The past couple of days had been busy for the Princess. It had proven more difficult than she expected to keep a secret from her sister, but as far as she knew, she had succeeded. She really hoped she had… no, if Elsa suspected anything, she would've let something slip. Anna would've noticed for sure. There was no way she had the slightest clue she was going to be on the receiving end of a proposal…

...right?

Right! she thought. Why were her hands shaking? She wasn't nervous. That would be silly. She had faced down men twice her size at the battle of Arendelle just last week. Asking the love of her life one simple question should be a breeze. And yet they won't stop shaking… stop it!

Stupid disobedient hands. How dare they? She was a Princess! Weren't Princesses supposed to be obeyed? Now that she thought about it, nobody really did what she told them… not that she ever really gave orders anyway. There was one order she knew would always be obeyed though!

"Elsa?"

"Yes, love?"

"Kiss me!"

Ah yes, orders followed without question. Best part about being a Princess. There was no way she could ever stop loving these kisses so much. How could a person's mouth feel so soft and supple as to make you swoon every single time? It shouldn't be possible… but it was. Freyja's torc, it really was.

"Mmm," she smiled before opening her eyes. "Thank you."

Elsa laughed, "I should be thanking you. There is no way I'm as good at that as you are. I should practice. Come here."

Several minutes and about a dozen practice sessions later, the two girls sat up from the bed to catch their breath. "It's amazing how you can forget to breathe, huh?"

"Yeah, it… just doesn't seem that… important sometimes."

"There are just so many other fun things to do than breathe…"

"Well, I can hardly argue with that."

"You know what else you can't argue with?"

"Um…"

"Me. You're taking me to your Ice Palace today."

Elsa looked surprised. "I am. Wait, I am? But…"

"Yes. No arguing. I've already decided, and as you can see," she set a backpack on the bed, "I'm already packed."

"Well… um… I mean, I guess if you're already packed…"

"No getting out of it, Elsa! We have nothing planned for today, and you promised you'd show me around sometime soon. Well, guess what? Soon is heeeere!" She did as goofy a dance as she could manage in order to illustrate her point.

The blonde smiled, "Of course! You're right. Let me just grab a few things, and we'll go."

Anna skipped over and closed the window. She didn't see Olaf anywhere in the grounds below. All she could do was hope he hadn't gotten distracted. Closing the window was her signal… if he missed it… no, that wouldn't happen. She couldn't afford to be any more nervous. Stupid hands!

She gave her backpack a final check to make sure she hadn't forgotten anything. Naturally, it was still packed and ready like the last five times she had looked. Her hand dipped into her pocket to make sure everything was in order. Chocolate? Check.

Without thinking, she stuffed some of it into her face. She turned to see Elsa smirking at her. "I hope you're planning on sharing."

"W'd 'ou 'ike s'm'?" Anna asked around her mouthful.

Elsa slowly licked some of the chocolate from Anna's lips before she took a Queen-sized bite straight from her hand. "Mmm… delicious."

The Princess was barely able to swallow after that. "Isn't it?"

"Hmm? Oh. Yes, the chocolate was nice too," she winked.

Anna's insides turned all wibbly-wobbly at that. She giggled, "I take it you're ready then?"

"Yeah, I don't need much anyway."

"All right, then! Tally ho!"

"Um… tally ho?"

"Yes, I say tally ho sometimes."

"No… no, I don't think you do…"

"I do now. So get used to it. Let's go. Tally ho. It's all the same, one just sounds more excited than the other. And right now I am nothing if not excited. See? My hands are even shaking because I'm so excited!" Stupid hands!

"Wow! I guess so! We had better get going before you explode then, huh?"

Despite all the excitement, they took their time heading up the mountain. It wasn't as eventful as Anna's first trip up there. No wolves, no explosions, no big summer blowouts. Just an autumn breeze and her sister's company. Everything she needed and then some. It was well into the evening by the time they arrived at the chasm.

"You want to know something fun?"

"Of course!"

"When I first built this place, I ran across this bridge while it was still forming."

"You what?!"

"Yeah! I was so thrilled at not having to hide myself anymore, I… I just didn't even think. It was like I knew what I could do, and I trusted myself. It didn't occur to me until later how scary that should have been."

