The formatting issue was bought to my attention recently and so I broke out the laptop and reformatted every document and replaced each chapter with the new, updated ones. I apologize for the formatting problems because I wrote and uploaded the chapters in my iPad which formats everything differently. It should all look neat now.

Here is Chapter 19. Enjoy!

Anna had been asleep for the past five hours and as much as Kristoff hated to think it, he was very very uncomfortable. They had been resting in the same position since she had fallen asleep. Sven was sound asleep behind them as well. For some reason, Kristoff just couldn't fall asleep as easily as they could. For one thing he had found his girlfriend treading through the blizzard to find him. Did she really not trust him enough to take care of himself? He knew she was uneasy about traveling past the kingdom walls, but going to the lengths to follow him was pushing it past the danger zone.

"I know what you're thinking." Anna's voice pulls him out of his thoughts. He looks down to find her staring up at him all sleepy eyed. Her cheeks were rosy and her skin was much warmer now, five hours later.

"Do you?" He reaches up and brushes a stray hair behind her ear.

"You're still angry with me for coming out here to find you." She whispers and lowers her head in shame. As if she actually regretted her actions, of course she didn't.

"No, I'm not angry with you Anna. I'm just angry with myself for not expecting this would happen." He says and hugs her tighter.

"Yeah, you can kinda expect this from me." She smiles at him. A dry laugh escapes his lips along with a small, but noticeable smile.

"But you're okay right? Nothing broken or hurt?" he says in a serious tone.

"I'm just fine, I was just cold." she rests her head on his chest.

"Promise me you won't try that kind of stunt again? Or at least tell your sister first? The last thing we need is Elsa finding out that not only has her Royal Ice Deliverer went missing, but also her sister." He sighs. Anna nods her head.

"Yeah, I promise." she admits and lifts her head. Reaching up she laces her fingers through his hair and places a long-awaited kiss on his lips.

"Missed you." she sighs when she pulls away. When she opens her eyes, she finds that his cheeks are more red than they were when she woke up. With a chuckle, he leans forward and hugs her closely to him, his cheek against her chest.

"I missed you too." he replies as she wraps her arms around his head.

In Arendelle,

"You're brothers treated you like that?" Elsa asked in a shocked tone. She and John still sat in the library and talked. Now that John had told the truth, there was a new level of respect between the two. Elsa found herself more comfortable in his presence and John found that he could be himself, telling even more stories than he had before.

"For six months, my oldest brothers pretended I was invisible, literally. Another time, they locked me in my bedroom for a full two days. My younger brothers snuck me food through a small secret passage in the wall. Only when my butler, Harald, found out did they finally let me out." He sighs from the memory of being stuck in his bedroom alone. He had hated being treated like that.

"The funny thing is, after that incident, you'd think I wouldn't want to spend another second in my room. Yet I ended spending most of my childhood and teen years in there." he finishes. He expected Elsa to stare at him like he was a crazy lone wolf or something. Instead, she looked at him with respect.

"You felt peaceful and alone. Nobody would bother you or pretend you were invisible." She explains for him.

"Seems like you have some experience with hiding in bedrooms to get away from the rest of the world." he smiles at her. She laughs and sighs.

"Not exactly along those lines, but yes, I do have experience with staying cooped up in my room. I rarely left to admit it." she says.

"Was it because of your powers?" he sits up straighter and asks.

"It was. I was afraid that if I left my room, I would put my family in danger. I didn't want to risk it." She shutters at the memory of hurting her sister when they were children. It was an event she was not proud of.

"Thank you for sharing that with me." he pulls her back to the present with a smile that could melt ice, particularly her own ice.

"And thank you for sharing with me. So you like books huh?" She tilts her head and smiles shyly.

"They were my number one pass time, you know, being locked up in my room." He smiles back.

In in the Mountains...

"Hey Anna. Did you happen to notice anything...I don't know...suspicious while you were on your way up here?" Kristoff asks as he pulls out some food from the back of his sleigh. He had finally got to work out those cramps in his back when he got up. Anna remained huddled by the fire with Sven who still sleeping.

"Not that I noticed. I was kind of busy yelling your name." She pulls off her gloves and unties her cape which were both dripping wet.

"Why? Did you find out who attacked the ice harvesters?" She asks as she moves the garments closer to the heat to dry them off. Kristoff makes his way over to her.

"I got the weird feeling in my gut that someone was-was watching me." he says and seats himself beside her.

"Did you see anyone?" she gratefully takes some granola from him.

"No, I just had that feeling, like I was being followed." He sighs and takes a bite out of a carrot. Sven's ears perk up when Kristoff breaks the carrot. A sound that is so distinct and mouthwatering that Sven is on all fours and hovering over Kristoff within seconds.

"Someone's awake!" he exclaims and playfully teases Sven with the carrot. After a while, he eventually gives in and feeds it to Sven.

"So someone really did attack the ice harvesters?" Anna ask worriedly.

"Yeah, when I arrived at the harvesting sight, all of the tools were still lying on the ice. But everyone was gone, like they scattered and never returned." he stares into the fire and thinks.

"Something must have really scared them. You said yourself that harvesters don't scare easily." She points out with a frown.

"Yup, that's right." he agrees without taking his eyes off the fire.

"What are you going to do?" she asks. He pulls his gaze to hers and smiles comfortingly.

"I'm gonna figure out who did this and make sure they never do it again, that's what I'm going to do." He then grins mischievously and pulls her onto his lap. She struggles at first, but eventually gives up laughing.

"You're not a one man army Kristoff, I hope you know that." She smiles down at him. He grins and pecks her lips lightly.

"Oh, but I'm not alone. I never was, and I never will be, at least, not anymore." he smiles. Anna smiles at how utterly cheesy he sounded, but at the same time, adoringly cute. But she couldn't tell him that, if she did, he would never say anything like that again.

I hope everyone enjoyed this laid back chapter.

RxR!
:)