Anna and Elsa had decided that Ellie would sleep in Elsa's room for the night. Well decided, it was more like Anna asking Elsa if Ellie could stay with her because it was Kristoff's first night back from the mountains and then leaving before Elsa could say no.

Because Elsa had little to none experience with kids she had been quite scared of messing this up. Everything went well though. They had asked the staff to move Anna's old bed to Elsa's room so Ellie could sleep there. The girl fell asleep as soon as she hit her pillow.

Before Elsa went to bed herself she stood by Ellie's bed looking down on her sleeping form. She was such a sweet little girl, Elsa thought. How could anyone hurt her? Right then she swore to herself that she would do anything to find a loving family for Ellie that would adopt her as their own.

It was just beginning to dawn outside when Ellie shot right up in her bed. She could just manage to keep in a scream. She had had a nightmare, a very vivid one, of being back in the attic, locked up with Greta screaming at her again. When she looked around she realized she wasn't in the attic like she had been in her nightmare but in Elsa's room. Ellie slowly breathed a sigh of relief. That relief was short lived though when she saw the state the room was in. Frost covered the walls and the ceiling and on the floor was a thick layer of ice. Oh no, Ellie thought, what have I done? She quickly glanced over to her left where she saw that Elsa was still asleep. What would Elsa think of her when she woke up and saw that her room was transformed in a Winter Wonderland? The answer was obvious to Ellie: Elsa would cast her out and tell her to never show her face again in Arendelle. Ellie wasn't going to wait for that though. She would go herself and this time she would really find a place with no people.

She slowly and carefully slid out of bed and made her way towards the door so she wouldn't wake up Elsa. When she tried to open the door, it wouldn't open. Panic rose inside Ellie's chest. She had caused the door to freeze shut. She frantically glanced around the room to look for another way out but there wasn't. She was locked in. Crying, she made her way to the corner and curled herself up in a ball waiting for Elsa's verdict when she would wake up.

Elsa did wake up not long after Ellie had positioned herself in the corner. She had never been a morning person but when she saw the state her room was in, she really wanted to go back to sleep. Her entire room was covered in ice and little piles of snow covered the floor. True when she was younger her room used to look like this all the time but the last few years the room hadn't been covered in anything more than just a little layer of frost. The only times when her room did look like this, was when she had severe nightmares. Though Elsa didn't remember having any nightmares last night. In fact she had had a rather pleasant dream about her and Anna building snowmen.

Elsa decided that she'd thaw her room after she got dressed and woke Ellie up. Wait! Elsa thought, Ellie didn't know about her powers. The poor kid would be so scared when she saw the state the room was in. Elsa quickly turned around to look at Ellie's bed. Instead of finding a sleeping Ellie there, the covers were pulled back and the bed was empty. Elsa quickly scanned the room for any trace of Ellie until her eyes rested upon the little girls figure curled up in a ball in the corner.

Ellie saw Elsa slowly approaching her. She felt her powers wanting to burst out of her but somehow she managed to rein them in. Ellie decided it probably was best to just confess to Elsa what had happened.

'I- I'm so sorry', Ellie whimpered not daring to look up to Elsa. 'I didn't mean to, it was an accident. The nightmare was so scary and when I woke up the room was all covered in ice. I tried to leave before it got worse but the door was frozen shut.'

Elsa couldn't believe what she was hearing. She expected Ellie to be scared but the girl wasn't scared of Elsa she seemed scared of herself believing she did this.

'Oh honey, you didn't do this', Elsa tried to calm the girl down.

'Yes, I did', Ellie cried still not daring to look at Elsa. 'This is why they treated me badly in the orphanage. They locked me up in the attic so I couldn't hurt anybody with my ice. I'm cursed because… I'm a monster.' She whispered the last part very quietly. She buried her head in her hands once more waiting for Elsa to say something.

'You did this…' Elsa said with wonder in her voice. Realization slowly dawned on her that for once she wasn't the cause of all this ice and frost in her room.

Ellie, who totally missed out on the wonder in Elsa's voice, was still waiting for Elsa to cast her out. It was agony to wait for the rejection that would obviously follow. While waiting, Ellie felt fear building up inside of her. In an attempt to keep her powers inside of her she started to chant her mantra.

'Conceal, don't feel', Ellie kept repeating, first inside her head but out loud now as well.

This didn't go unnoticed by Elsa who by now had gotten over the initial shock of discovering that there possibly was something with the same powers as herself.

'Ellie, stop, please stop', Elsa pleaded with the girl. 'It's not going to work you know.'

Ellie finally looked up at Elsa relaxing a little when she saw that somehow Elsa wasn't mad or repulsed by her. She still didn't expect the words that came next though.

'Ellie, could you please show me?'

No one had ever asked Ellie to showcase her powers. Everybody was always so desperate to keep as far away form Ellie and her powers as possible.

'You really want me to show you?'

'Yes please.'

Ellie stood up and with shaking hands she slowly removed her gloves. Moving her hands in a circular motion a snowball formed on her hand.

Elsa couldn't believe her eyes. Though she did believe Ellie when she told her about being locked up in the attic because of her powers, it still was another thing to see with her own eyes that there really was someone like her.

When Elsa didn't say anything and just stared at her Ellie felt the fear building up again causing the room to snow a little. Ellie desperately clenched her fists trying to stop the snowing but she only made it worse.

Elsa quickly came out of her trance when she saw Ellie struggling. 'You can't control it when you're trying to conceal it. You have to let it go. Just breathe, Ellie, just relax.'

Ellie did what Elsa said and to her great surprise the snowing stopped.

Elsa took a step forward towards Ellie but Ellie instinctively took a step back and curled up in the corner again. Elsa was actually quite mad at herself right now for not seeing the signs sooner. The girl being afraid of touch, wanting to keep the gloves on even at night, should have made alarm bells going off in Elsa's head.

Elsa knelt in front of the girl. 'It's okay, I know how you feel, really. You're afraid of touch because you're afraid to freeze people. That's why you keep the gloves on at all times because they make it a little bit easier to keep your powers in. When they locked you up in that attic you tried to tell yourself it was for the best but you couldn't help but feeling like a prisoner. You tried so hard to control your powers because you couldn't help hoping that maybe if you gained control they would let you out some time. But the harder you tried to keep your powers in the worse they got.'

Ellie stared at her disbelievingly. How could Elsa possibly know all that?

'How did you…'

'… know that?', Elsa finsished. 'They locked me up too because of my powers. Watch…'

With that Elsa moved her hands elegantly through the air making a little snowman appear in her hand.

Ellie looked at Elsa in awe. Never in the whole world had she thought that there could be someone else like her.

When both the platinum blondes looked into each other's eyes they saw understanding in them. The understanding they had both yearned for their entire lives.

Elsa opened her arms for Ellie to hug her. Somehow she felt that they couldn't freeze each other, that they would be immune to each other's powers. Ellie knew it too because she ran from her corner into Elsa's arms for what would be her first hug.

They stayed entangled in each other's arms with tears sliding down their cheeks. For the first time Ellie's tears didn't crystallize before they hit the ground though. They weren't tears of sadness or anger but tears of joy. They were tears of joy because finally they weren't alone anymore. While they enjoyed their hug the room slowly thawed around them.