A/N: Hey guys! I'm back with another chapter, sorry for the wait again had more work, more work and then more work (also I'm a pro procrastinator) I hope you guys enjoy this chapter and if you do please review and let me know what I did right or what I did wrong, I can't get better if you don't let me know how to get better :) anyways enjoy the new chapter!

WARNING: Incest, and I think for once that's the only warning but just in case you know about my other warnings by now so yeah xD

Kittys walks in and says, "Hey soul guess what!" Soul replies, "What kitty?" Kittys says, "You don't own Frozen!" Soul sassily replies, "RUDEEEEE!"

UPDATE: hi guys sorry for not updating for ages but I just want to let you know that I haven't abandoned this fic, I will be finishing it! However due to my looming a level exams I have very little free time outside of lessons, homework and revision as I'm sure you can appreciate and sympathise with. As soon as my exams have finished I will be prioritising my time to writing, and especially to finishing this fic! Again I'm really sorry about this but these are my final a level exams to determine if I get into university or not so they are a big deal! i will see you all soon with a new chapter hopefully with good news from my exams!

Chapter 11: The calm before the storm

Sure enough a few hours later, Elsa and Anna awoke from their short nap, feeling a little more relaxed but rather stiff in certain areas. From what Elsa could hear, there were no longer many people running up and down the halls, which could mean only one thing that most of the preparations were in place. The two girls agreed to discuss things properly after Elsa had made sure everything was in place as they were quickly running out of time.

Anna left to help situate villagers into rooms in the castle and help distribute the first lot of supplies. Elsa on the other hand, left to inspect the numerous barricades around the town adding her own walls of ice to fortify the defences, ensuring that no one would be able to break them or go over them; their only choice would be to follow the main road leading to the castle.

Elsa walked back into the castle to find the general and captain awaiting her arrival, she greeted them, "Gentlemen, I'm sure you have news for me, be it good or bad?"

The captain nodded, "its good news your majesty, we have positioned the troops for an ambush, they lie in wait all they need is our signal."

"Good work men, get some rest for now you've earned it, but the first signs of trouble and you send word for me, I want to be present when we greet are new friends" She informed them, her voice putting emphasis on the last word as she nodded to them, dismissing their presence.

The two men bowed and spoke simultaneously, "Of course your majesty" before taking their leave, heading over to the kitchens to find anything quick to eat that hadn't been stored away.

It seemed everything was in order and ready for the upcoming attack, all they had to do now was wait for the arrival of Northwind's army. This seemed as good a time as any for Elsa to go in search of Anna so the two could discuss the latter's involvement in this fight. Asking around a few of the servants and villagers, Elsa found out that Anna was in the ballroom with many of the villagers who had children, helping to keep everyone calm and make sure supplies where evenly distributed.

Now that the initial shock had died down, the commotion that was apparent in the halls earlier that day had long since dissipated, as many people had been given a room and where settling themselves in. It therefore didn't take Elsa long until she was stood at the entrance to the ballroom, looking on at the crowded room trying to spot her sister's bright head of hair amongst the sea of blondes and brunettes.

"…Don't be scared, its ok, my big sister is going to make everything ok again, then you can go back home with your own sister and continue to play games and have fun. But until then you have this whole castle to play in! Doesn't that sound like fun?"

Elsa heard Anna's voice before she spotted her. Following the beautiful sound, she saw Anna crouched down on the floor speaking to a young boy who looked like he had been crying, but hearing Anna's happy, cheery voice he laughed and giggled before hugging her tightly around the neck. The Princess then picked the boy up and spun him round, increasing the rate at which he produced high pitched squeals of laughter. Anna laughed with him and put him back down before offering him some chocolate she had hidden away from the servants, which he happily took and shared with the other kids around him.

Elsa didn't think she could fall anymore in love with this wonderful women she was lucky enough to call her sister and lover, but she was wrong. Her heart swelled and she could feel herself smiling goofily at the heart-warming sight, Anna was amazing with children. Then Elsa frowned and felt like she had been punched in the gut as realisation hit her like a ton of bricks. This sight in front of her, this wonderful display of a natural born mother would never be able to occur under present circumstances. For as long as Elsa and Anna continued to be together, she was stopping any hope of Anna having a normal life, with a normal family. Anna had probably dreamed about having children ever since she was a young girl, but she would never be able to have them, all because Elsa was selfish and acted on her emotions.

The Queen sighed, just one more thing to add to her list of reasons as to why she was a monster, but she had no time to dwell on this, with each passing second the threat of Northwind's army drew ever closer, and soon they would be upon them. Pushing her thoughts to the back of her mind, she walked over to her sister and smiled at her and the villagers around her.

