A/N Sorry for the sloppy late update
"Shit!" Elsa turned to Anna with a look of panic. It equally matched the look of distress on Anna's face, she was frozen cross legged on Elsa's bed still her eyes wide. "You can't be here Anna, if he sees you-"
"I know, I know, I know! What do we do though?" Anna's hushed but frantic whisper seemed to jolt Elsa of her panicked trance "Elsa?!"
"I don't know!?" came her equally hushed response, as she looked frantically around the room, the wheels spinning in her head.
The booming knocks at her door came again, weighing heavily against its wooden frame. "Elsa?!" came the voice from the other side.
"Ugh… Coming! One second!" Elsa's voice didn't hold a hint of panic, but the look on her face told a different story.
"Shit! Shit! Shit!" was all Anna could think of at the moment. If my dad finds out I am so dead.
"Get under the bed!"
"What!? No!" Anna hissed "I am not…" Elsa grabbed her shoulders and started pushing her towards the ground. "Wha… n… Els…" she resisted momentarily before remembering that Elsa was extremely strong and fit and that she would be on her knees either way, and that it was probably their only option at this point anyways. "Fine! Fine!" she waved Elsa off before crawling under the bed.
Elsa glared at the stubborn girl before forcibly shoving her red hair out of sight "You'll thank me later" she muttered quietly before making her way to the door.
Taking a second to steel herself she pulled cautiously on the door knob, opening the door to see a slightly frantic Kai standing in front of her.
Straightening her posture, Elsa gave the Colonel a firm salute. "Sir, I apologize for the delay, sir"
Kai seemed to soften at her salutation, taking a slow breath before smiling kindly at the young girl before him.
"There's no need to apologize dear girl, and drop the 'sir' you know you don't need that with me, at least when we're not in the academy."
Elsa lowered her arm and assumed a more at ease position, smiling gratefully back at her old mentor.
"If we may?" Kai gestured towards the room.
"Oh!" Elsa hesitated momentarily, hoping that Anna would not be seen or heard. "Of course, please come in"
Kai took a glance around the hall before swiftly walking through the threshold and into the room. "Close the door behind you, I don't have much time" he commanded.
Elsa swiftly did so before turning inquisitively to the man before her.
"Elsa" he began, licking his lips nervously and urging caution with his hands gripped together "what I have to say must stay between us; it is of the utmost importance that you not repeat what I am about to tell you."
"Of course, you know that the General and yourself have my unwavering loyalty." She was firm in this confident and proud.
Underneath the bed Anna was straining to hear what was going on above her. Her head was lying flat, facing the wall, If only she could turn just a little bit then she could hear them better.
"Well, you see Elsa, that's what I'm afraid of" Kai started, testing the waters carefully; "you see… I'm not so sure our loyalties have been lying in the right place".
Elsa furrowed her brow and turned her head slightly, trying to piece together what Kai was trying to insinuate. "What exactly are you suggesting Kai?" her eyes narrowed.
"Elsa" He took a step forward "have you ever heard of the SNØ Initiative?"
She shook her head, taking a step back from the man in front of her.
"That's because practically no one has, it was extremely classified." Kai hesitated before speaking again. Elsa, the General may not be who you think he is" His eyes were angry now, but his tone still cautious.
"What exactly are you suggesting?" she shot back instantly, shaking her head in disbelief, her ice blue eyes narrowing fiercely and she spoke through gritted teeth "The General has given me everything, how dare you make such accusations"
"The General was my closest friend; I would have followed him into any battle, and I did for many years, so do not think for a second I make such accusations lightly" Kai gritted his own teeth and matched the younger girls icy glare. "The years I mentored you did not mean nothing Elsa; I'm here for your own good"
The radio on Kai's hip buzzed and a muffled but urgent voice came through.
"I have to leave, but we will need to discuss this further, in private next time."
"I'm not so sure we do" Elsa's gaze was still cold but she was confused by his words. "My loyalty lies with the General" she stood straight and firm.
"Does it really?" He made his way to the door turning back to face her "Hours upon hours spent teaching you reason, and yet you still follow blindly" he shook his head and huffed out a shallow laugh. "I trust this conversation will be kept in confidence, dear Elsa" He glanced over to the floor surrounding her bed "I wouldn't want the General to find out about the private conversation all three of us just shared" He returned his gaze to her, nodded curtly, and exited the room, leaving Elsa with a shocked expression on her face.
"Well Fuck!" Anna slid out from under the bed, as soon as she head the Colonel's footsteps fade from the door. "I was being so quiet, stuffed under there!" She rubbed her elbows, frowning in disappointment.
"No you weren't, you breathe like a horse" Elsa still hadn't turned to look at her, she faced the door.
"Excuse me?!"
"I just didn't think he could hear it too" Elsa sighed, looking slightly agitated as she turned around. "My hearing is better than most, so I just assumed he wouldn't be able to hear you. You breathe extremely loudly Anna. Like a horse"
"Okay first of all" Anna brought her hand out in front of Elsa's face and made a show of counting fingers, starting with the middle one, "fuck yourself…" Or me, sassy insulting Elsa is fucking hot. "Second of all" she brought up another finger "What the hell was that?!"
