well, welcome to the tenth chapter of my fanfiction titled 'Frozen Face Down: A Modern Take on Disney's Frozen 2013' based loosely on, you guessed it, Disney's 'Frozen' from the year 2013. this is the first ever chapter to feature the movie's own version of the snow queen in the flesh, so to speak. wasn't Elsa just beautiful in 'Frozen'? I know that her character from the original tale of 'The Snow Queen' was a villain, but I just love the new(er) adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's old story that 'Frozen' was made into. the actress who voices Elsa, Idina Mendzel, also happens to have my first name as her middle name. so, of course, I dig Elsa.
disclamation: I do not own Disney's 'Frozen' of 2013 in any way, shape, or form unless owning the film on Bluray and DVD would count for that. although, I can't help but find that doubtful. I also confess to not even owning this fanfiction's own storyline. the storyline is actually owned by another blogger on this website under the penname of classicdisneyFTW. their fanfiction is simply titled 'Face Down'. I just hope that I'm not copying off too much of their storyline. at least, I'm admitting to it and confessing to it has to count for something, doesn't it? ahem, I welcome your comments as long as they are in no way negative.
Olaf was openly proud of his two new friends for giving tutoring a chance. "That's great, girls!" the pudgy, little sophomore exclaimed to Anna and Freya. "Now back to the books, ladies. What do you think Thoreau means when he says, 'it's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.'?"
Anna scratched her head for the meaning behind it, herself. Freya, on the other hand, seemed to have the answer already. "He's probably just saying that you can't judge a book by its cover or a person by how they look," Freya told her friends just before considering her own words right then and there. 'Maybe I did fall for Sitron a little too fast,' she thought to herself.
Anna suddenly noticed Freya seem to tune out for a bit. "What's wrong, Freya?" the semi-blonde redhead asked her ivory-skinned, raven-haired high school friend.
Freya finally heard what Anna had said with a short, "Huh?" she said upon hearing her friend's words.
Anna saw that Freya definitely had tuned out her and Olaf at what Anna had asked her. "Olaf said 'You might just be right about what Thoreau means based on what he said in his book'. Then when you didn't respond to his comment about what you said, Freya, he grew worried about your lack of a response. What happened with you there?" Anna asked Freya.
Freya normally pale-faced complexion turned a light tint of pink at the realization that she had managed to tune out her own friends while she was inside her own head. "Sorry about that, guys. I was just deep in thought about my own words behind meaning in Thoreau's words when Olaf must've commented on what I said," Freya explained herself to her friends.
Luckily for the ivory-skinned, raven-haired girl, Olaf and Anna believed Freya's explanation. "Oh, that explains why you didn't respond right away, Freya. You were thinking about what you said, yourself," the pudgy, little university sophomore said, understanding perfectly why Freya acted like she had tuned her friends out.
"Yeah," Anna said about Freya's accused tuning out of her and Olaf. "I guess that you really were just thinking about your own words to us, Freya, and that's OK."
After hearing Freya's explanation from the ivory-skinned, raven-haired girl, herself, she, Anna and Olaf spent a good hour going over their homework together, sharing their ideas, comparing their answers, etc. before finally packing up their affects and leaving the library, completely burned out. The library was a good fifteen minutes away from closing its doors for the day by the time Anna, Freya and Olaf decided to leave, anyway.
On their way back to their homes, Olaf managed to ask Anna about something she had honestly been hoping to avoid for the time being. "So, Anna, have you tried seeing your sister, Elsa, yet?" Olaf innocently asked, not realizing it to be a pretty sensitive topic for the semi-blonde redhead. Freya tried to stop Olaf from asking such a question, but she was too late to even try.
"Admittingly, no," Anna told Freya and Olaf.
Olaf was surprised by this news from Anna. "Why not?" the pudgy, little university sophomore asked the semi-blonde redhead.
Shockingly, Freya was just as surprised as Olaf by her high school friend, Anna's, response. "Didn't you say just last week that you wanted to visit Elsa and have been meaning to visit her?" the ivory-skinned, raven-haired girl asked the semi-blonde redhead.
Anna just sighed in response to both of her friends' question before giving Freya and Olaf a verbal response, as well. "I did say that, Freya. I know I did," Anna told her ivory-skinned, raven-haired high school friend before extending her response to Olaf, too. "It's just that... Elsa's a bit... I don't know. You wouldn't understand what she's like, Olaf," Anna told the pudgy, little sophomore.
