Disclaimer: I do not own Frozen or Rise of The Guardians.
So this story is based off the movie Conviction (very good movie, I recommend it). It has a few changes from the movie though. Also I changed a few other factors like Elsa's and Anna's age when her parents died (it make sense on the story) and her parents' personality a tiny winy bit.
Chapter 1: A Wrongful Arrest
Arendelle, 1980
"Elsa Frost, you have to come with me," Officer Nancy Taylor said.
"Why?" Elsa asked. She was starting to sound annoyed.
"Ma'am, you have to come with me."
"Elsa?" Anna whispered. She looked as confused as Elsa did. What was going on?
"Can it wait till after the funeral?" Elsa asked.
They were at her parents' funeral when the officers had approached Elsa. They had walked down the aisle and they walked right up to Elsa. Elsa was getting very annoyed. She was trying to say goodbye to her mother and father and now the police were harassing her.
"Put your hands behind your head," Officer Taylor said.
"You've got to me kidding me," Elsa said.
Officer Taylor then forcibly placed Elsa's hands behind her bed and took out handcuffs.
"Elsa Frost, you are under arrest for the murders of Agdar and Idun Winters," Officer Taylor said.
"You have got to be kidding me," Elsa said.
People were looking at her. Anna had tears in her eyes. Her husband Jack was looking bewildered while their daughter Sigrid cried in his arms. Their son, Leif, was sitting next to Jack and was crying to.
"I didn't do it Anna," Elsa screamed as they led her out of the church. "I didn't do it."
People were staring and whispering. They pointed at her as the police led her out of the church. Elsa could feel everyone's eyes on her.
The officers forced Elsa into a police car and they drove down to the station. Elsa couldn't believe what was happening. Was she really being accused of her parents' murder? That was simply ridiculous. They soon arrived at the station where Officer Taylor led Elsa into an interview room. Elsa was shoved onto a seat facing Officer Taylor who was sitting opposite her. Office Taylor then slammed her hands onto the table which made Elsa flinch. Office Taylor smiled at Elsa's nervousness.
"So I know you did it," she said.
"I didn't," Elsa said forcibly.
"Come on, we have your prints at their house," Officer Taylor said but she was interrupted by Elsa.
"Well of course you would, the murder scene was my parents' house."
Officer Taylor ignored this statement from Elsa. She then opened the folder that was sitting in front of her. Elsa could see a picture of herself clipped to what she could only guess was her own file.
"That's not the only thing I have but maybe we will wait for the trail until I reveal all my cards," Officer Taylor said with a twisted smile.
A trial? This was seriously going to trial? What evidence did they have that was making Officer Taylor smirk like she was?
"Now I would love a confession. Not that I need it," Officer Taylor added.
"Why would I confess to something I didn't do?"
Officer Taylor smile got even wider.
"Oh Elsa," she said. "We both know you did it. Now it's my job to prove that you did it and I always get my man although in case, woman."
After Elsa had been taken away by the cops, Anna had no idea what to think of it all. All Anna could think about was how ridiculous it was that the police thought that Elsa had murdered their parents.
It had happened three weeks ago. Anna had gone over to her parents' house to talk to them about the whole business with Elsa and Jack. Her parents never really liked Jack. Anna had no idea why. She thought it was because Jack never took things seriously and seemed to be a bad influence on Elsa when it fact it was the complete opposite. Maybe they just didn't get a good vibe from him. Anna didn't know. She had walked into the house and discovered the most horrific scene. There was blood on the walls that reached the ceiling. Blood soaked into the carpet and into floorboards underneath. Her Dad was lying unconscious in the living room. He looked almost unrecognisable as he had been so badly stabbed, it didn't leave a lot of him left. She had discovered her Mum in their bedroom upstairs. She was just in as bad position to her Dad. Anna figured that the attacker had gotten her Dad first and maybe her Mum had run up to hide in the bedroom. The attacker would have then followed. Anna had opened her mouth and screamed. A neighbour had heard her and had come running. She had also screamed when she saw the same thing that Anna had seen. The neighbour called the police and they arrived not five minutes later.
The police had questioned Anna extensively. She had answered all their questions while she was crying on the steps outside the house. She didn't want to be in that house while her parents were lying dead. The police had then turned to the neighbour. They questioned her. They asked if she knew anyone who would want to hurt Adgar and Idun Winters. She had responded with a yes. She had told them about their other daughter. She had told them about Elsa. She had told them how she had overheard a vicious argument between Elsa and Adgar and Idun. She had told them how the parents' relationship with the daughter had gone downhill. She had told them about the reason why that was. She told them about the parents' dislike of Elsa's choice of husband. She had led them to Elsa.
The police had started looking more and more into Elsa. The more they looked, the more they liked. It sent shivers up Anna's spine to think what they could have found. Anna had no idea what they found but it seem substantial enough to charge Elsa with the murder of her parents and send this to trial.
The thing about the murders is that they had been the first in years. The only crime that really took place in Arendelle were thefts, break ins and the occasional assault. Arendelle was a relatively crime-free place to live. The murders took the whole community by complete surprise and shock. However, they also rallied together. They wanted the killer's blood and they wanted it now.
