Title: A Journey Through Ice and Fire
Sum: [Digimon!Frozen AU] The mind is a fragile thing... how much can a girl go through... before she simply... breaks...
Disclaimer: I don't own Frozen, Tangled, or its associated characters; I'm just borrowing them for a bit of fun.
Rating: T/PG-13
Characters/Pairings: Elsa, Anna, Kristoff, Sven, Hans, Rapunzel, Eugene
Warnings/Triggers: I think 'high school' is a good enough warning right there…
Links: -links-
Notes: OKAY! Here's chapter five! Enjoy! =D
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:Chapter Five:
-Time Passes-
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"Where's Elsa?"
"She's in the hospital Anna… you know this…"
"But… but why can't she come home? I came home!"
"She's in a coma, sweetheart."
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"This is it, Anna." The figure told herself, standing in front of the mirror; fully clothed and ready for the day. "This is the next step in your life." Running her hands through her hair, her left hand reached out to her dresser to her left, grasping a hairbrush in her hand, she brought it back to her hair and began to run it through her hair—brushing out the tangles as she pulls it through. "First day of high school. New classes. New friends…" Her hands moved deftly through her hair once she was done brushing the tangled mess out of it, and when she was done, two braided pigtails hung from the back of her head. Reaching up, she touched the naturally bleached strand in her hair, there for as long as she could remember. "Old friends too. Can't forget those." She looked back to her reflection, looking over her clothes once more: it was supposed to be slightly chillier than all summer, but it would still be mostly hot, so she was wearing denim shorts; her top was a white tank top, with a green plaid button-up shirt with rolled up long sleeves, and instead of being button, the ends were tied just below her chest. "Perfect." She gave herself a thumbs-up and turned away from the mirror.
At the door to her bedroom was her back-pack, a simple Jansport bag and her black Converse flats. Slipping into her shoes, she picked up her bag by the right strap and swung it onto her right shoulder. Opening the door, she stepped out and closed the door behind her. Satisfied with the click of the door knob, she moved away from her door. With a smile, she moved away from the door and heads for the stairs that would lead down into the foyer. Passing by a door further down the hallway, she pauses momentarily. Turning to face the door, she lays her left hand flat against it.
"Hey Elsa…" Finding sudden difficulty, she takes a moment before continuing. "It's my first day of high school… I… I wish you could be there… I wish you could be the one taking me." Slowly moving her hand away, she leans her forehead against the wood of the door. "I need you to wake up… I need my big sister again." She whispers before pulling away and moving down the hallway and the stairs at the end. "Mom!" Her voice echoes against the walls and she hears heels clacking against the tile and then the hardwood of the kitchen and living area.
"Anna, please don't yell." Her mother quipped as she moves to the front door, her eyes glued to her iPhone as she moved passed her daughter. The redhead merely rolls her eyes and follows her mother out of the front door.
"Is Papa coming home this weekend?" She asks her mother as they move into the black SUV in the driveway. There was silence as her mother started the vehicle and pulled it out of the driveway. Anna merely sighed and leaned back against the passenger's seat with her back pack in her lap during the entirety of the ride. It was a good twenty minutes before her mother pulled up in front of the school and Anna opened the door.
"Have a good first day sweetheart!" She heard her mother say and the redhead turned back towards her mother with a wide grin. "And you father should be home this weekend. He wouldn't miss your birthday for anything, dear, you know that!" Anna nodded and waved to her mother before moving away from the SUV and towards the front door of the school.
There were students everywhere. Big, tall, short, small—all different ethnicities and sizes—it was a great sight to see. "So many new people to meet!" Anna chirped to herself as she strode down the hallway. Looking in different directions as she moved, clearly trying to locate someone.
"ANNA! HEY!" Turning sharply to look behind her, she noticed the bouncing brunette head of her 'cousin' and the ecstatic waving hand that she kept above the heads of the other arriving students. Her bright blue eyes peered over shoulders as she pushed her way through a multitude of young adults that seemed to be congregating at the entrance to the school instead of moving on further down the hallway like normal people would do. "Anna!" Pulling herself out of the crowd, she sighed in relief before realizing that the hand connected to hers hadn't revealed the other teenager that was with her. "C'mon Eugene!" She yanked on the hand and a boyishly handsome sixteen year old brunette with dark eyes and a constant smolder for an expression.
"I told you not to call me that." He groaned, pulling his hand from the brunette girl's and crossing his arms. "It's Flynn or Rider. Jeez, it's not like it's that hard to remember, Rapunzel."
"I know you as 'Eugene', so 'Eugene' you will stay… Eugene." The brunette said with a snarky smile before she remembered why she had braved the masses in the first place. "So… Anna! How was your last few weeks? I know we kind of abandoned you…" The redhead shrugged before answering:
"I had Kristoff and Sven to keep me company, so it was all good." Amidst all of the noise, they heard the piercing cry from the school's regular bell, signifying that they all have about five minutes to get to their homeroom before the day started. "Wow… that was fast." Anna remarked before following after Rapunzel and Eugene to get to their shared classroom.
