- Chapter Two –

Elsa and Aladdin pulled up to their favorite hole in the wall diner. The locals called it Flounder's diner, but that wasn't it's official name. It was just off of the highway and had been a staple of the county since the 40s. The same family owned the diner during all of this time; they had a secret pecan pie recipe that Aladdin marveled at and the coffee was the best Elsa had ever had. "It's probably just repackaged Folgers" Aladdin would always say, he felt that he personally brewed the best cup of Joe and while Elsa admired it there was just something about this diner's coffee that worked with her palette. Maybe that it was never too hot and never light in taste.

The two would usually spend a healthy hour in the diner, usually in silence. Aladdin would read the paper and every once in a while interject his political thoughts onto a news story "Can you believe what those so called geniuses up in congress are doing this time?" Elsa knew that no matter how she responded he'd go on a rant. To be fair Elsa was known to talk about pretty mundane stuff as well, she didn't like to let anyone into her personal life either so often her stories would repeat. "Did I ever tell you about that time Anna and I got stuck in Mr. Pearson's tree when we were little?" "YES." Aladdin would say and scan through the sports section, and she knew she had already told it to him a million times before.

Today there was to me none of that, they were going to strategize a bit. As they sat down and got the usual: Aladdin with a burger, fries and a water Elsa got a cup of coffee and their house salad with no dressing. "How can you eat a salad without dressing?" asked Aladdin with a mouthful of cow. "I told you, putting dressing on it defeats the purpose of eating a salad." Aladdin shook his head "Only if you put on a lot of it. Why don't you ever let me cook for you? I make a mean quinoa salad." Aladdin was a good cook, much better than Jasmine. Elsa remembered the first time she went over their house to eat dinner. Jasmine had made yams with green beans and chicken. The chicken and yams were overcooked but for some reason the green beans were not and Elsa had to chew like a mad woman to get it all down. "She's a princess, she never learned how to do any of that kind of shit" Aladdin smiled. Al was a master chef however, there was nothing he couldn't whip up, years of growing up having to fend for himself had made him into one. He always baked her a chocolate cake for Christmas and her birthday, something she and Anna always enjoyed.

"Al, what are we going to do about these murders?" asked Elsa as she dug into her mixed greens. "We don't know that they're murders they still could have been suicides, actually Happy's could have been accidental drowning." Elsa crossed her arms.

"Even you're not dumb enough to actually believe someone would go swimming in the middle of winter."

"Elsa, it's December 21st, we're not exactly in the dead of winter."

"It's still too cold for anyone to go swimming."

"Well maybe he fell into the lake."

"Oh come on! We found him with something in his mouth…"

Elsa stopped herself and realized a few people in the diner were eavesdropping she lowered her voice and whispered to Aladdin "Someone put that there. And even if Sneezy committed suicide he was under duress when he did it. Think about it for a moment will you?" Aladdin took another bite out of his burger and then swirled his fries in a pool of ketchup. "Okay so say they were murdered. What does that even mean? I mean…why?" Elsa had to pause at that "I don't know, maybe we can get some answers from the autopsy." "Aladdin swallowed "Screw the autopsy. I want to talk to the dwarves, they'll have any dirt on these two that can lead to their killer….that is IF they even have one. Elsa frowned, she needed Aladdin with her on this one; she had to admit she was going to need solid evidence before he'd be convinced, Basil especially.

Aladdin received the bill and as always he and Elsa split it. "Alright, let's head on down to the morgue, I'm sure Jack has something for us." Elsa nodded in agreement and the partners were on their way.


Jack Skellington was waiting for them when they arrived. His lab smock was clean as always and his eyes were dark and glassy and almost looked like globes of coal on his face. He was pale, thin and intimidatingly tall. He almost looked like a corpse himself, but his voice was just so bright and friendly one conversation with him would melt your fears about him away.

