Elsa is on a quest to discover the truth behind her predicament. the question is will she be able to find the answers that she seeks? Enjoy!

Elsa stood at the window staring off into the sun lit horizon… where her ice castle stood. She clutched her head, feeling a headache coming on. Fragments of images were going through her mind. Memories of a battle… she could vaguely remember flames… did the battle have to do with these flames? No! The only battle that had ever happened at her palace was when Hans had shown up! And he didn't have anything to do with the flames. In fact there was no break out of fire when Hans showed up. She would have remembered. So why did she feel something had happened there? Did it have something to do with her headache? If so… what did it mean?

You'll be better off now… Elsa…" a voice whispered in her mind. A voice that sounded very familiar and filled Elsa with a sense of sadness. Elsa shook her head, trying to clear her head. That had happened before, just before this whole Anna and pregnancy incident. What was going on with her? First Anna thinks she was pregnant and now Elsa her self was thinking she was going insane. She really needed to lay off of the chocolate. Maybe all that was causing her to go nuts (considering she had a cake with chocolate chips that was a distinct possibility). Not that she was ever going to consider the idea of abandoning the sweet all together. She would really have to be insane if that was ever going to happen.

What Anna had said about the trolls? Was it true? Had they rearranged her memories? She knew that they had visited them not too long go; she remembered being the reason they had gone in the first place.

But… over someone that she couldn't remember? Had this Ranger… truly meant that much to her? Elsa shook her head, angrily turning away from the window. No it just couldn't be possible. The trolls may have rearranged her entire memory, but… everything? If this Ranger had been her friend, surely he must have made friends with someone other than her. Anna might know more, but considering that they had just had an argument, Elsa might want to look towards someone other than her sister for guidance. Anna had said that he was her personal guard. So then he must have at least been close to Caleb, her guard captain. He must know something bout Ranger.

Elsa would ask Anna later for certain, but she needed time to get a less based opinion from someone who probably wouldn't know about Elsa's relationship with him.

Elsa left her room and made a beeline for the guard's barracks. Caleb would most likely be on some break given that it was just passed lunch. Well she could only hope really. Either way she was going to get some answers. That is, if Caleb was able to provide them.

From the way that Anna described him earlier she did seem to know a lot more about him, perhaps enough to answer anything that Caleb couldn't. but she was only one person; Anna couldn't be the only other person to actually know about this Ranger. There had to be others. Since Ranger was a guard he must have been close to at least another guard. It just seemed impossible for him not to be. No one could just be that closed off without a reason right.

Elsa was no stranger to being alone, considering that she had spent most of her life shut up in her room. but what was Rangers excuse? Surely he didn't have powers that he was afraid to hurt someone with right? I mean what are the chances of that?

Then Elsa remembered Anna's words "He was abused… so badly it was a wonder he even had the capacity…. The ability to even feel the LOVE that he felt for you!" What had Anna meant by that? Well Elsa clearly knew what abuse was, and obviously, Ranger had been abused. But so badly Anna believed that feeling love was a difficult task? Even before Elsa knew love was the control behind her powers, she never stopped loving Anna.

She felt a tear run down her cheek. No one should have to go through such hardship. She wouldn't wish such things on anyone else (unless she hated them) just how bad was it? Anna clearly had an idea but since she didn't live it (nor could Elsa remember the visions that Anna had told her she apparently had), Elsa really couldn't tell just how bad that Ranger had lived prior to meeting her. That being said, why would Elsa ever allow her self to hire someone with the potential to be so unstable? She knew a little about PTSD, and someone with such trauma could be dangerous. So why hire someone like that to be her guard? It seemed so illogical to Elsa that it made absolutely no sense to her whatsoever. So once again she was going to have to ask questions in order to get the answers that she needed.

Elsa quickly made he way to the guard barracks, where she found Caleb, going over the training procedures with the rest of the guards. After the incident with Elias coup, Caleb had been working overtime to gather more recruits for the Arendelle guard in the past two weeks. Elsa had even had a formal declaration in that time (or rather her council had) explaining the event that had taken place involving to coup. She had to admire Caleb's ethic. Despite the fact that he was working to make sure all the recruits he was getting were well trained, he never seemed to slow down. He was definitely a good captain that was for certain.

