"For Christ's sake Collins, stop fucking moving." A deep voice with a Boston accent said.
A band of men of 20 or so marine's in desert BDU pants and brown shirts stood or sat around under one of the tents in the barracks. Some where talking with each other and others were cleaning their rifles. It was relatively quite for the most part though. In the background there was the hum of a tattoo machine and the CD player, playing Metallica. There was a TV on showing a fuzzy Nationals game but it was muted. As usual the sun was beyond scolding. All of them in the platoon were thankful for not going on patrol for the entire day. They knew it was days like this that made the hell around them seem less appalling.
"I would if he weren't stabbin me wit 'at shit. Fuckin hurts like muterfucker." The man behind Carson took in a deep breath and behind his ballistic sunglasses he grimily looked up at the ceiling.
"What?! Gingers feel pain. I knew they didn't have souls but I had no idea they could feel pain. Huh, I guess you learn something everyday" An Asian kid said sharping his bayonet, sitting on top of a cooler. He snickered and laughed to himself.
"Fuck you Zigs. OW! Fuckin hell, Yo this some fuckin bullshit. Fuck all y'all for makin get this cock shit on my arm."
"Whoa there, this 'cock shit' is fuckin important. It's to represent our division ,the one thirteenth, and our fucking platoon. Have some god damn respect and stop being a stupid southern hick and suck it the fuck up." The Boston voice said moderately, he went on to say a few phrases under his breath but no one heard him.
"You tellin him Three's." Zigs and nearly the entire tent followed.
"Fuck all of you damn wanks." Collins said bitterly as he winced again.
The man tattooing Collins stood up and took off his ballistic sunglasses and put them on the table beside him. He fixed his belt and cracked his neck. Collins looked at his arm and rolled his eyes. Slumping over, he let out an annoyed breath.
"Pain in the arse." Collins said bitterly again.
"No, the pain is on your arm dumbass. No man or woman would ever want to be near your ass." Zigs chuckled.
Collins gritted his teeth but tried to ignore Zigs for the time being. "How come Carson only got the numbers shaved on his head and didn't get 'is shit?"
A shorter, brown haired man standing near the tent's entrance walked up and stood in front of Collins. "I did get it and hear it is to show you." The shorter man pulled up his sleeve and showed the tattoo. "I got these numbers on the side of my head because it looks fricken badass. Also don't forget to thank Freddie for givin that tat to you. He didn't say much about your pussy complaining."
"Zigs toss me water, I'm dying over here." Said a new voice, this one with a Spanish accent.
"Thanks Freddie." Collins said lowly. "Thanks for killing my shootin arm you dick." He said under his breath after.
Zigs stood up from the cooler and took out a water. "Heads up Jay." Zigs then grabbed his rifle and walked over to a table to start disassembling it.
A black man with cropped hair sitting on a trunk caught the water and chugged half of it down it no time. "I never thought water could be this good."
"It's more than good man. It's fuckin life saving man." Carson said as he took a water from the cooler.
"Werl!" Threes called out calmly all of a sudden.
"What brother man?" A man with blonde hair and suntanned skin said.
"Break out some cards. Marson and Blake ain't here to make us feel bad so lets get a game goin." Three's walked over to a table with several other marines, and Freddie.
"No prob man." Werl took out a deck of cards with pictures of beer on the back. He walked over to the table and looked around. "Any other people want to take on the champ."
"Sit your ass down kid. Marson and Elsa kicked your ass before." Jay said.
"That's right, but there women and I'm the male champ and that's all that matters to me. So what we playin." Everyone at the table shrugged. "Great, five card poker it is and someone please explain the damn rules to Carson."
"I just don't get what beats what okay." Carson said defensively.
"Suure man. You getting this game has a much chance as you not getting hard at any woman with big tits." Werl said
Everyone at the table laughed as Werl passed out the cards. "Hey, hey!" Carson said
"Relax, the only women here that would be interested in your .22 caliber would the ones in Collins playboys." Werl added.
"Fuck off." Collins shouted.
"Relax you rednecked fuck, only playin." Werl smirked.
Collins told everyone to go fuck themselves and left.
"Alright, we got nothing to use as chips so there will be no betting, unless we bet the usual."
Everyone at the table agreed and the game started. Three's went first and replaced three cards. "How original Three's." Said a marine with a slight Texas drawl.
"It's just the way the cards are dealt." Threes said.
The marine next to Three's, who had the Texas drawl, stayed with his hand, Jay replaced his whole hand and cursed at his luck. "Cock sucking bullshit. Can't a guy get damn break."
