Desired Destiny (Frozen II/Jelsa)

9| Not a King

He got this.

Jack fidgets with his fingers while waiting for the maid to renew the chocolate mousse; the party has been going for roughly two hours now. The guests have seemed to eliminate almost every kind of dessert served on the table. Female guests have asked him to the dance floor too many times, but he has politely skipped the offer. It's not like he doesn't dance—hell, he does dance and is actually extremely good at it. But that's not his main focus right now. 

The prince steals quick glances at Elsa who's still talking to some dignitaries. He wonders if she will ever get bored of those formal talks.

"The mousse is ready, my lord." The maid returns and bows respectfully at the prince as she extends her arms to give him two cups of chocolate mousse.

"Thank you." Jack smiles, accepts his order, and makes his way to where Elsa stands. He can see the long queue of guests who wishes to talk to the queen is no longer there. He patiently waits for Elsa to end whatever she and those two royalties are discussing as he recollects his earlier conversation with the princess.

"My sister loves chocolate," Anna informed as they walked through the tables of dishes. "She will eat anything that's chocolate. A trait I passed her."

"Didn't you mean the other way around?" Jack chuckled and offered her a tissue to wipe all of that chocolate all over her mouth. "She's the older sister."

"She used to savor vanilla a lot!" Anna accepted the tissue gratefully and cleaned herself. "It's a boring flavor."

"Watch out for that, my lady," Jack replied smugly. "I am a lover for vanilla as well. You wouldn't want to mock such fine flavor in front of me."

"Oh my God, you two are really destined to be."

Jack snorted at the strawberry blonde's quick answer. "Just because we love vanilla?"

"Also because of your ice powers." Jack narrowed his eyes at her. Anna noticed his silence as she looked up to him, identifying the confusion in his eyes. She mentally gasped. "You don't know?" She stops from her tracks and fully faces him. Jack follows and becomes even more perplexed.

"Know what?" Jack plainly shrugged.

"What do you know about my sister?"

Jack felt a little uncomfortable at the drastic change in Anna's mood. She was all chocolate and marriage crazy, but then she turned weirdly serious. "Things the council told me. The queen is the current ruler of Arendelle, the cool kingdom with cool economic development, unique commodity, and also its trading partners—"

"That's what you know about our kingdom. Anything about my sister?"

"The fact that she's a great queen?" Jack awkwardly smiled. "She's a female and my soon-to-be bride."

Anna shrieked. "So, you don't know anything else?" Jack shook his head. Anna kept her blabbering shut for a while which made Jack feel uneasy with his answers.

"YOU DON'T KNOW!" Then she squealed—so loud that almost every guest in the ballroom glanced dubiously at them. "You guys are going to surprise each other! THAT'S SO ROMANTIC! I can see it all in my head!"

"You're being really suspicious, Anna," Jack massaged his temples and flashed an apologetic smile to the guests near them.

"I have to tell Kristoff!" Anna jumped a little and grinned from ear to ear. "I'll see you later!" She stormed out of sight just like that.