"Captain!" she cried, gathering the attention of everyone in the room. The guards immediately turned and bowed to Elsa. Caleb did the same, before straighten up "yes, your majesty?" he asked

Elsa sighed, "Can you come with me? I need to talk to you about an urgent matter." she said

Caleb was confused. Elsa never needed to talk to the guards, let alone him on an urgent matter before; she was busy dealing with the politics of running a kingdom. Even stranger, Arendelle hadn't been a warring nation in centuries, so he was highly doubtful about the idea of Elsa needing to talk to him about war. That and Elsa just rarely ever seemed to need to talk to him. So what was this about? Never the less he wasn't going to argue with the queen so he just turned to his guards and said "start the training without out me men. And don't slack off! I will be back momentarily." He said, before following the queen to a less crowded location.

"May I ask what this is about, your majesty?" Caleb asked politely. He didn't want to come across as rude to his Queen. Offending her was definitely not in his (or anyones) best interest. But he was genuinely curious.

Elsa sighed. She bit her lip, trying to come up with the best way to ask her question. "Caleb… how much do you know about a man named Ranger?"

Calebs eyes widened, shocked by the question. Now he was really confused. One, Elsa had banned any mention of the recently deceased man. Two, why was Elsa asking his he knew the guy. Caleb could honestly say he didn't know much about Ranger, other than the fact he was a good fighter, was friends with the towns dead blacksmith and his daughter and had fire powers that were similar to the Queens own powers. So basically nothing that the queen shouldn't already know. Which in this case meant that she shouldn't be asking him that if she already knew everything about Ranger. Which she honestly should considering the fact Ranger was her personal guard. He had followed her everywhere. She probably knew more about him than Caleb did. So why ask him then?

Caleb sighed "your majesty… I'm afraid I can't answer that. You forbid any mention of him after he died." He said as honestly as possible.

Elsa looked at him confused. Now she was starting to get annoyed with her self. She had banned any mention of him? Was this the reason she had erased her memory of him? The pain of remembering him was just too much for her? Even that seemed farfetched even for her.

She gave Caleb a glare. She needed to get her answers. Now was not the time to hide them "Caleb, I know what I said" (even though she really didn't) she told him, giving Caleb and annoyed look "but I really need your help here ok?" she asked

Caleb shook his head "I'm afraid I can't help you much either way, your Majesty. The only thing that I can tell you is that he was a good soldier even without his powers…"

Elsa's eyes widened. Powers? Ranger had powers? Ok now she really needed to talk to Anna. Forget the fact that she was probably angry with her, if anyone might know about the fact Ranger had powers (or talk about them more freely) it was Anna.

'"Thank you captain" Elsa said as calmly as possible "dismissed"

Caleb bowed, and then walked back to the guards. Elsa frowned so talking to Caleb hadn't helped. But at least she got some answers. The problem was it hadn't been enough of the answers that she needed. So that really only left Anna to be able to help her out. If Elsa knew Anna after a stressful situation, she would go off and do one of two things. Eat chocolate or go see Kristoff. Given that Elsa was closer to the stables at the moment she decided to try seeing if Kristoff was helping Anna distress after their fight.

If there was one thing that Elsa liked about Kristoff, it was that he was able to help Anna whenever she needed it. He was a good man.

But she was getting ahead of her self. Elsa made her way to the stables, where sure enough she found Anna and Kristoff sitting on a bench, Anna still looking like she was fuming. Her face was red and Elsa could see she was a bout ready to blow up again. Poor Anna. Elsa really needed to help her not lose control when around innocent people.

It was breaking Elsa's heart that she and Anna had that fight in the first place. Sure, it had stared because Elsa honestly believed that it was some sort of joke, but still. She hated the fact that it had descended into an argument from there. There just hadn't been any need for it to happen the way that it had. Now her normally optimistic bubbly sister was staring at the ground with a deep frown and a completely uncharacteristically angry glare that could have melted even Elsa's ice. It didn't seem to Elsa that Anna had all managed to get over the argument, nor had forgiven her at all (honestly though, Elsa couldn't blame her). Still Elsa now needed Anna more than ever if she was going to figure out the mystery that was her apparent lover.

Anna noticed Elsa before Elsa could even think to say one word to her. She stood up, given Elsa her glare, tapping her foot impatiently. She was still not over what had happened earlier and she wasn't about to speak to Elsa civilly without a fight. "Well" she growled out angrily.

Elsa sighed; this was getting her nowhere. Anna was obviously expecting her to apologize and probably wouldn't even bother to continue the conversation until she managed to get one. While Elsa was more than willing to apologize for what she had said and for losing her temper, that still didn't excuse why Anna believed that joking about the idea of Elsa being pregnant, nor did it make it funny; it was still annoying and disgusting. Elsa would never do such a thing to Anna.

But if it was true, not even Ana could tell her and that was the problem. But Anna could at least tell her more about Ranger. That is if she happened to know more about him than their earlier argument had revealed.

