Author's Note: Finally! After three rewrites, I finally have this chapter done!

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We all fall down. Alexa, Hannah, Elsa, and Anna.

The day after Elsa and Anna had discovered Alexa's secret pictures, Elsa found her in a large room that had been renovated into a gallery. Alexa was hard at work arranging all the pictures in chronological order and order of significance. It wasn't hard for her to decide which pictures should go where, it was just rather time consuming to hang them because there were so many of them.

"Where's Anna?" Alexa suddenly asked, not even turning around to face Elsa.

Elsa was stunned at first.

"How did you know it was just me?" she asked.

"I can tell you apart by your footsteps." Alexa replied, hanging a water color painting of a snow storm on the wall.

"Oh. She and Kristoff are on a picnic. I think they went to the northwest woods." said Elsa watching Alexa work.

"Ah. They should be fine, as long as they stay out of the river. It's deep and dangerous there." said Alexa hanging another picture, this one a sketch of a family seated at the table in the dining hall.

Elsa walked over to take a closer look. The people in the picture looked like Alexa around age eight, Hannah around age five, and their parents. At least, Elsa assumed it was their parents. Alexa moved on. She hung each picture with pleasure, pain, or thoughtfulness. After nearly an hour, she hung the last picture, the paining called 'Symphony of Storms'. Alexa then stepped back to view her work and let out a sigh of relief.

Elsa walked up to her and put her arm around her. Alexa returned the embrace and they stood there looking at the pictures.

"All in all, I'm actually glad you and Anna found these. It gave me the final push I needed to do this. It's good that people can see these and understand what happened to Hannah and me when we were kids." said Alexa, releasing Elsa and walking over to a painting of the man and woman from the family sketch, sitting in the library with Hannah. Alexa was a shadow silhouette in the hall, barely glimpsed through the slightly open door. In this one, Hannah appeared to be about thirteen, which would make Alexa sixteen.

"I painted this two weeks before they died. I had snuck out of my room and watched them all enjoying the evening together. I was so lonely and mad and upset at the fact I was banished from my own family, that I painted that first, then this after I had calmed a bit." said Alexa, pointing first to the painting next to the one she was standing before, then gesturing to the one before her.

That first one, was a mass of angry brush strokes that formed a mass of swirling, raging storms and explosions of color. It looked like pain, anger, and even sorrow on canvass.

Elsa glanced back at the other picture.

"Your parents?" she asked.

"Yes. I know they loved me and meant well, but they did the worst possible thing, even if it was the only way they knew how to protect Hannah and me from a world that hated magic and anything it didn't understand. Oh well, no one's perfect. We all fall down and make mistakes. All we can do is muddle through this life as best we can and move on." said Alexa, her eyes brighter, her shoulders straighter, and her head higher than it had been a moment earlier.

"How can you be so forgiving? I'm not sure I would if I had been locked in my room from the first." said Elsa.

Alexa smiled. "Because God forgave me. And, I love them. I've always loved my parents and I always will. I miss them." she said sighing and putting a hand on their painted forms. "Come. Let us go." she said walking out of the gallery.

Elsa followed.

The rest of the day was fine, but the next day Alexa seemed… moody. She was sullen and depressed one minute, then angry the next. The cycles between shifts of mood became shorter and shorter until she just up and left, staking out of the castle looking like she might erupt into flames. Literally. Hannah watched helplessly as her sister flew off towards the north.

"Is she ok?" Elsa asked, watching the quickly disappearing figure of her friend.

"No. She's still hurting and in pain. Alexa… is not like other people. Her emotions are… intense, wild, hard to control. I doubt any 'normal' person could handle them without going completely insane. Sometimes, she just has to go vent. She'll be back and she'll be better. She just… needs time and space." said the young blond woman.

Anna wrapped her arms around her friend, offering what comfort she could. Hannah smiled and hugged her back in gratitude.

"Thank you, Anna. You too, Elsa. You have no idea how much of a comfort your mere presence is. To both of us." said Hannah, her perky, sunshiny self returning. She grabbed them both by the hand and started to pull them into the castle saying, "Come on! There's something I want to show you!"

Alexa meanwhile, landed in a clearing in the northern woods. Her rage was boiling up inside her and her fire magic pushed against her hands, trying to escape. With a cry of anger, she unleashed a pillar of flames into the sky! The flames roared into the sky, taking all her rage with them. Once it was spent, Alexa sank to her knees, sorrow taking the place of anger. A mighty thunderhead appeared and proceeded to dump a torrential rain on her.

Alexa clutched her abdomen and rocked back and forth on her shins as the grief for, oh so many things, found vent in the storm above her. She rocked and moaned and even sobbed a bit as she let her emotions drain out of her. Yet, through it all, Alexa felt a soothing presence with her. She felt as though someone was standing beside her and resting a comforting hand her back, giving her strength.

