Kristoff awoke to find his arm laying gently across Anna's midsection when he realized Anna's magical clothes had dissipated in the middle of the night. He leapt up from beneath the blanket startled, and then shuttered once standing. What if the "Morning Salute" came along? It would be digging into Anna's backside.

This caused the Princess to stir. She sat up, the blanket falling around her waist. She stated with a somewhat sleepy yawn; "Good morning, Sunshine! How long have... Ugh!" Anna realized her breasts were exposed, and Kristoff had that faraway look in his eyes. She then wrapped the blanket around herself, leaving Elsa uncovered. You could have packed Elsa in snow, and she wouldn't have noticed.

"Kristoff, I strongly suggest you get used to seeing me naked, I have the feeling you're going to see me that way often."

"I'm sorry Anna; this is quite a shock to me. Yesterday, I was reciting your eulogy, then you arose from the volcano. When you stepped out of the smoke, you were just… so beautiful, my mind overloaded. You must understand this, I thought you were dead, and I would never see you again."

"I'm sorry too, Kristoff. This is all new territory for me."

"You have no memory of the time while you were frozen, correct?"

"It's more like I had these strange feelings, it's hard to describe. I could sometimes sense your presence, and Elsa, too. Everything was darkness, but I have no recollection of how much time has passed. It was like a dream, and just didn't seem that long."

"It's been four years since you've been frozen." Anna looked down and pinched the bridge of her nose. All the thoughts of the things she may have missed rushed into her head all at once.

"You look a little older, Kristoff."

"You haven't aged a day."

"Tell me, what happened to Hans?" Kristoff was just starting to realize how hard this conversation was going to be.

"Your sister killed him on the fjord, shortly after you froze. She was enraged at the time."

"Elsa is not a killer!" Anna realized she may have said that a little too loud.

"She was that day. But she has deeply regretted that decision, even though she may have done him a favor."

"How can killing someone be doing them a favor?!"

"Hans was under the spell of a potion called Hemlocia, it prevents the victim from falling in love." Anna was aghast, this must have been the reason he rejected her.

"So Hans took a potion to keep from loving me?"

"Well no..., not exactly. It's very rare, and extremely expensive. It was hidden in the hilt of his sword, and it does not need to be ingested. He had most likely been set up by somebody. Who?, we do not know. I went to the village where Pangari the Maker who created the potion lived, on the other side of the world. It turned out she was murdered to prevent her from giving up the secret of the formula."

"Then what did you do?"

"I searched the world for a cure. I climbed mountains in Nepal, crossed the Ottoman desert, I've spent months aboard ships and sailed in every sea, and in all that, I never found one."

"You went thru all that…, just for me?"

"I love you." There it was. All that had been done, all the searching, books read, incantations said, and spells cast. It all came down to three little words, I love you. Anna got up, letting the blanket fall around her ankles. She once again fell into Kristoff's embrace.

"I don't want this feeling to ever end, Kristoff. But the truth is, I don't know you that well. Let's be sure, to be sure, do you know what I mean?" His heart sank. The realization that his lopsided love may have been all for nothing, crept up in the back of his mind.

"I understand, Anna. I've loved you for four years, it's been a couple of days for you, and that rush to marry Hans didn't work out so well. I've waited this long, so I'm in no hurry. If the whole "Princess" thing gets in the way of us, I know you'll have to move on."

"Fat chance, silly pants, I'm in charge of my destiny now. Speaking of kingdoms, how's Arendelle doing?" Now Kristoff would really have to face the music.

"Anna, Arendelle is gone. It's now just a frozen wasteland; even the trees have all died."

"What about the people?"

"All gone, Elsa evacuated the entire kingdom." Anna sunk to her knees and wept, all Kristoff could do is hold her. She may be alive, but in all honesty, she had no home to go to. Then Kristoff gently picked her up and whispered in her ear.

"Now that you're back, the Prophecy will be fulfilled. Summer will return with your help."

"What Prophecy?"

"There is a very ancient book that predicted you and your sister's birth, and if yours or Elsa's powers are out of balance, the Earth was in serious trouble."

"What about Elsa, how has she faired all this time?"

"In a word- lonely. I've tried to be there for her as much as I could, but I've spent very little time in Arendelle since I started traveling. She needed you, Anna. From my understanding of the Prophecy, you are like bread and water to her."

"And Sven?" She was concerned about a reindeer. It amazed him that such a big heart could be frozen solid like that.

"He's fine, our mentor Lun has been helping take care of him lately. That is, if he hasn't sold him, or turned him into steaks."

"He wouldn't dare!" Kristoff just laughed, Anna still needed a reintroduction to humor.

"I know, he's something of a crotchety old wizard, you'll like him, and I'm sure he'll be pleased to see you."

"I gotta' admit, Kristoff, this is a lot to take in."

"Yea, I think I'll save some of this conversation for later, we have a long walk ahead of us today."

"Walk?! Speak for yourself!" Just then she turned away and started to run. Holding her arms straight out, she then quickly brought them down to her sides, and the great bird ignited. She sailed up, into the clouds, until she was a tiny fleck of light in the sky.

Elsa began to wake, and then panicked when Anna appeared missing.

"Kristoff, where's Anna?!"

"You see that tiny dot of orange light there? That's her." Her spirit needs release would echo thru her mind once again.

"Why don't you join her, Elsa?"

"But how would I…?" The thought never occurred to her to make a flying beast, but hey, it was the dawning of a new age, and it was worth a try. Elsa went into her angelic dance and created a giant snow swan. She walked up to it, then the swan gracefully knelt down and she climbed on.

"Care to join me, Kristoff?"

"Maybe next time." With a swirl of wind the giant bird took off, with all the elegance of the living creature it resembled. Elsa would join her sister in the sky, where they would play with each other in the clouds for an hour. Kristoff laid back and smiled, content to watch all this from afar. The Prophecy fulfilled, they could now go back to Arendelle and bring back the summer, the kingdom, and its citizens.

Out of the proverbial ashes, Arendelle will rise once again…

A/N,

Once again, thanks for reading. While this ending is certainly fluffier that my original vision, it's a whole lot less depressing. It's also open ended, and maybe I'll add to it. Still outlining the epilogue, but there is something of a massive project going on at the house here, and writing is on the back burner. Until the next crazy idea comes along….

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