A/N - Thank you so much the reviews! It really means a lot that people liked this!

queenfixerupper - I really loved your idea! As you can see, I've got carried away with this haha turned out to be much longer than intended!

Guest - Thank you so so much!

Anonymous - Agreed, I get the sense Frozen will be a triology so I'm hoping they address Anna's attachment issues & how Elsa's actions effected her in the third. You're more than welcome. I'm glad to be writing this!

JGR - Angst is my middle name lol hoping to write more angsty frozen stories in the future. I'm glad its clear what Anna is feeling. Writing in emotions that haven't been explicitly expressed is hard, spend a lot of time wondering whether it's something they'd say. I'm listening to sad Glee songs to get in the zone

"I went on that bridge to not let your death be in vain." She spoke pointedly, hoping to draw out Elsa's guilt.

"It wasn't." Elsa replied, it was truthful at least. Anna saved her. "I intended to send you back to the camp, had I of known where you ended up -" Elsa began.

" - excuse me for trying to get back to you." Anna mumbled bitterly. Elsa was growing increasingly annoyed with her responses, it was getting tiresome and they were going round in circles. "You didn't get to know because you weren't with us. So stop acting as if you abandoning us was some good deed. We didn't save Arendelle together. I had to figure out what you had done for myself and pick up the pieces! We were meant to be a team, Elsa." She spat, pacing once more, her eyes fixed on Elsa. She wanted her to feel guilty, but it seemed no amount of words could ever illustrate what she had dealt with. Elsa would never know, because she wasn't there. She should have been there.

"What would you have done, Anna? You can't expect me to think that you could have made it across the dark sea!?" Elsa scoffed, rising to her feet. The two sisters kept eye stern eye contact, in stalemate.

"We won't ever know now! You never let me try!." She almost had to stifle a laugh. Underestimated, yet again.

"So out of the two of us, who would've carried Olaf?" Elsa challenged, as Anna gawked struggling to find a reply. "Or would we have just left him on the beach?" She took a step closer, Anna shrinking in response. Her head bowed, Anna let her eyes fall to the ground. Why was she being treated like a child? "That's assuming you would even pull through the first wave."

"At the very least we could have found another way..." Her voice raspy, Anna spoke more quietly the tears catching in her throat.

"There was no other way, you know that." Elsa spoke sternly. "It was difficult enough with powers - let alone without them." The tension in the room was slowly dissipating, growing colder again in the absence of anger. The tears from Anna could have flooded the room, they seemed to be endlessly streaming from her face. "Those waves were 5 times my size, Anna. I had to keep you safe."

"Those waves killed mum and dad..." Anna choked out, she took a few staggered breaths as she felt Elsa encompass her into a hug. "You showed me how they died.. th- and then- you.. could- " She felt her throat closing up, Elsa was trying to soothe her but it wasn't working. The images of their parents suffocating in salty water that crashed into their ship was burned into her memory. "You almost joined them." She pulled away from the hug, and sat on the edge of her bed. Her eyes landing on the window, the sun was almost completely up now. "I thought you had joined them." She breathed out. Messily wiping her nose and eyes. Elsa tentatively sat on the opposite edge of the bed, observing Anna struggle with her emotions. "So I might not have made it across the sea, but we should have talked - I could have tried..." She sniffed.

"We can't keep doing this, Anna." Elsa sighed, she decided against mentioning that they had talked about it, at least in her eyes they had. There was absolutely no chance that Anna would have allowed her to cross the sea alone. She stood by that decision. With how many times she almost drowned; how many times she had to start over, Anna would not have been able to sit idly by and watch. She would have run into that sea, and failed. It was idealistic to pretend she could have done it. "I wish I could have done some things differently.. truly I do." Anna brought her knees to her chest, she didn't want to hear this. She hated that she had ever been put through it. She wanted Elsa to never do something like that again. "But obsessing over the what-ifs and maybes doesn't change anything. It happened. You can't keep torturing yourself wondering what what could have been done differently." Her eyes stayed on her baby sister as she squirmed at her words, and it killed her. Elsa was dying inside. It wasn't as if she could go back in time and fix things. She couldn't relive it, although Anna was every night. "Olaf is happiest little snowman going, and he loves you - we all do."

Sympathetically, she continued. "Here and now, Anna. That's what we need to focus on." She shuffled closer to Anna, so she was almost right beside her. She wanted to hold her, but she wasn't sure how she would react. Lowering her hovering hand, Elsa stuck to using words as comfort. "Olaf and Kristoff will be over soon, and we have a games night tonight." She played with the hem of her sleeve, sighing deeply as Anna hiccupped next to her trying to find her breath again. "We still need to beat Sven and Kristoff's high score at charades. You don't wanna depend on me for that, do you?" She laughed lightly.

"No, you suck at charades" Anna laughed sadly, the under of her eyes stinging from constant friction in wiping away her tears. Her throat was stinging. The sobbing had somehow left her feeling full and empty at the same time. "I need to grieve, Elsa." She said quietly. "It's not going to go away that easily, you know?" Anna spoke genuinely, hoping Elsa was understanding that the pain she felt couldn't be extinguished with an apology.

"I know." Gently, Elsa replied. "Just don't go keeping all those feelings to yourself... we both know how shutting people out ends." She furrowed her brows, remembering every instance she had turned Anna away, every time she should have instead run to, not away. The isolation consumed her, and she wrongfully thought she was doing everyone a favour. When they were together, she was at her happiest. She couldn't let Anna fall into her old unhealthy behaviours. "You can hate me, you can shout at me, whatever you need to do. I won't leave." She assured.

"I miss you, Anna." Elsa said sincerely. "I feel like you haven't emerged from the cave quite yet." Her fingers climbed into Anna's clasp. "But I'm here, waiting." She gave Anna's hand a squeeze, before leaning into her shoulder. "As long as it takes."

A/N - I hope this is a good conclusion, I'm so glad you guys liked the first half.