolling her eyes at his treatment of the cake.
"I'm cold whether I'm clothed or not, Snowdrop." He raised an eyebrow and poked her nose, leaving a dollop of icing behind. Elsa's face turned red and her eyebrows furrowed.
"Snowdrop is not my name. You... Frosty." She pulled out a handkerchief and wiped the icing off her face.
Jack chuckled, "Best you could come up with?" He licked the rest of the frosting off of his hand, grabbed a glass of wine and sauntered away. Ana giggled two feet away, pouring chocolate sauce on her desert.
"What?" Elsa sneered.
"Nothing." She snorted. "You just like him."
Elsa threw down the snowflake embroidered cloth in her hand, "Søren klype, I do not! I've only just met him, and he's a Rævhål!"
Ana put her hand on her hip, "Notice how you didn't start your defense by insulting him, but that you just met?"
Elsa stared at her. "What? So?"
"So you're using the excuse of 'can't be in love with someone you just met' as an excuse to dismiss your feelings." Ana poured a glass of ginger-ale. "After all that happened in Arendelle and you're still bottling your feelings. Granted, the Hans situation does serve as a reminder not to just marry the first guy you meet, and I'm not saying you're in love or anything, but you shouldn't dismiss your feelings before you get to know someone Els."
Elsa stood and contemplated her sisters advice in silence. She looked across the room as Jack mystified the children in attendance with conjured snowflakes. The children suggested a snowball fight outside and the group ran past her into the courtyard as parents hollered for their children to remember their coats and scarves. She watched through the large cathedral-esque window at the merriment outside. Children running around the glass-like statue, hiding in the ice gazebo waiting to launch snow at the next passerby, and getting ice stuck down the back of their jacket. She caught Jack's eye for a moment, he gestured to a snowball in his hand and raised his eyebrows, silently inviting her to join. Elsa put her hand to her face, fingertips grazing her jaw; she sighed, turning from the window, and carried her plate to the dining table to join the rest of the adults. Jack's smile started to dissipate until three snowballs whacked him in face, knocking him over. The DunBroch triplets fell on their backs into a snowbank, laughing at their well-aimed hit. Jack wiped the snow from his face and chuckled at the boys, his eyes returned to the empty window and he stood to continue entertaining the children.
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Hors d'oeuvres = appetizer (French)
Søren klype = Fuck sake (Norwegian)
Rævhål = Asshole (Norwegian)
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A brave and tangled love (Meripunzel)
Fanfiction*this is the original story, I am the sole owner and writer for this fanfic and no one has the right to sell it or pass it off as their own* I wrote this because there seemed to be a lack of meripunzel fanfiction. The story of Brave still happened...
