Melted Ice

Okay guys so this is my first Frozen fanfic. It's kind of sad and I apologize and don't kill me. Also I would love any input, good or bad!

Category: Frozen
Genre:Grief
Characters: Anna, Kristoff, Elsa
Rating: K+
Words: 4,980

This is a few months after Kristoff and Anna get married.

"Are you sure you will be okay without me?" Anna asked for about the millionth time that week.

"Yeessss, I already told you that I will be fine, go have fun with your sister. I am going to be gone most of the time anyway," her wonderfully sexy husband told her rolling over on their big bed to face her. Kristoff had woken up to the same question everyday that week, and then a few more times throughout the day. "You don't have to worry about me while you are gone, princess."

"I know, but I still feel bad leaving you alone in this big castle," she whined snuggling closer to him, laying her head on his chest. Part of her wanted him to tell her to stay and never leave, but she knew that he would never ask her to stay.

"Like I said I won't really be in the castle when you are gone, but I promise I will be here waiting for you the second you return," he said bending down to give her one long passionate kiss, "And that night when you return we will make up for all of the nights we will miss together during the week."

"Well we don't have to wait for me to get back for that, I don't have to leave yet," Anna said starting the process of climbing on top of him when somebody knocked on the door. "Dammit," She muttered allowing herself to lay flat on top of Kristoff, "Who is it?"

"Your sister, you better start getting ready, we will depart shortly," Elsa said from outside the door.

"Be out in a minute," Anna hollered back to her sister. She noticed Kristoff giving her a funny look, "What's that look for?"

"You have never been ready in a minute."

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"Now Anna, I know you are used to being your crazy, clumsy self here in Arendelle, but when we reach Lorhaven I really need you to be on your best behavior," Elsa said. They were going to some big festival in Lorhaven (where ever that was), and Elsa had begged Anna to come along, since they hadn't spent all that much time together since Kristoff and her had gotten married. Anna was excited to get to spend time with her sister, but not excited for all of the politics that she would have to endure for the next week.

"Trust me, I will be on my best behavior," Anna said partially expecting to fall or trip or break something in that very moment.

"Okay, so Elsa, you know Anna is a very important person in my life, and I want to make sure that she returns safely to me so no staying up past midnight, don't drink too much at these parties, and whatever you do don't let her eat all the chocolate she shoved in her suitcase at one time. She will get hyper and sick and start vomiting while trying to sing at the top of her lungs to you," Kristoff told Elsa winking at Anna.

"She can't stop me, she has no power over me," Anna said when the tips of arm hair started to frost over, "Okay well maybe a little."

"Okay well I am going to go get the carriage prepared you two do all of your lovey dovey good bye stuff while I am gone, I will meet you outside. See you in a week Kristoff!" Elsa said.

The second Elsa left the room she had herself wrapped around Kristoff in a gentle embrace, "Just come with us, you can take a break from your ice business for a week," she whined.

"The point of this week is for you and your sister to have some bonding time. Enjoy it while you can, and I promise I will be here waiting when you return," Kristoff said kissing her lightly on the forehead. She was not going to leave him with just a kiss on the forehead though, and she stood on her tippy toes as tall as she could and planted a big giant kiss on his lips.

"I love you."

"I love you too, Anna."

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As much as Anna missed Kristoff she was so happy she had gone with Elsa. Their entire week had been packed with balls, festivities, feasts, and music. She also enjoyed getting to spend a much-needed week with her sister, who she realized had been slightly neglected since her marriage.

Anna was super happy she had gone and gotten her sister time in, but now she was ready to get home to her loving husband who she missed dearly, "How much longer until Arendelle?" Anna asked her sister.

"We are almost there Anna, have some patience," Elsa said, obviously she was starting to get annoyed with Anna's strong desire to return home. "Look you can see the castle in the distance."

"That is too far away, how do you handle these long trips stuck in this stupid carriage for days! I hate this carriage. I just want to get home to my Kristoff, because I miss him so much, and those stupid guest bedrooms that they let us sleep in weren't nearly as comfortable as our beds in our own castle. Also, their beds didn't have an ice harvester in them. It has become a necessity that my bed have an ice harvester in it, so I was a little disappointed," Anna rambled on for the remainder of the trip barely noticing how her sister grew more annoyed as they went on.

When they finally arrived Anna ran at full speed to the castle. She burst in through the doors and immediately started shouting "Kristoff," into the castle. She was a little disappointed that he wasn't at the door waiting for her return, but she figure he must have some kind of plan for her.