Elsa sighed bringing her hands to her face to massage her temples. The room was silent except for the clink of her dog tags bumping together. "I have no idea" she admitted.
"Listen… Elsa" Anna had quickly dropped her sarcasm and was completely serious now. "I love my father… but I wouldn't put it past him to have some secret project going on. I really think we should look into this, I mean obviously it has something to do with you if Kai came all the way here to tell you about it. And he said it was classified, and top secret, and stuff" she added.
"You're not the least bit offended by what Kai said?" Elsa hissed out incredulously, clearly angry thinking back to their exchange.
"Look, my father is a good man but so is Kai!" Anna lifted her hands up defensively. "I mean no, I don't think my father is part of some evil spy group or something, I feel like that was probably like a miscommunication, or like partial evidence, or personal grudge or something? I don't know!" She shook her head, waving the tangent away. "The point" she continued "is that if it has to do with you, it must be important and I think we should find out more…"
"There is no we, Anna. Why do you keep saying that?" Elsa was clearly unmoved by Anna's spiel.
Anna blushed "were you not sitting on the bed with me like fifteen minutes ago? You know… when I was all like 'I'm not leaving' and 'you mean so much to me' remember that? Cause I do and I meant it so…"
"Anna, there is no 'us'" Elsa tried desperately to calm her confliction and push away the fluttering in her chest. You mean so much to me too. "You need to leave. You cannot get involved in this".
"Elsa, we've been over this" Anna crossed her arms and gave the blonde before her a look of defiance. "I'm not leaving unless you drag me kicking and screaming"
Elsa sighed, reaching over to Anna, putting her arm on the girl's neck and lightly applying pressure. "Anna…"
Anna leaned into her touch, smiling triumphantly at her success. Score: Anna one, Elsa zero.
"I'm so sorry for what I'm about to do, please forgive me" Elsa muttered, looking sadly into the other girl's eyes.
Anna was suddenly confused "Wait, what?"
And then Elsa struck, just a swift chop onto the girl's pressure point, years of martial arts training kicking in as she brought the other girl out of consciousness gathering her up in her arms as she slipped instantly into the realm of the unconscious.
"ELSA!" Anna woke with a start, sitting up like a springboard as she cried out. She was tucked safely in bed, the morning light pooling softly through her window. "That motherfucker!" she exclaimed in disbelief, slamming her fists on the covers. Looking around she realized her defeat, feeling a sore kink in her neck and a dull headache.
"Miss Anna? Are you alright?" Gerda bustled into the room, heading over to open the blinds of the window.
"Peachy, Gerda, peachy" she muttered slumping back in bed. Anna groaned as the sunlight illuminated the room and brought her hand to her eyes to try and block it out.
"Well I should think so, Miss Anna" Gerda added amusedly as she got a better look at the girl before her, in all her bed-headed glory. "It's not every day you get a mark on your neck like that" the old woman practically giggled "I remember when I was your age I got many of those myself, even when I cared for your father when he was young he was always coming back from town wi-"
"Ugh! Gerda, no!" Anna's face was bright crimson. "It is not what you think it is and I do NOT want to talk about it!"
Gerda pursed her lips "Then how did you sustain such a mark, dear child?"
Fuck, I did not think this through. I can't exactly say I was karate chopped. "Ugh… I fell? On a pole? A very… skinny… pole?" Anna practically winced at her failed cover.
Gerda merely smiled adoringly, taking a seat on the side of the bed "Oh Anna, it's nothing to be embarrassed about, child. Although," she raised her eyebrow teasingly "I would keep your choice of suitor to yourself, the General would never approve."
"What?!" Anna squeaked out. "There is no suitor Gerda!"
"Maybe you should tell that to your subconscious when it wakes you up with her name, dear Anna" Gerda smiled knowingly before standing up and ripping the sheets off of her sleeping form. "…and we both know this isn't the first time" she winked.
Anna covered her face with a pillow and groaned loudly, squeezing the cushion against her skull.
"Anna, dear, what are you doing?"
"Tryng t kll mnself" was her muffled reply. Gerda only chuckled.
"Your father expects you at the facility in 20 minutes. You're going to have to spend quite a while on makeup so I suggest you hurry it up" with that she left Anna to her own devices, closing the door behind her with a soft click.
Anna chucked the pillow from the bed and stared at the ceiling. What the hell have I gotten myself into?
Elsa made her way through the Academy's cafeteria. She was wearing a newer, more fitted, Academy t-shirt and fitted black sweatpants that tightened and cuffed at the ankles and part way up her calf. Her dog tags clinked as she made her way through the tables. She found Kristoff at their usual table, looking more grumpy than usual.
"Good morning Kristoff" she took a seat across from him as he grumbled a reply, which sounded slightly like hello. "Where's Flynn? Did he sleep in again?" she recalled the unfortunate incident several months ago, where he and Kristoff had snuck out to go into town and gotten in a little late, and a little less than sober. The whole squadron had to run extra laps because they were a team and surely someone should have woken him up. It was a miracle that he didn't get kicked out.
