AN: Thanks so much, IDRF! It really means so much to me when people ACTUALLY SHOW THEIR APPRECIATION OF MY TALENTS (nudge, nudge, wink, wink) and I'm sure that your fanfic will be just great!
Anna didn't understand. What was he doing here?
"Kristoff, go! Or should I just kill you this time?"
"Anna, please!"
"I know you hate me. Is this about revenge?"
"Anna..."
"I scorched your bloody heart! You should be dead, for God's sake!"
"Anna, just f***ing listen!"
She stopped and turned her head towards him.
"I don't want to hurt you! I want to say sorry! I'm sorry for what I said. I'm sorry for hurting you. I love you, Anna..."
She shot him a dark look. "Sure you do."
"I do, Anna! Just let me finish."
"Whatever."
"I love you, and I always will. I guess I just acted out of character. I don't even remember saying those things, but I'm sorry. If there is anything I can do..."
"You can leave me be."
His face contorted with unimaginable pain and she grimaced. His hair was now mostly charcoal black, with only a few blonde strands remaining. He collapsed on the ground, breathing heavily. "Anna..." he managed. "Do you love me?"
Without hesitation, she answered him...
oOoOo
Perfect timing. Elsa woke up just as she began slipping. She tightened her grip and stayed on his shoulders. "Josh..." she mumbled. "Why does my head hurt so...?"
"You've been badly injured. You need to rest."
She nodded lightly and Josh continued his ascent. As he neared the top, he found an old mountain goat's trail. He swung himself up, holding steadily to Elsa's cold hands. "Can you stand?"
"Of course not, idiot," she joked. She tried to accompany it with a giggle, but instead grimaced with pain.
"It's okay, Elsa." He hoisted her up and followed the trail upwards. He walked trough the trees. He followed an old worn path. He rounded the corner, and... "OOF!" He landed in a pile of snow. Elsa flew over his shoulders and landed with a thump against a tree! "ELSA!" he yelled. He scrambled up. "Ouch. No need to yell so loud." A small snowman grumbled. Josh jumped back in surprise.
"Who are you?"
"Sorry, I must've forgotten to introduce myself," he cleared his throat and began again. "Hi, I'm Olaf and I like warm hugs!"
"Olaf?" He repeated. He was confused. Snow in summer, much less talking snow in summer? What was going on here?
"Yup!" and that's when he spotted Elsa. "Elsa!"
"You know her?"
"Yup! She made me!" he turned back to Elsa. "Omigod Elsa I am so sorry. Who did this to you? Was it this hooligan over here?" A protest could be heard from over his shoulder.
Meanwhile, something had clicked in the back of Josh's mind. Magical snow in summer? This was Elsa's doing! Of course! He mentally slapped himself (Which reminds me of an absolutely hilarious and stupid schoolroom joke, that I will tell you in the end note.) for not realising it sooner. This was Olaf, Elsa's snowman! He should have remembered it from Elsa's stories!
Elsa herself was floating in and out of consciousness. Finally she blinked a few times and ever so slowly sat up. She held her hand to her head to ease the dizziness, and brought it away with blood on it. She gasped. Josh looked up and ran to her side. "It's going to be fine, Elsa, it's going to be just fine." He scooped her up, and moved her into the clearing. He laid her down gently and began to tend to her wounds.
oOoOo
"Yes, Kristoff, I do." A relieved smile crept across Kristoff's face, but it changed to a shocked one as Anna fell down on him for a kiss. He quickly warmed up to it. It was so strong and sweet. It was soon ended, though, as Kristoff morphed into solid crystal. "KRISTOFF!" she screamed.
Anna sunk back into her state of physical blindness. The tears fell with no restriction. Her most beloved one had died in her arms, at her mercy, because of her selfishness. The dagger was formed once again, rising to her throat. It drove forward, homing in on her oesophagus.
It stopped still, the point just touching her skin. Something had caught it. She opened her eyes as she dived out of her depressed state. "Kristoff?" She couldn't believe it.
"The trolls told me the story of Romeo and Juliet. It turns out, that was the key."
A smile crept across her face and she pounced on him, knocking him flat. They kissed for several minutes.
Another extremely short chapter, but I felt as if it should be left right there.
So anyway, the mental slap joke was this:
Me and my other BFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF Lily were in class, doing really annoying mathematical crap, when she got something so easy so wrong, and we laughed. Then I said, "Those times when you mentally slap yourself because you got something so stupidly wrong." We laughed some more and then she picked her Maths Mentals Textbook and she said, "Ok, I'll mentally slap myself," and hit herself in the face with it. It was absolutely hilarious. Except all you people with 'superior' brains won't get it xD!
