Author's Note: Hey there! today was kind of sucky, so in order to cheer myself up, I will update a small chapter, its important of course, but I really just look foward to what will happen next. By the way, wasn't it strange the Queen's name on OUAT was Gerda? for those who know the original story, you know what I mean, and of course the mirror was a neat detail to include! Althought Emma being a replacement for the Snow Queen to have her family was kind of a...I don't know, it was strange. Plus, wouldn't that make her cousins with Elsa?, or her niece? or some sort of relative? Whateves, enjoy and please don't mind the length I will try to update more soon. See 'ya
"Two of sugar, love?" Rumple served the tea as they sat in the living room.
Henry was sat close to the young Queen that impatiently waited for him to start.
"Well, how to start this tale?" he sat taking a sip of his tea while the two of them watched him closely "I knew the Snow Queen…long before you were born and I always knew who and what she was, I saw all the things that the book described, I was there, never interfered, but I could see it all. But when your father met her, he melted the snow in her heart and then they married because the love Agdar had for her was stronger but…as you might realized not all the ice faded away and one little piece, just the size of the missing part of the mirror, grew on her heart, slowly but yet strongly"
"Mother had ice powers when I was an infant?"
"Yes, not as powerful as she used to be, but still. So when you where going to be born, I knew her magic would be inherit and I asked Agdar to take you under my ward, we both knew the ice in your mother's heart was growing again and we were unable to stop it, but he couldn't let you go and took his chances, they thought better to hide the truth of how you got your powers. So, many people around the inner circle of your family blamed me for your magic, saying I had cursed you just to take you with me, but Agdar knew better" he scratched his neck "When you accidently harmed your sister, your father came to me, desperate to take both your magic and your mother's away, but I was unable so he decided to kept you in your room where no one could ever hurt you"
"Hurt me?" she asked confused
"You father's fear was never about you hurting someone, it was that someone could ever hurt you"
Elsa tenderly smiled and nodded for him to continue "finally when you were turning 18, the ice in your mother's heart was much and it was a risk, she wanted to take you and teach you about the magic, she wanted to runaway because she felt prisoner of her own castle, she was turning dark and evil once more and Agdar knew he couldn't let her take you, so…when you where almost ready to take the crown…when he knew they could step down so the Snow Queen couldn't rule for longer and regain all of her powers…he asked me one of the hardest things I have ever had to do in my life…he asked me to kill them"
Elsa's heart strangulated as she pressed her fists firmly trying to conceal her power.
"It had to look like an accident so I casted a storm and his ship was wrecked" he said in shaky voice trying to keep some composure "Then, there were only you two and I came with the offer you well know, but, you might ignore that your first born or your sisters could inherit the magic your mother had. Anna maybe didn't had your magic but perhaps her child could"
"And from whom were you protecting her child from? From me? Could I turn out like my mother?"
"Unlikely, you are…goodhearted, but…I was protecting Anna's newborns from…"
"My mother, she survived the shipwreck" she knew that was a fact, talking to her was like seeing a ghost.
"Yes…she did and she was coming for you, that's the real reason I trapped you in the urn, so that she could never find you and…that's why I kept you away from your sister, so the Queen could never get you both"
"Did my father…survived as well?" she asked with trembling voice
"I'm afraid not…" he looked down sullenly "But his sacrifice wasn't in vain, he protected you, he did it all to keep you and Anna safe"
Elsa swallowed the knot in her throat trying not to cry "What happened to Anna, where is she?"
"She resided in Arendelle for all I know, I can't tell much about her"
"So all those times you tried to take me under your ward; it was all because my father asked you to?"
"I might not be a noble man, but I am a man of my word and our deal wasn't over until you and Anna were safe. That's why I can't take you back home, because she might be looking for you. As soon as you left the base you became a target, she can feel your magic, she would have found you"
If only she could tell him she was here, that she was in deep trouble…that she felt lost.
"That's all I needed to know" she left the cup on the table standing up in Henry's company "Thank you…for all the sacrifice you did for me and my sister, my whole family…I judged you unfairly and all this time…"
"There's no need, Queen Elsa, I would had done anything to help your father"
"And I am sure he would be grateful, I am in big debt with you"
"No debt, I am just glad you finally learned the truth before it was too late and I want you to know, that I'm sorry; I realize how horrible must be to think of your mother in such a way, but…"
"It is the truth, I believe your worth fully" she assured feeling the pain across her chest "I…could really use some time to assimilate all this…is better if I go and…" she cut herself pressing her fist. Henry pated her hand but she fearfully retreated looking away.
"It will take time, of course" said Gold "If there is anything else I could do for you…"
She approached him "You have done more than you needed to" for the first time ever, she hugged him "Thank you for looking out for me and my sister"
Gold embraced her as well "It was my pleasure, take good care, child" he felt her heartbeat against his, but hers was slow and weak, oddly off.
"I will…" she didn't finished her phrase, she just let go of him and walked to the door with Henry, but Gold kept looking at her, something was wrong. When the doorbell rang announcing they had departed he prepared to clean up the tea trey, and when taking her cup he noticed the liquid was frozen, but Elsa hadn't even used her powers, there was no flurry, no snowflakes, nothing…
