Chapter 9: Home At Last

Two months later

Anna made her way back to Elsa's room. Elsa was being discharged today and Anna was simply thrilled. It had been a long two months. Every time Anna had seen Elsa all broken and bruised, it broke her heart. She didn't like seeing her strong, independent sister like that but since she started getting better, Anna could now start seeing Elsa for who she truly is and it made her smile.

For the past two months, Anna and the rest of them visited Elsa every day without fail. They wouldn't talk about anything important. Just stuff that had been happening. Elsa was very interested in what was happening with her new nephew and Anna was eager to include Elsa in everything. Anna had been eager to discuss what had been happened on the front lines but Elsa had refused. Anna was sure that Elsa didn't want to talk about it but Anna knew that talking about it would be good for her however after Elsa had refused, Anna had dropped the subject. She was sure that Jack could get her to talk about it as they had both been involved in the war. She had her fingers crossed on that one.

Anna made her way through the familiar ward that once held Elsa. She was in a very good mood. She found Elsa attempting to pack her bag. Elsa had lost all her casts and her bruises were gone but she was still recovering from her gunshot and her many surgeries which was causing a bit of pain for Elsa. Anna was laughing at Elsa's battle with the zipper.

"Stop laughing at help me," Elsa said when she noticed Anna.

Anna, still laughing, crossed over and helped Anna. She managed to work the zip in just a couple of seconds.

"I loosened it up for you," Elsa muttered. "I'm a Captain in an army and I can't even win a fight against a zipper."

"Well come on," Anna said laughing.

"Should you exactly be doing this?" Elsa asked. "I mean you are eight months pregnant."

Everyone was getting excited as Anna was now eight months pregnant and would be giving birth any day soon. However everyone was going out of their way to make sure that Anna had everything she needed and was off her feet. It was nice but Anna found people's constant worries quite annoying.

"Yeah, I'll be fine Elsa, stop worrying," Anna said when she was helping Elsa with her stuff.

Elsa didn't stop giving her a look until they were back in the car.

"Okay so you are staying at our place until you're good," Anna said.

"Sounds cool to me," Elsa said. "Plus I can help with the baby."

"Good old Aunt Elsa," Anna muttered.

When they arrived at the house, Kristoff came out immediately to help with the bags. When Elsa had shut the boot, Anna noticed Jack walking across the road.

"I'll leave you to it," Anna grinned before she followed her husband back into her house leaving Elsa and Jack alone.


Elsa watched as Jack came closer. She grinned at him.

"So you're home?" he said with the biggest smile.

"Yeah," Elsa smiled back. "It's good to finally be home."

"Yeah," Jack put his hands in his pockets. "I feel the same way."

Jack gazed at Elsa. Elsa giggled.

"What?" she said.

"Nothing, just glad your back."

"Me too."


Anna was spying on Elsa and Jack through the open curtain.

"Any more of this and you'll turn into Petunia Dursley," Kristoff said from the chair he was sitting in and looking up from the newspaper he was reading.

"Kristoff, hush, this is what younger sisters do," Anna retorted.

Anna watched Elsa laugh at something that Jack said before Jack gave her a little kiss before running off. Elsa came back into the house. Anna picked up a magazine and lay back down on the couch.

"Okay, Anna you can stop spying now," Elsa yelled through the house.

"I wasn't spying," Anna yelled back.

"Yeah and I'm flobberworm."

Anna let out a little laugh and she turned the pages of the magazine she was pretending to read. Dinner was awfully quiet as Elsa didn't want to talk much. Anna had a bunch of questions for her but she knew that Elsa would tell her when she felt like it. Elsa excused herself to bed early leaving Kristoff and Anna alone. Kristoff helped Anna get to bed before they got changed and went to sleep.


Elsa got changed and got into bed and closed her eyes.

She was walking along a desert plane with her other troops from the same platoon. They had their guns at the ready in case. They had received word that there was a camp around here. It was their plan to ambush it. Suddenly explosions and gunfire went off killing a few of them while the rest of them ducked.

"We're surrounded," Elsa's friend and roommate, Private Jones said. "Captain, what are your orders?"

"Try and get around them," Elsa said ducking as another round of gunfire went off. "I thought that was pretty obvious.

Jones got to her feet and let off a round of ammunition before ducking for cover again. She didn't look happy.

"There's like thirty of them and five of us," she said. "I don't like those odds."

"What? You don't have faith in us?" Elsa joked throwing a grenade over her shoulder and they heard a scream as it hit its target.

Private Jones grinned. That's when it happened. A smoke bomb that was sent by the enemy had gone off and was obscuring their vision.

"Don't panic!" Elsa yelled. "Don't panic!"

More gunfire went off as the smoke cleared and enemy troops came into view as they were storming their safe spot. Elsa and the others successfully fought off the troops with both her knife and gun.

"Good job Captain," Jones said.

Elsa turned just in time to see several rounds of bullets being shot into her. Jones's expression changed from grinning to shocked in a matter of split seconds as the bullets entered her body.

"Jones!" Elsa yelled.

Jones fell backward and into the dirt. Elsa screamed. She took out her gun and shot the person responsible. She didn't stop shooting until he had collapsed. Elsa then rushed over and saw that Jones had several wounds with a lot of blood coming out. She was dead. Elsa felt tears pouring out and splatter on the dirt.

