Happy New Year!
2014 everyone! May it be the best year yet!
And here's for chapter 15!
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Grabbing a cloak, Anna hastily wraps it around herself and adjusts the hood. Then she picks up a sack full of necessities she had packed away, along with scraps of food she had Gerda deliver to her room. She was going to find Kristoff, she was determined. As long as they find her note after she has left the kingdom, she'll be fine. Having snuck out of the palace through the back, she made her away along the shoreline until she reached the walls of Arendelle. The walls that split the mountains from the kingdom. She couldn't afford to go across the fjord and through the kingdom, so she had to go around through the valley. She was prepared. Looking back towards the fjord at the village where she knew her sister would be, she frowns.
"I'm sorry Elsa." She says before she puts her hood over her head and quickly makes her way up the valley and into the mountains.
"I have to say that was the most embarrassing moment of my life, it really was!" John smiles over Elsa's laughter.
"I'm serious, nothing is worse than wearing your brother's pet rat as a hat at a benefit dinner in front of the whole kingdom!"
"I'm sorry!" Elsa struggles to stifle her laughter.
"I wish I could say that I relate, but I'm afraid we never had dinner's with the kingdom, or pet rats. I don't think we had any pets for that matter." She says once her laughter dies down.
"Lucky you." He replies.
"Your Majesty!" Elsa stops and looks around upon hearing her title being yelled throughout the village. She soon found a panicked Kai running straight for her.
"Kai? What is it?" She meets him halfway and holds her hands out when Kai doubles over.
"Phew! I think I-I misinterpreted the distance!" He struggles to say through gasps for air.
"Has something happened Kai?" She reminds him of the reason why he ran all the way from the palace to reach her.
"I was looking for Anna to deliver the chocolate truffles she always loved. And when I stopped by her bedroom, I found this." He straightens his back and extends a wrinkled note with Anna's handwriting on it.
Elsa, I know you said no, but I'm leaving to find Kristoff. I can't wait another day, I need to know he's safe. I'm sorry and I'll be careful! ~Anna
"No..." Elsa rereads the note again and again.
"When did you find this?!" She looks up at Kai.
"About five minutes ago my lady. Well ten if you count the amount if time it took me to find you." He mumbles. Elsa jerks around to look into the mountains. Anna would have had to take the valley around the kingdom to reach the mountains, unless she could walk through water. The last time she had seen her sister was at least three hours ago. Who knows where Anna could be by now?
"Anna..." She rubs her temple impatiently and struggles to think clearly.
"I need to find her!" She concludes and starts making her way back to her palace.
"Wait? No! Your Majesty!" Kai calls after her, but it is John who stops her.
"Elsa you can't!" John steps in front of her and blocks her path.
"But she's my sister!" She glares up at him.
"Yes and she is very important to you, but you are the Queen, and you are very important to your people. You cannot leave. After the most recent fiasco, Arendelle can't afford to have you walk away from the kingdom again." He gently grasps both of her shoulders and speaks as calmly as he can. Elsa begins to panic and starts hyperventilating.
"But what if something happens to her?! I can't let anything happen to my sister!" Tears start welling in her eyes.
"Your majesty, we can send a group of men out to find her. She couldn't have gotten to far, and with that storm spreading, it would have slowed her down." Kai perks up from behind her. Elsa closes her eyes and nods.
"Fine, send some guards out. We must find her!" She exhales and sighs.
"Anna will be fine Elsa. You'll get your sister back." John reassures her and rubs her shoulders quickly before replacing his hands at his side. Elsa inhales deeply and nods in thanks.
"Send the men out immediately, please." And with that, Kai scurries off to the palace.
"She was always so reckless." Elsa says with a dry laugh.
"I would say more courageous." John stares down at her. She looks up at him and meets his gaze. His gentle hazel eyes gaze admiringly into her sky blue ones for the longest moment.
"Well, uh..." John tears his gaze to the pavement and runs his fingers through his hair.
"It seems as though you've got your hands full here. So I'm going to leave you to your royal duties and uh...I'll see you later." He smiles and leaves for the docks.
"Wait!" Elsa calls after him.
"Uhm, well, with everything going on, I could really use a friend. I haven't had many of those and, it might be nice if you stayed close by for the time being. Everyone in the palace is nice, but they work for me so it's either be kind to the Queen or get fired so..." She stops herself before she started babbling like Anna does.
"So you're saying you want me to stay with you?" He asks. The slightest sign of blush glowed on his cheeks.
"Yes, unless you have something else to do, then I completely understand." She blurts out nervously. With everything going on, she had started shaking, and she had set off a wave of flurries regrettably.
"Well, actually I don't. In fact anything would be better than sitting in that floating death trap for another evening. So yeah, I wouldn't mind following you around for a bit." He smiles nervously. Elsa nods in thanks.
"That would be great. Just follow me the the palace?" She turns and signals for him to follow her to her home. She seemed happy to get a chance to be closer to him. If only she knew who he really was, but if John did tell her, there would be no second chance, and he was sure of that.
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