Anna smiled in return, "And would you look who it is, we were just talking about you, all good things don't worry" the children laughed and so did some of the adults, Anna laughed as well then she had a thought, she asked, "Hey that reminds me, have you seen Olaf anywhere?" she had directed the question at Elsa but the children all shook their heads anyway showing that they hadn't seen the snowman.

"Urmm no I haven't Anna, but I really need to speak with you… alone" Elsa replied, her whole demeanour changing to express her anxiousness, she begun wringing her hands together and her eyes were wide looking directly into Anna's.

The strawberry blonde took in the tone of Elsa's voice and her actions. Anna knew what this meant as she had been witness to his behaviour once before, she made the mistake of not quite understanding the seriousness of these actions once, she wouldn't make that mistake again.

Anna smiled and nodded, "Sure Elsa, after you" she took note of the sigh of relief that her sister made before escorting her to an empty, quieter part of the ballroom, this way no one would be able to hear them, but if they were needed people would still be able to find them easily if they looked. Once she was sure no one was listening, Anna continued, "So what is it you want to talk about?" she acted innocently, in reality Anna knew exactly what the Queen was going to say next, she just wished Elsa had forgotten about it.

"Anna we need to talk about…" Elsa started then looked around confirming one more time that no one was listening in on their conversation, she continued in a hushed whisper, "We need to talk about your powers."

The strawberry blonde sighed and crossed her arms, "Elsa I understand you're worried about me, I'm worried about you too, what if you get hurt and something bad happens to you, what if you end up dying while in battle and I never see you again? All these things and more are running through my mind the closer we get to an attack, but I'm still going to let you fight because I know you can protect us all and I trust you to come back to my side unharmed" she paused for effect, letting everything she had said so far sink in before she continued in an exaggerated tone, "So why don't you trust me enough to do the same?"

The Queen looked at her with a shocked expression, she moved her hands as if to hold Anna but thought differently of it in case Anna took it in the wrong way, instead she awkwardly hugged herself as if to keep herself together and stop from falling apart in front of everyone. Anna knew she had gone about this incorrectly when she saw how hurt Elsa was by her words, she didn't intend to upset her, just convince her that she should be able to use her powers to help them win.

Elsa spoke shakily trying to fight down her emotions, "Anna, it's not a question of if I trust you, god I trust you enough to follow you to the end of the world and back, I trust you with all of my heart and soul, I trust you with my life Anna" tears started to form in her eyes, "But even so it's not about that, it's about keeping you safe, I wouldn't be able to live with myself if anything happened to you because of me."

"Elsa…"

She interrupted, "No Anna let me finish. I couldn't bear it if everyone treated you like they treated me when my powers were first exposed, and let's face it they all still fear me, but you Anna, they look up to you with pride, they would do anything you commanded because you are they're perfect Princess, and I won't let something as stupid as some fire powers destroy your reputation, so if I think keeping your powers a secret for the time being will keep you just that bit safer won't you please agree with me?"

Anna couldn't stand to hear the hurt in Elsa's voice any longer; she stepped forward and embraced her sister in a loving hug, burying her face into Elsa's silky blonde hair. She could feel the weight being lifted of Elsa's shoulders as the blonde relaxed against Anna, pulling her as close as was possible. The strawberry blonde whispered calmly into Elsa's hair, "Of course I'll agree with you, I'm sorry I've caused you to become this upset over such a minor thing, if you think I should keep it secret then who am I to question your motives since out of the two of us you know best, after all you are the Queen" Anna joked eliciting a small giggled from Elsa, succeeding in lightening the mood.

Elsa pulled back from the hug but held onto Anna's shoulders as she asked, "Do you promise?"

Anna smiled and nodded before giving Elsa a quick peck, "Promise."

Elsa smiled in return and was about to say something when the two girls were interrupted by a young servant rushing over at full speed, he bent over and tried to catch his breath before panting out, "Y-your majesty, there has been a sighting by the outer forest, you were correct, Northwind arrives with an army, there has to be at least two hundred men including the King himself."

The whole room erupted into chaos. People were arguing with each other, children were crying, servants were trying to organise everyone but they weren't listening and everyone else was screaming or making some other noise in distress about the inevitable war that was reigning down on Arendelle.

