Envenom - To taint or lace with poison.
Queen Elsa stood at her Coronation Day party. Dark green dress and long trailing purple cape. Blue-Green gloves covering her Icy hands. She had her platinum blonde hair neatly pinned up on top her head. There were other royals who were standing around talking to each other while Elsa watched over them. Anna her sister was right beside her, the fiery red head proved to be quite a contrast in personality to the lonely isolated Queen. Princess Anna was a perky, optimistic eighteen year old. Anna was quiet for a long time, she wasn't sure what to say to her sister. Or if Elsa would even bother to respond to her. The two sisters hadn't spoken in many years. This one would be the thirteenth year.
"Hi." Elsa smiles softy looking at Anna with her own hair neatly tucked away, and gorgeous dress cheerly representing her personality with the colour of spring.
"Wait? What? Hi, hi me?" she asked surprised.
"Of course, Who else would I be talking to." Elsa smiled laughing lightly. "You look wonderful tonight." In truth Elsa missed her sister but each time she saw the spritely girl around the castle halls it only made her remember of the horrible truth. That she was a danger to Anna's safety.
The two girls were interrupted shortly afterwards. As a tall man with red hair came up to them. "Hello your majesty, I am Prince Hans of the southern Isles. It is a pleasure to finally meet the Royals of Arendelle." He smiled bowing slightly before them. Anna giggled lightly and turned to Elsa who seemed to be softly smiling.
"Yes." Elsa began in a cautious tone. "It is lovely to meet you as well." she held her hands together in front of her hoping Hans wouldn't stay long, she feared he may end up falling for her and she had no interest in that. Elsa, Hans and Anna spoke all through the night Elsa had hoped that he would leave but as soon as the conversation seemed to be coming to an end, someone would think of a new topic to keep it going. Yet Hans seemed to be keeping his distance from her, and she was able to relax a little. The Queen never provided much insight into the conversation, she would keep her replies short and simple. Whereas her sister seemed overjoyed at the newfound human contact.
"Hans, would you get us something to drink." Anna asked brightly smiling at him. "All this talking has me thirsty."
"Of course princess." He bowed in respect and walked towards someone carrying drinks on a tray.
Taking two from the man holding them on the silverware.
As soon as he left Anna took Elsa's arms. "I think he likes you!" Anna smiled as Elsa pulled away from her sister. "Anna stop, I have no interest in marriage, or children or whatever. My focus is on ruling Arendelle. I don't need a family." Elsa replied in a harsh tone. "I can rule Arendelle alone I don't need help, especially not from him."
Anna looked hurt and broken. "Is that why you shut me out? Because you didn't need me? You didn't want me or love me?" The Princess Questioned nearly in tears. "Because Elsa I'm sorry if I ever hurt you, I don't know what I did to make you shut me out." Anna wiped tears from her cheeks. "We were so close Elsa." Anna paused unable to stop her tears. "We were going to rule together, like you said we would as kids... I'd be your right hand." Anna was able to begin calming herself down. "What made you hate me so much?" Anna finished her tone starting to grow angry.
"Anna I don't hate you, I do need you, I love you Anna it's just a little complicated..." Elsa whispered.
"Complicated! Elsa you never talk to me! I haven't had a conversation with you since we were kids!" Anna breathed out. "Im going for a walk, I need some fresh air." Anna left and walked out into the crowd not bothering to say another word to her sister. Hans returned to Elsa handing her a glass of wine "I wasn't quite sure what you would drink." he spoke I thought since you're finally Queen you might like something different. More elegant."
Elsa gazed down at the glass not exactly impressed, she would have Wine often before, it wasn't special or new. "This is fine." she sighed taking a small sip. As Hans gave her a nervous look, then directed his gaze to where Elsa was looking, Anna was walking out into the crowd, quickly shoving past people in the crowd who didn't seem to want to move for her.