She checked her room first to see if he was just really eager to get started on making up for the lost nights, but he wasn't there. She then started to search the entire castle because finally giving up and asking Gerda where Kristoff was.

"Kristoff? He has been gone a few days now. He stayed and helped around the castle the first couple days you were gone, but on the third day he went to go do whatever he does, he will probably be home soon," Gerda assured her.

The news that Kristoff wasn't home yet ruined Anna's day. She moped around the rest of the day just waiting for Kristoff to return so she could give him a passionate kiss and then scold him for not being home on time. She hadn't started to worry yet, she was more just hurt that he hadn't made sure was home in time for her return.

"He probably just found a really good ice harvesting place, or maybe he got the days mixed up, or maybe his path was blocked and he had to take another one, whatever it is he will be here soon enough," Elsa assured Anna coming up with a different reason why he could be gone almost every hour.

"I just don't see why he couldn't have tried harder to be here when we got home, I am always here when he gets home," Anna said pouting on the couch in Elsa's office.

"You never go anywhere to be gone when he gets here, Anna," Elsa said, "He made a mistake, when you guys return you will make googly eyes at each other for a couple hours and then all will be right with the world again, you just wait and see."

The next day Anna woke up to an upset stomach and spent most of her morning to preoccupied with throwing up to notice Kristoff's absence.

"Did you eat all of the chocolate out of spite for him not getting here in time?" Elsa asked a small chuckle escaping her as she helped her sister back into her bed. She had taken a break from her appointments to help take care of her sister.

"No! I wouldn't do that; I am really starting to get worried! What if I fall deathly ill and Kristoff isn't here and he finally makes it home and I am dead from this horrible disease?" Anna asked.

"I assure you are just making yourself sick from all this stress. Just try not to worry about him. He is a big boy," Gerda assured Anna.

Anna tried not to worry as much about Kristoff, but she just couldn't help imagining him stranded out on the mountain all alone. Gerda was right though; she wasn't getting some severe disease. By the afternoon she was feeling much better and asked Kai to make her the biggest sandwich anybody could possibly make.

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A couple weeks dragged by and nothing had changed. Kristoff was still gone, Anna was becoming more and more worried by the day, and for the first couple weeks her sickness became more and more prominent, but it eventually seemed to disappear.

"Do you need anything Miss Anna?" Gerda asked her politely. Anna was surprised that anybody was still being nice to her. She had snapped at nearly everybody in the castle because the murmings of what happened to Kristoff were getting louder, and yet everybody still tried to convince her that he was all right.

"Kristoff…" Anna said at first, tears coming to her eyes just at the name, she wanted him to return home so badly, but even her fear and sorrow couldn't hide the emptiness of her stomach. "Actually Gerda, I could use some food, and make sure there isn't any turkey involved, it makes the vomiting come back. Oh I could also go for some strawberries," She wanted to be too upset to eat, but the past couple days she felt like a cow eating everything in the castle.

"Okay no turkey, and something strawberry," Gerda said to herself before leaving Anna alone with her thoughts again. She couldn't believe Kristoff hadn't returned yet. She hadn't quite given up hope, something inside her said he was still alive, but the whole in her heart continued to grow everyday.

Gerda returned with the food, and Anna gave her thanks, and dismissed her, but Gerda just stood in the doorway eyeballing her weird, "What is it Gerda?"

"Turkey makes you vomit?"

"I guess I have a new aversion towards it."

"You don't usually ask for strawberries."

"So? I wanted strawberries. Why are you questioning me?"

"Anna dear, I know this is a bit personal, and you don't have to tell me, but have you bled recently?" Gerda asked the look of horror on Anna's face held the answer to the question,

"No. Gerda it can't be! Kristoff hasn't returned, what if he never returns, what if…? What if…? I don't want to do this, it can't happen… I need Kristoff," Anna said bursting into uncontrollable tears.

"Lets not fret too much yet, we don't know for sure, it was just an idea, lets give it sometime before we jump to conclusions," Gerda said hastily not meaning to make Anna upset.

A few hours later shouting was heard from the entrance of the castle, "QUEEN ELSA! PRINCESS ANNA! COME QUICK!" Anna didn't have time to register who was yelling, but it could potentially mean they found something out about Kristoff. Her heart was heavy as she ran down the stairs, hoping that this news had brought him back to her was wonderful news and not a horrific tale.