"Well, why can't you go and see her right now?" Olaf suggested to Anna.
"What?" Anna asked Olaf.
Freya decided to open her high school friend's mind to the idea of seeing her elder sister like Olaf had suggested. "I believe Olaf said that there was no reason why you couldn't go and see Elsa now," the ivory-skinned, raven-haired girl told the semi-blonde redhead.
"And, trust me," Olaf chimed into Freya's response. "It really is a great idea, in and of itself, and we all have a bit of time on our hands. So why don't we go and see your sister right now, Anna?" the pudgy little university sophomore asked the semi-blonde redheaded girl among their group of friends.
"Oh, I don't think it's such a great idea, you two," Anna confronted. "Elsa doesn't really like people."
"Oh, that can't be true," Freya told her semi-blonde redheaded high school friend. "She liked me when she first met me, and if Elsa liked a girl like me who acts like a frightened, little kitten every time she meets someone new, Elsa's sure to fall in love at first sight with someone as friendly as Olaf, don't you think, Anna?" Freya finished asking her high school girl friend.
"Yeah, Freya knows what I'm talking about," Olaf told his two female friends.
"Besides, Anna, when was the last time you even saw Elsa, your own sister, at all?" Freya asked her high school friend.
"A year and a half ago," Anna told her ivory-skinned, raven-haired high school friend. "But, you should know, Freya, that Elsa changed very drastically just before she disappeared. She's a completely different person, these days."
"Come on, Anna," Freya just remained insistent upon seeing her other adoptive foster sister after all that time. "How different can she be from a year and a half ago? It's not like she's the total opposite of what she used to be. And, where's your standard upbeat attitude suddenly gone? Usually, I'm the one who's the nervous wreck about doing this sort of thing."
"Don't you even wanna see your sister again, Anna?" Olaf asked, obviously taking Freya's side of the argument.
"Well, yes, I do wanna see Elsa again, but...," Anna started up before Olaf interrupted her with his own words.
"Well, every minute you say that you're gonna visit your sister the following day is another minute added to that year and a half," Olaf told Anna.
"He's right, you know, Anna," Freya told her semi-blonde redheaded high school friend. "Every time you say, 'I'll do it tomorrow' is just another potential visit to Elsa that just gets put to waste for you."
"I know that, Freya, but you and Olaf are just not understanding the issue here," Anna told her two friends. "Elsa's not that friendly, anymore."
"Come on, Anna," Olaf said to the semi-blonde redhead. "Don't you think that now's as good a time as any to put an end to that year and a half and just go visit your sister?"
Anna was ready to argue about her side of the argument until she realized that Freya and Olaf were both completely right about it. "You know what? You two are both right about it all," the semi-blonde redhead told her ivory-skinned, raven-haired high school friend and their new pale-skinned, pudgy little university sophomore friend. "I should just do it while the doing's good."
"Yeah!" Olaf and Freya both exclaimed at the same time.
"So come on, Anna! Let's go visit your sister, Elsa!" Olaf shouted to the both of them.
It was lucky for Anna, Freya and Olaf that Elsa lived only a few blocks away from Arendelle University in a somewhat old-looking apartment building known to its residents as 'The Frozen North'. The trio of friends were even luckier that the gate of such a place was within walking distance, so that was just how they had gotten to the apartment building, side by side by side with one another, until they reached the pale white gates of the apartment complex. They were all lucky to not have a car and were able to simply walk around the gates through the bushes, even if Freya felt uneasy about the idea of it. Eventually, however, even the ivory-skinned, raven-haired girl warmed up to the idea of once again seeing her other foster sister on the other side of the bushes surrounding the gate.
"I know it might already be a little late for this, but I'm pretty sure that I might have had a problem with such an entry method," Freya began to say about their way of coming in through the bushes instead of the gate. "Didn't what we had done there kinda count as breaking and entering? Are we gonna get arrested or something?"
"Didn't you want me to come visit Elsa, Freya?" Anna asked her skittish ivory-skinned, raven-haired high school friend.