"Jack! How are you? How's Sally?" asked Aladdin as he put on a smock and along with Elsa and a surgical mask. "Oh she's doing just fine, lovely as always." If Jack looked like someone out of a horror movie his wife was worse: she was short and supposedly healthy in weight but she still came off as frail. She wore jeans and long sleeves all the time trying to cover up the scars she had acquired during the turbulent years of her life. Her most disturbing physical feature was her smile, which had obvious scaring from when she tried to cut open her mouth with a kitchen knife as a young teen. Jack had been her guiding light since college but the signs of her past were always on display. In some ways Elsa thought the creepiest part about Sally was that she was a self proclaimed gardener but she always carried dead flowers and plants around. If one of her plants died she'd mourn for it, like it was her fault. The woman who was always around dead botany and the man who liked dead bodies; match made in heaven.

Jack was still blow-drying the partially frozen body of Happy. He had thawed out most of him but there were still some frosty parts. "I'm almost done with him, but I already took a look at our allergy inflicted friend and I've got some interesting stuff to share" promised Jack as he put down the blow dryer and opened up a drawer containing Sneezy.

"I think he was murdered, any proof of that?" asked Elsa as Jack waved his finger "You're spoiling my fun deputy, but yes you're right to believe he was murdered. Look at his hands, what do you see there?" Elsa examined the hands on Sneezy "He is missing his nails. What the hell?" asked a confused Elsa. "We're dealing with a crafty devil here, sometime during the struggle poor Sneezy must've been fighting. He most likely scratched his assailant and fearing that bits of his skin were trapped beneath the fingers of Sneezy the assailant or assailants ripped out the nails!" Aladdin cringed at the thought.

"What's more, his fingers are coarse and irritated, like he was putting his hands against the rope. Whoever hung him didn't do it quite right and so his neck didn't break, so he strangled to death" continued Jack. Elsa took a closer look at Sneezy "Did you find any evidence linking to who may have killed him? Fibers? Unknown blood?" Jack shook his head "I'm looking for anything but I'm having trouble. Whoever did this was good, and it was clearly premeditated. Despite the bad roping this wasn't a sloppy job. Whoever did it got Sneezy's neck around the rope in a jiffy." Elsa mumbled "It wouldn't take much to overpower the guy."

"What about frosty?" asked Aladdin trying to keep it as light as possible. "Happy I'm afraid gives me even less to work with. I'd like to think this job gives me the ability to speak to the dead, but if I can this one ain't talking. Just a dead end, excuse the wording." Elsa and Aladdin waved off the offense. Jack led them over to the body of Happy once more and pointed to the deceased dwarf's jaw. "I managed to yank out what was inside his mouth….It was a tiny vice grip, for home improvement use." Jack pulled out the vice grip which was sealed away in an evidence bag. "No finger prints I already checked.

"Well maybe the vice grip and the rope were bought here in town. We should go to the hardware store and take a look later" suggested Aladdin, Elsa agreed. "Any signs of a struggle?" Elsa had to know if her theory had any more foundation. "I was just getting to this. Whoever killed Happy took him out from behind, I found forced blunt trauma to the back of the skull. It was multiple hits, something not particularly heavy based on the damage, but something hard. Enough blows with it…he was probably dead before he got dumped into the lake. At least, that's my hypothesis. I don't mean to speculate, but there is just no way this vice grip was put in his mouth while he was still kicking. This was carefully placed in to make him smile. From the look of it his body was in that lake for two to three days. Sneezy, that one was fresh he was killed just this morning." Jack was unusually somber. He was used to dead bodies from health related issues or accidents but murder wasn't a familiar part of life in Walt County.

"Looks to me like this is someone's idea of a sick joke" stated Elsa. "Who would hate Happy enough to kill him?" asked Aladdin as he placed his hands on his hips. "Some people weren't 'happy' about that reality show he had with the other dwarves a few years ago. Said it made us all look like backwater hicks" explained Elsa. "Most of the people in this town ARE backwater hicks! You remember what it was like for me back in '01 and '02 through 2014." Elsa snorted "Well that's everywhere buddy. It wasn't easy for me when I…." Elsa trailed off, she wasn't going there in front of Jack.

"Alright Mr. Skellington, you have been very helpful. I think we will…" Elsa was cut off by her phone ringing; it was Basil. Elsa answered it quickly and immediately was blasted with Basil's snooty attitude.

