Hey peeps !

OMG I'm sorry it took me so long again to write it.

This story is coming to an end soon, this is the 7th chapter out of 10 and I'll be done with writing these by the end of the day, so this time believe me when I say the following 3 chapters won't be up too late.

I will eventually write an epilogue if I want some things fixed or cleared, and I'm already appologizing because my ending will probably suck.

Enjoy reading anyway !

(The Queen was known to be as cold as ice. Well, there was no more asking why, although she didn't seem to behave that way too much around him.)

The trip back to the castle has been mostly silent. When they have arrived, they have told the guard that they have gone for a ride together, so she could free herself from her queenly duties for a while and watch how the prisoner did his job.

"Elsa ! My dear." a voice calls from the front doors as the guard takes hold of the reins and gives them to Hans insistantly. "I was wondering where you've been, have you forgotten that we have to announce our engagement to the people ?"he says excitedly as she rolls her eyes, ignoring Hans who is still standing near while he takes her hands in his.

And the Queen was back at being that cold ice sculpture.

"I know." she states bluntly and removes her palms from his grasp, too harshly perhaps albeit she has tried to be careful with the gesture. "But it can wait a little" I'm not ready yet.

Nor will I ever be.

"Why bothering to postpone something that can be done today, darling ?" he cuts her off, looking slightly irritated.

Which part in it can wait haven't you understood ?!

But what can she answer to that without seeming to be reluctant to marry him ?

Truth to be told, she is.

My heart belongs somewhere else no man can ever understand.

Freedom is all she has craved to get, and now that she has finally reunited with her sister, has been accepted by her people and doesn't lock herself up out of fear anymore, there she is, about to be chained for the rest of her life to someone she doesn't even like.

Things end that way for royals. The people's sake before her own, she guesses. How she envies Anna at the moment, being free to do what pleases her when she wants it, marrying the man she loves because it won't have any impact on the realm. Free to get up late, free to wander around the town, free to travel with her lover in the mountain for months for ice business, she says.

Free.

And that's all that matters. Her sister is happy now, thanks to the fact she was born after her and was able to find in her heart what to forgive her older sister for what she's done not willingly. And thanks to Elsa's unnoticed sacrifice for her happiness. But she has to stay quiet.

God damn those bloody councilors...

(And freedom is out of her reach again.)