I DON'T WANT TO BE ALONE ANY LONGER

"If things get too crowded at the loft you are always welcome at the bed and breakfast." Red turned her head to the left to where Elsa was walking silently beside her. They were in the woods. Well Red had been in the woods trying to please the wolf in the calming of the woods instead of in town. She herself loved being in town – in the center of things – being with people. But the Wolf demanded the woods. Being alone.

The wolf's ears twitched as it hard a crunch to the right of her. Red stopped dead in her tracks as she took in the smell of the person that was in the woods with her. It wasn't Snow. Or Belle. Her lips went up as she realized it wasn't Granny tracking her. It was an unfamilar smell but a very recent familiar smell that she was taking in. It smelled with a hint of forever Winter.

Red decided to use her silent tracking trait to sneak up on the newest resident of Storybrooke. She wanted to see how alert the Queen of Arendelle was in the woods. After all she wouldn't be the first Queen she had to teach to live in the woods. Although Snow had still been a Princess when she learned about the Enchanted Forest.

Red had silently tracked the not so silent Queen; but decided against surprising the soft spoken Queen. After all she didn't want to cause Elsa's powers to come alive. She figured that Elsa was the very nervous type – and still didn't have full control of her ice powers. After all look what happened to Emma a few weeks previous. She would do anything to prevent Elsa from feeling guilty for using her powers for the world.

After all as Snow had stated. Elsa was part of her pack now. Red protected her pack. All her pack. She decided to lean against a tree as she waited for Elsa to make her way towards her. "You are making quite a racket." She grinned softly as Elsa came into her line of sight. "You would never be successful at tracking with all that noise."

Elsa stopped dead in her tracks. Her wide blue eyes meeting the friendly hazel ones across from her. "I d-d-didn't know anyone w-was out here." She blushed.

Red tilted her head. "The wolf likes the woods best."

Elsa nodded. "I can go back."

"No need." Red pushed off the tree. "I can teach you how to walk more quietly in the woods." She offered.

Elsa tilted her head. "I guess I should learn how to. It should be able to protect me better. Anna also once I find her."

Red nodded. She tilted her head forward and waited for Elsa to walk alongside. "Watch how I move my feet." She said as she watched Elsa step on a trig and a piece of bark.

For an hour Red showed Elsa the proper way of moving around in the woods; and she was relieved at how fast Elsa learned to walk silently on the wooden path. The two women were silent as they enjoyed their time in the woods.

"If things get too crowded at the loft you are always welcome at the bed and breakfast." Red finally spoke as she turned her head to face the blond.

Elsa stopped dead in her tracks. Her eyes trained on the ground. "H-ha-ve they s-spok-en …." She swallowed around the lump that had lodged in her throat.

Red put her right hand on Elsa's cold arm. "Snow and her family love having you with them; Elsa. They consider you a part of their family. You are wanted."

Tears fell past Elsa's eyes. Snowflakes had began to drift above her head.

Snow is going to kill me. "I was just thinking that you may find the loft too crowded. I know you are used to living in a huge castle; with plenty of separate rooms all to yourself. I thought the loft was starting to feel too confining was all." Red swallowed around the lump in her throat. The wolf was whining in distress.

"I d-d-don't w-w-want to be a-al-alone any lon-ger." Elsa's lip quivered. "Anna." She whispered. All she wanted was Anna. She needed her sister.

"You aren't alone." Red softly say. "You have Anna." She felt the temperature drop even lower than before. "You now also have Snow, David, Emma, Henry, baby Neal and myself." She was relieved that the ice underneath them wasn't spreading. She could deal with the ice under her feet. After all the wolf demanded that she stayed by Elsa's side. She didn't need the wolf to tell her that she was needed to remain where she was.

"I also have Kristoff." Elsa's head jerked up. Wide eyes staring straight ahead. "Oh God I haven't even asked about Kristoff! Is he still in Arendelle?! Is he alive? Is he hurt?"

Red's heart pounded tightly against her chest. The wolf howled in agony deep within. It took all of her power to keep the wolf at bay. She felt her eyes glow bright yellow – but she fought the wolf back down. "Is he your betrothed? You husband?" Your mate the wolf howled in distress.

"He's Anna's fiancé. They were to be wed five years ago. But then I learned something in my mother's diary. About my powers. About why my parents truly were on that doomed ship that ended their lives much too early. Anna was demanded to track down the truth – so she left Arendelle. She ordered Kristoff to remain behind. Too keep me from chasing after her. To protect me." Elsa's hands shook at her sides.

