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Elsa:
"Please please please please!" Anna begged her older sister. The two royal sisters were sitting in the library, Elsa was sitting on a large plush couch with her feet pulled underneath her a good book and even better coffee in hand. Anna was sitting across from Elsa in a love seat, pleading with her sister.
"C'mon Elsa, it's the Spring Festival you can't just spend the entire time in the castle. Let's go do something in town." The princess of Arendelle was desperately trying to convince her sister to get out of the castle, where she had stayed for the last two days. But Elsa was being resilient.
"I'm not going to spend the entire time in the castle, I'm going to the final party in town." Elsa reasoned. She just didn't feel like leaving the comfort and luxury of the castle just yet, especially since she rarely ever got extended breaks from her legal work and didn't want to have to put on her queenly facade once again.
"Well what does James have to say about it? I'm pretty sure he'd want to go out at some point." Anna countered.
"He's just as happy to spend time with me in the castle as he would be out of the castle." Elsa reassured Anna and herself. In fact, James hadn't even woken up yet, a normal occurrence she had found out, if there was nothing important planned for the day James would practically jump at the opportunity to sleep in as much as possible. That morning Elsa had woken up earlier than everyone as always, regardless of the plan for the day. After creating her ice dress and giving James a small kiss, she went down to the kitchen to make herself a cup of coffee.
At that moment James entered the library obviously not fully awake as he shuffled in yawning. Wearing worn comfortable robes with slippers, his brown hair even more messy and unruly than it usually is, and his crown was nowhere to be found. Usually that drove Kai and Gerda crazy who desperately tried to get James to at least look like what they, and the council, thought a king looked like. However after a few heated arguments between the three of them, and a couple of accidentally magically broken mirrors and windows, they came to an agreement; if no foreign representative was present James could leave off the crown for the morning without getting yelled at by Kai and Gerda.
"G'morning you two. What are you talking about?" James slightly slurred, rubbing the sleep out of his eyes. He shuffled over and sat next to Elsa, putting an arm around her shoulders.
"I was trying to get Elsa to come with me into the town to have some fun, but she's being stubborn." Anna explained, trying to get James on her side. "What do you think she should do?"
For a split second, Elsa could see a slight mischievous glimmer in James' eyes before he quickly suppressed it. "Well, I think that it's very important for sisters to spend time together. Not to mention the fact that Anna will go regardless, and she wouldn't like to go with a group of guards, however if she went with her sister..."
Elsa sighed in defeat and slowly stood up from her seat. "Alright, I guess I can't avoid it. C'mon Anna, let's go."
Anna jump up, as best as she could, and grabbed Elsa's arm. "Yay! Thank you James! C'mon Elsa let's go!"
James stood up along with Anna and followed them to the door to the library. Just before they left the room James grabbed Elsa's arm, which still held the cup of coffee. "Hold up for a second." He then used her arm to twirl her around and into his chest. He then kissed her deeply, actually dipping her backwards slightly. He broke the kiss and spun her back around to her sister who had to put a hand out to stabilize her.
"Have fun you two." James said as he walked back to a couch in the library.
Elsa, still a bit flustered, and Anna started walking down the hallway. It wasn't until they had gotten out of the castle doors and started to make their way into town before Elsa was able to think straight and realize that her cup of coffee was suddenly missing. Upon realizing what James had done, Elsa smiled quietly to herself. And so she walked hand and in hand with her sister and a smile on her face.
Naturally, the town was alive with excitement and jovial citizens. Flowers and people and streamers and colors were all over the place. Somehow, Anna was able to find her way through the giant mob of people dancing and celebrating in the streets. The younger sister dragged her older sister down the streets and eventually stopped them in front of a small jewelry stand.
Anna quickly raked her gaze across the large selection of jewelry and accessories, trying to find as many pieces she liked as she could. Her sister however, took her time looking at each one individually. It took Anna a while but she managed to cut her initial amount of liked jewelry from 50 down to only 15. Elsa's eye however, was only caught by one.
Among the silver pendants and jewel encrusted medallions, she found a very small snowflake-shaped locket bracelet. It was a bluish locket with a small silver chain. The royals decided that they would buy the jewelry and instructed the jeweler to pick up his dues at the castle. And the two quickly walked off, Anna with a full bag of jingling silver, and Elsa with the silver bracelet clasped around her wrist.
"Queen Elsa! Princess Anna!" The sisters were stopped by a group of small children. "Can you do the magic?"
"Absolutely!" Anna readily agreed. Elsa agreed also, if just a bit more reluctantly.
"What would you like to see?" Elsa asked politely, her and Anna kneeling down to the children's level.
"We want an ice castle and fireworks behind it!" The kids shouted in glee.
