I got this done, so you all get another update before classes start! Officially, from here on out updates will probably be between five days and a full week in between. Sorry, but my writing time is about to go to the dogs.

Review responses!

SleepingWithTrolls: I obviously cannot say yay or nay to your prediction, but thanks for reviewing!

Raggedyman01: Hell yeah! Another review! Thanks!

Guest 1: Thank you for your words! I hope you continue to enjoy the chapters even though they don't come as fast!

Leelan: I drive a minivan :P When it comes to their relationship, both want in. That's for sure. Anna and Elsa are meant for each other, insane dads or not.

Guest 2: I will certainly take it under consideration. Quite possible to do that for a date or something similar xD

Right, reviews responded to, and now onto the chapter! Not much here in terms of events, but an important segway chapter. Sorry.

"So, there is nothing we have to worry about? Like, your pop isn't going to come to my high school and break my knee caps or anything, right?" Josh had a smile on his face, which led Elsa to believe that he was joking about the whole situation. Seems both he an Anna tended to use humor as a coping mechanism. Elsa shook her head from where she sat between Anna's legs. The red head was sitting on the couch while the mentor was seated between her legs on the floor.

"No. That would be far too drastic. Father is greedy, but he is the type of greedy where he wants to enjoy the money once he gets it. He won't do anything illegal, and hurting either of you would be exactly the opposite of what he wants." She explained. Olaf, who sat stood with his arms crossed in front of the TV, facing them, took over from there.

"When he took Elsa to court and lost, Duke guaranteed that he would get his money one way or the other. He wishes to start his own company, but he lacks the capital to do it. This was such a high profile court case that it would be nearly impossible for him to suddenly come into a huge financial boost and not have anyone notice." He said, pacing before them. Elsa watched her brother, wishing that he would not talk like that and freak out Anna and Josh even more. Olaf might be alright with that, and she herself by extension, but Anna and her brother weren't exposed to this type of thing very often. "He would have to prove to a judge where he got the money, as stated in the final decision of his loss to Pabbie and Elsa."

"You know, Elsa…" Anna began, leaning forward to press a kiss to the mentor's hair. "How did he even get in? Where's Marcus?" Elsa shook her head silently, knowing that this was not the large security guards fault. He had told her, weeks ago, that he was going to see family for Halloween, which was this Friday. He left yesterday.

"Gone for vacation. Father must have been here for longer than we think, because he chose just the right time to do this. I don't know how he got into the house though…" She trailed off as she shuddered at the thought. The very implications of him getting in without any sort of forced entry were frightening, and it left her wondering just what little hole he had managed to crawl through to get in here.

"His replacement should have been aware that unwelcome entry was made into your house. Who was it? I'm sure you were told." Olaf stopped his irritating pacing and stared down at her, making Elsa feel like the little girl under her older brother's gaze once more.

Their relationship was a strange, rocky one, from the very start. Seeing as her father hated her so much from the very moment she was born, he was able to mold Olaf to hate her as well. Back then, father and son spent nearly all their time together, and as such, Duke taught the boy that his sister was the product of a mistake, and he should ignore her. For several years, that is exactly what he did. Eventually, he became curious of his younger sister and came to meet her.

They got along some times and didn't other times, but it all came to a head when mother died. Father blamed Elsa, and Olaf saw that such a thing was ridiculous. It was then that he started to doubt his esteemed sire, and years went by as Elsa and Olaf got closer and closer. Then grandmother died, the fortune was left to Elsa, and father took her to court for it. When he did that, Olaf saw his father's true colors, and immediately sided with Elsa against him.

