The Powerful Spare

Summary: Anna has the ice powers instead of Elsa.

"Anna, do you wanna build a snowwwwmannnnnnnm?" An incredously bored Elsa yelled from Anna's bedroom doorway, which was locked, as usual. And as more usual, Anna replied with a annoyed "go away Elsa".

Elsa sighed and turned around and ran up to one of the windows in the hall. Outside, snow was falling beautifully, covering the courtyard in white. She caught a glance of her own reflection- ginger hair with a streak of white in it, freckled peach skin, and teal eyes. She frowned and puckered her lips at herself and again wished she had silver blonde hair like Anna, a mysterious trait the latter had somehow got in a family of brunettes and strawberry blondes. But she had never envied much, and the two sisters always been insperable their whole lives together until one fateful night a few months ago. Elsa had woken up that morning to see Anna's side of the room completely wiped out and bare of Anna's belongings. Upon awakening, she remembered, very clearly, that late last night she and Anna snuck out and had been playing in a snowfall- but it was in the middle of summer. The memory was too vivid and clear to be a dream. But the memory ended sharply- she remembered absolutely nothing after that.

"It's because you need time to adjust to being heir to the throne." Her father had explained when a fretfully angryElsa had complained to him. "We can't have your sister distracting you every second from your queenly duties. We moved her down the hall."

Elsa had expected Anna to protest, to sneak back into her room every night so they could raid the kitchen together for chocolate and cookies or tell fanciful stories of dragon slaying princesses and meadows made completely of delicious candy- and best yet the magical ones of ice and snow. But Anna never did.

Years passed. Elsa grew older and the colorful visions of her childish imaginations began to fadeinto more mature ones. Elsa had given up trying to coax Anna out of her room, known as the 'forgotten spare'. Elsa did nothing to defend that, she couldn't. It was true. Even she herself was beginning to forget the sister who had once been her best friend.

Then when she was eighteen, a grand invitation arrived from the island of Corona. Her cousin Princess Rapunzel was to be wed to a man named Eugene and the Arendellians were invited. The king and queen made preparations to go immediately, but Elsa hesitated. She wanted to stay in Arendelle to accompany Anna, who mysteriously decided not to go.

Her parents sighed as she approached them with the request while they were packing their trunks in their gallant bedroom. "Elsa, this is a rare opportunity. Rapunzel would want you to be there too. Never mind Anna." Her father had said.

"Never mind Anna?" Her voice rose in irritation. "Does she not exist anymore? Why isn't she invited?"

The king and queen looked at each other with a sad look. "It's complicated." Her mother finally sighed.

"Complicated? The one who should be locked in her room, worrying about being queen is me! She's the spare!" Elsa retorted. "What does she have to hide from me about?"

"Lower your voice, young lady. A queen does not yell like that." Her mother replied firmly. "And, this is not something to discuss- we've talked about this already."

"Well, you've been avoiding this conversation since I was seven. There's never going to be the right time! Is she secretly practicing sorcery or something? Is she a witch?" She spat angrily and a flash of anger filled her as her parents flinched at the word witch.

"That is enough." Her father put his hand up. He had turned pale. "You may leave."

Elsa huffed and stormed back to her room in a very unladylike way. She didn't breathe a word to her parents, even after they pleaded with her outside her locked bedroom door and finally left.

She went to Anna's room and tried to get her to come out again, saying she was lonely and missed her best friend so much. She even brought some chocolate and slid it under the door frame. She must have fallen asleep there, because when she woke up there was a pale hand sliding out from under the door to reach for hers. Anna pressed her cold fingertips on Elsa's warmer hand lightly before they retracted just as fast. "I love you Elsa." Anna whispered and Elsa could have cried in happiness. But still Anna wouldn't come out past that no matter what.

Two weeks later, Elsa woke up with a sick feeling in her stomach after a night of fitful nightmares. She immediately rushed over to Anna's door and listened for anything, yet there was no sound save for Anna's snoring. She was feeling somewhat relieved until she saw a staff member named Kai hurry towards her. His face was white and pinched.
"Princess, your presence is requested in the great hall immediately." The servant panted, once his short and plump self had approached her. "There is news."

"What's wrong?" Elsa turned and began hurrying in direction of the hall.
"You'd best be around others while you hear it." He replied shortly. Elsa did not feel the need to ask anything else. She almost didn't want to know.

The great hall was filled with somber staff members who rose and bowed when they saw Elsa. There was not a single comforting look in the sea of faces. Heavy tension filled the room like a thick fog as a feeling of apprehension tugged at her gut.
"Elsa. It is your parents." Gerda began softly.
Elsa couldn't move.

"They were gone in a shipwreck, upon their return to Arendelle."

In a second, all the emotion drained out of her body. She didn't feel sad, or apprehensive. She just felt so empty. She stood there and stared at her shoes for what seemed like hours. She told herself, this must be another of her nightmares. She'd wake up to find everything all right.

Gradually, Gerda managed to put an arm around the emotionless Elsa and lead her back to her room. Elsa complied soliloquy until they passed a tall white door painted with red and pink rosemaling. The two shuddered as a unexplained freezing blow of air encasped them as they neared the door. Suddenly, whatever dam keeping back Elsa's emotions back snapped, and she began to cry. She slid down Anna's door, the barrier between her and her beloved sister and sobbed. She was too deep in sorrow to notice the tiny ice crystals that were forming under the doorframe as Anna sat crying just on the other side, her room completely encased in the wretched ice powers she had been hiding from her sister for eleven years.

That wraps it up for this chapter. Please review and request, and I am looking for a fic I forgot the name of. Basically, it's a dramatized retelling of the movie Frozen but in a book form. I read the entire fic (it is 30+ chapters) a few years ago and I remember being so impressed with it. If anyone knows that book could you please tell it to me? Thank you so much.

Until next time, Ari

Next chapter: what if Kristoff and Elsa fell for each other instead?