A/N: A little helsa love from me to you. Each chapter will cover five drabbles and there will be five chapters total. Prompts from livejournal group "100 Prompts". Shout out!
obeisance
chapter one: it's there beyond the quiet
1. lively
The harbor was bustling with energy; the air heavy with the smell of the sea and filled with the voices of dockworkers calling out orders and salutations in merriment. Ships moaned in the moors while the gulls cried out overhead, their piercing shrieks lost in the din.
The Snow Queen hardly registered any of this picaresque scene as she hurried down the docks. Here and there a sailor's face alit with recognition, but Elsa had no time for formalities. A ship had been spotted making way for port just that morning. A ship sporting the banners of the Southern Isles.
2. remorseful
"How many times do I have to say 'I'm sorry'?"
"They could be the only two words I hear from you the rest of your miserable life and I still wouldn't believe them."
"Well, if that's how long it takes."
"How long what takes?"
"If I have to spend the rest of my life, every day for forever, proving to you how much I regret my actions; I will do it."
"Don't be foolish. Why would you waste your life like that? What would it accomplish?"
"Waste? Spending every day with you should be a privilege. Elsa, are you blushing?"
3. dismiss
"As though I would want to see him every day! The nerve of that man!"
Anna had seen her sister in many moods most a variation of aloof or recalcitrant with happy smiles and carefree laughs a more recent addition to her repertoire. However, the princess could not remember a time she had ever seen Elsa so angry, so absolutely incensed.
"Did he at least say 'I'm sorry'?"
"He practically sang it from the highest tower," the Snow Queen was in disarray, ice cracking loudly beneath her every pacing step, "It doesn't matter. I can't believe a word he says."
4. heavy
"Why are you here, really?" Hans was unsurprised by Anna's presence in his rooms - little more than spare servants quarters, long disused and reeking of dust - but Kristoff's looming silhouette in the doorway gave the prince pause.
"To repent." In this, at least, he sounded honest.
Anna was unmoved. "Just remember: if you try anything, if I even suspect you're thinking about trying anything," she turned toward her fiancee and her face was cast in shadow by the light of the hall, "Kristoff and I will find the deepest, darkest ice-pit we can and we will end you."
5. forward
It was weeks before Elsa got used to Hans' presence in her household. The first few days she had been a wreck, constantly on edge as though expecting him around every corner. She had seen him in various places; serving dinner in the kitchens, helping in the gardens, even napping under a book in the library. In all of these instances he never once tried to speak to her. He barely even acknowledged her. It was driving her crazy.
Then one day she looked up from her tea service and he was there.
"Hans."
"Your majesty."
"Join me."
"Of course."
end chapter one.
