Chapter 20 guys! It's a momentousness occasion! Lets just say I'm feeling slight pressure to make this story the best it can be. There are 209 followers and over 120 favorites, you readers are the best!

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Elsa walked down the halls of her palace alone late into the evening. John had left moments before and returned to his ship for the night after hours of talking. They did more talking than she had ever done with anyone. She had to admit, his confession did come as a shock to her, but it wasn't as terrible as he made it out to be. Perhaps he was just worried how she would react, or maybe he had never lied before in his life. Whatever it may be, she forgave him, she just hoped there wasn't more to that lie she did not yet know.
As she turned a corner, she caught sight of Kai huddled by the window overlooking the Valley, nervously fidgeting with his daily log book. He seemed worried as he stared out the window with a frown on his face.

"Kai, is everything alright? Have you heard anything?" Elsa asked as she approached her loyal servant and long time friend. He jumped as if she had startled him and dropped his notebook. It fell to the carpeted floor with a muffled thud.

"Your Majesty! Uh, no. Yes. I mean I have not heard anything I'm afraid. I was just thinking." He mumbled and knelt down to retrieve his notebook.

"May I ask what?" She replied with another question in hopes of easing him. She was sure it was about Anna and the storm.

"Well, Your Majesty, I was just thinking about the Prince from The Southern Isles." He said with the slightest hint of regret.

"John?" She asked though she already knew who he was talking about.

"Yes." He nodded before continuing."And my lady, if I could be honest, I worry about trusting him." He admitted with truth. If there was one thing Kai was good at, it was speaking his mind and being heard. He wasn't afraid of being honest.

"He admitted to his flaws and confessed about his lies. I believe I can trust him." Elsa replied.

"But can we trust him as a kingdom?" He asked.

"What do you mean?" She asked in response.

"I mean, you may be able to trust him, but like Hans before him, he gained the Princess' trust and betrayed that trust in the end. What if Prince John aims to do the same thing? Your Majesty, you are a Queen now, and you must choose who you trust and who you let into your heart with care. We cannot afford to lose another Queen, and we do not want to lose you. As your humbled servant, and friend, I ask of you, beg of you to trust your better judgement and remain extremely cautious from now on." He broke out the parental speech on her. Similar to the ones she had heard her mother and father give Anna numerous times over the years. Then she realized he was right. She had an obligation to her kingdom, her people, to protect them. It didn't matter how she felt, all that mattered was her kingdom's safety, and her family's.

"I understand. Thank you Kai, I'll...make the necessary adjustments." She said with a quick nod before continuing down the hall. She knew she could trust John, but her kingdom didn't. And after the whole ordeal with Hans a few months before, nobody in her kingdom wanted to even look at one of the thirteen Southern Isles Princes. Nobody would approve of her speaking with John, let alone trusting him. She had to make the decision for the better of Arendelle, even if it meant shutting him out.
She stopped in front of her late parents bedroom and slowly opened the door to peek inside. The room was left untouched due to her wishes. She had rarely entered their bedroom since their death. She only went inside when she was desperate, sad, or afraid. Emotions she had been feeling quite a lot of in the past few months. She walked around the room and stopped to admire her parent's wedding portrait they displayed over their vanity.

"Mama, Papa, I don't know what to do. Anna's missing, and the kingdoms' safety is lying in my hands." She sighed with a dry laugh."You made this look so easy. How did you do it so...perfectly?" She looked up at the painting as if her parents were going to pop out and answer her questions. She just wish they could.

"I don't know what to do. I wish you didn't have to go..." She sighed with a frown.

Meanwhile...

"So, when this storm lightens up, which it doesn't seem like it will anytime soon, we're gonna have to high-tail it out of here. Preferably before we run out of food." Kristoff announced as he rummaged through his sleigh for about the hundredth time in the past hour. Anna remained where she was beside a sleeping Sven.

"Speaking of food-are carrots the only thing you brought?" She asked while fishing through a sack of bright orange carrots.

"Yeah, why?" He asked from the sleigh.

"Yeah, the sooner we get out of here the better. I don't think I can live off of carrots for another minute." She pushed the sack away.

"Says the one who brought chocolate?!" Kristoff replied with a snort.

"Well, I would've needed my energy in order to get up this huge mountain!" She defended herself with a shrug.

"Yeah, right." He laughed and finally departed from his sleigh long enough to return to her side by the fire.

"Can't we just move down the mountain to the Valley of the Living Rock? It's not that far right?" Anna asked and stared out the cave opening into the snow blizzard howling outside.

"Nah, we wouldn't get far enough before freezing to death." He shot down her suggestion. Seeing as he knew the mountains better than her, she decided to drop the idea.

