Happy Endings? Chapter Four.

They met up at the library all the time. First it was once a week, then it was every Wednesday and Friday and before you knew it they were with each other every evening.

Kristoff finished his shift at the rescue centre every day at 4 o'clock. Usually he'd help around a bit longer; he'd fix some extra pens, sort through the folders, but since meeting Anna that had all changed. He was desperate to get out of work on time so he could walk her home after she'd finished classes.

In the past month he'd learnt that Anna didn't live on campus, she had a 3 bedroom terrace house, which she shared with her sister. He hadn't met Elsa yet, frankly he was too scared to, but Anna reassured him that Elsa would like him because he's not like every other guy.

Every other guy.

Him.

Him being that ex-boyfriend of hers who was constantly meddling with her brain.

He was still calling her, seemingly harassing her. Whenever he called when Kristoff was with her, he just wanted to grab the phone and shove it down the toilet, but he held back.

She never answered, not anymore anyway. There was one time where he heard a very harsh conversation between the two which resulted in a red faced Anna. He never asked what he had said but he gathered that it was something he didn't want to hear. Anna would tell him when the time was right, he knew that.

Kristoff had the day off on Sunday's and he spent most of that time still in work. He was a hard worker who didn't usually care for any spare time as he would just get bored at home, doing nothing.

Today was an exception though, Anna had asked him if he would like to go with her to a safari park.

"Please Kris? I really want to go and you drive and it's far and Elsa's busy and I like animals and I like spending time with you and please?" Anna pleaded on one of their Wednesday night library 'dates.'

How could anyone say no to that face? "Why don't we just go to the zoo? It's much closer!" And we can get the train he thought. He really didn't want Anna to see the state of his car.

Anna was shocked. "I'm disappointed with you. You call yourself an animal lover but you'll happily watch animals be locked in cages all day?"

"It's not like the cages are small, they're trained to like their space and meeting people. What's so different about this safari anyway?"

Anna let out something between a growl and a sigh. "I can't believe you think zoo's are okay habitats for animals." She went on. "Plus safari's don't lock them up, you drive around them."

"I'm not driving my car around a bunch of lions and tigers, we'll get eaten."

Anna wanted to laugh but she was determined to prove her point. "Kristoff that isn't going to happen. The worst that will happen is that a few baboons will rip of the car antenna."

Kristoff went into shock. "No. Absolutely not."

"Please?" Anna grabbed his arm and put on her best puppy face.

"Fine, but I'm taking the antenna off before the monkeys." Anna smiled wide.

The day had arrived and after a lot of planning (mainly Anna telling Kristoff what they were doing to do) they were ready to go.

They decided to take a picnic because it was cheaper than buying food there. Kristoff had insisted that he'd pay for lunch but she said she'd prefer a picnic anyway so that's what they did. Anna had proposed that they leave early because it took two hours (if there was no traffic) and she wanted to make the most of the day.

Kristoff picked Anna up in his car at eight in the morning. He'd made an effort to clean his car but there was no way of getting rid of the dog smell that Sven left. He'd tried everything, aftershave, deodorant, he even splurged out on some febreze but nothing worked. He'd just have to apologise in advance.

He walked up to the front door and knocked, expecting to see Anna at the other end. He was surprised however when a blonde came to the door. She had her hair in some sort of braided up do, like Anna's had been on their day in the park and she was dressed as if she was going to work.

That must be Elsa, he thought. Crap.

"Hi, you must be Kristoff?"

He stood there not knowing what to do with himself, should he shake her hand? Hug her? Run three miles away from here?

"Uhm, yeah."

Elsa smiled sympathetically. "Hey, no need to be scared of me. I'm a nice person I swear." She got closer to him. "But if you dare hurt my sister then I'll break every bone in your body."

Kristoff took a step backwards, maybe running 3 miles was the best option.

"Kristoff calm down, I'm kidding. Well I'm not kidding but just look after her okay? I don't want another Hans incident, you know how much he hurt her right?"

Kristoff looked at her confused. "Um, no actually. She um-."

