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Anna was actually happy school had started again. It brought back some normality to everything and kept her mind away from everything that happened over the holidays. Eric and Ariel's wounds were looking better and were almost healed. Things were going well.
"Oh my god, can the nerd squad like, get out of our way for once?"
Anna groaned as the shrill voice of Snow White burst through her ear drums. She had spoken too soon. She closed her locker door and sighed.
"Oh my god, can the bitch squad like, get brains for once?" She retorted. Out the corner of her eye she saw the others giggle into their hands. Anna smirked. Her eyes briefly catch Elsa's lips twitch before she shook her head.
"Let's just stop being children for once, class is starting in 5 minutes," she says and moves past everyone to go to her locker. Snow White and the others looked a little taken aback. Usually Elsa would have had her own retort to the redhead. Anna scrunched up her face.
"Sad to see a vampire didn't get you," she said and Elsa stops her movements.
"Sad to see your nerd squad didn't turn into werewolves," she shot back and to everyone's extra confusion Anna smiled.
"I have a theory that the herbal tea had some wolfs bane in it," Anna shrugs and Elsa looks to her with a raised eyebrow. Before Elsa could say something, the bell rang and they headed to their classes.
Classes, as usual, were boring and Anna tried her best to pay attention. She took notes and even answered a few questions but her mind kept drifting back to the holidays. The whole gang agreed that they would drop the whole hunting thing. None of them thought it was real and was just going to do it out of boredom and maybe do some silly videos for the web.
Anna had questions, oh so many questions. One of which was why the hell was Elsa Ice Bitch Arendelle being a part of a secret agency, probably one that killed supernatural creatures? Was this the government's doing? She wanted to know, but she knew Elsa wasn't going to tell her shit.
Not after the blonde had pinned her down on the hood of her-nope! She wasn't going to think about it!
"Rapunzel! Buddy old pal!" Anna called as she entered the cafeteria. The brunette blinked up to her from her book and looked really lost.
"I wasn't aware we were friends," she says slowly as she closes her book.
"Let's change that yea? I have a few questions and miss Ice Bitch isn't going to answer them. At best I think she'll actively slap me," Anna says and sits next to the brunette.
"She won't do that," Rapunzel rolls her eyes but meeps as she sees the dead glare the redhead gives her.
"First question, was there wolfs bane in the herbal tea?" Anna asks and the other girl nods.
"Cool, so do you and Ice Bitch work for like an agency or something?" Anna asked wanting to get right into it without beating around the bush too much. Before Rapunzel could even open her mouth, a hand slammed down on the table between them.
"Don't tell the nerd anything Rapunzel, or I will report you," Elsa growled and Anna glared up to the girl.
"Wow, you even bully your co-workers, you really are an Ice Bitch," Anna smiled and fluttered her eyelashes. Elsa growled and gripped the redhead's shirt making her yelp as she dragged her out of the cafeteria and into a deserted hallway.
"The fuck was that for?" Anna hissed as she rubbed her chest where the girl's nails had dug into her flesh.
"You need to stay out of this, what we do is top secret and none of your business," Elsa growled as she jabbed a finger at Anna's shoulder.
"I'm making it my business! My friends were almost killed, do you expect me to just sit back and have that shit happen to someone else?" Anna hissed.
"Yes! Anna, I do expect you to sit back and forget about this! This is not your problem!" They were an octave away from yelling and that realisation made them start to whisper at each other harshly.
"Why would you care if I got hurt or killed anyway?" Anna whispered and she could see Elsa's eyes turn a sharper shade of blue, that black ring around it forming again.
And again Anna thought back to the parking lot incident. She thought that maybe, just maybe Elsa actually cared for her.
"Fine! Go get yourself killed! See if I fucking care, you know what? Here," Elsa growls and pulls out a slip of paper from her back pocket. She stuffs it into Anna's hands.
Well there goes that hopeful thought.
"I was going to go take care of a banshee near the old ruins, but if you're so damn eager to do my job then be my fucking guest," Elsa hisses and turns away. Anna watches her storm off and is left dumbfounded.
She's never seen Elsa that angry before, but fuck it. She will take care of this Banshee and show her she can take care of herself. Now all she needed to do was research what the hell a banshee was.
To the internet!
Anna checks her equipment one last time as she gets out of her truck. It was close to midnight. She would have been here earlier if her parents had gone to sleep earlier, but no! They wanted to finish the movie they were watching. The one-time old people didn't go to bed by 10pm.
Right, she had everything, she hoped. Google used to be her best friend but this time it didn't hold as much information she wanted. It was a little lacking.
A flashlight, not to only see but determine if a banshee was there, it would disrupt the light and make it flicker.
Noise cancelling headphones to hopefully protect her ears from its shriek.
The only golden weapon she could find was a very fancy letter opener. She needed to return that back to its rightful place ASAP.
"I can't believe you dragged me into this," Eugene grumbles as he stands beside her.