"Dude, it's the first hand." Carson said.
"Oh relax Jay. Getting mad is for later when you lose to me, again." Werl joked. Jay glared at Werl, who looked back at Jay with an over exaggerated angry face.
Carson went next and to no ones surprise, he had to ask what went with what and what beat each other. After everyone mocked him he replaced two cards. Freddie only replaced one card and Werl boasted about not having to replace any of his cards.
The tent entrance flaps opened and in walked a stunning brown skinned and blacked haired woman. She had her ballistic sunglasses on and was in desert legging BDU's and a brown tank-top. Her hair was down and she had her pistol holstered around her left leg. Everyone came to there feet and saluted her while also cheering and whistling at her presence.
She put her hands up and nodded her head up and down. "Oh shut up, at ease marines!." She smiled and walked over to where Werl and the guys were playing poker. "Mind if I jump on next hand."
"Sure." Carson said a bit flustered as he shifted in his seat.
The woman smiled at Carson, who only shifted in his seat more. "You guys bettin the usual."
"Yep." Threes said as he shuffled through his hand. "Shit." He said after in a muffled monotone voice.
"Alright bros lets see 'em." Threes only had a pair of of two's, the marine with Texas drawl had a straight, Jay cursed and had nothing but a high card of eight. Carson had a full house and Freddie had all four jacks. Werl just scoffed and revealed four aces.
"Interesting." Three's said.
"The fuck! Come on man. What the fucking fuck is that. That's straight up bullshit." Jay slumped back into his chair and groaned.
"I agree. I'm sensing a high amount of bs from your direction Werl." Freddie said.
"That's just how I win mofo's." Werl then laughed and reshuffled the deck. "Alright Lt. you can jump in now. Let's see if a woman can beat me."
"One already did, actually two did. But I can beat you upside the head with my pistol." She said.
"Sounds, like an excellent time." Werl said happily, looking up at Tulsa and winking.
She rolled her eyes and gave Werl the middle finger. "Ass."
"Oooh, so feisty." Werl purred like a cat.
"God you're a fucking nuisance." Lt. said with vex. She sat down between Freddie and Carson, who was sweating more than when he was outside earlier.
Werl shuffled the deck and past out the cards.
"What's Marshall up to Lt." Threes said as he shuffled his new hand.
"Same old same. From the looks of it, this is probably the only day off we gonna have for the next three weeks."
"What's happening out there?" Freddie asked.
"Marshall says command doesn't know how they keep coming back. With half the city guarded like Fort Knox it's hard to believe they slip in as many troops as they do." The woman said.
"Like cockroaches the little bastards." The man with the Texas drawl said.
"They have to be running out of troops soon. We take heavy losses but they take five times as much as we do." Carson implied.
"Haven't you been watching the TV?" Werl questioned.
"I didn't know we had one until a week ago." Carson answered.
"If you watched you'd see that they get hundreds of people to willingly join their ranks." Three's said.
"Somehow these people don't realize what there getting themselves into. Unfortunately it's also troublesome to think that some of do know." The woman shuffled her hand and placed her cards on the table.
"We're the ones running out of troops. Even with the draft we're still turning out heavy losses. The draftees don't even get this far into hell. The army has them on the parameter of cities and as escorts for resupply convoys" Freddie said sadly.
"Still get banged up doing that." Jay said sadly.
"Marshall says command has it that way so they get some experience before being put into the real hell hole. I think it's because they just don't want to lose more young lives again." The woman added.
"It's just us marines and rangers mostly. The seals are rarely seen anywhere near here and occasionally an army battalion will join us for a while." Threes said.
"I hate to break up this talk but lets see the cards." Werl said. Jay thought he won the hand but Lt. beat his two aces with a flush.
"The army guys don't have it easy though either. They lose troops just like us, just not on a day to day bases." Werl said.
"I hate waking up and fighting every damn day. Clear houses this week, go on patrol that day, watch the perimeter for this long. Fuck man." The man with the Texas drawl said.
"Well what did ya expect man. Rainbows and fuckin glitter." Werl joked.
"No, I didn't expect this to as bad as it is." The man with the Texas drawl followed.
"Private, no one expected it to be this bad." Three's said to the man with the Texas drawl.
"Fuck!" Jay yelled.
"You lost again Stags. That never happens." Carson said jokingly.
"Jay, it's a game." Freddie said trying to calm down the fuming man.
"Not for me. I ain't losing and eating that shit again." Jay then went into a Spanish rant that know understood.
