"What would she do?" Elsa put that question out of her head immediately. Although she DID care about Anna, she made a vow to herself not to get too emotionally involved with her lest her powers go out of wack again but however, tonight, her vow would be tested & she knew that while erecting her ice palace.
As Anna trudged up the mountain, she heard singing & instantly knew she was at the right mountain. She'd come to the right place: Elsa's mountain. Anna hoped that Elsa would let her stay at the ice palace but she secretly knew what the answer would probably be, the word she'd been denied most of her life when it came to Elsa: No. After Elsa made herself up into the Snow Queen, she heard a knock on the palace door & instantly knew who that knock belonged to. Anna.
Anna raised her fist to knock again but suddenly, the door opened by itself & Anna stepped inside, marveling at the beauty & splendor the palace had to offer. She was even more amazed when Elsa appeared on the stairwell.
"Anna", she said, staring at her like she was intruding.
"Elsa, you look beautiful & the palace is just WOW!" Anna couldn't stop staring around the palace. It was true, the palace was indeed nice but Anna couldn't expect how could anyone could LIVE in it without the proper stuff.
"Thank you, I never knew what I was capable of", Elsa said flatly, trying to control her emotions with Anna around. "Anna, please leave me alone & return home, assume the throne & open up the gates. Leave me to be who I was destined to be: a queen of ice & snow", she pleaded but Anna stood her ground.
"Elsa, there's a problem with that. I was exiled out of the kingdom", Anna explained, a revelation that shocked Elsa.
"Wait, what? Why?" Elsa was now fully interested in this & needed to hear the story so she conjured up some furiniture & sat down to hear Anna's explanation. Anna related how the townspeople were under the impression the two conspired together to bring out the endless winter Elsa unknowingly caused & since she was Elsa's sister, they assumed Anna had some dormat power & lest they take the risk of letting it out, they exiled her. Elsa felt sorry for Anna & decided to do the right thing & let Anna stay with her.
"You stay, just don't get in my way" Elsa ordered & disappeared up the stairwell to make chambers for Anna, who was delighted that she would be staying with Elsa in the beautiful ice palace. Elsa, on the other hand, knew that Anna had no where else to go after her exile & she also knew she had redeem herself in her sister's eyes but her icy veneer crept back in & she ordered that Anna can stay as long as she stayed away from her, a request that Anna was all too happy to oblige. On the other hand, Elsa also knew it would have been easier to say "That's your problem, not mine" but nope, that would have been the coward's way out.
Over the next few days, Anna abided Elsa's wishes by going into town & getting food & supplies for the palace but however, she had to go undercover in the marketpalace as the kingdom was put under new rule & the new ruler considered all exilees matyrs & would be arrested on sight if they were outed. While food & supplies were easy for Anna to get her mitts on, water was a little hard to come by, considering Elsa froze the water source but Anna was able to acquire some from their kingdom's ice harvesters but the catch was that she had to buy their silence (as the ice harvesters worked for the kingdom, they could easily report her to the interim king & he would have her arrested as a matyr). Day in & day out, Anna would be in the marketplace undercover to give Elsa her "alone time" & provide the required elements for long-term living since the palace was made of ice & wasn't really well-insulated. After all, Anna saw little of Elsa & vice versa which was how Elsa preferred it but she knew that she would have to crack her veneer & let Anna into her world at some point. This was what she was thinking about when she woke up from her afternoon nap & saw the supplies on the palace floor, knowing instantly who it was that was leaving them.
"Anna!" she called for her sister as a snowstorm began to form but it was too late for Anna went back to town to catch the harvester for the water & that was where she was right now & she had to move quickly when she noticed the snowstorm. However, the harvester noticed that his customer was actually all fidgety when she noticed the impeding snowstorm & after the exchange was complete, Anna took off but the harvester noticed a giveaway: a lock of red hair. However, he couldn't prove that it was her to start with as many royals in the kingdom had red hair (even the late king had red locks) but he'd find a way despite the bribe money to keep his mouth shut.
After Anna returned to the palace & after Elsa refrained herself from hugging her, she told Elsa about her exploits in town but Elsa was quick to catch a loophole in her explanation: the town & by extentsion, the marketplace were connected to the kingdom & if Anna was exiled from the kingdom as a whole, how was she able to get into town?
"You lied to me about being exiled, didn't you? How are you getting into town, then, hmmmmm?" Elsa asked, thinking that Anna made up the story as an excuse to stay & bond with her.
"HELL-O! Cloak? False name & voice? Ring a bell?" Anna revealed & proceeded to explain that her exploits in town are part to make the palace more homely but since she was, indeed, exiled, she needed to do it disguised but ran into a close call at the water run. As Anna related, the snowstorm Elsa had summoned to call Anna back & the way she reacted to it nearly tipped off the harvester that was supplying them the water that it was Anna he was serving & Elsa must have been in the mountains somewhere. He also noticed a lock of red hair under the cloak hood as she stormed away.
"Oh, Anna! Please don't go into town again! I nearly lost you once & I won't lose you again! Even if it was by my own hand or to a dungeon! Please!" Elsa was on her knees, begging Anna not to return to town & Anna knew that Elsa did have a point: She very nearly got caught because of how she reacted to the snowstorm Elsa had summoned to get her back to the palace & for once, she understood.
"Okay, I won't go back into town but if we run out of supplies & food, we're out of luck in that department", Anna brung up the fact & Elsa decided to remedy that by sending an owl instead of Anna going out there. Elsa also realized that by reacting to Anna's reappearence in the palace the way she did, she was acting the way an older sister would.
AN: Well, that's Chapter 2. Also, if anyone who's following the story got an notification email regarding Chapter 2, DISREGARD that email. Tease for the next chapter: Remember that harvester that Anna kept solicating for water? Well, he's coming back & someone will get caught. Again, I don't own the Frozen characters & brand.