The coronation had went by smoothly. Well, for anyone who was not Anna. During the moment of opportunity for Anna to get a sort of interaction with her sister during the ceremony the reply was not what Anna had been expecting. Anna had given Elsa a smile and a wave when Elsa turned to glance at her younger sister but to Anna's surprise Elsa gave an angered look before wiping it away with a fake smile towards the crowd.
'Wait, what?' Anna had thought to herself. 'Why is Elsa mad at me? Did she not like my smile? Was it something I said? Of course it was not anything I said, I didn't say anything. Wait was that it? Should I had said something?' These thoughts continued to ramble through Anna's mind for the rest of the evening up to when she was getting prepared for the ball.
She had been saving a certain gown for this occasion for months now and it was the most gorgeous dress she had ever laid eyes on. The dress was a dark purple with sleeves that draped over her shoulders along with hand stitched pink and blue jewels that slowly ombréed to the bodice of the gown. Other than it's looks it was perfect for Anna for dancing, although the skirt appeared to be long it was not too long for any tripping. Anna also had carefully selected a pair of flats that were great for running and minimal slipping.
Anna gazed at herself into the mirror admiring her gown, then began to fix her bun. She added a crown braid to it and made the bun itself much more neater. She finished the touch with her small tiara and she finally had been ready. Her smile quickly faded as the image of her sister's angered glare flashed in her memory. Anna still could not get over it.
'Why is she so mad at me? I'm the one who should be mad here. I was shut out for over a decade, not her. I didn't choose to lock the door.'
But her quick mind ramble was cut off by a maid's knock on the door. "Princess Anna, the ball is about to begin."
"I'll be out there in a second!" Anna replied to the maid's interruption. She took one final look in the mirror. 'Everything will be great tonight Anna, the gates are open.'
The ball room was filled with music and noise. Anna enjoyed people watching from atop, for the first hour. It was great to see all the people get along and chat like there was not a problem in the air. Anna wanted to join them, but she could not just leave her sister. Who knows what Elsa would say, if she would say anything that is.
Anna was ready to move, go anywhere she could with no limits. Go and join the crowd or wander around, anything that would make her move would be perfect to her. She stood and day dreamed how she wanted the night to continue and her dream became true as her knight in shinning armor came to the rescue.
"Prince Hans of the Southern Isles, your majesties." The red haired prince said with a bow in front of both sisters. Elsa gave a quiet nod and small curtsy as to Anna who almost forgot to curtsy from being lost at staring into his ever so gorgeous green eyes. Hans then eyed to the queen. "Your highness, I was wondering if it would be alright for me to take your sister for some of the ball."
Anna's head quickly turned to watch Elsa with great curiosity what her sister would answer with. "Yes, but please make sure she's here before midnight. I need her for the closing of the ball."
Anna grinned widely as she took no time to hesitate run to Hans and grabbed his hand pulling him out of the ball room. "Thank god you came! I was about to die in there!" Anna said to him in relief.
"Oh a little standing won't kill you." Hans said in a sarcastic voice but tried his best to make sure it came out in a more charming manner. Which Anna took the bait and answered with a nudge in his arm and a blush. She stared up to him for a while without saying anything, which had just given Hans the same impression as earlier that she was just day dreaming about him and her. She was falling for him so easily and it took so little effort out of Hans' part. But he couldn't let it show he was going to let her do all the work, then it could eventually become noticeable and backlash on himself in the future.
He smiled knowing the perfect way to get Anna to fall to the floor for him. He had his hand gently glide her chin to tilt up as he leaned in for a kiss. The kiss had meant nothing on his behalf but on Anna's it had felt like to her that thousands of fireworks were going off. As if this were all just the perfect dream she was currently breathing in.
As she did want the kiss last forever she soon broke off with a slight cheeky giggle under her breath. "Come on, I have an idea." Anna said as she began to pull him by the arm again looping around hallways to other hallways until they made it outside. It was still fairly warm given what time it was but still had its occasional cool breeze. Anna stood looking for a second at the gates and tugged his arm as she lead him to him to step outside of them.
'Don't let her leave Arendelle.' The ever so important phrase from Rumplestiltskin came to Hans mind. His eyes widen in fear, trying to hide the great fear he was getting as the girl was pulling him towards the docks. He quickly used his free hand to attempt to not fully grab but give a firm enough grip to stop her from going any further. "Anna, wait what are you doing?" Hans asked allowing some fear to appear in his voice.
She bit her lip as she turned around to look at her concerned prince. "There's a boat at the docks that leaves in less than hour."
"Leaves?" Hans asked confused as to what her reasoning was behind it. With also the thought that this could become more of a problem within the future. He had to find a way to to distract her before she could take any more steps further. He quickly looked around and thought of an idea and smiled to her. "Why don't you give me a tour of the castle?" He suggested to her and then took a step towards her holding both of her hands. "I'd love to learn all about the place in which you grew up in."
Anna's face went back to the deep blush she had earlier in the evening and nodded her head in agreement as if she had forgotten all about the ship. "Okay, but be warned there's a lot of rooms so this could take a while." And with that she pulled him by the hands back into the inside of the castle and started from the top floor to then slowly making her way down to the bottom.
The bold thought went across Hans' mind on what he should do next to seal the deal between him and Anna but he had to make sure no one be around to object anything. "Where are the palace gardens at?" He asked her and without a moment of hesitation she quickly pulled him towards them.