"So we're just gonna stay here?" She asked with dread. As much as she enjoyed being alone with her fiancee, she did not enjoy the fact in was in a cave surrounded in snow with nothing but carrots, chocolate, and water as food.

"Well, we don't really have a choice, we're surrounded by snow and-" He started before cutting himself off to turn his head in the direction of the cave entrance.

"And what?" She asked and looked in the direction he was staring. He quickly shushed her with his hand and squinted his eyes as if he was listening for something.

"Kristoff?" Anna whispered now slightly worried. Kristoff stood up and made his way to the cave opening.

"Do you here that?" He asked. Anna was tailing behind him.

"No...what is it?" She asked and continued following him until they reached the entrance.

"It sounds like someone yelling. No, a group of people...men, yelling." He noted and stared out into the cold swirling blizzard, though nothing was visible.

"Maybe it's the search team Elsa sent out to find me." Anna pointed out with the slightest glimmer of hope. It wasn't like they were stranded in the mountains, but she knew the search team would be out looking for her, and that reassured her that her sister knew and worried for her.

"Maybe." Kristoff agreed, but he had his doubts.

"Let's go see!" Anna retrieved her cape and gloves before she raced out into the cold. Her impatience got the better of her again.

"Anna wait! You can't just run out into the cold like that!" Kristoff turned around to look at a snoozing Sven before following her outside. He found her standing in the open staring into the distance.

"You have got to stop doing that Anna!" He raced toward her and stopped beside her. Her face was blank as she lifted an arm and pointed straight ahead. Turns out they hadn't heard men sent to find Anna. In fact, those men weren't even from Arendelle. There were about a dozen or so men dressed in black wool uniforms. They yelled and shouted commands at each other, their expressions reflected on the anger or hatred they had been feeling. The worst part, was that they were holding weapons. Spears, swords, knives, and clubs that could take out even the strongest of men.

"That doesn't look like a search team." She quietly said when Kristoff followed her gaze. Kristoff didn't know who they were, but he knew they were bad news.

"Anna, lets go-" he started to pull back when he felt a hard point jab into his back. When Anna turned around, she gasped.

"Well looked at what we have here..." A deep and antagonizing voice said from behind Kristoff. He turned around slowly and pulled Anna behind his back to come face to face with the man holding the sword jabbing into his back. The guy had about three inches on Kristoff with an evil expression spread across his face. He still had the sword pointed to Kristoff, this time, at his neck.

"Now you look very familiar...Princess." He smirked and pushed forward, causing Kristoff and Anna to step back reluctantly. He was talking about Anna who was hidden behind Kristoff's back. She wondered how he knew who she was.

"Men! Look at what I found!" The guy called out to the rest of his team. They stopped their yelling and quickly closed in on Anna and Kristoff. They were surrounded in a sea of tall brutal faces who wielded deadly weapons.

"That was easier than the boss said it would be!" one guy called out.

"Shut up! She's not the one we want numskull!" another yelled in response. Anna clutched Kristoff's back tightly between her mittens.

"Who are you!?" Kristoff reached behind him and held Anna close to him. The men just laughed at his question.

"The question is, who are you? Say? Are you one of those ice harvesters?" One guy said and tipped his sword in Kristoff's direction.

"He probably is, he's dressed for the part!" Another man in the group howled in laughter. Anna flinched whenever she heard those men laugh. Their bursts of laughter were antagonizing and evil. As if they were mocking her and Kristoff for stumbling on their little "gathering".

"Do you know how easy it was to get rid of your little friends?" the one pointing the sword chuckled. Kristoff glared at the men as it dawned upon him that these were the people who had chased off the ice harvesters.

"Can we just get on with this! Where's the boss?!" Someone impatiently called out from the back of the group. The guy having a stare down with Kristoff sneered before backing away.

"Fine! But we have no use for this one. We just need the girl right?!" He turned and asked one of his pals. The other guy shrugged and studied the club resting in his hands. He was obviously not very intelligent.

"We could use him for bait! He obviously must be important if he's with the Princess. That would just mean a better chance of getting what we want right?!" Someone behind the guy holding the sword asked. Nodding as though he agreed, the head guy stepped backwards and turned around.

"Find the boss! Tell him we've found something he would be very interested in!"

"No need to. He's already here." A painfully familiar voice called out from behind them. When Anna turned around, all the terrifying nightmares came bubbling back to the surface. The moment she hoped would never happen, the face she dreaded ever seeing again stood before her wearing an expression of pure hate and derision.

"Hello Princess Anna. Long time no see, did you miss me?" said Hans.

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