Trigger Warning: Implied sexual assault

The sound of water rushing from the shower head and splashing against the tiles of the walls and floor lessoned to a trickle as Anna turned the tap off and opened the glass door, further filling the already steam filled bathroom with a new burst of steam. She through on a fluffy bath robe and roughly rubbed a towel over her hair, wringing the water out as she made her way out into her living room.

Met with a wall of glass windows, the redhead smiled as she watched the sun slowly set beyond the city skyline. She had only been in the high class big city apartment for week and she already knew that she would never grow tired of the view, or of the feeling of bliss she got from looking down on the city. Mostly, she was just happy to finally have a place to call her own, really and truly with no one watching over her. She let out a childish giggle before flopping down on her L-shaped faux leather couch to once again take in the sights of her new place.

It was a simple enough apartment, open concept, with one bedroom and bathroom separated from the living area and a short hallway and a pair of sliding doors. The walls were a light cream colour which contrasted well with the mahogany floors. Plenty of windows filled the apartment with ample amounts of natural light and the lights she had picked cast a warm glow upon the walls in the evening hours. The furniture was simple and low set, picked out by Elsa. Anna liked it to but it was the kitchen that she loved the most. All of the latest appliances and an island and bar for extra counter space.

The chiming of her phone pulled Anna from her thoughts and she scrambled over to the dining table to answer it. "Hello?"

"Anna, where are you? I've been here for half an hour waiting for you and now the Host is saying that he is going to give away our reservation" Kristoff's voice rang through the phone, every word confusing Anna more and more.

"I'm at home, why where are you?" she paused a moment to further process his words "Wait, did you say reservations?"

"Yeah, at Remy's. I had to pull so many strings to get on the list." There was a pause and muffled shouting that Anna assumed was directed at the Host before he spoke to her again "Did you not get my email?"

At this, Anna turned slowly to face the fried remains of her laptop and cringed, there was still a shard of ice through the screen keeping it pinned to the desk. "So that's why she trashed my laptop" the redhead groaned as she glared around the room "No, sorry Kris, I've been having computer troubles. I'm so sorry" she sighed "How can I make it up to you?"

"Alright, Alight I'm leaving!" she heard Kristoff's yell through the speaker before the sound of evening traffic filtered through "Don't worry about, Anna, I'm not one for stuffy dinners anyways. How about this, quiet dinner at your place, you can show me around. That sound good?"

"Yeah" she smiled "That sounds great. When can you be here?"

"Give me about, oh say, half an hour?"

"Sounds good, see you then" Anna tossed her phone onto the couch after hanging up and groaned loudly "God damn it Elsa!" she raged as she stormed to her fridge "You know how much I've been wanting to eat there" she pulled out a jar of tomato sauce, left over from her weekly cook out, and a block of cheese. "The food there is supposed to be phenomenal!" she pulled out a couple of pots and finally the box f pasta "And chef Remy is a legend, Elsa! A, Legend!" She set the water to boil and added the pasta "And now Kristoff gets to eat low class spaghetti" she scrunched her brow together as her cheeks pinked ever so slightly "I do not care what he think, Elsa. Kristoff and I, we are friends. That is all"

Content with the pasta cooking Anna wandered about tidying up her living space. Sure, her and Kristoff had become good friends, but that didn't mean she wanted him to see how much of a slob she could be "And besides, I've been seeing Hans" the very mention of the side burned man sent ice across the floor "Oh grow up, Elsa" Anna snorted as she plucked an abandoned bag of chips of the floor "Hans is" she paused, frowning "He's nice, and he's been good to me, to us, Elsa. I mean so had Kris but…" she crossed into the kitchen and angrily tossed out the bag "Look I don't want to take about this right now. I don't know what your problem is with them but you will have to get over it."

She now made her way to the bathroom and tossed a few stray articles of clothing into the hamper. As she turned to leave frosty letters crawled across the mirror. You have me, you don't need them. With a sigh, Anna placed her palm to the mirror "I'm sorry, Elsa, but I need more. Contact, real physical contact, please try to understand" and Elsa is quiet.

Thinking the battle won, Anna hurries to her room to get dressed. Jeans and a sea foam green tank top, she smiles at her reflection before beginning to do her hair, her favoured style of twin braids.

Halfway her second braid, the door buzzer sounds, eliciting a small and much undignified squeak of surprise from Anna. "Jesus" she breaths as she makes her way to the door, the buzzer sounding again "Wow Kristoff" she called as she reached the door "You're actually" she pulled open the door to and empty hallway and a look of utter puzzlement fell over her face "early?" slowly she made her way into the hallway, casting her gaze this way and that "Kristoff?" she called. The slamming of the door made her spin around "Elsa!" she snapped as she grabbed hold of the door, only to find that it had frozen over. "Elsa! I do not have time for this" her voice a harsh whisper "Elsa, unfreeze this door!" she shook the handle "Elsa I'm serious, unfreeze this door right now!" still the door remained frozen. Anna screwed her eyes shut and made to twist the handle one last time. Pain, pain like shards of glass being forced into her skull causes her to collapse against the door in a panting heap before it creaks open, the ice now a small puddle on the floor. Elsa is silent now as Anna shakily gets to her feet. "Elsa" her voice is shaky and she tries again "Elsa, I have had enough of your shit" she gasps "Kristoff is coming over, you can't change that. This is my place, my rules." She snaps as she turns in a slow circle, her mind still reeling from what she just did without Elsa and that only helped to fuel her rage "And you, you can just go away! Leave me the fuck alone, Elsa! For once just, GO AWAY!"

