A/N: Thanks to everyone who's followed/favorited and/or is reading but not reviewing!:)
bananas-rule-2015-Elsa's idea is in this chapter (obviously, lolXD).:) Well, I personally don't think Elsa's powers make her heal extra fast (I've seen some stories where Elsa gets hurt somehow and she's completely better by what seems to be two minutes later...:P), so it'd take however long a regular person would take for a broken arm to heal...several weeks, I guess.:P P.S. You know what, I have no idea exactly how many chapters there will be.:/ I just write and divide the chapters as I see fit afterwards.:P (This is why some chapters end up over 5,000 words and others are 1,000...;)) BUT...I know exactly when the story will end-'Day Twenty-One.';) And after that, I'll be doing a sequel story because I already have a whole plot lined up.:)
On to the story!:)
Chapter 27-Day Twelve, Part 3
Fifteen minutes later, the ice-copter was hovering over Cedar Point with three large ice bubbles attached to its underside. Elsa and Anna shared the pilot seat since they were both taking care of the controls, and Lois Lane sat on the passenger side next to them.
"Elsa, if our cargo wasn't so high-risk, I would think this was hilarious," Anna said. "Must be a sight from the ground! Helicopter made of ice, Superman flying right outside it, and three ice bubbles containing those Kryptonians hanging below!" Anna laughed at the thought.
"Anna, please pay attention. We're holding a lot of extra weight on the ice-copter now, so it will be harder to control. And I can't just take over all the controls myself," Elsa said. "Superman, just tell us where to go! We'll follow you!" she shouted out the window.
Superman gave her a nod, and flew off in the direction of the faraway Fortress of Solitude.
A few minutes later, Lois said, "Queen Elsa…I apologize for the jealous thoughts I had about you."
"Just Elsa is fine; we're not in a formal meeting," Elsa replied distractedly, concentrating on her part of steering the ice-copter. "Wait…why would you be jealous of me?"
"I thought you were Superman's girlfriend! I mean, you have superpowers of your own; you're working with him to get rid of those Kryptonians…Then you announced 'I am not Superman's girlfriend. You've got the wrong girl, Zod.'"
Elsa began laughing. "Ms. Lane, I assure you Superman is not my boyfriend in any way, shape, or form. It's a purely 'combine forces for a common goal' relationship…get rid of the threat from the Kryptonian criminals. I don't have any boyfriend, and to be quite honest, I'm not interested in the least, at least not at present." She paused, then added with a knowing look, "I know who IS Superman's girlfriend though."
Lois blushed. How did Elsa know? "Oh…well…" She changed the subject by saying, "How are you feeling?"
"Fine, I guess?" Elsa jerked back to complete attention on steering when Anna abruptly dipped the ice-copter down and started to tip them forward.
"No, no, I meant how is your arm feeling?"
"Well, it doesn't exactly feel good, if that's what you mean. But it's okay. Better than right after it happened," Elsa replied. Then she leaned over to whisper to Lois, "Don't talk about that any more-Anna thinks it's her fault and I don't want to upset her."
"Well, it kind of is! I saw what happened!"
Elsa sent her a look that said Shush up or else, and the conversation ended.
"Hey, Elsa, I think we're there! Look down below!" Anna said a minute later.
A crystalline structure lay below.
Five minutes later, the three ice bubbles sat inside the Fortress of Solitude.
"Elsa, you're going to see a red light over the whole room here, but it won't do anything to you," Superman said. "I'm going into the chamber over here so it won't affect me too. You can let them out in 5…4…3…2…1…Now!"
Elsa dissolved the three bubbles in quick succession, and an odd red light came over the room for a few seconds. Then it disappeared, and Superman easily steered the three now-powerless Kryptonians back outside, where Anna and Lois waited outside the ice-copter.
"Elsa, would you do the honors of remaking those ice bubbles?"
"Certainly."
"I'll turn these three in to the police. You go home and get yourself taken care of now," Superman told Elsa.
"What about Ms. Lane?" Anna asked.
"I'll just fly her home to Metropolis."
"Well, if this is good-bye, I vote for a GROUP HUG!" Anna said happily, pulling Elsa, Superman, and Lois into a hug.
"Um…Princess Anna?" Superman said in surprise.
"You're funny!" Lois said.
