Anna waited two days for Elsa to emerge from hiding. Two days of eating alone... Two days of wandering around the castle alone, two days of walking the grounds without her sister's warm presence beside her. Yes... She couldn't help the loneliness that started to creep into her heart without Elsa... Though Olaf provided her some company and an occasional laugh, what Anna really wanted was her sister...
There had been several times during those two days where Anna was sorely tempted to march into the West Wing barge through Elsa's doors and convince Elsa to stop being so foolish. But she remembered that it was her who sent Elsa on this self imposed little exile and out of guilt, decided to simply wait for Elsa to come out by herself. That didn't mean she didn't try to quicken the process... She would spend hours in front of Elsa's doors, occasionally knocking and asking her sister playfully if she wanted to build another snowman... Or sometimes just talking to the door about her day... Or if she was downright desperate, apologize profusely for asking the question... None of it worked... Elsa didn't come out and the door remained firmly shut...
On the third day however, as Anna stepped into the dining hall, ready to eat another breakfast alone... She gasped in surprise as she noticed that Elsa was sitting at the table in her usual chair. Elsa looked up from her plate and for a minute Anna thought she was going to run away again but to her relief, her sister smiled...
"Hi..."
It took another minute for Anna to process her sister was greeting her...
"Hi me? I mean hi! I'm so happy to see you... again... In front of me... " The red head babbled causing the beast's smile to widen... Slightly...
"So..." Elsa took in a deep breath "I'm guessing you have a lot of questions."
"Yes but you don't have to answer them now if you don't want to," Anna hurried out.
Elsa shook her head.
" No... I want to answer them... It's the least I can do for abruptly shutting you out even when you were... being so kind to me... I'm... I'm sorry..."
Anna shrugged and Elsa took a deep breath.
"So... Why I am... the way I am..." she said slowly, her voice quivering with every word...
"Oh, come on now. It can't be that bad..." Anna teased.
"You'd be surprised..." Elsa said darkly before beginning her story...Slowly bit by bit... She revealed to Anna that since she was a child, her father had told her... that she was an unholy abomination... Born of sin and planted in their mother's womb by the devil himself... That she was a creature so evil... She had been born as a beast...
What her father didn't tell Elsa was that her beastly appearance wasn't caused by her own sin... But by her father's...King Adgar of Arendelle... Although he was blessed with wealth and charm, he had a cruel heart... Committing adultery with many women despite already having a wife, the kind and loving Queen Idun. One of these women happened to be a great wielder of magic and upon discovering not just the truth about her lover's despicable ways but the fact that his wife was with child while he did all this... was left thoroughly outraged...
One stormy night a month before the baby was due... She visited Adgar in the form of a dream... She scorned him for being a monster... That he knew nothing of love within that cruel shriveled heart of his... before cursing him for his crimes... That his then unborn child, a girl... will not grow into the beautiful blooming rose she was meant to be... but rather a thorn... She would be born a monster... Forever unfit, unconditioned and undeserving of love... Like he was... Adgar had awoken from the dream screaming in terror... But upon looking around his empty room, tried to dismiss it as a simple nightmare... However, the previously shut but now opened windows told him otherwise... And the next day, when he gave out the order for her arrest, discovered that she had vanished into thin air...
"It was just a nightmare... Just a nightmare..." he would often chant to himself as the date of his child's birth drew nearer and nearer...
Oh... It was no nightmare all right... There was no doubt that the woman had kept her word... No doubt about it at all... Queen Idun nearly fainted at the very sight of her infant, hardly believing that this had been the "child" she had been carrying in her very abdomen for nine months... However, upon hearing the little thing gurgle happily before affectionately snuggling deeper into the blanket... Idun couldn't help but notice the small flacks of similarity between her and the little thing be and managed a small smile despite her previous reservations towards the little thing... That connection however, only lasted a mere five seconds before it was shattered when Adgar entered the room...
"Idun?"
Gently, the queen shifted her arms so they'd block the little blue bundle. She knew her husband had the tendency to overreact and act irrationally... Hopefully he'd be more understanding now... She needed him to be...
Adgar watched as his wife lifted her gaze. Anguish was written across her features... Anguish and begging...
"Oh Adgar…" she whispered, her voice quavering with a sob, "Please understand…"
"Understand what?" he chocked, DESPERATELY praying that the baby didn't turn out the way he feared she'd turn out before hesitantly letting his blue gaze drop down to the little blue bundle in his wife's arms. A wheezing gasp escaped his mouth and he clumsily stumbled backwards a few steps out of horror. It felt like someone had crept up behind and gave him a cruel blow to the face.
"No..." he breathed, the color rapidly draining from his face.
"No! It can't be!"
