And here's Do You Want To Build A Snowman. This marks the end of the songs. Why only two? Because I felt like it. Oh, and, because this is mostly in a flashback, instead of the song parts being in italics (whoops forgot to mention that before...), it's going to be the narration in italics and then the song part in regular type. Until we get out of the flashback. Oh, well, sorry if it's confusing.
True to her mental reminders, she lived there. She thanked herself each day for going far enough away from Arendelle to build her castle so that she could not see it from any point. It was gone, along with all reminders of Anna. Or so she hoped.
Each night Elsa was plagued with memories. And each night, she cast them out of her mind, only to have others take its place. She still cried herself to sleep. Even though she knew it was hopeless, she found herself wishing for a knock. Then one day, it came.
She tried her very best to forget, but it was a difficult task. One of the most often memories that snuck their way into her mind was the countless times Anna had come to Elsa's door asking her to build a snowman. And the countless times Elsa had pushed her away.
"Elsa?" Little five-year-old Anna knocked on her sister's door. "Do you want to build a snowman? Come on let's go and play! I never see you anymore. Come out the door; it's like you've gone away! We used to be best buddies, and now we're not. I wish you would tell me why! Do you want to build a snowman? It doesn't have to be a snowman."
Elsa considered coming out and playing, but something in the back of her mind reminded her that it was too dangerous.
"Go away, Anna!" she shouted through the door.
"Okay, bye." Anna wandered away dejectedly.
Years later, she returned.
"Do you want to build a snowman? Or ride our bike around the hall? I think some company is overdue..." Her voice wandered away as she ran off throughout the castle.
"You're right, Anna," Elsa whispered, knowing Anna would never hear her. "Some company is overdue. I want to spend time with you, too."
An actual knock sounded throughout the ice palace. Elsa ignored it. No one who mattered now would be coming. The only one who ever had meant anything to her was dead. She couldn't be bothered to let whoever it was it.
"Elsa?" a voice called out, just as Anna had done when she was fifteen. "Please, I know you're in there. People are asking where you've been. They said 'have courage,' and I know you're trying to. I'm right out here for you. Just let me in. We only have each other; it's just you and me. What are we going to do?" It was the same words Anna had used, but a different voice. How did this one know the words? It had to be just a coincidence. But her curiosity got the best of her, and drew her to the door. Cautiously, she opened it, peaking out at her visitor. A familiar face looked back at her, but not one she could place a name with.
"You," she said. "You're the one who came here with Anna before..." Her voice trailed off.
"Kristoff," he supplied, so as not to be known as "You" for the rest of his time there.
She tried out the name. "Kristoff. Why – why are you here?"
"It's been months, Elsa. Running away is not going to help anything. Arendelle is still frozen and people are still sick and dying."
"And you've only come today?" she accused.
"I've been in the mountains. I loved Anna, too, you know. I have a reason to grieve, too. You're not the only one who's been affected. You're not the only one with a problem. I have just spent the last year alone!"
"So have I! You think I locked myself in my room again, and now shut myself away up here because I thought it would be fun? I don't like being alone! I spent my entire life shut away from people, and when I come out, look what happens! The only person I ever loved is dead!"
"The same can be said for me! I lived with trolls my entire life, only coming to the city for business! And the first human I actually meet, I end up falling in love with, and now she's dead!" Kristoff shouted back. "Just face it; both of us have the worst luck when it comes to people."
"Finally you've said something I can agree with," Elsa told him. "Now, I know that Arendelle is still frozen, but what do you expect me to do about it? I don't know how to thaw it!"
"You could at least try and come back. You can help the people. You can do whatever Hans did when Anna put him in charge to go after you. Minus the plotting to kill, of course. Take care of your people. And if you can't, just send them to live somewhere else. There are plenty of warm places they could go. They just need some means to get there. I can help transport some, but no one will listen to some random ice harvester when he tells them to get in a sled. You need to organize it all. I need your help."
"I don't want to be alone."
"Then come with us! We can leave the past behind us and start new lives! Pretend Arendelle never existed! Pretend this whole thing never happened!"
"And pretend that I never had a sister? That you never loved anyone? And what if I freeze the next place? And the next, and the next? I can't just keep running away! I need to unfreeze Arendelle! I need to set right what I've done! I can't just leave."
"So you're just going to keep them all captive while you try and figure out the secret to thawing the frozen?"
"Yes! – No! – Oh, I don't know! But there has to be a way! There has to be!"
"Then will you at least come back to Arendelle to find it? Staying up here will be no use whatsoever."
Elsa finally relented. She let Kristoff lead her back. But he had a slight detour in mind...