Tell Me How To Fix You
Chapter 14
By: The Duchess of Arendelle
AN: Sorry for any mistakes. Enjoy the chapter! BTW, thank you guys for all the reviews and story follows/favorites. I love you guys, you're all incredibly awesome!
"You're in an awful good mood this morning." Snow commented to a smiling, humming Anna as they stood in the lounge, pouring coffee. "Did you go on a date yesterday perhaps?" Snow asked kindly.
"Yeah, give us the gory details." Meg said entering the lounge, followed by Aurora and Merida. Tiana had to go to a doctor's appointment with Charlotte today and Alice was out on assignment.
"I take it your little thing with Hans went well?" Aurora asked as she inspected the happy redhead. Anna rolled her eyes but continued to smile.
"Unfortunately I had to postpone my and Hans's date." Anna said sipping her coffee. The girls gasped, all except Snow who was cheerfully stirring an ungodly amount of sugar and cream in her coffee.
"What?" Merida asked excitedly. "Did I hear ye correctly? You cancelled yur' date with Hans?"
"Postponed. Until tonight." Anna clarified.
"Oh." Merida said, disappointed.
"Then why are you in such a good mood?" Aurora asked suspiciously, grabbing a cup of coffee for herself.
"I seriously have no idea what you guys are talking about. I'm like this every morning." Anna responded.
"No, yur' usually like a zombie evr'y mornin'" Merida said, cracking open a can of caffeine and sugar filled soda from the fridge. Pretty sure that wasn't hers.
"Yea, there's definitely something more… I don't know… Cheerful? About you today. It's sickening, really." Was Meg's response as she sipped on her black coffee.
"What did you do yesterday?" Aurora asked.
"Nothing you guys, really." Anna's mind flashed back to the whole 'naked Elsa' incident. "I just- I hung out with that friend I was telling you about. We actually had a pretty good time." Anna said, looking into her cup of coffee with a blush.
'A pretty good time' didn't come close to describe how much fun she had just being around Elsa. Yesterday in particular. After the awkwardness of all that happened yesterday passed, Anna had thrown Hans a quick call to reschedule their date. Strangely, she wasn't as upset about it as she thought she would be. Elsa had then asked her with a blush what she wanted to cook. Anna shrugged and suggested they look around for something. Upon further inspection of Elsa's refrigerator and cabinets Anna learned two things. One, Elsa had a lot of fresh vegetables. Two, Elsa had only fresh vegetables. It was Anna's job to deliver her packages from the local food store down the street which was. You guessed it, Oaken's. It hadn't been done in 2 weeks, since Olaf had been injured. So here they were with a half dozen eggs, a block of cheese and a plethora of vegies. They stared at the meager ingredients in the open fridge. Anna blush and apologized for forgetting her packages, promising that she would pick them up today for sure. Elsa just brushed it off with a smile and a shrug. She looked at her ingredients again. Light bulb. She turned to Anna and her smile grew.
"Have you ever had a veggie omelet before?" She asked. Anna had not, and she told her as much.
"No I haven't. You see, I'm a meat eater, okay? I mainly eat meat… and sandwiches… and burritos… which I think may have meat in them? I'm not sure… Anyway, I'm starving so I could eat just about anything right now." Anna's stomach growled at that moment, as if to back up her statement. Anna blushed a bit and Elsa giggled.
"Okay, well I think you're in for a treat. Pass me that glass mixing bowl please?" Elsa asked, pointing towards a cabinet exclusively for bowls, which were color-coded, and placed from largest to smallest. Anna smiled sadly. She knew Elsa this was part of Elsa's problem. Everything had to be neat and in place.
"Sure thing." Anna said, and after they diligently wash and sanitized their hands, food, and utensils, they proceeded to have a blast. Elsa showed her the basic does and don'ts of cooking and kitchen care. She then proceeded to show her how to make the single most delicious and fluffiest omelet Anna had ever had the pleasure of tasting. It was a spinach, cheese, and tomato omelet, and it was out of this world. Before, Anna had always ordered her omelets piled down with ham and bacon. She didn't think it was possible for something to be so good without meat in it. She was wrong and gladly conceded.
"Wow Elsa, this is really, really, great! You have to teach me more recipes like this!" Anna exclaimed, shoveling in another mouthful of omelet. Elsa blushed and looked down at her plate.
"I'm glad you liked it, I'd be happy to teach you more recipes." She told Anna shyly. Anna just smiled and continued eating. After finishing their food, they ran into a bit of conflict. Anna, being raised to be polite and helpful, tried to help Elsa with their dirty dishes.
"Oh, wait, let me help you with those." She told Elsa as the girl began to gather the dirty pans and dishes.
"No, it's fine. I got them." Elsa responded as she continued cleaning.
"Elsa, really, let me help. It would feel wrong to just eat your food and not help you clean the mess we both made." Anna tried to explain. Elsa just shook her head, picking up another bowl.
"Anna please don't be silly, you're my guest." Elsa told her. Anna came up and tried to take the glass mixing bowl to the sink.
"Elsa, I insi-"
"Anna, just stop it!" Elsa yelled, cutting the redhead off, wrenching the bowl from her hands. Anna was shocked for a moment as tears wailed in her eyes and Elsa instantly felt guilty.
