The song in this chapter is Do You Want To Build A Snowman written by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez. I changed the names in the song from 'Elsa' to 'Katniss' because Katniss's name isn't Elsa.
Chapter 1
Do You Want To Build A Snowman
Once in a kingdom called Panem, there was a King and a Queen who were admired by everyone in every kingdom around. Several years after their marriage, the King and Queen were expecting a baby. On the coldest night of that year, there baby was born. They named their new princess, Katniss. She had black hair, silver eyes, and skin as white a snow. The kingdom of Panem celebrated the princesses birth for two entire weeks.
On the princesses first birthday, the Queen announced she was having another baby. The young princess had become so excited that ice shot out of her hand. The palace staff watched the small princess carefully. Quickly, the King took the princess in his arms to a meadow he discovered when he was young.
And rocks started to roll, turning into trolls. When the elder troll saw the King and the princess, he ran to them with a frown on his face.
"You must help us," said the King. "Ice shot out of my daughter's hand, and, I need to know why."
The troll stepped forward and motioned for the King to put the princess down. When the princesses feet were on the ground, she stepped away from the troll, who frightened her. "It's okay, Kat." said the King.
The troll took her hand in his, and the princess took in a breath. The troll closed his eyes and nodded. "She wasn't cursed," the troll said. "She was born with these powers."
"No. We would have noticed these powers before." the King said.
"Her powers had to have been brought on by something fear, excitement," said the troll, he let go of the princesses hand, and she ran behind her father's legs.
"Is there anything I can do to stop these powers?" the King asked.
The troll shook this head. "There is nothing we can do to make her powers go away, we can only teach the princess to control them."
Months passed, the princesses powers had not appeared. The Queen dismiss the incident as a dream. The King didn't know if his daughter's powers would return or not.
In late spring, the Queen gave birth to their second daughter, who they named PrimRose. This princess had blonde, curly hair, blue eyes, and was pale, but looked darker compared to princess Katniss.
Three years had passed, and the princesses icy powers did not return. The King believed that they wouldn't come back. One day, the two princesses were playing in the ball room. PrimRose would hide, and Katniss would search for her. The little princess smiled wide, as she got an idea. She snuck up behind her older sister, who was concentrating on looking for Prim. The small princess yelled "Boo" as her arms wrapped around her sister. Startled, Princess Katniss screamed and snow came out from her fingertips.
Katniss looked around, horrified around, horrified at what she saw. PrimRose was amazed, she'd never known that her sister could make it snow. Prim ran over to play in it. Katniss smiled.
The King and Queen rushed in after hearing Katniss's scream. The Queen's eyes widened. "Girls! What's going on?" she asked.
Prim ran to hug her mother. "We were playing, and Katnus made it snow!" the little princess said with a large toothy grin.
Katniss frowned. "I didn't do it on purpose, Prim just scared me," the older princess said. The princess was now old enough to know this was not normal, and it was not acceptable. The King took Katniss's hand and led her to her room.
"You've done something like this before, Kat. Everything will be alright, you just have to learn to control these powers." The princess nodded.
For the past five months, PrimRose would come to Katniss's room and beg her to play with her in the snow. But the king and queen were tired of their palace being covered in snow. The King told Katniss not to use her powers in the palace anymore.
The next morning Prim came to Katniss. "Katnus." The now, four year old princess asked. But Katniss ignored her. "Do you want to go play?" Prim asked giggling. Katniss turned away from Prim, causing her to fall off the bed. Prim frowned, then started thinking. "Do you want to build a snowman?" Prim asked. Katniss opened her eyes, and shot out of bed. This would be the last time, she promised herself.
Prim and Katniss ran into the ball room. Katniss was getting better with her powers, and instantly, the floor was covered in snow. Prim through herself into the snow and started making a snow angel. Katniss started rolling out a snowman. When Prim looked up, and saw the snowman, and laughed happily.
"Hello, I'm Olaf, and I like warm hugs." Katniss said in her best male voice.
"I love you Olaf!" Prim shouted.
Prim started jumping, and Katniss made a pile of snow to catch her, and in that struggle, ice shot out of her hand and struck Prim as she fell to the floor.
Katniss ran to Prim, and wrapped her arms around her little sister. "Mama, Papa!" Katniss yelled, and soon the King and Queen were standing in the ballroom.
The King decided to take Prim to the trolls. The rocks started to roll, and soon, many trolls were standing around the royal family.
"My eldest daughter struck her sister with her ice powers. Can you save my daughter?" the King asked.
The elder troll came forward and the King handed Prim to him. "We can save her," said the troll. "Your lucky she struck her head, and not her heart. The heart is much harder to heal."
Katniss looked down at her hands, ashamed of herself, while the elder troll started to remove the magic from Prim's memories of Katniss.
"So she won't know I have magic?" Katniss asked. She liked how Prim thought she was special.
"That's right," said the troll. "But I'll leave the fun you two had, in her memories.
Katniss let out a breath and watched a reindeer run behind a bush.
Once they got back to the palace, the queen took Prim to her room.
"Dad," said Katniss.
The King looked at his daughter. "Yes, Katniss?"
"I'm sorry," she said.
"It's alright, you just need to learn how to control your powers." the King said.
"It's not alright, Dad. I almost killed Prim!" Katniss said.
"It wasn't you're fault, Kat," said the King. "You just can't control your powers yet."
"That doesn't make it okay!" Katniss shouted. "Prim can't see me anymore! I don't want anyone to be around me!"