"The last time I saw him was right before I went into the urn." Elsa's voice held the confusion as some of the last memories came to her. But all she could see was Kristoff's freaked out face as he stood frozen across from her – unable to prevent her from being swept into the urn. The shock, and fear that run through his eyes almost made her fall to the ground.

The ice spread quickly through the wood ground. "Elsa; you need to calm down." Red's voice was soft and quiet. "I'm sure that Kristoff is fine. We'll find him either in Storybrooke – or we'll find information telling us that he's fine; and back in Arendelle waiting for your and Anna's returned." Her heart broke at the sheer thought of Elsa chosing to return to Arendelle instead of making a home in Storybrooke. But she would completely understand Elsa wanted to return to their own world – in their own time. The 22nd century was hold to handle – even with the cursed memories.

"Anna will be so hurt if he's dead or hurt. She was counting on me to protect him. I'm her older sister I should have protected him better." Elsa was speaking to herself. She quite forgot that Red was beside her. She didn't realize that the ice was very quickly covering the woods floor – and downtown Storybrooke.

{BACK ON MAIN STREET}

"Seriously again?" Grace rolled her eyes as she wrapped her arms tightly across her chest to try to get warm. "I thought your mom had this under control."

"Elsa is new to this. After all she has just got released from the urn that she had been trapped in for thirty years." Henry pointed out as he shrugged out of his jacket and wrapped it around the girl's shoulder. Hoping that will keep Paige warm. Come on mom I need you to calm Elsa down now. He thought very warm thoughts to keep himself warm.

Grace looked at Henry. "I know you are a Prince and all; Henry. But you need your coat." She tried to shrug off of the boy's coat to give it back to him; but Henry shook his head; and put his hands on her arms.

"We are almost to the diner. I'm okay." Henry softly smiled. "I don't want your father over acting with you getting sick is all."

Grace side. "Dad told me that you Charmings are a little too much." She blew air out of her mouth. "He was right."

Henry shone with pride. "It's a family trait." He pulled open the door the diner. "Just like finding one another in hopeless situations is." He followed the girl into the warmth of the diner. "Hey Granny." He called out. "One hot chocolate with marshmallows and one with …."

"Cinnamon." Granny eyed the teenagers before nodding her head in approval.

"Another family trait." Henry said as he and Grace slid into a booth. "Although only my grandmother, mom and I share it." He smiled softly as he thought of sharing something with his beloved mother and grandmother.

"Look Henry; I like Elsa. I truly do. But if she makes it freezing cold every time her emotions get the better of her -" Grace stopped speaking as she pulled Henry's coat tighter against her.

"My mom has it under control." Henry leaned forward. "At least Elsa didn't accidentally knock out the power again. Or wall off the town." He lifted his eye brows. "Sides weren't winters in the Enchanted Forest even colder than Storybrooke? I mean if you were suddenly caught out in a storm out of town – you couldn't walk into the nearest diner."

Grace sighed deeply. "We knew when winter was coming. We knew how long winter was going to last. We were prepared. With Elsa's powers being out of her control right now – how can we be prepared for a sudden ice storm? Should we always carry our heaviest clothes around where ever we go?"

Henry started to speak when he saw his mother walk into the diner with Killian at her side. He grew warm inside as he saw how much his mother cared for Killian; and how much Killian cared for his mother. It was written all over them. Although his mother was still desperately trying to hide the truth from everyone – and herself. But he knew better. He also knew that Killian knew; but he was very patient with waiting for his mother to be ready to open herself freely.

"Hey Henry. Grace." His mother smiled as she caught sight of him at the booth.

"Hey mom." Henry grinned. But then suddenly frowned. "Wait if you are here with Killian then where is Elsa?"

His mother tilted her head to the right. "I don't know."

"Have you seen the outside lately?" Henry pointed out.

"It's cold. It's icy …." His mother's eyes widen in shock. "Oh boy." She quickly pulled out her phone.

"Just to let you know Swan; I saw your parents with Neal a half hour ago. IF Elsa is alone at the loft; I'm not sure she'll realize what the ringing of the phone is." Killian spoke up.

His mother sighed as she tucked her phone back in her pocket.

Granny walked up to the booth with two mugs. "If it's any help I noticed Elsa going towards the woods this morning."

"Thanks Granny." His mother quickly replied. She rushed towards the door.

"Killian why don't you come up to the counter and eat something." Granny said setting the mugs down in front of the two young teenagers.

"I think I should go with Swan." Killian began towards the door.

"They don't need you." Granny forcefully replied.

Henry watched as Killian stopped dead in his steps. He slowly turned around and stared wide eyed at the older woman.

