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4.

Interruption

Anna's POV

Something was wrong.

I woke up slowly. Blinked my eyes, looked around, but stayed very still. The blankets were still wrapped around me. My head was halfway under them, so I couldn't really see well, but I could see well enough to know that the sun was shimmering through the windows. But what was off?

I was warm.

I jerked the blankets off of me. Elsa was gone. My breath was knocked out of me. I half-leaped over the bed towards Olaf. The little snowman was still sound asleep at the foot of the bed. I almost hated to wake him, but I hated the thought of losing Elsa even more.

"Olaf, wake up!" I whispered as urgently as I could manage.

"Hm? Sven? Wha?" he mumbled, eyes still closed.

"Olaf, wake up, I need you," I said, crawling closer to him. I sat cross-legged, then poked his little carrot nose.

His eyes flashed open. "Anna? You need me? What's wrong?" Immediately he was all eyes and ears.

"Elsa's not here," I started. "Did you hear anything last night? Did she talk to you?"

"Um, no, I don't think so..." Olaf said, clearly pondering on any possible events that could have clued us in to where my sister had ran off to.

I heaved a sigh. "You didn't see anything at all?"

The snowman shook his head. "No. I was sleeping. Maybe she went to go plan some more things for the wedding today."

The wedding! It was today! "Olaf, we need to find Kristoff!" Jumping off the bed, I scrambled to the door. Olaf waddled along behind me at first, then took to sliding around on his belly. Servants were darting in and out of rooms in the hall, presumably getting the final preparations ready for my big day. I wasn't supposed to see Kristoff before the wedding. If they knew that I was by myself, without Elsa, everyone would automatically assume that I was going to find him.

Even if I was though, it was my business! I took a defiant breath and sprinted down the hall. Taking a turn too quickly though, I almost knocked Kai over.

"Greetings, your majesty, my apologies!" he said with a smile. "I know you're excited, but-"

"Quick! Kai, have you seen my sister?" I said hurriedly.

"What? Queen Elsa? No, I don't believe-"

"Okay thanks! Gotta run!" I ran off down the hall, leaving poor Olaf behind. I had to find Kristoff. I had to find out where my sister was.

Finally I came to a hall near the back of our castle where no one was running around. I sighed. I didn't even know if Kristoff would be in his room. Elsa was so determined to make this wedding as traditional as possible. She probably hid him in some remote part of the castle. I thought long and hard as I leaned against one of the window panes. The sun was just rising over the fjord. It was a beautiful sight, but I couldn't enjoy it without knowing my sister was safe.

"Anna?" called a voice. I almost panicked, but recognized the voice as belong to Olaf. He waddled around the corner of the hall, a smile on his face.

"Olaf, don't scare me like that."

"I'm sorry Anna, I didn't mean to. I have something that might help though," the little snowman admitted proudly.

"Oh? What is it?"

"I know where Kristoff is..." he said, climbing up onto a chair to see out of the window. I gasped excitedly, and for a moment Olaf's eyes searched. "He's in that room right there!" His little stick arm pointed to a window below where we were, but almost directly across from us.

"Olaf? How did you find that out?" I asked him, excited. I started unlocking the window.

"Kai was very nice. I just asked him."

Oh. Right. I should have thought of that. "Good job! Are you coming with me?" I said, slipping out onto the roof of the castle.

"Always, Anna!" he reassured, readying himself to slide down the roof. "I'll go first and open the door!" Before I could stop him, the snowman was scooting full speed down the roof.

"Olaf, wait!" Instinctively I had reached out for him, but I lost my balance and was soon flying just as quickly as he was. I tried to grab a shingle or something, but I had no such luck. I heard the snowman collide with Kristoff's window. The next sound I heard was me colliding it with it myself. Desperate to regain control, I clung to the window. Olaf was giggling as he pulled himself together in the gutter below me. I let out a ragged sigh. "Are you okay?" I asked him.

"Yeah! I'm going to have to do that again!"

I couldn't help but shake my head and smile at him, but my smile faded as I noticed movement in the room. I crossed my fingers, hoping it was Kristoff. My future husband then flung open the window, as if to answer my hopes. The only problem was that it left me dangling over the rest of the roof.

"Anna?! What in the world are you doing out there? Come here!" Before I could even respond, his strong arm reached out around my waist and helped me into the room. He wasn't even dressed yet, and he lacked a shirt. Olaf clambered in behind me, still chuckling. "What's going on? Your sister is going to kill you."

I took a deep breath. "She can't kill me because she's not here and I don't know where she is and I just spent the past twenty minutes looking for you with Olaf and I know I'm not supposed to see you but I don't care because we've got to find my sister and-!"

His hand flew over my mouth and stopped me. I gave him a glare.

"Anna, calm down. So you don't know where Elsa is? Was she there last night, in her room with you?" he asked, keeping his hand over my mouth. My eyes only narrowed and I folded my arms across my chest.

"Okay, and she wasn't there this morning?"

I nodded. He removed his hand.

"How do you know she didn't just...run off, like last time?"

I was appalled at that question. "What do you mean?"

"I mean don't you think she could have been afraid? I mean, technically, like I'm stealing her baby sister? It's been two years and you find a husband before she does? Don't you think that maybe-"

"I think you're ridiculous for even saying that! How could you? Elsa wouldn't leave us. Leave me. Like that again. Last night was wonderful! She told me she was excited for me and for us! I can't believe you'd even discredit her!" I had started pacing back and forth in front of him. Olaf was sitting below the window, watching. Kristoff's eyes remained on me, but his face was expressionless. "How could you say that?!"

"What do you want me to do?" he said, a little defeated.

"I want you to help me find my sister," I demanded, walking over to him. I jabbed a finger at his nose. "We are not getting married without Elsa there. End of story."

"Anna..."

"Don't 'Anna' me!"

"Okay! Okay. We'll postpone the wedding until we figure out where she is." Before he could say much else, I tossed my arms around his neck.

"Thank you, Kristoff," I whispered, tightening my grip. "I just don't want to lose her again."

"I know you don't. Maybe she's somewhere in the castle, getting things ready."

"I don't think so. Kai said he hadn't seen her. They probably think I was sneaking away from her to come see you."

"Which is true."

"That's beside the point," I grumbled. "We need to tell them that we're postponing our wedding for our own reasons. No one needs to know that Elsa is missing right now. It would send all of Arendelle into a panic."

"You're definitely right about that. In the meantime, we'll see what we can find out." Kristoff kissed my forehead and I felt myself blush. "We'll find Elsa, no matter where she is." He gave me a grin. I know that he must have thought I was overreacting, but I still couldn't help but feel like something was deeply wrong in the world, besides just my missing Elsa.