After Anna was satisfied with the amount that Elsa ate, she dragged her over to the snow that was still in the center of the room. With a few steps left she flashed a grin at Elsa, then sprinted the rest of the way and jumping into the snow. Elsa smiled at the large giggle that escaped from Anna.

"It is like jumping into a big pillow! This is the softest snow I have ever felt! This is amazing!"

"Of course it is soft. I had a feeling you were going to eventually jump into it if you didn't run in fear first. You always did jump into any snow I would make."

"Well for one I could never be scared of anything because of you. For you? Now that is a different story. Anyways have you ever jumped into snow? It is SO much fun! You should try it sometime."

Elsa smiled and then ran and jumped into the snow next to her sister. Anna laughed and leaned into her. Elsa laid down in the snow and pulled Anna with her. They laid there for a while with Elsa playing with Anna's hair.

"I missed you."

Anna glanced up at her sister and saw her staring at the ceiling. Words felt inadequate in this moment, so she just snuggled into Elsa's side after she kissed her cheek. At some point Anna got hold of Elsa's hand and was playing with in in her own. She was sprawled out on top of Elsa and was tracing, flipping, and examining her hand. Elsa was slightly crushed under Anna, but didn't have the heart to tell her plus she was amused by her behavior.

"Find a map there? Answers to the worlds most sought after questions?"

"Oh shush… I like your hands. I feel like I haven't seen then in ages. They are always in gloves. I mean your gloves are pretty and for a long time I just thought you had a thing about dirt! Now I guess they were for keeping the cold in, though I don't see how gloves keep magic in anyways… How are your hands so soft?"

Elsa let out her first belly laugh from Anna's complete and utter random subject change. Anna felt warm all over feeling Elsa's laugh take her over. She was ecstatic to hear Elsa actually fully laugh. While she had no idea what she did or said to accomplish that she was happy anyways. With a grin on her face she went back to examining Elsa's hand. She was startled and then froze solid when she finally noticed something on Elsa's hand. They were faint and she almost missed the thin silvery lines that ran along her hands and there where mainly gathered towards her wrist. At first she thought it was a trick of the lighting, but then she noticed that if she ran her fingers there it felt different… She quickly bolted up right and scrambled for Elsa's other hand to see if they were present there as well. She saw they were there as well, and was drawn out from her speculations on how these marks ended up on her sister from Elsa making her presents known again.

"Sunshine, what's the matter?"

"Elsie what are these marks?"

Elsa frozen as she realized what Anna finally noticed on her hands. She had forgotten that the marks marred skin with all of the joy of having Anna back. She should have known better and kept her hands hidden from Anna. She didn't want to explain and sour any feelings that her sister already had towards her parents. What was she going to say? She didn't want to lie, but she didn't want to hurt Anna with the truth either. She knew what Anna would say if she asked and gave her a choice in the matter. Anna would want the truth from her no matter what. After all these years of lying to her, maybe it was time for nothing but straight honesty for now on between the two of them. If Elsa could not trust Anna who else could she then trust? Elsa twitched and pulled her hands away from Anna's reach and twisted her hands together in her own lap.

"These are my souvenirs from the shackle experiment."

"I'm sorry did you just say SHACKELS?"

Elsa couldn't look at Anna while she told her this and her need to find her gloves was creeping back up again.

"There were a few times where the control over my powers were called into question and more aggressive actions had to occur until this curse was more manageable…"

"Your powers are not a curse and I don't think I like the sounds of this 'aggressive action' I mean I don't see the need for it at all! So, what if you accidently froze something or made drifts of snow! That does not hurt anyone!"

"Anna you don't understand I'm not supposed to have any magic! It is not natural, and it is my duty to ensure no one knows about my defect. These powers, curse, abomination of human nature have done nothing but take things from me. They are not a gift. They are the dark force taking EVERYTHING away from me."

"Elsie…"

"No Anna you don't get it these powers scare me more than the dungeon or those shackles that were made just for me… I HATE THEM MORE THAN THAT STUPID LOCK ON MY DOOR!"