When she got downstairs, Elsa was already down their talking to the guard who had presumably yelled for them. The look on Elsa's face was not one that Anna wanted to see. "What happened? Is it Kristoff?"

"Anna… they found Sven, and the sled, but not Kristoff," Elsa told Anna cautiously not ready for her sister's reaction.

"They found Sven… Is he all right? I mean if he is alive that Kristoff has to be alive, Kristoff had to be keeping Sven alive right?" Anna asked in panic grasping for any hope she could get.

"Sven is fine, but he is a reindeer, he could live by himself if he wanted to, he just chooses to stay with Kristoff. Plus we found a bag with a few carrots still left in it, in the sled. He has probably been living off of those for a little while," The guard told Anna, "I brought Sven and the sled back, and I sent a few more men back to where we found it to heavy the search around there, but if he isn't near Sven. Then chances are he isn't going to be found… If he is even still alive to be found."

Anna just blinked a couple times at the guard. Tears hadn't really started to form yet, but she couldn't handle the looks she was getting from everybody. She took one helpless look at Elsa before she ran out of the castle and towards the stables.

Just the sight of Sven brought tears to her eyes, she went and wrapped her arms around his big neck and sobbed into him. She knew anybody who saw her would probably think she was crazy for going to a reindeer for her issues, but Sven was the only one who could even start to understand what she was going through. He was the only living being that loved Kristoff almost as much as she did. She stroked the reindeer lovingly and the sadness in his eyes was more than she could bear. The sadness in his eyes was what proved to her that Kristoff was never coming back. She stayed in the stables all night with Sven. Sometimes she just sat there quietly and sometimes she talked to Sven. She told him about the news Gerda had given her, and she swore that he understood her, that his sad reindeer eyes grew sadder with the news.

That night she fell asleep in the stables, using Sven as a pillow. No one had interrupted her that evening, not even Elsa. They probably didn't know what to say, and were probably afraid of her reaction if they told her it was going to all be okay, because it was not going to be okay.

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Elsa sat in her office going through the massive stack of paperwork that had to be done. She hated all of the stuff she had to do. All of the menial tasks were hindering her from helping take care of her sister. It had been about five months since they found Sven; Anna had grown worst every day since then. About a month after they found Sven they finally gave up the search for Kristoff, and presumed him as dead. Kristoff's funeral was one of the only times Anna had even left the castle since that night.

The day of Kristoff's funeral was the worst day Elsa had ever witnessed. Elsa had done all of the planning for the funeral, for her sister was in no place to be planning anything. Since Kristoff was not technically royalty she wasn't allowed to put his headstone in the royal graveyard with her parents, but she made a little place near it for him, and presumably Anna when she passed, hopefully much later on.

The impact Kristoff had on other people's life was apparent through the fact that every single person was truly heartbroken. Shortly after Kristoff had moved into the castle, all of the ordinary townspeople came to him with their problems and things they wanted Elsa to know about, and he quickly became a representative for everybody in the town making his death especially hard on the townspeople who seemed to have lost their voice with him. She also had seen more upset ice harvesters then most people probably ever did. The worst person of all though was Anna.

Anna had basically been a lifeless blob for the past few weeks as it became more obvious that Kristoff wasn't returning. That day was no different.

She had gotten up and been shoved into an elegant black gown, and her red hair had been pinned back, a little black hat covering up the majority of her fiery hair. She would have looked beautiful, but the lack of emotion on her face made her hard to take in. By the time the funeral had arrived, it was also very apparent by her swollen belly that she was with child.

The funeral was the first time anybody had really gotten to see Anna since they had returned, and everybody was quick to notice her growing size.

"Oh she is so beautiful… What a poor girl."

"Does she look bigger to you?"

"Oh how horribly tragic, a funeral, and a pregnancy all at the same time."

The first arrangement of the day was the public funeral, which didn't seem to break Anna's emotionless wall down to much. She mostly stayed close to Elsa and just stared into space, and let everybody else pay his or her respects to her dead husband.

After the crowd had died down though Elsa, Anna, Sven, and Olaf had stayed around to have a smaller private funeral. Elsa said a few words about her brother-in-law, and Anna tried to muster up some kind of coherent sentence, but ended up just hugging Kristoff's headstone bawling hysterically into it.

