Shortly after Anna and Kristoff celebrated their big royal wedding, they traveled out of the kingdom and visited a romantic honeymoon suite not far from Arendelle. When the newly-in-love couple finished packing their bags and were rushed out of the castle, Elsa, The Queen of Arendelle, was left to finish all of the kingdom's paperwork and complaints about the economy herself.
From time-to-time, maids and servants offered to help her with the tasks, but Elsa would politely decline, reminding herself that she would have to learn these things on her own if she wanted to be a successful ruler to her people one day. Eventually, she got the hang of controlling the overflow of complaint letters and paperwork, and started to adjust her sleeping schedule according to her exhausting labor. A week after Anna and Kristoff left the castle, Elsa fell asleep while organizing a pile of paperwork on her desk. In the middle of her slumber, a maid lightly knocked on her door and called her name.
"Your highness, Princess Anna and Prince Kristoff have arrived home, they are awaiting your assistance," She called reluctantly, not wanting to pester the Queen while working. About a minute passed without a reply, so the maid slightly cracked open Elsa's door, and realized she was fast asleep, snoring on top of her desk. She quietly made her way through the room and tapped Elsa's shoulder a few times. "Your majesty," She urged. "Your sister is back from her trip to Valley Retreat, she is waiting outside." Elsa woke up to gentle shaking on her right shoulder, andMrs. Clair was crouched over looking her in the eyes. "Oh, your Highness! I thought you were more than fast asleep!" She let out a nervous chuckle. "I tried to tell you that Princess Anna and Prince Kristoff are back from their honeymoon." Elsa rubbed her eyes and smoothed her wild hair out lazily. She thought back to the time Anna told her when they would be returning, which was to be Sunday of the following week. "What day is it, Mad'am?" Elsa managed to spit out between stiff lips. "Thursday, your majesty." Elsa thought it was quite odd for them to be returning early, maybe there was a storm or something?
Yawning as she went, Elsa made her way down the winding staircase and to the front doors of the castle. When she got to the bottom of the staircase and opened the heavy castle door, Sure enough, there was Anna and Kristoff, carrying all of their bags and wearing heavy coats looking very uncomfortable. "Anna, Kristoff, why are you two home so early?" Her eyes darted from one to the other, but neither one of them said a word. "Okay well, let me get Mrs. Clair to help you guys get settled back in-"
"No thanks, I'm fine. I'll get settled in myself," Kristoff rudely interrupted as he shoved his way past Elsa, throwing her off balance. Elsa confusedly looked to Anna, and then back to Kristoff, who was stomping his way up the staircase and dragging his bags with him.
"What's with him?" Elsa asked Anna with disquiet. Anna breathed out a sigh of frustration before she filed inside. "I know, I know, Im sorry- I don't know why he's acting so melodramatic!" Anna explained while putting down bags and taking off her coat. "We just... We had this argument before we left, and now he's just 'Mister Grumpy-pants!'"
Elsa was starting to understand, but what made him this mad in the first place? "Anna, I have a feeling your not telling me the whole story," Elsa accused suspiciously. Anna thought for a moment while getting out a slice of chocolate cake from the fridge, then decided to tell Elsa what happened. "Okay, okay. So we were in our guest room, just talking about EVERYTHING AND ANYTHING, and eventually our palace duties came up. He just, started getting defensive about his work and how I didn't understand. Then he had the nerve to tell me that I never work! All I do is sit on my royal butt all day while he goes out and delivers ice! Now that really got my ball rollin'! I was thinking, 'Why is he telling me all of this on our honeymoon? He surely isn't getting any extra attention from me tonight!'-
"Wait! Elsa blurted out, having trouble keeping up with Anna's fast-talking high-pitched babbling. "Let me get this straight; Kristoff is feeling like he is doing more work than you, and that's why you two came home 3 days early?"
"Yes!" Anna affirmed with a mouth full of chocolate.
Elsa rubbed her temple with annoyance. "Anna, you have to work this out with him." She thought about what would happen if she didn't, and came to the conclusion that it might not end well; She cared about her sister and didn't want her to feel like she wasn't there for her. So, she promised that if she needed any help, she could always come to her whenever she felt like it.