"English hermano. Where's Elsa when you need her." Werl joked. Jay went on to say a few more Spanish phrases that were most likely directed at Werl. Every one replaced there cards and for that game Threes had won with a flush.
After that Werl was winning almost every single hand. An overwhelming sense of boredom had once again come over the entire tent again and everyone was starting to get a bit long faced. There was still an entire day to continue but other than sitting around, almost everything else was in the sun. Which was on the bottom of everyone's to do list.
The loser of the card game had already been decided and Jay cursed at how Werl must've been cheating some how. After all he was a poker dealer before joining the marines.
"Sucks to suck Jay, you lost but if you want to play for you dignity back, I wouldn't count on it."
"First of all fuck you, and second of all, I'm not stopping until I beat you in a hand." Jay sat back in his seat and waited for his cards.
"You'll be here for while so-." Threes joked with a monotone voice. He got up and picked up his own rifle to start cleaning it.
"I need to stand up man. Someone toss me a water." Carson said as he stretched his back.
"I'm bored of winning man. Jay you can play for your dignity some other time."
"Mother fucking son of a cock sucking bitch." Jay said under his breath as he pushed back from the table and stormed off to the other side of the tent.
"Someone please change the motherfucking CD on the thing please. All this metal music is giving me a headache. Driving me in-fucking-sane." Zigs complained.
"I've got a better idea, yo Carson drop a beat, we're tired of listenin to metal." The voice with the Texas drawl called out. The entire tent flew up with requests for Carson to start beat boxing.
"Whoa, whoa there. I'm good but not that good." He caught the water that was thrown at him and drank half of it in seconds.
Everyone in the tent was adamant on him to start beat-boxing. The sun was skin melting and all the other things to around the base where either in the sun or filled to the brim with other soldiers.
"Alright fine, lets see how I'm gonna do this." Carson clapped his hands together around his mouth and started with a simple drum like beat at a fairly fast pace with sharp triplet every third beat. Half of the tent was fully engaged on Carson and kept cheering him on. "I like it, I like it. What more to add to it." He pretended to think for a minute and then started with the same beat, but accompanied with a deep base sound. After a few moments he then started a freestyle adding dubstep sounds and then from there started to rally up his beat. The whole tent slowly erupted with excitement and where cheering on Carson.
Carson knew how to build up the hype and would change his sound ever so slightly to keep building up to the drop point. The intensity in the tent could only go up and everyone was waiting from him to completely release all the hype that was building up.
Then all of a sudden Carson stopped and looked around the tent. In a robotic voice he said, "Here, we, go." Dropping into a deep base sound and great dubstep mixes the hype in the room was all but released and everyone was into the song.
Jumping up and down with there hands in the air and screaming like idiots it was almost like being at an actual EDM concert. Carson had captured everyone into his hype train and held nothing back from then on. Pulling out all the tricks he knew Carson made everything feel like a live concert, even though all of them were in the most hostile place in the world.
By the end of his beatboxing, everyone that had been in the tent was exhausted and sweating profusely. Laughing and howling like idiots, everyone was entranced on the performance and had forgotten where they were.
"Shit man that was epic squared." Zigs opened the cooler and started handing out the waters everyone was pilling around him for.
"Holy fuck." Three's said as he poured an entire water bottle over his head.
"If I had my chaos pads with me I could've set this place on fire, literally." By the time Carson had finished he had drunken three waters in seconds.
"I bet you would've. Look at us, it's like we all jumped into a swimming pool." Jay said.
"Dude, don't even mention pools." Lt. said.
"What I'd give to jump into one right now." Zigs added.
"Ain't that the truth." Werl sputtered out as he took another long swig of water.
"This was a great time waster." Three's said smiling.
Then the tent grew quiet. Everyone was smiling and was completely exhausted. Deep in the back of everyone's mind though there was the thought of never seeing one another again. The next coming days only held the unknown.
Everyone looked around, remembering the smiles and laughs each person had. The day was still young and with nothing else to do most said good bye and left the tent in search of something to occupy them for hopefully the next few hours.
By this time one of the other platoons had comeback from a patrol and was complete shit faced. Another was being prepared to roll out and drills where starting up for others.
Three's, Zigs, Werl, Jay, Lt., Carson, the marine with the Texas drawl, and Freddie were the only ones left in the tent and were just sitting around. No one said anything, everyone just smiled at each other and there eyes skimming each person over.
