(Salathi = Lord Redmoon)
(old)Author's Note: Hey guys sorry about missing a story update last week. I got work, college and 5 stories to write (yes only three published the other 2 are storing chapters, as I work on them when I get writers block for the others.) and things just didn't open up enough for me to finish a chapter last week. And that is just something that is gonna happen while I am in school. I hope you can all understand.
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Cover Art: The cover art is a piece made by the extremely talented Boringmu on DeviantArt. And he has plenty of other wonderful pieces (including an absolutely adorable May and Torchic Pokémon piece).
Warnings: Incest Elsanna (don't like, don't read; simple), smut, and some depressing pasts and current events (BUT A LOT OF FLUFF TO CUSHION IT).
Disclaimers: A lot of Disney characters and references to Disney films are included in this story (Frozen, Tangled, Brave, Maleficent, Snow White and the Huntsman, Beauty and the Beast, Rise of the Guardians, The Little Mermaid, Peter Pan)—and I own none of the characters from these respective works. I do, however, claim some of my own OC characters like Cecilia (Maleficent's older sister), Fredrick (a birch wood treant) and others.
Thawed Hearts
Chapter 3: A Morning Ride
}-,-'— (Rapunzel) –'-,-{
Knock
Knock
Knock
I jerked awake and gripped my husband's warm bare body next to me as he, too, stirred awake but in less startled fashion. I looked around blurry-eyed, unsure of what exactly had woken me until a warm hand cupped my cheek and I turned my head to meet a familiar sight. We kissed and I melted into Eugene's mouth, moaning softly as his other hand at my rear pulled me on top of him. We were interrupted by three knocks on the door and I realized that had been what woke us in the first place.
"Who is it?" Eugene asked after pulling an inch away from my face.
"It is Kai, Your Highnesses. Queen Elsa and Princess Anna wish to extend an invitation to join them for a morning ride through the royal forest."
I licked my husband's neck longingly to show him what I really wanted to do this morning then sighed and lifted my head back up to reply. "Tell them we'll be ready in an hour."
"Yes, Your highness."
"And Kai!" Eugene added before the servant could move away from the door.
"Yes, Your Highness?"
"Please send up some breakfast as soon as possible." Eugene pulled my head back down and took me in a searing kiss.
"Of course, it should be up to you in ten minutes."
After a good minute or two of dancing with his tongue I groaned and pulled away. "Time to get up." I whispered and sat up, spreading my thighs over his hips and resting both hands on his chest to put my breasts on full display. I smiled at the look of appreciation he gave them before taking hold of each one, rubbing my perky nipples with his thumbs.
"You're more beautiful every single day, I swear it." His whispers caused me to blush a deep red in slight embarrassment, but joy won out.
"And you are slowly getting better at compliments, I swear it." I teased, but I could see in his eyes he knew how much his words meant to me.
Somehow we managed to be dressed and ready before a young maid of no more than thirteen came in with breakfast. She had sleek black hair cut to jaw-length that contrasted her pale white face. And she had eyes so bright green they appeared to be emeralds inside her head.
"Good morning your highnesses." The maid spoke politely but shyly. After the brief glimpse of her eyes I got when she first entered, the young girl kept her eyes trained on the floor.
"Good morning…" I let the end of my sentience trail away in waiting for her name, but she only nodded and moved quickly to the table in the corner of our bedroom and began unloading her tray of morning stuffs on the table.
Eugene smiled softly at the young girl as he moved to stand next to her, intending to help her unload the tray. I didn't catch what was said between them but after a moment she laughed and looked up at him, the shyness I had seen before almost gone.
"Thank you Alexandra for bringing us our breakfast." Eugene said with a slight bow. This caused the girl, Alexandra, to blush heavily and curtsy clumsily.
"Eugene, you're flirting again," I warned and he immediately straightened but winked at Alexandra. "I am deathly afraid of her skill with a frying pan so I am afraid we will have to continue our conversation another time."
Alexandra's eyes widened at the exchange and I could tell she was unnerved at having a royal flirt with her in front of his own wife. She curtsied again and hurried from the room.
Just before she left I called after her. "Alexandra." She froze and I could tell she was afraid she was about to get yelled at. "Thank you very much for your service this morning. I hope you have a good day." She turned to look at me and smiled timidly.
She replied with a soft "Thank you, your highness," and hurried from the room.
}-,-'— (Elsa) –'-,-{
I was doing my very best to not stare at my sister's backside, or her bouncing breasts, or her flowing hair in its twin braids as she galloped around the courtyard. But I as utterly failing at it. Her black Clydesdale with white feathering, mane & tail was named Asle and she rode him with amazing skill. She was so beautiful, wild and free that I couldn't help but drink her in with my eyes. She was the complete opposite of how I thought of myself. I wished every day to be more like her.