Soon, her emotional fit was over and she stood, feeling relieved and calm. Alexa looked up into the sky and saw a rainbow. As the last of her storm disappeared, so too did the rainbow, but the sight of that simple thing had fanned hope back into mighty flame! Yes, she was still broken, but she was healing. She and Hannah would get through this. Together, with Elsa, Anna, and all their friends, they would get through this.

Alexa spread her wings and took off into the sky, eager to return to the castle.

Hannah, had dragged Elsa and Anna to a room at the top of the tallest tower of the castle. She threw open the door and revealed a room that was dark with a domed ceiling. She released Anna and Elsa's hands and ran inside. At the other side of the room, she pulled a lever and the ceiling started to slide away! The roof was open and the sunlight poured in, revealing a massive telescope mounted in a massive stand in the center of the room.

Elsa and Anna's jaws dropped! They had never seen anything like this! Hannah laughed at their stunned expressions and pulled them into the room.

"This, is the observatory." she explained. "From here, with this telescope, we can see the stars and the planets and everything in space much better than with our eyes alone or even with a spyglass."

Anna's curiosity was at once peeked. She walked up to the huge telescope and walked around it, wondering how heavy it was and how well she'd be able to see the stars through it. Elsa was also very curious about this massive contraption. It looked like an over-sized version of a spyglass and she wondered just how much it would magnify things.

Just then, Alexa flew down and alighted in the room, since the roof was open.

"So, she finally showed you the observatory, eh?" she said grinning and everyone knew she was ok.

"Where did you get this thing? How did you get it all the way up here? How many times magnification does it have? What…" The questions poured out of Elsa.

Alexa chuckled and said, "One at a time! One at a time! My father had the telescope installed. It took about eight strong men a full week to bring all the pieces up here and assemble them. I have no idea how many times magnification this thing has, but I do know that it's great for astronomy. Speaking of which, tonight is going to be clear, so we should be able to see quite a lot."

"You mean?" Elsa and Anna asked breathlessly.

Alexa nodded and said, "Yep. You'll be able to use this telescope tonight. Also, I've heard that we should be able to get a pretty good view of Venus tonight. I don't know how accurate that information is, but still."

Elsa and Anna suddenly hugged Alexa. They were just too excited for words, but the strength of their joint hug told Alexa plainly what they were thinking. It also made it difficult for her to breathe.

"Sorry! It's just, we're so excited!" said Anna, releasing her.

Alexa chuckled at her exuberance.

That night, the four friends observed the night sky. Elsa and Anna were enthralled by the view through the telescope! They could see everything much more clearly and were fascinated by the beauty of the heavens. Alexa had taken the precaution of installing a piece that allowed both sisters to look through the telescope at once, lest there be any fights. She and Hannah were content to let them gaze at the stars and moon and Jupiter, while they lay on their bed rolls side by side and just gazed up at the stars, trying to see who could pick out the most constellations.

"Equuleus." said Alexa.

"Hercules." said Hannah.

"Scorpius."

"Aquila."

"Ara."

"Cygnus."

"Corona Borealis."

"Corona Australis."

"Capricornus."

"Libra. You do know you have to meet with the Council tomorrow, right?" Hannah suddenly said.

"Yes, I know. Lyra." replied Alexa.

"Seriously. Aren't you nervous?" asked Hannah.

"Of course I'm nervous. Are we going to continue or not?" asked Alexa turning her head towards Hannah.

"I think that's enough for tonight. It's getting late and you have an early start in the morning." said Hannah, turning over and pulling her blanket around her shoulders.

"You do realize that means I win, right?" said Alexa.

"Whatever. You've always had a better head for astronomy and a quicker eye than me anyway." said Hannah. Her tone said, 'Yeah, I know. Now shut up and let me sleep.'

Alexa chuckled and turned to Elsa and Anna, who were still gawking through the telescope, and said, "Are you two planning on sleeping anytime soon?"

Elsa and Anna jumped at the sound. They had been so focused on what they were seeing that they hadn't heard anything Alexa and Hannah were saying. They turned around sheepishly and blushed visibly.

"Sorry, Alexa. We didn't mean to hog the telescope. It's just… so utterly amazing!" Elsa said, looking starry eyed.

Alexa laughed. "That's perfectly fine! Hannah and I have looked through that thing for hours together. It was a very clear night a few nights ago. It's just, we're both tired and I've got to begin my Queenly duties in full tomorrow, so we're going to sleep now. Just, make sure you close the roof sometime before the dew falls, ok?" she said smiling.

Elsa and Anna both nodded and turned back to the telescope.

Alexa chuckled and grew a simple shelter over Hannah and herself, just in case.