Once upstairs in the guest room, Kristoff roughly unpacked clothes from his bag, and prepared a hot bath in attempt to calm down. He relaxed as he sat into the steaming water, but thoughts of the argument and Anna's furious face kept coming back to him. He slapped the water angrily, causing it to splash everywhere. He didn't like seeing her upset, but how could he calm her down when he wasn't calm himself? Eventually, Kristoff felt moderately collected and threw on some clean clothes and zipped downstairs. In the kitchen, Elsa and Anna were talking back and forth about something that seemed important, so he tried his best to act as if they weren't there. He got out a pack of turkey, some Swiss cheese, cabbage and wheat bread. He made about two sandwiches and grabbed a whole pack of carrots on his way out.
"Kristoff?" Anna called softly before he left through the back door. He turned around hesitantly to look at her face, and obviously she was worried about him. In response to that, he made up something off the top of his head, just to get her out of his hair. "I'm, I'll be back.. I just gotta take care of some things." And with that, he left. Anna looked at her sister's sympathetic face, and usually nights like this ended with Elsa holding Anna until she fell asleep. "It's okay Anna, I got you," Elsa would say to re-assure her when she had doubts. Night after night, things would escalate to this point without effort, and Anna was getting restless thinking about what it meant.
Kristoff and Sven hadn't been to the mountains for anything other than ice delivery since his marriage, due to his his princely duties around the castle. These days he didnt have time to mountain climb or explore more of Arendelle like he wanted, but up until recently he felt like going back was the only way to escape his problems. "I can't believe she won't let me go farther than the North Mountain to pick up ice," Kristoff whined out loud. "Or let me wear what I want out, or let me eat what I want to eat anymore! She's so inconsiderate sometimes," He told his pet reindeer Sven, who only rolled his eyes and let out a snort.
When they arrived at the North mountain, Kristoff dismounted Sven and stepped up the beautifully designed staircase, eyeing every detail of the castle. He hadn't really seen everything in the building, since he was practically kicked out of the place by a giant snowman the last time he was there- All because of Anna! Shaking his head, he tried to push thoughts of Arendelle out of his mind. Kristoff froze before he proceeded to knock. "Do you think I should go in?" He asked Sven with uncertainty. "Yes, yes you should," He answered himself in his goofy Sven-reindeer voice. "Okay fine, If you insist," He answered with a smirk. He knocked on the door confidently, as he saw Anna do the day they first arrived there, but it wouldn't open. He attempted to push the door, but it was simply too heavy for even a strong ice deliverer like him. He grunted with frustration, and realized that he might not be able to get in after all. But as he turned to head back down the staircase, both doors opened spontaneously, and inside the main room of the castle, was marshmallow, the giant snow monster. Kristoff gasped and inched his way back out of the doorway. The snow monster waved to him as he hustled down the stairs, and hopped back onto Sven. "Yah, Sven! Let's get out of here," He muttered.
A few days after Kristoff had his first storm out, Elsa was reading on her spare time when she heard firm knocking on her door. Peeking her eyes over the top of the book, she turned her attention to the front of her room. She was almost certain who it was.
The door slightly opened, and Anna's red face peeked through and looked at Elsa with watering eyes. Elsa placed her book faced down by her side on the page she was at and outstretched her arms toward her sister. Anna came running in, and landed in her sister's embrace, sobbing deeply. "Anna, what happened this time?" Comforted Elsa while stroking her hair. Anna wiped her tears and looked into her sister's eyes. "He left again with Sven, I think he's going into the mountains," Anna whimpered dramatically. This was about the 6th time Anna has came into her room like that, and Elsa decided enough is enough. "I need to give him a piece of my mind. Anna, you stay here." Elsa slipped on her glass heels and tightened her braid. "No, Elsa.. I want to go to! I wanna help!" Anna declared, wiping her nose.
"No, I've got this under control, see you in a little while." Elsa then fled down the staircase and snuck out through the back door, without catching the attention of late-working maids. She didn't stop running until the castle was out of sight, and when it was, her sprint turned into a limp."I wonder which way he went," Elsa mumbled to herself as she walked. She assumed he probably had gotten quite far, considering he took Sven with him. "I'll just go this way," She decided, turning to the path on the left.
She sighed. "This is gonna be a long night."