"What happened to your sister?" Hans asked curiously glancing at the Queen. But Elsa kept her face forward, only watching as Anna left. "Anna and I haven't spoken in years, I miss her so much, but we just can't be together. We are so different and I would only end up hurting her."
Hans gave Elsa a sympathetic look, thinking she would be so easy to manipulate in such a vulnerable state. Becoming the King of Arendelle might prove to be easier than he thought. Elsa took another sip of her drink and when she was finished placed it on a silver platter one of the servants were holding. She stumbled around slightly falling into Hans. Embarrassed she looked up at him with a red face. "Oh! So sorry." she backed away from him brushing off her dress. "Not used to drinking much I guess." she spoke softly.
"I assure you it's nothing to worry about your Majesty, it's quite alright." he gave her a small nod. Elsa blinked quickly a bunch of times and her face went white. She breathed in once then collapsed to the floor. Some people began to notice and whispers filled the air Hans picked her up and brought her to her room.
One of the Doctors came by after a while and looked over her. "She doesn't seem sick, I'm worried about her. Perhaps everything tonight was a little too much for Elsa to handle, she hasn't been out much before." The doctor looked over her again. "How much was this girl drinking anyways?"
"Next to nothing, surely not enough to cause this, might've been the stress." Hans suggested.
As soon as Anna heard the news she raced to her sisters room to find the sleeping Queen and Hans next to her. "You! What are you doing here!" she questioned in a shocked voice.
"I brought your sister here after she collapsed in the ballroom." he explained in a strong defendant tone.
"Oh no Elsa!" Anna rushed to her side and picked up her sisters hand. "I'm so sorry about everything I said to you, Elsa! I'm sorry and I love you and I want to be with you forever please forgive me please don't be mad"
But Elsa was barely conscious and still very weak. It didn't seem to be getting any better. "I think she's just exhausted, her heart rate and breathing are all normal. She might have just gotten an anxiety attack, Prince Hans suggested that she became very stressed and i believe it may have been a cause. Anna you should known Elsa rarely makes contact with anyone and the events today that occurred were very stressful for her. Anna I'm Sure you sister will be fine in the morning. You shouldn't worry so much, you're too young to be in such a state."
But Anna returned in the morning to find Elsa still incredibly weak. Most of the guests that had come to Arendelle for Elsa's coronation had left early in the morning. Except for Hans. The Prince remained in the castle, to Anna's dismay. At first she thought he liked her sister. But Elsa had already stated she had no interest in having a family at the moment. Now Hans was just an extra body Anna had to worry about, the Prince seemed to adore the Queen which caused Anna to grow nervous whenever he came into the room or whenever they met in the castle halls.
"Elsa?" Anna spoke softly sitting on the edge of her sisters bed. "Elsa please don't tell me to leave I love you and I'm so worried for you please let me stay here. I want to take care of you." Anna reached for her sisters hand. "You're cold." she said shocked pulling away. Feeling her sisters forehead. "You're freezing!" she stated again in surprise.
Nobody else was in the room at the moment. So taking a deep breath Elsa starting explaining things to Anna, exactly why she was so cold all the time. "When I was little I hurt you. Mother and father were afraid I would do something like that to you again. They promised I could come out once I had better control over it. But that never happened, when they left I was learning how to control them better. I was still nervous but I thought I was close, I thought that with a few more weeks I could finally open that door, but upon hearing they died it devastated me and I lost control again. When you came to me that night. I wanted nothing more than to be with you. But I couldn't, I couldn't risk hurting you." Elsa looked sadly at her sister. "I couldn't risk losing the only other family member I had left. In case one day, I learned to control them again."
"Elsa what are you talking about?" Anna asked nervously almost convinced her sister was going crazy. "Control what? Elsa? are you feeling okay?"
