Tell Me How To Fix You
By: The Duchess of Arendelle
AN: I want to go ahead and apologize for any mistakes that I've made in this chapter. It has been brought to my attention by a couple of people that my spelling is bad or what have you. I read over these chapters a bunch of times over a period of days but mistakes still get past me. So I'm sorry, I try to make my stories as enjoyable and easy to read as possible but if I have to spend time going over every word it would take me even longer to post these chapters. Anyway, I'm not upset about people telling me, I even think it's great when they correct me because it makes me more aware of what I'm writing when I'm writing. So I hope you enjoy this update guys. Thanks!
"You're kidding… right?"
"Umm, no actually."
"So you're serious?"
"Yes."
"You've never eaten a sandwich before today?"
"No."
Anna was stunned. What the heck did this girl eat when she was too lazy to cook real food?
"Well?"
"Well what?"
"How'd you like it?"
"Oh. It was um, really good actually. I wouldn't mind eating one again. You'll have to show me how to make one. I-If that's okay with you that is." Elsa muttered the last part looking away. Anna giggled slightly. Elsa looked back in Anna's direction to see the younger girl smiling at her. Anna had noticed the worried, unsure look that had come over Elsa's face and wanted to put the girl at ease.
"Of course I'll teach you how to make a sandwich! Fair warning though, my sandwiches tend to get little extreme, in size and flavor." Anna's smile turned mischievous as she put on a faux upper-class British accent. "You see, what we just indulged in was a regular All- American sandwich complete with a side of pickle. This pairs nicely with the orange soda we drank." Anna's head was slightly tilted upward to give her a snobbish look. Out of the corner of her eye she saw Elsa trying to stifle a laugh so she continued.
"There are many different kinds of sandwiches, I won't bore a novice sandwich consumer like yourself with the details." Anna sniffed, continuing her bit. Elsa finally burst out laughing. Fully laughing and Anna couldn't remember hearing a more beautiful sound. Anna eventually joined Elsa in her laugher and as the two came down from their laughter high, Elsa turned to Anna and smiled. She found that she did that a lot in Anna's presence. Smiling, 'And crying too.' she thought a little cynically, but mostly smiling.
"Anna, are you teasing me because I know nothing about the intricacies of sandwiches and the making of them?" Elsa asked softly.
"What? No, I was just trying to make you smile-" Anna instantly shut her mouth. Saying something like that to a virtual stranger could be misconstrued as weird. Elsa on her part just continued smiling.
"Well it worked." Elsa responded. The room grew silent after that. During their laughing fit, they somehow managed to move much closer to each other on the couch. Elsa quickly picked up on this fact and tried to discretely put distance between them. Anna, ever the observant one, saw what Elsa was doing and lightly grabbed the blonde's hand to halt her escape. To both of their surprise, Elsa didn't immediately snatch away from her and instead went completely still. Elsa's breathing was increasing in speed just a bit, but other than that she was fine. 'Well she's not freaking out on me, that must mean something.' Anna thought to herself as she continued holding Elsa's hand, even going as far as rubbing soothing circles with the pad of her thumb on the part not covered by the bandages. Elsa sighed at the feeling of human contact that she was actually… enjoying.
'Anna's hands are really soft.' was the first thought that ran across Elsa's mind.
They stayed like that for a couple more minutes, just sitting there, quietly holding hands and giving each other shy looks. Anna was about to speak again when her phone went off. Once again 'Bye, Bye, Bye' started blaring from her cell phone's speakers. Anna cast a slightly embarrassed look over at Elsa who was looking right back at her with a raised brow. Tonight. Tonight would be the night she change that damn ringtone for sure. Anna slowly removed one of her hands from Elsa's grip, digging her phone out of her pocket. Anna looked at the phone's screen and saw Aurora's name flashing. She threw Elsa an apologetic smile as she removed her other hand and stood.
"I'm sorry, I have to get this. It's work." Anna said as she made her way to the kitchen. Elsa silently nodded her head and fixed the chair cushions that Anna was seconds ago sitting on. She then retrieved the remote and turned the channel to HBO. There was a True Blood marathon on and she settled in as she continued to sneak glances at Anna.
***FROZEN***
"Yeah no, everything's fine I swear. Well I can't talk about it right now. Okay, okay, I'll tell you guys about it tomorrow. Vault meeting, and I mean VAULT. No this has nothing to do with Hans. Okay I jus-. Whoa, whoa, what? Why would you think-? Yes that is still happening, Friday at 8:00. Ugh, Hans has been nothing but a perfect gentleman to me, and why are we even talking-." Anna was speaking animatedly to Aurora on the phone and Elsa was trying her best to ease drop, even though she knew it was wrong. 'What is a vault meeting? And who is Hans? Is that Anna's boyfriend?' Elsa wasn't sure why, but the thought of Anna dating anyone horrified her and made her chest clench uncomfortably.
"Well did you at least start on that article? The bake sale is in two days and you need to interview people tomorrow. The assignment is also due tomorrow before 9:00 p.m. so it can be in the paper the day before the sale to generate attention. And I'm guessing you haven't come up with any Q and A topics yet." Aurora finished in an exasperated tone. Anna was quickly become one of her best friend's and she didn't want the girl to get fired or demoted for slacking off. She knew Anna was a very skilled journalist, she just hoped the redhead wasn't getting distracted before she even properly began her career.
