Prologue

~ Winter is Coming ~

"Where did she come from?"

"No Idea, Leroy said she just appeared out of nowhere, poor girl." The nurse adjusted the IV drip at the girls bedside. "I've contacted Regina, she might know who the girl is. It doesn't look like she was carrying anything with her."

The Mayor walked in throwing her bag on the chair in the corner. "Is this her." Regina asked in a slightly annoyed tone. "I've never seen her before in my life. Where did you find her?"

"She was hit on the road, apparently appeared out of nowhere. Been asleep for quite some time now we're hoping she'll wake up soon."

The Mayor shook her head. "I'll let people know about her. Until then notify me if anything happens with her." With those last words the Mayor grabbed her bags and promptly left the wing of Storybrookes hospital as if she had some other important plans to attend to.

"She's lucky her injuries aren't more severe, regardless she's probably going to be in a lot of pain when she finally wakes."

"We should probably consider the possibility of memory loss." The Doctor looked over at her still sleeping peacefully. "After an accident it's quite common, wouldn't want her to injure herself further with any trauma, Get me the paperwork to order some medications for her."

"Right away." The Skinny nurse nodded and walked off to the desks. Fiddling around with papers until she came upon the correct ones. Each signed and dated and approved within a few hours. The Medication was added to the collection of many tubes already trailing into the girls body.

It was quite silent at the small hospital in Storybrooke few nurses sat at the desk and a couple made rounds every so often. The Trauma Wing was especially quiet most of the patients were sleeping.

Upon making her rounds the nurse changed the pain medication in the blonde girls IV she was still sound asleep as ever. Yet all the medications she was on has the possibility to make her very drowsy, and it was uncertain if she'd even wake up from the heavy anesthetic. Nurse Lane made rounds again checking over everything twice but to her dismay nothing in the girl was seeming to change. Everything was normal, even to be expected for a patient in her condition. Low blood pressure, extreme counts of blood loss.

The next morning was extremely busy. People rushing about, volunteers from the school had come to read to the patients and decorate the dreary room up a little. A young girl wandered up to the sleeping blonde and turned her head up to face the Nurse. "Why won't she wake up? Is she okay?" the child asked in a concerned voice.

"She's asleep because she's really hurt sweetheart." Nurse Lane explained over the steadily beeping monitors which began to grow louder and sound off alarms. Doctors and Nurses rushed over to the girl, one quickly escorted the small child away from the scene.

The blonde panicked as soon as she saw so many people surrounding her. She'd never seen anyplace like this before beeping machines and many tubes sticking in her hands and arms. "Where am I?" she stammered moving around trying to get up. A few people quickly managed to restrain her but that only made the matter worse ice began trailing up the walls the poles of the machines freezing the liquid medications.

"Get those out of her now!" The doctor ordered as nurses races to pull the quickly freezing tubes from

her arms before the frozen substances ran into her body. "Tranquilize her, we need to call someone in here." the doctor spoke breathlessly and Nurse Lane tried calming the girl down as she slowly injected the tranquilizers into the blondes arm. "You're alright sweetheart." she spoke softly.

The Blonde was shaking by the time everything was over even as she began to fall asleep again she was still shivering in fear.

"She's obviously Traumatized."

"What do we do about the Ice?" Lane asked. "Surely if we wake her again we're going to get a repeat. She's so afraid I'm not even sure she came from our world? Do you think Emma brought her here by mistake?"

"It sounds plausible, I'm just not sure what to do about it. If she lived in the Enchanted forest someone should recognize her. Hopefully we can locate a family member, it might calm her down enough so that we can explain everything to her."

As they were speaking a woman burst through the door and right into the trauma ward. "I'm sorry Miss, we don't allow any visitors past this point strictly family."

The older blonde had her hair tied back she smiled at the doctor and looked past him. "I'm here about the girl you found. She's my niece, Elsa

I'm afraid both of her parents died a long time ago." the lady spoke smoothly.

Lane gave her a curious look. "Then you know about her... Her..."

"Her, Magic? of course I do, now if you wouldn't mind I would like to see her." Ingrid paused "How is she?"

