I've noticed that a lot of the stories on here represent Anna and Elsa as unrelated. So I wanted to explore a relationship between them as they actually are, sisters. Because of this, this story will deal with incest, though mostly the relationship aspect rather than the physical. The first chapter is a bit of a fluff piece and the second lays on the seriousness a bit more.
Updated 7-21-16: rewrote a chunk of the second chapter and polished the entire thing up in general.
I've noticed that in quite a lot of the Elsanna relationship stories on here that Anna and Elsa are portrayed as unrelated, rather than sisters, so I wanted to write a little one-shot somewhat fluffy drama that explores their relationship and a large hurdle they face by being together. This story will discuss incest (in conversation only), so if you're not comfortable with that then all the more reason you should read it!
Some language.
Several bikes hung from the wooden beam-laden ceiling along with countless oddities including whisks, blenders, pot and pans, shovels, clocks, and even chairs. The rest of the room was stocked to the brim with clothing, decorations, flags, blankets, food, dishware, and toys; a seemingly unnecessary and random collection of items, though perhaps that was the idea. A couple of excited looking cashiers were at the far left side of the room, themselves hidden behind a wall of candy and other treats, while another employee wandered the floor helping those in need of satiating the burning hole in their pocket.
A red-headed girl with piercing blue eyes and a spattering of freckles across her cheeks and bridge of her nose pushed her way through the restaurant's set of double doors and into the eclectic store. Her hair was a fiery orange and done up into two braids that lie lazily over her shoulders, her right of which sported a narrow streak of white. She let the door swivel closed behind her and into her friend Naya who was following close behind.
"Ow! Anna, you ass."
"Huh?" Anna tore her gaze from the mesmerizing room and spun back toward her friend who remained silent with her eyebrows raised. "Oh. Well, whatever, you'll live."
"Not the point."
"I'm sure you'd be happy to tell me all about it, but for now just go look around. I'm going to go put our name in."
Anna smirked at her friend as she separated from her and headed toward the front of the room that housed an entrance that led into the restaurant section itself. She navigated past the maze of a shop and reached the hostess' podium that acted as a barrier between the customers and their anticipated food. As she waited behind several others who were all in line to give their name, she examined the hostess with great admiration. She had platinum blonde hair and the same, even identical, piercing blue eyes as herself. The similarity was striking and, for a moment, Anna willingly got lost in them.
The blonde cleared her throat for a second time, the first going unheard while in her daze. Anna shook herself back to reality and scooted herself in front of the girl and stared at her with a blatantly flirty smile. The hostess could only return a look of confusion before Anna tapped on the small clipboard resting on the podium.
"Anna."
"Anna, huh?"
"That's right."
"Just you?"
"And one other."
"I see. Well, Anna, there just so happens to be a table ready for you now."
"Well lucky for us then, huh?"
"No, not really. It's pretty empty in here."
Anna's face fell into a pout. "You're no fun. You gotta make the customer feel special."
"Surprisingly not in the job description. But thanks for the critique. Are you ready?"
"Yeah, yeah. Hold on." Anna rolled her eyes and went to fetch Naya.
The two were led into the main eating area by the captivating blonde and was sat at one of the tables nearest the windows. Just outside they could see along the entirety of the stretched covered patio filled with rocking chairs and oversized checker boards. Their attention was pulled back to the table when two menus were laid down in front of them.
"Your waiter will be with you in just a moment. Enjoy."
"Oh wait, hold on. You're not going to be our waiter?"
"Uh, no, I'm just the hostess. Thought that was obvious."
"Well, I mean, yeah, but I just think I would enjoy it more if you were."
A single eyebrow crept up. "And why is that?"
Anna found herself giddy for the lead-in but still managed to let her sultry side answer. "Because there's no chance that our waiter will be nearly as beautiful."
The blonde quickly grew wide-eyed, let her mouth fall open just a couple inches, and then hustled off back to her station at the entrance of the room. Even Anna's friend, an enthusiastic girl, though perhaps not to the extent of Anna, found herself surprised at what just occurred.
"Seriously?"
Anna broke off her obvious staring of the retreating hostess and focused back onto her friend. "What?"
