The White Shadow 11: I don't own Frozen or any Characters.
Rating: M
Pairing: Eventual Elsanna
Words: 1,747
Characters: Anna, Elsa, Minor parts: Belle, Aurora, Hans and Kristoff
Summary: Anna and Elsa board a plan to Washington D.C. and we get some more information about Elsa's mother.
Anna sat down next to Elsa in the first class cabin. This airline had a complete separate area and the pair of them where the only ones in the first class. Anna looked over and saw that Elsa was looking out the window. Anna wanted to know more about Elsa, but didn't really want to intrude on Elsa's personal space if Elsa wasn't ready to open up. Of course Elsa could just be holding the things in because she didn't want to open up if Anna didn't want to know.
Anna waited until the plane was in the air and they had drinks in hand when Anna looked over at Elsa. Elsa was still sitting silently looking out the window and Anna wanted to talk to her, but if Elsa wanted quiet Anna should give it to her. Except she found herself saying "Elsa can I ask you a question?"
"Anything you want," Elsa answered, as she turned and looked at Anna. Elsa's eyes were red and bloodshot like she had been crying or lack of sleep. Elsa looked like her usual perfect put together self that if she had been awake all night you wouldn't have known it. The only window into what Elsa was feeling was her eyes.
"What happened to your mother?" Anna had been wondering about this since the realization that Elsa's mother must be dead. Elsa looked away from Anna and she knew that Elsa wasn't ready to talk about it. "I'm sorry. I just wanted to know because you said in the store a few days ago that your mother used to do things and I wanted to know if she had passed away," Anna felt nervous and that caused her to ramble.
"I understand if you don't want to talk about it, but I just feel like I want to know everything about you. It feels like we are two people that have this connection, but I don't know anything about you before last week," Anna knew she was really rambling, but couldn't stop. "Never mind I'm sorry I'll just –" Elsa then interrupted
"Anna love stop," Anna stopped as Elsa had grabbed her hand. The feeling of Elsa holding Anna's hand was really what stopped Anna. "I will tell you the story if you let me. I just needed a second," Elsa then squeezed Anna's hand as she looked away.
"When I was six or seven my mother and I went to the store. We weren't much different than your family we had two guards walking with us, we also had a maid and a butler, but my mother loved to cook. So we had just finished shopping and we were walking back to the car. I had just gotten a new toy and was playing with it. The sound of a rushing car coming towards us didn't mean anything to me, but I dropped the toy and bent over to pick it up when the loudest noise I had ever heard started repeating. I was suddenly pinned to the ground and more sounds started. The sounds hurt my ears and having an adult press me into the sidewalk hurt as well," Elsa stopped and had to look back out the window. Anna was holding her breath waiting for Elsa to finish. Anna had an idea what was coming next, but waited with baited breath.
"After what seemed like hours the sounds stopped. I said 'Momma what happened?' and then I was able to push my way out from under my mother. I looked around and saw that one of the guards was face down on the ground with a pool of blood around him; I didn't know it was blood then though. The other guard was on a cell phone talking to someone with one hand and the other had a gun out. He was sitting against a wall and a growing pool of blood was growing beneath him. Then I turned to my mother and yelled 'Mamma we have to go!' I bent over and tried to turn my mother over and she was barely able to help me turn her. When we did turn her she reached up and placed a hand on my face."
Anna couldn't believe what she was listening too. Elsa was telling Anna not that her mother died of cancer or anything like that Elsa was describing her mother's murder. Anna had tears going down her face just listening to the story. Anna wanted Elsa to look at her, but instead Elsa was looking out the window still. So instead Anna placed her other hand on Elsa's as Elsa hadn't let go of Anna's hand yet.