"I'm sure the manager of this apartment building would understand if Anna told them her sister lived here, anyway," Olaf chimed in, trying to ease Freya's feeling of intrinsic doubt. The ivory-skinned, raven-haired girl did, however, have another doubt that filled her mind.
"Do you even know which apartment unit Elsa lives in at 'The Frozen North'?" Freya asked her high school friend, Anna.
"Of course, I know what unit she lives in," Anna told her ivory-skinned, raven-haired high school friend, Freya. "I got a text from her just before she went into isolation saying that she was gonna stay at this place for the rest of her life in Room 1313."
A/N: that number is my own reference to which Disney princess Elsa is.
"Did you really?" Freya asked, hopeful that Elsa might have wanted to see her and Anna just as much as the two of them wanted to see her.
Anna suddenly turned a bit pink with a sheepish grin on her face just before telling Freya the truth. "Admittingly, no," the semi-blonde redhead confessed to her ivory-skinned, raven-haired high school friend. "I actually managed to get her unit number from the manager of the apartment building."
Freya was, admittingly, upset that Anna sugarcoated the truth. The raven-haired, ivory-skinned girl managed to put it past her high school friend, however, just long enough to want to go and visit Elsa while they were still allowed in the complex. "Let's just go visit our sister, why don't we?" Freya told her high school friend, Anna.
"Yeah, let's visit my sister, Elsa, who is also technically your other foster sister, Freya," Anna finally responded after her rather embarrassing white little lie to her high school friend/foster sister.
Freya then called out to the other friend the two foster sisters had brought to their visit with Elsa. "You coming, Olaf?" she asked the pudgy little university sophomore.
"I'm coming!" Olaf exclaimed to Freya. "To Room 1313, we shall go!"
Anna, Freya and Olaf quickly found Elsa's apartment unit at the farthest end of the highest floor in the building. The only thing(s) wrong with the unit were that the windows were all shut, and the blinds were all folded downwards for one reason or another. There was also some visible dust covering the windowsill from where all three of them stood. From the looks of it, they all suddenly assumed that no one really lived in this unit. Perhaps the manager had not told Anna the truth earlier, either.
Olaf, however, just wanted to give this unit he, Anna, and Freya were finally in front of the benefit of the doubt. "Why don't one you just knock?" the pudgy little university sophomore suggested.
Anna and Freya decided to let the semi-blonde redhead among the two high school friends turned foster sisters be the one to knock since she had actually lived with Elsa her whole life. She raised her hand towards the tiny, silver knocker the ghostly white, hardwood door of her sister, Elsa's, apartment unit. This was it. After a whole year and a half, Anna and her ivory-skinned, raven-haired high school friend, Freya, were once again going to see the semi-blonde redhead's older sister, Elsa. What would it be like when they finally saw her after all that time? Would Elsa be happy to see the two of them again? What would Anna's sister, who was also Freya's other foster sister, say when she would see that the two of them brought a new friend along with them? Would she even invite them in? Should Anna give Elsa a hug if she let her, Freya and Olaf in? Would the semi-blonde redhead's older sister even want a hug from either one of them, never mind Olaf giving her a hug? It had been so long since Anna and Freya had seen Elsa, that a hug between even just the biological sisters would probably be a bit too awkward.
It was then that Anna and Freya suddenly realized that nothing had happened, and no one had answered the door. Freya decided that she would finally give it a try for herself. "Let me try," she told her high school friend Anna. The raven-haired, ivory-skinned girl reached for the silver knocker on the door to Elsa's apartment unit and took a go at it.
"Do you have any special knock that you used to do on Elsa's door when she still lived with you?" Olaf suggested further.
Olaf was right about Anna and Freya's knocking, in a way because the both of them had only tried the standard knocking on what was supposed to be Elsa's door. Anna tried her signature knock that she used to have whenever she went to see her sister as a child. Once again, no one came to the door, and nothing happened. "Maybe she isn't hearing us?" Anna suggested about her sister. The semi-blonde redhead truly did hate to think that Elsa was merely ignoring her own sister.
"My turn to try my signature knock, this time," Freya told the two of them just before making her own way back to the front of the door, held the door's silver knocker and knocked on the door which was supposed to be Elsa's unit. The raven-haired, ivory-skinned girl's signature knock, however, received no response from the other side, either.
"Maybe she's just not home?" Olaf suggested, trying to cheer Anna and Freya up after there was no response to even one of their knocks on the door.
