Ch 7- The Confession
The soft light of the morning sun began to stream into the small guest bedroom window. The two girls had fallen asleep while talking late into the night.
On the bed lay Hannah, half under the covers and half out, and on the floor lay Jess, who somehow managed to fall off of the bed.
Hannah opened her eyes and pushed herself into a sitting position against the headboard. The quiet of the room gave her time to think.
She wondered what her parents were doing right now. If they even knew she was gone. If time in her universe had come to a stand still.
She also missed her friends terribly. They were the reason she got up in the morning sometimes. She was thankful to have Jess by her side, but she wondered how her other best friend, Yvonne, was doing.
Yvonne lived in Australia, near Jess.
Hannah, who's father was native to Sydney, traveled there once a year to visit with family. Therein, developing a long distance friendship of sorts with the two.
They had been a tight-nit group ever since.
Hannah held back a giggle when she broke from her thoughts to see a sleeping figure on the ground.
"Jess wake up." Hannah said shaking the girl's shoulder.
Jess groaned due to the ache caused by sleeping on the floor, but stood up and flopped on the bed next to Hannah.
A sleepy "no" escaped her lips.
"Yes come on. We have to tell the others about where we come from remember?"
"Jussst fivvee moorre minutesss..." Jess dragged out dramatically.
Hannah grabbed the cup of water on the bedside table and promptly turned it upside down over Jess's head.
"AHHH HEY THAT'S COLD!" Jess wailed, being thrown into consciousness.
"Welcome to Frozen." Hannah quipped.
"Lets go down for breakfast now."
"Alright lets go down." Jess said, quickly grabbing the hairbrush on the vanity to fix her wet hair.
Breakfast was being served where all meals of the day were served; in the dining room.
Elsa looked up and grinned as the girls walked in. Although, she seemed a little guarded, as if she was constantly on alert for something to happen.
"Good morning. How was the room? Comfortable I hope?" The Queen asked politely.
"Oh yes the floor was spectacu—"
Jess's comment was cut off by Hannah whacking her in the stomach lightly, with a disapproving look.
Jess rephrased, "The room was perfect thank you your majesty."
"Just 'Elsa' is fine. You girls are my friends now." She grinned once again.
Anna smiled her usual smile, but also seemed reserved in a sense.
"Hey guys, they're serving chocolate pancakes this morning, I know you'll like them. They're my favorite breakfast food."
The two girls smiled excitedly in return and took their previous spots at the table. They were completely unaware of the mission set forth the night prior.
Jess looked at Hannah purposefully, trying to alert her that they should begin the confession.
Hannah took in a deep breath inaudibly.
"Hey, um, there's something that Jess and I didn't tell you guys...about us." Hannah began shakily and almost guiltily.
Anna had just shoved a huge bite of chocolate chip pancake in her mouth, but stopped chewing at Hannah's statement.
Elsa grimaced, hoping she wouldn't hear what she thought she might.
"What is it that you didn't tell us?" Kristoff asked, reveling in the correctness of his previous doubts about the two strange visitors.
Hannah looked at her lap and continued.
"You see, We.. we.. we're not actually from here..." she looked up and met Anna's eyes.
"We know you're not from Arendelle, silly. You already told us that." Anna said optimistically, trying to delay the inevitable.
"Yeah but, it's like this..." Hannah sighed, about to break the real truth. She looked at Jess for reassurance, who smiled sympathetically nodding her head.
"I don't quite understand it myself, but Jess and I are from..another world or something to that nature. Dimension, realm, I'm not sure of the correct terminology, I mean... who would know the correct terminology for something like this, this kind of thing just doesn't happen, it can't happen." Hannah began to ramble on nervously.
Jess grabbed Hannah's wrist to stop her from going on. Hannah shut up immediately.
Elsa, Anna, and Kristoff all looked horrified to say the least. Ice was beginning to spread across Elsa's side of the table, the once warm, fluffy pancakes were now frozen.
Elsa's secret assumptions about the pair had been correct. They were the ones causing the rift. They were the ones from another world. They were the ones Garth of Cattarri wanted dead.
Jess continued the explanation. "Yes we are both from another universe and we somehow ended up here yesterday. We don't know how and we don't know why. But it's different in our world, it's like, in the future. We have technologies and knowledge that you guys don't have here. You see, there's this thing called animation..."
Hannah almost threw up. She shook her head signaling Jess to not tell them.
If they were revealing all their secrets here and now, at the very least they could leave out the part about being the creators of Elsa, Anna, Arendelle, and everything that existed before them.
Jess nodded understandingly and altered her following statement, "Well our technology... actually allows us to know who you guys are, and what you've been through."
Jess went on, "That's actually why we screamed like we did when we saw you for the first time. We're sorry if it was weird, it's just... you guys are like our idols. In fact we are part of a whole worldwide group of people who idolize you. You've helped so many people through difficult times. Hannah even fainted because of the excitement!"
Hannah jumped internally at being exposed like that so suddenly, but figured it was the truth after all.
Although, she had been beginning to sense that something about the others was not right.
Of course, she had expected a range of emotions: confusion, curiosity, maybe even amazement, but not the gut wrenching fear and realization that stained their faces.
She finally piped back in, trying to ignore the flurry that had begun around them.
"I know this is a lot take in guys. The fact of the matter is, we need to find a way to get back home. I don't even know where to start. I guess what Jess and I are asking is, would you help us?" Hannah finished, everything she had to hide now laid out on the table.
Anna locked eyes with Elsa.
What were they supposed to do? Turn them in?
Search parties had been sent out to hunt down the causes of the universal rift, and now it sat right before them, and had been there all along.
Elsa, finally, cleared her throat to speak.
Before she could get a word out, the door swung open and In walked Sir Garth of Cattarri.
"Good morning everyone. Queen Elsa, I sent for an army of magic wielders, from my home kingdom to assist the Arendelle troops on the- ahem- mission. I will succeed if it is the last thing I ever do, I swear it.
Hannah and Jess looked confusedly at the man speaking.
Elsa, Anna, and Kristoff however, seemed to completely understand.
Garth cleared his throat atrociously and sat down at the table.
"Now, what's for breakfast?"