"Hello? Is someone there?" the queen called out through the darkness.

"Elsa?" a voice responded from the other side of the room. "Im sorry I just couldn't go back to my room all alone after that."

"No, no it's fine Emily." Elsa said as she spotted the girl across the room. She started to walk towards her and soon saw the grief that clouded her features. "Emily…Are you okay?"

The girl shook her head as Elsa stepped closer to her, wrapping her arms around Emily's waist she pulled her into a hug. Soon Elsa felt warm arms around her neck and a head resting on her shoulder. Emily's hot breath on her neck made Elsa shiver against the girl.

"Im sorry about my parents." Emily apologised as she pulled out of the hug. They moved to sit on the couch across from the window. "They are always like this, but I just hoped that they would be better around you, around other royals."

"About what you said…" Elsa began.

"When I was little, my little brother Max had this stuffed bear. He took that thing everywhere with him and he couldn't sleep without it. One night when my parents were out, Bradley and I were putting Max to bed and we realized that we had forgotten the bear downstairs. So Bradley went to fetch it and while he was gone Max and I started fooling around and laughing like kids do. And I ended up accidentally…setting fire to one of the curtains in the boy's room. I screamed so loud that Bradley came running back and we started panicking trying to put it out. But the fire just grew and grew. The flames didn't affect me…but Bradley, he got burned and Max… He didn't make it out."

"Im so sorry Emily." Elsa said when the girl paused.

"Well my parents were never the same, they could never forgive me. And now that stupid stuffed bear just sits in my parent's room, because it's all they have left of him. My brother and I got these to remember him." Emily said, standing up she lifted her shirt and turned to show the girl a tattoo of a stuffed bear on her back. Elsa thought back to the first time she had seen the patch of fur peak out from under the girl's shirt, and to the garden when she had asked what it meant. The blonde brushed her fingers over the black ink. "It was my fault…Max…he deserved a life and I took that from him. And I can never take that back." Emily stared out the window, Elsa's fingertips on her tattoo. "So that's why my dad hates me. That's why mom can't stand to look at me. My brother forgave me after a while; he knew I couldn't control it back then. But the day of Max's funeral I vowed that I would learn to control my powers. But my parents never really trusted me after that; they never wanted to be around me. I reminded them of the child they lost and the child that was a mistake. They had their golden boy to show off to the kingdom, and I was always in the background, always hidden away a little. Not as much as you were but I never left the castle grounds alone. I had a guard with me at all times, even when I slept they had one in my room. And then I heard the stories that were being told, of a woman in a faraway kingdom with the power to turn things to solid ice, stories that gave me hope."

Elsa stood behind Emily as she spoke, fingertips still on the girls tattoo. She slid her arms around Emily's waist, resting her chin on the girls shoulder.

"You never have to be alone again. You never have to be afraid. You never have to go back, if you don't want too." The queen said into her ear. "Stay here."

The two girls woke up on the couch, tangled in each other's arms, the morning sun peeking through the window.

"Good morning." Emily said, smiling at the girl in her arms, before she stood up and straightened her clothes. "I should probable find my brother. He will be wondering where I went last night."

"It's too early for anyone to be up, stay a while." Elsa complained as she stood.

"Trust me; my brother will be worried sick." Emily assured as she started walking to the door. Pulling it open she saw her brother and Anna leaning against the wall across from Elsa's door, both of them smiling from ear to ear as they saw the door open and Emily emerge, with Elsa right behind her. Both girls stopped dead in their track, both pairs stared at the other for a while.

"Nothing happened." Emily said, and it was the truth, the girls had simply fallen asleep. But they both realized what it must seem like and they blushed red.

"We never said anything did." Bradley smiled.

"Im serious." Emily said again, blushing even a deeper shade of red as she shifted uncomfortably.

"No one is arguing with you." Anna giggled at the sight of her sister and her friend.

"Well I should probable go apologise to mom and dad." Emily said as she set off down the hall.

"I will come with you." Bradley yelled after her as he followed her. And then there were two.

"Oh just come inside, would you Anna." Elsa finally said after the silence got awkward and Anna's smile grew to a ridicules proportion. Anna skipped inside her sister's room.

"Okay if you tell me nothing happened then I will believe you but tell me the truth." Anna squealed to her sister.

"Anna I swear to you, nothing happened. Emily was upset about what happened at dinner and we talked about her childhood and ended up falling asleep." Elsa said with a sly smile.

"But you wanted something to happen?" Anna pressed her sister with her questions.

"Last night was not the time, trust me. But I can't say I don't want something to happen…" Elsa smiled and blushed right before the princess through herself on her sister in a huge hug, crushing Elsa. "I love her."

"I know." Anna smiled.

"Wait up Ems!" Bradley yelled after his sister as she walked away at a pace he could not keep up with. "Come on blaze."

"Ugh, what do you want brother?" Emily said as she came to a sudden halt, causing the prince to almost collide with her back.

"Hey hey hey, when you didn't come back to your room last night I was worried. So I got up to go look for you and I bumped into Anna who was getting a mid-night snack. Well long story short, I haven't been to bed yet!" Bradley yelled, beaming and practically bouncing from excitement.

"Oh god! Bradley what the!" Emily started to hit her brother repeatedly over his head.

"No, no that's not what I meant, Ow stop it!" He complained. "We stayed up all night talking! Nothing even happened. But oh wow Ems, she's amazing Anna is."

"Yes, she is pretty great. Im glad you are enjoying yourself here." Emily smiled, honestly happy that her brother was happy and had found a girl he cared for. "So is Anna going to be my new sister?"

"Well that depends on what happened last night with you and the ice queen." Bradley winked at his sister.

"Honesty nothing happened. I told her about Max." Bradley stopped dead in his tracks.

"Oh."

"Ya."

"So im guessing that kinda killed the mood huh?"

"Why do you do that? Ugh you're so annoying!" Emily joked and smiled. She didn't realize how much she had missed her brother in this past month.