"What? If you're gonna flirt with someone try not to be so brass about it. You drove that truck full force right into that poor girl and scared her off."
"If you know what you like, I don't see why you should beat around the bush. And besides, you totally missed the smile I saw right before she hustled off."
"You're delusional. The only look I saw was one of fear. You tend to do that with your…" Naya started swirling her hands in the air looking for the right word.
"My… what?"
"Gayness? I guess."
Anna burst out with a mixed-emotion laugh filled with both disbelief and honest enjoyment. "My gayness? What?"
"Yeah…" Naya nodded, as if agreeing with herself. "Now, and this is me speaking as your best friend, 'cause you know I love you, but I've noticed that you're just a little aggressive with it. I'm not judging or anything. It's just an observation."
"An observation, huh? Is this a long-lived observation?"
"I would say so, yes."
"You know what? Doesn't matter. Because you're just so happen going to observe me walking out of here with that beautiful creature's number."
"….delllluuuussional."
"Just watch, you can learn a thing or two." Anna, though not sure if she did physically in the real world, harrumphed.
Not long after scaring the desired one off, the actual waiter came by to offer up the restaurant's weekly special: a stack of peach-pecan pancakes with the usual trimmings of meats and a few eggs. Anna opted for it while Naya went with the traditional ham, egg, and hash browns combo. Both meals arrived not fifteen minutes later, complete with side toast and coffee. They started digging into it as if they hadn't eaten in over a week, devouring through half of it by the time the waiter came back to check up on them.
Naya slumped back into her chair after he refilled their drinks and eyed Anna who was clearly absent-mindedly eating the second half of the food while staring off toward the entrance they came in.
"Man, you're really obsessed. Take a break and focus on the food for a second."
Anna slowly turned her head toward the voice while keeping her eyes stationary. They, too, eventually swiveled over and made contact with Naya's. "Huh?"
"I said you're obsessed. You haven't stopped staring at her the entire time."
"Well, come on, can you really blame me? I mean did you see her?"
"Yes, she was very pretty, but still."
"Pretty? She's gorgeous. It's ridiculous."
"And you think you have a chance with her?"
Anna scoffed before narrowing her eyes. "Yeah. I do. And I take offense to that little snark."
"Just laying down the reality on ya. Don't want you getting too lost in that little fantasy world of yours."
"Well fuck you too." Anna smirked before letting her eyes drop back down in shame to her plate of mangled pancakes and specks of remaining egg. "Ugh, I'm gonna feel like shit later. Want to get out of here?"
"Yeah I think I'm done. You gonna go hit up your girl crush?"
Anna's eyes lit up with the question. "Absolutely. You should head out first and watch the magic that's about to unfold right before your eyes."
"I'm expecting a train wreck, but you know, I'm sure magic will happen instead."
Anna followed Naya out through the restaurant and back into the attached store. She lagged behind once she passed by the blonde hostess and let Naya continue farther who eventually watched from a distance in complete anticipated enjoyment.
Anna smiled at the girl standing in front of her who was looking back at her in confusion. Her eyes slowly drifted downward and focused onto a tag pinned onto her shirt.
"Elsa, huh?"
"…what are you doing?"
"Sorry if I'm being a little forward here, Elsa, but I just couldn't stop thinking about you the entire meal."
The confused look gave way to a nervous frown. "Seriously, what the hell are you doing?"
"I just wanted to say that I was absolutely stunned by your beauty from the moment I saw you. And, well, I don't know which way you… you know, go, but I'd love to take you out for coffee sometime. If you're willing that is. My treat."
Elsa clearly appeared flustered and was at a loss for words. She was only able to manage a few short exhales in lieu of words.
"So I'll take that as a yes?"
"Fine. Just-" She lowered her voice along with her head. "Yes, if it'll stop this and get you out of here."
"Great! I'll meet you after your shift ends. Six right?"
"Oh my god…"
"Six it is! See you then!"
The quick conversation left the redhead grinning from ear to ear and the blonde nervous and embarrassed. Elsa jerked her head back and forth a few times to see if anyone had noticed their little exchange. She sighed in slight relief after seeing no noticeable reactions and then settled back into her regular position once a group stopped in front of her for their chance at breakfast.
Anna walked with complete pride and smugness back over to Naya who had watched the entire thing in great amusement.