I quickly looked down as Anna turned back around and returned to my side, still upon her horse.
"Come on Elsa, where's your horse? I wanna ride with you!" Anna said excitedly, smiling down at me before looking up and around as if expecting to see my horse standing only a few feet away.
"Anna…" I said nervously, fidgeting slightly and looking at the floor.
"Yes sister?" She was obviously still excited as she drew closer to me on her horse.
"I don't know how to ride…" I mumbled quietly.
"What was that Elsa?" Anna asked, dismounting, a look of worry finding its way onto her face as she walked up to me.
"I don't know how to ride." I repeated, a little louder this time and Anna stared at me as if I had just turned into a troll.
"What…?" Anna whispered, dumbstruck.
"Isolated for 13 years—never left the castle, remember? I know you got to ride horses through the courtyard and gardens, but I was never so lucky." I said, blushing heavily and wringing my hands shyly.
"Oh well I'll teach you!" She said with gusto and grabbed my hand, pulling me toward the stables.
"Anna, no no no no." I squeaked in protest as she pulled me along, leaving a trail of falling snow in my wake. I pulled uselessly, trying to get free, but my sister was quite strong; surprisingly so.
"Oh come on Elsa, it's not that bad." I searched desperately for a reason why I couldn't do this, and looking across the courtyard I found it. Rapunzel and Eugene were walking toward us.
"Anna we don't have time for me to learn right now. Rapunzel and Eugene are in our company." Anna turned to look and put on one of her rather cute pouts.
"Fine!" she said as she continued to sulk for a few seconds, then as if a lightbulb went on in her head she smiled again. "Then I guess you get to ride with me. Come on!" she said again as she dragged me back to her horse.
My heart thudded in my chest as I looked up at the animal, but I felt a reassuring squeeze on my hand. I relaxed somewhat. I trusted Anna, and Anna trusted this animal, so I should trust it as well.
"Okay, so how do I do this?" I asked and was proud of myself for not stuttering. I turned to look at Anna only to see an evil grin on her face and suddenly I was lifted from the ground and up onto the horse.
"Anna!" I yelled in fright.
"Swing your leg over and sit up in the saddle." Anna said, ignoring my protests. I did as she said and sat up. "There you go, not so bad right?" And then before I could answer she jumped up and grabbed the saddle, lifting herself up behind me.
"Move forward, Elsa. I need more room." She giggled in my ear and I did as she said, blushing as slender arms wrapped around my waist to take the reins. I hadn't noticed Rapunzel and Eugene mount their horses in my distraction.
"Morning your Majesty, your Highness." Rapunzel said, bowing her head respectfully.
"Oh please, dear cousin; no need for formalities. Just call me Elsa."
"And Anna," piped the redhead from behind me.
Rapunzel smiled, saying "Very well. Elsa, Anna: thank you for the invitation to join you on this morning."
"I am only sorry it wasn't sooner. It is a poor excuse but I have been very busy dealing with.. the incident that took place at my coronation." I replied and Anna covered my wringing hands with one of her own, stroking my knuckles with her thumb. My shoulders and arms, which I hadn't even realized were tense, relaxed at the touch.
"Don't worry about it Elsa, Rapunzel has definitely kept us busy. I must say I am looking forward to this ride. Should be a nice break," said Flynn. Rapunzel blushed at this and shoved him.
"You enjoy every minute of it and you know it!" she snapped at him, earning a shrug.
"Of course I do, but normally I'm so drained after a day locked away with you I can't even stand at attention." A sly grin was plastered to his face and Rapunzel blushed even more, if that was possible, and kicked her mount into a gallop towards the bridge to Arendelle.
"What was that about?" Anna asked curiously. Eugene smiled.
"Oh nothing," he said and galloped after his wife, leaving Anna and myself and four guards to catch up.
}-,-'— (Anna) –'-,-{
An hour or so after we left the city for our morning ride I was completely out of it. I could hardly focus and I was really glad my horse could follow the group because I was in no way leading her anymore.
I was so warm I swear my sister could feel the heat radiating from me. I hadn't thought about the effect having my beautiful sister in my arms while we rode would have on me. But I had never been more aroused in my life, and the embarrassment that the object of my arousal was my sister made everything worse. I was sure my face must've been beet red, though no one said anything about it. Maybe I wasn't as red as I thought.
