Sits here quietly; reticently radiating lots of love.
❝ – did you need something, your Majesty? Or were you just enjoying the view? ~ ❞
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Sits here quietly; reticently radiating lots of love.
❝ – did you need something, your Majesty? Or were you just enjoying the view? ~ ❞
❝I don’t believe anyone can be more grateful than I, sir Frost.❞
A mirroring look of mischief SPARKS within eyes, plays at the corners of thin lips. He had become quite the influence on her; that could be seen at just the right ANGLES if looking in the right places. So regal and poise! Ideal for a Queen. She knew the part now and played it well with such passion. But in the presence of winter spirit, Queenly guise was momentarily set aside. He taught her of joy and F U N. She would live up to it.
At the right times.
He delights in the rare glimpses of mischief he’s able to draw out of her; the flecks of childish wonder coaxed to the surface by his own gift-- his center. A hand strikes up, poised against his chest in an overt and purposefully pompous manner.
❝--Sir? Why, I don’t recall being knighted, your Majesty! But how can I refuse?❞
He grinned, exponentially proud of himself in the most impish fashion as he swung one leg behind the other and dropped down in a regal kneel, entirely prepared to be properly knighted.
What does your hair feel like? Is it really frozen?
❝Ah, just a little frosty.❞
It was still soft and pliable, torn asunder by the winter wind. But if felt perpetually wet and cold, as though he’d been out a snowstorm his entire life.
Look closer. What do you see? You have big eyes. Yes! Big eyes. Very big. Because they are full of wonder. That is my center. It is what I was born with. Eyes that have always seen the wonder in everything! Eyes that see lights in the trees and magic in the air. This wonder is what I put into the world! And what I protect in children. It is what makes me a Guardian. It is my center. What is yours?
“you can’t be here now.”
❝Says who? Where’s your sense of danger?❞
The last few syllables are a whisper against her ear to emphasize the point, his hands flirtatiously cover the gentle slope of her hips, drawing her back closer against his chest. Her royal subjects may well have been waiting for her address, but her attention was desired elsewhere at present.
“eventually… you just move on.”
Sadness has always sought to consume her, as long as he’s known her. But unlike himself, who has always been able to retain a hold on the positive and reject despair, her resolve has never allowed for such confidence. She is easily won by her anxiety and doubt-- much easier than himself. Sympathy paints his crestfallen expression as he lowers himself to crouch beside her, ice cold fingers rough from centuries of climbing and clasping oak covering her own in a gentle squeeze-- rare evidence of his own tenuous consolidation.
❝...I’ll always come back, Elsa. ...I’ll always be here.❞
"Do it. I dare ya."
His old friend ought to have known better than to be the frosty sprite. Without the slightest shred of hesitation, he kicked the enormous mound of snow loose from the tree branch and all but completely buried the rabbit in its heavy chill.
❝--ha! Guess you’re a snow hare now, eh Cottontaill?!❞
“no, i don’t need you.”
He didn’t even know that his heart was still alive enough to feel pain so acutely-- it felt like a searing dagger cutting clean through the ice cold hollow of his chest. His wiry frame staggered backward from the pain he felt so palpably, and for once he wished he was truly so cold that he couldn’t feel anything at all. Emotion bit behind his glassy eyes, but he forced it back-- back behind his impudent wall of childish pride and fierce anger, straight white teeth biting down along the inside of his cheek as he cut his bitter gaze away from her. Frostbitten fingertips drag his hood over frosted locks so sharply she could hear the fabric snap as he turned on his icy heel and abandoned his tenuous hold on the ground, grip white-knuckled around his staff in his barely retrained rage that he always buried his pain and despair beneath.
❝...fine.❞
“actually… i just miss you.”
A lopsided smile is all he rewards her, frostbitten feet kicking out from beneath him to drop down weightlessly beside her-- like the softest snowfall.
❝...what’s to miss, your Majesty? I’m right here~❞
“i haven’t forgot you yet.”
