"Im sorry! How many times do I have to say that?" Emily yelled at her wife who refused to look at her.
"It doesn't mean anything if you don't mean it." Elsa whispered as she turned her back to her wife.
"I do mean it. I shouldn't have left without telling you, I know and it won't happen again."
"You think this is about leaving without telling me?" Elsa asked as her eyes grew wide.
"Well yes…you said you were worried."
"I was worried, I was terrified Emily! But not because I thought you were in danger." Elsa was yelling now as she stormed up to the girl to stand toe to toe with her. Emily blinked at her, not sure what to say. "I knew you with him!"
"With him…?" Emily wondered out loud. "Wait…you are actually worried about me being with Ben? Elsa I'm allowed to have friends!"
"Yes of course you are allowed to have friends. I would prefer if your friends didn't look at you like they were about to take you against the wall, that's all." Elsa yelled, realizing that she had said that loud enough for any servant in the surrounding rooms to hear she blushed and covered her mouth with her hands.
"He does not look at me that way!" Emily denied with a small laugh.
"Oh come on, I saw you two dancing at the ball. Everyone in that room could guess the foul things that were running through his mind."
"This is ridiculous Elsa you can't actually…" Emily was cut off by her wife.
"No what's ridiculous is that you didn't see the way he eyed you in your dress."
"Elsa you are my wife for Christ sakes, I only wore that dress because you made me." Emily yelled, holding back a grin.
"Yes well I would have never made you wear it if I had known how that night would turn out." Elsa admitted.
"And how did that night "turn out?"" Emily asked deciding to humor her wife's delusions.
"With you in the arms of someone else!" Elsa screamed.
Emily took a few steps backward until she grasped the back of a chair to steady herself. "He's a friend Elsa; just a friend…Maybe if you had any then you would understand that."
"Are you saying I don't have friends?"
"That's exactly what I'm saying." Emily yelled back at her wife. She couldn't stop the words from coming out of her mouth even though she knew how deeply they would wound her wife. "All you have is me and don't get me wrong I love you but I can't be around you all the time Elsa. I need other people; you are not enough for me!"
Elsa took a step back, in shock from her wife's words. Emily seemed to regret the words as she walked towards her. The room temperate plummeted and ice started to creep up the walls.
"Elsa?" Emily said hesitantly as she noticed the room. "Elsa keep it in check, Im sorry. I shouldn't have said that. Just calm down okay?"
Elsa's breathing picked up and she started to panic. Rage consumed the woman and she couldn't help the ice from spreading or the words from spilling out of her mouth. "You think I need you? I don't need you; just leave go back to your fisherman."
"Elsa I'm sorry please stop this." Emily said as she gestured to the room which was now covered in ice. The wind inside the room started to pick up and snow swirled around them. Emily tried and tried to warm the room with her fire but nothing would melt, that was the first skill she had taught Elsa…how to hold her ground.
Emily decided to try a different approach and walked towards her wife, she got close enough to see the tears sliding down Elsa's cheeks as the woman clutched at her sides, leaning against the wall. She placed her hands on Elsa's arms and she jumped at her wife's touch.
"Please Els, this isn't you. Stop this, come back to me. Come back to me, my love." Emily pulled the girl into her arms and repeated her words as the storm in the room raged on. "Elsa you feel this?" Emily held their intertwined fingers in front of the girl's face. "That rush when we touch, that's because we are meant to be together. Fire and Ice remember?" She held Elsa tighter to her, rocking her as the storm kept going. Emily was freezing in this weather and she had no doubt that the ice had spread to other parts of the castle when she heard someone pounding on the door to get in.
"Queen Elsa is everything alright!" She heard Gerda's voice outside the door.
"We are fine Gerda." Emily called back before turning her attention back to the girl in her arms, but the pounding on the door didn't stop and she thanked god she remembered to lock it. Elsa didn't need anyone to see her this way. "Remember when we were laying on the grass that day when you finished your lesson? You held my hand for the first time and all I wanted to do was kiss you. But I was too scared that you wouldn't kiss me back. And then Nick interrupted us remember?" Emily laughed at the memory and she could tell Elsa was listening to her because the wind in the room started to slow a little. "You were so mad, you tried to hide it but I could always read you like a book. But that rush I felt when you held my hand for the first time…I still get that rush every time you kiss me, or smile at me. The way you cover your mouth with your hand when you laugh or your cute little freckles that no one notice's because they are so faint, everything about you still gives me butterflies." The storm had calmed down now, but the room was still frozen and the pounding on the door told them that the hallway was still frozen as well. Elsa looked up to meet her wife's eyes and their eyes locked as Emily gave her a small smile. "I am so sorry Els."
"Im sorry too." Elsa mumbled against her wife.
"Would you let me thaw the room now hun?" Emily smiled and with a nod from Elsa and a wave of Emily's hand the castle returned to its normal temperature. The pounding on the door grew more insistent now until Emily felt forced to respond. "Gerda we are FINE!" Emily said as she yanked open the door only to be met with a very scared looking Anna.
"Emily! Where's Elsa? We heard yelling and then the hall froze and where's Elsa?" Anna insisted as she pushed past the girl in to the room. She spotted Elsa sitting against the wall, her makeup smudged from crying.
"Im fine now Anna, we just had a fight." Elsa admitted as she pushed herself into a standing position and wiped at her eyes. Anna looked hesitantly between the two girls before hugging her sister tightly, glaring at Emily over Elsa's shoulder. Emily couldn't help but smile at the girl's protective glare.
"If Bradley was here he would be doing the same thing." she thought. Anna left the room, shutting the door behind her which Emily promptly locked again, leaving the couple alone once more.
"I didn't mean any of it…" Elsa basically whispered as she stared at the ground.
"I didn't either. And I am sorry." Emily admitted with a small hesitant smile to her wife.
They stared at each other for a while, neither quite sure what to say, until Emily closed the distance between them with two easy steps and took her wife's cheeks in her hands and tilted Elsa's head until she was looking directly into the clear blue eyes that she loved.
"I didn't see the way Ben looked at me because I was too busy looking at you. You are everything I see." she leaned in to kiss Elsa hesitantly before feeling the cold lips respond to hers. She kissed her with more force now, as if she thought Elsa would pull away at any moment. But Elsa's mind was too clouded with want to even think about pulling away. To be able to kiss her wife like this after a fight like that, a fight where she thought she had lost her forever, was beyond words.