A Heart of Gold A Heart of Stone (Complete)

Chapter 36

Author's note: Hello all! Sorry I missed Tuesday but I have posted today! Hope you enjoy!

Hans strode along the corridors and ignored every student and teacher walking towards him, his mind was racing, and he had finally had time to process what he saw yesterday. Adelaide and Proteus hugging, Facilier had an interest in Coral, he never even saw that coming, and Gaston continued to be cruel and manipulative, he gritted his teeth and rounded the corner.
"Ah!"
Ariel's body crashed into his and they stumbled back, hitting the wall Hans grunted and frowned at the red headed freak. He placed his hands on her forearms.
"Ariel. What on Earth are you doing?" He asked, he noted she was panting heavily and looked as though she was fearing for her life, she tried jumping over his shoulder and moving around him however he held her in place.
"Hello? Red? You in?" He asked causing her to stop and stared up at him.
"Hans!" She squeaked, he rolled his eyes, "let me go! I have to go!" She said quickly frantically searching around her.
"Princesses are so weird... especially this one. What does Eric see in her?" He thought "Alright Ariel, what's going on?" He said out loud.
"Facilier..." She began that caught Hans' attention, he bent down slightly to look into Ariel's bright blue eyes "I- I think he's done something to Snow and Cinderella. I- I overheard you with Gaston and Facilier." She stammered, Hans sighed loudly.
"You were in the pool?" He muttered, Ariel nodded and tried to pull away from Hans.
"I'm sorry! I know I shouldn't have listened in, but Snow's been acting differently and Coral was hurt! I just needed to swim." Ariel screamed loudly and pressed her head against Hans' chest, who stared at her with distaste. Facilier smirked and tried to keep himself from laughing.
"I hate to alarm you but there's a princess attached to you."
"I can see that." Hans said bitterly trying to pry Ariel's fingers off him. He slowly turned around to face Facilier and he gave Hans a cheeky grin as Ariel peaked a look at the voodoo man.
"How can I help you?" He asked, a sudden feeling of dread washing over him.
"Well my good friend, Ariel keeps running away from me and I have a message for her from Snow, which she threw at me, might I add. They wanted to talk to her about the upcoming ball. You'd think these princesses were scared of me." He joked, Ariel blinked and pointed at Facilier whilst keeping close to Hans.
"Why do you look so weird when doing it?" She moaned, this caused both Hans and Facilier to laugh, Ariel blushed.
"Because he is weird, and tall."
"Hey." Facilier frowned whilst smiling at his friend.
"Oh..."
Hans pushed Ariel off him slightly,
"Ariel maybe you should have a lie down... there's your prince." Hans said noticing Eric had been watching their interactions and decided it was time to intervene and Hans and Facilier exchanged glances.
"We're gonna get going. Bye Ariel."
Ariel nodded unhappily, Facilier hooked his arm around Hans neck.
"She's such a weird one." The Voodoo man commented "Thinking I was after her. Jeez how weird."
"Yeah weird..." Hans looked back at the red head girl as she got lectured by Eric. Hans thought back to what Ariel had said, something was definitely weird at this school and all of it was surrounding his best friend.

The Blue Fairy and Elinor headed into the staff room and took a seat next to one another.
"This morning Ariel was very flighty, she could not keep still. It's not like her." The Blue fairy said quietly Elinor nodded passing a drink to the younger woman.
"I know what you mean, all the students recently have been very restless." She sat down and continued to talk to the Blue Fairy until the door opened and in walked Jafar and Clayton.
"It's just not the same in class without the witch." Clayton said gruffly, Jafar nodded.
"It was always a treat having Coral at lessons." Jafar agreed "I have no one to scare all the children and now they think they can talk to one another and not focus on their studies."
Elinor rose to her feet and placed her hands on her hips.
"Jafar! You cannot talk about your students that way."
"Now, now Elinor, let's not be arguing we'll be as bad as the students." The Blue Fairy murmured, Clayton scoffed at the blonde woman, he walked passed her and grabbed his glass.
"It doesn't matter what we say or do you're all thinking the same thing Minnie and Mickey haven't done enough to keep the students safe. Not that I mind, haven't been a fan of these prim and proper princesses for a long time."
Elinor gasped in horror.
"Come now, maybe a bit of old wives tales will be good for them." Jafar laughed darkly as his serpent staff wiggled around the floor and caused the Blue Fairy to jump.
"You horrible man. Just because you lost out to us in the years we were at this school." She said, Jafar was about to respond when a loud laugh filled the room.
"Or a touch of fear, will be good for those students."
Everyone faced the dark corner of the room and Pitch Black walked forward.
"You should not be acting like this. There could be a real threat to our lives!" Elinor folded her arms as Pitch stood in front of her giving her a toothy grin.
"Oh is that supposed to scare me? I am Pitch Black, the boogie man. The only people being threatened, is-" He stopped and turned to the opening door, Minnie was stood there with her hands clasped in front of her with a small frown gracing her features.
"Now, please my former students. Enough of this... we must be prepared for the worst. It is no time to point fingers or blame each other or disrespect the Kings choices."
Elinor and the Blue Fairy bowed in apology to the Queen. Clayton, Pitch and Jafar exchanged glances, as the women left with the Queen. Clayton scoffed as the other two sat down.
"Such wasted talents..." He muttered.