"Elsa!" came a strange voice. "Elsa!"


Anna and Kristoff had gotten to sleep when they were awaken by some screaming. Anna knew who it was. It was Elsa. Anna quickly got to her feet, well as quickly as she could, and she and Kristoff rushed into Elsa's bedroom. There they found Elsa rolling around in her bed screaming.

"Elsa!" Anna said trying to shake her awake. "Elsa!"

Elsa opened her eyes. She was drenched in sweat and had a panic look in her eyes.

"Relax," Anna said in a soothing voice. "It was just a nightmare. You're home."

"Just a nightmare," Elsa repeated sinking back into her pillows. "Just a nightmare."

Anna and Kristoff stayed with Elsa until she had gotten back to sleep. They went back to bed and instantly fell asleep but Anna was having a bit of trouble. Something was wrong and she didn't know. Eventually sleep washed over Anna and any worries about Elsa drifted into thin air. When they awoke the next day they found Elsa gone with a note that said she had gone on a walk.


Elsa never really did go back to sleep after her nightmare. She decided that enough was enough at five o'clock in the morning. She quickly made breakfast and after she had eaten, she scribbled a note to Anna and headed outside. She breathed in the fresh air and walked along the pavement. She soon came to a nice looking park that wasn't far and sat down at one of the benches and watched the world go by.

She saw a lady walking her dog, kids playing, a man on his early jog. Just sitting and watching made her feel peaceful.

"So you do this too?" came a voice from behind her.

Elsa turned around and saw that Jack was standing behind her. She grinned and Jack took a seat next to her.

"So you come here too?" she asked him.

"Yep," he said putting his arm around her shoulders. "Very relaxing."

"You said it," Elsa said leaning into his shoulders.

They just sat there for what seemed hours. Elsa found the slow and steady pace of peace times to be far better than the fast and unpredictableness of the war.

"So," Jack said. "You feel like having lunch with me today?"

"Sure," Elsa smiled, her eyes glinting.

"I have work so just come by the office and pick me up," Jack said.

"When do you have to go?" Elsa asked.

"Well work starts in an hour so anytime now," Jack said with a sad look on his face. "I wish I could just stay here with you."

"So do I."

Jack watched a man play Frisbee with his pet dog before he spoke.

"So what's been troubling you?"

"The war comes with bad memories."

"I know how you feel."

"I had a really bad nightmare last night. Anna had to wake me up."

"What was it about?"

"Private Jones getting shot in front of me."

"She was your friend right?"

"Yeah, I'm just glad I wasn't the one who had to tell her family. That would have been painful."

"As painful as when we got told that you had died."

"I can't imagine what you guys went through."

"We're just glad that you're alive."

"Me too."

Jack let out a laugh.

"I suppose we should be heading back now."

"I don't want to," moaned Elsa.

Jack laughed again and helped Elsa to her feet and they walked home together. Jack said goodbye to Elsa at her door and Elsa let herself in.


Anna was finishing up her own breakfast when Elsa came through the door looking quite pink due to the cold air.

"How was the walk?" Anna asked as Elsa slid into a chair.

"Very nice," she responded.

Anna smiled and sat down next to her.

"So what is your plan for today?" Anna asked her.

"Oh I have lunch with Jack," Elsa said excitably.

"A date? Finally!" Anna said.

"Tell me about it sister."

Anna was silent for a moment before she decided to breach the topic that she wanted to discuss with Elsa.

"So what happened last night?" Anna asked her.

Elsa went a little pale.

"Just had a nightmare," she said.

"About?" Anna prompted.

"Just the war."

Anna bit her lip but she didn't say anything more. She didn't want to push it.


Jane was walking down to visit Jack. Her crush on him had transformed into something on a higher level. They had sort of being going out for the last couple of months. Well they had never called them dates and they had always been innocent in nature but she wanted to take it to the next level with Jack. She found Jack in his office humming to something.

"Hey Jack?"

"Hmm?"

"I wanted to know if you wanted to have lunch with me, there's this really nice Italian place just ten minutes away."

"Sorry Jane but I already have lunch plans," Jack hummed.

Jane could tell he was excited by whoever was going to lunch with him. She then noticed a blonde woman she vaguely recognised walking towards them. Where did she know her from? She then noticed the picture on Jack's desk. It was the same woman. Whoever, she was, she must be important to Jack.

"Hey," she said walking up to Jack.

Jack gave her a small kiss which smashed Jane's world. This must be Jack's girlfriend or something.

"Oh Jane, this is Elsa," Jack said.

"Hey," Elsa said brightly.

"Hey," Jane said half heartily.

"Ready?" Elsa asked.

"Yeah just give me a second," Jack said grabbing his coat. "Let's go get lunch!"

Jack walked out holding hands with Elsa. Now Jane knew why Jack hadn't been interested in her or anyone else. He was with someone else and it pained Jane plus it looked like they were in love. She felt something that felt awfully similar to jealously rising in chest.

A/N: So the love triangle forms. I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. I don't know when the next will be though, sorry, hopefully soon. Please review =)