"A man named Alexander…I have no idea where he is. I was supposed to meet him yesterday, but he never came." Elsa closed her eyes, clasping her hands over her eyes as the sheer amount of things that were going wrong began to build. Admittedly, she should have been more proactive in making sure she was covered once Marcus left for his vacation, but she could never have known that father would come here today,

"Long story short, there is nothing to worry about in regards to Duke going after you two," Olaf flicked his eyes between Anna and Josh. He took his cell phone from his pocket, holding it in his hand loosely. "Regardless, I want you to give me your cell phone numbers. If you even see him, I want you to call me." Elsa breathed a sigh of relief at her brother's words. At least if Anna or her brother come into contact with him, they have someone to turn to.

One of the perks of her money was that Elsa could afford to run a personal team of detectives, and that personal team was run almost exclusively by Olaf. This team's sole goal was to keep an eye on Duke to make sure that he doesn't do anything crazy, and clearly, something had happened there as well. There had to have been some sort of lapse in coverage if Olaf had been so late in getting here. They should have her father under constant surveillance.

Anna and Josh gave him their numbers, and Olaf took off, mentioning to Elsa that he would call her later and they would discuss what to do now that he had made contact with her again. It was definitely not a conversation that Elsa was looking forward to. The last time he had come to find her, they had chosen to move her across the country. With Anna here…she was not going to do that. Not a chance would she be leaving.

"So…after all the uh…family reunions going on here," Josh tried to keep the smile out of his voice, not doing very well. "Can we get some grub? I'm really hungry. That type of hunger that only being held at gunpoint brings out." Elsa flinched at his words, still feeling the succinct horror that flowed through her earlier when he said that her father had surprised him with the gun and held him hostage with it.

"Josh, shut up about that…" Anna grumbled, tightening her arms around Elsa's neck comfortingly. Elsa patted her soft skin reassuringly.

"It's alright, Anna. What would you like, Josh?" She was reasonably sure that he was just playing with her, as he had been nearly the whole time they had been here. It would appear that Josh, actually more than Anna, used humor to diffuse tension. It was really quite nice.

"You don't have to cook me anything!" The boy threw his hands out in worry. "I didn't mean it like that! It's not like I think it's just a common thing for your insane dad to come here and threaten us and you enjoy those meetings and so you should be perfectly fine with getting up and cooking me something because that is totally not what I meant I just thought we could order pizza or something and why are you staring at me?" He heaved in a huge breath of air as he finished his rant, seeing how Elsa was staring up at him, an amused eyebrow cocked.

"You tend to ramble, a lot like Anna in fact," She giggled, and Josh's mouth fell open in mock hurt. Elsa ignored the gasp of indignation behind her and stood up. "Do you like burgers?" She asked, already knowing the answer but floating the offer anyway. Josh was a football player; he probably lived on protein shakes and burgers. Elsa set to cooking food while Anna and her brother sat on counters around the kitchen, talking amiably while the mentor prepared their meals.

"Anna didn't lie, Elsa," Josh sighed, rubbing his belly. "You do cook like a beast." They had just finished lunch, or dinner, or whatever a post hostage situation meal could be called. To say that Elsa was unused to feeding a football player would be an understatement. Josh himself ate three of her massive beef patties, while she and Anna shared a single one and barely finished it all. She was halfway tempted to offer the boy one of her more specialty meats, but in the end decided against it.

Why she wasn't sure. She had grown up eating exotic meat and other rare foods, and had developed a taste for it. Now that the knowledge of her fortune was out, she wasn't sure why she was hesitant to haul that food out. Anna knew that she was dating a millionaire now. Well past a millionaire actually, so it should come as no surprise that Elsa would have exotic tastes.

If only Anna knew that the most exotic thing Elsa had ever had was in fact her. Her mind flicked back to her conversation with her father, and her declaration of love for Anna. In a way, she imagined that she might have simply said it in the heat of the moment, in the rush of emotions that was going on. On retrospect, she had decided that she didn't. She really did love this redheaded soccer player, despite that she has a penchant for nicknames and swearing.