Torture? Abused… that's what Anna had said to her at least. Ranger must have been abused during his life. Elsa wasn't sure what to believe anymore. Since the trolls had altered her memories, the chances were that she did know, she just didn't remember any of it. She bit her lip trying to remember at least something…

"Mama Papa!" a voice that definitely wasn't hers screamed at her. It was so full of pain and anguish and was almost dripping with some sort of blood lust and desire for revenge. Yeah Elsa never would have screamed at her parents with that in her voice. Her parents, however miserably they failed to help her with her powers back then, never did anything to earn them her resentment.

Elsa clutched her head. There it was again. That voice. She clutched the black hair, which almost seemed to be burning. Anna had said that her hair was black (well Elsa had noticed, since she looked in a mirror of course) as well as brown. The brown was the same shade as her mother, so the black hair must have come from Ranger (which considering Anna had a white strand of hair after the events of that night when Elsa had hit her in the head, was probably more likely to be true) but in the past few days (well that Elsa could remember at least) her mind and body had never reacted to something like this. She couldn't even recognize the voice that was screaming at her. If the trolls tried to rewrite her memory, then it hadn't worked out at all, because Anna couldn't even remember the night she got her head frozen!

Anna, immediately noticing Elsa's actions, stopped glaring at her sister, instead showing a look of deep concern. Elsa seemed to have problems lately, even after the events with the trolls. While she could blame some of it on the potential pregnancy symptoms, she didn't know what seemed to be causing Elsa's rather annoying headaches.

"Elsa" she whispered, reaching for her sister's head. Elsa shook her head, not wanting Anna to get too close, just in case. The last thing she needed was for Anna to get injured by Elsa's powers reacting to Anna again. A moment later, the pain subsided and with it, the voice and emotions that had come with it. It was a weird feeling, like another life was inside of Elsa…. she didn't like it, not at all. It was foreign and honestly kind of creepy.

After managing to shaker off the feeling she looked at Anna trying her best to give her sister a reassuring smile "its all right Anna!" she said, hoping her voice wasn't wavering at all.

Naturally Anna was not buying it whatsoever. She could immediately tell that something was bothering Elsa and of course being the helpful if not clumsy sister that she was, she was determined to help Elsa whenever she could (which more than often led to trouble anyway, but Anna was willing to take a chance) she put her hands on her hips "Elsa…"

Kristoff stood up and cleared his throat "Anna, I will see you later." He did not want to be around these two if they happened to get into another argument. (He had heard them yelling when he and Olaf had left the room last time and he did not want to be involved or get in the way. it was far to dangerous for his health.) He gave them both a smile, before walking away.

The two monarchs of Arendelle all but ignored him. Their attention was on each other. Anna, who wanted to help her sister and get an apology (and apologize back, since she was also at fault. She hadn't explained herself very well) and Elsa who desperately needed Anna's help to figure out the problem that she was having at the moment.

The two opened their mouths at the same time "sorry!" they said simultaneously. They both blinked, surprised they had said what the other was thinking. They certainly hadn't expected it to happen so quickly.

Anna was the first to continue the conversation "wait what?" she asked, giving her older sister a very confused look. Elsa bit her lip and started over "Anna… I'm sorry. Yelling at you was so out of line. I know that you meant no harm, but even so, that wasn't very funny."

Anna resisted the urge to groan. Elsa still thought that she had been joking about the whole pregnancy thing. While Anna didn't have any concrete proof as of yet, she was certain that it was at least a possibility, given Elsa's odd behavior over the past few days. But if she were ever going to be able to convince Elsa of that, she would probably need to go along with Elsa for the moment. She put on a mile and said "I'm sorry too Elsa… Kristoff and I just thought with all the chocolate that you've been eating, that might be the reason. After all, you never eat that much chocolate. You eat a lot, but three cakes? That's something that even I wouldn't do. Unless I was very desperate she said, giggling a little.

Elsa quirked a brow. So she had been right. Kristoff was in on the little act with Anna. Well… she was going to have a little take with him, that was for certain." She moved to the bench and sat down, motioning for Anna to sit beside her. Anna did so.

"Anna, can you please help me with something?"

Anna nodded giving her sister a smile.

"Tell me more about Ranger…" she requested.

Anna has a lot of explaining to do. Which hopefully means no more arguments. Now the next chapter will move on into a bit of a direction none of you are going to like. As i said, its a going to get better before it gets worse… and this was the better...

Also remember when I said Elsa's visions were her imagination… I was tired when i said that and I think I need to come up with a better explanation. I might make a plot point on that later on.