"What I'd tell ya? You scared her again."
"Pfft, you missed the meat of the conversation. I'm meeting her after work. Sooooo, ha."
"Wait, seriously? That girl, the completely mortified looking one, actually agreed to you taking her out? …seriously?"
"Oh ye of little faith."
Naya let out a groan before turning toward the exit of the building. "I still don't believe it, but if you're not lying then I suppose I should give you props. Hard to believe a girl like that wasn't taken already."
"Yeah, seriously."
They stopped outside in the parking lot and shared a quick hug.
"Thanks for breakfast by the way, we need to get out more often."
"Yeah we do..."
Anna shrugged in acceptance of their undesired and necessary situations. "Adult stuff, am I right?"
"Unfortunately." Naya sighed and focused inwards while her eyes stared passed Anna. "I miss all the crap we could get away with in high school."
"It was a simpler time." Anna shook her head back into reality before getting too sucked back in time. "Stop, stop. You're getting me all nostalgic."
Naya chuckled and extended a mercy hand gesture. "Alright, sorry. But I really do gotta go. Let me know how it goes with the hostess."
"I will. Should be exciting."
They hugged once more before splitting off to their respective cars. Anna drove back to her small apartment in the city, her cat greeting her with little mews upon stepping through the door.
The white ball of fluff followed closely at her feet as she made her way into the laundry room and began pouring some kibbles into a small plastic bowl on the floor. She bent down to stroke it a few times and went to rest on the couch in front of the television. She waited impatiently for her physics-breaking clock, which seemed to tick once for every two seconds that passed, to finally cross over the five thirty threshold. She quickly straightened out her hair, slid on some lipstick, brushed on some slight mascara, and headed out the door. She drove out to the edge of the city, retracing her tracks from just hours before.
She spotted Elsa already standing next to one of the many rocking chairs that seemed to saturate the wraparound porch along the building's storefront. She parked the car and walked across the parking lot to a frustrated Elsa who crossed her arms over her chest once she neared.
Anna grinned despite the cold outward persona. "Hey, sweetheart."
"Want to tell me what the hell all that was about, Anna?"
"Well nice to see you too." She tried to keep the smile going but was quickly discouraged by Elsa's burning stare. "You're mad."
"Yeah, no shit."
"Oh come on, I was just playing."
"Fine, great, play around when you want, but not at my work. And especially not when I'm working. Seriously, what were you thinking?"
Anna found her ability to keep eye-contact on the girl waning quickly. "I was thinking I just wanted to see you."
"That's nice and everything, but what if someone saw us who knew us? Let alone heard you. And what about Naya?"
"What about her?"
"Does she even know that we're-"
"No. She doesn't."
"Is she going to?"
"…I don't know."
"Anna."
"Alright. I get it. I'm sorry. I really was just trying to have fun. But I get it. I won't do it again."
"Okay." Elsa looked at the other girl and sighed when she realized just how quickly she managed to kill her happy spirit. "I'm sorry. I don't mean to be an asshole. It's just that if anyone found out, I don't-"
"Don't be sorry. I should be the one apologizing. It was stupid. I just love you and I want to be able to share that with people. Even if it is in disguise."
"I know, me too. Someday. I'm just not ready to deal with all that right now."
"Someday..." Anna repeated for emphasis. "Just not today."
Elsa lost some of her apologetic voice. "We've been through this, Anna."
"A lot. I know."
"Right."
Anna gave up trying to hold herself back, unable to find the point. "But there lies the problem though, doesn't it?"
"What do you mean?"
"We've talked about telling people a lot. As in, for a long time. As in, still not actually having done it."
Elsa let her hands fall off her chest and started using them in charismatic gestures. "I guess we're doing this again. Okay, so let's think this through shall we? If you really had the chance to tell someone right now, would you?"
"Yes. I would. Of course."
"And who would you tell?"
"Naya."
"Naya… okay, fine. Let's say you go talk to her. What would you tell her? That you're fucking your sister?"
"You don't have to be so gross about it."
"That's what she'll hear."
"…but it's more than that."
"Of course it is… to us. To everyone else though that's all they'll think. They won't see it like we do."
"You don't know that."
