Anna summoned all of her courage and knocked on the icy door that stood in front of her. If Elsa had unleashed her power on the door again, Anna couldn't have noticed. Anna waited for a while, but there was no response. She knocked again, but still no response came. "Elsa!" She called out, but one last time, no one answered. 'Has Elsa gone back to sleep?' Anna wondered, but then she thought of the alternative: What if Elsa froze the door on purpose to frighten people into not coming to it, and then she slipped out the window and up to the ice palace. Anna had to be sure, though, she can't just dash off into the mountains; especially if Elsa is still here.
Anna did, in that moment, probably the coolest thing she's ever done. 'well, besides that one thing, but honestly, throwing that into the contest almost seems like cheating.' she critiqued her own thoughts. "I really hope this works." Anna said to herself. Then, summoning all her courage and strength, she gave a solid kick to the iced door blocking her from her sister.
As Anna had hoped, the ice had weakened the structure of the door such that Anna's kick broke the handle and forced the door open. "See what happens when you don't follow the open door policy?" Anna had joked not at all expecting Elsa to be in the room, but there she was on her knees; breathing very hard; tears streaming down her face; shaking from intense pain, Anna guessed from the look on her face; and casting ice upon the flames.
Before Anna could even think, she ran into Elsa's room and threw her arms around her sister. Elsa closed her eyes. She hadn't felt so torn since the days she first had blocked Anna out of her life. Elsa kept herself launching ice into the fires in front of her seemingly oblivious to her sister currently hugging Elsa's remaining breath out of her. Elsa felt her sister's hand on her face; she opened her eyes and saw she wasn't the only one crying. "It hurts you, doesn't it, Elsa." Anna said as calmly as she could, and she was pretty good at it considering her usual nature and the fact that the current situation was very unusual. "...Y- yes..." Elsa managed to gasp out. "Then stop, Elsa. I'm here. I won't leave." Anna tried to comfort her sister. "No! Ah- you need... to leave. I can't hold it in... there's- there's too much... fear."
"I'm not going to leave. I'm staying and hurting with you." Before Elsa realized what Anna could have possibly meant by that, Anna had put her fingers into Elsa streams of ice, gasping in pain as she did so. seconds later Anna's fingers had been frozen solid. Elsa tried to ignore the pain of her sister, but she couldn't stopping her streams of ice she grabbed Anna's fingers with her right hand and melted the ice that had corrupted the otherwise beautiful hand of her sister.
Anna helped Elsa get back into her bed. Elsa looked noticed what time of day it was and started shaking free of Anna. "We need to get to the courtyard!" Elsa cried. "We have to celebrate the anniversary."
"I told Kai to cancel it, Elsa." Anna said still trying to calm her sister down. "Why?" Elsa asked. Anna's eyes quickly shot back to the door frozen by Elsa's lack of control earlier. "Because, it seemed like you were having trouble with control, and because, at this point, I'm not sure you have the strength to ice a bush, let alone an entire castle!" Elsa was about to argue with her sister, but then Anna asked a question that dashed nearly all of Elsa's hopes of convincing Anna she had control. "What's this ice on your shoulder, Elsa?" With that reminder from her sister, Elsa felt the fear rise up quickly in her. Lifting her hand she shot more ice from her hand into the fire with a pained grunt. Anna forced her arms underneath Elsa to hug her "Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Bad question. I get it. I'm sorry." Anna said panicked, but it didn't seem like it was panicked from fear; it was more like she was panicked that her sister was, once again, forcing pain on herself. Grabbing hold of Elsa's arm Anna said: "So a while back I had this dream where Marshmallow was in the ice palace wearing your tiara." Anna chuckled before asking: "Where is your tiara?"
"In the ice palace." Elsa replied. "You never went out to get it?" Anna asked before realizing that that might not help the situation. "Ha! So he might actually be wearing it right now! Dreams really do come true!" Anna joked before noticing what exactly she'd just said and who she'd said it to. "I'm sorry! I just can't say anything right." Elsa was shaking, so Anna held her closer, but Elsa looked up at Anna with a smile across her face. She was laughing! "You don't need to apologize for that! It was funny." Anna started laughing as well. In a couple minutes they were still laughing more to keep from crying than from the humor Anna had dropped a while earlier, but they both had smiles on their faces, so that made it better.