POV Jack

”Mum! Jack is teasing me!” Emma is yelling to our parents. ”No, I am not!” I yell back and smirk to my six year old sister. “Hey, you can visit me in Arendelle whenever you want,” I say to her warmly when I mess her hair. “Jack, please. Take care of yourself and don’t stress yourself too much. Don’t forget to take your medicine and –“ I hug my mum and she goes quiet. “I will be fine,” I look at my dad. “Thank you for letting me go even though.. “My father’s big hand taps my shoulder and he winks his eye. “Just live your life, it is all we want for you.” I wave my hand for them as I go through safety control at the airport.

Next I felt how my chin dropped down. I opened my eyes and looked around me. It was a dream and I am still at Elsa’s bedroom, sitting on a chair. Anna has gone to her bedroom from the looks of it. She stayed in Elsa’s room also as worried as I was. However we both were alone with our worries since she can’t see me like Elsa can. Oh, but she has Kristoff. Now I remember how he came and took Anna to bed when she had fallen asleep while leaning to Elsa’s bed.

Elsa is still breathing but it sounds hard for her. I rest my head against my hand until I hear something. She tries to whisper something? I go to her bed and watch her, she is definitely whispering something. Maybe she feels cold? I tucked her in better and smile until I see how restless she is. Her lips move as if she is saying something, maybe it is important. Carefully I lean my head towards her so my ear would be closer to her mouth.

Then I hear what she is whispering all over again. She is calling me, my name. “I am here Elsa,” I say to her with warmth and I brush some lose hair strands away from her face with my hand. Wait? I place my hand on her forehead and I feel how she is burning up. Her face seems sweaty from up close and she sounds being tormented by her breathing that is crackling with every breathe she takes. “Jack,” she whispers which startles me. She is dreaming from the looks of it, “don’t go!” She is twitching nervously in her sleep while she begs me. “I won’t go,” I touch her shoulder and feel how she is shivering.

“I will just get Anna,” I turn on my heels at the door and go to Anna’s bedroom. Time to be creative again, I think when I see a vase on a table behind of Anna’s bedroom. Like a baseball player I hit it to ground using my staff. “Please, wake up,” I watch at the door anxiously. Finally I hear Anna talking with Kristoff. Yes, they heard me.

Quickly I knock the door demandingly and she comes to open it with her hair sticking everywhere. She has just woken up. I fly further away from her, along the corridor that leads back to Elsa. I threw another vase to ground which made it shatter. “What is going on?” Anna walks behind of me. I glance over my shoulder to see her. She seems puzzled, ”Elsa? Is that you?” She narrowed her eyes and tried to look further in the corridor. Unfortunately for her it was just me but she is easy to trick.

The door squeaked loudly when I pushed it open to Elsa’s room. It surely caught Anna’s attention. Anna went in before me and I smiled happily, I managed to bring her here. My heart drops when I hear Elsa calling my name again, I fly to her and hear how she coughs roughly. Anna did the same except she run to her sister and immediately her hand went to Elsa’s forehead. “Oh no, you have high fever,” Anna sounded deeply worried and I had to swallow the lump from my throat. I stayed to watch after Elsa when Anna ran to get the doctor.

The waiting is killing me when I pace around the room. Doctor is taking Elsa’s blood pressure, temperature among many other things. Finally the doctor seems to have made up his mind on what is wrong with Elsa. “She is extremely feverish. Her body needs to cool down or her brains will get damaged because of it,” Anna seemed shocked and they started to plan the cooling methods. Everything from ice baths to covering her with wet blankets.

I watched at Elsa while doctor and Anna did their battle plan. Elsa needs the Spirit of Winter more than any ice baths, I thought when I wiped some sweat from her forehead. “Don’t freak out, Elsa,” I whispered to her. “I just want to help you,” I said when I lifted my right leg onto her bed. I was kneeling on the bed and carefully I laid down next to her. Her back was facing me. “Just let me keep you cool,” I hesitated when I lifted my arm over her waist. I held my breath when she moaned. She didn’t push me away like I was afraid she might do.

When I let the air out of my lungs I felt how her fingers clasped to my hand that held her waist. “Thank you Jack,” she whispered aloud while her breathe was almost whistling. My face turned red and I glanced at Anna and the doctor who had stopped their conversation. “Who is she talking to?” Anna asked from the doctor. They stared at our direction but they couldn’t see me still. “She is hallucinating because of the fever,” doctor said and sounded worried. “Oh, she has been repeating that name for quite some time, even before you came.”

