A Sleepless Night

Again, this story takes place after the movie and before my story "Frozen 2: The Snow Queen", so no need to read that story if you don't want to.


Anna was trapped in the room Hans locked her up in just after she returned to from the North Mountain. Her heart was freezing and she couldn't open the door. (Seriously, who designs a door to an interior room that is locked from the outside?). Hans had put the fire out, and it was growing colder by the minute.

"Help! Someone!" she called out, hoping, praying, that someone would answer. She curled up as she felt more ice covering her body. Weak, she continued calling out.

"Help, please" she barely got out. She was in agony, trembling both from the physical pain and emotional pain that this was how she was to spend the last few minutes of her life. It hurt to move her eyes, feeling the ice behind them.

"Please..." she called, trembling. She thought about Hans, how wrong she was about him. She felt used, stupid even, for allowing her emotions to shape her actions. Why didn't she listen to Elsa?

Anna turned her head slightly, suddenly seeing Elsa standing over her. Not caring how she got there, she called to her...

"Elsa!" she called, trying to crawl to her. "Help me!"

Elsa stared, panic stricken, guilt ridden at the sight of Anna on the floor, and moved to turn away.

"Elsa, wait!" Anna called out, reaching out to her.

Elsa had turned completely, running away.

"Help me, please!" she called out desperatly, tears streaming from her eyes. Elsa ran into the room until she vanished into thin air.

"Was she that afraid that she couldn't help me? Did she even care?" thought Anna, hurt that Elsa wasn't there to help her, even if it was only to comfort her. Anna lied there, accepting her fate. No one was their for her; not her estranged sister, her two faced fiancé, or her new friends, who were nowhere to be seen. She was to die, alone, and unloved.

"I'm such a fool" she said to herself. Then, she felt it, the darkness, taking over. The ice spread through her body rapidly, freezing her from the inside out. Everything went dark...


Anna rolled in her bed, tossing and turning, crying in her sleep. She let out a scream, which eventually woke her up. She shot up, breathing heavily, tears streaming as she felt a familiar pain run through her body. She felt her skin, pulled her hair in front of her to see if it was still red. To her relief, it was. Not even that white streak she grew up with remained. It was all just a dream; a nightmare.

Anna breathed slowly, pulling herself together. She moved herself to the side of her bed, feet on the floor, still trying to convince herself that she was alive.

This was the sixth time she has had this nightmare. It has now been three weeks since the Great Thaw. All was well in Arendelle. Elsa was back in her life, she was in a wonderful relationship with Kristoff, and the gates were open. All, except, for the traumatic after-effects of dying.

Anna never showed it, but she was unnerved by the events preceding the thaw. Her own sister freezing her heart, then kicking her out. How Hans treated her and left her to die. How she felt so alone and unloved; that was what hurt her the most: Being alone with no one to love her. In the end, she ended up sacrificing herself for Elsa, which in turn saved her own life.

Anna never blamed Elsa for what happened. She knew she was simply fearful, and her judgment was all screwy; she was simply not in control of her own actions. But Anna couldn't shake the felling of hurt of Elsa not being there for her. Anna had been reaching out to Elsa her whole life, and only once at the coronation did she reach out to her.

Anna never expected anything in return, and Elsa did finally open up and is now making it up to her, but it didn't remove the pain Anna felt on that day...

Anna's thoughts were interrupted by a knock to the door...

"Anna? Are you OK?" asked Elsa through the door. Their rooms were closer now that Elsa changed rooms, so she must have heard the scream.

"Oh, I'm fine, I just rolled out of bed" Anna lied.

Elsa opened the door, stepping halfway into the room. "Are you sure?"

Anna nodded, failing to hide the tears. "Yep, I'm fine."

Elsa smirked, and walked in, closing the door behind. Anna realized she wasn't fooling anyone.

"What's wrong?" asked Elsa, sitting down next to her.

Anna hesitated. She knew that even though Elsa was much better, she still had bits and pieces of guilt left over. And even though she could use her powers without fear of hurting anyone, at times her powers would still leak out without her consent, much to her embarrassment and frustration.

Elsa knew that Anna nearly died, and that it must had been traumatic, she didn't know the full extent it had on her. Anna had spared the details and the nightmares, not wanting to put more guilt on Elsa than she already had.

"I, I just had a bad dream, about Hans, how he treated me..." Anna said. It was partially true, but it wasn't the entire truth.

"Oh Anna" said Elsa, pulling her sister into a hug. "I'm sorry for what that monster put you through."

"It wasn't your fault" Anna put in, trying to keep her from going down that guilt trip. "You tried to warn me."

"And you were reacting out of loneliness. Anna, I should have known how lonely you had become."

"Hey, it wasn't much better for you!" Anna said, playfully nudging Elsa.

Elsa smiled. "Well, I guess we're both a victim of circumstance."

Anna considered telling her the whole truth, how the trauma of freezing from the inside out, of dying, had been keeping her up at night. How she felt so alone; unloved. How she felt abandoned by Elsa on that day.

But, Elsa never meant to do that to her, and if she told her, Elsa would blame herself, and she was still dealing with enough demons; she doesn't need any more.

"Anna, was that it? Is their anything else?" Elsa asked.

Anna hesitated. "That's it, I'm, I'm better now. Thanks for worrying."

Elsa stood up and smiled. "Hey, what are sisters for? Will you be alright? Do you want me to stay tonight?" She asked.

"Oh, no. Believe me, I'm much better now, now that I'm back in reality."

Elsa smiled, standing up to go back to her room. "Good night."

"Good night" replied Anna. When Elsa closed the door, Anna sighed. She lied back down, and cried out the hidden pain.

Anna and Elsa promised three weeks ago that thy would keep no more secrets, that they would help each other with their pain. But this one, this truth that would kill Elsa, Anna decided to keep to herself. She decided that since Elsa put herself through twelve years of torment for her, it was the least she could do. This was one demon Anna was willing to go through on her own.

She would just have to endure this sleepless night alone, Keeping in mind the comforting thought that she was indeed loved.


Don't feel bad for Anna. She will finally resolve this issue by the end of my other story, "Frozen 3: The Dark Mirror". Actually, seeing how the stories need a better bridge, I might add some more to "Frozen 2" revolving about this issue.

This was pretty short, more than I would like, but it is a one shot.

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