"Deputy Elsa, several of the dwarves and Snow White are here at the station. They'd like to speak with you; it was called them in after all. Now I'm going to start conducting some of these interviews but I need you and deputy Aladdin down here immediately. Don't delay." Basil hung up the phone before Elsa could even get a word in, groaning she looked to her partner. "We gotta go, Basil is neck deep in stuff he doesn't want to deal with. Jack, say hello to Sally for us." After gathering Jack's collected evidence the deputies were once again back on the road.


As they walked into the station there was still one last piece of information they needed to go over. "Alright you know the drill, you're good cop, I'm bad cop. Works best that way." Said Elsa her game face already on as she walked into the station. "It works best that way because it's not acting" chuckled Aladdin as they made their way to the questioning room.

Elsa waited outside with Basil looking through the one-way glass that kept them separated from the people inside. Inside the room was Doc who was still red in the face from a day's worth of crying. "He looks devastated" Elsa whispered to Basil, not trusting the technology of the sound proof walls. "Don't ever trust that. In my youth working for Scotland Yard there was once a man I interrogated for about an hour. A banker whose wife has been found raped and stabbed in some dirty back alley. He looked like a mess and sounded worse. Oh I was so convinced that he was mourning her death that I went easy on him. I let him walk out of that interrogation room as a victim, and he went home. Few days later the lab got back with us, told us it was his semen found inside his wife and that a knife found in a nearby dumpster belonged to the husband. Her blood was still on it and so were his fingerprints. We rushed to find the husband but he had already skipped town and left the country. Never found the bastard." Basil had never told that story before; Elsa was a bit shocked by it all.

"What happened to you after that?"

"Well deputy Elsa, that's how I ended up in Walt County…"

Basil gave Elsa a look that instructed her not to pry anymore. Elsa went back to looking inside the room, Aladdin was playing it by the book and giving Doc anything he needed to get him comfortable; in this case it was some hot tea. "I already questioned Bashful and Sleepy. Grumpy hasn't come in yet, and neither has Dopey but he's on his way. Snow White is waiting to talk as well." Elsa had to ask, "Anything that makes you think they may have killed their friends?" Basil shook his head 'no.'

"How long did Jack say they had been dead?"

"Sneezy was killed this morning, but Happy was killed a few days ago. Someone bashed in the back of his skull."

"Well nobody in this group killed Sneezy this morning that's for sure. They all have alibis, except maybe Snow over there. Haven't talked to her. Can't account really for a range of several days. But right now I've got no reason to suspect them, but as you know I've been wrong before."

Aladdin kept asking Doc similar questions to find a break in his story "So you were working this morning down at the clinic? What time was that again?"

"I already told you! 7am to 4pm, you can ask anybody I was there the whole time. Hell, I ate lunch in my office."

"Calm down Doc, just trying to get everything straight. I'm thorough."

"Sorry, I just want to go home. I can't believe they're dead. Does Grumpy know?"

"Yes, he's been informed. He should be coming in soon."

"Grumpy may have a rough exterior but he's a real softie. I don't know how he's going to take this. He and Happy were very close believe it or not. They balanced each other out."

"I can imagine. Doc, do you know anybody who would want to hurt Sneezy or Happy?"

"I don't know anybody. Happy never bothered anyone and Sneezy mostly kept to himself. They never spoke of enemies."

Aladdin nodded his head and wrapped up the questioning there was nothing else to gain from Doc. Aladdin went up to the glass and tapped it. "Yo Elsa, send in Snow White."

Within moments Doc was on his way home with the rest of the dwarves and Snow White was inside the questioning room, she looked disheveled like she hadn't slept and her makeup was ruined from the tears. Aladdin offered her a tissue, which she took. "Snow, I know this is really tough for you, but I need you to answer some questions." Snow tried to speak but she was sobbing so much she couldn't make out complete sentences. Aladdin's patience was running thin he motioned to Elsa with his eyes; it was showtime.

Elsa barged in making sure the door hit the wall before it's kinetic energy sent it snapping back to close the door behind her. Snow jumped at all this and dropped her snot filled tissue. "Alright Snow, we're all trying to go home here so let's make this quick. I need you to put on your big girl pants and answer my partner and I's questions. Got it?" Snow just nodded her head in agreement.

