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Chapter 10 Lifting the Veil
Third Person
"Elsa?" Anna called, walking to the stairs of the ice palace. "It's me, Anna." She slipped and almost fell.
"Anna," Elsa breathed.
Anna snapped her head up and her eyes widened with amusement. Elsa was wearing an ice-blue long-sleeved dress with a long train spilling from her shoulders. With a loose French braid slung over her shoulder, and a bright smile on her face, she looked happier than she had in a long time.
"Woah, Elsa," Anna murmured. "You look different. It's a good different! And this place, it's amazing!"
"Thank you," Elsa replied. "I never knew what I was capable of."
"I'm so sorry about what happened." Anna stepped toward one of the staircases of Elsa's grand staircase. "If I had known –"
"No, it's okay," Elsa interjected. "You don't have to apologize. But you should probably go, please."
"But I just got here," Anna protested.
"You belong down in Arendelle," Elsa persisted.
"So do you."
"No, Anna, I belong here, alone. Where I can be who I am, without hurting anybody."
"Actually, about that –" Anna started to say.
"Sixty!" called a voice.
"Wait, what is that?" Elsa asked.
"Hi! I'm Olaf and I like warm hugs!" a snowman-like creature cried as he practically bounced across the foyer.
"Olaf?" Elsa questioned as she looked closely at the little snowman.
"You built me," Olaf replied. "Remember that?"
"And you're alive?"
"Um, I think so," Olaf responded as he looked himself over.
"He's just like the one we built as kids," Anna remarked.
"Yeah," Elsa agreed.
"Elsa, we were so close. We could be like that again," Anna invited.
Elsa wanted that more than anything, but she remembered the time she had frozen her sister's head. She didn't want that to happen again.
"No, we can't," she turned away. "Goodbye, Anna."
"Elsa, wait!"
"No, I'm just trying to protect you!" Elsa started walking up the stairs to the second floor.
"You don't have to protect me – I'm not afraid!" Anna cried. "Please don't shut me out again!
Please don't slam the door
You don't have to keep your distance anymore
'Cause for the first time in forever
I finally understand
For the first time in forever
We can fix this hand in hand
We can fix this hand in hand
We can head down this mountain together!
You don't have to live in fear…
'Cause for the first time in forever
I will be right here."
"Anna
Please go back home
Your life awaits
Go enjoy the sun –
And open up the gates."
"Yeah, but –"
"I know
You mean well
But leave me be
Yes, I'm alone but I'm alone and free!
Just stay away and you'll be safe from me."
"Actually, we're not."
"What do you mean you're not?"
"I get the feeling you don't know."
"What do I not know?"
"Arendelle's in deep, deep, deep, deep… Snow."
"What?" Elsa questioned.
"You kind of set off an eternal winter… Everywhere," Anna explained.
"Everywhere?" Elsa echoed.
"It's okay, you can just unfreeze it!"
"No, I can't! I, I don't know how!" Elsa confessed.
"Sure you can!" Anna returned. "I know you can!
'Cause for the first time in forever…"
"Ohh
I'm such a fool!
I can't be free!"
"You don't have to be afraid…"
"I can't control the curse!"
"We'll reverse the storm you've made."
"Anna please, you'll only make it worse!"
"Don't panic!"
"There's so much fear!"
"We'll make the sun shine bright!"
"You're not safe here!"
"We can face this thing together!"
"No!"
"We can change this winter weather!"
"Ahhhhh…"
"And everything will be alright!"
"I can't!"
At the last word, Elsa straightened up and magic flew everywhere, hitting the castle walls, and Anna.
The memory changed and now Elsa was running through a snowstorm.
"Elsa! You can't run from this!" She turned to see Prince Hans, Anna's fiancé.
"Just-just take care of my sister!" Elsa called.
"Your sister?" Hans repeated. "She returned from the mountain, weak and cold. She said that you froze her heart!"
"No!" Elsa murmured.
"I tried to save her but it was too late. Her skin was ice, her hair turned white. Your sister is dead, because of you."
Elsa stumbled as she tried to step back. She turned and almost fell to her knees. "No!" she exclaimed.
Hans drew his sword, but before he could kill Elsa, Anna leaped in front of her.
"No!" she cried.
Ice suddenly crawled over her with a cracking sound and when it was finished, there stood Anna, who was now an ice statue. Hans' sword reached Anna's frozen hand and shattered, the force throwing him back. Elsa looked over her shoulder to see an icy hand. She immediately scrambled to her feet and held Anna in her arms, sobbing. Elsa didn't even feel the warmth spreading through Anna until she sighed and stood up straight.
"Anna?" Elsa asked. She embraced her sister for the first time in years.
"Oh, Elsa," Anna murmured.
Elsa pulled away first. "You sacrificed yourself for me?"
"I love you," her sister replied.
Olaf gasped. "An act of true love will thaw a frozen heart!"
"Love will thaw," Elsa repeated. "Love! Of course!"
"Elsa?" Anna inquired.
"Love!" Elsa replied, and quickly thawed everything to a bright summer afternoon.
Anna put her hand on Elsa shoulder and smiled. "I knew you could do it."
Elsa smiled back.
Jack's POV
I blinked as the memory faded, and Elsa and I found ourselves back in Elsa's room.
I smiled at Elsa. "I told you that you could control your powers."
Elsa smiled back, but her smile was interrupted by a yawn.
"I'll let you get to bed," I said.
Elsa nodded. "Good night, Jack."
I padded out of Elsa's room and softly closed the door. I walked down the hall to the main room. I had a birthday present for Elsa I needed to get ready.