Prompt from Guest It Who: Can irequest Hans x Elsa where 21 century timeline?
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Elsa knew that she wasn't the romantic type. Certainly not like her sister who threw herself into every relationship with every bit of passion that she had.
Their parents had always been the ones to tell them stories about how they knew each other was 'the One'.
Knowing that most suitors just wanted the smaller throne by her side, the knowledge that they would be the second most powerful person in the land… well, she couldn't trust anyone.
Then something changed.
Hans fell into their lives, and like that, it was like a fog had lifted.
At first, it had seemed like the prince was infatuated with the younger sister, joining her during important meetings and meals. He was always so happy, but over time, that actually started to endear to Elsa.
Courting wasn't like she thought it would be.
It wasn't heart eyes, or boxes of chocolates or roses… it was quiet conversations in dark hallways, and over the dinner table, whispered advise when her councillors started to get ideas above their stations.
When winter came around, Elsa found herself spending more and more time with Hans, walking over the grass, where frost had made it glisten a ghostly silver.
She wasn't lonely anymore.
When Hans made fun of the Duke of Weselton, she couldn't help but laugh. When his and her sisters antics led to a priceless painting being ruined, Elsa just shook her head in exasperation, a fond grin on her face.
Maybe it wasn't proper for a Queen to be acting like this.
The press were having a field day, with new headlines about their relationship coming out every other day. Hans just laughed them off, rolling his eyes as the press secretary desperately tried to make everything better, trying to play it off as 'good relations' between countries.
One day, Elsa hoped that wouldn't be true. One day she hoped that Hans might love her back and they might be announcing their engagement to the press.
But she'd wait.
She'd wait a thousand years for Hans to fall back in love with her, and if he never did, then so be it. Because she would rather spend a lifetime loving someone who wouldn't love her back, than to never have loved at all.