"Alright, where were you this morning?"

"I was at home, I got up, used the bathroom, took a shower and made breakfast."

"I'm going to need more details than that."

"I uh, made waffles with maple syrup. The good kind from Canada not the crappy store brand."

"Miss, I don't need to know the color of your shit I just need to know if you were shitting when the murder took place. When did you wake up? And did you leave the house? And if so at what time?"

"I uh,…well,…I got up around 6.30 and I was there most of the day, I had to run to camera store to pick up a new lens that had just come in. That was around 10am, I went to the store, but before I could get home I got the call that Happy's body had been found in the river and I…"

Snow White began to break down again sobbing as the memories rushed back to her. Aladdin placed his hand on her wrist comforting her "It's okay Snow, please keep going." Snow composed herself "So I got the call and then called everyone else to confirm. Bashful was so distraught I needed to pick him up and give him a ride in. I….we…don't know who would do such a thing. The dwarves have been my friends since childhood. I don't know why anybody would want to hurt them. Do you?"

Aladdin and Elsa let that hang for a moment before Elsa spoke "Snow, I'm going to need you and the dwarves to stay in town for a while. Don't leave until we say so." Snow began to stand up but Elsa motioned for her to stay seated and like a dog she obeyed. "Surely you don't suspect one of us would ever harm Happy or Sneezy?" Aladdin began to talk "No we don't but…" Elsa cut him off "Everyone close to the dwarves is a suspect." Now the room grew truly silent.

After an awkward pause Snow began to cry again. "That's all for now" assured Elsa in the least assuring tone possible. Aladdin helped Snow to her feet and guided her out of the room "We'll be in touch, get some rest."

Once Aladdin was done escorting Snow White to her car he met with Basil and Elsa to review. "I trust everyone's story thus far. Problem is it's taking us to dead ends" sighed Aladdin as he grabbed a cup of water. Elsa rubbed her temple and sat down at the edge of her desk. "Well when Grumpy and Dopey get here we'll figure something out." Just as Elsa was beginning to relax she received a phone call, reaching out she answered the call.

"Hello?" It was Belle, the assistant district attorney. "Deputy Elsa Arendottir I'm just calling in to make sure you will be in court tomorrow for the cross examination." Elsa almost let out an expletive, she had forgotten about the Stoneyard Bar trial. "Ah yes, I'll be there. 9am right?" Belle sighed "Be there at 8.30am please. See you tomorrow." Belle then hung up the phone and Elsa put away hers. "Dammit, forgot about tomorrow? Geez, why'd it have to be this week? Of all the weeks?" Elsa was asking this question out loud but Aladdin wasn't even really listening he was just texting Jasmine on his phone.

At that moment Grumpy walked in accompanied by Dopey, Grumpy was looking as standoffish as ever and Dopey's eyes were everywhere not being able to stay focused on a particular item or person for too long. "How long is this going to take? We need to be with our friends tonight. Dopey is already freaking out, and you all aren't helping by asking him to come down here." Grumpy growled almost all of his words Aladdin moved in front of Elsa "Standard procedure sir. The faster you answer our questions the faster we all get to go home." Aladdin tried to touch Grumpy's shoulder to calm him down but he jerked himself out of position. Aladdin stole a look back at Elsa as Grumpy led Dopey towards the back.

"Okay we're going interview Dopey first if that's okay" stated Elsa as she tried her best to make eye contact with Dopey who kept looking at the ground like a child. "He's really not in condition to talk without someone present, he's…special" explained Grumpy softening up a bit. Elsa and Aladdin looked towards Basil who had been listening in for confirmation. "It's fine by me" he said as he put a stick of gum in his mouth.

Grumpy an Dopey say together in the questioning room, both of them had refused anything to drink as Aladdin began to lead the questions "So can either of you account for where you were earlier this morning?" Dopey looked like he was trying to say something but couldn't get the words out, Grumpy however was ready "What's it to you?" Aladdin rolled his eyes a bit "Well we have to ask, it's for the records." Grumpy sneered "Well why don't you tell me where you were this morning?" Aladdin was willing to play ball, but he was already beginning to grit his teeth "Well if you must know I was with my wife and we were walking our cat Raja through our yard. He's a cat….he doesn't need a leash, but my wife is afraid he's going to run away."

