~Chapter 22~

3 Years Later

Anna

Time makes one weaker and weaker without proper stimulation. My masters calls rang in my ears every day. He was still sealed and I was still trapped in this place. I saw her every day in this filthy place staring at me through glass and protected iron bars. The other me was unrelenting in how often she stuck that syringe in my arm so I could be dealt with on a daily basis. She mocked me every day by holding me in here, but she'd learn fire can't be contained.

I was mostly left alone, but it felt like I was being watched all the time. I was only visited by my older self when I was fed scraps or she drugged me to give me the paralytic. How I ever discovered to drain power, I would love to find that out. I constantly put up a fight to keep them on their toes and to let them know that they may think they know who they're messing with because she and I looked the same. In reality, they had no idea what I was capable of. I never saw Kristoff and I wondered what they had done with him. Did they do what they did to me and drug him while he was a beast? Why did I think of him or maybe it was her fighting me in my head. She was giving me thoughts and sending them to the forefront of my brain. I was concerned. He was my way out of here that could be managed with brute strength. In this one rare circumstance, I could rely on Kristoff being that beast. Then I saw him come into my cell, but it wasn't him. His full blonde beard couldn't hide his face. He put his arm around the other me and it was a disgusting sight. I wondered if I should prey on their sympathies. Could I act like her to throw them off?

"Anna?" I called out dazed and confused to them, "Where is Elsa? Can I see Kristoff? I wanna go home to Arendelle."

I pitched up my voice to sound more like her in my head.

"Your attempts are pathetic," She replied,

"After three years, you should be used to the routine." The older Kristoff added.

A quick zap to my neck knocked me on my back and I felt numb. I bit my lip as I did most days as the other me came in my cell once I was passive. Little did they know, my body had grown used to the electric shocks. It took three years, but I was ready. The other me approached with a clipboard and syringe as the other Kristoff watched from the other side of the room.

"You're worse than I am," I muttered.

"Tell yourself whatever you wish," She replied, reaching toward me with the syringe.

"Your Elsa believed you dead, didn't she? That's cruel to do to your sister."

The other me blinked a couple times. It was subtle, but I could see that my words hit their mark. Inches before the needle stuck in my skin, I grabbed her hand twisting it in a way that she yelped in pain dropping the syringe. Pulling her close, I had her in a chokehold. My power was weaker and I could feel that drain inside me. I wasn't sure if the other me would be immune to it.

"I'm trying to help you, Anna." She choked out.

"I don't want or need your help." I snapped.

She pulled at my arm as I gripped tightly as the older Kristoff burst into the cell holding a pistol. These weapons were still quite new and often misfired, which is why my father preferred swords or crossbows for our guards in Arendelle.

"Let my wife go," Kristoff growled, looking fierce.

"Think you can put a bullet between my eyes before I snap her neck?"

"Worth a shot,"

"Funny thing about time travel, the past affects the future. What happens to her if you kill me?" I said, raising a brow.

I had him as he lowered his gun.

"You're smarter than I gave you credit for." I smirked, "Release my bear."

"You mean, me?" The other Kristoff clarified.

"He serves me, let him out and I'll let your wife go."

"Kristoff, don't." The other me choked out.

Put a little pressure on weak spots and push a little, anyone can be putty in your hand. Kristoff disappeared from my sight and soon I heard a bellowing of a bear. I saw the white of fur trample into the room staring at me from behind the wall of my cage.

"Let me out," I ordered to the other Kristoff.

He didn't hesitate as I still had the other me firmly in my grip. The door slid open as I came out with her as the other Kristoff watched me nervously. The bear came to my side standing at the ready.

"Get this collar off me,"

The other Kristoff obeyed without question as I gestured for him to go inside the cell. I pushed the other me inside after him as I ordered Kristoff the bear to finish them off. He charged as I left the room as the sounds of screaming echoed off the walls.

In less than five minutes, Kristoff returned to my side as I made my way around this place. There were multiple levels to this strange place, but as I continued climbing stairs, there was a hatch at the top of the final set of stairs that led me outside. To freedom. I rode on Kristoff's back getting later into the night before I found a lone cabin out here in the Swedish wilderness. Never having been to Sweden before, I wasn't sure how to get back home, but I was resourceful. I would figure it out, but for nwo, I wanted to rest and bask in my freedom after three long years. Melting the lock on the cabin door, it was vacant luckily for the owner. There was a cot and a small fireplace that I quickly set fire to and I sat down to catch my breath. Kristoff settled on the rug on the floor ironically the rug was made of fur of some beast. Her blood was still caked in the fur near his jowls. My hands were shaking and I think the day's events had rattled me. Anna had been screaming in my head giving me the worst headache that wouldn't stop. Resting my eyes didn't last long before my master's voice overpowered her own voice in my head. His disdain and disappointment had been verbalized these past years and yet he didn't make anyone else his Siren. I was his and I still had a job to do. I kicked up my feet as the sun rose on the horizon as Kristoff became a man once again.

"Anna?" He muttered looking around taking in our new surroundings, "What happened?"

"We're free, that's what happened."

"I don't understand," He replied.

"You were big help back there," I said.

He looked down at his hands as if he expected blood to be there. I don't think he could handle it if I told him what happened.

"Anna, what did you have me do?" He demanded.

He would regret using a tone with me, but it's not like Kristoff was much of a threat.

"I built a tolerance to the shocks, I found an opening and you finished it."

His face was full of disgust as he looked back at me in disbelief.

"Why aren't you fighting?" He muttered.

"Fighting what? This is who I am. The woman you claim to love is gone."

"I don't believe that,"

"That is your burden to bear,"

Silence fell between us as Kristoff stared at the fireplace. At some point he had to accept me and perhaps this would be that final breaking point. I know he was angry, I didn't care. Either because I wouldn't tell him anything much about what had happened or he imagined the worst. Silence fell over us inside that cabin before I heard Rasmus in my head.

"You disappoint me, my Siren. Just like the others, you can't manage one simple task."

"Master, I just got my freedom and I'm coming to release you."

"Find them now, your failures are stacking up."

His tone was tense and his anger was tangible in his voice.

"I haven't failed you," I insisted.

"Elsa still lives,"

I swear my heart stopped. There is no way, I saw her body. She dropped down dead. He was wrong, he had to be.

"Master,"

"She lives, Siren. She will stop at nothing to find you if you let her."

She hasn't found me for three long years because she's gone. Unless. I paused my thoughts trying to ignore my master's pressing thoughts of action and try to think for myself. I closed my eyes mulling through my memories and I felt resistance from her. There was something she was protecting. Just like me, Elsa had another self from the future. If master was right, did that Elsa take my hit? I couldn't confirm or prove it, but it made sense. Kristoff looked up at me and he looked concerned.

"Anna?"

"At sunrise, we leave for Arendelle. I have to see my sister."

It wasn't long before morning sunlight streamed through the cabin window and Kristoff morphed back into a bear. I didn't know where to go, but heading north following the fjord, I found a town with a small harbor and that was all I needed. I boarded the ship threatening this Swedish crew to take me across the water back to Norway, to Arendelle. It didn't take much to convince the captain to take me across the water when threatening him with fire and an attack from a polar bear. I would return to Arendelle and finish what I started. Elsa was a threat to me and my master. She would not get away from me again.