For the next week Anna spent most of her time at Kristoff's headstone. She would just sit there curled up against it talking for hours, and every time Elsa looked out the tragic scene Anna was in fact talking. Sometimes she would listen to what she was telling him, hoping that she would give away something that Elsa could use to console her. However, the conversation usually surrounded the baby, things that weren't easy for Elsa to hear.

"Kristoff, please just don't be dead… I-I need you… W-We need you… I can't raise a baby on my own. I have never even been around a baby, and what if it looks just like you. I don't think I can handle it Kristoff, I just can't. Maybe I will just have it and leave it at the castle and go run off into the mountains and join you wherever you are now. Because I don't think I can raise a baby on my own, and I know that I don't want to raise our baby without you…"

Elsa didn't know how to help her sister. She was in so much pain, and had lost all hope in life. She wasn't eating properly, or at all really, and she spent all of her time either in her room, the stables, or Kristoff's grave. She didn't really interact with people, not even Elsa. Everybody had started to worry for not only Anna, but also the baby. Anna had, had so many issues already with the pregnancy. She was in so much pain, and a few times they thought she was even starting to have contractions, but thankfully they were all false alarms. They were all so worried, but Gerda kept reassuring that because Anna's stomach was still growing at an average pace that the baby had to be pretty healthy.

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Anna was lying in her big comfy bed curled up next to her big comfy husband. He smiled at her, the best smile any person could ever give. He was just so perfect. The light made his messy blonde hair almost golden, and he looked like he could be a Greek God lying beside her.

She never wanted the moment to end. It was the most simple moment ever just her and her Kristoff curled up in bed making those lovey dovey faces Elsa used to make fun of them for. Used. As in the past.

All of a sudden Kristoff was holding a baby, a baby that was just like him in every way. It had the same blonde hair, brown eyes, and she swore it even had his build. "It's all in the past Anna, I have to go," he told her, he didn't even seem sad to let her go, he seemed almost happy to leave her. He started to disappear, the baby with him, she grasped onto his arm just to try to keep some part of him with her, and then he was gone.

She woke up in her own empty bed, covered in tears, and sweat, and a horrible pain in her stomach "Gerda!" She yelled.

Elsa had rushed to Anna's room at the news of her sister going into labor. She sat down in the corner of the room though not sure how to make herself useful, but she knew she had to stay there incase Anna needed her.

Gerda had informed Elsa that it was a little early, but shouldn't be too much of an issue. Elsa sat there for what felt like ages just watching Anna cry and scream in torment. Elsa didn't know a lot about pregnancies and babies, but she was pretty sure it wasn't to be as bad as Anna made it seem.

It finally came time to push, and Anna felt like she had zero effort left to put into anything. She put the remaining amount of energy into getting the child out of her, and was relieved to hear the loud sound of crying. Gerda got the baby cleaned up and handed her a beautiful baby boy. He was small, but healthy.

Anna felt a wave of all of the emotions she had been holding back for the past nine months. She felt joy for bringing her beautiful son into the world, but also sorrow for bringing him in fatherless. Anna was in so much pain, but forced herself to focus on the bundle in her arms.

He was the spitting image of Kristoff, even after being alive for so little time. He had a little tuft of blonde hair and stared up at her with big brown eyes. She cried as she held the baby closer to her. She didn't understand how something so small could bring her so much pain. She was brought back to reality by the sound of her name, "What?" She asked.

"What are you going to name him?" Elsa asked finally leaving her corner to peer over at the little baby.

"Kristopher…" Anna answered stroking the little baby's cheek with her index finger. He was too much of his father to not have a name too much like his father's. She saw the look Elsa and Gerda exchanged wondering if she could handle a name so much like Kristoff, but she knew it was his rightful name. She had been so consumed with the baby she almost had forgotten the pain, until another strong wave of it her, "Gerda, isn't the pain supposed to go away?"

"Are you still having contractions?" Gerda asked concerned.

"Yes, the pain just never really went away after Kristopher came out," Anna said, fear showing in her eyes as one of the other helpers took Kristopher out of her arms. Another sharp pain came making Anna cry out, "Why isn't it stopping?"

"I think… There might be another one," Gerda told Anna.

Anna didn't say anything; she didn't know how to react. She was pretty sure she couldn't handle Kristopher without Kristoff, but she knew that she couldn't handle two without him. Even worst, she wasn't one hundred percent sure her body could handle pushing out another child. She had barely managed pushing out Kristopher. Sure enough though a few minutes later she felt the second baby trying to break free of it's nine-month prison.

