Frozen Frost: Chapter 8 - Let it Go

Well above the snow line, a small figure climbed the highest peak. It was Elsa. Finally, she stopped, looked around. She wanted so much for Jack to come to her. She caught her breath and started to sing…

“The snow glows white on the mountain tonight.
Not a footprint to be seen.
A kingdom of isolation
And it looks like I’m the queen…

The wind is howling like this swirling storm inside.
Couldn’t keep it in,
Heaven knows I’ve tried…”

Elsa kept on walking forward.

“Don’t let them in.
Don’t let them see.
Be the good girl you always have to be.

Conceal.
Don’t feel.
Don’t let them know…”

Then Elsa looked at her hand that was gloved unlike the other and thought back. There she decided to move on and forget.

“Well now they know!!!!!”

Elsa took off her glove and threw it into the air. She stared to carelessly send her powers up into the air from her hands.

“Let it go, let it go.
Can’t hold it back anymore.”

Elsa created a snowman, just like the one she made with Anna when they were children then continued to use her powers whatever way she wanted.

“Let it go, let it go.
Turn away and slam the door.
I don’t care what they’re going to say.

Let the storm rage on.
The cold never bothered me anyway”

She took off her cape and let it fly into the wind. As it flew away to cape flew towards Jack who was still following her. He caught the cape and then she saw her walking up the mountain. He let go of the cape and zoomed to Elsa, hearing her sing.

As Jack came closer to her Elsa could suddenly feel his presence. She didn’t look to try to find him, she knew he was there flying over her out of her sight and somehow he knew she knew he was there.

Elsa just smiled and continued to walk up the mountain singing but including him within the song.

“It’s funny how some distance
makes everything seem small.
And the fears that once controlled me
Can’t get to us at all.”

Elsa stopped at a huge gap between two mountains. Jack made snow shoot out of his staff and it made stairs. Elsa saw the steps and looked up at Jack finally seeing his face after so long. He looked down at her and smiled. She smiled back.

Elsa looked back to the steps and realized what he wanted her to do. He wanted her to once again finish his creation and turn it into solid ice like he made her do to the sled he made her years ago. But this time Elsa was happy to oblige.

“It’s time to see what we can do,
to test the limits and break through.

No right, no wrong.
No rules for us…”

She stepped lightly onto a step and then it turned into ice. Elsa smiled in excitement. Jack smiled as well, happy that she was happy. She ran up the steps, using her powers to add more steps and make it look more elegant.

“I’m free…
Let it go, let it go.
We’re one with the wind and sky.
Let it go, let it go.
You’ll never see me cry.”

Jack started to sing with her. As she slammed their foot down and he touched the ground with his staff they made a giant ice snowflake beneath them.

“Here we stand.
And here we’ll stay.
Let the storm rage on…”

In a flurry of creative release, with Elsa’s bare hands and Jack’s staff they raised the snowflake on ice beams, built walls, archways, a glistening chandelier, and an intricate ceiling that left the sky visible.

“Our power flurries through the air
into the ground.

Our souls are spiraling in frozen
fractals all around.

And one thought crystallized
Like an icy blast.”

Standing firmly in their mighty ice palace, Elsa removed her crown. Jack stopped singing and watched her keep singing with her beautiful voice.

“I’m never going back.
The past is in the past!”

She threw the crown away. She took down her hair and created a new dress made of ice.

Just then, Jack looked at her stunned. He couldn’t believe he was thinking this way about his best friend but he thought, for the first time, that she was the most gorgeous thing he had ever seen in his life. He had never seen her in such a new light before. Why hadn’t he? Was he really that blind?

Elsa continued to sing.

“Let it go, let it go.
And we’ll rise like the break of dawn.

Let it go, let it go.
That perfect girl is gone.”

Jack started to sing with her together again.

“Here we stand in the light of day.”

Jack ran to her and to her surprise he picked her up, bridal style and flew up into the air together as they sung,

“ Let the storm rage on!!!!!!!!!
The cold never bothered us anyway…”

Still in the air in his arms, Elsa smiled at him and he smiled back at her. They were finally together once again.

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The sun rose on them.

“Elsa…we’re finally free. Free to do whatever we want, whenever we want with each other, forever.”

“Yeah…” Elsa blushed, now fully aware that Jack was still holding her up in the air. She needed to get out, no matter how much she didn’t want to. “Um…Jack?”

Jack was just staring at her not really paying attention.

“JACK!”

Jack finally snapped out of it. “Huh?!”

“Can we go back down please?” she said, quieter.

Jack felt like an idiot. “Oh! Right. Okay.” The lowered them down on the floor of their ice palace and reluctantly let her go.

It was starting to get awkward after their little moment but then Elsa brushed it off and smiled at him. Jack caught her staring.

“What?” he asked.

“Nothing…I’m just so happy to see you. It’s been so long.” Then she looked sad. “I apologize for the way I acted towards you last time I saw you. It was childish and uncalled for.”

Jack gently held her hand. “It’s alright. You were upset. I forgive you. I never left, really. I’ve seen what has happened to you over the years.”

Surprised Elsa said, “You have? I never saw you.”

“I thought you didn’t want to see me. So I kept my distance.” He gently pulled Elsa into a hug. “But I’m not going to do that anymore. I’m through with it all.”

Elsa blushed again but then calmed down and wrapped her arms around him as they shared a long awaited embrace from each other.