"Right, I'm supposed to believe that! I don't trust you as far as I can throw you, for all I know you offed Happy and Sneezy." Elsa tried her best to keep her face stoic but Aladdin's demeanor was cracking, not ideal for their usual good cop, bad cop routine. "Excuse me?!" asked Aladdin fiddling with his pencil. "You heard me! I don't trust you people!"

"You people? What the hell are you talking about?"

"You an A-RAB! There are no Mosques in Walt County, why don't you get the message and pack up? I don't feel safe with someone of your allegiance holding a badge. I've read the Quran online, I know that if someone insults your religion you have to defend yourself. Jihad is what they call it, so maybe you should leave the room before I say something that forces you to kill me or go to Hell!"

"First of all that's a gross misrepresentation of the Quran, that is simply stating that you should never deny your faith even in persecution. It's very similar to a scripture from the Bible you might be familiar with: Matthew 10:33, but whoever denies me before men, I shall deny in heaven. And I'm not Muslim; I'm agnostic and if you saw how my wife dressed you'd know that. Are you and I going to have a problem? Just give me a reason."

Elsa had to step in now "Al, take five. I'm going to conduct the interview from here on out. Leave." Aladdin moved to protest but then stormed out of the room instead; he could be heard cussing under his breath. Once Aladdin was gone Elsa turned on all the dark charm she could "That guy right? I mean he's my partner and all and I trust him but he's one of the 'good ones' if ya' ask me. I mean it's not like all Arabs are terrorist just some of them, most of them don't have the guts." Grumpy leaned in "Yeah, they're too chicken-shit to actually blow themselves up for Allah but they'd do it if they felt they had to" agreed Grumpy with a smile that almost caused Elsa's hairs to stand up.

"Yeah, I mean they see us as infidels. US! The United States of America, our great nation is somehow the great Satan. We're trying to educate and bring freedom to them and they just spit in our face!" said Elsa crossing her arms pretending to be in disbelief. Grumpy chuckled and snorted at the same time "Well we're not as great as we used to be. But that's because we let some secret Muslim national be our President. Everything has gone to shit since we let his monkey ass in! Fucking hippies, when I was growing up there were divides. We didn't need no Jim Crow to keep us separated, that was just the natural order of things. I mean you don't wash your whites with your coloreds in the wash would you?" Elsa had taken one acting class in high school and every bit of those skills were coming in handy at this very moment. "I'm with you partner, just between you and me though. Heh, this country has forgotten what made it so great! I pray for it's soul everyday" whispered Elsa.

Grumpy was smiling but Dopey seemed zoned out, like he wasn't even there. No matter she needed Grumpy to get to Dopey anyway. "So alright let's get this done with. I need to get home, what were you doing this morning?"

"Well I was home until around 8.45 then I went to the Pharmacy picked up my prescriptions and then I went to the auto store, and then maybe Taco John's I can't remember." Elsa had to move mountains inside of her not to laugh a bit at the irony of Grumpy going to Taco John's. "I have all the receipts right here if you need to see them" said Grumpy as he handed Elsa crumbled up receipts as proof of his whereabouts. Elsa accepted them and then turned her attention towards Dopey.

"Can he speak? Is he mute?" It wasn't the most sensitive way to ask a question but the deputy figured that Grumpy was the kind of guy who used an axe where a chisel was required. Grumpy placed his hand on Dopey's shoulder "No, he just isn't very…good at speaking he uh,….you know he had to go to one of those special schools. But that didn't help much anyway, I mean if you get to know him he'll light up around you. This is just really hard for him, he was very close to Happy. We all were close."

Elsa nodded her head in understanding "Do you know where he was this morning?" Dopey looked up at Elsa but didn't say anything. "He was at the clinic with Doc, that's where he gets his medicine." Elsa prepared to write on her notepad "Is he sick?" Grumpy hesitated "It helps him concentrate." Elsa jotted down the note and then looked back at Grumpy. "Do you know anyone and I mean anyone who would have anything against Happy or Sneezy?"

