A/N: I know you all hate me because of the cliffhanger I left you, so here's part 2 like, a full 8 or 9 hours early :P In reality, I'm traveling this afternoon and had to put this up before I leave in about an hour or I wouldn't be able to post it for another week.

No but really, I hope everyone enjoys this chapter, it really was hard to write, it was actually more difficult than any other chapter I've written in any of my fics, so I apologize is it's not perfect.

*****Truths Revealed: Part II*****

Elsa dejectedly surveyed the room. She didn't want to feel anything. She wanted the pain to stop. She would to anything to make the pain vanish.

Her eyes glanced over the gore of Hans' body. The aftermath of the struggle. His hand still clutched the crocus necklace. Anna's necklace. Elsa's necklace. The grieving woman would have cried if she had any tears left. Instead, she sniffled as her heart twisted in her chest. It was agonizing.

Even as she sat, a tiny light of hope struggled in the back of her mind, nagging her. She tried to push it down, because to get her spirits up would only mean falling again. She needed the misery.

But it was no use, the little sliver of childish hope grew, swelled in like the tide, it was unstoppable. She could be alive- she- she- maybe she'll live. The healing spells worked, they had to! They- they worked on me! Elsa knew her logic was flawed. Not only was she much more powerful than Anna, but her own wounds weren't nearly as lethal. Anna had faded in minutes, Elsa would have taken days. She had time, Anna did not.

But I want time with Anna. Eternity suddenly felt colder and lonelier than ever. No matter how seductive, hope can only keep up its lie for so long. Elsa kept her eyes on the necklace. I'm not hungry... It's no longer bound to Anna. That could only mean one thing. Elsa's heart fell through her stomach, resting heavily within. She gulped past the lump in her throat and soaking eyes, then let her gaze fall to the dagger sitting on the floor. It was in a pool of blood, the hilt covered in the red vital fluid.

Elsa thought about the question Anna had asked her what felt like an eternity ago. "Why didn't you just... end it?"

She stared down the dagger. Somehow, the fresh memory of Anna made the room emptier. Elsa mournfully considered her new answer to Anna's question. No reason. She tentatively reached forward and grabbed the weapon. It was cold.

The vrykolakas stared at her lost love. New tears finally found their way into her eyes. She swallowed her heart, which was doing its best to lodge itself in her esophagus and choke her to death. In a quiet voice nearly drowned out by sniffles and sorrow, Elsa apologized. "I-I'm sorry Anna, I'm- I'm not s-strong enough." She closed her eyes and felt the chill of silver prickle at her neck. Although her body fought it, Elsa started the agonizing motion, letting the blade etch away at her thin skin. It stung.

"Sorry for what?" It was a phantasm of a voice: barely audible and hoarse.

I'm hearing things. Elsa was so grief stricken that her mind was playing tricks on her. That was the only plausible explanation. Anna is dead, she reminded herself.

But that little part of her mind, the hopeful part that she thought she had snuffed out, had to be certain. She stopped the knife and opened her eyes. The room was blurry for a split second, and her mind was blank for longer. She felt blood tickle her neck.

Anna was sitting there, blood stained on her dress and a bruised face with her eyes... open.

Elsa felt her heart surge forward, throwing her across the room. "Anna!" She screamed as she lunged and captured the girl in a tight embrace. For a split second, she thought her eyes had played a trick on her and her heart stopped. Then, her ears proved her wrong. The soft thump of the red head's heart assured Elsa of her life.

"Elsa!" The auburn haired girl took the tackle in stride, the dribbling, crying, laughing mess of an Elsa collapsing completely on top of her and pressing their lips together so forcefully that Anna swore it caused her to cut her lip on her own teeth.

"Anna- you're- you're- your eyes are open! Oh Anna!"

The younger woman let her heart soar for a few moments. She giggled with Elsa, raising one eyebrow. "Well duh, I can't see when they're closed, silly!" Then, a new feeling invaded her stomach, one she was totally unfamiliar with. She looked around, trying to pinpoint the source and let her eyes fall to the silver necklace. The high was over. Anna crashed into austere.

The foreign feeling was suddenly overwhelming, akin to a surge of anxiety, but not quite the same. She looked at the dead body and her stomach churned. She wasn't sad for Hans's death, but the sight made her sick. "Elsa, I feel... what happened?"

"Anna you... you don't remember?"

The red head furrowed her brows and met Elsa's stare. "Remember what? Hans hit me and knocked me out. That's the last thing I remember."

The pale woman's face fell serious. She hesitated for a few moments. "You- Anna, it worked."

"What worked? what do you mean?"

"The spell- the immortality spell."

The strawberry blonde looked at her hands, confused. "I don't- how do you know?"

"Because," Elsa bit her lip in worry. Her heart pounded out of her chest. She swallowed it. "Hans killed you."

"W-what?"

Elsa sniffled. "He- he s-stabbed you. In the side."

"Elsa, no, I- I'm fine!"

The response was solemn. "Check yourself."

After a second of intense staring, the auburn haired girl relented and did as Elsa said. Her mind blew a socket when she noticed the blood all over her dress; and underneath, sure enough, a gaping hole in her skin. It was several minutes before she spoke again. "So I... I was killed. But- but I'm alive! Elsa, I'm alive though!"

The older woman held her. "Yes, you're alive now, Anna. That's all that matters." They stayed there for what felt like an eternity.

