When Anna had returned from her and Ariel's little "break in to the school" she went back into her room where she had found her beloved boyfriend snoring. He hadn't noticed her leaving because of his deep sleep. Anna chuckled silently. Since she had gone he had apparently taken over the whole bed. She crawled up to his side and pushed him away gently, which resulted in him wrapping his giant arms around her in his sleep. She sighed and kissed his hand affectionately. He was like her own huge cuddling teddybear. In his arms she would always be safe. With this in mind she fell into a sweet deep sleep.

A phone suddenly buzzed and the redhead was awakened. She grabbed the object and mumbled in a sleepy voice, "Anna Shark here…"

"H-hello," a sweet voice spoke. Anna jumped out of bed when she realized who had called her.

"Elsa?!" she exclaimed happily as she ran out of the room and into the living room. She heard a soft chuckle from the other end. "What brings you to call me?"

"I'm sorry to wake you, I just thought…" The blonde hesitated. "I mean I just wondered if you're not busy, I mean…" Anna chuckled amused when she heard a embarrassed sigh from the other end.

"Well, I'm free today, why don't you come over? Ariel and Kristoff are here too. We live at ocean street five a. It's the first on the right, right after the Arendal bakery." She could practically hear the smile in Elsa's voice as she replied,

"That would be very nice, thank you. When may I come over?" The redhead shrugged,

"You can come whenever you're ready."

"O-okay… I'll be there in twenty minutes then, i-is that okay?"

"Yeah, of course! You are always welcome."

"Thank you! Uhm...! I'll see you?" Anna chuckled of this girl's adorable awkwardness.

"Yeah, see you in a minute, bye!"

"Bye!"

Then she hung up and Anna couldn't help but jump up and down in excitement. She had to tell Ariel this. In all the three months Anna had known Elsa she had never spent time with anyone in the private. Ariel almost fell out of her bed when Anna had slammed the door open and yelped, "ELSA IS COMING, ELSA IS COMING!"

"For god's sake, Anna" The older sister groaned before the words finally sunk into her brain and she sat up straight. "What did you say?!"

"Elsa is coming over! She just called to ask but of course she was too insecure about how to say it that I had to ask her instead. But I convinced her!" Anna pointed at herself proudly. Ariel chuckled at her cheerful baby sister.

"Well, when will she be here then?"

"In twenty minutes," Anna replied happily. She didn't notice the horrifyed expression from her sister until she exclaimed in panic,

"Twenty minutes! That's just, just, just too soon." The older redhead jumped out of bed and sprinted towards the bathroom. "I have to get a shower!" She cried before shutting the door. Anna smirked. Well, this is entirely a completely normal relationship between teacher and student, huh Ariel?

During the walk towards the Shark's Elsa had looked over her shoulder at least a dozen times checking if anyone should be following her. Now she was standing outside the apartment building, still wondering what in earth had gotten into her. Wouldn't it seem suspicious that the weird shut in freak was actually trying to be sociable with other people? The thought was immediately pushed away when she heard Anna's happy voice through the door phone.

"Hi Elsa!" The blonde jumped up startled and pressed down the microphone button,

"H-hi Anna… I haven't even called you from down here yet.

"Oh, yeah about that… I just saw you standing there outside and a bit at war with yourself so I thought that you might need a gentle push." Elsa blushed and started fidgeting nervously.

"O-ok-kay…" Her stuttering resulted in her cheeks growing even hotter. Anna could see everything from her perspective and she couldn't help but giggle a bit of the blonde's uncomfortable situation.

"I have kept you out there for too long. Why don't you come in?"

"Oh, yes thank you…" Elsa replied shyly and stepped inside the building where she walked up two flights of stairs before she saw a smiling Anna in the doorway to the apartment. Elsa scratched her neck as she nervously walked towards the redhead. She didn't get far before she found herself wrapped in a hug. Her hands started trembling as her whole body tensed up at the contact. She didn't even hear what the freckled girl said as her mind brought her someplace else.

"You, fucking bitch!" A man's voice screamed in her ear while his fists met her cold skin. She couldn't feel the beating after the first ten minutes. Now she coughed out blood and her world had started spinning. He had stripped her from all of her clothes once he had brought her home and now her body was filled with purple bruises, blood dripping scratches and burning marks from his cigarette. In the start she had been humiliated but then her fear grew stronger than her embarrassment. "You will never try to disobey me again, do you understand that?! You are fucking staying with me the rest of your life, do you get that, huh? You fucking retard. You don't even know how much your mother owed me, and since she's dead, you'll be the one to pay back every cent!" She had stopped screaming. Her world was very blurry. She couldn't feel anything in this state so she was as cold as ice. A kick in her belly sent her throwing up for the fourth time. There wasn't any food left in her stomach so the vomit contained only stomach acid which made it smell even worse and hurt more in her throat.

