A/N: Thinking about the possibility of Ice Queen is the only thing that is not making me go crazy about Regina losing her happiness so here is another chapter. Also, words in italics will be Elsa's flashback. I was unsure if I wanted to include Anna in this fic but I decided to do it. Please let me know what you think :)
Chapter 2
Regina tried to remember hearing about someone named Elsa but she could not for the life of her recall any such person. Her brown eyes stayed glued onto the frosty woman in front of her.
"Why are you here?" the raven haired woman asked, authority lacing itself into her voice.
"And where is here exactly?" Elsa questioned, ignoring Regina's attempt to get information.
The Mayor shook her head slightly and locked in jaw in anger. Of course this woman would not know where she was because Emma just brought her out of the Enchanted Forest. Regina cursed loudly in her head and swore that she was going to give the Sheriff a piece of her mind.
The former Evil Queen was unsure of how much information she should divulge to this new arrival to Storybrooke and took a small step forward. Regina had barely taken her step before ice shot out of Elsa's hands and froze her feet.
Regina struggled to move against the cold, blue ice and was frustrated when she could do nothing. She brought her fireball up to counter attack but it too quickly turned to ice, shattering as it fell to the ground.
"What the hell do you think you are doing?" Regina snapped at the blonde and lit another fireball in her hand. Ice immediately encompassed the flames and shattered like the previous one.
Elsa stood tall and placed her hands delicately on her hips, looking much like Regina used to when she was the Queen of the Enchanted Forest.
"Let's start again. Where am I?" Elsa looked at Regina's outfit for a moment, her eyebrows scrunching at the odd choice of attire but said nothing, wanting to focus on the essential information first.
"Storybrooke, Maine," Regina huffed out angrily. A blank look on the blonde's face made Regina roll her eyes. "This is a different realm from where you come from," she informed the woman, referring to the Enchanted Forest.
"You know where I come from?" the blue clad woman questioned.
Regina nodded her response and tried not to squirm. Her heating charm was again wearing off and her feet were starting to become uncomfortably cold.
"So you know who I am then?" Elsa asked.
"No, I never heard of an Elsa in the Enchanted Forest," Regina answered truthfully. The cold was quickly getting worse and the ice covered woman visibly shivered. "Would you mind releasing your hold on my feet? I do want to use them in the future," she requested with a bitter tone.
Elsa seemed to regard her for a moment before willing her ice magic to thaw. After a few moments Regina's feet were no longer covered with ice but instead with water.
The black haired woman scowled before using her magic to dry her feet off and recast her heating charm. Elsa watched as the woman did this to ensure that she would not be caught off guard and attacked.
"I am not from the Enchanted Forest," Elsa informed the other woman as she tapped her fingers impatiently against her hip bone. "My kingdom is Arendelle."
Regina, visibly confused, pondered how someone from another realm managed to get through the portal.
"Arendelle? That was the kingdom of the Snow …," her voice trailed off as she realized who Elsa was. "You're the Snow Queen?" Regina asked.
A nod told her that her thoughts were correct and Regina's eyes widened slightly in surprise. She had heard that this woman had been locked up for something Regina could not recall. The look of anger on Elsa's face told her that perhaps she should not ask too many questions at the moment.
"Yes," she said angrily and ice shot out of her hand and impaled itself into the hardwood floor.
It seemed to Regina that Elsa was remembering something not too pleasant and she decided to try and distract her.
"I was the Evil Queen in the Enchanted Forest," she stated which caught Elsa's attention.
"An Evil Queen? My my, I've certainly met someone interesting," Elsa's lips turned into a smirk and she tilted her head.
The smirk on the Snow Queen's pretty pale face caused Regina to shiver. The smirk look so alluring, dangerous, and full of excitement.
"I'm not the Evil Queen anymore. Now I'm the Mayor of Storybrooke. Well, sort of. It's all very complicated," Regina ran her hand through her hair and tried to look unconcerned about just how complicated life in Storybrooke actually was but Elsa caught it.
The blonde walked over to the table and pulled out a chair for her to sit on. Her hands resting on the table, causing the wood underneath her fingertips to freeze.
"Sit and explain," Elsa spoke calmly but authoritatively and gestured to the seat across from her.
Regina glared at the Snow Queen for bossing her around but decided she might as well give this woman an overview of this town and what to expect. She sat down in the chair, crossed her legs, let her hands rest in her lap, and began her long explanation of how this town was created and of its inhabitants.
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The sky was orange and red by the time Regina had finished explaining to Elsa the town of Storybrooke. The Snow Queen had remained silent throughout the tale and was deep in thought after the other woman had stopped speaking.
"Well?" Regina finally asked after five minutes of silence had gone by. Elsa looked up at Regina and took a deep breath before speaking.
"Rumpelstiltskin," she started. "He is no longer the Dark One?" Elsa asked carefully, almost calculatingly.
"He is still the Dark One, however his powers are not as strong as they were before," Regina decided to leave out the fact that someone else had his dagger. She still did not know enough about Elsa to determine what sort of information she could be trusted with. "Why? Did you know him?"
Elsa closed her eyes for just a moment, but in that moment she saw her past.
Her kingdom was frozen. Everything had been turned to ice.
The citizens of Arendelle were panicking. It was supposed to be summer but it was cold. So cold. No one was prepared, people were huddled up together while others stormed the castle in search of the woman responsible for this nightmare.
The woman in question was currently having a heated argument with her younger sister.