This is so embarrassing. I close my eyes and place my cheek against Elsa’s. ”Jack, don’t leave me!  I am sorry,” she coughs right after she managed to say it. “I am not leaving,” I say gently to her ear and she calms down. Just before that she was moving restlessly under my arm. “These seem quite precise hallucinations,” the doctor wondered aloud and came to us. I gasped when his hand went through my head and on to Elsa’s forehead.

“This is odd,” The doctor sounded confused. “What is?” Anna came also close to Elsa’s bed now. ”Her body has cooled down on its own.” The doctor sounded surprised but I knew how it had happened. Even my body is as cold as crispy winter nights so cooling her isn’t a problem at all. I chuckle to the thought of me being an enormous ice bag. “Oh, but that is good isn’t it?” Anna sounded hopeful which made me smile.

“Yes, now she just needs to sleep the fever off.” I heard how they left the room and switched the lights off. Sun is just about to rise outside and I watch how the first beams of light hit the floor. I flickered when she suddenly turns around. For a few seconds her eyes open and look at mine, “Jack?” She smiled faintly.

“Yeah,” I smiled to her and leaned my head closer to hers. Our foreheads touched, “I am so happy that you’re alright.” I tell her while I try to hold off all the desperation that I had been feeling before. A warm feeling appears close to my mouth and I open my eyes again. Her gaze is blurry and I feel how her lips brush against mine. “W-what?” I managed to whisper but then felt how her arm bended behind of my neck, locking me to that position.

Elsa stared at me and our lips touched again slightly. It was just a few seconds but it made my face turn red. My heart fluttered at the moment but then it went wild when she told me something. Something that I couldn’t have ever imagined but it made me feel warm inside. “I love you, Jack,” she had whispered to me just before when she pulled me close. Her eyes closed as her lips pressed now fully against mine.

At first my eyes were wide from the amazement and I tried to pull myself away. Is this appropriate? No, but I am starting to like it since my eyelids close and I hold her from her back. When she was done I was just getting started. I kiss her back just when our lips were starting to get separated. My lips were exploring hers, slowly and trying not to miss a spot in them. She was responding to my kiss with her soft lips. Never before I have experienced something that makes me feel like this. Her lips are hot because of the fever she has but I don’t care. I just want more of that tingling feeling that her lips cause in my lips when they touch.

When I let her go my lips still felt the sensation, the feeling of her rosy lips against mine even though they weren’t attached anymore. I smile to her when I notice that she has fallen asleep. She snuggles against my chest which makes me laugh inside. This is something I really like but she is just experiencing the high fever like the doctor said.

I hear how Anna comes to room holding a bouquet of white roses that she places on a vase next to Elsa’s window. She sings to Elsa just before she leaves the room. Smell of roses fills the room and I see how Elsa smile’s faintly. Slowly I let my head go to rest on her pillow and I watch her sleeping expression. Her scent is nicer than any rose’s nor early winter mornings.

I realize that I have fallen asleep again. Elsa is turning around in her bed and maybe she will wake up soon from the looks of it. The door opens and Anna comes in, “Elsa! Are you awake?” She almost squealed. I was just getting up and stumbled on my feet. Soon I found myself rubbing my back on the floor which I had fallen. My eyes widen when I hear Elsa responding,” Yeah. Anna.”

Quickly I flew outside from the window and was about to leave the place to North Pole. Elsa hates me so she doesn’t need to see me. Also they needed their privacy. However I couldn’t help to not to stay and listen when I heard Anna mentioning my name. I left myself floating outside of the castle and near her bedroom window. “So, who is this JACK?” She sounded playful and I peeked inside. Anna was partly laying on Elsa’s bed and Elsa was in sitting position. Elsa seemed nervous about the question.

“Well, he is or was a friend.” Elsa spoke to Anna and I quickly hid myself again. She really considered me as a friend. “Oh, a BOY!” Anna squealed in excitement. ”Umm..yes?” Elsa laughed in nervous way. ”You liked him? Is he handsome? What is he like? Where is he?” Anna shot an enormous amount of questions.

