A/N: Hi guys. It's been so long since last time that I think it's time for something more. I apologize for the cruel waiting time, but I've been trying to settle into a whole new life on my own and with new job and it's been hard, but I start to feel a lot better. Here comes chapter 4 for you wonderful followers!

Elsa was already starting to get very nervous, so nervous that Kristoff thought she was going to break down from stress if Anna didn't show up within a few minutes.

"No one has heard from Anna! There's no been no sights from any of the scouts?" she looked hopefully at Kristoff, who looked not amused, but neither as worried as Elsa. Also with a slight of annoyance.

"Since you asked me 10 seconds ago? I don't think so." Elsa only started to walk around the room faster and faster, resting her head in her arms showing clear signs of stress. Kristoff sighed deeply and grabbed Elsa hard by her shoulder. The queen was surprised by the actions of the mountain man and looked at him and he looked a bit irritated, but mostly like he tried to be reasoning and understanding.

"Listen to me Elsa, please! I know you're worried and so am I because this is unlike Anna to stay away like this and all"

"But?" Elsa knew there was reason, but she knew there was also a bigger point that he hadn't reached yet.

"But, you going around stressing yourself up before we even know for sure what's happened doesn't help one bit and you need to calm down and wait until we know more. This is NO time to panic! Not yet at least" Elsa looked down in embarrassment. When Kristoff softly laid his hand on her shoulder for comfort, she did something he didn't expect and hugged him like a sister would hug a brother. After getting over the moment of surprise, he brought his arms around Elsa to return the hug and patted her back to see if it'd help her even more.

"Thanks Kristoff. I'm glad I have you around to help me now that Anna isn't here to keep myself together"

"Of course Elsa. For now let's wait for the reports from the scouts and then we can really start worrying"

Meanwhile in Arendelle, there was a lot of the scouts out, but most of them seemed clueless about Anna's disappearance and their leader didn't liked this one bit because he knew he was supposed to report for the queen and she'd be very displeased if they returned empty handed.

"We have to keep searching until we at least gets one clue with to the queen" the scouts nodded and kept on searching to see what their flames would lighten up because the light of the sun had already turned off the sky and was replaced by early evening darkness.

At the same time as the scouts hungered for clues, David was outside as well and looked with the small flame he had managed to get burning and he was starting to lose patience as well. That was until he looked behind an old tree and saw something that could be a breakthrough. It was a piece of ripped clothing and it was looking like the dress Anna had been wearing the day she had visited him and there was also a piece of rope on his way back and he hoped this could be a breakthrough. He decided to go inside and check out a few things and perhaps he'd need to see Elsa soon and talk to her. Maybe she could help more than she even realized.

Meanwhile where Anna had been taken, the shadow had shown its person to Anna and she was no less than terrified and closed her eyes to hope that she was only dreaming. She opened them again to see if she had luck on her side, but unfortunately she wasn't as lucky as hoped.

"Hans? " Anna said of shock. He stepped closer and she felt she was still with her hands in a rope and she couldn't do anything to keep him away.

"Yeah. Long time, no see, huh Anna?" Hans said as he tried to sound cheerful, but with a hint of amusement in his voice having her in a position where he could control her.

"What do you want for me? I have nothing that you want and besides that if you want to take the crown, then Elsa is in much better control of her powers now and got it going on great with the people of Arendelle" Hans shook his head and lifted her head by the chin and looked angry at her.

"You're so wrong about me, dearest Anna! What I want is something only you can make sure that will happen. I want payback on not only you, but Elsa as well for what you did to me" he said with such a vicious tone she was stating to feel a bit more panicked than she already was.

Anna looked at him angry. According to her, Hans was the one to blame for what happened in Arendelle, not Elsa's and not herself.

"It was your own fault Hans!" Anna yelled with protest. Hans just looked at her ice cold without any sort of emotion.

"Yeah, but I was still humiliated by my brothers when I got home! This is a private cave that almost no one knows about and because of no one knowing who was behind, but me, I can't end up being blamed for this" Hans sounded so well planning like the time he left her to die in the castle during the Great Freeze those six months ago.

"You won't get away with this" Anna insisted angrily like the last time.

"This time, I will, Anna" Hans smashed her in the back of her head and she lost consciousness once again and Hans left her to be alone for the time being while he made sure no one would find the cave she was hidden inside.

David did some examination of the ropes and the clothing and found it was probably a mixture of the events of Princess Anna's disappearance. He looked outside to see the scouts leaving for the castle and he figured that maybe he could talk sense into Elsa, and then they might have a better chance. He knew it'd mean he had to tell her the truth about his own self. But this was worth it. This was his chance to get somewhere to settle down and feel home.

David marched forwards towards the castle and saw that the guards were in high alert because of the recent events. They did everything to make sure that no one would get in, but David had figured there had to be a way for him to get in. First, he'd try to see if they'd let him in and talk to her. If they weren't willing to do so, then he'd find another way.

When he arrived at the gates to the castle, a guard, who held his weapon in his direction to show him not to move any closer to the gates, stopped him. When David put up his hands, the guard lowered his weapon.

"Who are you and what do you want here?"

"I'm David from the new store in town and I'm here to see Queen Elsa. It's on behalf of the disappearance of Princess Anna" David tried to stay as calm as possible as he aimed his weapon at him once again. He pointed closer and now David slapped the weapon away to irritate him and he was pointing it back at him once more and then he left around the corner. When the guard looked the other way, he tried to do something that may seemed a bit crazy, but he was a determined guy and he knew from his life experience that chances had to be taken.

