I don't own the rights to Frozen or any of its characters. This is made purely non-profit for my own literary benefit.


It had all been going so well. Elsa had been quite happy in school, she'd finished her junior year with great grades and plenty of fantastic friends and was eager to finish her studies the next year but that all changed when her father was fired from his job. He was a manager at a tavern called Frosthaven Bar 'n' Grill which was one of the more popular eateries in the area and was pulling quite a handsome salary but that disappeared when his boss caught him handing out free meals to some of his friends. Needless to say, unemployment soon followed and that's why they now had to move to Arendelle.

His boss had made it impossible for him to find a job in the area and when James had approached his daughter about the job opportunity at Arendelle Municipal Bank she had initially been overjoyed but that soon faded when she realised that she'd have to move to a place 7 hours away from everything and everyone she'd ever known.

Today was moving day and she flicked the tears from her cheeks as she packed up her most precious belongings. She was shuffling through her old yearbooks on the top shelf in her cupboard and knew that she'd never see any of these people again. She ran her hands idly across each page as she turned them, seemingly drawing some happiness from each smiling face and scribbled signature beneath them. She laughed at one page which was from last year where her entire year level had made wacky poses and she could see herself with a scrunched up face poking her tongue at the camera.

She heard the door handle to her room wiggle and quickly closed the book and shoved it in the box beside her as her father poked his head in the doorway.

"Elsa, honey," he called out, waiting for his daughter to turn to him. She didn't.

"Yes?" she responded as she threw more of her books into the box. She blamed him for everything that was going on. She knew it was wrong to do so but who else could she blame? If he hadn't messed up, he would still have his job and she'd not have to be uprooting her life completely.

James sighed and knew the pain that she was going through. It had been a once off thing. The first and only time he'd ever given someone something for free and his boss happened to be watching the cameras at that moment. He put his hand up to his forehead and tried to rub the memory away. "Darling, the truck just pulled up. I'm going to help with the heavy stuff but can you make sure you're fully packed in at most an hour. We've got a long drive and I don't want to keep them waiting.

Elsa thought about yelling at him to leave her alone and fix the pain she felt but she didn't have the energy to do so, "I will dad."

James thought about lingering but decided that she probably didn't want him around, "alright then, if you need anything..." he left the sentence open, hoping that she would respond but Elsa just froze for a few seconds and then continued packing her things in silence. He sighed again and closed the door behind him as he rushed to the front door to greet the movers.

Elsa could feel a single tear cascade down her left cheek. It was really happening. She was leaving Frosthaven for Arendelle in only an hour. She'd already said goodbye to her friends and they'd all promised to stay in touch but Elsa knew that the distance between them would cause them all to lose connection. She reached her fingers up to her face and attempted to wipe away the tear but realised that it had frozen into a solid teardrop.

Her hand flinched back before realising what had happened. She lowered her hands and walked to her bedside table and reached inside the drawer. She grabbed a bottle, popped open the cap and threw her head back as she dropped one of the tablets into her mouth. She picked up the water bottle that she always had next to her bed and swallowed the tablet. The effects would kick in within moments so she stood and continued her tasks.

10 minutes later, as she was listening to the movers loudly moving their furniture into the truck mixed with the chirping of birds outside her window, she could feel the tear that she'd momentarily forgotten about start rolling down her cheek again. She quickly wiped it away and turned to her chest of drawers to pack her clothes. They were the last thing that she needed to do before leaving but she had the least motivation to do it. It took her half an hour to pack the rest of her things before she started carrying them all outside to the truck in their driveway.

About half an hour later, her father put the car in gear and hit the gas. They slowly drove forward and Elsa hung her head out the window to watch their house, their home, recede away from them. She noticed the 'for lease' sign had already been planted as they followed the moving truck down their street and pretty soon the house was but a memory as it fell from view. Elsa slowly sat back in her seat and wound her window up before freezing.

James had been preoccupied with driving the car and didn't notice her daughter sobbing to herself quietly. A minute or so later when they were on the highway, he took the opportunity to look over and saw Elsa had curled up against the door in sleep. He softly put his hands on her knee and patted her just once.

"I'm so sorry, Elsa. I will never fail you again."

He had said that more to himself than anything, to make a promise to himself to put her first. He retracted his hand and focused again on driving, not realising that his words had not fallen on deaf ears.

The next few days flew by quickly. It was now Friday and school started up again next week. James had worked a couple days already and he told Elsa about how much his boss praised him for how quickly he was picking everything up. Elsa of course smiled and congratulated her dad but her heart wasn't in it. She desperately wanted to feel happy for him, that he'd finally found a job and that he was enjoying it but all she could think about was how alone she felt all the time. Whenever she started feeling those thoughts enter her mind, she immediately felt guilty as well, further compounding how terrible she felt.

