The last thing I remember being the ambulance is Anna's tearing eyes.

Then I remember blanking out.

And now I'm waking up in a hospital bed, I find difficult to breathe normally, but then I notice I have a tube on my nose, probably it gives me some oxygen. I look around me, there a soft light coming behind the curtains of the window. Next to my bed there's a chair and sitting on it there's Anna. She's sleeping peacefully but I can see just looking at her face that she cried a lot. I try not to make any noise and try to sit but I can't, I feel pain everywhere, but thankfully less than before. A big thanks to everyone who invented morphine. Soon enough Anna wakes up.

"Elsa! You're awake, ehy.." She rubs her eyes and looks at me with a smiley face. "How are you? I should call a doctor saying you're awake." She press the call-button next to my bed.

"Ehy.." I say with a hoarse voice. All right, my voice has some problems, so I smile to her. She's about to speak when a doctor comes in my room.

"Hello miss Arendelle, we're glad seeing you finally awake. You need to stay here for a while, you got pretty serious injuries. You have some broken ribs and bones. You were seriously bleeding internally. You were lucky they found you in time, if you have stayed there for another while you could have been dead now."

Oh wow what a great thing to say to someone who just woke up. Anna looks at the doctor with upset eyes, clearly telling him wordless that he should have used better words. He clears his throat and continues to speak.

"So, for a few days you'll be feeling weak, but it's normal, there's no need to worry." He looks outside the door and nods. "Now, if you think you can do it, the police needs to talk with you." The doctor exits and enters Phil.

"Elsa, dear. It's nice to see you awake." He walks next to me to put carefully an hand on my arm.

"Ehy Phil, I was losing hope you could have found me. Thanks God you know how to do your job." I smile at him and he looks at me with a look that says 'really?'.

"Yeah, sorry for the late darling. I know this is difficult for you, but I need you to tell me everything you can recall about what happened. We need your statement." He brings out a block notes from his pocket and start writing something. I try to take a deep breath and start saying what I can recall.

"I was going to work, I was late because I was at the airport with Meg and Herk, then I noticed I forget my glasses in the car and walked back to it. It was then when someone, I believe Ariel, hit me on the back of my head. I woke up in a basement, at first I had a bag on my head, then she made me sit on a chair in the middle of the room. She tortured me and when Hans came in the building they told me about their plan: to kill me because I restarted to be near Anna, Hans to marry Anna and take a big share of her company, then to kill her and become the CEO and then marry Ariel. It was a contorted plan, they were insane, really. The things she did to me. It was.. I don't have words to describe it." Anna takes my hand in hers and looks sympathetically at me. It's nice to feel a friendly warm on my skin, I missed this feeling so much.

"This.. Ariel, she was the one who tortured you? And Hans, did he do anything to you?"

"He only kissed me, I think he's the brain of the operation and Ariel is the muscle." I look apologetically at Anna. I can't believe my lips were touched by his ones, it was disgusting. I mouthed a 'sorry' to Anna, she squeezed a bit her grip on my hands without harming me.

"Okay, thanks." He puts away the block notes.

"Phil, how did you find me?" He looks at Anna which she nods.

"I let Anna to tell you the story, I have some work at the precinct to do. Ah, Meg and Herk will come soon. Be well, Elsa." He smiles at me and walks out the room.

I turn my head a bit to facing Anna, she takes my hand and gives it a light kiss on the back of it.

"I was so worried.. We couldn't find you for days." I look at her confused.

"Days? How long I was there?"

"Almost a week." What? How is it possible?

"That long..? How can I..?"

"You were lucky, Els. Really lucky." Some tears come from Anna's eyes. I'd like to wipe them away but I can't. I don't want to see her crying.

"Anna, please, don't cry." She tries to fight back some tears but without succeed in doing that.

"I was the first to notice your absence. I didn't know where you were. I waited for you at work but you never came. I thought you wanted to stay at home with Meg and Herk, but then I thought that you would have called me to tell me that, even if it would be dangerous to send me a text or a call. It was like 4pm when I decided to call Meg asking her your whereabouts. She told me you weren't with her, and I asked her at what time you left her, she said it was like 10am. For 6 hours I thought you were with her. I should have called sooner." I squeezed her hand.

"Anna, I know it's difficult for you.. but can you please tell me how did you find me?"

She takes a deep breath and starts telling me everything.

After calling Meg, Anna decides to go at her place to see if she knew something about me. Since we live near, she could have seen if there was my car in the parking lot in case I would have been at home. But once she arrives Meg and Herk say that they haven't received any messages from me. They decide to go to Phil at the precinct and see if he could do something. Phil asks about my phone, if it is turned off or not. They say I'm not answering at their calls so he looks at his computer to see if there is a signal of it. There wasn't. The last signal of my phone is at the work's parking lot. The phone is in a garbage bin. So they try to find my car, they managed to find it but it is destroyed. Ariel and Hans get rid of it simulating a car accident. Then Anna, Meg and Herk think I'm dead, but Phil finds out that there isn't my blood on the car and so I'm not dead, at least not at that moment. They think about a kidnapping, they already have some suspects, the first one is Hans. But unfortunately they aren't able to contact him. Herk wants to call some of his military friends, but Phil tells him that it isn't necessary. There's almost all the police force looking for me. Phil keeps tell to his men and women that they need to find me as soon as possible. Anna is starting to thinking at worse, the same Meg. Herk tries to be strong for them, but he's losing hope too. He starts to work, but Phil asks him to not work on my case because he is too emotionally involved.