The funeral had ended rather abruptly after Elsa's arrest. Anna had been led to the reception area by Kristoff, her husband. She was limp with shock. How could they believe that Elsa had anything to do with the murders? Elsa wasn't the kind to kill. Anna knew that Elsa's relationship with her parents was a bit strain and maybe even hostile at the moment but overall, Elsa loved her parents. But the police wouldn't arrest her base solely on that, would that? They must have some kind of evidence. But what did they have? A fingerprint? The murder weapon? A witness? They had to have something, but what? Anna knew that Elsa wasn't guilty, so whatever evidence they had against her must be weak.
Anna had only just realised that she was sitting in on a couch. Kristoff was next to her, rubbing her shoulder. Jack was trying to get his twin two year old son and daughter under control. Thankfully his Mum and sister, Pippa, were there, so both of them took the children. Anna could hear whispering all around her. People were buzzing with the news that Elsa had been arrested.
"I knew it," one said. "That Elsa was always the trouble maker."
"She bought her parents nothing but misery," another said.
"I'm not surprised that she did the thing she did," a man said.
Anna couldn't even be bothered to set the story straight to them. They weren't even worth the effort.
"Elsa would never have killed her parents," Jack whispered. "I know Elsa. I know her better than she knows herself and I know that she would never pick up a knife and stab her parents to death."
"If only everyone else had the same logic as you," Kristoff said to his brother-in-law.
Anna was glad that at least the people closest to Elsa didn't think she was a murderer and that they knew that she was innocent.
Officer Taylor hadn't got anywhere with her interrogation of Elsa but that didn't seem to matter to her. It only seemed to spur her onwards. It didn't seem like the police cared about a confession – not that they were going to get one as Elsa couldn't confess to something she didn't do. Officer Taylor had something. She definitely had something on Elsa but Elsa had no idea what that could be. Maybe someone had seen someone of similar build and height to Elsa entering her parents' house and Officer Taylor had coached the witness to say that it had been Elsa that the witness had seen.
It was true that Elsa's relationship with her parents wasn't the best one that the moment. It hadn't been since the moment Elsa had bought Jack home to meet them when she was sixteen. Although her parents soon softened over a time, thinking that it was just going to be Elsa's high school boyfriend, that it was nothing major. They had hit the roof when they had found out that Elsa had eloped to Jack. It had happened two years ago when she was twenty one. She had found out she was pregnant and Jack couldn't wait to be a father. He had proposed right then and there as he wanted to marry her as soon as possible. Elsa had agreed and so along with them came, Anna, Kristoff, Jamie, Emma, Rapunzel, Merida, Tooth, Bunnymund, Sandy, North and Eugene. They all had gathered at a small church where Elsa and Jack got married. They waited a couple of months to tell her parents though. They had been excited at the news of a grandchild but not so much at the news that Elsa and Jack had eloped. Elsa wondered if they had broken the engagement first, been engaged for a bit and then gotten married. It would have given them time to get use to the marriage idea instead of just dumping it all on them at the same time.
Elsa couldn't help but think of everything that Officer Taylor had said during the interview. Most of it actually was true. She didn't have an alibi for the night in question. She didn't have the best relationship with her parents. She had been there the night of the murder. She had been angry and frustrated that night. She had been so angry and so frustrated at her Mum and Dad. She had just wanted them to listen to her but that never happened. But she wasn't angry enough to take a knife and shove it into her Dad's throat before turning it onto her Mum. She would never have done that. She didn't have it in her. She couldn't have done it even if she had wanted to.
Elsa had gone over there that night to have a talk with her parents. She had tried to make her parents see Jack from her perspective but it was no use. The nice calming talk that Elsa had gone over there to have with them turned into a full scale argument. They had a complete blow out and Elsa had stormed out of the house. She had driven around for about five hours to cool off before meeting Jack, Anna, Kristoff, Rapunzel and Merida at the local bar. Elsa had managed to forget about her troubles for the rest of the night. Nobody had seen her driving around which meant that no one could account for her whereabouts. Between the time that Elsa left her parents' house and Elsa arriving at the bar would have given her plenty of time to commit the murders and clean up. Well that was the police was thinking anyway.
Elsa had been put in a cell overnight and had been thrown some new jumpsuits to wear instead of her usual clothes. She was lying on the cold hard bed in the cell staring up at the ceiling. She had her hands pressed together on top of her stomach. She was thinking about her fate, about what was to come. She exhaled a long breath. What was going to happen to her? Elsa didn't know what the time was. She could just feel the minutes ticking by and by. She could feel the rising of her chest as she breathed in and out. The room was filled with a silence that Elsa didn't want to break. Nobody was speaking in the jail. It was deadly silent and dark. She didn't have a cellmate, so she was all alone in her cell. The silence that was consuming her started becoming unbearable. It was seeping into her very being and making her feel like she is losing her mind. It was going to make her go insane.
Elsa didn't know when she finally got to sleep but she did. Her sleep was dragged down by Elsa's despair of the situation that she's in.
A/N: So this is the first chapter. Please tell me what you guys think. Love it? Hate it? Warning: updates may be slow as University really hates me at the moment.