"Emma doesn't do well in the woods. With all this ice she'll have more trouble than normal." Killian slowly grounded out.

"Red is in the woods." Granny calmly stated. "I'm sure that Red has tracked Elsa down as we speak. Emma will locate Elsa very easily – and Red will help Emma out in the woods." She walked towards the counter. "I think too many people might make Elsa even more tensed right now."

Killian sighed and walked towards the counter. He took a seat at the counter.

Henry sighed deeply and turned back to his friend.

Grace had a private smile on her lips.

{THE WOODS}

Elsa had backed herself up against a tree. Her arms wrapped tightly around her waist. Her head was bowed as she was trying desperately to wrap herself up against the world.

Tears rolled silently down Red's cheeks as she tried desperately to come up with a way to get the other woman to allow her to be close to her. To grain her trust. I need you Snow. Her soul was crying desperately for Snow to suddenly show up. The blond tightened her hold on herself; as her body shook with silent sobs.

"Elsa." A voice said to the right of Red and the woman against the tree. Red silently watched as Emma carefully made her way to stand in front of the blond woman against the tree. Emma carefully placed her hands against Elsa's arms. "Elsa." Emma softly and calmly spoke once more.

Elsa pulled future into herself. Trying to escape from the being whom was trying to pull her from herself. This wasn't the being that she wanted. She wanted her sister. She only wanted her sister. Why couldn't this being understand this?

"Elsa." Emma spoke softly much closer than before.

Elsa shook her head as she drew her chin closer to her chest.

Red heard tree branches falling to the woods floor. The cold was seeping into her. Freezing out the wolf. She kept a sharp eye on Emma in fear that he god-daughter would freeze once more. But with Emma's hands on Elsa's body it was like Emma was a beacon of light. Warmth.

Conceal. Don't feel. Conceal. Don't feel. Conceal. Don't feel. Conceal. Don't feel.

"Don't you dare Elsa." Emma's rough voice broke through Elsa's manta. Her mind went blank. Do you want to build a snowman? Emma caught the small smile that came to Elsa's lips. Then just like that it was gone once more. The temperature dropped even lower than before. "Elsa!" She demanded in a fiery voice.

Elsa's eyes flashed in anger as she lifted her head to glare into Emma's fiery green eyes. How dare this woman. This stranger tell her – the Queen of Ardendelle what she can and can not do. "Get. Your. Hands. Off. Me. Now." She seethed through her teeth.

Emma felt the ice power rise in Elsa through the other woman's sheer anger. She also felt her own powers rise right along with the other woman's. She just knew her powers could over shadow Elsa's if it came to it. But she prayed that she could calm the other blonde down with just her words; and her feelings. "I didn't want you to shut yourself tightly into yourself once more." She softly said. Her hands never leaving the shaking blonde in front of her.

"You. Have. No. Right. Telling. Me. What. To. Do.!" Elsa stormed. "No one does."

{CHARMINGS' LOFT}

"We need to create a portal and send Elsa back to Ardendelle!" Snow held Neal closer to her as she tried desperately to keep her infant son warm.

David stared at his wife in shock. "We can't do that. I promised Elsa that I would help her find Anna."

"Whom ever said Anna is even in Storybrooke?" Snow snared.

"The dark curse." David waved his left hand. "Remember the dark curse is all about separating everyone from their loved ones."

"Doesn't mean that it affected Ardendelle. I'm sure that Anna is safe back in Ardendelle and is searching for Elsa there." Snow pulled the blanket even tighter around her son.

"Then how can you explain Victor Frankenstein being in Stroybrooke during the dark curse? He isn't even from the Enchanted Forest." David calmly pointed out.

"He betrayed Regina. She was paying him back when she got the dark curse to bring him here." Snow raised her right eye brow high on her forehead.

"Anna came to the Enchanted Forest." David pointed out.

"That was before we even met. It was before you learned about your twin brother; James. It was before you agreed to be magically transformed into James." Snow angrily replied. "She was long gone before we even met."

"How can you be sure of that?" David pointed out. He tilted his head as he stared at his wife as she held their infant son. "What's really going on Snow?"

"I don't feel that Elsa is safe to be around our children." Snow replied.

David just stared at his wife.

"How ice powers almost killed Emma. Emma almost froze to death. Now her ice powers are in affect once more – and I can barely keep Neal warm." Snow's eyes looked wildly around the loft. "Where are Emma and Henry? They are out there right now. How do we know that they are safe inside someplace warm? How do we know that they are not out there trapped in one of Elsa's snow domes once more?"