He should be grateful for that, he supposed. After all... to most, he’d never existed in the first place. But even so, no matter how much he might cherish the time he had with each child while it lasted... it was still precious little. Time only stopped for him-- but it carried them away. Eventually, they grew too old to believe in myths and legends any longer... in Santa Claus, and the Easter Bunny, and mischievous Jack Frost. And there were always new children to come and fill the void... but there would never be another Elsa once she would inevitably stop believing like all the rest. His smile is grateful for the sentiment... but full with regret and a knowing that she couldn’t possibly understand, because it could only be earned through existing long enough to watch all of those you ever cared for around you fade away beneath the unstoppable waves of time.
❝...and I won’t ever forget you, Elsa.❞
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There’s a bitter venom in her tone, but while it’s clear she’s vying to keep up the appearance that it’s born of detest for him and his childish antics… something in the harsh turn of her heel and the protestation to any proffered aid tells him that it’s truly a dissatisfaction with herself. The scream of the wind dies down as he drifts along beside her, though he no longer fights to catch her gaze; simply allows his old bellowing friend to carry him alongside her self-loathing stride, and there’s a skepticism twined around his tone as his voice lifts over the whistle of the mountain wind.
❝…is that what you really want? …or is it just what you think would be best for everyone else?❞
She could do nothing but halt in her tracks as inquiry processes
through mind. His words hit too close to H O M E (tip of a blade
pressed to the center of sternum, simply hesitating as it searched
for direct location of heart before piercing skin and bone, contacting
frail organ; though not even blade could bring forth death), thoughts
turning back to that fearful moment in Arendelle just hours prior to
where she is now. The FEAR plastered on every visage of her people.
Had she not run, the people who wanted nothing more of her than
to gaze upon newly crowned Queen with eyes so HOPEFUL, could
have faced an UNRULY demise. It would not have taken much… A
twitch a single finger. Perhaps even a mere thought that strayed.
So that was her answer. It was wise of monarch to ISOLATE self.
❝You’re so full of elation and revelry. I couldn’t POSSIBLY expect you to understand what it is that I go through. This war I’ve been fighting for most of my life… You have F R E E D O M. Something I’ve only dreamed of having. Why waste it on someone you know nothing about?❞
Her words hold very little truth-- though she has no way of knowing just how wrong she is. Just as he can’t know what she’s been through, she couldn’t possibly understand that freedom wasn’t free. True, flight was his escape, and the ability to go wherever he pleased whenever he desired to was something he took joy and solace in. But at the end of the day, he didn’t have anywhere that he belonged. There was no place to call home, no arms to welcome him... no acknowledgement that he even existed. There were days when he questioned whether or not he truly did. There was no pain more profound, no desolation quite like his own... because while he was free, he was also utterly a l o n e .
But she-- she had an entire kingdom full of subjects to call family, a castle to call home... something he craved more than air to breath-- and she was running away from it. He chose not to disclose or correct her-- she didn’t need to hear about him, not yet. This wasn’t about him, he realized. She was in danger of becoming everything that he wished he wasn’t. Frostbitten feet bury themselves in the snow as he abandons the cradle of the bellowing wind to stand before her, passively guarding the path she’d been trudging.
❝...well I know that you care more about the people back there than you do about yourself. And that’s about all I need to know.❞
He assured with a smile, curling his ice cold fingers beneath her own in as gentle a gesture as possible. It was a slow, tentative the way he offered his hands beneath hers, his smile far warmer than his cold, blue countenance should have been able to exude.
❝...your power can’t hurt me. See? ...not even if you tried. ...let me help you learn to control it.❞
Eyes are quick turn back to him (nearly had she been lost in the captivating view of the scenery before her; sun’s golden rays basking the land, providing warmth and serenity) at his last few words, lips slightly parting enough for air to SLIP through and make way to lungs. It wasdesperatelyneeded; Queen always found self to be annoyed when she felt a lack of oxygen in her chest. But could monarch be blamed? He caught her off guard.
❝You remembered.❞
Hand slips from position behind ear, gliding across pallid throat
and resting on opposite shoulder. Muscles around lips twitch
against restraints, though capitulation soon proceeds and smile
graces the flawless visage of sovereign woman. Upon waking
from O B L I V I O N that morning, mind had indeed shifted to
remembering own day of birth. Though it seemed so frivolous
at the moment; nothing but another day of the year just like any
another. And the thought never crossed her mind again (with the
exception of sibling surprising her with precious gifts and cake)
for the continuation of the day. Of course until brought up NOW.
