Elsa returned to Anna's room in her favorite pajamas, they had cats on them. She smiled when she saw Anna laying on the bed staring up at the ceiling.
"I see them," Anna whispered to herself. "Constellations. These aren't real ones. They're much more beautiful. I think Elsa designed them herself. Rearranged the stars in the sky to tell my favorite story of the ice queen and her fiery sister."
Elsa smiled, she thought about letting Anna know that she was here, but she didn't want to interrupt Anna's admiration of the stars on her ceiling.
"One day," Anna whispered. "Perhaps one day. We will have our own happy ending. We could grow old together, and live in a lovely little house with kids, maybe. Oh I'd love to see the day when we are allowed to adopt kids. I don't know that I want kids right now, and maybe I'll never want kids. But still, knowing that I could adopt a kid that would be a good feeling. But that won't happen any time soon. Hell in most places it's still illegal for me to exist much less adopt a child." Anna sighed. Sometimes she wished she didn't listen quite as much to all the wannabe politicians at school, but she did learn a lot from watching them argue. Learned things like whose voice still cracked when they were passionate about something, when it was wrong to give an opinion instead of a fact, and who the biggest jerks were.
Anna sat up on the bed and smiled at Elsa. "Having fun watching me?" she asked.
"I am," Elsa said smiling back at her. "And listening to you."
"Wait, I was talking?"
"Yes. I heard every word." Elsa grinned and walked over to Anna. She sat down beside her on the green and flowery bedspread and turned her gaze toward the ceiling. "I did design them." She smiled again almost dreamily. "It was a really fun thing to do. The entire time I was designing and painting them I kept thinking to myself 'Anna is going to love this. If for no other reason than she always loves when I paint things for her.'"
Anna smiled and hugged Elsa. "You're the best girlfriend ever," she said quietly.
"I don't think so, I think you are," Elsa said hugging Anna back. "Please don't ask why, I'm too tired to explain it properly right now."
Anna nodded and stood up, looking around the room for her bags. When she couldn't find them she frowned slightly. "What did your mom do with my stuff, I wonder."
"She probably put your clothes in the dresser, and the bags in the closet," Elsa replied getting up and walking over to the dresser to see if she was right. When she opened it, she saw it was empty except for one pair of pajamas. "Well now, this is intriguing. These, are my old pajamas."
"Anna's clothes are being washed," Adrianna said from the door, causing both Elsa and Anna to jump. "Also your dad's downstairs with someone who'd very much like to see you."
"Who is it?" Elsa asked curiously.
"Just go see."
Elsa smiled. "Anna wanna come see who it is?"
Anna nodded and followed Elsa out the door and back down the hallway to the stairs. When they were halfway down the stairs though, Elsa suddenly stopped walking and whispered, "oh my god." Before bounding down the remaining steps two at a time.
"You found Karson!" She ran up to her dad and gave him a really big hug, before turning to the Alaskan Husky sitting next to her dad and giving him a huge hug too. She was nearly crying with joy. Karson had been missing for two months. Karson in return for the hug, licked Elsa's face and wagged his tail happily.
"Karson?" Anna whispered from the bottom of the stairs, not quite able to believe it herself.
Karson perked his ears at hearing Anna's voice. He hadn't been expecting her to be here, but he was glad she was. He stood up, accidentally knocking Elsa over, which he apologized for by licking her face one more time and nuzzling her hair for a second before he made his way over to Anna and sat down in front of her. He tilted his head slightly. Anna smiled and sat down in front of Karson. He smiled a doggy smile at her and put his head on her shoulder, prompting her to hug him so that he knew she was okay. When Anna hugged him though, somehow he knew something wasn't quite right. Just like every time she hugged him. He scooted himself a little closer and put a paw on one of her legs. He whined just a tiny bit and Anna pulled away from her hug.
"What's wrong buddy? Are you worried about me?" she asked quietly.
He whined a little bit more and nuzzled her neck.
"I'll be okay, buddy," she told him. "I promise."
He whined a third time and pulled his head away from her neck. He started sniffing her all over, then when he got to her right side he whined really loudly and gently pressed his nose to her shirt.
"Ow. Karson stop."
He looked up at her with concerned doggy eyes and whined once more, beseeching Elsa and her dad to come over and help his little friend.
"Karson, I'm fine. Stop pressing your nose there that hurts."
Elsa shook her head and walked over to Anna. "Anna, if it hurts you can't be fine."
Karson whined in agreement and put his head on her lap, having accomplished his goal of getting another human to come over and help her.
"I'm fine," Anna said seriously, trying to get Elsa and Karson to let the matter drop.
Karson whimpered and Anna sighed, she really didn't want to make Karson sad, he was too sweet, too adorable to be sad.
"Okay, fine, you win Karson. I'm not fine." She shook her head. "But I will be. It's just a bruise. It will heal."
Karson sat up and licked Anna's cheek gently. He was happy that she finally stopped lying about being hurt, but he wasn't happy that she lied about how much she was hurt. He could smell the blood. It was just too bad that his humans couldn't understand husky. He wanted to tell them. To let them know that Anna was hurt more than she wanted them to know, but they wouldn't be able to understand his words. He nuzzled Anna's hand gently trying to encourage her to tell them the complete truth.
Elsa stared at her dog trying to figure out what was going on in his head, the way his ears were twitching told her there was definitely something wrong. But she had no idea what it might be, unless it had to do with Anna and her bruise. She watched as he nuzzled Anna's hand. It was times like these that Elsa really wished that her dog could speak. Instead she just sighed and sat down beside Anna.
"How long have you had this bruise?" Elsa asked quietly.
"A couple weeks," Anna sighed, "but it's going to get better, I know it will."
"Anna, a bruise that sticks around that long, probably has some tiny cuts in it that need medicine to heal properly. I know you don't want to go to a hospital but please, at least let us take you to my doctor. She's great. I promise you, I'll be there the whole time and nothing bas will happen."
Anna sighed again, she knew Elsa was right. But she really didn't want to see a doctor. "I'll go," she said quietly. "But only because you said please."
Karson licked Anna's hand gently. He was happy that she agreed to get help. He just wanted her to feel better again, was all.
"Can we go to sleep now though?" Anna asked yawning slightly. "Karson wanna sleep on my bed tonight?"
Karson nodded happily and stood up. Elsa helped Anna stand up and they both said goodnight to Elsa's dad who smiled happily and headed to the master bedroom to get himself ready for bed.
Elsa, Anna and Karson made their way upstairs and back to Anna's room. Karson surveyed the room happily while Anna changed into Elsa's old pajamas. When she was dressed Anna went over to the bed and pulled the blanket back. She got under the blanked and smiled, waiting for Elsa to join her. When Elsa joined her, Anna snuggled close and Karson climbed up onto the bed.
"Goodnight, Elsa," Anna said pulling the blanket up over them.
Karson readjusted himself so that the blanket didn't cover his nose.
"Goodnight Anna," Elsa whispered back, holding Anna gently.
"Goodnight Karson," they said together and in response he whined gently and yawned.
