Elsa could just barely feel the warmth of the sunlight as the orange rays beamed towards her. She loved to watch the sun rise every morning, and the view from her ice castle was more than enough to give her that wonderful feeling of serenity.
There wasn't much for her to do up on the North Mountain. She had chosen the isolation before realizing how boring it would be. She spent most of her days sitting on her throne of ice, trying not to think, but finding it very hard not to do so. She thought about her kingdom that she had left behind, and of her people who she had threatened the lives of the day she could no longer conceal her powers. She thought of her parents and how disappointed they would have been to see the havoc she had caused, if they were alive. And she thought about Anna, and how much she missed her awkward, never-a-dull-moment sister, once again.
She'd cried a lot during her first few nights on the mountain, after the adrenaline of being free had worn off. Now she could sleep through the night, though her dreams, when she had them, were not all that pleasant. She didn't know how much more she could take of seeing Anna's terrified face as she slept. Afraid of her. Elsa had woken up to a tear drenched pillow and sore eyes more times than she could remember.
One evening, as Elsa prepared for sleep, she decided to walk out onto her balcony to view the stars. That is, if they were out tonight. To her relief, they were. The sky was strangely clear of all cloud cover and the stars shone brightly down onto the earth, making the ice of her castle glimmer like diamonds. The moon, full and majestic, watched Elsa's face as it momentarily lost all signs of stress, wide-eyed and smiling at the beauty before her. She felt small, and she liked that feeling. No one staring up at her, pointing and shrieking in fear. She didn't matter, she was nothing. She was fine. Absolutely fine.
A tear grew in the corner of her eye and dropped, betraying her thoughts. Elsa huffed and wiped the tear away before it had a chance to freeze in place. She leaned against the railing and let her thoughts soar back to Arendelle, where she knew Anna probably had her hands full, making preparations for her marriage to that prince; she didn't even remember his name, and running the kingdom at the same time. She's tough, Elsa thought. She can handle it.
But as Elsa continued to think of her sister, she could feel her heart becoming heavier and heavier with an unbearable pain. Elsa clamped her eyes shut and let out a groan of emotional agony, more tears starting to fall into the frigid air below.
"My, my, what do we have here," a deep, feminine voice teased from behind her.
Elsa whirled around to see a woman, draped in a tightly fitted black and purple dress, ivory skin, piercing dark eyes, and long ebony hair, standing confidently in the doorway that lead back to her bedroom. A wicked smile tugging at her red painted lips.
"Who are you…?" Elsa questioned between half-heartedly suppressed sniffles.
"Quite possibly the answer to all your problems, my dear Queen of Arendelle," the unfamiliar woman spoke as she strutted toward the snow queen.
"What do you know of my problems?" Elsa spat back.
"Your heart, it's hurting. Correct?"
Elsa looked away, ashamed that she was so easy to read. The woman put a hand on Elsa's cold shoulder for dramatic effect.
"I can help with that."
"You still haven't told me who you are."
The woman lowered her hand, clasping both behind her back and raising her chin.
"I am Regina, the Queen of a far off kingdom. One that is overflowing with magic; where people like you are worshipped instead of feared."
"Do they worship you?"
"In a way, yes." The dark queen's smile was all but pleasant.
There was a silence as Elsa thought. A world where people wouldn't fear her. It sounded tempting beyond anything imaginable, even more than a mountain of chocolate. But she knew it was a world without Anna, and that made it basically no different than the one she was suffering in now.
"All the wealth and acceptance in the world means nothing if my heart still aches. No form of worship or riches will relieve me of this pain, unfortunately."
"I knew that from the start my dear, I have a different offer for you. One that will be most effective."
Regina took Elsa's chilled hand in hers and then gently guided it to the snow queen's chest. Elsa shot the woman an icy gaze, but Regina was unwavering.
"This power I'm going to grant you will give you the ability to remove your heart from within you, and then you can do with it whatever you please. Destroy it even. Though, that will bring an end to you entirely."
"Why would I ever consider doing that?" Elsa almost shouted, finding the possibility of such a power ridiculous.
"I know what it's like to have a broken heart, and with this power, you'll be able to make it go away."
Elsa, her mouth agape, suddenly felt the hand that Regina held begin to tingle, and when she looked down, waves of magic like she'd never seen before rippled around their touching skin.
Regina chuckled and took a step backward.
"What's the catch? You can't honestly be giving this to me out of the goodness of your heart."
"That's right my dear, I'm not. But in any case, I can't help but pity you. When a stallion breaks its leg, what do you do?"
Elsa just stared back, speechless.
The dark queen let out a throaty laughed.
"You put it out of its misery."
Then, with a sudden swirling of dark smoke, she was gone, and Elsa was left in the light of the moon, alone, holding her hand and shaking.
Alright! So I sorta got this idea the other day, I'm not sure how or why. I have a lot of time to think while I'm at work and I like to write fanfics in my head to pass the time. But they don't usually make it on screen. This however is not one of them, it's just an idea I had and it seems to be working... I think. I'm not gonna freak out about technical story crap to make it seem canon or whatnot, I'm just gonna manipulate the stories together so it fits with what I want to write about. That being said, it probably won't be accurate to Frozen or OUAT. It's just a thing.
Also, I have a strong passion for Elsanna, but I haven't yet decided if that's what I'll end up expressing in the characters. I really don't know how chapter 2 will play out, and/or if the story will go beyond a second chapter. We'll have to see.
If you like this story so far, please let me know. It gives me motivation to keep writing. And if I haven't updated this yet, bug me. Please. I wanna finish something for once. Thank you for reading my fanfic (and my ridiculously long author's note)! I hope you enjoy the rest of your time on this site. :)