"Wow, that's… that's awesome, Elsa!"

The blonde practically beamed, "It is?"

"Yeah! I mean… I hate that everything happened the way it did, but… you know. It all worked out, right? And if that's what it took for you to break out of your prison, then I wouldn't change it for the world." She gripped the Queen's hand. "Elsa… will you… run across this bridge with me?"

That beautiful laughter rang across the mountaintop. "Yes. Yes, I most definitely will. We can be one with the wind and sky together."

"Together!"

Elsa winked at her, "Tally ho."

Anna was giggling too hard to respond. They took off running. There was something so thrilling about knowing her sister's magic was the only thing keeping them from plummeting hundreds of feet. Something she had built with magic. Incredible. Little realizations like these were how Anna knew she would never stop falling in love with Elsa.

They reached the door, and the older girl turned to look her straight in the eyes. Anna always found herself entranced by those eyes… they held an inner beauty all their own. "Anna," Elsa took her hand, "You never have to knock again."

The Princess opened her mouth to reply, but nothing came out. Her throat had clenched so tight. She wondered if that had anything to do with why her vision was so blurry. No… the tears were probably to blame for that. "Thank you," she managed to croak. Soft arms encircled her, holding her tight. She sniffled and smiled up at her sister.

"Are you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm just… I… so happy, Els'."

The blonde grinned. "Come on. There's something you need to see before it's too late."

They hurried up the stairs, two at a time, and took the path to the left at the top. "This is the same way we went last time! That's hardly showing me around if I've already seen it, Miss Ice-"

"Oh don't even! You haven't seen it like this."

They reached the top, and boy was she right. The entire room was an intense blend of blue ice and orange sunlight. It would only be a matter of minutes before the sun dipped below the horizon, and its last rays were giving the translucent room a remarkably enchanting quality. Anna stepped over to the balcony's edge.

"Oh, Elsa… it's amazing!" She could see for miles and miles. Arendelle looked so small from so far away. Everything looked small… but even more beautiful than she had ever seen it before.

"I'm so happy you like it. Not that I was worried you wouldn't, but… you know what I mean."

"I sure do. No matter how sure I am that you're going to like things, I always get so nervous before I show them to you. I'm glad it's not just me though." She stuffed her shaking hands into her pockets.

"Look."

She turned just in time to see the sun set. The last little flash of light before it disappeared had always felt to her like it was waving goodbye. Sort of a, "See you tomorrow," from the daytime. Her hand raised without thinking as if to wave back, and in the corner of her eye she saw Elsa doing the same.

"Wait, what?"

Elsa's eyes widened. "No…"

"You too?" they said together.

Their laughter quickly turned into a hug. That hug turned into a kiss. That kiss turned into the royal couple standing on an icy balcony, thousands of feet above their kingdom, the whole world at their fingertips, and not a second to spare for any of it but one another.

"Elsa? Is there really more to this place or were you just messing with me? Because I'm not gonna be surprised if you were just making it all up to kiss me in such a romantic place."

"Oh ha-ha. Come on, sweetie. I will prove it to you. I bet you'll find yourself quite surprised soon enough."

"Mmhmm, sure. I'm comin'."

Down one set of stairs and up the other they went. As they neared the top, Elsa got a confused look on her face. "Something doesn't look right… I wonder if Marshmallow is here. I know he likes to stay here sometimes."

Say something! "It all looks right to me. It's just been a while since you've been here. C'mon, I'll lead ya!"

"Okay… but really, it shouldn't be that," she gasped when they reached the top, "...light."

The room was just as Olaf had described it. It had eight walls and eight chandeliers. Each wall had been given a polished mirror to help add to the light. And after bringing those up, the snowmen had done the rest of their job so well. Little imperfect sections of ice were placed all around the room with candles nearby. The way Ingimarr had carved the ice allowed it to refract the light, and make little flickering rainbows all over the walls. It was truly a sight to behold.

"Did you two do this?" Elsa asked.

It was then that Anna noticed her snowy accomplices hiding in a doorway across the room. She rolled her eyes, hoping fiercely that they wouldn't spoil anything. "We… um…" Olaf began.

"You're so sweet. I don't know how you knew we were even coming up here, but that doesn't matter. This place needed some romantic tones."