She'd hoped that her father couldn't tell how depressed she was becoming. She tried to reassure herself that school next week would come around and the people would be welcoming and her life would slowly piece itself back together. Only time would tell.

James had already enrolled Elsa into Arendelle Secondary School and her report card was outstanding enough that any school would surely have accepted her but little did either of them know that all she would have pretty much needed to be accepted would have been a heartbeat and a tuition payment. Arendelle was not known for their academic record, having been the worst scoring in the county for many years with little prospect of ever improving. The suburb of Greater Arendelle was a poor neighbourhood with many socio-economic problems such as drugs and unemployment so most of the students came from below the poverty line with very little motivation to succeed.

When James had told Elsa that he'd organised for the school to adjust their route to pick her up to take her to school she immediately rejected him and said she'd be happy to walk to get the exercise. The last thing she needed was for everyone to know that she was the reason that they had to wake up and arrive home 5 minutes earlier and later. She quickly ordered him to call the school back to stop them from making those changes and he reluctantly agreed.

Elsa looked around her room. It was much smaller than her old room, made worse by the fact that she had still not unpacked any of her belongings. It was cozy enough though and she welcomed the view out her window to the mountains in the distance. It was the middle of summer today and she'd never liked the heat much so she stayed indoors while her dad was outside cooking on the barbecue for a couple of coworkers that he'd invited over for dinner. Elsa had greeted them earnestly when they'd arrived but quickly excused herself, not wishing to interfere on her dad's acquainting.

She drew back her blinds and let the twilight sun enter through the venetians. She reached under and pushed the window up a few inches and felt the warm summer breeze immediately wash over her hands. It had been ridiculously hot during the day and she'd literally sat in front of the air conditioner for 4 hours watching television due to being incapable of functioning more than 5 metres from it but the evening breeze was definitely something that she couldn't say no to. She'd heard on the news report earlier that a cool change was to flow through at around 5 and it was now almost 6. She could hear chatter from her dad and the 2 men he'd invited over but in the distance she could hear dogs barking, bicycle bells ringing and cars revving as they took off. It wasn't the same feeling as Frosthaven, much more active, but so far she hadn't thought of it much as a bad thing, just different.

She put a hand on the window and it started to freeze under her touch straight away. She pulled her hand back at the sudden temperature drop before sighing and clenching her first in front of her. She made her way to her vanity and opened a small pouch which was in the middle underneath the mirror. She unclipped it and drew out a tablet, the same she'd take the day of their move. Strange, it'd only been a couple days since the last occurrence, usually one pill a fortnight was enough. She shrugged and swallowed down the pill before making her way back to greet her house-guests politely. She tried to think of it as been a supportive daughter but in reality all she was interested in was satiating a massive hunger that suddenly had overwhelmed her.

Dinner was enjoyable enough and took Elsa's mind off a lot of things that had been on it but as soon as she had eaten, she saw little reason to linger for very long so she left for her room shortly after gathering and rinsing her dishes. She still hadn't set up her television or computer and quickly became bored so she lay her head down on her pillow and was surprised at how quickly sleep overcame her.


Please let me take a moment to describe a little backstory.

Elsa's powers surfaced at adolescence and has had them suppressed with pharmaceuticals as she is unable to control them without their help. Elsa's mother died during childbirth and her dad has had to raise her on his own. Elsa is a lesbian in this story so if you aren't interested in reading anything like that, please do not read any further.

While Anna is not mentioned in this chapter, or probably not the next either, she will be a part of this story and she will be Elsa's love interest so, again, if you aren't interested in reading a story about Elsa and Anna's relationship, please do not continue to read.

Kristoff, Olaf and Hans (and to some extent Sven) will all make appearances in the story but their roles will be minor/supporting.

WARNINGS: This story will contain several issues that many may find disturbing but also please note that I may change the story in the future to include other issues as well. Bullying, suicide, physical and verbal abuse, sex scenes and child theft will be found in this story so, based on that, the rating may change to M depending on how graphically I choose to depict those scenes (probably will).

In terms of smut, I will probably not do so as I don't want to feel as if I'm writing pornography. If that's something that you're after though, you will unfortunately not find it here.

If you're wondering how often I will update this story, then I'm sorry but I can not give you a guarantee or schedule. I work a rotating roster and very long shifts which leave me with a kind of opportunistic writing time. I am looking to make this story go for approximately 50,000 words or roughly 25 chapters, but we'll see how that ends up panning out.

Thank you for choosing to read my story and I hope you find it as enjoyable as I do in writing it.