Elsa seemed to notice my feverish state when one of her chilly breezes ghosted over my hands and face. Her wind always felt different then natural stuff. At least to me. It felt as if it was her own cool skin brushing against mine. While it spiked my arousal to new levels, my body did start to cool down.
"Thank you," I whispered as I gently squeezed my arms around her waist in a hug. She responded by gently taking one of my hands off the reins and lacing our fingers.
"So Anna?" Rapunzel asked from a few feet away. In the past hour of riding we had all broken down the walls of formal conversation and awkwardness and it felt as if we had all been friends for years.
"Yes Punzie?" I asked timidly, she had this scary smirk on her face that made me sweat.
"I haven't seen this man Kristoff at all in the past few days, and after your amazing journey together, and how he risked his life to save you more than once I would think you two would be joined at the hip; perhaps even engaged already. Where is he?" she asked, her smirk still firmly in place. I blushed.
I wasn't embarrassed enough to overlook the reaction that Elsa had at Rapunzel's words. Her entire body went rigid in my arms and ice spread over the hand not holding mine as the temperature dropped around us suddenly. The breath of Rapunzel, Eugene and the horses was visible as they breathed out. Only later would I realize that my breath had not misted in front of me, just as Elsa's never did.
I had no idea why Elsa was reacting this way and I was about to tell her as much when she bowed her head and started trembling. It warmed up soon enough, though the ice stayed on her hand and her head stayed down.
"Forgive me. I don't know what came over me." she said in a clear voice just loud enough for everyone to hear.
I gave her a gentle squeeze before looking at Rapunzel and answering her question.
"He's on a trip up in the mountains right now, and will be gone for maybe a week or two more."
"Oh? That's a long time to be separated from someone you love." Rapunzel said seriously.
"Two or three weeks is nothing compared to thirteen years.I'll be fine." I reassured her with a smile.
"Have you two kissed yet!?" She pounced and I felt Elsa flinch in my arms. For some reason I felt myself getting angry with Rapunzel.
"We aren't like that!" I snapped, irritation getting into my words. "I mean, sure we kissed once." Elsa flinched again, only slightly and this one was probably unnoticed by Rapunzel and Eugene, but with her in my arms I felt it clearly. "Once I thought we were like that, but it was the most awkward thing I've ever done. It was honestly like kissing a brother." At this Elsa stilled completely as if she had turned into a statue.
"Ouch. I hope you didn't tell him that." Eugene said, chuckling softly.
"Of course I did," I said indignantly. "I had to be honest with him when I told said I didn't think it would work out between us."
"Ouch…" Eugene said again in a much more serious voice.
I stuck my tongue out at him as my only response and kicked the horse into a trot, leaving Rapunzel and Eugene a few yards behind on the trail.
"Elsa, are you ok?" I whispered, she was still completely rigid.
"I am fine, Anna." Elsa whispered with a stifled tone as unmoving as the ice she controlled.
"Elsa, don't give me that. No more locked doors, remember?"
"Fine…" She replied almost inaudibly. "I will be fine. Is that better?"
"Well it's an improvement but still not what I'm looking for." But before I could say more, she spoke up in a crackly voice just above a whisper.
"At the very least, wait until we can talk in private, Anna. I can't promise to tell you what is wrong even then, but please at least wait."
I frowned, worry filling my chest. But I kept a firm hand on it. Elsa had been secluded from anyone, even the servants for most of her life. I clearly had to take things slow to get her to open up, so instead of insisting on getting an answer I just leaned into her stiff back and rested my chin on her shoulder. I kissed the side of her head.
"I love you, my dear sister. I can wait for you." I whispered softly, smiling a little as she shuddered in my arms.
"T-thank you." She stuttered quietly. Then after a long pause she spoke up in her normal voice. "How long until we are back in Arendelle?"
"Oh not long, Arendelle is just down the other side of that hill." I said, waving my hand at the hill in the path in front of us.
She hummed softly and did her best to relax back into me, but I could tell she was far from relaxed.
Once back at the castle Elsa rushed in, leaving Rapunzel and Eugene behind. She would have left me behind as well if I hadn't been expecting it. I caught up with her just after she entered the front doors.
"Elsa, wait!" I pleaded; I hated the view of her running away from me again. She stopped her brisk walk and slowly turned around to face me.
"I have a lot of things I still need to get done today, Anna. I have trade proposals to look over and a meeting with the head craftsman of Arendelle, as well as a council meeting after dinner." Elsa said in her polite queenly voice to try and explain her hasty retreat.
"Elsa, we will talk tonight. Don't think you've gotten out of having our conversation about this morning." I threatened teasingly as I moved up to her and put my arms around her waist, hugging her tight. "And please don't run from me, not again. If you need space or time to deal with something then just tell me. I will give you the space and the time, but I will always be right here waiting for you to share."
