A/N: Another week, another update. Is it weird that I kind of feel bad about having to put these out weekly instead of like every 3-4 days? I don't know. But I've slowed down a lot, so i've spaced it apart to weekly updates. I guess I don't have much else to say except that I can't wait to address you lovely reviewers.

DreamWalker: How long will Elsa's newfound courage last I wonder... Well I know. But i can't tell you.

Nara375: Hey! Don't worry, I knew it was you from your classic greeting. Does Anna know about Elsa's power?... hmm either answer could be spoiling so I won't say. Though, I can at least hint that it won't be too long before you know. Oh man, Rapunzel... she's definitely after something... i wonder what. Also, yes, Anna didn't notice Elsa's mood while eating the chocolate. Hmm. I wonder how this will go in the plot. I don't feel like its too spoiler... but Elsa and Anna may engage in something more physical soon. Whether its what u expect to happen though... we'll see =). As for Helga, i shan't say a word.

Okisawa Hinari: How cruel of me to make you read during work hours. To tell you the truth it was my master plan all along. Soon I will have everyone fired because they are too busy reading my stories. bwahahaha. always nice to see a new reviewer, glad you're enjoying it.

Uzu: Hmm I think i covered that in chapter nine. But basically the leaves and resin that was attached to Elsa ended up healing her of all her wounds. There was a leaf on her face that covered the scratches as well. But no, Elsa, aside from the wound to the shoulder, looks as beautiful as she always has. Don't worry i'm not that mean as to leave her scarred... yet anyway.

Guest: In love with the story, well maybe i'm in love with you... did that sound like a bad pick up line?

That should cover all the reviews. So enough listening to me fawn over reviewers and lets get on with the story!

Elsa was beat up, there was no other way to really say it. Her body ached as she laid in bed, wondering why she dared to join the army of all things. Elsa had awoken, unable to move, her body sore and overused from all that has happened in the last few days. She had been passing her days by doing nothing but training with Kristoff. If it wasn't sword fighting with Milo, then it was stamina and strength training. This went on all day for four days. It was finally, today, that Elsa awoke so sore that she could do little more than groan on her bed.

"At least my shoulder doesn't hurt the most anymore." Elsa tried to cheer herself up.

Anna was beside her on the bed, enjoying her extra hours of sleep she was acquiring thanks to Elsa being bedridden. The girl was dreaming that she and Elsa were on a hunt for food together. Elsa with her old soldier's armor and spear like the day they met, speaking nonsense to Anna while the Half-Beast sniffed out their prey.

It was a good dream.

Elsa noticed Anna snoring away beside her and felt a pinch of annoyance that the girl got to sleep while Elsa was in pain. Feeling petty, Elsa tried to reach over and nudge at Anna's shoulder to wake her. She would of course pretend it was an accident. Sadly though, she found that moving even the slightest to try and shove at Anna caused her pain and she had to give up. She was forced to watch Anna sleep contently while she suffered.

Elsa looked up at the ceiling and prayed to any deity to relieve her of her suffering.

Her prayers were answered in the form of a knock at the door.

"Oohhh." Elsa groaned as she tried to get up, ultimately deciding to simply fall back flat on her back. "Come in!" She called instead.

The door opened, revealing short blonde hair and a scrawny frame.

"Oh thank goodness I have the right room." Milo said as he entered, smile on his face. "Wow, you live like this?! I imagined you would get special treatment being the Beast-Tamer and all, but this is amazing!" Milo said, immediately moving around Elsa's room as he took a look at everything.

Elsa didn't have the strength to scold him for leaving the door open.

"Hi, Milo." Was all she said.

Milo finally noticed that she was splayed out on her bed on her back, looking absolutely miserable. "Is something wrong?" He then noticed Anna sleeping beside her. "Oh wow, you guys sleep together? That's cool. How did you know when you had garnered enough trust to sleep beside her?" He asked, always curious about Elsa and Anna's relationship.

Elsa shrugged, regretting it as muscles cried out in pain. "Oh… you know… sometimes you just know." Elsa said, looking at the sleeping Anna and growing aggravated again. She thought about telling Milo to wake her up, but she figured she liked him too much to feed to Anna.

"How long does she sleep? Does she sleep more like a cat of some kind? Perhaps she sleeps multiple times throughout the day?" He asked, eager to know more.

"She sleeps like any other person I guess." Elsa told him. "Except she sleeps through just about anything." She commented as an afterthought.

"Does she dream? What sort of dreams does she have?" He asked again.

Elsa sighed slightly. "Milo, was there a reason you came here?" She asked, not trying to be rude, but knowing that these questions could go on forever if you let them. She had spent four days training with the guy after all.