Grumpy leaned back in his chair, arms crossed. "Well you know we rubbed some people the wrong way with our reality show. I said some things I probably shouldn't have said in public and then the liberal media turned it upside down and made me look like some sort of bigot. But uh,….Happy and Sneezy? They had their noses pretty clean. I mean some people weren't pleased, Ariel Triton the singer she was pretty pissed. But that girl is always looking for something to complain about."

Elsa raised en eyebrow "Ariel? What was she mad about?" Grumpy shook his head "She felt that we took away the spotlight from her in one of the episodes. In it we went to watch her preform and she said the show broadcast her worst performance and it hurt her career. I tried to tell her it wasn't my decision it was the editors but she wouldn't have it! And let's be honest her career has been on the decline for years; it wasn't our show that did her in. She was just jealous. She got in Sneezy's face and of course the guy sneezed all over and she really went off starting slapping and clawing him. I mean just a real psycho bitch." Elsa jotted down Ariel's name.

"Another person you may want to look at is Tiana. She had some nasty things to say about all of us." Elsa made note of Tiana and then went back to Grumpy who shook his head "Those are the only people I can think of off hand." Elsa nodded her head in understanding and then passed both Dopey and Grumpy her business card "Well if you think of anything else, you don't hesitate to call me. You're free to go, but try and stay in town for the time being." "Alright, not a problem" replied Grumpy as he guided Dopey out with him.

Elsa rendezvoused with Aladdin and Basil as soon as she could. "We'll need to check in on Tiana and Ariel tomorrow as soon as we can. Probably nothing, but you never know." Advised Elsa, Basil agreed "I know you have to go down to the courthouse tomorrow morning so Deputy Aladdin and I will go to Tiana's and if you're still stuck in court we'll go to Ariel's as well. For now just get some rest and we'll sort this out in the morning. We're going to get anywhere tonight." Aladdin and Elsa packed up their things as Basil stayed late to go over some notes from other cases he was investigating. Nothing dire, stolen property and whatnot.

Elsa was about to climb into her pickup when Aladdin called to her from his car, the one he had nicknamed 'The Magic Carpet' affectionately. "Elsa, you should call Lamin. He misses you, I saw him the other week. He looked pretty bad." Elsa paused, she wasn't thinking over what to do; just what to say. "He has my number. He can call me." Elsa finished getting into her truck and then sped off.


Elsa pulled up to her small ranch style house, it had been built in the 70s but Elsa had fitted it to look as classic as possible. She noticed a little red compact in her driveway; it was her sister Anna's car.

Elsa entered her home to find Anna in a big sweater and slim jeans lying on her couch watching TV. "I wasn't expecting you" was all Elsa could manage to say. Anna shrugged her shoulders "DVR is out at my apartment I wanted to watch Walking Dead from last week" explained Anna smiling at her sister. "How can you watch that garbage?" asked Elsa while she picked up her mail and shuffled through it, nothing but bills and junk. "I know you're not talking, you have every season of Duck Dynasty on DVD!" Elsa grinned "Everyone has a guilty pleasure, I also got the history of WCW on DVD just a few days ago. Early Christmas gift to myself" said Elsa as she plopped down onto the couch.

"You are such a dude. A dude who dresses very well" giggled Anna. "That I am" concurred Elsa as she pretended to dig her hand down her pants like a roughneck. "Elsa! That's disgusting!" piped Anna, her icy sister smiled and just pulled her hand out and tried to force it down it onto Anna's face as she playfully fought back against it. "Tell me what it smells like!" grinned Elsa as Anna pulled herself out of Elsa's grasp and rolled off the couch "No! No! That's gross! You're gross!" Elsa couldn't help but laugh as she stood back up and headed to her kitchen. "Want a beer? I got Odell IPA." Anna made a gagging sound "You know I can't drink that stuff. Got anything lighter?" Elsa searched through her fridge, "Sorry no" she said as she shut the fridge and uncapped her beer; drinking in gulps.

