Hello everyone! This story is a requested story by 93MANIAC. Im sorry it took a little while to post this but here is the first chapter..it really was fun brainstorming with you and i hope you enjoy the unfolding story that you've given birth to. i know this isn't very long but the chapters will get longer as the story progresses after all this is only the beginning but please enjoy the first chapter of Shadows of the Past

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SUMMARY: For years Elsa lived in peace on the north mountain...becoming part of the folklore the people in town spoke of..but one night in a harsh storm of wind and ice a wanderer stumbles upon her castle of ice...soon she finds that the woman shes allowed into her home is more then she seems and soon the queen of snow finds that in order to help her new friend...or maybe a bit more...she must face her own past...

She ran with out hesitation, with out looking back as her feet carried her farther away from the place she never thought to have called home…at least not anymore….not after this…but the calls and their voices echoed around her blowing with the wind picking up as it swirled about. The farther she ran the louder they grew..louder and louder ….

"NO!" Elsa shot straight up in bed. Her skin clammy and covered with a layer of sweat. Looking around her bedroom she found everything to be just as it was when going to bed. It's been years since that fateful day…the day she discovered she was different. Looking out the window she found that the sun had yet to even rise, and she wondered how long she had even slept. She groaned from when finding it had only been an hour or two that she slept.

Rolling out of bed Elsa moved to the balcony of her room to look out into the night. The storm that had been raging earlier yesterday had calmed mostly but the snow still fell heavily, especially here in the north mountain, and hard gusts of wind blew every few moments. She was glad though that it was natures natural effects considering her own if she ever truly lost control of her own curse.

She looked out to the place she's called home for these past years and a smile spread across her lips. Here she was free to be who she is with out worrying about hurting anybody, here she felt she belonged. Leaning on the railing her blue eyes gazed over the ground searching for the only other two beings allowed here. They were of her own creation, made of magic and snow. The first being a short snowman, a creations from a memory she kept buried deep in her mind. He was like a child of sorts with a heart of gold, but he always made her smile when she was feeling low. There was more to the little snowman called Olaf, but she did not panic or worry when she could not see him. Olaf tended to wander but he always found his way back, it was however a strange sight not to see her other creation standing guard as he always did. A huge giant of snowman of snow and hard ice. His name Marshmallow, Olaf gave him the name, there had been a time when bandits had tried their luck when coming to find her snow castle. And so Elsa had used her…ability…again to create a guardian for herself.

The bandits ran off scared of her lovable creation, however she had not thought them to run off into town spreading rumors of a sorceress that lived on the mountain. Which promptly gave way to the title of Snow Queen. Still she would not dwell on that, for that was when she had first come to learn of the world and how it works from what she knew before. She had learned much since then and was not so naïve anymore.

Bringing her thoughts to that of the present Elsa found she did not see Marshmallow at his usual post. He couldn't being walking her ice castles perimeter, considering just where it sat in the mountain. The only way to safely enter was through the front doors unless one was dumb enough to climb the slippery rocky terrain behind the castle. Moving along the balcony Elsa searched for her guardian wondering where he was off to. That's when she saw his massive shape coming toward the castle. The wind and snow picked up in speed and mass and Elsa had to squint her eyes to see Marshmallow a little more clearly. His form was hunched over like if he was cradling something in his arms.

She sighed thinking it was another one of his attempts of wanting a pet of some sort. Heading back inside she threw on a housecoat and made her way down stairs to the front doors. Opening them she spoke to her lovable guardian,"Marshmallow wh-" her words died upon seeing that it was no furry animal the snow guardian carried. Instead it was a human woman in nothing but rags she could barely call clothes. She was bleeding from several cuts on her body and face, dirt was smeared all over her and as she was brought closer Elsa came to a conclusion that some of those dark marks was more then just dirt. What's surprised her the most was the swell of the figures stomach and Elsa deduced that this figure was a woman, a woman with child…what on earth is she doing out int the middle of a storm like this?

Marshmallow held the unconscious woman out for his 'mommy' as he like to call her to see. Elsa gasped upon having to see the condition of this heavily pregnant woman. She had to take a step back and turn to gather herself…this woman would need more then just her first aid help, a physician would be needed, and although Elsa would have no quarrels in leaving someone to themselves, she could not bear to think of turning away this woman who was probably left by some bastard of a sailor or soldier to raise his bastard child by herself. And to think to leave her here on the mountain bleeding and half frozen like this….the thought made her blood boil.

But now was not the time for such thoughts. Now she would help this woman as best she could tonight, tomorrow though she would head into town to seek proper medical help….

Soft sheets thats the first thing she noticed as she stirred from the blackness of unconsciousness. As her body started to wake she could feel that she was indeed laying between soft sheets and a warm blanket. The ache in her body was terrible and when she made to move a groan floated from her lips. It felt like she had stood and to the stampeding steps of a a herd of rushing buffalo, or horses…moving again…definitely buffalo… She thought.

Another thing she noticed was that her eyes had been covered with a wrap tied around her head. Groggily she made to sit up but had pressed firmly to her shoulder kept her from doing so.

"You should lie still. You were in pretty bad shape." Came a female voice, there was a sternness to its tone but she felt like she could trust to do as the voice commanded and did so. Opening her mouth to speak she found her throat harsh and raw.

"Here…drink this.." A glass was soon put to her cracked lips and a cool liquid slipped into her mouth. It was a wonderful taste as it soothed the aching heat in her throat.,"Careful not so much at once.." The voice said softly.

When she had her share of drink, the glass was taken away and she sighed in relief."I.." Her voice cracked as she forced the words she wished to say from her mouth, despite the protest of her aching jaw."Th-thank you.." She cringed at the sound of her rough voice."For your kindness…but I've no coin to pay you-"

"Shh….rest now…try not to burden yourself with worry.." The hand that had held her shoulder moved to caress her forehead lulling her to give into the heaviness of sleep coming over her.

"But…I.."

"Sleep.." The voice soothed and she made a sound deep in her throat to protest but the power of sleep was strong and she gave in to the realms of Morpheus.

Elsa watched as the woman fell back to sleep, the look of worry no longer etched into her slumbering face. Not like the first week she had been here, it was just as the physician said, but it would quite some time before this woman would be up fully and by that time she was told the baby she carried would be ready to enter the world. With a sigh Elsa stood from the edge of the bed with a bowl of cooling water, she would not wait that long however to question her new guest as to why she was out in the middle of a snow storm…