Then, realization hit Elsa like a brick wall and knocked her attention right where it wanted it. "That's it! That's why the spell never worked! That's what I was missing!"

Still flustered by the entire situation, Anna inquired, not fully understanding what she was hearing, yet. I was dead? No, but I was stabbed and- and- but I was dead?! "What?"

"To create life! Of course, you need balance, just like the weak link and the binding item, where you create life you have to create death!"

Elsa's mouth dropped. She stopped thinking as another truth smacked her across the face. "That means... that means that I- I died that night, with the Hag."

Anna, having gained ground on her own internal struggle, decided to help the pale woman now. Plus, with her new realization, she had the completely overpowering urge to hug her. So she did just that. "It's okay Elsa, we're here now."

With another relieved chuckle, it all washed away. It was so long ago. Elsa embraced her significant other. "Yeah."

Several minutes passed until a question popped into Anna's mind. The feeling she began to feel earlier was still there, and stronger. "Wait, why didn't it work on the rats?"

Elsa thought deeply about this. She scanned every possible explanation in her mind until the right one stuck out like a cow in a heard of sheep. "Because they weren't killed by the dagger. they all died of aging or some disease."

Anna looked at the dagger and mumbled "the weak link." Then, her focus snapped to the jewelery, like it was her prized possession- something she could never let out of her sight for fear of losing it. "Elsa, I- I feel something and I think it has to do with the necklace, but I don't know what I'm feeling, I just can't stop looking at it!"

Calmly, the landowner explained. "You're attached to it now. You use it to feed. What you're feeling is a need to bind it to someone, a need for prey."

"Make it stop! I don't want prey! I want it to go away! I don't want to hurt anyone!"

Elsa observed Hans once again. In his lifeless hand, fingers hung loosely open, the necklace was splayed. She grabbed Anna's hand. "You don't have to."

"Huh?"

The older woman slowly stood up, guiding her immortal companion to the dead body sharing the room with them. She bent down, effectively placing Anna next to her. Without any words, she tenderly stole the necklace from the evil hand's grasp.

The red head inhaled sharply. She understood. The binding link... the weak link. She retrieved the bloodied dagger. She looked Elsa in the eyes. The blue was so pure, the color seemed to pour in like water into the broken hull of a ship. They gleamed like priceless gems in the dim room. As far as Anna was concerned, they were. She softly smiled. "Together?"

Elsa nodded with a peaceful grin. It was about to be over. Everything, all of her loneliness, the need to murder: everything she hated about herself. Every reason she isolated herself was about to be washed away in the tides of life. Her heart stammered breathlessly in her throat. She was about to start a new life. A better life, with Anna. She placed the necklace on the floor in front of them and tenderly wrapped her thin fingers atop the auburn haired girl's hands on the hilt of the dagger.

The caress and gentle pressure of the touch made Anna wish for more. Then, her hear fluttered with a single thought. That touch is mine. Elsa is mine. For as long as we live.

Both of them intuitively knew the right instant. With no hesitation in the magical moment, they thrust the dagger down upon the piece of jewelery that they both knew so well.

Surprisingly, there was no resistance. The dagger cut through the necklace like butter. There was a dull thud as metal impaled wooden floorboards. A burst of light bright enough to blind anyone flooded the room. Both shielded their eyes while their ears were filled with a high pitched scream-like sound. Elsa couldn't help but think that the shriek was the hag realizing someone got out of her curse. Even through protective eyelids their retinas were burned and ears rung. Heat and light like the sun itself swallowed them whole. The ringing amplified and both women craned their necks as if to protect their precious senses.

It all was getting painfully loud and hot. But then, as quickly as it began, it was over. The room went quiet and the light was gone. The dagger dropped to the floor with a clank. Slowly, Anna opened her eyes and looked at the spot where the necklace formerly lay. In it's place now remained only a blackened spot, a simple reminder, nothing more. No crocus, no chain, nothing but the shadow of an item once previously known to the world.

"Whoa. Did you know that'd happen?"

In wonder, Elsa admitted "no."

Anna noticed something. The feeling, the need to feed, was gone. Elsa was going through the same experience, though it was more jarring for her. For the first time in forever she felt... normal. She looked at her hands in wonder, as if it'd give her the answer. "I feel- I feel-"

A caring hand placed itself on Elsa's shoulder. "Human. You feel human."

Elsa's mouth turned up, joy choked her, wetting her eyes with wonderful tears. Her heart's eternal ache had finally been quenched. It was over, it was really over! She threw herself into Anna's arms and wept happily into her shoulder. "Yes! I feel human! Human!"

The strawberry blonde couldn't help but let the mood flow into her. She hugged her companion as tightly as she could. After a few minutes of jittery embrace, her lips slipped, she couldn't contain herself any more, she had to let everything out. Loudly, the red head proclaimed "I love you!"

Elsa laughed out a butchered "I love you, too!" and pressed her lips on Anna's.

They stayed there for countless, precious minutes. For them, it was the start of forever.

Together.

A/N: Confession time. I toyed with the idea of keeping Anna dead and having Elsa finish off the hag and/or herself. stating the she simply didn't have enough magic power to preform the immortality spell. BUT I think the way I chose actually makes more sense. On top of that, I put the genre as horror/romance, so ending it as a tragedy would be flat out cruel.

I hope you enjoyed this installment. There will be one more chapter then the epilogue, so stay tuned, thanks to all of you wonderful people for sticking with it!