I reasearched Elsa and Anna's family tree and apparently their parents are called Agdar and Igdun, so I chose to write them off like Edgar and Idina, more English like. Also I didn't like the idea of Igdun being the only one to have a foreign name when her sisters are called Freya and Primrose (Rapunzel's parents are called Primrose and Thomas, apparently).

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PS: CAN YOU BELIEVE THE SEASON PREMIERE IS TODAY? BECAUSE I CAN'T, I'M SO EXCITED! *bring on the angst bro*

Chapter Six

As Regina begrudgingly made her way to the Charmings the following morning, she realized how much the temperature had dropped. If Elsa was really out there, they needed to talk to her as soon as possible before she froze everyone's asses off. Although she had bundled up more than the day before, she regretted not having worn her coat, stupidly thinking the weather would remain stable. Not the case however as she saw small snowflakes had started descending from the sky, settling on the street, the trees, the rooftops and in her hair.

She opened the door and entered the Charmings' home with a groan of displeasure. As she took off her jacket and passed a hand through her hair to get rid of the snow, she heard voices coming from the kitchen. "Maybe it's not the best thing if he's in the same room as them; they won't like it and might not trust us anymore!" Mary Margaret said.

"Of course they'll trust us; we're the only hope they have!" Charming stressed.

"Besides if Rumple is here he might have the answer to our doubts," Emma pointed out.

"Have I missed something?" Regina asked, stepping into the kitchen. The Charmings turned to look at her.

"Mr Gold is coming over," Emma replied.

"I see. Well, best get things over with," Regina commented. "If he's coming here at least he'll fill the holes in Anna's story."

They didn't have to wait much longer for the man in question, who came with Belle. Soon after, the door opened revealing Hook and Robin. Regina's breath caught and she chastised herself - she wasn't a teenager anymore and hated how her heart fluttered and her stomach dropped every time he entered the same room as her.

"So, any new developments? Apart from our new arrivals, that is," Hook asked smirking at Belle, who just slowly shook her head in exasperation.

"I have," Rumple started, ignoring the pirate's jab. "But I understand we are waiting for others to join us."

"Actually Regina and I have some news as well," Robin announced.

"Do you mean...?" Charming started, his eyes wide and his expression a mix of astonishment and confusion, while his eyes shifted from Regina to Robin.

"Not that kind of news, you idiot!" Regina snapped hotly, unconsciously bringing her hands to her stomach, red blotches of embarrassment covering her neck. Thankfully she was still wearing her scarf. She saw Robin smile slightly at the thought from the corner of her eye, before his expression darkened and he lowered his head, shuffling his feet on the floor.

Hook had just opened his mouth to comment when the door burst open again, revealing a breathless Anna, followed by a red faced Kristoff. "I'm sorry we're late!" she apologized to no one in particular. "We tried to get here as soon as we could but -" she stopped mid sentence, staring at the table where they sat. "YOU!" she shouted, pointing at Rumplestiltskin. "Why are you here?!" her voice was high pitched.

"I'm here because they called me, dearie," he explained with poise.

Anna threw herself at the table, her hands gripping its edge tight, her knuckles turning white, hissing, "What have you done with my sister?" Her face was contorted in an expression that could make a grown man cower in a corner, her blue eyes narrowing and her upper lip trembling in rage.

Rumple, however, did not flinch. "I did nothing except keep my word."

"You didn't! You tricked me!"

"Oh, but I didn't. You see, I had made a deal with someone else before I met you."

"What?" Anna spluttered. "With whom?"

"With your Aunt Freya."

"Why?" Anna was barely able get the word out.

"Because I needed your sister out of the way, dearie. She wasn't able to control her powers yet, but even if she had learned to control them, she would have been a threat to me. She was too strong."

"What do you mean: she was too strong? More powerful than you?" Regina interjected.

Rumple hadn't a chance to respond, but his expression was meaningful enough. Regina leaned back in her seat, shaken. The fact that apparently even her mentor was powerless against Elsa, was unbelievable.

Anna resumed her accusation, "What did you do to her? Did you give her to Freya and Hans?" she was livid.