"She's injured badly I'm afraid. She was hit by a car, Miss..." Lane trailed off.

"Fisher, Sarah Fisher."

"Right, Anyways she's been like this for quite some time unfortunately we had to tranquilizer her again, all her IV's were frozen, thats terribly dangerous. We were able to take them out right away so it should not have caused any troubles with her blood stream. They'll have to be put back in." Lane walked over to a wall in blue bins were many medical supplies she took out several and placed them on a cart. Hooking Elsa back up to the many IV'S she had in before the incident.

"Well Sarah, you're welcome to stay with here with Elsa, but we would be happy to contact you if anything happens, you don't have to stay here. I assure you she's going to be well cared for."

"That won't be necessary, I'd like to stay until she wakes. She should be calm if she's with somebody she knows." Ingrid insisted.

Lane nodded slightly uneasy and returned to her working finishing up hooking the many IV's back to the girls checking them all over and over and taking readings from the many monitors all of which emitted steady humming and beeping.

Ingrid sat beside Elsa for many hours holding on to the sleeping blondes hand speaking softly to her. "Elsa my dear please wake up soon,

Its been far too long since I've last seen you darling."

Ingrid sat by the girl for quite some time before night drew near and visiting hours were over. The woman retreated back to her storybrooke home leaving Elsa asleep quiet as ever. Nurse Lane walked over the the doctor on call for the night "there has been no visible activity since the afternoon, it might be a while before she wakes up again. Especially since we gave her quite a dose of tranquilizers."

"What are we going to do about Her Aunt? I've never seen this girl in Storybrooke before, nor have I come into contact with the woman claiming to be her Aunt you think she's telling the truth?"

"Call up Sheriff Swan, see if you can get her to come down and discuss these two, there will be files on them if they've ever been in Storybrooke before."

Lane nodded silently and headed over to the Nurses station. While the doctor began checking monitors and charts. Lane was able to reach Emma after a while, and began asking questions about Sarah.

"Emma, We've had A Lady under the name of Sarah Fisher claim to be the Aunt of the girl Leroy hit while driving, can you pull any files on her and any family she might have."

"Yeah, I guess I'll bring them down to you." Emma walked around the crowded sheriff station. "Who exactly did she say this girls name was?" Emma asked looking through papers in the filling cabinets on all the residents of storybrooke.

"Apparently her name is Elsa, and she has some sort of Ice Magic, Sarah seemed to know about it. So I'm guessing they've met each other before." Lane Explained.

"Thanks Lane, I'll bring the papers down once I've found them." Emma clicked the phone off and rummaged around for the file. Pulling a small one out, hardly any information on it. Once she arrived at the Storybrooke hospital it was dark out. Visiting hours had ended and the doors had been locked yet Lane came out and let her in.

"Emma, have you found anything on Sarah."

"Yeah, I got your file right here, not much information on her. Seems she hasn't been out much." Emma replied

Lane took the file from Emma. "Let's see Sarah Fisher, owns the Ice Cream shop 'Any Given Sundae' lives On the north edge of Storybrooke. Unmarried. It looks like she had two other sisters, both dead."

"Sorry Lane, looks like these files aren't of much help to you. What were you hoping to find?"

"I've never seen Sarah or Elsa around here and when Elsa was brought to us she had this elegant blue gown on. Nobody's sure where she came from... It's like she came out of nowhere."

Emma sighed deeply and took a second look at Sarah's files. "I'll look into it Lane, but Elsa should wake up soon, Just ask her if she remembers Sarah, I'm sure you don't have to go through all of this."

"Things might become difficult, If Sarah is Elsa's legal guardian she has to make the decisions on the girls medical care. Elsa still hasn't woken, she can't make the choices for herself."

"Sarah's custody of Elsa is in question Lane, make the choices you think best for her." Emma added then walked out the doors and got back into her car leaving Lane standing there alone.

She began hearing monitors beeping loudly from the trauma ward. She heard someone gasp loudly and a panicked scream. Elsa was awake again... Lane looked at her grabbing her shoulders in attempt to calm her down.