"She hasn't told you?" Elsa questioned.

"Ah, no miss."

"Wow do I really scare you that much, I trust you with her Kristoff, you seem like a nice guy from what I've heard." She patted his shoulder. "And Anna seems to like you a lot so-"

"She does?" Elsa nodded her head slightly.

Kristoff's thoughts were wildly interrupted by someone running (or rather skipping) down the stairs towards the door.

"Oh hey Kris!" Anna was so excited and everyone could tell. "She didn't scare you did she? If she did I'm sorry, she's just a loving, protective older sister."

"She is right here." Elsa tried to keep a straight face whilst looking at her sister but ended up snickering. "No I didn't scare him, I don't think anyway. He's still in shock I think." Anna sent Elsa a glare.

"She seems nice, she didn't scare me."

"She is a cat's mother." Elsa tried to keep a straight face again but just cracked looking at how scared Kristoff looked. "Lighten up guys, go and have some fun! Text me as soon as you get there, and back, okay Anna?"

"Yes, I'll be fine Elsa. I've got Kristoff."

Anna grabbed Kristoff's hand and headed towards his car. It was unsure what they were. They weren't dating, although they were going on 'library dates.' It was clear they both liked each other but both needed to speak about their baggage before making any commitments.

"Sorry my car smells like dog." Kristoff sat in the drivers seat and Anna sat next to him, she started flicking through all the different radio stations, trying to find one without adverts every two songs.

"No, it's fine. I'm training to be a vet remember, I've smelt worse."

Kristoff pulled a disgusted face. "Okay there's some things I need to know and that was not one of them."

They both laughed and then there was silence, apart from some awful 60's song that Anna had decided to keep on.

They spent the day enjoying themselves and Kristoff couldn't help but smile at how happy Anna looked. She was most definitely in her element right now.

They'd seen everything from giraffes to sea lion's and ate everything in their basket that Anna had packed.

Kristoff's car ended up being fine after the run in with the monkeys. He actually enjoyed himself, not that he'd tell Anna that of course.

The day had come to an end and the sun was setting on their drive back home. Kristoff turned to see that Anna had fallen asleep, curled up in the passenger seat next to him.

"Hey sleepyhead, we're nearly home." He gently nudged her and then he heard a soft murmur and then she half turned towards him. "Do you wanna come back to mine for some hot chocolate before I drop you home?"

"Mhm." He heard

Kristoff chuckled. "Was that a yes or a no?"

"I thought you only liked black coffee." Anna smirked, still half asleep.

"I'm partial to a hot chocolate here and there." He smiled back.

"Hmm.. Ok."

When they arrived at Kristoff's apartment, Sven practically jumped Anna.

"Hey buddy, you missed me?" Anna got down to his level and started petting him and before you knew it he was lay on his back letting her tickle his belly.

A couple minutes later Kristoff came in holding two beige mugs. "Don't let him take advantage of you." He laughed and Sven shot him an almost death glare.

"How come he seems to know what you're saying?"

"I don't know, we're just the best of buds." Sven licked Kristoff leg in affection.

Anna smiled and took the mug off Kristoff. They both took a seat on opposite sides of the couch and stared at nothingness.

"Hey Anna?"

"Yeah?"

"Can I um, can I ask you a question?" He fumbled with his fingers cupped around the mug. "You don't have to answer if you don't want to."

"Shoot."

"What exactly happened between you and Hans? I mean, I know you'd only known him like a month." He paused. "And I know you were only engaged a few days but, what happened?"

Anna looked at him blank faced.

"You know what, that was a stupid question ignore me, forget I said anything."

"No." Anna moved to sit next to Kristoff and took the mug out of his hand and placed it on the wooden coffee table in front of them. "I'll tell you."

"O-okay."

"So I met him.. Hans when I was working as a secretary in my sister's, well the family's business. I was only interning there for the summer so I could try and make my own money for the new university year 'cause I wanted to pay for myself you know? I didn't need the family money." Kristoff nodded. "Well anyway, it's was my second week there and then Hans showed up, his father was investing in the company and so he came whenever his father was having discussions with Elsa. We hung out a lot, we'd go out for posh dinners, I'd go to his. He seemed so sweet at first."