"Anna, sit, please; you too, Kristoff. I'll make some coffee," Mary Margaret offered, trying to ease the situation. Anna sat on the edge of the chair, never taking her eyes off Rumple for a second.

"When you came to the Enchanted Forest, I had already made a deal with Freya. She told me she wanted to have your sister imprisoned, so Hans and she could rule over Arendelle undisturbed."

"What did she give to you in exchange?"

"Nothing that concerns you now," he replied rudely.

"We need to know everything, imp!" Kristoff barked.

"Well, it was just a rare magical object."

"What was it?" Emma asked.

"A mirror."

Anna's face paled, she obviously knew what he was talking about. Emma looked surprised. "And this... Freya gave it to you?"

"Yes. Once I got Elsa, I imprisoned her in a magical jar."

"You did what?" Anna shouted, almost spilling over the coffee mug Snow had just placed in front of her.

"I made a deal and I always keep my word."

"You didn't, not with me. You gave me a magical object to bring me to the same realm as Kristoff but it didn't work, I remained in the Enchanted Forest!"

"Well, maybe that's because he was in the Enchanted Forest as well," Rumple pointed out, waving a hand in a flourishing, dismissing way.

The redhead's eyes widened. "You knew Kristoff was in the Enchanted Forest and you told me nothing?"

"And why should I? It wasn't in my best interests," Rumple stated smoothly.

"Why did you want the mirror? What was so special about it?" Emma inquired.

"It can control my sister's powers. If used against her it freezes her magic completely. Actually, it can freeze any kind of magic."

"Not light magic," Rumple interrupted.

"But my sister..."

"Your sister has got dark magic."

"But she's the purest soul in all the land!" Regina couldn't help but snort. If she was as pure as Mary Margaret, she couldn't be that much of a saint.

"She was born with ice powers. It is an ancient curse that has threatened your dynasty for centuries," Mr Gold explained. "Freya was cursed too."

Anna seemed lost. "I never met my aunt. My mother used to say she had turned down an evil path."

Regina tensed. "Sorry, can you make a bit of clarity on this family matter, please?"

"The Ice Curse has run in Anna's family blood line for centuries. No one knows what happened to get the royal family cursed, or who did it. What I know is that every first born female inherits the powers at birth. This results in typical physical features: fair hair, almost white, pale skin and ice blue eyes. The cursed women have a body temperature lower than ours, for the ice turns their blood colder than human blood; otherwise they can't hope to survive against the cold. They can live in an ice palace or survive a snowy storm without problems."

"What's Freya's issue with Elsa? Has she imprisoned her only to be queen?" Hook demanded.

"My aunt Freya was the eldest of three sisters. My mother Idina was the middle daughter, while my aunt Primrose was the youngest. Apparently, when Freya started turning evil, my grandparents refused to let her take the throne as it should have been her right. After my grandfather's death my mother was crowned queen instead, while my aunt Primrose married King Thomas of Corona."

"Wait, Corona... you mean Rapunzel's Corona?" Emma blurted out.

"Yes. She's my cousin."

"Seriously?!" the blonde lamented in exasperation, before Hook gave her a little nudge, with a patronizing expression on his face. "Calm down, princess Leia," he whispered, a smirk curving his lips.

"That's all I know about my family's history. I didn't even know Elsa was cursed," Anna confessed.

"Well, she is. However Freya's aim isn't just to take Elsa's place in ruling the kingdom. The worst part of the curse is that, when another girl in your family is born with the powers, she is also the downfall of the previous Ice Queen."

"How is this possible?" Regina wondered. Then her eyes light up in realization. "Unless..."

"The more Elsa's powers grow, the more Freya gets weak."

Anna looked puzzled. "What does this mean?"

"It means that Freya wasn't looking for Elsa only to dethrone her. She wanted to kill her in order to keep her own powers," Regina explained.

"You gave Elsa to Freya?" Anna asked hotly to Mr Gold.

"I didn't. The jar in which I imprisoned your sister was enough to keep her from weakening your aunt. She was blocked inside of it - frozen inside of it, for want of a better term."