Zigs let out a shallow breath and was the first to speak. "Sometimes I dream it could be like this when were not in the hell. When were back home and around a bonfire or some shit."
"That's one hell of a dream then." Lt. answered back.
"Don't dream to hard. You could forget where we are." Three's said.
"Hell, down the road and off to the left" Werl spoke under his breath, twirling his bayonet between his fingers.
"That's right boys." Lt. smiled.
"Let's stop there Lt., we ain't boys and you ain't no girl, we're soldiers." The man with the Texas drawl quickly said.
Three's shook his head and grinned. "What you shruggin for." Carson said.
"Individually, I like to think of us as more than just soldiers."
"Then what are we Sun Tzu?" Werl joked.
"Warriors." Threes said humbly. Each one of them smiled and chuckled at the thought. "It's not funny." He said sternly. Everyone stopped smiling and put there attention to Threes. "An everyday soldier dies a hero and is remembered his family. Warriors die as legends and are remembered throughout history. Throughout there family lineage, throughout the test of time."
"Well said Three's." Tulsa raised her hand and high fived Three's.
"You come up with that?" Freddie said.
"No." Threes casually.
"That's right, because I did." A different female voice interjected nonchalantly .
"Well, well look who finally showed up." Werl said.
"Marson? Where's Els and the rest of the team." Three's said.
"You can take a guess?" Marson said as she took a sip of water "Good old dihydrogen oxide."
"Oh, we'll see them sometime later then." Three's replied.
"Then why are you here?" Jay said.
"Because it's fuckin hot as hell, duh." She took a big swig of water before approaching the small group. "So what we talking about?" Marson said as she leaned against a wall.
"Nothing much actually." Carson said.
"Great, nothing is such a great way to make time go by. Also to be truthful I didn't really come up with that quote either. Elsa did, even though she said I was the one that kinda pointed it out."
"Ehh, doesn't matter who said is damn well said though." Lt. said.
"Yep, so what's on the agenda for the rest of the day." Marson said, taking another sip of water.
"We could always do inventory, clean rifles or check the Vee's." Lt. said.
"Hell to the no. It's already been established but it's hot as balls out there." Zigs said.
"Boohoo. It's going to be hotter tomorrow and we got fucked into doing house clearing tomorrow." Werl said half heartedly.
"I thought it was just another patrol run." Carson said.
"Marshall says there's been increased activity in the city. We're going to clear at least two miles into the city." Lt. said.
The group of them was silent again. Sitting or standing, just saying nothing.
"Warriors, never thought of it like that." The man with the Texas drawl finally said.
"It sounds better." Zigs said.
Carson darted his eyes side to side and scratched his head. "Hey Three's when you said individually, what did you mean?"
Werl was about to open his mouth but threw a piece of paper at him. "It's simple Carson. On our own were warriors. Fighting with almost everything we got." Carson darted his eyes again.
"Almost Three's, really." Werl said.
"Well it's different when we fight together." Three's walked over to the cooler and took out a water.
Elsa held her sister in disbelief. How could she have done with out our parents, or me. The familiar feeling of self guilt and blame rushed back into Elsa's mind. "I'm sorry Anna. I'm sorry I-."
Anna got up from her sister's arms and looked at Elsa with glossy eyes. "Don't Elsa. I don't need to here things like this again. Don't even try to blame this on yourself, I won't let you."
"If I hadn't left..."
"NO! You're not going to blame yourself, so stop it. I thought you where over that stage in your life." Elsa looked down in defeat and brought her hands together, rubbing her fingers over her gloves. "Elsa, this is in the past. This happened because it happened, and it was out of your control, end of story. Please don't do this to yourself again." Anna knelt before her sister and took her hands. "Everything doesn't have to blamed on something or someone. Mom and Dad are dead, I know it's hard to take this all in but please don't try to make me feel better by blaming yourself."
Unable to look at her sister Elsa turned her head and just looked blankly into nothing. How could Anna spend so much time with out anybody? Who took care of her? How did she make it? Is it because I was wrong? Why did I always abandon her when she needed me the most?
"Elsa look at me, please. I need you to listen me."
"I am."
"No I am not and you sure as hell know that."
Elsa managed to face towards Anna, but couldn't look at her. "How-why you?"
"Oh my god Elsa, look at me." Elsa didn't move, her gaze looking away from Anna.