Elsa glares at her hands to Anna's astonishment, and she spits out,

"If cutting my hands off would get rid of this curse I would have done it years ago, but I KNOW that won't work. All that would do would leave me as an even larger burden…"

"YOU, CROWNED PRINCESS OF ARENDELLE, HAIR APARENT TO THE THRONE, MY BELOVED SISTER, ELSIE ARE NOT A BURDEN IN ANY WAY, AND I REPEAT WILL NOT HURT YOURSELF IN ANYWAY! I cannot understand that you do not see what I see when I look at you. If I could be anything like you, I would be lucky. I know I cannot make you see yourself the way you really are immediately, but I will get you to see it. We are going to work on that, now for the more pressing issue. WHAT IS THIS DUNGEON, SPECIAL SHACKELS, AND LOCK? EXPLAIN NOW."

Elsa staired wide eyed at Anna originally from confusion to Anna's response to what she had said. Anna genially did not see any of the things she had been told countess times and had accepted as reality like the sky being blue. She was quite confused on what was really true or not regarding her powers. She desperately wanted to believe Anna, but she feared that Anna's affection and unending devotion might be blinding her from the truth. Elsa sighed as she now tried to explain to Anna about the harsher realities that have been her life these past few years.

"The lock has been in place on my door since I was sent into this room years ago. The lock is on the other side, originally to ensure that it was always locked and I would not be tempted to unlock I on my side and open the door when ever you came by and begged for me to come out. That was their way of ensuring that you were completely safe. Now it is to keep more so to keep me inline… I keep asking for too much and my powers are more unpredictable. The dungeon and the shackles came about after a very bad summer. It was apparently that year the summer heat came early, they thought maybe that had something to do with it, but I think it was all the storms. I have no idea if it was a hot summer or not all I do know is that It was storm after storm, and I was agitated. Nothing I did worked. The ice won and was running rampant during the build up before every storm hit. I trashed my room and ruined just about everything in it. Mother and Father were scared that it was getting to much for the room to hold in and that someone was going to get hurt, so father took me to the lowest most secluded park of the dungeon where he had installed some new special shackles to keep my powers from running rampant."

"Elsie…"

Anna could only choke out her sister's name before she lunged forward and clung onto her sister like her life depended on it. All she could see in her mind was a small and scared Elsa all alone in the dungeon like a prisoner. And it was not like it was much better when she was in her room. She was LOCKED into her OWN room. Anna could not wrap her head around the idea that anyone thought any of this was okay. Worst of all Elsa seemed okay with it all, like all of this was normal or should be allowed. Anna then felt a deep seeded guilt. All this time she was complaining and feeling sorry for herself when she wasn't mad at her sister for avoiding her all the while Elsa was enduring all of this in silence all because of her misguided need to keep her oblivious and the most ungrateful sister safe. Her loneliness seems like nothing now compared to Elsa's almost complete isolation and abuse. Anna hated to even think of the word, but that really is what has happened to her sister if she was being honest. The evidence of that was right there on Elsa's scared hands. What Anna just could not understand was how any of this came to pass to begin with. Whose idea was any of this? Anna just could not fathom doing any of the things that happened to her sister to anyone. How did anyone think this was okay and to Elsa of all people?

Elsa sat there stiff as a board for a few moments as Anna clung onto her like a lifeline. She was shocked to say the least when Anna threw herself on top of her again. Honestly, she believed that this story, might have finally scared Anna about the lack of control she had over her powers, but once again Anna did the exact opposite of what she expected. At this point Elsa should have guessed that what she thought was going to be Anna's reaction meant that the reality was going to be the opposite. Slowly Elsa wrapped her arms around Anna and held her close, stroked her hair while slightly rocking her back and forth. She did not know what else to do other then to comfort the mall shaking frame of her sister. The way her sister was shaking was reminding her of when they were younger, and Anna was terrified of thunderstorms. Without fail Anna would be curled up next to or on top of Elsa terrified out of her little mind seeking comfort and safety from her older sister who she truly believed was not afraid of anything. Elsa used to tell her that there was plenty of things she was afraid of, but Anna said it did not matter because she never showed it. She was like a stable rock in a storm. Now Elsa knew more than enough about fear, but none of her fears mattered when Anna needed her. She was terrified of her powers winning and acting out, but that did not matter with Anna needing Elsa to keep her calm. Elsa could make a deal with her powers it seemed then. She could feel them agree to listen to her and to stay calm inside of her closer to her chest then anywhere near her hands, so she could safely touch Anna. Sure, there was some discomfort for her, but to Elsa none of that mattered. What truly mattered was Anna.