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The day continued on as normal, after homeroom, Anna had gone to her first period class—splitting up from Rapunzel, but staying with Eugene. His mother had apparently had enough of his purposeful failing and put him in the honors classes, and so he shared Algebra I Honors with her, while Rapunzel took it later in the day with another teacher. The class had been rather boring, like the rest of the school they were merely handing out syllabi and going over classroom rules before letting the students putter about on their own until the bell rang to signify the end of the class and movement to the next one. This one was Physical Education, one that she apparently shared with two other friends of hers and a rather stuck-up brat.
"Kristoff! Sven!" She exclaimed as she caught them in the hallway. "Why weren't you here this morning when Rapunzel and Eugene showed up?" She asked and Kristoff looked to Sven, who nodded, before moving his eyes back to Anna.
"Finalized Sven's adoption. So the family may have overslept this morning because we spent the weekend partying." Anna's eyes lit up instantly upon hearing that her more introverted friend now had a permanent home with Kristoff Bjorgman and his rather… eccentric family. "What actually happened though… was that Mom overslept this morning and popped a tire on the way in… She was just so excited to get here and change Sven's name in the school record to 'Bjorgman'."
"That's great news, Sven!" The boy smiled before opening his arms, telling Anna that he wanted a hug, to which the redhead obliged and squeezed the small brunette boy tightly in her arms. Kristoff waited where he stood, he'd grown about a few inches since the end of their eighth grade year, and now stood taller than Eugene, but that was just a guess. He might be as tall as the high school dropout wannabe. His blonde hair had been trimmed to fit just above his eyes and out of his face, while he wore the usual white cotton t-shirt, dark jeans, DC shoes, and a hooded-jacket. Sven wore much the same, except that he sported an X-Men cotton t-shirt rather than a white one, and refused to wear a jacket in the hot weather. "C'mon, we can sit together." Anna quipped as they moved inside the gym and moved to a mostly row of seats in the bleachers.
"Aw, look at that, wittle Anna and her retarded sidekicks." The redhead's fists clenched instantly and she turned to snarl at the one who had spoken out. Her eyes met the snicker on the auburn haired boy's face, the snark clear in his hazel eyes. "What are you gonna do, pipsqueak?"
"Anna…" The blonde spoke quietly, laying a hand on her hand. "Calm down feisty pants…"
She made to jump up the bleachers, but was immediately cut off from doing so as the intercom in the gym echoed to life and the secretary from the front office spoke: "Anna Reynolds, please report to the front office." There was a collective 'oooh!' sound off through the class of students, customary for anyone thought to be in trouble. However, Anna made to still move up the bleachers and give the auburn haired boy a beating.
"Anna, leave Hans alone. The office thing could be important." Came the soft voice of the mostly silent Sven. The redhead softened instantly at hearing his voice and moved down the bleachers, blocking out the taunts and jeers of her classmates as she grabbed her backpack and exited the gym doors before the class had even begun. Taking a right turn, she moves down the hall before taking a left turn and finding herself in the small corridor that would lead her to the front office.
Taking the necessary right turn, she made it to the door to the front office in minutes. Through the window, she noticed the pacing form of her father going back and forth in front of the windows. Quickly opening the door, she stepped in and spoke: "Papa?" The man froze and Anna could see the stress in his features. "What's wrong?" He shook his head subtly and turned to the secretary.
"Do I need to sign anything else?" He asked quietly, the woman behind the desk shook her head with a sad smile and her father quickly led her from the office and out the front door right next to the office door. "Get in the car, we have to get to the hospital."
"The hospital?! What's wrong, Papa? Is Momma okay?" The redhead asked quickly as she opened the front door to his Volkswagen four-door and plopped down in the passenger seat.
"Anna, put your seatbelt on." He said sternly as he pushed the key into the ignition and turned, effectively starting the car.
"Papa… what happened?" She asked again, reaching behind her as the car moved, to grasp her seat belt and bring is around her body to latch into the buckle. "Please… tell me?" She almost sobbed. At the light to turn out of the school parking lot, he sighed.
"Your sister… she went into a seizure this morning. When we got to the hospital, she had already flatlined once… they… they were able to bring her back." Anna gasped, tears already moving down her cheeks. "Your mother wants you to come see her… talk to her…"
"You… you don't think she's going to make it…" Her father's grip on the steering wheel tightened considerably. "Papa… she's going to get better… I know she is." Anna insisted.
"Anna, she's been in a coma for ten years… the doctor's are suggesting that we… that…" Anna feels a memory coming to the forefront of her mind. It's nighttime, they're all sitting in a white room, it's not as well lit as it should be, but it's still brighter than normal. A man in a set of sea green scrubs comes out, she doesn't really remember what he says—but Anna remembers what happened. They'd found Elsa on the floor of her bedroom. She didn't respond to her mother or father trying to wake her, and she'd barely been breathing. That was a little over ten years ago. They'd said that she could wake up.
The doctor's had said there was no reason to keep her in a hospital. She was breathing on her own. All that seemed to be needed, was to keep her fed—that's what the nurse was for. The nurse was supposed to take care of her! The doctor's said she was fine! She's going to be fine…
"Don't listen to them Papa!" Anna cried. "Don't give up on her! She's going to wake up! You… You can't just let her die!"
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Author's Note: Well, we're almost in the Digital World. By the end of next chapter, everyone should be there! Or at least falling into the portal to get there!
Hope you enjoyed it!
Chezi Out