"Anna…please let me out," Elsa said. "You're hurting me…"
Anna quickly stopped her group hug. "Sorry, sorry, sorry! Are you ok, Elsa?"
"Yeah, yeah, I'm fine…all right, so I suppose this is goodbye now. Bye, Superman; bye, Ms. Lane. Anna, I'll wait for you in the ice-copter, okay?"
A minute later, Anna joined her. "Elsa, I…I'm sorry…"
Elsa frowned at her. "Anna, I told you it was fine. A broken arm isn't the end of the world, you know. I'll get it fixed properly when we get home, and it'll be fine."
"But it wouldn't have happened in the first place if I'd just stayed in the ice-copter! Now you're the one paying for my mistake…again!"
"What do you mean 'again'?" Elsa started the ice-copter and added, "Let's go home."
"Uh, the accident from when we were little…that wouldn't have happened either if I'd listened when you said 'Wait! Slow down!'," Anna said as she started steering the ice-copter back towards home.
"Anna, stop it. You were only five. I am not going to let you feel guilty now about something that happened thirteen years ago that was just as much my fault, if not more, as it was yours. I'm the one that hit you, not the other way around. And as for the present, okay, so maybe if you'd stayed in the ice-copter, it wouldn't have happened; but I was probably likely to get hurt anyway. I had already gotten smacked in the face and scraped my knees before you ever even came in the park. Just please don't worry about it…you didn't hurt me on purpose, or even technically do it yourself," Elsa tried to assure Anna. "If you're going to blame someone, blame Zod and the other Kryptonians!"
"Well…"
"Well, quit blaming yourself! 'I'm never going back, the past is in the past!'" Elsa sang at Anna.
Anna accidentally sent the ice-copter plummeting down. "Oops. Elsa, you sang in front of me! Like on purpose, and not with me, uh, eavesdropping on you."
"Oh, so you admit to eavesdropping on me," Elsa teased.
"Oops."
When they finally arrived home to Arendelle, the first thing Elsa did was dissolve the ice bubble surrounding everything. Then she and Anna headed into the castle.
"Now, Elsa, I want you to get yourself taken care of first thing," Anna said. "Then I'll get us something to eat. I'm starving!" She led Elsa to the castle infirmary. "Is anyone here?" Anna called as they walked in.
"Hello, Queen Elsa, Princess Anna. May I help you?" the doctor greeted them.
Elsa held out her arm. "I broke it earlier."
"You mean I did," Anna mumbled.
"You did not. Stop it, Anna."
The doctor looked at Elsa's ice makeshift fix. "That was a good idea. But you have to get rid of the ice if you want me to look at it."
"Tell Anna, then. It was her idea," Elsa said as she dissolved the ice. "Ow…"
"Here, sit down and just lay it on the table. I'll be right back."
Elsa slowly did as she was told. "Good grief, I should have just kept the ice on it. It hurts worse now than it did before!" She took one look at Anna's face and immediately regretted saying anything. "Anna, it's fine. Please stop; I hate the idea of you feeling guilty on my account." I've done enough of that to count for both of us for a lifetime.
"But…"
"No buts! Stop it!"
The doctor came back, interrupting their conversation. "I'm going to have to set that…it's going to hurt for a minute, but it'll feel better right after."
"It already hurts," Elsa quipped and gave a lopsided smile. "Okay, in all seriousness, I'm ready."
Elsa scrunched her eyes shut and bit her lip to keep from making any noise. It'sgoingtobeoveranyminuteit'sgoingtobeoveranyminute… Anna gave Elsa's good hand a comforting squeeze.
"All right, the worst part is over. You're really quiet. You didn't make a peep!" The doctor thought of a time several years before when Anna had broken her arm. Anna had screamed her head off.
Elsa relaxed and sighed in relief. "Was I supposed to make noise or something?"
"Princess Anna did several years ago when she broke hers after falling down the staircase one too many times."
Anna looked sheepish. "Ok, so I kinda remember that…"
"You never told me you did that," Elsa said. "Falling down the stairs?!"
"On a bicycle," Anna defended herself.
"I don't even want to know the rest of it! Anna, you're crazy! Riding bicycles down the staircase…good grief…" Elsa shook her head. "I told you that was a bad idea, and that proves it!"
"It only happened once," Anna defended herself as she helped Elsa settle her now-splinted arm in a sling.