"Oh! Of course. Sorry, I sometimes get carried away with my questions." He said, sounding like he's had this conversation many times in his life. "I came because you didn't come down for training. Sir Kristoff sent me." He explained.

Elsa groaned loudly. "Right… training." She turned her eyes to the ceiling again. "I would if I could, Milo."

"What's wrong?"

"I can't move. My body hurts." She simplified.

Milo nodded in understanding. "Muscle soreness, huh? Yeah I understand." Suddenly his persona changed and he seemed to act like a nerd that was smug about explaining some silly math problem. "Yeah, I get it too. You can be pretty rough out there, but I see I have you beat as well." He sniffled for effect and gave his nose a swipe, as though what he'd done was something truly impressive.

"It's Kristoff's extra training. The running, the constant swinging of my sword… It hurts." Elsa corrected him. She didn't have the heart to tell him that she had bested him in combat more times than he ever did for her.

"Oh right, that." He shuddered, going back to his normal personality. "Have you ever tried taking a hot bath?" He asked. "I mean I have a hard time finding one, but you live in the castle so that should be easy."

Elsa blinked, having never thought of that. She wondered when was the last time she had a hot bath… or even a bath to begin with. She imagined she was beginning to stink something fierce, but no soldier would comment, seeing as they were all sweaty men who barely bathed. She looked to Anna, wondering if Anna noticed her smell and had yet to say something about it.

"Yeah, I'll have to have the maids haul me off to the baths." She rolled her eyes, jesting of course with that idea.

Milo pointed somewhere to her right. "Why don't you use your own bath?"

"My bath?" Her brows furrowed.

"Kristoff said that he had one once before. I'm assuming all of the rooms in this hallway are pretty much the same design wise." He shrugged as he walked over to the door that was beside Elsa's bed. A door that she had been ignoring since getting the room. If Elsa wasn't getting dressed to leave, she was teaching Anna. She never really explored her room much.

Milo opened the door and his face lit up as he turned back to Elsa. "That's a bath alright."

"You jest." Elsa told him.

"I jest not, my good sir. I'm staring at a bath, complete with cloths to wash up with." He said as he looked back inside.

Elsa's eyes widened. "Drag me." She said.

"What?"

"Drag me. I need to see!" Was all she said, desperation in her voice.

Milo shrugged and walked over. He did in fact go to drag Elsa out of bed, but her groaning in pain stopped him.

"Okay… Larsa, don't think into this too heavily, my heart belongs to Kida, okay?" He told Elsa jokingly.

Before Elsa could question it, She found herself being picked up bridal style by the scrawny man.

"Oh hey, you're really light." Milo said, testing the weight in his arms.

"The bath." Elsa didn't care about their position, she wanted to confirm the existence of heaven with her own eyes.

Milo walked over and let Elsa see that yes, there really was a bath in the next room. The bath sat in the middle of the room, rags to wash up with thrown over the lip of the tub. It wasn't the most luxurious bath she'd ever heard of, but it was still the best one she'd ever seen.

"By the gods." Elsa said. "Hurry, call the maids." Elsa continued staring at the tub, afraid that it would disappear if she broke eye contact.

"What would you be needing maids for?" A voice called from the doorway.

Milo turned, and therefore Elsa turned as well to find Ariel at the door.

"Water… I need water." Elsa said.

Ariel merely raised a brow, not only at Elsa's request, but at the sight of what she thought to be two men embracing in such a way.

While Elsa did feel slightly bad about making the maids bring in hot water for the tub, it was mostly overridden by the selfish need to not only cleanse herself, but to soothe her aching muscles. Milo had stayed with her while the maids and a few servants brought in bucket after buckets of hot water for the bath. While Milo mostly tried getting answers out of her that concerned Anna, Elsa would absently answer them while staring at each and every bucket that entered the room, wondering when the tub would be filled. The maids and servants however had done this many times and had managed to get the tub filled in one trip. Elsa was so happy that she barely noticed the way that the servants stepped cautiously into her room, one maid even brandishing a chocolate in her hand. Thanks to Anna's sleeping state, they seemed comfortable enough to walk in and do their duty.

After the maids and servants finished, they each gave a bow and left. All of them in a hurry to escape the potential awakening of Anna. The only one that didn't rush out was Ariel who gave a bow and a smile.

"Your bath is ready. Please, enjoy. Don't hesitate to call on me for such a thing again." Ariel said easily, likely having said this before.

"Thank you, Ariel." Elsa greatly appreciated what had been done.

Ariel exited the room.