"You'd never forgive yourself if you let me come here on my own," Anna retorts and he sighs.
"I hate when you're right," he says and she smiles.
"Let's look around for like 2 hours then head home," Anna says and clicks on her flashlight. Their headphones were hanging around their necks at the ready if they encountered the spirit.
The ruins were more eerie at night Anna notices. She used to love playing around here when she was little. It used to be her and Eugene then they later met Eric and Ariel. The four were best friends since they could remember.
The reason the other two weren't with them was due to them still recovering from their previous adventure. She didn't want to bother them with this one.
Anna briefly remembers catching Elsa and the others of her bitch squad hanging around here when they were about 12. Anna and her gang caught them out here smoking and got them in big trouble with their parents. Ever since then the bitch squad had it out for them.
Meh.
In all honesty really, in a smallish town like this they had all grown up together, technically speaking. Though kids tend to stay with their group of friends and rarely venture to others, especially when families don't get along. You know? Small town shenanigans.
"So, Elsa really must hate you to have practically dared you to do this," Eugene says as he looks around with his flashlight.
"Pfft, she probably just doesn't want to do this, much like homework," Anna scoffs and looks around herself.
"Dude, remember how much fun we had around here?" He asks and Anna smiles.
"Dude, we had epic adventures here," she says and stops at a grumbling wall. There were graffiti on it. Various reds and greens and some blue. Their names sprayed on in sloppy pre-teen hand writing. Anna tilts her head and takes a step closer.
Between all the names and crud drawings there were distinct snowflakes near Anna's name. She shakes her head. She can't remember ever making those, heck they were so perfectly done, Anna doesn't think it was any of them that made it.
"This place is giving me the creeps," Anna says and waits for a reply from Eugene. She frowns as she hears nothing. Slowly turning around, she fully expecting him to try and jump scare her. However, as she notices him just standing there with his back to her, she can hear their flashlights fizz. They flicker harshly as the form of a seemingly floating woman appears in front of them.
"Eugene your headphones," Anna says slowly as she moves hers onto her ears. The boy doesn't move.
"Eugene your headphones!" She yells and presses hers closer over her ears as the creature opens its mouth. Anna's eyes clenched shut as she can practically feel the scream the thing lets out. It pierces through her headphones, but not enough to make her deaf.
She stands and sees Eugene had pulled his headphones on in time. She slaps at his arm to get his attention as she tries to form words.
"W-we should run," she gulps and starts tugging at his arm.
"Eugene let's go!" She tries and he snaps out of it and they start running back to the truck. They can hear it scream again.
Once at the truck Anna curses as it won't start. Great, just great, it can disrupt cars too. They jump and scream as the banshee slams its hands onto the truck windows. It opens its mouth to scream again but something hits its head.
It looks to the side and Anna can't see what it's looking at, but she has an idea. The creature moves in the direction the hit came from before being thrust back into the hood of the truck. Both Anna and Eugene flinched. They watch as a light goes on and comes closer to them, Anna quickly tries the truck and it roars to life. She relaxes but jumps as Elsa slams her hand onto the window of her door.
Anna slowly lets it down and looks into those perpetually glaring eyes.
"I knew you were stupid, but this is a whole new level," Elsa says and Anna frowns.
"Hey, we were handling it," she huffs and Elsa raises a delicately plucked eyebrow.
"You were seconds away from having your eardrums explode and your brains scooped out by its tongue," Elsa deadpans. Eugene pulls his face in mild horror at that little detail Anna forgot to mention.
"How'd you kill it anyway?" Anna switches the conversation.
"A gold laced dagger, duh," Elsa rolls her eyes and pulls the dead creature away from the truck.
"You better get out of here before I call clean up and just let me catch you doing stupid shit like this again and I will let you die next time," Elsa growls.
"Not to get into you twos old married couple banter but, technically you dared her and Anna never backs down from a dare," Eugene says as he shrugs. His hands held up to show he was being non-confrontational.
"What he said. You dared me to come here, so if anything happened to me it would be your fault," Anna says and sticks out her tongue.
"Real fucking mature and what do you mean it would be my fault? You too stupid to think for yourself that this is dangerous?" Elsa hissed, her eyes practically glowing.
"I came prepared!" Anna hissed back.
"You're not trained Anna! This work isn't like your stupid shows or comic books! Even trained professionals with years of experience can end up being killed by these things!" Elsa snapped, practically huffing from anger. She takes a deep breath and runs her hands through her hair as she calms herself down.
"I've been doing this job for 3 years now Anna, and even entry level creatures can still hurt me. I ask you to please leave this to the professionals and go home," Elsa says with an underlined growl.
Anna huffs and just does as told this time. Her ears were ringing as is and she just wanted to get away from there.
We're going to slowly start getting more into the agency Elsa works for and POV will shift to Elsa after the next chapter or...in the middle of next chapter...either way there will be bouncing between their perspectives.
See you all next time.
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