*hands you with another chapter*

Emma

Hanss immediately tensed up, trying to push towards me before being pushed back violently. Albert tutted disapprovingly. "Oh, Hans," he purred, his voice leaking with fake sympathy. "I thought you knew better than to push your way to someone's rescue."

"Don't you know me? I never learn," Hans said, trying to hide his panic with a small grin. It seemed he had already recovered from his injuries, but I knew that was impossible.

"Hans?" I asked softly. I felt like a little girl desperately trying to call out to her father when the "monsters" came out of the closet.

The defiance softened as he looked back at me, slowly replaced by sadness and a reluctant defeat. "Please," he said softly, a plea to escape some horrible reality. "Don't hurt her.

"Hmm," Albert said, as if pretending to think about it. My heart of immediately plummeted, a natural instinct to fear the unknown. I didn't want to die. I didn't want Hans to die, a pain I already went through.

Hands shaking slightly, I waited, every second stretching out to a year.

"See, brother dear, as much as I would love to help you, I wouldn't get anything in return," Albert leered. "You would be free to find your happy ending, and I will have to suffer, knowing that I let you run away with the power to destroy everything."

"What?" I asked, slightly confused. "You're crazy. You took that power, it's gone. How could we destroy everything?"

Albert glanced at Hans, who looked down, before back at me. "Oh," he mused, a small grin lighting up his face. "You two just love keeping each other in the dark. Trying to hold on, never abandoning your love, yet never truly accepting it. Oh, this is precious…"

"I don't understand," I muttered softly, voice coming out more as a squeak.

"Oh, go on. Tell her!" Albert grinned maliciously at Hans, who closed his eyes.

"They… they gave me your powers. That's how I'm alive."

Relief. I was truly relieved, despite a nagging sense of hurt. I expected something much worse, something that I wouldn't be able to forgive. But this was manageable, far more so than I expected.

"Hans, I-"

I froze, face twisting into a shocked expression.

Hans lunged towards me, as if in slow motion, a desperate "No!" tearing from his lips.

Albert smiled, pulling the now empty syringe from the side of my neck.

…

Pain. Something I had experienced a lot in my life. Scraping my knee when I fell off my bike. The heartache when my dad disappeared when I was six. When Elsa's magic pierced my heart.

Yes, I was no stranger to pain. But this was different. It didn't necessarily hurt me physically, other than the headache that immediately erupted. It wasn't the same pain as when I lost people who were close to me. It was that feeling when you are scared or embarrassed and you push that memory in the back of your mind. Only, rather than a memory, it was as if my own soul was being forced into a cage.

I could still see, still hear, still feel. Yes, I definitely felt a soothing hand stroke my hair. Everything seemed normal, only I wasn't in control. I heard my own thoughts, though they weren't mine.

This is all Hans' fault.

I tried to reason. No, it's not. It's Albert's.

He lied to me- to us.

He didn't have a choice.

He could have saved us. He could have stopped Albert.

These thoughts swirled around my head: he lied to us, he could have saved us. He lied to us, he could have saved is.

He lied to me. He could have saved me.

I was no longer in control. I couldn't think, I couldn't do anything but watch helplessly as I turned against myself, against Hans.

And that was an entirely different kind of pain.

…

Hans

"E-emma?" I muttered, worryingly cradling her head and brushing her hair out of her pale face. "Come on, wake up…"

"She won't wake," Albert smirked. "Well, at least not for a while. Now you have two options: let us take her or stay with her and risk her waking up as an entirely new person."

"Is that even a question?" I snarled, glaring at my older brother. "Get out."

He smirked once again, gestured to his thugs, and left without another word.

…

"Emma!"

I jumped, nearly forgetting about the other people in the room. Emma's sister's immediately ran to her, shaking her shoulder and crying.

"I'll take care of this," Elsa said, her face paler than usual. She touched my shoulder gently. "It's good to see you." I nodded. She led Amanda and Ashley to another room, quietly talking to them.

Anna came up next, staring at Emma before sinking to her knees and immediately burying her face in my shoulder, squeezing me into a tight hug. "Hi," she said, her voice choked up.

I closed my eyes. "Hey," I smiled. "How have you been?"

"Fine. Well, great actually. Kristoff and I are engaged!" Anna changed the subject.

Kristoff and I carried Emma to her bed (which was pretty difficult due to the staircase) before going back downstairs. We chatted about their wedding, about what happened to me, about how weird this world was.

"There was some weird carriage that almost ran me over, but it didn't have any horses! It was incredibly fast too," I commented, remembering the first time I came here.

"Impossible," Kristoff countered, before adding, "Though my definition of impossible has been pretty warped over time."

Anna giggled. "It's really good to see you, Hans. We've missed you a lot."

I gave a fake scoff. "You, missing your sort-of-ex-fiance who tried to kill your sister? Now I've heard it all."

"Alright, not that you," Anna corrected. "The you you. And maybe a little of the old you," she smiled.

"I completely disagree," a voice came from the staircase.

You might be mad at me now. For a different reason than updating late. Oh well, I'm an *sort of* author, and authors are mean.

Soooooo what happened to Emma? What should the team do to maybe help/save her? I'm definitely planning on making this story longer than the other ones, so throw out any ideas you like!

I'm also thinking of rewriting the entire series to make it more in depth with better writing, but I would do that after finishing the series. Maybe I could even make an original story based of my story concept and put it on Wattpad? What do you think I should do?

Thank you all for sticking around, and don't forget to leave a review!

HUGS AND KISSES LAURYN OUT!