Elsa started shaking in my arms as I spoke and I held her even tighter, determined to prove to her that I was here to stay, that she wasn't alone anymore.
"Thank you." She whispered and pulled away. I looked in awe as the tear stains on her cheeks froze into ice and fell away like snow.
"It's just that I have been hiding for so long, concealing for so long; but now, at least around you my walls have crumbled and everything comes flooding out when I want it to or not." She joked, laughing slightly, but I could tell she meant every word.
I smiled and leaned in to peck her cheek happily before pulling away, doing my best to hide how much I wished it had been her lips. "Now go and be Queenly. You've got royal stuff to do, while I get to play." I teased lightly, doing my best to keep the mood pleasant and encouraging. What happened next stunned me to silence.
She leaned forward, cupping my face in her hands and kissed first my nose, then both cheeks and then my forehead. Once finished with her kisses she rested her forehead against mine and closed her eyes for the briefest of moments before pulling away and walking off. The sway of her hips as her icy heels clacked couldn't be unseen.
}-,-'— (Elsa) –'-,-{
"Stupid, stupid, stupid thing to do." I muttered as I walked away. I had nearly lost control in that sign of affection; I had been so close to closing the distance and pressing my lips to her own just as I had pressed them all over her face. It took more willpower than I had ever known myself to possess to pull my face away.
I had known two things ever since that horrible night when I struck Anna in the head amidst my efforts to save her. First, I found out how dangerous I truly was. I had control now, but that didn't make me any less dangerous—indeed, it made me even more so. Before said control, I caused a storm to rage over the land without meaning to; a storm that possessed nothing more than snowfall, strong winds and very low temperatures. I now knew that I could cause a hailstorm of deadly ice spears to cover an entire city; I could freeze every drop of water in a person's body, crystalizing them instantly; and I could create monsters of snow and ice that thought and fought on their own.
Indeed, unknown to anyone else, I had already created several to protect Arendelle. They only slept until I chose to awake them. Four large dragons of ice lay curled around each of the four castle wall's guard towers. Twin griffins of ice stood at attention on either side of the castle gates. Marshmallow still guarded my ice palace, inside of which were numerous ice sculptures just waiting for the touch of life that would bring them into action. I had a literal army hidden away. I was so much more dangerous now than before, but only to those whom I needed to be dangerous with.
Second, I had learned just how deep my feelings for Anna truly were. I knew from the moment I held her in my arms, even as young as I was, that there was not a single person in this world who would ever mean even half as much to me as Anna did. And as I grew older, the compulsion to hold her, to embrace her, to kiss her—even make love to her—grew stronger and stronger, just as my desire to know everything about her, to understand her fully and to do everything I could to protect her did.
I had long ago come to terms with my feelings and accepted them for what they were: love; passionate, all-consuming love; a love that drove me every moment to claim her and make her my own and to show the whole world that she belonged to me, and I to her. Incest some would call it, but I knew it was more. It was true love.
Yet it was because I loved her so that I could never show that love to her or anyone else. To show it to others would put her in danger of the hate of this world, while showing it to her was unfair. Anna loved me dearly.. I knew she did. But it was a sisterly love; a pure, self-sacrificing love that held none of this possessive emotion. Nor did her love cause her to crave the things that I craved from her body. If Anna knew how I felt, though, I knew without a doubt that she would do her absolute best to love me the way I wished she did, because she only wished to see me happy.
I would never want that. I refused to take her away from her own happy ending by revealing my true feelings for her.
Yet I had been so completely and irrevocably stupid today. During Rapunzel's questioning, I had completely lost myself to jealousy for a few awful moments, then just moments ago when I said goodbye to Anna I had practically kissed her on the lips, the barest sliver of control holding me back.
I took a deep breath as I reached the door to my personal study and forced the concerns out of my head. I had a kingdom that relied on me to run it, to make it prosperous and keep it safe.
Author's note: Yes i now Elsa rode a snow horse in the first chapter but there is a difference between riding a snow horse that responds to her mental commands as opposed to a normal one. Elsa has no experience in controlling or directing a normal horse. (and she mounted the snow horse by forming it under her so no experince properly mounting a horse either.)I look forward to your reviews/comment every day! For those of you who can't leave reviews on fanfiction (because you left them before the restart of Thawed Hearts) please just send it to me in a pm if you get the chance. I love hearing from you guys and gals. Also all my work is up on archiveofourown now. I have the same username there as here. and all the story titles are the same.