"Ah, how about something a bit smaller?" Elsa asked. Then she came up with an idea. "Already kids, back up for a second."
Elsa gathered up magic in her hands, causing a cold blue light to emanate from her hands, and waved her hands over a blank stretch of a street. Streams of sparkling blue magic flowed from her hands and swirled around in the middle of the street.
Wherever Elsa's magic swirled around, snow and ice materialized out of thin air and clumped itself on the ground. Elsa focused hard, picturing what she wanted and willing the snow and ice to bend to her thoughts. Eventually, the blue and white magic swirled faster and faster, even obscuring everyone's vision for a moment, before finally revealing what she had created.
The once clear stretch of street was now covered in around three to four feet of snow. Sitting in the snow were two small-scale ice ships flying a pirate flag and an Arendellian flag. Each ship had small "cannons" on both sides, as well as wells and rudders, based on her experience sailing on the accursed ship during James' Primordial Trials. The kids screamed in delight and mobbed the ships, climbing onto the decks and hanging on the ropes.
Elsa gave them a few seconds to get settled on the two ships before gathering more magic to her hands. She called out to the kids, "You better hold on!"
She swirled her hands around, projecting her will towards the ships. The snow under the ships started to froth and swirl, picking the ships up and moving them slowly around in a large circle. The kids screamed in joy once again, and started to pretend they were firing the cannons at the opposite ship.
Elsa turned her head towards her sister and raised an eyebrow questioningly. Anna, predictably, let out a giant, playful grin. She extended her hands towards the two ships, matching her sister. She waited for a few moments, waited for the perfect moment. All the kids on one of the ships, at the same time, shouted "Fire!"
She chose that moment to show off her powers. The muzzle of the cannon flashed, the result of a very small, yet bright, fire courtesy of Anna. Elsa flicked one of her wrists towards the ship that was "fired" at, sending a snowball at the kids. The kids went wild.
The children's fun went on for at least two hours, the kids trading volleys of snow-cannon balls. Eventually, Anna actually got tired from causing numerous small fires. So Elsa improvised; she turned the ships more towards each other causing them to lightly crash together (hurting no one of course). She then formed soft snow weapons that puffed and fell apart once they hit someone. The boarding fight quickly devolved into a full scale snowball war. Elsa let the ice ships turn into large piles of snow and slump down into lumpy mounds.
The two sisters stayed in the square for a while, happily enjoying the children fling snow at each other. Elsa glanced up at the sky, which had turned into many shades of red and blue due to the setting sun. She also noticed that more and more adults were coming out to celebrate and dance and drink, and lit candles and lanterns were placed up high to illuminate the streets.
"Alright, Anna." Elsa finally said, standing up and offering her hand. "I think it's about time for us to go home."
Anna looked like she was about to argue, but a yawn cut her off, defeating her argument. She sighed, "Okay, I guess it is time."
She took her sister's hand to help her up and the royals started walking back towards Arendelle Castle. They weaved their way through the ever present crowds, making good time. When they got to the bridge reaching across the fjord to the outer castle courtyard, Elsa stopped suddenly.
"Elsa, is something wrong?" Anna asked worriedly.
"No, no. I just need a second." Elsa said. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath. "Anna, I don't want to be queen anymore."
"What do you mean?" Anna asked very confused.
"I don't know. I just don't think I can be queen. I'm tired. Tired of the paperwork, tired of the councilors, and the foreign representatives. I'm just not happy as queen."
"Why don't you and James abdicate then?" Anna asked, straight to the point.
"Because I don't want you to have to do it just because I don't want to." Elsa admitted.
"Elsa. It doesn't matter. If you're unhappy with being queen, I'll take over. I'd do anything for you."
"Trust me Anna, you don't want to do that." Elsa took her sister's hands. "But thank you for offering. I'll just have to find a different way."
"Alright, I won't push you. But keep it in mind." Anna glanced down at Elsa's new snowflake locket bracelet. "Do you know what you're going to put in there?"
Elsa took her hands back and opened the locket to look at the blank insides. She didn't even have to think that long to figure out what she wanted to put in there. She focused for a moment, creating small ice "paintings" in the lockets, with different shades of ice to add all the colors. One the left side, a miniature family portrait; Elsa and James sitting together on Sven, Elsa holding Olaf, and Anna and Kristoff standing next to Sven arm in arm. One the right side she put a more specific portrait; a close up of James carrying Elsa in his arms, like he did so long ago after freeing her from dark magic, focusing on their faces, their eyes showing immense and inarguable love for each other.
"Ah, how nice." Anna cooed.
With Anna on one arm, her newly decorated locket on the other, and James' gift of a miniature star necklace around her neck, she walked back to the castle feeling surrounded by those who love her.