"Elsa!" a voice suddenly tore her away from the horrifying memory. Her eyes fluttered open and she found Ariel and Anna's concerned expressions. Then she realized that her cheeks were wet and hot and her eyes were swollen. She had cried and now she felt panic overwhelm her. All of her defensive walls had broken down and when she saw the huge muscled boy behind the two girls, she snapped. With wide fearful eyes she started backing away slowly. "Elsa, please tell us what's wrong," She heard the older redhead say. But she couldn't possibly. Ariel didn't know what a severe danger Elsa almost had put her into by coming to the apartment. How could I be so stupid and reckless?! How could I be so selfish?! She asked herself repeatedly while stepping further and further away from the two sisters never taking her sight off them. Ariel tried to move towards the girl like one would move toward a frightened animal.

"Elsa, please come in and lets talk about this, or if you don't want to we can talk about something else," the teacher said desperately in an attempt to calm the blonde down. The view from the blonde's side had become blurry because of her lack of air and now everyone looked like her stepfather which frightened the girl even further. "I-I'm s-so s-s-so-orry," she stuttered. The blonde's agony was clear to see. Anna had started crying and blaming herself for hugging the poor thing. She felt like it was her fault that she was in such a panicked state.

Elsa got more and more dizzy as her vision blackened. She had backed into the wall and sled down against it, which had made her curl into a protective ball. The sounds had become faint and the last thing she was able to hear was a dark voice inside her head saying,

"The next time this happens you are going to die,"

Then everything went black.

"How is she?" Anna asked nervously when Ariel returned from her bedroom in where the blonde man had brought Elsa. Right after Elsa had lost her consciousness Kristoff had gone to pick her up and carry her inside. He was so shocked of how light weighted this girl was that it almost made him cry.

"She's still unconscious," Ariel explained, her voice hoarse. She wasn't sure what had just happened. The sight of the pale girl's frightened figure had touched her heart so badly that she had started sobbing once Kristoff had left the room. Anna, who could see that her sister had cried, ran up to her and pulled her in for a hug. Ariel couldn't help but let out a little sob.

"It's going to be okay, we'll figure this out," Anna comforted. The older redhead sniffed and pulled out from the embrace,

"This is growing more and more scary… I just feel like something is utterly wrong…" Her face turned thoughtful and the younger girl gave her questioning look.

"What is it? What are you thinking?" She demanded impatiently. Ariel grabbed her arms and looked deeply into her eyes.

"I think we should read the file now. I need some answers!" She saw how her baby sister's eyes grew exited and couldn't help but let out a chuckle. Then she went to drag out the bund of papers in her bag. "If you'll take one part of it, then I'll read the other is that okay?" Anna nodded and was handed a stack of files.

"I should go home. Hans is irritated of my absence," Kristoff explained. "And I'm not sure that I want to know what you two are up to so… I guess I'll see you tonight?" Anna smiled and ran to kiss her boyfriend lovingly.

"I'm looking forward," she whispered in his ear and he felt a shiver run through his spine. He felt his cheeks heat up. Anna smiled slyly of his embarrassment.

"Wait!" Ariel exclaimed. "What's happening tonight, are you two leaving me?" Anna turned toward her sister.

"Well… Yeah, that's the plan… But you still have Elsa, I'm sure you'll find some way to spend your time." The older sister rolled her eyes. "Anna! Elsa is my student! It's not appropriate to have private relationships with your student."

"But you have a private relationship with me and Kristoff?" Anna pointed out.

"Yes, but it's not my point! If you were here it would just seem like she was visiting you and that would be okay, but if you are not here then it will look like she's visiting me!" Anna took a deep breath and rolled her eyes. She went to her sister and took her hands.

"Ariel, it's not like you would be doing something disgusting. She is twenty one and you're twenty five. You can be friends without committing some crime." Ariel sighed. There was no way she would be able to say no to that face Anna was giving her.

"Okay… I guess you're right… You can go wherever you want tonight. I can keep Elsa company." At this statement Anna let out a little squeak of happiness and squeezed her sister in a tight hug while repeating, "thank you, thank you, thank you!"

Kristoff, who was feeling a bit misplaced in this situation cleared his throat nervously,

"Well, I'll leave you two to it then… bye!" And then he spun around and strode out of the apartment. Anna couldn't hold back her giggle.

"Found anything that makes sense yet?" Anna asked in a dramatic exhausted tone. They had spent half an hour going through Elsa's at least a dozen of the files, all of them containing different information of where she had gone to school, where she lived, and of her family. Ariel let out a frustrated growl,

"I can't believe this! We've gotten this far and still everything seem so twisted! There has to be something worth reading… hey! What is this?" Anna jumped out of her chair in excitement to go and see what her sister had discovered. She took the piece of paper Ariel handed to her and started reading aloud,

"Derek Hansson. Also known by his russian cover name as Bartok Kovientskji. Served the norwegian government by spending five years spying in the inner circles of the Sovjet's government in Russia before the crash of the Sovjet Union in nineteen-ninety-one. Seven years later he is married to the nurse Idun Christiansen and lives in Arendelle."

"That name…" Ariel muttered. "I've heard it somewhere before…" A spark suddenly lightened in her eyes as she preceded, "It's the mayor! The mayor of Arendelle! But what is he doing in Elsa's files?"

"I don't know… Maybe we should ask him?" Anna suggested but received a head shake from her sister.