Elsa quickly took matter into her own hands, she stepped further into the room so more people could see her before shouting, power thick in her voice, "Everybody calm down, everything is under control, the captain and general have an ambush set in place, Northwind's troops won't get within the square before they are pushed back again. So everyone just take a deep breath and follow the instructions of Kai and Gerda, they will tell you where to go and what to do" she waited until everyone had stopped making such a racket before turning to the servant who had finally gotten his breath back, "I assume you are here to take me to the captain?" the boy nodded.

Anna could feel the panic taking over her, this was happening now and she had no power to stop it, she gripped Elsa's arm, "Elsa do you have to go, what if something happens?"

The Queen placed her hand over her sisters and calmly replied in a soothing voice, "Don't worry about me Anna, you just make sure everyone here is safe, besides we have the advantage over them if there's anyone you should be worried about its old kingy out there" she nudged her head in the direction of the doors.

Anna half laughed half sobbed, "You leave the joke making to me ok, just get back soon and stay safe, I love you" she kissed Elsa before turning and rushing over to help Gerda.

"I love you too" the blonde whispered to the empty space Anna had just been occupying, she hoped that she hadn't just missed her moment to say those words for the last time. Deciding not to dwell on such dark thoughts she turned to the boy again, "Lead the way" he didn't need telling twice as he quickly guided her out of the ballroom and into the gardens, before taking her straight to the captain who was hiding behind one of the barricades close to the towns entrance.

He nodded to her, "It's time your majesty, their troops should be here any moment, we just have to wait for the right moment and then we strike, are you ready?" he asked the last part with a tone of amusement.

Elsa laughed, "I was born ready, quite literally" she raised her hand and fashioned herself a dagger out of ice which she gripped tightly in her hand.

The captain laughed at her actions and followed suit, drawing his sword from his belt and looking to his own troops who were copying his actions, arming themselves for battle, which hopefully wouldn't happen as they would have the element of surprise… or so they thought.

Just when everything was starting to get quiet, so quiet that you could hear every small movement coming from behind their defences, everyone jumped in shock as they heard someone running straight to them. They were all ready to jump out and attack when they heard a loud voice shouting, "Elsa, Elsa!"

The Queen would recognise that voice anywhere, and in any other situation she would have been thrilled to see the symbol of her and Anna's love, but currently the only emotion she felt when she heard the loud, whiny voice was pure, rage inducing anger. Elsa leaned around the ice wall she was crouched behind and saw the snowman running towards them.

"Elsa, Elsa! Come quick Kristoff's been ta-"

Before he could finish his sentence Olaf was pulled behind the defences by Elsa, who angrily stated, "Olaf what do you think you're doing! You've probably just given our position away! This had better be important or so help me!"

The snowman had a sad, upset look on his face at Elsa's angry tone; he knew he had done something wrong. Elsa would have been upset at seeing how sad she had caused the snowman to become but right now she was too angry with him for possibly messing up their plan. What the two didn't know was that while Olaf had caused a commotion and everyone was too busy watching the exchange between him and Elsa, Northwind troops were advancing on their position, taking away and chances Arendelle had at an ambush.

Olaf started to explain himself, "I'm sorry Elsa I didn't realise what was happening, but this is a very serious problem, Kristoff has been-"

"Queen Elsa of Arendelle, come out from behind that wall with your hands up, if you cooperate I swear on my life, and that of my sons and daughters that no harm will come to you or your citizens, let us discuss this royal to royal and try to come to an arrangement without the need for bloodshed."

Once again the snowman had been interrupted before he could tell them his important news, but at this very moment in time Elsa found the mysterious voice that had just addressed her was far more important than anything Olaf had to say. Elsa looked to her captain who was shaking his head, she shook her head in response and his face fell. The Queen tucked her ice dagger into the back of her outfit hiding it from sight, just in case the voice went against their word and she needed to use it.

With her arms stretched upwards in surrender, Elsa stood up from behind the wall facing the intimidating army in front of her. The voice belonged to the man sat on a horse at the front of the troops; he was slightly overweight, had a head of black hair that was balding and had an impressive beard, he wore a dulled suit of armour that had clearly seen its fair share of battles. With his large, two handed sword at his hip, and his hands holding onto the reigns of his war horse, his bright green eyes pierced into Elsa's soul as he simply smirked at her predictable actions.

Elsa returned her hands to her side and returned his smirk, trying to give of an air of courage and bravery in face of possible defeat, showing she hadn't backed down just yet. Standing up straight like the dignified Queen she was, she simply stated, "Hello King Ivan, long time no see."

The man's smirk widened, his lips pulling up over his disgustingly yellow teeth, "Long time no see indeed Queen Elsa."