A/N: Okay so this is based on Mermaid prompts from minnothebunny and xx-insatiable-xx on Tumblr. Descriptions of the mermaids based on art by lissa-42, also on Tumblr. There was also a request of a deaf/hard of hearing story so I am going to be combining the two.

Anna is a common mermaid who longs to know more about the world above her. Every twilight she sits on an outcropping of rocks near the quaint fishing village of Arendelle. Kris, a deaf fisherman has no one left after his elderly parents passed away a year ago. His only companion is his dalmatian Sven. Fate steps in and the pair are entwined.

The Silence of the Storm

Chapter 10: In Pursuit of True Love

"Kris, you have to get away from here," Anna said, getting him closer to the rocks.

"No, I won't leave you," Kris argued. "Where's Sven? He was washed overboard too."

"Look there!" Anna said, pointing towards the shoreline. Sven paddling his heart out to reach the sand. "Good boy, Sven."

Kris held Anna to him, the pain still great but bearable for the moment. Hans rose out of the water, the seas calming. He wore a menacing grin on his face, his sandy red hair, dripping with seawater.

"Come to your senses, sister," Hans demanded. "You belong with your people."

"No," Anna said, clinging to Kris's neck. "I know what you want and I'm not going to let you have it. The magic is mine, it's what has kept me alive here. I may have only been a child but I remember."

"You remember nothing!" Hans spat.

"Father, telling you that if you wanted to be on the council that you would have to do good deeds and good works. Letting your sister vanish into the frozen north, you will never take a seat on the council."

"So be it then," Hans said, rising further out of the water. With a flick of his wrist, he created a whirlpool, sucking Kris down to the seafloor.

"NO! KRIS!" Anna screamed.

"One turn of my hand and I will drop the whirlpool on his and you'll have no chance to save him." Hans chuckled, cruelly. "Come back and take your place in your rightful world and I will spare him. Refuse me again and he will rot in a watery grave."

Anna looked down the whirlpool at Kris. He looked so small and that made her cry. Kris was anything but small. Kris was the best thing to ever happen in her life and she couldn't lose him. She was at an impossible impasse. She could just give her "brother" what he wants and he might just leave and never come back. But she could give him her magic and he could still drown Kris. She couldn't take that chance. She'd rather it be her at the bottom of the whirlpool. A world without Kris would be hell.

"Please," Anna said, finally, staring down at Kris. It would kill them both but it had to be done. She had to save him. "Don't hurt him. I'll go back with you. Let him get back to his boat. Then I will go with you. But you have to ensure his safety."

"I knew you'd see things my way," Hans said, slowing the whirlpool bringing Kris back to the surface. He directed the big man to his dilapidated boat, allowing him to climb on board. Anna couldn't bear to look back at Kris as she swam towards Hans.

"Let me say goodbye?" Anna asked. "I'm never going to see him again. You have to let me say goodbye."

"You have a lot of demands. But fine. You have five minutes." The waters calmed and Anna swam to the Folly and climbed up the platform. Tears were streaming down her face.

"Anna? Anna, what's wrong?" Kris asked, rushing over to her. "Anna?"

"I have to leave with him," Anna said. "I can't stay. If I stay he'll kill you and I can't let that happen."

"I'll come with you," Kris said, his hands shaking. "Please don't leave me."

"Kris, he's going to kill you to get his way. I don't have a choice. Please understand. I'm doing this for you. I can't let him hurt you."

"There has to be another way," Kris argued. "Anna please, I can't lose you too."

"I'll always be right here," Anna said, placing her hand on his heart. "You have given me more in two months than anyone else. I will always think back on our time together with great fondness. I love you. Always."

She wrapped her arms around him, hugging him tightly. She kissed his cheek and he caught her chin in his hands. Taking her face in his big hands, Kris kissed her, pain and desperation filling them both.

"Time's up little sister," Hans shouted. "I will not hesitate."

"Find me!" Anna signs furiously. "No matter how long it takes. Find me."

"I will Anna. I love you."

"And I you," Anna said. One last deep kiss and Anna sinks into the sea. "Find me."

The winter was long and cold. The cove filled with ice, making it impossible to get out. Kris was miserable. It had been a month since Anna was taken from him and he was no closer to being able to search for her then the day she was taken. That's how Kris saw it. Anna didn't leave, she was taken. And he was going to find her, even if it took the rest of his life.

"I have to find her," Kris said, staring out at the horizon. "Sven, she has to be out there somewhere."

The dalmatian whined and laid his head on his master's knee. Marie's truck was pulling up to the house. She was worried about him. Ever since that strange storm they had a month ago and sudden vanishment of Anna, Kris had been moody and was slowly burning up, the slightest change could cause him to blow. She and Jack tried to talk to him but all he would answer with was "I have to find her."

"Kris, honey?" Marie called, entering the house flipping the lights. "Kristoff?"

Out on the back deck, staring out over the water sat Kris, where he'd been since Anna left. Marie opened the door and joined him on the bench. "Talk to me Bulda's Boy," Marie said, looking right at him. "What happened to Anna?"

"She was taken from me," Kris said, still staring out the water.

"You mean she had to go back home and haven't been able to get back here?" Marie questioned.

"No. She was taken from me."

"I don't understand, Kris. Where's Anna?"

"Out there somewhere," Kris answered.

"Kris, enough. What's going on around here? Who is Anna, really?"

"A mermaid."

Kristoff had told some wild tales before, thanks in part to Captain's own tales but this one took the cake. "There's no such thing as mermaids."

"Marie, think about it. Anna just appeared. We made up a bullshit story about meeting on the beach. But really, I met her out there, at the mouth of the cove. She had been living in a cavern just below the surface since she was a child. I taught her to sign, giving her Mom's old sign language books. And she took me out to swim with humpbacks."

Marie sat quietly, staring out at the sea. More and more details about Anna and her relationship with Kris started to make sense. "Where did she go?"

"She was taken, by her brother. He had to have the family line intact in order to take his place with the nobles or something."

"And once he does that is she going to come back?"

"I don't think he'll let her. He has a vendetta against humans. He tried to kill me because I was with her."

"WHAT?!"

"Anna left to save my life. But I'm going to find her and free her from him. Then we're going to find a way to be together."