Her outburst left her panting and the room feeling slightly warmer. The tug in her chest confirmed that Elsa had drifted off, hurt by Anna's words, but she was still too angry to care. She would make up with the icy Entity later, after a nice home dinner with her best friend. She turned her attention back to the kitchen. That's right, dinner, she still had to finish that.

It wasn't long after Anna had finished setting the table that the door buzzer sounded again. "Please be Kristoff" she chanted as she crossed over to the door and pulled it open "Hi Kris-" his name died on her tongue as she took I the sight of him. Anna had only ever seen the man wearing various suits with his hair neatly combed, so seeing him in a pair of worn jeans and a button up shirt with his hair a mess was a surprise.

He smiled down at her before lifting up a small case of beer "I brought beer" he chimed as she let him in. "Wow, Anna" he let out a whistle as he looked about "Not too bad."

After getting settled and served, the pair talked over spaghetti and sipped from their beers until their plates were clear of food, sauce sopped up with cheap bread and the duo merely sat drinking bottle after bottle.

"And next week, Hans said he is going to take me out to see the ocean" Anna grinned over the top of her third (or was it her forth?) bottle "I've never seen the ocean before, he is just so thoughtful"

"Can we stop talking about Westergard" Kristoff snapped, shocking Anna.

"What is your problem, Kristoff?" Anna sat up straighter.

"You are lying to yourself, Anna" the blond groaned "I've seen the way you two look at each other. You don't even like him, Anna" he stared down into her eyes "He has blinded you with charm and gifts and ocean trips" he was standing now "Blinded you to what's real, I'm real, Anna. I'm here and I always have been and I'm real. What I feel is, is real. Please, Anna."

Anna's eyes were wide and fearful, fearful because of how Kristoff was looking at her, his eyes so deep and pleading, pleading to her to see something or feel something and it frightened her because his words were stirring something up inside her heart, something she couldn't quite place.

"Anna" he took her hands in his and pulled her to her feet, she hadn't even noticed he had gotten up "I love you, Anna. You are brave and strong and I think I would like to kiss you" he paused and looked down, losing his nerve "I mean, if you would allow me to, may I, may we-"

Unsure of what it was that possessed her to do so, Anna took his face in her hands and placed a gentle kiss to his lips "You may" that was all the permission he needed. Strong arms wrapped around her as he leaned down to kiss her again. What had started out as tender, quickly escalated into something more as Anna dug her nails into the back of his shirt and released a quiet moan into the kiss.

Minds hazy from the beer, Anna lead Kristoff through the sliding door and into the bedroom where in they toppled onto her bed side by side in a tangle of arms. A gentle hand sliding along her thigh and under her top is enough to snap Anna from her Haze as suddenly she is fifteen again, her soft plush bed a hard unforgiving pool table, and a gentle caress rough and forced. "Stop, Kristoff stop!" she all but shrieks as she roughly pushes him away, tears streaming from her misty teal eyes "Just don't" she had to gulp down a sob "Don't touch me."

The look of hurt slowly faded to one of mild understanding as he approached the bed again "Anna, did someone" her gaze turned towards him "Did some try to" he couldn't even finish the thought let alone the sentence and when her only reply was a heart wrenching sob and hurried to try and comfort her. "Oh Anna, I'm sorry. I didn't know, I-"

"Get out" she didn't let him finish the apology and when he made no attempt to leave, her gaze hardened "I said get out, Kristoff!"

"Please let me help, I can't leave you like this." He pleaded and tried to place a hand upon her shoulder before the sound of groaning ice filled the room.

A storm formed above Anna, wind howling wickedly and snow swirling about, the sheer force of it was enough to push the massive man back a few feet, but still he tried to approach the sobbing girl. From the eye of the storm, thin spears of ice shot out at his feet, forcing him back, but still he did not flee. A well aim spear grazed his cheek as he dodged just in time and that finally convinced him. He called something out to Anna before fleeing the apartment but his words were swallowed up by the wind that Elsa had called as she rushed back to Anna.

Snow fell gently around Anna once the door closed and Anna curled up on her side as the flakes surrounded her "You were right" her voice was hoarse, how long had she cried? Frost and snow covered the room now so it must have been a while. She held a hand to her heart as a final sniffle escaped her "I'm sorry Elsa, I was horrible, and you knew. You were right" she muttered as exhaustion claimed her and she fell into a deep sleep, wrapped in the comforting cold of Elsa and her snow.