"My mother looked up at me and said 'Baby I am so honored that you called me mamma. You are such a special girl and I know you will do great things, but now you have to run. Run to your favorite restaurant do you know where to go?' I knew the restaurant was just two blocks away and it was down a few alleys. I nodded my head, but I didn't understand why she wanted me to leave her. I yelled at her 'Let's go mamma!' but then I noticed that her hand was covered in red. 'Baby I love you so much, but you have to run and I can't go with you.' I then looked down at myself and saw that I was covered in red and thought that maybe I had been hurt too 'Mamma I think I'm hurt too.' My mother smiled at me and placed her hand back on my face 'No baby your ancestor's protected you. I can hear them coming back you need to run.' Mother then pushed me towards the alley near us 'Run BABY RUN!' Hearing my mother scream at me caused me to run as fast as I could. The sound of a car was coming and I ran down the alley. The sound of the car seemed to follow me down the alley, but a fence was at the end of the alley." Elsa stopped for a second and Anna watched as Elsa probably wiped the tears from her face. Anna went to stop her from continuing, but Elsa just kept talking.
"I was able to scale the fence easily and continued running. The car tires screeched to a halt as I turned the corner and headed to the next alley. I could hear the car move again in pursuit, but it was too far for them to go as I went down the next alley. I ran into the restaurant that I had been in many times in the past. I knew the owners of the restaurant and saw the wife standing behind the counter. When she saw me she ran out the door and slammed the gate that covered the front of the restaurant and locked it. 'My mamma I left my mamma covered in red on the sidewalk' I said, but the owner's husband just picked me up and ran me to the back of the restaurant. They called my father and he came to pick me up," Elsa stopped there and Anna was glad she stopped because she wasn't sure if her heart could take it.
Elsa looked back at Anna and she also had tears on her face. "I'm sorry I didn't know what I was asking," Anna said, as she wiped her face with one of her hands.
"It's ok. It normally doesn't make me this emotional to tell that story, but recent events have caused me to be a little emotional," Elsa gave Anna a slight smile.
"Thank you for telling me," Anna said as she tried to process what she just heard. Elsa had said that her mother said 'that she was honored that she called her mamma.' What does that even mean? What else would Elsa call her mother? Anna decided that the question would wait for another time as right now it was already emotional enough. Anna thought that it might be a good time to change the subject to something else. So Anna smiled while looking at Elsa and said "Dagobu?" It was supposed to mean you ok?, but the way Elsa smiled and had a laugh Anna must have pronounced it wrong.
"That was close, but Dagoba is a Star Wars reference. I'm sure what you wanted to say was Daijoubu? Yes I'm ok, thanks for asking." Elsa said, with a much more genuine smile. It was a smile that Anna had only seen flashed at her. Elsa's other smile was a small, cold smile almost like she hated smiling. This smile was wide, warm and inviting and Anna could stare at it all day. "Do you want to have a lesson?" Elsa asked, and Anna just nodded as the sun set out the window behind Elsa.
The flight got in very late east coast time, but it didn't stop the security firm from having two guards standing at the gate. Anna asked for name and ID as the guards at San Jose gave Anna the info on who was picking her and Elsa up. After they were confirmed the correct people they escorted Elsa and Anna to the baggage carrousel.
It was late west coast time and Anna was tired and didn't say much during the drive to the hotel. Anna walked up to the desk and gave them her parents name and they started fussing over them. "I'm sorry, but the room we have for you doesn't have the two beds that was requested. We only have a king bed available, is that ok? Or we can have a rolling bed brought up," the receptionist said.
Anna went to say that they would need another room, but Elsa said "That's fine we have slept in a king bed before." Anna just looked over at Elsa with a tilt of her head and Elsa only nodded. So Anna just nodded and they finished checking in. As soon as they walked into the room Anna longed to lie down. Elsa put her bags in a corner and pulled out a long nightshirt like the one she wore at Anna's. Elsa moved into the bathroom to change. Anna decided to change in the room as she pulled off her clothes and pull on her nightshirt. Anna then crawled into bed and tried to stay awake for Elsa, but couldn't keep her eyes open.
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