"What sort of environment did you find, Anna in?" Milo asked, still sitting on Elsa's bed and asking question after question.

"A forest." Elsa answered. "Um, Milo." Elsa called.

"Yes?" Milo asked, looking ready for more answers.

"The bath is ready." She said.

"Oh, that's good. So, tell me, what did you initially feed her? Was it cooked food or raw animal meat?" He asked.

Elsa would have rubbed at her forehead in exasperation if she was able.

"If you wouldn't mind… I'd like to be alone… to bathe." She told him, each sentence seeming to fly over his head.

A look of realization flashed across his face. "Oh! Right, well I'll see you later Larsa. Maybe tomorrow if you're feeling better." He told her as he stood to leave.

Elsa watched him leave, closing the door behind him.

Her regret was visible as she realized she would now have to crawl to the bathtub. She turned to look at Anna, wondering if she should wake her. The idea of having Anna carry her into the bathroom and help take off her clothes to let her bathe sent a blush of red to her face.

Perhaps that wasn't the best idea. Not that she cared if Anna saw her naked… it just wouldn't be right is all.

Elsa, and her reddening blush, began the painful journey of dragging herself out of bed. Quite literally, she crawled her way out of bed and pulled herself along the ground like some sort of slug. Her legs were absolutely done after the stamina training that Kristoff had given her. The crazy knight had her running for hours, only letting her take breaks when she literally had to stop to puke. She wondered as she crawled, groaning in pain, if the man was out to kill her.

Elsa never noticed snake-like eyes opening at the sound of her grunts and moans.

Elsa pulled herself into the bathroom, even managed to get to the tub. Stripping off her clothes was easier than the crawl, but still just as painful. Once her shirt and trousers were off, the girl had to force herself to stand, unable to pull herself up and over the lip of the tub. Painful as it was, she felt true ecstasy as she dipped her toe into the hot water. The water was way too hot for a normal bath, likely it was supposed to cool off, but Elsa couldn't wait. She dipped her foot in, trying to grow accustomed to the heat.

"Elsa."

The poor blonde yelped at the sound of her name, foot coming down into the slippery slop of the tub. She yelled out in pain as her body submerged into the hot water from the fall.

Anna winced at the shout, her senses already telling her that the water was hot from way over at the doorway. She hadn't meant to startle her, she was only curious as to what was going on. She had already called her name as she entered, barely having the time to blush at the sight of a naked Elsa before the girl tumbled into the waters.

"Anna!" Elsa called out, covering her breasts as she tried to hide in the water. The water burned, but at this point it was too late to get out.

Anna, being ignorant that Elsa wanted privacy, pushed her way through the door and into the room. She marveled at her new surroundings, wondering why the floor was not furry like the rest of the castle. Elsa watched her, thinking about commanding her to leave, but decided against it. Anna was only curious about the new room. Anna skulked around for a moment, almost like she was hunting as she took in the room. Elsa rolled her eyes at the sight, smile on her face as she decided to ignore Anna and enjoy her bath.

And Enjoy it she did.

It was like pure heaven the way the hot water relaxed her aching muscles. She sighed as she dipped as low as she could into the water while keeping her nose out of it to breathe. She realized that she didn't take her hair of its braid, but she was feeling too much pleasure to care. She felt like she was there for hours, however it was only a few minutes before she was interrupted.

The sound of shuffling cloth caught her attention.

Elsa turned just in time to catch sight of a little too much freckled skin.

"Anna! What are you doing?!" Elsa called out, embarrassed as her face caught on fire.

Anna was already half naked, her shirt being ditched and her pants almost gone as well. Elsa turned away when she caught sight of a pair of lips that were not on Anna's face. "Anna, are you crazy?!" She asked.

Anna was in fact not crazy, so much as ignorant to privacy that people like Elsa enjoyed.

Suddenly the water began to rise as more volume was added.

Elsa turned to find Anna dipping a naked foot into the water.

"What?! Anna you can't! you'll never fit, you-"

Her cries fell on deaf ears as Anna forced her way into the tub. This forced Elsa to move her legs up and to bend her knees, but Anna, taking the same position, made herself fit. Elsa's blush was very noticeable, where as Anna did not seem to find anything sexual or far too intimate with this situation. The girl just seemed happy to find hot water.

What Elsa didn't know, was that hot water was a delicacy among Anna's people. They were not smart enough to invent a way to heat water for baths, so instead they bathed in cold lakes and rivers. The few hot baths that were ever used were hot pockets of water that could sometimes be found around the forest. The ones that were found were considered to belong to whomever found it. Anna was not friends with anyone who owned one, not that they really shared. Anna, having never experienced this, had always wondered what it was like.