Anna knew something was wrong the second she started too push. Her heart was racing much too fast, and she was working much too hard just to get air into her lungs, while at the same time pushing a baby out. Anna was barely able to keep conscious as she heard a very pathetic little cry, a cry not nearly as stable as Kristopher's.

The baby was placed into Anna's arms. She tried to keep her eyes open enough to look at the little girl now in her arms, she saw Elsa leave the room, but was much to preoccupied on the baby. She was much too small, easily half the size of Kristopher. She was so tiny, and frail, and looked just like Anna. She had less hair then her brother, but the tiny bit was red, and she had pitiful green eyes.

Elsa was so overwhelmed by her sister's pain, and was so afraid about how her sister was going to handle two babies. When ice had begun to creep along the wall Elsa took that as her cue to leave.

Elsa sat out in the hallway trying to calm herself down. She was so scared and nervous for Anna. If she even did survive the excursion how was she going to handle raising two kids on her own, especially with one as small as the little girl was

Elsa finally made her way back into the room only to see the most horrible sight. Gerda was standing near the bed holding the baby boy crying. Anna was on the bed lifeless, holding an equally lifeless baby girl.

Elsa wanted to take the baby off of Gerda's hands, but the walls were mostly iced over by now and she was too afraid of what she would do to a baby. Instead she retook her chair in the corner, and started crying, letting the tears flow out of her. She had tried to stay strong for Anna throughout the entire time, but it seemed like there was nobody to be strong for anymore.

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It had been a year since Arendelle had lost its Princess. A lost that nobody had really seemed to get over, and a sad air of grief existed every time Elsa came into town with Kristopher. Kristopher was one of the happiest babies anybody had known, but his birth and life was surrounded by so much grief.

A strange man walked the town of Arendelle that day, the year anniversary of Anna's death. The man had long blonde hair, and a long blonde beard to match it. There was something familiar about the man, but at the same time nobody could figure out who he was.

The man was Kristoff.

When Kristoff had left for ice harvesting almost two years ago, nobody would have expected that he would have gotten kidnapped. That one of Hans' brothers had a personal vendetta against the kingdom of Arendelle and was determined to avenge his brother.

Kristoff had been wounded and then taken to the southern aisles where he would stay for much too long. Only Hans' and his brother Anders knew that Kristoff had been locked down in the dungeon, the rest of their brothers stayed as far away from there as possible.

Kristoff was forced to stay in a dungeon cell while he was fed information about what was happening in Arendelle, information that he was forced to decide if it was true or not.

He was told that Elsa had gotten married and was with child, he was told that Anna was rejoicing in Kristoff's absence, that she had remarried, and that Kristoff was presumed dead.

Finally one of Hans' older brothers had gone down into the dungeon to throw another person down there, and found and released Kristoff immediately.

Kristoff was just happy to be back in Arendelle so that he could let everybody know that he was in fact alive, and hopefully he would find a not remarried Anna who would accept him back into her life with open arms.

The closer he grew to the castle the faster his heart pounded inside his chest; he had missed Anna so much. Kristoff was so excited to get back to the castle that he had pretty much ignored the solemn mood that grew thicker as he made his way to the castle, and it wasn't until he actually got inside the castle grounds that the full weight of the sorrow hit him full force. Why was everybody so miserable?

Kristoff saw a huge mob of people huddled together towards the back of castle, and made his way over there. They all seemed to be surrounding something as he drew closer he realized that the something was two large, beautiful headstones. They were both covered in elaborate webs of ice, and though they were not touching there was an ice heart connecting them together.

He starred at the breath taking beauty of the headstone for a few moments, too afraid to read the name on them, and then he finally grew the courage to read them pushing his way through the crowd until he was directly in front of them.

The first one read, as expected, "Kristoff Bjorgman." It was the second one that Kristoff could barely manage to read, "Anna and Anastasia Bjorgman."

Kristoff stayed at the tombstones just not long enough to take in the names before he exited the mob. He gave a quick look around the courtyard before heading to the castle stables. He saw Elsa in the background holding a bouncy baby boy, but figured Hans' brother must have told some truths.

When Kristoff got to the stables he was relieved to see a fat and happy Sven. He was grateful that something was left of the life he had before. When Sven saw Kristoff he got really happy and started hopping up and down in the stable, but he quickly calmed down noticing Kristoff's mood, "Hey there buddy. Lets go," Kristoff mumbled to the reindeer getting him out of the stable and riding him out of the castle.