Anna didn't laugh, nor did anyone else. Gold clearly wasn't expecting them to.

"Where is she now? What did you do with her?" Anna asked him.

"I have no idea, dearie. You see, when the first curse washed over the Enchanted Forest, the jar was brought here in my shop. Now, however, it isn't there anymore."

Belle looked pensive. "Have they robbed that as well, Rumple?"

"I don't think so."

"Wait, someone broke into your shop?" Emma asked.

"Well, that's new," Regina commented ironically.

Gold sighed. "Yes."

"And they took Elsa's jar?" Emma continued.

"They didn't take that. The jar was there a few days ago, I remember it clearly. Then, all of a sudden, it was gone."

Snow and Charming frowned at the same time. Those two mimicked one another's actions so much they looked like parrots. It was so annoying.

"It was you and Hook who brought it back with you, Miss Swan," Regina started.

"What? I took no jar with me, Regina!" Emma protested.

"She's right, love," Hook piped in. Emma glared at him. "Remember that jar I took from the cabinet when we were in the Dark One's dungeon?"

"Oh shit," Emma murmured. Regina was thankful Henry wasn't in the room.

"This means you brought my sister back to this realm!" Anna exclaimed.

"Apparently, they did," Regina commented dryly. She knew Emma had made another mess, besides bringing back Marian with her, and what they had just discovered only proved her right.

"She must be here somewhere" Anna was blubbering excitedly. "This explains the weather!"

Rumple didn't look pleased at all. Regina snorted, "Yes, a frightened girl who can accidentally freeze everyone's asses off is just what I needed right now, thank you."

Mary Margaret bit her lip in apprehension, before speaking. "We need to help her. She must be out there somewhere, scared and confused... she needs her family to be with her."

"How do we find her?" Charming wondered.

"Follow the ice," Emma muttered darkly.

"Actually Regina and I happened upon a quite strange scene last night," Robin started. Emma raised a quizzical eyebrow. "We followed a frozen path that led to the barn where Zelena's portal opened. It was completely frozen over, the barn I mean."

"That's why I thought you brought Elsa back with you. There's no other explanation."

"And we saw something else as well," Robin added. "There was someone else in the barn, but they fled as soon as we discovered them."

"Did you manage to see something?" Anna asked.

"Only the hem of a blue dress."

"It's her," Ana let out a shaky breath, gripping Kristoff's hand tightly. "It has to be her."

"Well if it's just her then -" Charming began.

"Actually, the issue we're dealing with is much bigger," Rumple interjected.

"What do you mean?"

"What I mean is that when they broke into my shop, they robbed something valuable - to Elsa and to someone else as well."

"I don't understand," said Anna.

"They stole the mirror."

"You think Elsa has got it?" Belle asked him, wondering if the Queen of Arendelle might want it to avoid being enslaved again.

"No, the mirror was given to me by Princess Freya when we made our deal. It's usually passed down from generation to generation, to the young women who inherited the ice powers. She gave it reluctantly to me and she's the only one who knows I had it in my possession."

Anna gasped, "You mean...?"

"Exactly what you think, dearie. The Ice Queen must be in Storybrooke."

The meeting ended as soon as they cleared everything out. Now they knew the whole story it was easier to understand things. However they couldn't act until they found Elsa or Freya.

Regina exited Mary Margaret's apartment with Robin at her heels. He had not taken his eyes off her for a minute during the meeting and a sense of dread and foreboding invaded her stomach.

"What is it, Robin? What do you want?" she snapped at him, incapable of holding it any longer.

"I spoke with Marian last night," he commenced, his blue eyes boring right into hers. She felt she might melt under his steady gaze; instead she forced herself to maintain some composure. "Although calling it speaking would be quite an understatement, she practically shouted at me."

Regina didn't utter a word.

"She told me something that put me off," he confessed.

"What did she tell you?" she croaked.

He stood silent for a few moments before replying. "She told me that you were the one who imprisoned her, back in our land."

Stay tuned for the Robin/Regina talk! More on Freya, Hans and the mirror in the following chapters!