Desired Destiny (Frozen II/Jelsa)

14| Thoughts

Too fast. Everything is going too fast, especially for Elsa's liking.

Five days of preparation flew just like that. She's currently in the middle of a brief meeting with Count Eirik and Count Gregory to update the wedding's progress from the last five days. Jack, on the other hand, is in charge of delivering the finalized list for the wedding's catering. Gabriella, the finest caterer in the kingdom, will do the honor to dine the guests with her elegant main courses and beverages—although Egil and Olina will participate in the dishes as well. Yesterday, Elsa had also listed the guests' preferred dishes and allergies towards specific ingredients with Jack. They finally came up with the ideal menu and decided for Jack to deliver it to Gabriella, leaving Elsa to handle the meeting with the council.

Being a perfectionist, Elsa writes down all of their advancements and divides the stack of papers in chronological order. Count Eirik and Count Gregory comment on a few minor details and recommend some little changes, though they also congratulate the queen and the future king for their miraculous teamwork. They didn't really expect the couple to get things done so quickly. The two counts are rather impressed on how well they work together. Because of the marvelous preparation update, the meeting ends up short as Count Eirik and Count Gregory exit the castle. The queen is obviously in delight with so little feedback and very positive notion from the counts, but she's far too uptight about this whole process.

She's only nine days away from her marriage.

Actually, Elsa can feel herself slowly agreeing to this arranged marriage and manages to see the bright side of it, all thanks to Jack and everyone who have been unbelievably supportive.

Although, there's this one specific matter that hasn't stopped clouding her mind from the past few days.

Five full days of getting Jack to interact more with the citizens and also the people who work in the castle is a total success. When Elsa had to spend three years memorizing the people's names, Jack only needed five days to memorize half of the kingdom's population, especially the kids—not to mention he got himself far too attached to those adorable little humans. Upon seeing how easily Jack converses with the children, Elsa can't seem to let the word child out of her head.

She and Jack.

Married.

Wedding night.

A babe.

The heir to the Arendelle throne.

Elsa can feel her senses exploding to a million pieces. Producing an heir is, of course, one of the main ideas of this marriage purpose. Having a king and a queen ruling over Arendelle and setting the perfect precedent to her citizens is not only the lacking law Elsa needs to go through, but having an heir is also the other core reason. The young queen only has nine days left to prepare herself. She will not only be queen, but also a wife—possibly a mother—and the length of nine days is all it takes to accept that one life-changing destiny.

Is she really ready to accept all this?

"Elsa?" Anna pops up from the door with a big grin on her face, but that curve of her lips immediately vanishes after she spotted her sister in such a troubled state. "Okay, what's wrong?" She slowly makes her way to Elsa's desk and drags an empty chair to sit beside her, close enough to hold the queen in comfort.

Elsa lets out her breath before responding. "I'm just feeling a little off with this wedding preparation."

Noticing the half-lie from the tone of her older sister's voice and sensing how she doesn't want to talk about it any further, Anna only nods and tenderly caresses Elsa's hand. "You have survived this far, sis. You can totally nail this!"