Anna then sighed in depression. "Yeah, maybe," the semi-blonde redhead said dejectedly.
"Come on, Anna," Freya told her high school friend/foster sister, feeling equally depressed and dejected. "Let's go back home. Your parents are probably worried about us being out so late."
Anna, Freya and Olaf all turned around to leave when all three of them heard a clinking, unlocking noise from behind the door on which the two girls had recently knocked, causing all three friends to immediately turn around and look back at the door in question. Then, the door handle began jiggling not long afterwards. Anna rushed back to the door, watching the door handle in hopeful anticipation.
That was when the door opened up ever so slightly, but there was a silver chain matching the knocker on the outside of the door which had stayed locked up. Then, an eye appeared from beyond the door. Anna, Freya and Olaf suddenly heard the voice of the person to which the eye belonged. "Who is it?" they said. It was a female voice, that much was apparent. The person behind both the eye and the voice sounded pretty timid, though.
Anna was the first person to talk the person who was behind the door. "Elsa? Is that you?" the semi-blonde redhead asked the person. The voice and the eye which had been heard and seen from behind the door and Elsa's voice and eyes from before she went into isolation were one in the same, after all.
The person from the other side of the slightly open door finally spoke to them for real. "Anna?" they asked the semi-blonde redhead among the trio of friends which was made of herself, Freya and Olaf.
Although neither Anna nor Freya could see anything except for a single bright blue eye, but the semi-blonde redhead among the two high school friends/foster sisters had immediately recognized the eye as Elsa's own. She smiled at the sight of the eye. "Oh, Elsa! It's been so long!" she exclaimed to her biological sister. Anna then presented Freya to Elsa's front door like she was putting her up on the market. "You remember Freya Nigari, don't you? The friend of mine who I convinced mom and dad took in while we were in high school?" Anna asked Elsa while revealing Freya's presence just out the front door Elsa's apartment unit.
"How's it hangin', Elsa?" Freya greeted and waved to the girl on the other side of the door, blushing a slight tint of pink at being reintroduced to her other foster sister, Elsa Fjordsen.
"Hello, Freya," Elsa greeted back to her sister's ivory-skinned, raven-haired high school friend. Her eye looked downwards upon greeting Freya back, though. "What are you two even doing here? I thought you still lived back at home with mom and dad," Elsa said to the both of them.
"We just wanted to come and see you, Elsa," Anna answered her sister's question.
"We've both missed you terribly," Freya told Elsa while the raven-haired, ivory-skinned girl began to tear up at the possibility that Elsa did not miss even her own biological sister, Anna, as much as both of them missed her.
Anna suddenly saw the tears enter Freya's eyes and wanted to prevent her from crying at all. "We even began going to Arendelle University just like you still do, only we go onto the campus and attend our classes," Anna told her sister, Elsa, to which Freya began to cheer up a little and even nodded and smiled about.
Elsa's eye just continued to look downwards. "I've missed the both of you, too," the girl on the other side of the door told the two of them. It was in a solemn tone, however, that Elsa had said she missed Anna and Freya.
"So, why not come on out already?" Anna suggested of Elsa.
"We even brought a new friend we met at university for you to meet, if that'll help," Freya said to Elsa.
Anna and her high school friend/foster sister, Freya, turned for Olaf to introduce himself to Elsa. "Hi, I'm Olaf! Olaf Yensid, and I like warm hugs!" Olaf told Elsa, giving her a wave.
A/N: you see what I made Olaf's last name into? that's a nod to the original 'Sorcerer's Apprentice' from 1940's own Disney film, 'Fantasia'.
Elsa just looked away from the trio of friends. "I-I can't," she told Anna, Freya, even Olaf.
"Well, why can't you?" Freya asked her older foster sister, Elsa.
"Yeah, I mean, if you just_" Anna began before getting interrupted by Elsa, herself, from the other side of the door.
"I just can't!" Elsa shouted at Anna and Freya. "Now if it's not too much to ask, please just go away, you two!"
With that, Elsa slammed the rest of her front door shut and locked it back up. Upon Elsa basically shutting her door in Anna, Freya and Olaf's faces, the semi-blonde redhead just lowered her hands crestfallen while the raven-haired, ivory-skinned girl started to cry for real.