Idun nodded slowly to confirm his horror... Not knowing what to say...
"No!" Adgar continued, holding his head as, for a moment, the room began to spin uncontrollably...
"It is not possible! Magic doesn't exist...How? HOW?!" he thought desperately.
Idun who was oblivious to the curse let out a stifled sob in response, having no answer to her husband's questions...
Holding his head, Adgar, tried his best to convince himself that this was again a nightmare of some sort... However, as he stole a glance over to the queen's arm, he winced and shuddered. This was no nightmare...
For what his wife cradled in her arms was not a baby... Not the human baby everyone in the castle had been expecting... The child Idun had brought into the world did not have soft pink skin with little fingers and little toes. No... The little being that wriggled in her arms was covered in thick hair. And not just any hair... Fur... Fur that was befit for a beast... And to make the blow even worse, the little thing had fur of light platinum blonde; one that was almost white in coloring reminiscent of the woman's own locks...
Adgar glared at the monster, its characteristics a strange mixture of both human and animal. This one had the cherubic faces of a baby, round and plump, but the ears and snout of an animal and when it reached out for Idun, it was a hand like paw that grabbed the queen's finger, covered completely in soft, thick fur and when it kicked, the foot that came loose from the swaddling was a wolf's paw... and wrapped around it... A wolf's tail... Adgar backed away when the beast cub yawned, revealing a gummy smile, his eyes widened... He could already see the little fangs forming...
Idun watched, as her husband glare at their child like it was a piece of rotting fish...
"Adgar… Adgar... Love...please understand that…" Idun stopped before taking a deep breath...
"Please understand that this is still our child..."
However, instead of calming him, Idun's words seemed to strike a nerve with her husband... and not just any nerve... A nerve that caused every vertebra in his spine to straighten, every muscle in his body to stiffen with rage, fear and guilt in memory of what the woman had said... NO HE WAS NOT GOING TO HAVE A PART IN THIS...
Idun watched warily as she saw her husband tense, his broad shoulders shaking and his fists clenched.
"No..." his growl was so low that she almost didn't hear it.
"That... That... That BEAST is not my child!"
Idun swallowed, her eyes watering... His words were like a slap to her.
"How can you say such a thing…?" she whispered desperately.
"DON'T! DON'T YOU DARE IDUN... TELL ME ... CAN YOU LOOK AT THAT THING AND TELL ME YOU CAN LOVE IT LIKE ANY HUMAN CHILD? CAN YOU?! THAT IS SIMPLY A MONSTER!" He spat the word like it burnt his tongue
Idun's eyes went wide and immediately drew herself up to argue but couldn't bring herself to tell the truth...Adgar let out an angry sigh through his teeth, whirling around to his wife and what lay in her arms.
"That is not my child!" he repeated, a little louder to no one in particular...
There was an uncomfortable pause after that with Adgar massaging his temples and Idun sobbing softly... Finally, just as Adgar prepared to leave the room, Idun spoke up.
"That may be so Adgar, but she is my child..." Idun said softly and carefully tucked her daughter's foot and tail back into the blanket and rocked her gently, causing the little baby to giggle happily.
"See? She's just like you and me."
Adgar could not believe what he was hearing. He scoffed.
"Oh yes! Just like you and me, Idun!" he gestured sarcastically.
"Adgar..."
"Look at it! How are we going to present that to the rest of Arendelle? Do you honestly think everyone else will understand?"
Idun swallowed and looked away, close to fresh tears but unwilling to admit that her husband was right as he ranted on.
"That is an animal! It will be shunned by society, the only future it can possibly have is one of a recluse. There is no hope for it..."
Their daughter shifted, making a little noise like all babies make. She opened her eyes. Bright, blue cyan eyes. Eyes that were so achingly human... Wise beyond their years... Idun saw this and her heart broke and when Adgar reached out to grab it presumably to drown it... She looked up defiantly at her mortified husband, her brown eyes fierce as she held her child tightly.
"She is my child, Adgar! She may not be yours but she is mine!"
Adgar shook his head, another growl escaping his throat.
"That is a monster..." he responded sharply
"A beast! I don't know how you do it but I cannot stand to look at it!"
"Adgar!" Idun cried out as she watched her husband turn away and storm out of the bedroom. The doors slammed with a resounding bang and in the silence of the bedroom, only Idun's sobs remained...
Well yeah... Elsa's backstory... Hope it was good cuz I didn't want to go the typical BATB route... Been there done that... Ok... I hope you enjoyed those two chapters so I better get double the reviews! Nah just kidding but I won't lie, that would be amazing... Like I said earlier... This was inspired and dedicated to Lany19's The Ice Behind Bars... go check it out... And that's all... REVIEWS ARE YOUR FRIENDS