It felt like they had only started dating yesterday, and Elsa knew that if she told someone that she truly loved Anna, completely and entirely, they would probably tell her that it was far too soon in the relationship to claim that you love someone. Was it too soon? If she hauled out that information, how would Anna react to it? At this point, with her knowing about Duke, as well as the inheritance, she might be scared away because of it. Of course, she hadn't run yet, so who knows. Maybe…maybe things would be alright.

Elsa sat in the stands of the soccer field, Josh sitting next to her, as they watched the AU Icewoman play against some division two school. How a division one school the caliber of AU always had a game with a small division two school was beyond her, because the match-up was nearly unfair. There was such a clear distinction between the two teams as to the skill of players that it was like watching a practice, except in uniforms. The stands were sparsely filled, seeing as most of the student population had gone either home, or elsewhere for Fall Break.

Since Wednesday and the appearance of her father, Elsa had been very carefully keeping an eye out for him. Olaf had been in constant contact with her, as well as Marcus. He was mortified to hear what had happened, at least in part. They only told him that someone had broken into Elsa's home, but not who and for what reason. He called the man who was to be the temporary guard for the cell that Elsa's house was in…and found that he had suddenly, and very quickly, quit his job that morning.

The office had said that they were in the middle of assigning a new guard to the cell when Duke broke into the house. Still, neither Elsa nor Olaf had any clue how her father had managed to get into the house. It was frightening, but the mentor decided that it would do her no good to dwell on it for right now. Anna and Josh had spent nearly all their time with her, apart from small pieces of time when they spent time with Idun. As Anna had claimed it to be, they had to diffuse suspicion.

Elsa and Josh had bonded quickly and were quite close now for only knowing each other for a few days. It was now the Sunday before school was scheduled to begin again, and Josh would be leaving this evening to go back to Charlotte.

"Did you enjoy your time here, Josh?" She asked, watching gleefully as Anna easily threaded through the defense. She took some selfish pride in knowing that her girlfriend was such a force to be reckoned with on the field.

"Yeah. It was nice seeing sis again. We're pretty close as a family, so it's hard having her so far away, you know?" The large boy had shown, time and again, that he broke the mold that football players were normally seen in. He was not a jock, protein filled machine only capable of talking about the next play. He was nice, calm, intelligent, and the most important thing, sensitive about his sister. Elsa had no idea if something happened in the past to cause such fierce protectiveness over Anna, but it was serious enough that the younger sibling had taken on a role like that of a guardian.

"I understand. She speaks about missing you and your father a lot. However…Anna doesn't really speak about her moth-" She stopped immediately, seeing how the boy's face twisted painfully, then swam with a concealed anger. "Josh, I'm sorry if…"

He waved a hand, shaking his head. "Nah, it's cool. Mom is just a sore subject with our family. Have you asked Anna about her?" Elsa nodded quietly, not wanting to say anything. She had asked once about it, and surprisingly Anna had asked that they drop it. The tables had been turned that night.

"I'm going to guess that she didn't say anything about it?" The mentor nodded, and he parroted the motion. "Yeah, I figured. It's not really a private thing, but Anna hates to talk about it is all. I'll start this off by saying that mom was crazy religious. Like, Mother Theresa could take a lesson." Elsa swallowed hard, knowing already the tone of this conversation. With her and Anna's sexual choices religion, and those who preached it, was always a bad sign.

"I was in fourth grade when sis told mom about having a girlfriend and all jazz. Mom freaked out and shit, and I spent like three days hiding in Anna's room with her, bringing her food and stuff so she wouldn't have to go out and run into mom. When dad got home from business, he told sis that he accepted her and loved her and all, and he and mom started fighting."

Parent's fighting over a child. It was always a bad sign, and a sign that things were going sour. It hurt Elsa even more to think that the cause of this was something that should never be the cause of such displeasure and hatred within a home. Elsa was tolerant, and she didn't dispense hatred on people who chose religion and claimed that her affinity for other women, rather than men, was sinful. She accepted their beliefs, but inside, she truly did hate them. A pang of sympathy ran through her as her eyes followed the beautiful junior as she sped around the field.