"Isn't once enough? Because if it felt like mine does right now, once is one time too many," Elsa said. "Am I finished here now?" she asked the doctor.
"Yes. Usually I would suggest icing it and that bruise, but I don't think that's going to help you," the doctor said.
"No, probably not," Elsa agreed. "Thank you. Now Anna, how about getting something to eat?"
"Ok. Let's get you upstairs to rest and I'll bring something up," Anna said.
"All right."
Five minutes later, Anna left Elsa in her room, saying she'd be right back with something to eat. Leaving the door open, Elsa settled herself on the bed and struggled to find a comfortable position for her arm, which hurt quite a bit more than she wanted Anna to think. "Oh, hello, Gerda," she said when she saw Gerda walk in the doorway.
"May I get you anything? And how exactly did that happen anyway?" Gerda asked.
"No. Anna's getting us something to eat. And it's a long story…remember those Kryptonian criminals we went after?"
"Yes…"
"Well, they were at Cedar Point, trying to ransack the place. Superman and I went in after them. I told Anna to stay in the ice-copter, but she followed after us. When Zod-that was the criminal's name-found out Anna was my sister, he captured her, wouldn't release her, but then said he would if he had me captured instead. So…I agreed, and the next thing I knew he had grabbed my arm and Anna and I went flying. We landed in a pile of snow, so that was okay. He thought we were dead after that! You should have seen his face the next time he saw me." Elsa giggled at the memory.
"In other words it wouldn't have happened if Anna had done what she was supposed to…"
"Gerda, please! Anna already feels guilty about the whole thing. Let's not make it worse," Elsa said. "And really, I don't need anything. I'm fine. Anna will be right back. Will you shut the door behind you, please?"
Gerda left and shut the door. A moment later, there was another knock that was not Anna's signature one. Who is it this time? Elsa thought. "Come in, please."
"I just forgot to give you some pain medicine when you were downstairs," the doctor said.
Elsa frowned. "Is it going to make me feel loopy and 'out of it'?"
"A little bit?"
"I'll keep the pain then, but thank you anyway." Elsa thought she might lose control of her powers if she wasn't completely coherent. That medicine probably tastes disgusting anyway…and I'm not risking losing control.
"Well, I'll leave it up here in case you change your mind."
"All right. Please shut the door on your way out."
A minute later, there was a knock on the door yet again. This time Elsa recognized Anna's knock, so she said, "Come on in, Anna!"
Anna came in with a tray of food for her and Elsa. "I got us some chocolate and chicken."
"Chocolate chicken? That just sounds dee-licious!" Elsa said. "Okay, okay, I know what you really said. Thank you, Anna."
"Can I sit next to you?"
"Of course. You didn't even have to ask! But will you bring me a piece of paper and a pen first? I want to put a little note on my door."
Anna set the food tray down and gave Elsa what she asked for. "Um…d-d-do you want me to write something for you?"
"I can do it. Just a minute…" Elsa made herself a small sheet of ice to write on and carefully wrote a short message using her left hand.
"I could have sworn you were right-handed, Elsa! Are you sure you don't want me to write whatever it is you're writing?"
Elsa just handed the note to Anna.
" 'Unless you're Princess Anna, please go away'," Anna read. "Signed, Queen Elsa. What's that supposed to mean? And are you ambidextrous or something?"
"That is so I don't have everyone bugging me every two minutes. And no, I'm definitely not ambidextrous. I am right-handed. If you notice, that note looks like little-kid printing, but it is easily legible. I taught myself how to print with my left hand long time ago but could never get better than just printing. I can't do cursive or anything. Will you stick the note on my door, please?"
"Sure." Anna tacked the note to the door and came right back. She sat down next to Elsa, careful not to make the bed jiggle too much. "Does it still hurt a lot?" she asked, gently laying a hand on Elsa's arm.
Elsa involuntarily flinched away from Anna's touch. "It's…fine. Let's eat, Anna," she said, trying to change the subject.
"Elsa, you are not either fine! I think it hurts you more than you're letting on, and you made awful faces downstairs, even if you didn't make any noise. You're in pain, and it's all my fault!"
