Disclaimer: I do not own ROTG or Frozen.
Thank you to Leon18 and gwencarson126 for following/favoriting this story! I keep getting errors now when I try to look at the traffic stats for my stories, so I don't have a lot of feedback on how popular this is anymore. Reviews/follows/favorites will really help keep me inspired to keep writing, especially if it doesn't get fixed soon.
Anna was lost, unaware of the world around her. This dream was so real, she could hardly even remember that she was asleep in the real world, that none of this was happening. She also never imagined how much this would hurt, it hurt more than being torn away from her home and her parents. The dream had started out okay, it had been Anna standing in front of Elsa, with Jack hovering in the background.
Anna was pleading with her sister, trying to get her back to her old self. Every time Anna opened her mouth, it felt like she was choking. She could't say anything, only cough on her own words. "You really don't care, do you Anna? I came all this way, to hear what you had to say, and you are just going to stand there and stare at me? I am not going to live with this, not anymore! We are not sisters, Anna, you are nothing to me!" Elsa yelled, glaring at Anna who held her hands out to try and stop Elsa.
She learned that she could scream in her dream, she learned that as she dodged an attack from her sister. Elsa was trying to hurt her, something Anna could hardly imagine. Suddenly, Anna felt a sharp pain in her head followed by a sense of deja vu. Maybe she had been hurt before by this magic, it felt like it. She could almost remember the sensation of laughing, followed by fear as she fell then cold as something sharp hit her head. Shaking her head, Anna began to focus in front of her on the problem emerging.
"Die, Anna, die for everything you did to me!" Elsa yelled and Anna turned towards Jack, hoping he would do something to protect her. She watched him grin, but it wasn't the normal grin she was used to from Jack Frost. This one seemed to be darker, the smile of someone who enjoyed watching the pain of others. "Want some help, Elsa? After all, she abandoned me as well. My first believer, now not even registering a word I say. I'm going to show her what happens to people who refuse to see me." he said, glancing over at Elsa.
They both grinned at each other and she felt a sharp pain stab through her chest, sharper than she had expected. Something about losing Jack was too much and it hurt, even more than hearing Elsa's words. Jack had always helped her, always tried to make her smile and enjoy life. This was not supposed to happen. At least Elsa's attitude made sense, she had already been acting strange. Jack's change was sudden, as if he had just decided to move on and live a completely different life.
"Look, she can't even fight back. She's just sitting on the floor, crying like a baby." Elsa commented, stepping forward and shaking her head at Anna. Anna glanced up, watching Jack through her tears. Now, she understood why it hurt so much, but it was too late. She hadn't realized what she felt for him, that she had actually started to love Jack Frost. She didn't want to die, not like this, not being killed by the two people she loved.
Suddenly, something else changed in the dream. Jack had gotten closer to her, his face right next to hers. Anna felt her pulse quicken and she wondered what was happening. Maybe it wouldn't be quite so bad, she thought. As if moving on her own, her hands moved around him, but she did not notice something in her hand. She felt something wet spill across her stomach and she glanced down, trying to figure out what it was. "Oops, my mistake. Sorry, Jack, looks like this princess still had some fight left in her after all." Elsa commented, making Anna realize she had a knife in her hand, one that she had just plunged into Jack's back.
Anna screamed again, shoving Jack off of her and gasping as she realized what she had done. She had killed him, stabbed him in the back. "No, no no." she cried, suddenly able to speak that one word. She knelt down, cradling his head in her lap. "She never believed…she just wanted…my death. I should have…stayed invisible…would have been better…" he was mumbling, each word sending a stab of pain through her. She was lost, lost in a sea of fear and pain. Elsa was going to kill her now, but she didn't care anymore. Jack was gone and so was her heart and her desire to live.
Just as Elsa was about to deliver the finishing blow, everything seemed to vanish and she found herself sitting on the ground, her head resting next to someone's leg. Anna gasped, holding her chest and immediately curling over as she began to sob. She felt a hand touch her shoulder, but she ignored it, wanting to be alone in her grief. She had killed Jack, the innocent playful boy that had done nothing but try and make her smile. She was a horrible person and she deserved to die, but Elsa was refusing to finish the job.
"Just what did that sand do to her anyway?" Jack asked, making Anna freeze. That voice, she knew it was his but it wasn't possible. She had stabbed him, then watched him die in front of her while he wished that Anna had never believed. She was afraid to glance up and see that it wasn't real, that it was fake. "It put her in a nightmare world, a place where she got to live through all of her greatest fears." Anna heard, a response from Elsa. This voice was closer, probably the person rubbing her back.
"Hey, where's that smile? I know it is in there, Anna, don't just sit there and ignore me." Jack commented, making Anna burry her head deeper in her legs. She could hear his voice even closer now, telling her that he had moved closer if he really was here. It was all in her head, she knew it was. This was the dream, the place where she got to see her hopes become reality when the truth was he was dead. She felt another hand touch her, this one resting on the back of her head. "Please, Anna, at least look at us." Jack pleaded, but Anna wouldn't.
"No! I'm not going to! This isn't real, it's just a dream…just a dream…" she mumbled, talking into her legs. "Anna, this is real, that whole experience was just a dream. Nothing you saw was real." Elsa said, her voice sounding concerned. Anna hesitated, wanting to believe Elsa so badly. "Jack's really here?" she asked carefully, not looking up quite yet. "Of course he is, right next to you and just as worried as I am." Elsa promised, but there was one more thing she had to check. "You aren't going to kill me?" she asked, remembering the other part of her nightmare.
This time there was a pause, but the answer still came. "Of course not, Anna. You're my sister and I love you." Elsa told her. Anna had heard enough this time, enough to at least peak at where she was. She lifted her head, still resting her chin on her knees as she searched for Jack nearby. As she turned her head to the side, she sucked in a breath as she saw him, alive and well with no signs of injury. He really was okay, Elsa was right. Feeling a smile spread across her face, Anna threw herself at Jack and wrapped her arms around his waist.
Jack stumbled back a bit, not expecting this reaction from her. He wanted to know what she had seen, what made her so upset like this, but he didn't want to upset her again by asking about it. Instead, he decided to comfort her however he could, so he wrapped an arm around her and gently rubbed her back like Elsa had been doing. Elsa looked concerned, more thoughtful about herself than anything else. She had heard what Anna had been worried about, that Elsa might have been trying to kill her. Elsa had frightened Anna that much that death by Elsa's hands had become one of her greatest fears.
Watching the way Anna threw herself at Jack, Elsa began to suspect her second fear that she had mentioned. The way she clung to him, it was obvious that she cared for him more than Elsa had originally thought. Maybe Anna had been afraid of seeing Jack die. That was why she didn't want to open her eyes. Anna didn't want to believe he was gone, she wanted to pretend that he was there. As long as she could hear his voice, it had been real. Now, she had him truly here and Elsa was thinking there was no way he was getting away from her anytime soon. Elsa smiled softly, happy to see that her sister had found someone to love. They did seem happy together, even if Jack didn't realize what was going on.
Please review and tell me what you think!