"Sunshine it's alright."

Anna gripped onto Elsa even tighter.

"Elsie… I'm so sorry. I am the worst sister ever. While you had to endure all of this that NEVER should of happened to you I was just thinking about myself. I never imagined… I'M SO SORRY!"

"SUNSHINE!"

Anna whimpered and burrowed closer to her sister, but remained silent.

"I never want to hear you diminish your own pain ever again. Your suffering is just as valid as anyone else's. Besides those things don't bother me anymore. Sure I don't like it when I am locked down there. The shackles are uncomfortable and hurt if I accidentally let ice form in them. I've come to accept all of these things and I do know how to open the lock on my door. I figured that one out quick. Do you remember the day when you wow up and realized I was moved to another room?"

"Of course I do. You yelled at everyone and stopped to tell me everything was going to be okay. That I was to listen to everyone. You looked so sad. Like it was killing you to even talk to me. I thought you didn't want to see or talk to me. Now I can see you were sad and terrified because you didn't want to leave me but you had to."

"You have no idea how much it killed me to send you away and not to just hold you close. Anyways the lock on the door had already been switched around when I was moved in here. I heard you outside of the door and I just couldn't ignore it. It was my chance to see if you really were okay and to say goodbye. After we came back from seeing the trolls Mother and Father kept us apart. I wasn't allowed anywhere near our room I was immediately sent in here. Gerda and Kai made sure I got some of my things, but I made sure that my doll was left behind for you…"

"They didn't even… so you made sure you left something behind for me?"

"Of course I did. I wanted to leave something for you so you'd know I still cared. I also figured that if I couldn't be there with you that maybe doll Elsa would be enough."

"You're a big mushy softy. You know that?"

"Haha! You are probably one of the only people to actually believe that. I believe the last description I got was I was just like my ice, cold, hard, and stannic."

"Well I can tell you on good authority you are none of those things. So there! Wait a minute… how did you open the door then?"

Elsa had to laugh a bit. Anna was such a goofy scatter brain sometimes.

"I froze the lock open. I got in a lot of trouble for that, but I still think it was worth it."

"You froze the lock open?"

"Yep, broke the lock and everything. Kai told me afterwards when he had to replace the lock that he was proud of me and to remember that even with the lock on the door I still had a choice if I needed it."

"Well I think it is neat that you can 'pick' locks. Would have been really helpful when Gerda locked the chocolate in a high cabinet after I ate all of it from the kitchen that one time."

Elsa giggled at the fact that Anna was starting to make plans on what the two of them could get away with.

The girls continued their evening together laughing and playing in the snow that Anna convinced Elsa to conjure up. Elsa had no idea how late it was, but Anna was starting to fall asleep where she was standing. Of course Anna was claiming she wasn't tired at all, so Elsa had to corral her sister to her bed. After she had tucked Anna under the covers, Anna's hand darted out and grabbed a hold of Elsa. She tugged her back towards the bed, and Elsa smiled as she immediately submitted to Anna's silent request. She climbed into the bed herself. Once she was laying down on the bed Anna forcefully resituated the bedding to have Elsa under it too. Once she seemed satisfied that Elsa was tucked into the bed as well she laid back down and curled up next to Elsa. This is how Gerda found the girls when she came in to guide Anna back through the secret passages to her own room. She smiled and was slightly surprised at how warm Elsa's room was. Normally there was a chill, but now there was nothing but warm like a warm blanket was around the room. There was not a trace of Elsa's powers anywhere. Gerda thought she was going to find evidence of it somewhere, but again she was surprised to find none. She took in the girls that were peacefully asleep with a smile on both of their faces. Gerda didn't have the heart to wake Anna and guide her back to her room tonight. She would just wake up earlier to ensure that Anna wasn't caught and guide her back to her room then. Gerda quietly closed the passage and left the girls in the small amount of peace they had finally found.