She started to tell him everything there was about every single flower that had been planted inside the garden. He could obviously tell she had a lot of free time on her hands for the years she was being grown up here. 'No wonder she wanted to leave, she must be bored out of her mind here.' So keeping Anna entertained and busy was most definitely going to a be a priority for Hans to do to keep her inside.
'But how much longer would the queen keep the gates open for?' Hans thought to himself then realizing after tonight the gates could then be shut for another decade. He had to guarantee himself to be in the inside of the palace walls. He could not take his time with Anna, it was now or never. He let go of her palm as she continued to walk forward soon realizing she was not holding onto him anymore.
Anna turned around in shock to see Hans down on one knee. The second she heard him begin to propose there was no moment of hesitation, in fact she did not even let him finished. "Yes!" She exclaimed out of joy then going down to him on the ground. She smiled as they leaned in to kiss. The moment felt so magical for Anna. This was the best moment in her life and nothing could interrupt it. She thought before she heard the clock tower's bell ring. First she ignored it before she heard the twelfth ring of the bell. She quickly parted from the kiss. "It's midnight! The ball! Elsa!" She said quickly getting up as she began to rush towards the ballroom before Hans could stop her rush.
"Calm down Anna, balls usually last longer than they're said to. I am sure there are still plenty of people there." His reassurance did help her take breath and held onto his hand.
Anna smiled up at him with a blush with the thought that she was now looking into the eyes of her fiancée. 'My fiancée.' She thought in her mind with so much joy. 'Now time to make it official.'
"Let's go and get Elsa's blessing!" She said as she went back to her pace down the hall towards the ballroom doors.
Hans had to make his objection smooth and have her climb on board to it. Which would not be to hard since Anna seemed to be fine with whatever he said to her. "How about instead we tell all of the guests! It will be the perfect way to end the ball!" He said with enthusiasm and just like he predicted she was more than fine with his idea.
They both walked into the ballroom. Many people had still been there but not as many as there was at the start of the ball. He escorted Anna to the platform of the ballroom and raised his voice. "May I have your attention please, the princess and I have an announcement." Hans said as he himself was feeling giddy. Not for the fact that he was to be married but he was taking one giant leap towards getting the throne.
Then in unison the two announced their engagement everyone in the room clapped and congratulated the couple but the up beat mood was put to hold by the queen.
She quickly snapped her heard around to look at the couple in shock. "What?" She said in a voice a little too loud. Her tone grabbed many people's attention but from her point of view she could careless what was going through the others' minds right now. But she calmed herself and said in a much more cool voice. "You are joking right?"
Anna looked at Elsa with hurt eyes meanwhile Hans was keeping the best face he could on. "No, we are really engaged, your majesty." He said trying to be as respectful as possible to make the crowd lean towards his side of the argument.
"You can not be serious!" She said in a much more loud voice as the once ballroom filled with chatter and music was now only filled with the noise of Elsa's voice. Her eyes went over to look at her younger sister Anna, who she could tell at any moment was about to pounce back at her. "You do not get my blessing," she then turned to a guard "end the ball!" She demanded and stepped away from couple gettting ready to leave the ballroom.
"You don't get a say in who I marry! You don't get a say in anything I do in my life, Elsa!" Anna yelled out to her sister with taking a step towards her. Hans securely placed an arm infront of Anna preventing her from saying anymore.
The words had set off Elsa. She was done with acting anything like regal. She turned around to look at her sister and smirked. "Oh really now?" She said as she began taking steps to her sister.
Hans quickly stood infront of Anna, if anything were to happen to her all the work Hans was putting into this would go down the drain. "Queen Elsa, you need to cool down this is just a misunderstanding." He said keeping his breath calm as he looked at the queen whose eyes were beginning to fill with rage.
"Cool down you say?" She said with a smirk growing on her face as she pulled her glove off of one of her hands. Many people in the ballroom were looking at the queen with great fear and confusion on what she was planning to do next. Then to everyone's disbelief a snow flake six inches big appeared floating over the queen's palm. It had rigid, sharp edges all around but before the queen could show her ability to Hans there was a sound of guards shuffling into the room all beginning to point their weapons towards her.
The smirk stayed on her face as she just took a few steps back making the snowflake disappear. She eyed the crowd who was all on the edge of their seats. "I think it's time for this entire kingdom to cool down." Elsa said taking her other glove off to have an even bigger snowflake appear over her. Anna peaked out from Hans looking at Elsa in complete shock while her hand held onto his tightly. Then the snowflake spreaded apart and everyone screamed in fear as all the candles in the room were blown out.
There was a moment of suspenseful silence before someone yelled out. "Look! Its snowing outside! In the middle of June!" Everyone looked out the windows in amazement as the crowd then broke out into panic, many leaving the room to find one that was lit up.
Anna quickly began to follow them. Before Hans treaded behind her to stop her. "Anna wait!"
"Someone has to find Elsa." She said in protest.
"We will find her, but for now, Arendelle needs you here." Anna sighed and looked up to him agreeing that he was indeed right. 'Queen Elsa is gone.' Hans thought to himself as he embraced Anna into a comforting hug. 'That means Anna will be queen and I...' the thought felt too good to be true but it was so true it made Hans let a smirk appear in the corner of his lips 'will be king.'