"Stop it right now, Anna. I swear, if you don't stop feeling guilty about this whole thing, I'm going to make sure Gerda doesn't give you any chocolate for a month. Not one nibble! I happen to know that feeling guilty equals feeling awful. Honestly, knowing that you're sitting there feeling like that hurts me far worse than my arm does," Elsa said.
"No chocolate for a month?!" Anna squeaked.
"Not one bit! Unless, of course, you stop beating yourself up about this. Then you can eat as much chocolate as you like. Within reason, of course."
"I'll try…I just can't help thinking it wouldn't have happened if I'd just listened and stayed in the ice-copter…"
Elsa tried to think of a good truthful response to that, one that wouldn't make Anna feel worse. "Well, you are impulsive and don't look before you leap sometimes, but that's just part of your personality. Think about it this way: why did you follow me into the park in the first place?"
"I, uh…well, I saw two of the Kryptonians fly off with Superman following them. That meant you were alone in the park with the third one. I wanted to make sure you were ok," Anna said.
"And did you purposely get captured so Zod would want me instead and then throw us through the air in an effort to kill us?"
"Of course not!" Anna said indignantly.
"See? Your intentions were good. Things just didn't work out like you planned," Elsa said.
Anna smiled. "Thanks, Elsa. Can you pretend I just gave you a hug? I don't want to squish your arm."
"Can you pretend I just gave you a hug back?" Elsa smiled back at Anna. "And by the way, it's nice to be the one trying to cheer up the other for once! Usually it's you trying to cheer me up."
They ate in a contented silence for a while. Finally, Anna broke the silence by saying, "Can you believe it's only 4:30PM? It seems like days and days worth of stuff happened since this morning."
Elsa laughed. "Yes, I can believe it! You know what I think? I think that we are making up for thirteen years of monotony by cramming all this excitement in just a few days."
"Agreed! Let's see…we've gotten rid of uh, nineteen dumb butts. And we 'discovered' some modern technology things, and we went to the epicness that is Cedar Point. Now I think I should have gone on Dragster with you."
"How did you come up with nineteen you-know-what's? And I told you not to call people that, although I admit it sounds funny. About Dragster…I have an idea, but I'm going to need your help to make it work," Elsa said.
"Nineteen including Hans and his twelve brothers, King Boris, the Duke of Weaseltown, Lex Luthor, and the three Kryptonians," Anna explained. "What's your idea about Dragster?"
"Anna…I just remembered something. What did happen to Luthor after we left the park? Is he still at large?" Elsa asked.
"I don't know…I think we were so concerned about the Kryptonians we forgot about him."
Oh no. That means trouble. "Well, he needs to get turned in to the U.S. police!"
"Elsa, I'm sure the park security got him. It'll be fine," Anna said.
"Don't be dumb. The park security probably thought Luthor was another hostage, and if they didn't he probably feigned innocence anyway…And I just remembered I left all that ice all over the midway! It's going to be stuck there until I get rid of it, too. I have to go back! The park won't be able to operate like that. I was supposed to help the situation, not leave it in a mess!" Elsa sounded agitated.
"Elsa, you are not going back to Cedar Point right now in your condition. It can wait a few days till your arm feels a little better," Anna replied.
"I'll go by myself then."
"You can't steer the ice-copter with one hand. You said so. You'll have to bring me with you, and I just won't come."
Elsa sighed in defeat, but perked up a moment later. "Well, as queen of Arendelle, I decree that you have to come. So there. We're going right now. It won't take long."
"Hmph. Power trip, milady? And just what are you going to do if I don't listen?" Anna crossed her arms in annoyance at Elsa's 'I'm-the-queen' decision.
"No chocolate for the princess till the queen says otherwise."
"You wouldn't!"
"I would. Come on, Anna, please?"
"Will you sing with me at the Annual Crocus Festival?" Anna asked.
"I'll think about it."
"Say yes or I won't come."
"No chocolate, then."
"What about singing?"
"What about the chocolate?"
"SINGING!"
"CHOCOLATE!"
"SINGING!"
Elsa paused for a moment. Well…how different can it be to sing in public versus by myself? Anna's listened who knows how many times… "Okay, Anna, I'll sing at the festival with you, but only under one condition-I get to pick the song."
"You will?! THAT'S AWESOME! I don't care what you pick; I just want to sing with you."
"Well, now that's settled; let's go fix Cedar Point and come back."
A/N: Next chapter coming soon!:)