"What have you done?!" the red head yelled at her elder sister. "Do you have any idea what is happening to your kingdom? They are revolting! They are freezing! They want you dead!" she spoke with tear stained cheeks.
Elsa, the Queen of Arendelle, spun around to face her sister.
"They never accepted me as their true Queen! After mother and father died everyone in this kingdom hoped that someone else would come and take responsibility for the throne. They did not want me, the girl who had magical powers, to be in charge of Arendelle," Elsa snapped angrily and shot a blade of ice at the wall, the ice shattering at the impact against the ice wall.
Anna shivered and rubbed her hands against her arms in hopes to circulate more heat to her body. She wore a dark pink cloak but the temperature in the room was decreasing with every minute that Elsa continued to be angry.
There were loud bangs against the ice door that closed Elsa and Anna off from the rest of the castle.
"Princess Anna are you okay!?" the voices yelled repeatedly from the other side of the door. Anna did not respond to them and kept her eyes firmly on her sister.
"Elsa, you need to stop this. Now. Before people die," Anna pleaded with her sister. Anna looked at the gloves on the ground that contained Elsa's magic and picked them up. "Please, get rid of the snow and ice. Put the gloves back on and we can figure something out," the princess held the gloves out to her sister.
The Snow Queen shook her head and angrily clenched her fists together.
"I am not changing anything back. What they have done to me is far worse than what I am doing to them. They have tried to dictate every single thing of my life and still try to dethrone me. They still try to take my life because they are afraid. No. I have reached my wits end. They will endure this winter until they have come to respect me," Elsa demanded and walked out onto the balcony overlooking her kingdom.
Winter could be seen past the horizon, the only things that were not white were the humans and their clothing. People were yelling profanities up and the castle in hopes that their Queen would hear them, and hear them she did. It only increased her anger.
"Elsa, they won't respect you. They will fear you, as they do now," Anna said truthfully with sadness etched into her face.
The blonde kept her back turned to her younger sister for a few moments, thinking of how to get her sister to understand her pain.
"Do you know what they did?" she whispered and then repeated it but in a loud, angry voice. "Do you know what they did!? They took away the only possibility I had at love. I loved her and they saw that so what did they do? They told her that I had magic, dark magic, and that I could not be trusted. She left. They convinced her to leave this kingdom and leave me!" Elsa had tears threatening to fall down her face as she confessed to her sister.
Anna stared in shock at the blonde.
"Elsa … I didn't know. Why didn't you tell me?" she asked and walked towards Elsa to try and comfort her.
"Stay back!" the Snow Queen yelled sent a gust of cold air towards her sister, knocking her down.
Anna yelled out in pain as she fell, her arm now bent at an awkward angle. The reality of what she had just done to her sister kicked in and she went to help her sister but stopped just short of her. Anna had flinched.
The ice door broke open, guards flowing into the room. They aimed their weapons at the Snow Queen and readied to fire. Elsa quickly turned the weapons to ice, her eyes held untold anger. She about to attack them when Anna got to her feet and stood in between Elsa and the guards.
"Elsa please. You have to let it go. Let go of the anger. We can work something out, please stop," Anna cried as she clutched her broken arm.
"Just get out!" the blonde yelled at the guards and at her sister.
The Arendelle guards grabbed Anna quickly and left the room, all were afraid without their weapons. Once the room was empty, save Elsa, she walked to the place where the door had been and replaced it with another ice door. She made it thick enough that it would take the guards time to pound it down again but thin enough that she was able to hear the guards speak.
"We need help. We can't defeat her on our own. We need to contact Rumpelstiltskin."
Once she opened her eyes her vision was gone and Elsa was looking at her new acquaintance.
"We've met yes," Elsa took a deep breath and answered.
"I take it that the meeting was not pleasant," Regina assumed and leaned back against her chair.
The Snow Queen nodded her head and took the apple that she had frozen the night before in her hand. She reversed the iced effect and then bit into its green flesh. The black haired woman watched in awe of Elsa's ability to manipulate the element. It was fascinating and quite different to other magic that Regina had seen.
Regina's stomach grumbled almost silently as Elsa ate the apple. The sound reminded Regina that she had not eaten in many hours and was quite hungry. She stood up from her chair and began rummaging through the kitchen area in search of food.
The blonde watched the former Evil Queen walk around the room, curious as to what she was looking for.
"Of course she doesn't have food. Making life difficult for me in the afterlife too," Regina grumbled and stood up after she had looked in the lower cupboards. "I'm going to go into town and get breakfast," Regina decided. Just as she was about to make her way to the place where the door had been, she stopped and turned to face Elsa. "Would you like to come with me?"she offered.
The surprise was clear on Elsa's face. She had not expected that. Placing the apple core on the table, Elsa swallowed the last bite before answering.
"No I think I will stay here," the blonde replied.
Regina contemplated the response before making a decision.
"I'll come back with breakfast for us both," she stated and walked out into the morning air.
"Wait!" Elsa voice rang out behind the Mayor. Black hair bounced against Regina's shoulders as she turned around to face the blonde. "Don't tell anyone that I'm here," she demanded.
"Some people would say please," Regina said sarcastically and let out a small smile at the unamused look on Elsa's face. "Fine, fine," she relented and continued to leave the property.
Elsa watched her as she left. The blonde was still unsure of how fully she could trust Regina but for now, in this new land, she would have to until she figured everything out for herself.
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