Jack Frost watched the darkness fall across the land, the moon shone brightly, and he sighed. He couldn't believe it had been two days since Coral had, died. He closed his eyes and listened as the winds blew through the trees, the moons beams shone on Jack and he couldn't believe how insane he was going from not seeing Coral in class.
"Coral..." He whispered into the darkness, he turned around and rested his head against his staff as he sat himself on the railings. He closed his eyes and envisioned her, he pictured the tomboy pirate he could feel her breath on his face. His cheeks reddened at the thought of the first night she was pressed against him, when she smiled as he skated around the room with her. He opened his eyes and felt a stabbing pain run through his chest, he dropped his staff and clenched his top. He heard laughter at the door and he tried to move but something kept him there.
"Jack? Hey Jack what are you doing there?" Florian came out and smiled at his friend, Jack didn't speak and his mouth hanging open. Facilier joined the pair and frowned at Jack.
"Why the long face Frost?" He asked, Jack closed his eyes and counted to five before getting off the railing.
"Nothing, nothing at all. Hey Florian." He said, Florian shrugged and brushed passed Facilier, Jack and Facilier stayed there for a moment.
"Something on your chest Jack?" He asked, Jack turned to the moon as Facilier stayed nearer the shadows.
"How do you do it Facilier?" He kept his eyes on Manny the moon.
"Depends what you mean?"
"With Coral... how can you be so calm when she's... when she may not...."
Facilier clenched his fists and glared at the back of Jack's head, with a calm voice he replied.
"I don't know what you mean Frost. But I feel it in my bones that Coral will pull though." He stepped forward raising his hand causing shadow's to form at his fingertips, its darkness spreading across the balcony. "But you're out of luck.." He added, Jack tensed up as a hand pressed against his shoulder tightly "just remember who she is." Facilier pulled back as Jack began to turn around to him, tipping his hat at the sprite he walked back into the room.

Jack felt as if a train had hit him when he woke up. The antics of the night Coral died and the stress of the last two days waiting for any news had taken its toll. He felt around for his stick next to his bed and lifted it up onto his chest where he lay. The stick was comforting; he had it for as long as he could remember, the Moon gave it to him. The Moon who he looked to in his times of need and had helped him along the way. His mind drifted for a moment before reality dawned on him; memories of the night before and of Coral. He felt his heart trying to rip out of his chest as hot sensations engulfed his body. Jack Frost hated feeling hot; he liked the cold and the ice. He tried to summon a snowball in his hand but it just turned to water and trickled down his arm. He sat up abruptly and tried again; only water. He grabbed his stick and held it close; he closed his eyes and imagined it snowing. He opened his eyes and saw little drops of rain falling from the air in front of him. The hot sensation hit his heart again, however this time it felt hotter and it burnt. Suddenly he hit the ground, his face in the wet patch his rain had produced and his stick fell out of his limp hand.

Facilier sat up and smirked the young sprite was lying motionless on the ground slowly he got up and walked around until he was standing over Jack. He crouched down and smirked.
"You should have stayed where you were Frost. Back at your own school."
The alarm clock began to ring and Facilier rolled his eyes, "Jack? Hey Jack what are you doing on the floor?"
"What?" Charming rolled over and glanced down at the floor his eyes widened "Jack!"
Facilier stood back bumping into Florian's bed causing the prince to sit up and rub his eyes.
"Why won't you hit the alarm off?" He grumbled.
"Florian! Jack's down!" Charming exclaimed, Florian jumped out of bed and helped Charming pull Jack up and off the floor.
"What did you do?" Florian yelled causing Facilier to frown.
"Why on Earth would I hurt Jack?" Facilier folded his arms as Charming ran into the bathroom and grabbed a wet towel, coming back in he placed it on the boys head. Florian continued to glare at Facilier.
"You were awake-"
"I woke up with the alarm and saw him lying there. Yes I don't care about him after all he's ruining Gaston's and Coral's relationship, but I wouldn't harm a student on school grounds." Facilier hissed, Florian gulped and stood by Jack. Jack groaned in his sleep causing Charming to sigh in relief, Facilier picked up his jacket and headed out.
"I'll inform the teachers you'll be late." He slammed the door and Charming and Florian turned their attention back to Jack. Facilier stood outside the door with a smirk, he clicked his fingers and the shadows slipped under the door, he waited patiently and counted to three. A loud yell came from the room.
"Jack?!" He heard Florian call.
"Calm down! It's us."
Facilier shoved his hands in his pockets and made his way to class, leaving the poor boy to suffer the heat and nightmares.

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