"For a few months, shit was bad. Dad and mom screamed at each other all the time, and mom ignored Anna as best she could. With me, mom tried extra hard to make sure that I knew that my sister was a bad person for her choices. I was a kid, but I didn't think Anna was a bad person at all. She was still my sister, and I loved her. Then that summer came, and mom tried to have Anna sent to a convent." Elsa's mouth fell open in amazement. How could a woman be that cruel to her daughter?! Her young daughter no less?

"That's…terrible!" She exclaimed before clamping her mouth closed. She doubted that there was anyone here in the stands who would know that Josh was Anna's brother, and even fewer who would realize that Elsa and Anna were a thing just by their conversation, but still. Never hurt to be cautious.

"Tell me about it. Long story short, dad and mom got divorced and mom didn't want anything to do with us. Fast forward to now, and you have it all. Mom hated Anna for being a lesbian; that's why sis never talks about her." Elsa pursed her lips in thought, feeling both sadness for Anna and hatred at the woman who had brought her into this world. You would think that a woman who carried a child in her own body for nine months would be incapable of such cruelty, but that wasn't the case here.

"That's…just…awful…"

"Yeah, it sucked but it's alright now. Dad is much more accepting. Shit, he was chasing girlfriends for Anna more than she was for a while during high school." Josh laughed, and Elsa allowed the humor to brighten her spirits, if even only by a little bit. She hated how terrible Anna's childhood had been, and in another way…it made sense to her.

She and Anna were almost one and the same in terms of their upbringing. Sure, Anna grew up with a normal, middle class family while Elsa grew up never having to worry about something like money. Elsa lived in a mansion and had butlers and chauffeur's while Anna probably had to mow the lawn herself. When it came to their families though…they were nearly identical, except opposite.

Elsa's mother had been wonderful and caring, the only woman who truly loved the young blonde for who she was, as the daughter of the Weselton family while her father hated her very existence for something trivial. Her brother Olaf had been taught to dislike her, and for many years he did, until his father's true colors showed and he sided with Elsa.

Anna's father had been the wonderful and caring one, not judging and hating Anna for who she was. Her mother had been spiteful and terrible, seeking to change who Anna was simply for the sake of some religious faith that was misguided when it came to the concept of love. Anna's brother Josh had sided with her when their mother showed her true colors. In the concept of family, they were the same and yet opposite, but both had a single good parent while the other had treated them like less than the women they were.

"Josh…" Elsa started, trying to get her mind off of thoughts about terrible childhoods. "Does…does your father know about me?" It had been itching at her mind recently about how exactly the nature of their relationship would be accepted by him. From the stories she had heard from both Josh and Anna, their father was an impulsive, eccentric, fun loving man who adored his children above all else. If he decided to be the one appearing out of the blue, she didn't want it to be a surprise.

"He knows that Anna is dating someone named Elsa, but he doesn't know that you're her mentor at the Freeze. I doubt he'll care that much. I can stir the pot for you if you'd like, see how he feels about stuff like that." Josh said absently as he watched Anna streak down the center of the field, the ball at her feet. She easily dribbled through two defenders and fired, sinking the ball into the top corner of the net. Elsa and Josh clapped along with everyone else, and the mentor smiled as Anna shot a glance up at them.

"That would be wonderful, Josh. I don't know if it's too soon to be saying this, but I plan to be with Anna for a long, long time. That will mean meeting your father, and I'd like to know if he approves or not." She said, turning back to him

He nodded with a grin. "Oh, I don't think there will be a problem with that, but still. I'll talk to him and figure out what he thinks. When it comes down to telling him though, I'll leave that to you and sis." Elsa smiled warmly at him as he finished.

"Thank you, Josh."

So, I hoped you all enjoyed it and I will see you again as soon as I can!