"Anna." Elsa breathed out panicking "Anna my sister where is she." The blonde was panicking and moving around far too much for a girl with her injuries should be.

Lane grabbed a mild tranquilizer and shot it through the IV forcing the girl to lie back down in a hazy waking state.

"Now about Anna do you know where she is?"

"No." she spoke sleepily. "I don't remember anything, just her just Anna."

Elsa could not speak much before she fell back asleep. In the morning Ingrid was back again sitting right beside her again.

Nurse Lane pulled Ingrid aside for a moment. "Good morning Sarah, Elsa woke up last night for a few moments she kept on calling out for her sister, Anna. Do you know anything about her?"

Ingrid pulled a sad face and shook her head. "Oh poor thing, she's been terrified ever since the incident. You see a few years ago Elsa's magic was out of control. She accidentally killed her sister when it happened. Such a sweet little thing Anna was. Elsa's been in denial of it ever since it happened." Ingrid lied.

Nurse Lane seemed shocked for a moment then nodded understanding. "I trust you won't mention this to Elsa, Sarah." Lane began in a low tone. "She's under enough stress the last thing she needs is to be reminded of her sisters death."

Ingrid pulled a fake smile. "Of course."

Nurse Lane began checking over monitors and IV's adjusting doses she turned to Ingrid and sighed deeply almost sorrowful. "Elsa will be in quite a bit of pain when she wakes up, so far she hasn't been up very long before we've had to calm her down again. We're also beginning to lower the amount of pain killers in her body, and by now she should start to feel some pain, I wish we could do something more but the medications make her extremely drowsy and we really need her to wake up now, it's been a few days... and we have much to discuss."

"Thank you." Ingrid nodded. "I'll make sure to try and keep her comfortable, and I'd be happy to speak to you about my niece anytime."

Lane looked through some of the papers she was holding and sat next to Ingrid on a chair. "Well Sarah, Elsa is seriously injured, she's going to be here for a while a couple weeks. There's not much we can do for her type of injuries. Broken ribs will have to heal on their own, I don't advise you let her walk on her own for quite some time."

Ingrid kept shaking her head. "Yes, but do you know when I can take her home?" she asked looking to Elsa, then to Lane who gave her a disapproving look.

"Sarah, Elsa was hit a few days ago. It's very serious most of her injuries were taken care of right away and she should be allowed to leave in a few weeks. But Elsa is still going to need somebody with her, she's not going to heal so quickly."

Ingrid nodded once again. "I just would like to bring her home, and get her out of this dreary place. I have not seen Elsa in a very long time, I had no idea she was even in Storybrooke."

Ingrid stayed long hours until finally Elsa woke up. "Where am I?" she mumbled shifting around slightly. "Why am I here? What's all this?" she questioned in a sleepy tone. "Why does everything hurt so much." Ingrid could tell Elsa was beginning to feel pain. Her voice began shaking and streams of tears fell down her face.

"Sweetheart, you've been seriously Injured. You're in a hospital in a little town called Storybrooke. I'm your Aunt." Ingrid paused a moment. "Okay? I'm going to be taking care of you, the doctors are giving you some medicines to help you feel better."

Elsa didn't seem to be listening as she didn't reply. "It's hurting." she complained through tears trying to steady her breathing. Ingrid pressed her call button and Lane and Elsa's Doctor came rushing over checking over everything.

"Hello, Elsa I'm glad to see you're awake. You've been doing remarkable for someone in your condition. You're really very lucky your injuries weren't more severe." he paused a moment and looked over to Ingrid. "I'd say if she continues to heal quickly we could send her home in three weeks, I'm not going to make any promises though Elsa it could be longer so don't be discouraged f we keep you here. It's all for your health we want to make sure everything is okay."

"Wait." Elsa called. "My sister Anna... Where is she? Is she here."

Lane gave Ingrid a stern look by she just signed and tightly squeezed Elsa's hand. "Elsa, darling I can't lie to you. You have to know this, even of its painful to remind you of." Ingrid took a deep breath.

"Your sister Anna is dead."