Well, that was a lucky break. If only the relief of not being discovered would help her stupid freaking hands! She knew there was only one way to get them to stop… she took a deep breath. Here we go.

"Anna-"

"Elsa-"

Okay, because that didn't make it worse! She laughed and waved a shaky hand.

"You can go first."

"No, it's okay," Elsa smiled.

She should probably be saying something. One of them should. Someone should. If this continued much longer she was going to have to sit down, or Elsa might hear her knees knocking together.

Fine, I'll go, "I-"

"You-"

"Okay, this is ridiculous!" Anna laughed and ran a hand through her hair.

Elsa nodded and bit her lip in that super cute way she did. Oh no, she only does that when she's nervous… she knows! Seeing Olaf must have given it away… no! There was nothing else for it. Time to just do it.

Her hand, finally steady, slipped into her pocket as she dropped to her knee. Wait, what? Why is Elsa on her knee too?

As Elsa knelt down, drawing the little box from her pocket, she still marveled that the snowmen had done all this for them. It was so perfect that they chose the night and room where she was going to… why was Anna kneeling too?

"Um…"

"What uh… what are you doing…?"
"I was going to ask you the same thing… okay I'll just show you." Anna closed those big beautiful eyes of hers and took a deep breath. "Do you recognize my dress?"

"Of course. From my Coronation."

The redhead smiled, "Yes. Well… that morning, I had been thinking about how badly I wanted someone, anyone to notice me. I was desperate enough that I mistook Hans's horse bumping into me as being noticed. It wasn't until I stood next to you at the ceremony though…" she wiped a tear from her cheek, "... that the most unexpected thing happened. You noticed me. To anyone else, it probably just looked like flirting, but to me… Elsa, you noticed me. For the first time in forever, you were talking to me and… and I knew. A part of me knew right then that something was different. That was the first of so many changes in my life. In our lives. You remember when you came home? Like for real came home?" Elsa could only nod. "Well, when you ended the winter, and that big snowflake burst, I found a piece of it. And I uh… I had it made into this."

She held up an icy ring of the purest blue. Perfectly smooth all around but for the top where it was raised to form a white, sparkling snowflake in the shape of a heart. It couldn't have been more perfect if Elsa had made it herself.

"Elsa… will you be a part of all our life's changes? Will you marry me?"

Elsa nodded through a sob of joy and hugged her sister as tightly as she could. As soon as she could speak again, she said, "Yes yes yes, oh my gosh, yes." Anna slid the smooth ring onto her finger. It fit perfectly. "It's… so warm."

"I've wondered about that. It's been warm since I first picked it up. My best guess is that… well… this sounds kinda cocky, but… you did pretty much made it out of your love for me…"

"That… that isn't cocky, sweetheart. That makes perfect sense. Oh my gosh, Anna, I don't… I can't…" More tears streamed down her face. This was not even slightly how this was supposed to go, but she wouldn't change a bit of it for anything. "You… just wow." She cleared her throat. "Um, well. You've certainly surprised me here. In my own Palace," she looked around at the myriad spectrums scattered around the room. "You've outdone me, my love."

"Don't be silly, Els'. I'm just so relieved you said yes."

"Oh, like 'no' was ever a possibility!"

"Well, I know, but you know how it is."

"I do. So… I'm sorry, I don't have a big speech prepared… I just… well… I really hope that this speaks for itself." She held up the box and opened it. Anna's eyes opened wide when she saw what was inside. "The diamond is shaped like a drop of water... because you were the one who taught me how to melt." The redhead choked back tears. Elsa was fighting her own emotions for control of her voice, "And so many years ago, you begged me through a door…" She touched the ring's silver band, "I had my old doorknob melted down. I promise I will always let you in, Anna... Will you marry me?"

She had never seen her sister nod so vigorously in her life. "Mmhmm!" She managed, and threw her arms around the blonde. "Oh, Elsa. You… this… ohmygosh... I love you."

"I love you too... my Anna."

Author's Note: I didn't know that writing a scene like that could make the person writing it nervous... My hands were shaking more than Anna's, and I knew what was going to happen! I really hope you all liked that chapter =) It was a lot of fun to write!