"With some practice you'll-"
"Why can't you see what I really am, Dad?" Katniss asked. "Why can't you see that I'm a monster?"
Katniss ran to her room and locked herself in. There, she promised herself that she wouldn't hurt Prim, or anyone else again.
Everyday after Prim recovered, she came to Katniss's door and begged for her sister to come out, and play with her. But everyday she told to go away. Music was important to the King, and so one day, Prim went to Katniss's door and sang. "Katnus," Prim asked, knocking on the door.
"Do you want to build a snowman?
Come on, let's go and play!
I never see you anymore
Come out the door
It's like you've gone away."
Prim sang carefully. Katniss was doing her best to keep her promise not to hurt anyone.
"We used to be best buddies
And now we're not
I wish you would tell me why!"
Katniss frowned. Protecting Prim meant she wouldn't see her sister for a long time.
"Do you want to build a snowman?
It doesn't have to be a snowman..."
Prim sang into the door nob hoping Katniss would hear her. And she did. Katniss wanted to build a snowman, but protecting Prim was more important to her.
"Go away, Prim." Katniss said.
"Okay bye." Prim sang and walked away, to see if her mother would play with her. The king worked very hard to find a solution so Katniss could enjoy her childhood.
Six years later, Prim was still stopping by Katniss's room to see if she wanted to play. Prim ran straight to her sisters room after waking up. She had been singing for Katniss now, out of habit.
"Do you want to build a snowman?
Or ride our bikes around the halls?
I think some company is overdue
I've started taking to the pictures on the walls!"
Katniss frowned. She wanted to go play, but she had stayed in this room for six years. She wasn't going to waste her efforts to protect Prim. Prim signed and continued singing.
"It get a little lonely
All these empty rooms
Just watching the hours tick by..."
Two years later, Prim ran to Katniss's door, she would beg for Katniss to open the door, for the past eight years. But Katniss only opened the door for her parents, and for the workers who brought food into her room.
Prim shrugged. What's the point? She won't open up. Instead, Prim went to say goodbye to her father, who was going out into the kingdom to take care of some business. "I love you." she told him and gave him a hug.
The King went to say goodbye to Katniss. "Do you have to go?" she asked. Her dad was the only person, besides Prim, in this place that bothered to talk to her.
Later that day, the King was killed by a jealous villager, the baker's wife, who was killed that day as well. When Katniss was told what happened to her dad, she decided that no villager was good. That her people were criminals, and they all deserved to be punished.
The Queen took the news a different way, she stopped doing everything, she would rarely even eat.
Neither Katniss, nor the Queen offered any affection to Prim. Prim was shut out by her sister, and her mother now. With even more free time, Prim spent the day crying in the room.
Two months after the King's death, the Queen had a worker send Katniss to her room.
"Hello, mother." said Katniss.
"Katniss, I haven't seen you in years. You've grown into a beautiful young woman." said the Queen.
"Thank you." said Katniss.
"I'm leaving you the throne," said the Queen.
"I know. I know. Mother." said Katniss. "But that's a long ways away. You've still got a long life ahead of you."
"I'm dying." said the Queen.
"What?" Katniss whispered, just load enough for her mother to hear.
"In fact, I don't have much time-" the Queen started.
"You can't die!" Katniss shouted.
"Katniss, I don't want to live without you're father," said the Queen.
Katniss's eyes widened. "You're doing this to yourself! You're killing yourself?"
"Katniss, listen!" said the Queen. "I had these made for you, that way you can be Queen, and no one will know about your powers. Conceal, don't feel, Katniss." The Queen handed Katniss a beautiful pair of gloves.
"Thank you, mother." said Katniss, taking the gloves in her hand. "But back to what I was saying, It's not fair! You can't leave us! I'm sixteen! And you expect me to take care of this kingdom? To take care of Prim?"
"You'll do fine, Katniss." said the Queen, as she shut her eyes.
"No! Mom! You can't leave! You can't leave me!" Katniss shouted. And the Queen's heart stopped beating. Realizing this, Katniss screamed louder.
After, when the princess was done crying she kissed her mother's forehead, put the gloves on, and exited the room. She stopped the first worker she saw. "My mother, the Queen, just died in her room, she told me I'm next in line, but we must wait until I'm eighteen before I'm crowned Queen." said Katniss.
"Anything else your majesty?" the worker asked.
"Yes." Katniss nodded. "Close the gates. Shut all the windows. Princess PrimRose can not leave this palace. And don't let anyone in, unless they're approved by me."
"Yes, your majesty." said the worker.
And the gates were closed. And Katniss was back in her room.
Prim woke up to the knocking on her door. The sun was up already. There she was told the news, and told the news, and told about the gates. Prim didn't understand why Katniss would shut them off from the rest of the world. She thought that Katniss must have been afraid.
Prim went to Katniss's door and knocked. Katniss was sitting in front of her door and was surprised to hear her little sister sing.
"Katniss, please I know you're in there
People are asking where you've been
They say, 'have courage' and I'm trying to
I'm right out here for you
Just let me in"
Katniss rested her head in her hands. How could she leave her twelve year old sister all by herself? Both of their parents just died. Katniss should be the one comforting her. But she couldn't risk Prim's life. Prim would be better off this way.
"We only have each other
It's just you and me
What are we gonna do?"
Katniss felt terrible. But she promised herself that in two years, on Coronation day, she would make an effort to try to talk to Prim.
"Do you want to build a snowman?"