"No he's over there" Kristoff pointed to where he had been staring for their entire exchange "chatting up that chick with the weird ass name"
"Kristoff that's rude."
"Naming your kid Rapunzel is rude. The fuck kind of name is that."
Elsa rolled her eyes "It's German or something. Besides, Rapunzel seems to be very skilled in hand to hand weaponry"
"So? You still beat her every single time"
True. "She's also very good at camouflage tactics"
"Fine" Kristoff had to give her that, the girls was very artistic. "Why are you on her side all of a sudden?"
"I wasn't aware that there were sides?" Elsa frowned in confusion, turning to look at the two recruits. Rapunzel had short brown hair, she was wearing a white Academy t-shit and light pink running shorts. She was smiling at Flynn, tucking strands of hair behind her ear. Flynn was wearing the same as Elsa and had his arm propped up against the wall. "What are they talking about? The next trial? "
"No, Elsa, he's chatting her up" Kristoff made a slightly disgusted face "you know 'flirting'".
"Oh." Elsa blushed. "I didn't realize."
"Yeah, well" Kristoff was still glaring at the two.
Elsa smirked, enlightened by her newfound knowledge "Why does that bother you Kristoff?"
"Because!" Kristoff tossed his hands in the air, he didn't really have a reason he realized he just didn't like it.
"You know there's plenty of girls here you could go talk to. Maybe Flynn will even give you tips?"
"Pfft, please" Kristoff rested his arms on the table and gave the platinum blonde a smug look. "I'm practically a love expert I don't need advice on how to get girls"
"And yet…" Elsa gestured to their empty table.
"Hey you're a girl if you hadn't noticed!" Kristoff gestured to her and beamed as if he himself had just remembered that Elsa was in fact a girl.
"Yeah, well" Elsa rolled her eyes and looked away. Seeing as I knocked the last person who said they cared about me unconscious… "I don't count".
"Why not!?" Kristoff was blushing now, he looked down at the tale pushing his index fingers together "I mean you're… umm... extremely attractive… for starters"
Elsa groaned and put a weary hand to her forehead "Just stop Kristoff, you don't need to do this"
"He's right you know…" Elsa and Kristoff snapped their heads up as a third voice entered the conversation.
A taller girl was standing at the head of their table, looking down on them. She had long slender legs, sun kissed and extremely toned. They looked even better under her tight green athletic shorts. She was wearing an extremely tight navy blue Marine Corps shirt which highlighted her upper curves nicely. The girl had a cocky smirk on her face, and her eyes were blue like the ocean. Her hair was pulled into a bun underneath a matching navy blue Arendelle Academy army cap. It wasn't an obnoxious fire-truck red, but it was clearly dyed, and much darker than Anna's.
She eyed the two recruits before her, Kristoff who was trying very hard not to openly gawk at how close his eye level was to her breasts, and Elsa who looked confused and slightly put off.
"About you being…" she leaned over the table slightly as if to emphasize her point, smirking slightly as Kristoff looked in the opposite direction, blushing madly. She turned her gaze back to Elsa. "…extremely attractive" she whispered, putting a seductive emphasis on each individual word.
Elsa merely narrowed her eyes. I don't believe this for one second. I don't know what game you're trying to play Marine Corps but I'm not falling for it. I really can't afford to lose my guard right now.
Noticing Elsa's suspicion, the other girl merely smirked more smugly, flashing her white teeth as she tugged on her cap and straightened up from the table. "You should learn how to take a compliment recruit." Don't worry Elsa, I enjoy a challenge. "You know normally I don't sit in on other group's trials… but watching you… perform… is more than enough to make me want to… come" her eyes flickered suggestively to Elsa's lap before giving Kristoff a cocky once over, and biting her bottom lip. "Can't wait to see you later, recruit" she grinned, turning and walking across the room.
Kristoff and Elsa locked eyes with very different expressions on their faces. Kristoff half dropped his dopey grin when he noticed Elsa's agitated expression.
"She's up to something". Elsa was not impressed.
"What?!" Kristoff practically yelped out in hushed shock. "That trainer just about fucked you right here on the table and all you have to say is 'she's up to something'?!" He shook his head in disbelief. "Look I get that maybe you don't swing that way but goddamn. That was…" he trailed off shaking his head like it held some kind of intrinsic meaning.
"Whatever Kristoff, what is the next trial anyways?"
His eyes were still trained on the table where the red head was talking to some other recruits. "It's some kind of all-terrain exercise. Something with like, water, or ice, or… something" he responded distractedly.
"Water?" Elsa flicked a strand of blonde out of her eyes, frowning. Well, I guess I know where we'll be seeing Marine Corps again. This is all just a little too convenient.
A/N Ariel made an appearance and I don't know how I feel abt it because I was always going to put her in but in a slightly different way. I've always thought she was the thirstiest of all the Disney characters tho.. I mean she gives up her voice for the D, but you do you I guess. Anyways don't trust her. Spoiler Alert?
Also SNØ is just Snow in Norwegian.
Sorry I didn't do comments in this ch. b/c I usually read them on mobile and it's not working atm :( but keep 'em coming, if you want, and I'll answer them all next time hopefully! ILU ALL :'3