"Yes. I do. Anna, babe, I'm just trying to protect us from the shit we'll have to deal with if we come out."
"You know I don't need to be protected."
"I know, Anna. But…"
A frown quickly found its way to Anna's face. "But what?"
"But… sometimes you don't think things all the way through. You have a habit of being spontaneous."
"Spontaneous? Seriously? Do you know how long we've kept secret what we have, Elsa? Do you?"
"Two years and four months…"
"I'm surprised you remember."
"Don't be like that. Of course I remember."
"Two years and four months. That is a hell of a lot of time to pass to think that I'm still being spontaneous. And I know what it means to say that I love my sister… that I'm in love with my sister. I'm not stupid. If people are less than kind to what we have together, then we don't need them in our lives anyway. But I can't just keep hiding it from everyone."
"Okay, I get it. I-"
"Do you know how depressed and miserable I was when I was still hiding that I was gay?"
"I do…"
"And do you know what happened when I told Naya?" Anna waited for a moment for a response but pushed on when she received minimal eye contact. "She accepted me immediately and I've never felt more relived in my life. But guess what? I'm right back to doing the same exact thing as before. I can't… I won't keep doing this. I just won't, Elsa." Anna took a deep breath to slow down her whirring thoughts. "And to answer your question, I would tell her that I love my sister… in a way that most people don't. That's it. I'm sure she'd understand."
Elsa remained silent for an unbearable amount of time while the gears in her mind spun at full speed. Her sister's words were flying around in her head along with the consequences that they would potentially, or likely, bring to their lives. Both of their sides were in full debate, one side very gradually winning over the other after an infinite number of examinations within a very finite hearing. She finally managed to drag her eyes up to meet Anna's, her voice defeated, almost sad.
"…okay."
Anna's eyes widened as her eyebrows climbed high. "Okay?"
Elsa nodded slowly. "Okay."
"I just… I want to make sure we're talking about the same thing here. Are you actually approving the idea to tell others about us?"
"To tell Naya… but yes. I am." Elsa sighed and let her mind focus heavily inward before speaking again. "You're right. About everything. You're my sister first, and I can't stand to see you be miserable again. It was hard enough the first time; I don't want you going through that again… or for any longer I guess."
Anna very gently smiled, her eyes wide and showing only love, and wrapped her sister in a full embrace. Elsa almost melted into it, their bodies unmoving for an expanse of time that seemed too short even by the universe's standards. Anna fell away just a little bit and rested their foreheads together.
"Thank you."
She pressed her lips against the blonde's, and though they had done so a thousand times in the past, this one held such a high importance to Anna, to the both of them. Elsa opened her eyes when they finally parted and focused in on a small reflective steak leading down the side of Anna's nose and wiped it away with her finger.
"I'm sorry. For everything."
"Don't be. Please."
"I love you more than anything, Anna. But you're still my sister, and I couldn't live with myself knowing I did something to screw that up."
"We're never not going to be sisters."
"I know, but I could seriously strain that. And we're already walking a tightrope with what we're doing, we just need to be careful… I need to be careful."
"Just be you. Seriously. I know you feel like you need to play the protective big sister role, but I don't need that. I need the girl I fell in love with."
Elsa's voice got caught in her throat along with a momentary inability to breath. Though she's heard it plenty before, Anna not one for being subtle, it still managed to make her feel just like it did the first time. "I think I can do that."
"Good." Anna managed to tear her gaze away from the self-proclaimed gorgeous creature that was her sister and over toward the car. "Now can we get going? It's cold and I need a break from all of this."
"Agreed. Lead on."
They pushed against each other, shoulder to shoulder, as they walked back across the parking lot toward the waiting car. The wind was blowing their hair against the sides of their faces before they finally got into the metal shelter and took their seats. Anna turned the ignition and adjusted the radio and heater after it roared to life. She turned her focus over to the blonde and just watched with a smile as she fiddled with her side's vents and then finally buckled up.
Elsa looked back over at Anna and copied the same goofy grin that she was receiving. "What?"
"I love you."
Elsa slowly leaned over toward the anxiously awaiting girl who met her halfway, their lips connecting for a quick moment of happiness. "I love you too."
"You're so amazing."
"I know."