Sitting back on the futon and laying on her sisters lap, Anna did her best to get Elsa's attention. "Please don't look away." Despite Anna's slight frustration the helplessness of help voice gnawed at Elsa's heart. She managed to finally pick her head up and look at her sisters teal eyes. "There she is." Anna smiled. "Now look, I know you have all this questions for me about getting through all this and how I managed to keep my head up but I don't have all the answers yet and they won't answer what you really want to know. Actually Elsa," Anna got up again and broadened her smile, "where not even going to talk about this now. We've cried enough for now and can use sometime to get ourselves collected and have some fun."
"Anna-"
"Don't Anna me Elsa. We are going to have fun whether you want to or not. The way we are going to this is by going roller-skating. It will be fun and I will make an ass out of myself. There will be laughs and smiles only. No acceptations."
"But-"
Anna laid down on Elsa's lap again, "I promise to answer everything later but for now, have fun with me for a while first." Behind Anna's smile there was the feeling that she wanted draw her legs in curl up when talking.
I hate it when she feels like this. Elsa slid her left hand off her leg and clenched it. Not looking away from Anna she was doing her best to not start crying again.
Elsa sighed and managed to work up a small smile but then she remembered that Anna had class in about an hour. But who's paying for it? "Anna you have class soon." Elsa said adversely.
"Oh." Was the only thing that Anna said. Anna sat up and her head dropped and eyes darkened. Elsa started to raise her arm to rub Anna's back but stopped. She looked away from Anna again and wished she hadn't said that. She heard her sister get up from the futon and close the door to the bedroom.
"Fuck." She whispered. Elsa got up from the futon and paced the room, brushing her hair back every so often. "Why?! Why did I say that? Missing one class doesn't hurt that much. Now she'll have this on her mind and be completely distracted." Elsa dropped her head and covered her face with her hands. Groaning she stopped pacing for a moment.
She stood like that until her hands fell to her sides. Her eyes gloomed and she started to fold her arms across herself and started to pace the room again. "I'm sorry Anna." Elsa paced the room for a few moments and stopped when she heard the shower turn on. Closing her eyes and dropping her head she started to pace the room again.
Her eyes closed tighter and suddenly she realized what she was doing, realizing what doing this meant. She stopped pacing and dropped her arms , clenching her hands into fists. "I won't go back to this again. Anna's right I got over doing this years ago."
Elsa looked over at the bedroom door and walked over to it. Going through it and then opening the bathroom door a bit, Elsa spoke. She couldn't let Anna and herself do this alone. "Anna?" She spoke softly. "Can I, can I come in?"
"Yah, I'm in the shower so you should be okay." Anna said sadly
Elsa opened the door and stood in front of the mirror, facing the shower but looking down. "After your done in the shower wait for me to finish with mine."
"Why?"
"I want to know where we can go skating."
Anna poked out her from the shower with an ecstatic smile, shampoo covering her hair. "Really!?"
Elsa smiled back at Anna. "Missing one class doesn't hurt anyone. Unless you have a test today."
"Nonononono, I don't. Not for another few weeks. I had ones before you came home and I did really well on them. You can even check them and see for yourself. There in the file cabinet behind. I got two B's and an A, the dates on them will tell you that there from about a week ago."
"Okay I'll take your word for it." Elsa said sarcastically.
"No really, I don't have test's yet. Not for a couple weeks. Just look at the dates on my other tests. The cabinet is right behind you, check, really-"
"Anna calm down. Save your excitement for skating."
The younger girl smiled blissfully at Elsa. "I'd hug you but that'd be weird and a little wet. Unless you want me to hug you."
Elsa shook her head and playfully rolled her eyes. "No, no that's quite alright. Don't make it weird."
"It's not that weird, just two sisters hugging, except one is wet and naked."
"Okay! I'm leaving now." Elsa turned and headed out of the bathroom.
"Wait!" Elsa turned and grinned at her sister. "Can you grab me two towels please?"
Elsa grabbed two towels from the cubby to her left and set them on the sink for Anna. "Thank you, and thank you Elsa." Anna said sincerely.
"I'm doing what's best." Elsa walked out of the bathroom and back into the living room. She sat back down on the futon and looked out the window. "I'm going to make it to Anna. Anyway I can I promise to make it up to you. For everything I missed and everything I should've been there for." Elsa sat back down on the futon and slowly flipped through the stations.
After what should've been a thirty minute drive, Elsa and Anna finally arrived at a skating rink.
"Fucking traffic." Anna grumbled. "Learn to drive assholes." Anna yelled towards the street.
"We have the entire day Anna, relax." Elsa brought her left arm around Anna, and smiled Thank god no one heard that.
