"Queen Elsa!" Hans shouted over the growing storm. "You can't run from this forever!"

"Where is Anna?" Elsa pleaded with him. "Where is my sister?"

"Your sister?" Hans repeated. "She returned from the mountain weak and cold. She said you froze her heart."

Elsa gasped. She hadn't wanted to believe it, but now she couldn't deny it anymore.

"She said only an act of true love could save her," Hans said. "I tried to give her a true love's kiss, but it didn't work."

"An act of true love," Elsa repeated to herself. "Hans, is Anna still alive?"

"Yes," Hans said. "The last time I saw her, she was."

"Thank God," Elsa said. "I know what we have to do." She looked at the sword hanging from the hilt on Hans' hip. "You have to kill me."

Hans looked horrified. "What?"

"It's the only way," Elsa said. "The only way to end this winter, to save Arendelle. To save Anna. If you love her, you'll do it. Please."

"All right," Hans said reluctantly. "I'll do it. For Anna."

"For Anna."

Elsa turned around and knelt down on the ice. The storm stopped as she resigned herself to her fate. Hans slowly unsheathed his sword, raised it, and advanced towards her.

Several meters away, unbeknownst to either of them, Anna heard Hans draw his sword. She turned around and saw him walking towards Elsa, her back turned, about to strike her down. She briefly hesitated, looking sadly at Kristoff, who was running towards her to give her a true love's kiss. Then she turned around and sprinted to stop Hans from killing Elsa.

"NO!"

As the sword struck Anna's hand, it shattered and Hans fell back. Anna turned to solid ice.

Elsa opened her eyes. What happened? Why wasn't she dead? She dared to look behind her, and gasped in horror when she saw a frozen hand. Anna's hand. She got up and saw Anna's whole body, a solid block of ice, shielding her protectively from Hans' sword. She suddenly realized what had happened. In trying to save Anna, she had doomed her instead.

"ANNA!" Elsa cried. She rushed over and cradled Anna's unseeing face in her hands. "No… This can't be happening… This is all my fault… Please… No…" She collapsed into sobs and embraced Anna's frozen body. Kristoff, Sven, and Olaf all stood by silently in shock and grief.

Just then, Elsa felt something warm against her chest. It started small and then spread, until her whole body could feel it. She felt Anna move. Anna! She was alive!

Elsa pulled back and saw Anna, alive again. Even the white streak in her hair was gone.

"Anna!" Elsa embraced Anna tightly, forgetting her fear. Anna embraced Elsa back.

"You sacrificed yourself for me?!" Elsa asked incredulously.

"I love you," Anna said simply.

Olaf gasped. "An act of true love will thaw a frozen heart!"

"Love will thaw," Elsa repeated. "Love! That's it!"

Elsa concentrated on all her loving feelings, and the ice below them began to melt away, until the entire winter over Arendelle was gone. They were standing on a ship that had sunk in the fjord, and it rose slowly until they were all standing on its deck.

"I knew you could do it," Anna said.

"This is the greatest day of my life!" Olaf shouted excitedly, starting to melt. "And quite possibly the last."

"Oh no!" Elsa said. "Hang in there, Olaf!" She waved her hand and produced a magic flurry over Olaf's head, which reversed the melting process.

"My own personal flurry!" Olaf cried. "I love it! Thank you so much!"

Anna and Elsa embraced again, and Anna stared flirtatiously over her shoulder at Kristoff.

Suddenly they all heard something move behind them. They turned around to see that it was Hans, struggling to get up. Kristoff walked towards him angrily, but Anna stopped him.

"Anna?" Hans said incredulously. "But - she froze your heart!"

"The only frozen heart around here is yours," Anna said coldly. She turned around and was just about to throw a punch, but Elsa held her back.

"Anna, no!" she said.

"But he tried to kill you!" Anna shot back.

"Because I told him to!"

Anna's eyes widened and she dropped her fist. "Wait, what?! Why would you do that?"

"I thought it was the only way to end the winter and the curse," Elsa said. "To save you."

Anna stared at her in disbelief. "You were willing to die… for me?"

"Of course," Elsa said. "I love you."

"An act of true love," Anna repeated to herself. She suddenly realized something. "So, when you shut me out… and all those times you wouldn't come out of your room to play with me… you were just trying to protect me from your powers?"

Elsa nodded. "But I failed. And I hurt you in the process. I should have told you. I'm so sorry."

"You don't have to be sorry," Anna said. "You did what you thought was right."

Anna was suddenly conscious of the two men standing on the boat with her. Hans - still her fiance, she reminded herself - and Kristoff. She wasn't sure which of them, if either, was her true love. Her true love's kiss with Hans had failed, and Kristoff hadn't gotten the chance. But she knew in her gut what she had to do.

"Hans," Anna said, approaching him. "I'm sorry. I - I can't marry you anymore."

"I understand," Hans said, hanging his head. "I'm sorry."

"I think you'd better go home," Anna said. "But I hope you do find true love someday."

"You too." Hans looked up at Kristoff, who looked back at him in surprise. "Goodbye, Anna."

"Goodbye, Hans."

The five of them disembarked the boat down to the pier. Hans soon packed his things and boarded his ship back to the Southern Isles. Anna stared at it until it sailed out of sight.

"Well, I guess that ship has sailed," Anna said, trying to make herself laugh.

"I'm sorry it didn't work out," Elsa said. "I know you thought he was your true love."

"Maybe he was," Anna said. "Or maybe he wasn't. I guess I'll never know."

"But your true love's kiss with him failed," Elsa said.

"Grand Pabbie didn't say anything about a true love's kiss," Anna said. "He said only an act of true love could thaw a frozen heart. I didn't even know what that meant until Olaf told me."

"What did Olaf tell you?" Elsa asked curiously.

"He said that love is putting someone else's needs before yours," Anna said, smiling. "I think he learned that from you."

"I'll never shut you out again," Elsa said. "I promise."

"But you did it for me," Anna said. "Because you love me."

"But now that I can control my powers, I don't have to anymore," Elsa said. "Oh Anna, I've missed you so much."

"I've missed you too."

Elsa and Anna hugged, then headed back inside the castle together. As much as it hurt to lose Hans, Anna reminded herself that she had Kristoff now - and Elsa. And as much as she loved Elsa, it made her feel even better to know that Elsa loved her back just as much.