It was only when he spoke of it, did it feel like the momentous day it’s MEANT to be. One of celebration and recognition of another year gone by since being was brought unto this world.
Her shock is, like most things, a great source of amusement for him. He thought it absurd that she should believe he could possibly forget such a day-- a day that marked the most important person in his world achieving extant. He’s not lost in the scenery, but in her-- in the glittering flow of her elegant gown and the way the sun catches her porcelain skin, darkening the freckles that pepper the bridge of her nose, the way her platinum hair catches the sunlight and reflects it back even brighter and more breathtaking than before. She was... meant for him. He truly believed it to be so. The Man in the Moon had granted him this life for a purpose-- and just as well, he trusted that he had created Elsa solely to remain beside him.
Frostbitten fingers brush against her own delicate ones as he settles the little snow globe in her sovereign hands, and his breath is as cold as the grave as it brushes her wrist in its passing as he takes her free fingers up in the cold cradle of his own and bends to assure her.
❝--now, how could I forget?❞
He argues before sneaking an impish peck against the arch of her soft, pallid knuckles. He knew all too thoroughly what being forgotten felt like... being looked through, living only a semblance of existence. North, Bunnymund, Tooth, Sandman... and Elsa. They had liberated him from that damnable oblivion... and he would never take a single breath of theirs for granted.
Hey, Frostbite, what is your favorite winter prank?
❝Ahaha! --talk about a carpool!❞
His words reached the very DEPTHS of her heart. ‘I knew you could do it.’ Not until this moment was it realized how truly dependent she was on his B E L I E F in her. So long had hope been lost in self. Never a single being to aid in encouragement. And then he was there. Quick to be helpful; refused to give up. Perhaps he didn’t know - still a chance that he was very much aware - but he had pulled her from the A B Y S S she resided in. The only obstacle standing between her and thatswallowingdarkness. He kept her from submitting and getting to close to the edge.
And she was beyond grateful.
If feasible, the smile ‘pon amaranth lips widened. It was insurmountable
to neglect the behavior of heart; a response to the mere sound of the word
'home’ falling from his tongue. Of course, she could not s p e a k for the
Guardians, but based from stories told to her, they carried the WORLD on
their shoulders – Atlas’s soul may have split from his body and scattered
across the world through time to inhabit new vessels; the eternal beings
that are the Guardians. The responsibility was unfathomable in her eyes.
As for HOME… How often were they provided a time to themselves? Protecting children. Fending off evil. Being heroes to the world. Surely home was just as important.
❝Nothing compares to home, does it? Especially when you’ve been A W A Y from it for so long.❞
Neck twists ever so slightly to turn head, eyes casting out over the horizon. Lithe digits nonchalantly reach up to grasp hold of stray WISPS of platinum silk, tugging them behind ear as mind wandered. Queen’s place was within her kingdom, that she knew. But home is never a location; it lies with PEOPLE.
Just as he is HOME to her.
In some ways, it was still surreal... to be able to stand here and speak to her, and actually hear her respond to him. To look into her eyes and realize that they weren’t looking past him or through him, but that their gazes had met. To be acknowledged by a human being... it was something he’d never take for granted. Not a single, simple glance.
❝Heh... yeah. But no matter how long you’ve been away... when it’s home, you can always find a reason to come back.❞
He assured, the familiar glint of mischief striking the corner of his icicle blue eyes as frigid fingers slipped into the fold of his frostbitten pocket. It was almost strange to speak about home as if it was so familiar to him. Of course, there had been Burgess... a place he had called “home” for the simple fact that it was the place where his first memory lie. But a place of true belonging had always evaded him, the concept utterly foreign... until now.
Round glass glints beneath the summer sunlight, illuminating the orb and all of its white, glittery contents as they swirl around in a magnificent spiral; a snowstorm in the palm of his hand, dancing around a crystalline snowflake that stood in the center of the delicate globe. No doubt a gift that was crafted with immense care and wonder in the warm, ethereal light of a certain enchanted workshop significantly farther north.
❝...Happy Birthday, your Majesty.❞