"True, but we'll never get back those two hours of pure boredom and anger we spent in the car." Anna smiled back at Elsa.
"For you it was boring and anger filled. I was laughing."
"Yah I know. Laugh at my pain bitch." Anna laughed and lightly pushed Elsa.
Elsa faintly giggled. "What pain we're you in exactly? I was laughing at all the comments you were making."
"Shut up, they were all true."
"I don't even get were you get your road rage. Dad never had it and mom was impervious to anger, well-" Elsa started to drop her eyes and grimace. Seeing this, Anna pinched Elsa's side.
Laughing and jumping at the same time, Elsa looked at Anna and furrowed a brow, crossing her arms.
"What? You were looking a little down, so I took an initiative. Now come on."
Together they made their way inside. Paying and getting skates, they found a booth to put on there skates. "It's been a while since we've skated." Anna said as she forcibly tried to get her foot into the first skate.
Elsa took a deep quiet breath. "Yah." Elsa said faintly.
Anna saw how Elsa's eyes whispered the guilt she felt. Placing her hand on her sister's knee she smiled and waited for Elsa to look at her. "Hey," she said smoothly, "remember what I said, only smiles and fun. No exceptions." She smiled. Elsa placed her hand on top of Anna's. "I was serious." Anna said sarcastically stern, getting a quick smile from Elsa.
"That's right, so let's go." Smiling broader, Elsa got up and pulled Anna up with her.
"Wait, wait." Anna said almost falling over.
Elsa caught Anna and stood her back up. "Sorry, sorry. I forgot you're bad at this."
"Hey!" Anna laughed.
"What are you waiting for then?"
"Well, it would be nice to skate with two skates now would it." Anna sat back down and continued to try and shove her foot into the other skate.
"Loosen the laces first Anna. Your foot should slide right in if you do that." Elsa knelt down to try and help her sister.
"I almost got it." But her foot wasn't budging. "Just a little finesse and some brute force."
"I see the brute force. When and where is the finesse supposed to come in." Elsa stood back up and crossed her arms.
Anna shook her hands and took a deep breath. She looked up and smiled at her sister, who was pretending to loose her patients. "Don't give me that look, I can do this, watch me." Anna looked back down to continue shoving her one foot into the skate.
"Okay, okay. I would just like to skate before my first wrinkles." Without looking up and continuing to shove her foot her foot in the skate, Anna gave Elsa the middle finger. Elsa laughed and pushed Anna's hand down. "Come on Anna, let me do it."
"No, no, I've got this." Anna continued with her struggle. "I" *shove* "almost" *shove* "have it. UHHHH, come one." Anna looked up at Elsa with a puppy dog smile.
Elsa crossed her arms and smirked. "You done?"
"Not yet, not even close." Anna's face scrunched up as she felt her fingers become raw. Elsa sat in front of Anna and sighed loudly. "Shut up." Elsa would pretend to check an imaginary watch and sigh really loud whenever she wanted. It was clear on Anna's face that she was starting to get annoyed and by the looks on her face she still wasn't making any progress. It wasn't until she pushed her foot so hard that the skate slipped out and kicked off her foot.
"Can you please help." Anna smiled innocently.
"Sure, little one." Elsa got to her knees and ruffled Anna's hair
Anna rolled her eyes and smirked. "For the record I almost had it."
"I'm sure you did." Elsa said nicely.
"Yah, I did." Then Anna furrowed a brow. "Wait."
Elsa finished tying the skate, and tightened it. "Wait for what? I'm done so lets go."
Anna smiled and stood. "Then lets get started."
Elsa pushed off her left foot and rolled to the entrance of the rink. She looked back at Anna and saw she had hardly moved. She smiled and thought to herself that Anna looked like a newborn deer trying to walk for the first time. Every time the younger girl would try and take a step she'd lean forward and backwards. The one skate on the ground would roll ever so slightly and Anna would through out her arms and try to regain her balance. Elsa smiled and went back to Anna.
"It's just like skiing Anna. Angle your right foot a bit and push off of it, like this." Elsa rolled to the entrance again and rolled back.
"It's easier said than done." Anna said as she almost lost her balance, again.
Elsa giggle and knelt down to angle Anna's just a bit. "There, know think your on ski's and that I just beat you to the chair lift."
"I can't move that fast in these things." Anna softly complained.
"Okay, then just think you're on ski's and push off your foot. I've got your arm so don't worry about falling." Elsa hooked her arm around her sisters and waited for Anna to move.
Anna acerbically took a few quick breaths and did what Elsa showed her. "Woo, lets go."