"For your info Rora, I was just about to get started on that." Anna lied and they both knew it. She hurriedly rushed back over to the couch where Elsa was pretending like she wasn't listening in on Anna's conversation the entire time. She instead quickly focused all her attention on the Sookie, Bill, Eric, love triangle that was unfolding on the screen. Anna plopped down on the couch, much to Elsa's distain, and booted her old laptop back up.
"Look, Ro I need to concentrate on this, I will see you tomorrow okay? Alright hon, bye bye."
"Bye." Elsa mumbled and Anna shot her a playful death glare. Elsa smiled in return, she'd probably never admit to Anna that she too was a huge NSYNC fan when she was younger. Anna hung up the phone and turned to Elsa as she continued waiting for 'Bertha', which is what she named her laptop, to load up.
"Well aren't you just full of jokes." Anna said playfully. Elsa just shrugged a bit and smiled. She then chanced a quick glance at Anna's laptop. It was currently perched in front of them both on Elsa's belched mahogany coffee table and the blonde billionaire looked genuinely offended at the sight of the thing. Anna's laptop was way past its prime. It was covered in various stickers of bands, cartoon characters and comic book superheroes/villains. The surface looked a bit grimy, which had Elsa instantly cringing, and she stared in horror at the load up screen as it proclaimed Windows XP.
"What is that, that thing?" Elsa pronounced the word thing with much distaste. She wasn't uppity or a yuppie in anyway, but the garbage currently sitting in front of her was just a shame and disgrace. Anna looked surprised for a moment before following Elsa's gaze and then turning back to the blonde.
"What, you mean Bertha?" Anna asked facing Elsa and pointing her thumb back at the offending object.
"Bertha?" Elsa asked incredulously.
"Yeah that's what I call her. I've had this baby since my freshmen year of high school." Anna proudly responded petting the thing. Elsa looked disgusted. That laptop, if you could even call it that, definitely looked sticky. Anna was not touching her hand again until she thoroughly washed hers. In hot water and a lot of soap. Elsa was also going to have to disinfect her coffee table after Anna left. She said nothing to Anna for a long time, then she finally asked,
"Why don't you buy a new one?"
Anna looked up startled from her laptop, it was now in her lap, to Elsa's relief, and she had been concentrating on the screen.
"Buy a new laptop?" Anna asked and Elsa nodded her head. Anna shrugged.
"It never really occurred to me to buy a new one. I mean, this one still works, not great, but it still works. I typed my first article on this thing. It has sentimental value I guess. Besides I can't really afford a new one right now." Anna was not embarrassed or ashamed to admit that, even to a person as rich as the gorgeous blonde sitting next to her. But what she didn't tell Elsa is that her laptop was also her diary. She had been typing her thoughts, feelings, hopes, and dreams, on Bertha since the first day she got her and she still did to this day. Elsa mulled over Anna's answer.
"If you could get a new laptop… would you want one?" Elsa asked. Anna had started typing on Bertha and absentmindedly responded.
"Hmm, I guess it would be nice to have a faster laptop, especially now that I'm employed at an actual newspaper. I'll have to start typing and researching on this thing more, and the last update I got was Microsoft Word 2007." To say Elsa was mortified was an understatement. She actually did like to indulge herself and purchase the latest in technology. She was a nerd like that. She distantly wonder how Anna would react if she showed her the amazing media room she had set up herself.
"Microsoft Word 2007? But, that's seven years old." Elsa exclaimed. Anna shrugged.
"I know, I don't mind. You work with what you got, right?" Anna said as she continued typing on her laptop. Usually she hated when people were talking to her while she was trying to do her work, but she didn't mind it a bit when it was Elsa on the other end of the conversation. She actually preferred it that way. Elsa didn't respond to Anna's last comment, she instead focused her attention back on the huge flat screen in front of them. She had a plan, but she need to get more intel on the pigtailed girl sitting beside her. How to go about that?
***FROZEN***
After an hour and a half of typing and six awkward True Blood sex scenes later, the two had again struck up friendly chatter, still actively avoiding the huge bandaged up elephant in the room.
"So you just got a new job at a newspaper? Which one?" Elsa inquired politely even though she already knew the answer. Olaf was a huge blabber mouth.
"Oh, umm. Mirror, Mirror…" Anna mumbled nervously. Elsa looked at Anna then down at her lap. She sighed. Damn, Anna knew who she was, 'That's the only reason she would be nervous about telling me that.'
"So from the way you responded, I take it you know who I am?" she asked still not looking at Anna. Anna nodded her head then remembered Elsa wasn't looking at her to see the action.
"Yeah, I kinda just found out yesterday afternoon." Anna said nervously.
"But it doesn't matter that you are like my boss's boss's boss. I swear I had already met you before I knew, and everything that is said, or that goes on here will be kept a secret. Wild horses wouldn't be able to drag information out of me. I consider you a friend, I hope you don't mind." Anna smiled assuredly at Elsa and Elsa found herself easily smiling back. 'I've smiled and laughed more in these past 3 days then I have in the past 4 years.' Elsa thought to herself. She hesitated for just a second before she found herself responding.
"I- I consider you a friend as well." She said slowly, and as the words fell from her lips she found that they were 100% true. Anna was her friend.
So why did her chest twist at the thought of them being just friends?
AN: A little fluff to bring you guys down from the previous chapter's angst high. Tell me what you think of this chapter! Peace! :)