David walked to his wife and put his hands on her face. "Snow. I feel it in my gut that Emma and Henry are quite safe. That neither one of them are in any danger."

Tears rolled down Snow's cheeks. "How can you know this Charming? After all we had to lose Emma when she was just born. Minutes after she was born we had to put her in the cabinet. Alone. Helpless. Motherless. Fatherless. We had to send her to an unknown land." She shook her head. Her arms tightened around her son against her chest. "I can't lose her again, Charming. You can't ask me that."

"I'm not asking you that." David said with tears rolling down his own cheeks. "All I'm asking is that you trust our beautiful, and strong daughter to do what she was born to do. To help save lost souls." ]

"She wasn't born to be the savior of lost souls!" Snow cried out passionately.

Neal let out a scream.

"Let me take him." David said as he noticed that his wife was too worked up to tend to their son.

Snow just held Neal tighter against her.

"I'm his father. I need to bond with him. Let me hold him." David said in a husky voice over his son's screams.

Snow just glared into his eyes before looking down at her son. "Mommy is sorry for raising her voice Neal. Mommy is just scared over your sister." She bent her head to kiss her infant son's forehead.

"I did what I had to save our precious little girl. We didn't know that two could have gone through the cabinet when Emma decided to be born just minutes before Regina let loose the Dark Curse. We didn't know that Pinocchio went though." Tears rolled down David's cheeks. "I did what I had to do to save our daughter." He would live with the regret of sending his innocent, and defenseless into a world that no one had any idea about.

"She should have remained with us." Snow finally looked up from her son's wet forehead into her husband's heartbroken eyes. "We should have found another way. They had to be another way."

"There wasn't one." David said in a dead tone.

"I should have held on just a little while longer." Snow whispered.

David rushed up to his wife and cupped her face in the palms of his hands. "Even if we had managed to get you to move from the nursery; to the room where the cabinet is; Emma still would have been born before we would be able to get you into the cabinet; Snow. Emma would have been in danger if she had been born on the move – you would have been in danger."

"I didn't matter. Emma mattered." Snow whispered. "We should have fought harder for our baby." She held Neal even more tighter against her chest.

"We fought as hard as we could." Tears ran down his cheeks. "I fought with everything I had in me; Snow; to protect our baby girl. To protect my beloved and precious little girl." David swallowed around the lump that was lodge in his throat. "I would have willing died protecting her."

"If the dark curse didn't hit us when it did; Charming; then you would have died." Snow whispered. She held out their son to her beloved. With loving eyes she watched as her true love took his son into his arms; and held him against his chest. She watched as he bowed his head and kissed their son's wet forehead with tears steaming down his cheeks.

{THE WOODS}

"I have every right to order you not to go back into yourself." Emma said in a voice laced with steel. "I have every right to demand you to remain with me. To remain with all of us. I have every right to fight you from withdrawing deep inside yourself where even Anna wouldn't be able to reach you."

Elsa's ice blue eyes flashed with fire. But then the words that Emma was saying to her hit her full force. She read the truth in them. She read the fear of someone whom knew exactly how she was feeling. Then Emma said the magic word and Elsa came back to earth. Anna!

"It would be easy to lock yourself back tightly inside yourself. To build your walls even higher then ever before. To lay cement against the wall – because no one can break through cement easily." Tears rolled down Emma's cheeks. "The hardest thing to do in life is to open yourself up to other people. I know this. I have lived this. I am still living this."

Elsa felt the other blonde's hands on her cheeks began to shake. She wanted speak. But she couldn't find her voice. She was still fighting with herself not to withdraw once more. She was fighting to hold on for Anna. Even though Anna wasn't there beside her. Even through she had no idea where Anna was or if Anna was still alive. Conceal. Don't Feel. Conceal. Don't Feel.

ELSA! STOP IT! DON'T YOU DARE!

Elsa's blue eyes widen in shock. Anna!

I DON'T NEED TO PHYSICALLY BE THERE BY YOUR SIDE ALL THE TIME! YOU HAVE THE STRENGTH TO LIVE SUCH A FULL FILLING LIFE WITHOUT ME ALWAYS BY YOUR SIDE. I'm always going to be there for you Elsa. I have always been there for you. My spirit is always with you. Keep holding on. Keep living.

The wolf grew excited as it felt the change in Elsa. Fighting the wolf from leaping out; Red silently watched the two blond women in front of her.

With the feel of Emma's fingers caressing her cheeks; Elsa opened her mouth. "I do-don-don't w-want t-to b-be al-one an-anymore." She choked out.