He jumped into the fjord and swam around to a side and waited to the guard watching the left side of the castle walls, look away and he got his chance to sneak around and into the castle grounds. When he got inside, he sneaked into the castle and then walked around in wonder and then hid as Elsa and Kristoff passed him. He kept up with them until they entered a door that could've been the door he had been inside the room of when he was meeting her at the castle on the day of his arrival.

Elsa and Kristoff looked out the window to watch the beauty of the nature of Arendelle and Kristoff put a comforting hand on Elsa's shaking shoulder and looked out the window.

"We'll find her. She's out there somewhere and we'll find her no matter what it takes" David could not see the determined expression on Kristoff's face, but he could sure hear it within his voice and he knew by this just how much Anna mattered to Elsa and Kristoff.

"But you're probably going to need help if you want to find her" Elsa and Kristoff both looked back at David with a surprised expression. David stood soaking wet and cold, almost shivering for the water being cold from the winter and Elsa asked Kristoff to take him to his room and give him some fresh clothes and warm him up before they'd meet her in her study for a further.

"How did you manage to get pass the guards? Did you swim under the walls or something?" Kristoff sounded surprised and not understanding.

"Around the wall and then sneaking through the gate" Kristoff looked at him like he was seeing a ghost being so surprised that someone had actually managed to sneak into the castle without being caught.

"That's very impressive, but I don't think Elsa will be very happy with you for doing so" David rolled his eyes and raised his eyebrows in a bit of annoyance. He felt he should have seen it coming even if she was the reason he was doing so. She just didn't know it yet, but he had to prove his point to her.

After David got to borrow some dry clothes from Kristoff even if we was a bit smaller than Kristoff, he seemed to have gotten more comfortable and they re-entered Elsa's study and the queen didn't looked amused at David, but he showed no sign of fear of any sort.

"What is it that makes you think you can just sneak into the castle and all, David?" David didn't like her tone and gulped a lump in his throat before he spoke up.

"You can punish me later, Elsa. Still I think you'd be best in hearing what I got to say because I have something you might find useful in your search for Anna" just hearing him speaking of Anna made her seem all excited, yet fearful about it. Should she trust him or not? What better option did she stand with since her scouts hadn't made much progress? She was still sceptical.

"What could you possibly make that should be so great that it could lead to Anna? I have all my scouts out"

What have they actually found Elsa? Nothing from what I saw in the town square" Elsa knew he was right. He got her defeated.

"All right, then. What is it that makes you so sure that you could help me find Anna?" David took a deep breath, preparing himself to reveal his deepest secret.

"You remember I told you I had a mentor for all those years?" Elsa nodded, awaiting for him to continue.

"I was living with a detective for all these years. I helped him solving cases, like disappearances and so. I've taken in a lot of what he taught me all these years and he made clues of what seemed like simple objects and I've managed to make a conclusion from stuff I found myself in the outside of Arendelle. I found ropes and a ripped clothing and it was matching to what Anna was wearing when she visited me. Therefore it is to conclude that Anna has been kidnapped" Elsa was close to breaking when she heard his conclusion. He had told her, he was solving problems, but this was maybe what she was needing to get her sister back and she wasn't going to waste the chance of getting some help and if he was as professional as she seemed, then it'd be worth it.

"Are you absolutely certain David?"

"I am. I just need to find out who did it. Maybe further examination will give me some answers, but it's too early to say anything. The next three days will be very important to us, so I suggest that you leave all clues the scouts may find at my place and I can maybe figure out the circle and we can get a breakthrough" Elsa nodded.

"Thank you for telling me this David. Are you willing to help me find Anna? And what you expect in return?"

"Nothing, but a place to feel home, but even so it'd be my honour to help you find Anna and I promise you, I will find her no matter what it takes, but I might need some help as things develop"

"Of course. Anything you want or need!" Elsa sounded determined and Kristoff hoped she was right in doing so, but he knew as well that he was their best option at the moment because not much seemed to be clear to the scouts that normally were some of the best known around. David then walked out the door, but just before he was out of sight, he was

"Just so you guys know. I don't do this for glory or because I want something in return, but I do it because I think it's a special case that needs experience to solve and it's something I believe in to make a difference" with those final words, he left Kristoff and Elsa completely speechless and stunned.

Back at Arendelle, David went on looking for more clues and decided that he and his horse would need a ride into the woods to see if he could find more. After all, the woods were where he found his first clues, so maybe it'd be where he could find more. He knew if he was to make a breakthrough like he told Elsa, he had to have more to look at than just the rope and clothing too.

He looked around as his horse stepped around slowly and didn't see much as a result of the snow lying around the bottom of the trees. It was hard to see much as sun was starting to set too.

I hope I can help out Elsa. She's a wonderful woman, same goes for Anna and no one deserves to be hold against their will David thought as he went to back. He didn't know what it was with Elsa, but there was something special about her that also made him willing to help out, but first he needed to look around a little more.

That's it for now. I hope to be around again soon, but I just got told I got shifts for the next 10 days and I also have shifts on Christmas Eve (24th in DK and also the 25th), plus the 28th, the 31st and the 1st of January. But I promise to try and make time even as I also got an interview for an extra job to get a bit more money. Last I want to thank you for the wonderful support. Hope to see it continue and keep up your wonderful reviews!