"Now do the same thing with your left foot."
"Wha-Why?! We're still moving, no need to rush things."
"Anna, we aren't even half way to the entrance."
"Yah and were still rolling, see?" Anna pointed down and smiled.
"And now we've stopped Anna." Elsa coolly. "Come on, use your left leg."
"I would but this extra weight is slowing me down."
"I can't be weighing you down so you either have weaker legs than I remember or, you just suck."
"Oh, haha. You've been eating a lot more since you've got home. Going to that so called gym downstairs may not be helping to burn all that fat." Elsa stared annoyingly at her sister for a brief moment. A devilish smiled then crossed her face and then let go of Anna. She then lightly pushed her sister forward. "Elsa!" Anna through her arms out as if she trying to catch her balance.
"Well that's what you get for being an ass." Elsa crossed her arms and nonchalantly rolled past Anna.
"What I meant to say was, uhh, that the gym dow-" Nearly falling Anna's legs went back and forth while here hands went in circle, trying to regain her balance. She could her Elsa trying to hold back her laughs, but ignored them. "As I was saying, that gym downstairs isn't suited for you. With all the food you've eating to make your muscles bigger, you should go to a real gym. Also, as you know muscles weigh more than fat, so, that extra weight comes from all that working out and cardio." Anna innoxiously smiled back at her sister.
Elsa smiled back at her sister. "Alright, I let that slid. As for right now, hold out you arms." Anna looked down for a second before she timidly held out her arms. Elsa took Anna's hand's and began to slowly skate backwards.
"Whoa, whoa there Evel Knievel. Driving backwards is very dangerous." Anna looked around Elsa's head and bit her lip.
Elsa's eyes became slightly solicitous as she saw Anna tense up. "Hey, I've got you. Don't worry." The older girl smiled warmly at her sister.
Anna looked back down for a quick second. "I sure hope so, my life insurance doesn't cover this." Elsa laughed and Anna gave her sister a quick smile as they rounded a the first turn. As they finished the turn Anna once again, nearly lost her balance.
Elsa could easily read the expression on her sisters face. "We can stop-"
"I can do this." Anna bolstered. "Just, uhh, please, don't let go." Anna smiled.
For the next ten or so minutes Elsa and Anna would skate around gradually picking up speed and slowing down when Elsa saw Anna start to tense up. Anna would sometimes trip up, come crashing forwards and be caught by Elsa, or fall on her ass. They would laugh and Elsa would say that it was alright and tell Anna what she did wrong. Either it be trying to skate on her own without giving any kinds of heads up, or trying to do something playful.
It was after Anna tried to skate on one foot and fall straight on her ass that Elsa decided to make Anna learn how to finally skate. "Okay, you know what, you're nearly a grown ass woman and not a little girl so..." Elsa began to let go of her sisters hands.
"WHOA! Hello. What did I say before?" Anna tightened her grip on Elsa's hands.
"Anna, it's been almost 20 years since you've been attempting to skate. I think todays the day that you're finally gonna learn to skate on your own." With that Elsa suddenly let go of her sisters hands and skated down the rink and leaned against the wall, waiting for her sister.
"Damn it she's right." Anna looked down at her skates and then back at Elsa. She did this again, and again for a few moments.
"Looking up and down doesn't do much. Just think you're ski's, you can do it." Elsa encouragingly shouted. "And let go of the wall for Christ's sake."
"I can do it, yah I can lets do this. Okay, yah. Here I come! Get ready! I'm on the way! Here I go! I've got this."
"Just because you can shout that you're on the way doesn't mean you doing so." Elsa crossed her arms and crossed her left foot over her right. She sighed, tilted her head and smiled condescendingly at Anna.
You did not just do the mom stance. It's on now. Anna stood up straight and let go of the wall. Brushing a few hairs out of her face she bent her legs and looked straight at Elsa with determination. Saying in her head that she was on ski's over and over again, she moved her right foot like Elsa had told her before. Taking a deep breath she then pushed of her left foot.
Suddenly invigorated, Anna looked down and saw that she was moving. Her eyes lighting and broad smile covering her face, Anna the pushed of her right foot again. She was doing it. Just like skiing, come on. Anna continued to say that to herself. Finally she was skating on her own.
"Elsa!" Anna called out ecstatically.
"See, I knew you could do it."
"Yes, yes, yes." Anna screeched with joy. "Woohoo, look at me now bitches. I am the queen of this rink. Yes, all shall obey my new found skill. I shall rule with an iron fist and let no one pass my skill set. Obey me peasants." Anna through her hands and looked to the ceiling. "I finally did it." She whispered.