Some of the technician are working on my car, trying to find any trace about where in the world I could be. They find something after a lot of hours spent in the lab. A technician comes in Phil office, where Herk is drinking a coffee and talking about how the research is going. She says that they found something, some land traces. They find out that there was an old building just outside the city, near a construction site. They are pretty sure I'm there. Phil calls for a task force and they prepare themselves to go there, Anna and Meg want to go there too, but Herk manages to persuade his fiancée to stay at home, or at least at the precinct. She's pregnant and he doesn't want her in the first line. He tries to persuade Anna too, but she's too stubborn for him and calls Phil for help. He listens to Anna's reasons, he doesn't want a civil near during an operation important like that, but he manages to understand that it is useless to try to persuade her. So he decides that she could come with them, but she has to stay in the van. He doesn't want her to risk anything.

They arrive in front of the building, it's dark outside and they can clearly see lights in there. They decide to play it carefully, they don't want a bloodbath. They enter slowly through each entrances, some men are covering the windows and all the entrances, they don't want any surprise. Once they enter they find Hans and Ariel that are about to leaving the building. They tell them to stay still and not to move. Some police officers tell them their rights and take them outside in handcuffs. Anna who's in the van, sees everything and wants to go outside the van and punch Hans in the face, but a police officer tells to stop her.

Phil is inside with Herk, they're looking for me. They find a door that brings to the basement, they open it and find me unconscious and in a blood's puddle. Hark runs to me to try to feel my pulse. He shouts to Phil to call an ambulance, I'm alive but my pulse is weak, almost imperceptible. He tries to stop the blood and as soon as he can hear the siren of the ambulance he takes me in his arms and takes me outside. The paramedics tell him to lie me on the stretcher and they start to check on me. One of them is talking on the radio saying that I'm in a bad state. Anna sees me and runs to me, they try to keep her away from me but she keeps saying that she doesn't want to let me alone anymore, they let her get in the ambulance and she keeps calling me, pulling me, trying to awake me and then I open my eyes for a brief moment and manage to say her name.

She's crying while she tells me everything. I can't believe I've been in the basement for that long, almost a week and they didn't know if I was alive or dead. It must have been really difficult.

How in the earth can I be alive? Ariel kept cutting me, I kept losing blood, every time I open my eyes she was there ready with her knife or with her brass knuckles.

"Ehy, it's not your fault. You couldn't have known. If you didn't notice my absence I don't know who could have, maybe Meg in the evening or the day after." She starts to cry even more.

"But it was my fault! Hans wanted my company! I decided to stay near to you. I put you in danger! It's all my fault if this happened. I should have known. I should have done something!" there's a lot of pain in her voice.

"Anna you couldn't know what was happening, you shouldn't blame yourself. They were insane, they did this to me. If you have seen… honestly? I'm glad it was me and not you. We stopped them, they made a mistake kidnapping me and trying to killing me. We managed to save you. You're no longer in danger, that's what it matters."

"How can you say such things?! You almost died! How can you be glad that it was you!?" she yells at me, her hands in the air, but immediately she closes her mouth and try to collect herself. I know she's thinking that what happened to me should scare me. It does, I'm scared. But most of all? I'm angry. A lot. They wanted to hurt her from the beginning. I know it's odd to say that I'm glad of what happened to me, but I can't imagine her suffer this. She's my everything and if this is the price for me to have her safe, I happy to have some broken ribs and bones. I happy to be in this hospital bed, because they'll be in jail for a long time. And she's safe now. That's what matters to me.

"They would have killed me and then you. You'd be the next. I was in their way and they had to take care of me first, I've been lucky to let Phil know about the messages. Yes, I was the one who almost lost its life, but I'm here." I take her hand back and start making some circle on the back of it. "You saved me. As I told to Phil, I was losing hope. I was giving up. You know what were my last thought?" I ask her gently. She shakes her head looking at the floor. I squeeze her hand in order to make her eyes lift and look at me. Her turquoise eyes are focused on mine now. I love so much those eyes and I'm so happy that I can see them again.

"You." She blinks for a second.

"M-me?"

"Yes, do you remember that day when we built Olaf? I remembered that day." I smile at her. She smiles and there are tears coming down over her cheeks again. This times they aren't sad tears.

"That day I caught a bad cold. You didn't. I've always hated you for that, you know?" I chuckle a bit but soon I regret that. Ribs hurting.

"Oh.. chuckle isn't good for me." She smiles at me. Her eyes show me how much love there's in her and how much sorry she is for what happened to me. I know this is something I won't ever forget.

"You know, after a while I started hallucinating." She looks at me confused from the change of topic and smile a little. "We were in this house, a nice one may I add. We were with Meg and Herk and their little kid. It was perfect and I was so sure it was real. You know, when I was in that hallucination I remember I thought 'if this is a dream, I don't want to wake up.' And when I woke up I was hoping so bad that that was the dream, me in that basement. But I'm glad I'm here now with you."

"Maybe that dream will become true, who knows?"

'I hope so. You were a wonderful pregnant woman.'

She gives me a kiss on the forehead. Once she realizes it she stays still and looks at me with wide open eyes. I'm a bit shocked from her suddenly action but.. Damn. How much I missed those lips. "I missed you."

"I missed you too, Els."

Author's Note: Ehy everyone! I hope you'll enjoy the chapter. Let me know what you think and thanks so much for your support. Knowing that there are some people who are willing to read what you write, means a lot and helps a lot who writes xD

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Have a nice day,

Christy