"I don't think it's a great idea to reveal that we have been reading some clearly secret files of him… Maybe we could sneak it out of his wife, this Idun…" They suddenly heard a loud moan from Ariel's bedroom.

"I think she's waking up, I'm gonna get some water for her, Anna will you explain her situation?" When the younger redhead gave her questioning eyes the older sister explained, "It must be scary fainting like that and waking up in a totally unfamiliar room, don't you think?" Anna nodded understandingly and stepped into the room.

Elsa's vision was blurry at first. Her head ached and stomach ached. The mattress she was currently lying on was much more soft than the old one she had at home. Her limps hurt like she had just received a thorough beating from her stepfather. She whimpered in agony and a little tear escaped her eye. When she was finally abled to flutter her eyes open she started looking around confused. The room was very cosy with a sea themed furnishing. The walls were bright white and so too the floor. Beside the huge bed there was a little night table with a picture of a newlywed couple. The man had red hair and the woman had hazel brown hair. They looked very happy. There hung paintings on the wall, all with a sea theme on them. One of them contained a seagull. Elsa felt so fascinated that she forgot all about her aching body and stepped out of the bed to have a closer look. There was ships on another painting and on this the artist had captured the light just perfectly shining on the sails that made it look glowing. She didn't hear the door creak open as she continued studying the art in awe.

"Oh good! You're up!" a voice behind her startled her. Elsa turned around to find the concerned eyes of Anna watching her. She was suddenly all too painfully aware of the air on her legs and realized terrifyingly that her jeans had been taken off of her. Scars and bruises revealed themselves on her exposed limps and her breath hitched. At first Anna was a bit confused of the blonde's reaction but when she glanced down she froze in horror let out a shocked whine. Her legs was like a colored mess. All filled up with hideous bruises and scars that it was hard to see her normal skin color. It wasn't hard to see that she had been tortured, there was signs of old scars that hadn't gotten the chance to heal properly. If possible Elsa's face turned paler as she cowered into a little ball on the floor. She didn't hear Ariel, who had heard her sister's exclaim, burst into the room.

The older redhead found her little sister frozen in shock with her eyes locked on the little mess of a platinum blonde hair in the corner of the room. "Anna, what is it, what's wrong?" Ariel demanded worried. All the baby sister could do was point at Elsa and Ariel turned to the pale terror-stricken girl. She saw her legs and gulped. But she needed to appear calm, she was still Elsa's teacher and the oldest in the room.

"It's okay, sweetie," Ariel soothed gently as she approached the albeit hyperventilating girl. "We're not going to hurt you, everything's gonna be all right…" The redhead stopped when she saw Elsa's icy blue eyes looking upon her. It was like the blonde didn't recognize her in the current way her eyes was filled with fear when staring at the redhead. She tried, stubborn as she was, again by sending her a genuine gentle smile hoping that the blonde would finally understand that she wasn't going to hurt her.

"I won't hurt you, sweetie… Just let me help you, okay?" She sighed in relief when she found the blonde nodding slowly at her. Her eyes were breath taking. Those deep blue orbs were easy to fall into in any other circumstance. But now she had to be responsible and help the poor girl. She started by pulling her arms under Elsa's in an embrace and then helping her up and back to bed where she pulled the duvet over her again. When she and Kristoff had pulled off her jeans they had covered her body with the duvet in respect of her, so they hadn't had the chance to see those awful torture marks on her lower part. Ariel had a scary feeling that they would appear on other parts of Elsa's body too.

"I-I n-need t-t-t-to g-g-g-go home," the pale girl stuttered once the redhead had situated her in bed. Ariel shook her head firmly.

"You are not going back until you feel better," she informed sternly. Anna who had gotten over her shock was sitting on the edge of the bed with a sympathetic look on her face. "Maybe we should give her some water?" the younger girl suggested. Receiving a nod from her sister she poured some water in a glass from the bottle that Ariel had brought and handed it over.

"Here, sweetheart. Drink some water," Ariel whispered as she passed the glass from Anna to Elsa. Tears streamed down Elsa's pale cheeks as she let the cold liquid down her dry throat. She had never felt so safe since her mom passed away. The warmth was like a distant memory. At first she didn't quite recognize it and it felt a little strange in her normally cold body but when it slowly started to caress her inner guts she realized just how much she'd missed this particular feeling. And when Ariel leaned down to hug her trembling body she couldn't hold it back anymore. She let out the sobs all the pain and fear she'd been feeling as long as she could remember. This embrace was like her lifeline in her eternal storm which prevented her from blowing away. She clung to it like there was no tomorrow.

I would like to thank all of those who are favoring and following this story. You guys are amazing. And thank you for all of your reviews, they really motivate me to keep on writing. And thank you for your patience on this chapter, I hope it was worth it :). But I have to come with sort of bad news. I won't be able to update for a while now because I have a huge assignment in school I'll have to spend all of my time on. Things are a bit crazy right now but I assure you that there will be more but not for the next two months unfortunately. Of course I can't guarantee that I won't find time to publish a new chapter but it is just not likely I'm afraid.

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