Anna came to where Elsa was standing. Slowing down just enough she embraced Elsa as she lightly collided with her. Elsa brought her arms around Anna lightly kissed the top of her head. "All it took was a little determination."
"Thank you, thank you, thank you." Anna gently leaned away and looked up at her sister with a smile miles above blissful. "If we weren't sisters I'd totally kiss you, but I'll settle for a hug."
Elsa shuttered at the thought of them kissing. "Why would you say that? Now I'm a bit creeped out."
Anna rolled her eyes. "It was a joke Elsa, come on. Like I'd ever do that." Elsa rolled her eyes. "Now watch this." Anna pushed of from Elsa and began to skate. Testing her new found ability. "This is amazing." Elsa watched as Anna gracefully went around the rink. Testing different speeds and ski moves that Elsa told her she could do. Including skating backwards. "Fuck walking, I'm skating everywhere I go from now."
"Don't get to cocky Anna."
"What, you afraid I'll be better than you at something." Anna stuck out her tongue as she passed her sister again.
"No, I just don't want you to get hurt doing something as stupid as trying to jump in the air and spin in 360's."
"You can, so why can't I."
"Because I've known how skate longer than you've known how to count."
Anna turned backwards as she passed Elsa again. "That's a low blow. Those be fightin words loser."
"No, Anna. I don't want to see you getting hurt, both physically and egotistically."
"Ohh, so cold. I'll show who's got the real skill."
"And I'll show you the wall in front of you."
Before Anna could react she went flying over the waistline wall. Falling head first, Anna let out a small high pitched yelp. Elsa graciously rolled to where Anna had fallen head over heals and leaned over the wall, looking down at the flustered Anna. "You okay there Ms. Show boaster."
"Ow." Anna said casually.
Slightly wincing as she got Elsa felt a bit panicked. Jumping over the wall and helping Anna up. "Are you hurt? I-I'm sorry, I really should've-"
"I'm fine Elsa, relax." Anna smiled at Elsa and cracked her back and then her neck.
"That's still really gross to me."
"Then give me a farer warning next time." Elsa smiled and helped Anna climb back over the wall. "Now lets get back to skating."
For the next few hours Elsa and Anna would skate around with each other. Laughing, talking and playing games with each other until there legs where sore.
When they were done and back in the car both of them felt happier then ever.
"That was the most fun I've had in a while." Anna said as she pulled out of the parking lot.
"Me too." Elsa's eyes softened as she thought back to the last time she and Anna and there parents had fun together.
"I know what your thinking Elsa, but the rules of fun only still apply."
"Okay." Elsa smiled at her sister. Before long Elsa's eyes started to flutter and her head started to bob.
"If your gonna fall asleep just do it already. No use in fighting sleep, believe me. It's an up hill battle that no one wins."
As Elsa's eyes closed again, she smiled and propped her head up with her right against the door. A few moments past before Elsa heard Anna turn on the radio. Slowly but surely she would let Anna's singing voice put her to sleep.
"I try not to think, about the pain I feel inside. Did you know you used to be my hero?" Though Anna didn't have a voice like Elsa's, hers was still smooth and melodic. Sounding happy and breathless no matter what the song. "All the days you spent with me, now seem so far away. And it feels like you don't care anymore, and now I try hard to make it. I just wanna make you, proud. I'm never gonna be good enough for you. I can't stand another fight. And nothing's alright." Anna's higher falsetto's made Elsa unconsciously smile. "Cause we've lost it all. Nothing last forever." Her serene and appeasing sustained notes ending with a perfect vibrato. "I'm sorry I can't be, perfect. Now it's just too late and we can't go back. I'm sorry I can't be perfect."
Before Elsa succumbed to her tiredness, the final verse she heard Anna sing rang in her head. "Please don't turn your back. I can't believe it's hard to just talk to you. But you don't understand."
So, yah I finally got to finishing this chapter. For the next it will most likely come in three weeks, I hope. I do plan on finishing this story to the end but I'm still working on how I really want to develop it.
Which brings me to the next point. I don't know if I want to pursue the Elsanna in this as romantic incest. It's not that I'm opposed it, I see it as maybe being a forced loved story that doesn't really drive the plot or making the story longer than necessary. I don't know what to think, if there are those of you that still like this story and would like to see the incest ship sail then okay, I'll find a way to make it happen, just tell me so I can start working on ideas.