"This." Elsa spoke as Little flurries raced around the room. Anna looked up with tears in her eyes. She moved to hug her sister tightly. "You don't have to be afraid Elsa, we can fix this together. I will help you control this. All these years I thought I had done something wrong. All these years and you tell me this now? Why?" Elsa asked.
"Because I might die, and I wanted you to know. I wanted you to know more than anything that me shutting you out was never your fault. I should've told you sooner, I spent hours coming up with ways I could let you know it wasn't your fault. But they all seemed like excuses and I couldn't manage to muster up the courage to tell you... You have to know, if I die today you had to know."
Anna pulled a shocked face as she stared at her sister. "Elsa you're not going to die. Look at how good you're doing! Last night you could barely speak."
"I know Anna." Elsa sighed heavily. "But I feel so weak, and physically drained. I'm not sure how much longer I can hold on like this. They said nothing's wrong but I feel so weak, I want to sleep but I'm afraid I might not wake up again."
Anna closed her eyes. "I can't lose you Elsa, you're all I have. I don't want to be alone." Anna's voice shook as she tried to hold back tears. "It seems we're finally going to be together again and then... Then if you die we're going to be ripped away from each other again." Anna choked back tears.
"I promise you I'm not going anywhere for now hopefully ill get better so that you're going to be stuck with me for a long long time." Elsa smiled trying to sound joyful. But her weakness was still taking over and she felt drained. Just as Elsa finished speaking Hans came through the door with two steaming hot cups of tea.
"Good morning you two." He spoke in a low tone Handing one cup to Anna and the other to Elsa.
"You know we have people for this." Anna spoke in a rude tone trying to get the man to leave. "Why wouldn't you ask one of them to do it, you grew up In a castle."
"Yes, but I also have twelve older brother and our staff is always busy. If I wanted something done sooner I learned to do it myself and I was headed here anyways I thought I'd bring it to you." Anna glared and put the teacup on Elsa bedside table. Looking at Hans as he stared at the two of them.
"Can I help you?" Anna asked when the Prince didn't leave a look of displeasure remained on her face.
"How is she doing? She doesn't look so good." Hans stated looking towards the weakened Elsa.
"I don't know Hans!" Anna shouted I'm and outraged tone. "The doctors haven't come around to see her yet. Why do you care so much anyways, it's not like you're her family."
"I was with her when it happened Anna, if I can help in anyway I will." Hans lied. "She's the Queen of Arendelle, the people need her as their ruler, you're too young."
Anna breathed out frustrated. As the doctors came in to see Elsa. "Your majesty, how are you feeling?" one of them asked walking over to Elsa. The Queen was sitting upright, although she was still incredibly pale. "Still quite exhausted and weak. I feel drained, and my head." Elsa put a hand to her head and let the last bit of tea in the cup drop to the floor. Laying back down in bed she mumbled softly about being in pain and then closed her eyes and became unresponsive.
"She's still breathing, her heart rate seems normal." one of the doctors spoke to the other who was beside Elsa trying to comfort her sobbing younger sister, physically having to start to pull Anna away from Elsa so the other doctor could get a better look at her and start treatment as necessary.
"Elsa... Elsa no you promised me you were gonna get better! You said you weren't going to die!" Anna sobbed screaming so much two of the guards came in to check if everything was alright.
"Shhh, Anna, Princess Anna your sister is only sleeping. She's going to be alright. We just have to find out why this has been happening to her. Right now all her vitals are stable, as far as we know this is temporary and the only health concerns are her exhaustion and pain, which when we know what the causes are is manageable."
"Elsa." Anna spoke softly pulling pulled away from the doctors. She sat right on the edge of her sisters bed as soon as the doctors left the girls alone again. "Please wake up soon. I don't want to lose you, I can't lose you. If you die...if you die I don't know how I'll be able to live with myself... We just." Anna began crying. "We just started speaking again, I don't want to loose you." After a few hours Anna left and let her sister sleep in peace. The doctors came in and out of Elsa's room checking on her and making sure she was doing alright.