And now she knew why she once saw a villager duel and kill another villager over the right to use one.

"This is ridiculous." Elsa said, her face still on fire, doing her best to look everywhere but at Anna.

Elsa tried to calm herself. Clearly Anna had not done this in a sexual way. The girl looked like Elsa when she first entered, Anna looked like she was in heaven. Besides… didn't she once try to think of what it would be like to have Anna as a little sister. This would be something they could have done together. She had bathed with her little brothers many times, though they were much too young to remember doing it. She and Anna were both girls, so surely it was okay to do so even as adults. It wasn't entirely uncomfortable to bathe this way, she still had enough room to enjoy the bath.

Elsa sighed as this way of thinking was just not working.

She tried to think of this in another way. Anna was, for all intents and purposes, very animal-like. Wouldn't it be safe for Elsa to think that Anna was thinking along the lines of an animal? Then would it not be okay for her to think of Anna almost like a pet in this situation. The girl didn't talk, she didn't try anything sexual, and Elsa did know that Anna liked her… a lot.

That wasn't helping. Where was she?

Right, Anna was animal-like. Therefore it was okay to, in this situation, consider her an animal. Elsa tried to imagine bathing with a dog, a dog that understood commands a bit better than the one she had as a child that died. Yes, Anna was similar to a dog right now, that was all. She certainly wasn't a gorgeous girl whose exotic features Elsa sometimes liked to dream about.

Wait…

Elsa sighed in frustration as she was unable to think of this bath in a platonic and normal way.

"Elsa?" Anna called.

Elsa turned to look at her.

"What?"

Elsa received a splash of water to the face, leaving the girl shocked and appalled. Anna laughed at the sight, seeming thoroughly proud of herself for that one.

Elsa wiped the water off her face with a wet hand, effectively doing nothing. "This is no time for games, Anna. The bath is a place for washing." Elsa lectured.

She received another wave of water to the face.

"Anna!"
Another, this time Anna laughing with it.

Elsa, feeling angry, retaliated with her own slap of water. Anna did her best to block it, laughing all the while as she began another assault.

Like a bunch of children, the two threw water at one another, effectively lowering the amount of water in the bath. Eventually they did stop, and Elsa eventually admitted that she thought it was fun. Once Elsa realized that Anna was truly not here to eye her up like a piece of candy, she began to bath with the soap that was set out for her beside the tub. She even gave some to Anna, demonstrating how it was to be applied and washed. Anna took one sniff at the soap and nearly gagged.

Anna much preferred a more natural scent.

Despite her protests, Elsa washed at Anna's hair after washing her own body. The redhead grumbled as she was essentially sitting in Elsa's lap now, forced to have her head washed.

"You'll thank me when your hair is clean." Elsa told her.

A grumble of complaint.

Elsa really felt she had gotten over her intimacy issue with Anna as the girl sat between her legs while she washed her hair.

She thought so anyway.

The two had grown quiet, just enjoying the heat of the bath for nearly fifteen minutes as Elsa idly played in Anna's hair. It wasn't until Anna tried to get more comfortable that Elsa blushed something fierce. Anna pushed back, still between Elsa's legs, until Elsa felt something soft press against a rather private area.

"M-maybe we should get out now." Elsa stuttered, quick to get up, her muscles feeling much better now.

Anna made a curious noise, but was none the wiser as to what happened.

The two left the bath, Elsa deciding to towel off while making sure Anna had her back turned while she too did so. Elsa got dressed and helped dress Anna as well, all the while doing her best not to think about Anna's naked body and just how soft it was. She had expected Anna to be nothing but hardened muscle, which she almost was, but there were certain parts of her that were soft in a feminine way.

Elsa, after much blushing, eventually had them both dressed and had decided to redo Anna's braids considering she had to take them out to wash her hair. While Anna sat in the desk chair, Elsa re-braided her hair, all the while thinking about what just happened. She wondered why she blushed so hard in the face of Anna. They were both girls, there was really no need for all of that. There was something, some naughty thought that scratched at the back of her mind. She tried to ignore it, tried to come up with other reasons. She had never bathed with a girl before, so it was only natural that she was embarrassed. She also had never seen other girls naked before. She and Anna had a set relationship, that, when tested in different ways, could make her embarrassed was all. Maybe it made her feel dirty knowing all of these things while Anna was ignorant to them. She did her best to ignore the thought that was climbing through her mind, trying to get her to admit it existed.

The thought that, maybe, just maybe, Elsa liked Anna a little more than she let on.