"What about Altitude Solar? You always used to have that" asked Anna, now it was Elsa's turn to make the gagging sound. "That was Lamin, he liked all those kinds of beers, not me." Anna got up from the floor and back onto the couch. "Hans likes stouts." Elsa sighed "You really like this Hans guy huh?" Anan smiled brightly back at Elsa "OH Elsa you need to give him a chance he's a really great guy. We have so much in common."

The deputy just scratched her head and then went into the pantry, searching for something to eat. "I mean we just have this great mental synchronization. It's like we can finish each other's…" Anna was cut off by Elsa "Sandwiches?" Anna had to snap back into the moment "What did you say?" Elsa held up a loaf of bread. "Sandwiches. Do you want me to make some?" Anna grinned "Oh yes please!" Elsa rubbed the back of her neck as she looked aimlessly throughout the kitchen "I need to go to the store for cold cuts PB&J good for you?" Anna just nodded her head 'yes.'

After preparing the sandwiches the two sisters sat on the couch and began to watch TV. It was the local news; they were waiting for The Tonight Show to come on when Jiminy Cricket 'the most trusted man in weather' began to go over details of a cold front moving in and possible blizzard. "Now if I'm lying may my nose start to grow, but I am telling you people to not worry about this Blizzard this is going to pass right over us. Its going to cut through northern Idaho and Montana and then up to our friendly neighbors to the north. Nothing to worry about, but do prepare for colder temperatures…."

As Elsa finished up her sandwich she could feel the hand of Anna on her thigh, the physical contact made her a bit uncomfortable. She could just never quite place it but something always felt a bit odd about Anna during moments like these. They had been happening sporadically since they were teenagers, and usually when Anna got drunk. Anna wasn't drunk tonight though and—NO Elsa was not taking her mind there. That was a ridiculous thing to even think, Anna was just more affectionate than she was. There was nothing wrong with that, she was the freak not her normal sister. Still, the hand was bothering her a bit and kind of tickling her so she moved to remove the hand but as she did she rubbed a bit of Anna's sleeve up and noticed something odd; a bruise.

"Anna? Is that a bruise?" asked Elsa, Anna was quick to an explanation "Oh yes! Yeah, I was on the ladder earlier because my satellite dish wasn't working and I KNOW I should have had the satellite people come, but I'm a little strapped for cash and so I got up there and had a little fall. I'm fine though, really." Elsa examined the bruise once more and she began to roll up the rest of the sleeve when Anna stopped her. "Elsa don't it's cold enough and your hands are always like ice. I'm fine!" Elsa stopped "Hey look if you're short on cash I can give you some money." Anan glanced at Elsa sheepishly "Well I could really use like $200, if that's okay. I'll pay you back next pay period." Elsa shook her head "No need, you're my sister. Just spend it on what you need. Nothing you just want." Anna smiled and kissed her sister on the cheek "Thanks big sis, you're the best! One more thing…can I sleep here tonight? They turned off the heat in my apartment." Elsa laughed "Sure Anna."

The two eventually made their way to bed as Anna fell asleep quickly pressing herself close to Elsa. Elsa shifted as best she could away from her red headed sister and eventually drifted off to sleep. As her mind went to her tranquil dreamland she was rudely spat out by the sound of her phone going off. Elsa grabbed it and answered it, still groggy from the sudden jarring noise. "This is Elsa." It was Hercules, the Lieutenant of the local fire brigade "Elsa it's Herc, we've got a problem over here. There was just a big fire at the house of Bashful, you know one of the seven dwarves. I'm going to text you the address, ya'll better get down here."

Elsa bolted out of her bed and began to get on her uniform "I don't understand, what do you need me for? I'm just a deputy." There was some slight hesitation on Hercules' part "Elsa, we found a dead body. It's Bashful's, I think he was murdered."

Author's Note: Alright so that's chapter two. Please Review people it helps keep me going on stories like these and I always appreciate the feedback, also let me know if there is a a certain character you'd like to see appear in this universe. A lot should make an appearance but there is still time and room to add characters in so please let me know. Hope you're enjoying it thus far!