"Can you excuse me for a moment?" Anna asked quietly as she quickly made her way into the living room. Elsa sighed deeply and scolded herself. 'You're definitely apologizing to her. No if, ands, or buts.'
After finishing the painstakingly through cleaning of her once again pristine kitchen, Elsa slowly made her way to the living room. She saw Anna sitting quietly on her couch, watching t.v. Elsa took a seat on the other side of her couch and remained quiet. After a few minutes of tense silence she took in a deep breath, letting it out slowly.
"Anna?" she called out to the girl. Anna slowly turned her head to look at her, eyes sad.
"I- I'm sorry. I apologize for being short with you like that. It's just, I like to do my own cleaning. I- I can't let anyone clean for me. I have to do it myself." Elsa tried to explain, head held low as she spoke. She was ashamed she was like this. She wished she could just let go and be normal, but she couldn't. She suddenly felt Anna's presence right beside her. She looked over and saw Anna sitting there. Anna was extremely close, so close Elsa could feel the heat rising from Anna's body. Anna then grabbed her hand, wrapping her fingers around Elsa cool skin.
"It's okay. I understand Elsa. Really." Anna told the blonde with a big smile. Elsa allowed herself to smile back as she stared down at their intertwined hands. 'I don't feel uneasy at all. I guess as long as it's Anna that's touching me, it's okay.' That realization made Elsa pause and blushed a deep shade of red. Is that really true? Would Elsa really be okay with Anna… touching, touching her? Her mind went back to earlier that day. The way it felt for Anna's eyes to be on her. Embarrassment aside, she could tell Anna's eyes were trailing her body. She saw the girl's sparkling blue eyes darken to the point where they were almost black. The eyes then began to roam, starting at her legs, slowly making their way up, staring longer at certain parts. Elsa could feel her blush growing deeper as she continued along that train of thought. Yes. She thought. She would most likely be okay with that.
"Elsa… Elsa… Hey Elsa!" Anna was calling her name. She had been talking but the blonde hadn't answer her question and was blankly staring at their intertwined hands. Anna could see Elsa's cheeks, they were redder than her hair. At Anna's insistent calling, Elsa quickly shot her head up to look at her. Anna gasped. She looked into Elsa's eyes. No longer were they the color of icy blue glaciers, they were now clouded over and darkened to a beautiful aqua blue, like the sea in the middle of a storm. If Anna didn't know any better, she would say that look was desire. But Anna didn't know any better. She knew nothing of those sorts of things. Desire, love, passion, those were all the things she heard her friends talk about but had never experienced for herself. But, what she did know was that, that look was causing her to get very uncomfortable below the belt. She had to look away quick or she would do something she regretted. Reluctantly, she released Elsa's hand and tried to muster up a convincing smile. Grabbing the remote off the table, she turned on the television guild.
"Oh look, Sharknado's on!" Anna said, trying to dispel the heavy tension that had settled in the air. She wasn't sure what it was, but when Elsa gave a small smile and moved just a bit closer, she found that she couldn't stop smiling. 'Wow, that's a first.' She thought to herself as she glanced at Elsa, then settled in to the awesome B- movie.
"Anna… Hello earth to Anna… Come in Anna…" Aurora snapped her fingers in the redhead's face. The girl had been staring off into space with a dazed, dreamy look. The beautiful blonde woman smirked knowingly. She knew that look, she had that look whenever she thought about Phillips.
"Huston, we have a problem." Meg quipped sarcastically. Anna snapped out of her memory and blushed as all eyes were on her.
"What?" she asked defensively.
"Oh nothing…" Aurora said secretively. "So, when do we get to meet him?" she asked smirking.
"What? Who?" Anna asked, confused but was pretty sure she knew who she was refereeing to.
"This mystery 'friend' of yours. Do we know him?"
"Well, he's a she and I think you may know of her." Anna responded, voice giving away nothing. "And as for when you get to meet her? Probably… never." She said, washing her coffee mug out and sitting it back in the cabinet. Wow, usually she'd just sit it in the sink and wait for someone else to wash it for her. Elsa must really be rubbing off on her. That thought made her smile.
"What? Why not?" Aurora asked, whining. Anna was obviously falling for this mystery person that they may know of, if her mannerisms were anything to go by. She was a little shocked to find out that it was a woman, but she definitely didn't mind. Truthfully, anyone would be better than Hans. She also had a feeling that this mystery woman was someone who could be good for Anna.
Anna was saved from having to answer Aurora's question when her phone went off.
#I wanna see you out that door baby bye, bye, bye! Bye, bye!#
"Shut up. Not a single. Fucking. Word." Anna glared at them as her cheeks reddened. They all stood there stifling their laughter as the redhead glared daggers at them. Except for Snow, the girl had obliviously picked up where her ringtone had left off, and was now belting the tune. That did it for the rest of the girls and Anna was laughed out the lounge as she looked at her caller i.d. It was the hospital. Her brow instantly furrowed as she answered the call. She had a bad feeling about this.
"Hello, Anna Summers." She said into the receiver.
"Miss Summers? It's me, Mulan, Olaf's doctor? It… seems we have ran into a… a problem."
AN: Uh-oh. Next chapter is going to be mostly a flashback into Elsa and Olaf's past. I think it's time I went into a bit more detail about that. Get ready for some tissues and prepare yourself for the feels.
I hoped you all liked this chapter. Look at Elsa becoming a bit bolder, right? Who would have thought?