Elsa cleared her throat, “Well. He had a certain look and personality. You could say that he is good looking,” Anna squealed to Elsa’s confession and my cheeks were warming up again. “He is fun to be around but also annoying sometimes. However I … I…” Elsa tangled in her words. “Just say it Elsa!” Anna sounded excited and I realized that I really shouldn’t be here and listening this in secret. “Uh, I do like him?” Yes! She doesn’t hate me! Joy filled me.

I heard how they both laughed and then Elsa asked Anna to leave. Elsa said that she still needs to rest. After Anna closed the door I heard Elsa calling me. “Jack, come inside. I know that you must be outside,” her voice was nervous and I breathed in before entering.

POV Elsa

Jack almost knocked the vase full of white roses down from the table when he entered my bedroom. He was laughing nervously and his face was red. “What are you doing?” I asked from him and he rubbed his neck. ”Umm.. Just went to get you a get well soon present,” he smirked.

“Oh really? Well, what did you get for me?” I furrowed my eyebrows and enjoyed how he seemed terrified. I just caught him from a lie but I wonder that how much he heard. Then I see how he quickly takes one rose from the vase and hands it to me. “Here,” he winks his eye.

Suddenly  I feel bad inside. ”I am sorry Jack,” I whisper but he laughs and tells me that everything is fine as long as I am safe. A breeze of air fills my room and his hair flickers when wind hits it. He seems so happy just now with his eyes that shine from laughter and his warm smile. My heart is beating faster when I watch him.

“Oh yeah! I need to go since winter is still on going,” he said with disappointed voice. “However I will be back in just over a month, deal?” He smirked and I nodded. Just before he left I yelled after him, “Stop!” He turned around and was confused. ”You saved me, again, right?” I ask him shyly and he nods.

“I need to award you in some way.” I look at him and he laughs from the bottom of his heart. “Trust me, Elsa, you have given me a reward worth dying for already.” He is messing his hair and I wonder what he is meaning. “I will be back, don’t worry. Let’s have some fun then, alright?” His eyes almost close because of his happy smile. He jumps outside and is laughing still when he leaves the castle.

Jack is so different from me. He is fun and knows what to do even though he is so reckless. Again I feel the need for him, I want him here. My heart flutters as I think of him. Wait? Isn’t this how Anna describes her feelings towards Kristoff? How he makes her feel the butterflies, how she wants to be with him all the time and how you just want to touch him or that he touches you gently. Am I in love? With him?

I need to try it. Slowly I gathered my courage and whisper, “I love you Jack.” Those words felt so right and scary at the same time. My heart breaks when I realize that I can’t love him, he is immortal and I am just simple mortal. He can’t answer to my feelings, I cannot have him. Tear runs to my cheek as I watch to the direction that he had left.

A knock on the door wakes me up to reality and I wipe my face quickly to my sleeve. “Yes?” I try to sound my usual self. ”Miss, are you well enough to take this urgent letter?” My maid comes in and I nod to her. It is a letter from Maldonia with royal seal. “What do you believe it is, your majesty?” My maid asks from me when I open the letter.

My hands shake after reading it. Another marriage proposal, my maid seems confused while she waits. I glance at the direction where Jack left. Maybe only thing to do is to try to start a life? “Tell them that I accept it,” I said to my maid coldly. “Accept what, your majesty?”

I sighed, “Tell the person who does international affairs that I accept this marriage proposal from.. from.. –,” I read the letter forward, “- from Prince Naveen.” Maid seems shocked. ”Oh and I want the wedding for 1,5 months from this moment,” I smiled to her.

“But your majesty! Don’t you want to find love and not just marry a stranger?” She was so right but I needed to do this. I can’t have the person I love so this is the only way. “I don’t believe in love but maybe I will love this Naveen eventually,” I tried to smile bravely and the maid left the room.

Why do I need to give up  on everything? Why life doesn’t let me be happy ever? The lump in my throat is now feeling like it tries to suffocate me. Soon I found myself crying which was mixed in with my coughing. I still wasn’t feeling well and after this I feel even worse. I embraced myself when Anna came to room.

“I heard the news,” she said sadly when she saw how I was. “I think you should really reconsider this. I somehow read between the lines that you really like that Jack and -,” her words felt like piercing blades in my heart. “Stop it Anna,” I sobbed and she hug me. “I am doing this for Kingdom’s sake,” I lied to her.

A/N:

What do you think? There is "the first kiss" and some emotions revealing..

Do you know Prince Naveen from "The Princess and the Frog"? :)