Kristoff could see the pain in Anna's eyes. He wasn't even sure if he wanted to know anymore. "Hey, you don't have to tell me if you don't feel like it?" He placed his two calloused hands on top of Anna's.

"No no, it's good to speak about it. Anyway, one day he called and started shouting at me. Asking why Elsa had turned down the business deal. Of course I didn't know why, I was just the receptionist and Elsa and I agreed that business would stay in the work place so I didn't know anything." Anna took in a deep breath trying to fight back tears. "I saw him the next day and he was nice again, he didn't mention the business deal, it was as if it never existed. He took me out for lunch and the next day and that's, that's when he-."

Anna had tears streaming down her face. He knew exactly what it felt like to be played. "He proposed?"

"Y-yeah." Anna whispered.

"Why'd you say yes after only a month? If you don't mind me asking."

"I was young and naive. Nobody had ever made me feel happy and loved me. Of course that had all been an act."

"An act for what?"

"The next day he came storming into our house. Elsa wasn't home and it was just me. He started tearing the place apart, breaking furniture, vases, everything."

Kristoff began to rub small circles against her hand as he watched her stare into the distance, obviously recalling the day.

"I went up to him and started shouting 'what are you doing?' at him but he just wouldn't stop. He acted like he was looking for something, later I found out that he was after my mothers jewelry." Anna flashed a ring that was located on the middle finger of her right hand. "This was her engagement ring, it's the only piece of jewelry we had." Kristoff smiled and she moved closer to him. "I don't know what he was looking for because we didn't have anything and I don't know what it meant to him, I guess he just wanted it for money."

"He started shouting some more and then he, he-." She fell against Kristoff's shoulder and began to sob. "He pushed me into some glass, a lot of it." Anna pushed up her top to reveal a series of scars on the left side of her body, falling from her bust to her hip. "I called the police and they arrested him and I was taken to hospital."

Kristoff was in shock. How dare he hurt Anna. That little-. "They released him on bail and I didn't press charges."

"Wait what? Why?"

"Because it was my fault. I shouldn't have let him get so close to me, I shouldn't have shouted. I should have made sure Elsa secured that deal. I-." Kristoff wrapped her in his arms as tight has he could. That bastard.

"What happened with the deal?" Kristoff questioned, still not letting go of Anna.

"Elsa wouldn't take it because she found out Hans' father always hated our family and the business. He always wanted to steal clients from us. It was something he used to do to our parents and obviously we didn't know and so he tried it on Elsa, but she was too smart. She never told me this because she wanted to give Hans a chance, I'd told her he was kind and caring. Turns out my judgement was wrong, again."

"Anna, I'm so sorry." Kristoff said sympathetically.

Anna sat back from his embrace. "You have nothing to be sorry about. Thank you for listening." She smiled, a real smile that made Kristoff's heart flutter.

"My ex-girlfriend Claire really broke my heart." Anna's ears perked and she looked up at him waiting for more. "We went to high school together and then when everyone else went off to college we decided to stay here and work normal jobs instead."

"We were engaged and everything, had been since we were nineteen. Then one day I came home from the shelter and she wasn't there. So I called her and there was no answer. I was so scared that something had happened to her so I got in my car and drove to her work to check if something was wrong. I just had a bad feeling.."

Anna grabbed his hand to let him know that she was still listening. "She used to work in a club on the edge of town, you know the rough area." Anna nodded. "I walked in there and heard moaning and shouting and I just started running towards it because I thought she'd been hurt or something."

Anna knew exactly where this was heading. "And I go in there and she's screwing her freaking boss. So I ran out of there as fast as I could and she followed after me, but I didn't want to hear what she had to say." Anna thought about how anyone could come up with an excuse for that.

"The worst part was that she came by my apartment a week later screaming at me as if it was my fault. I knew there was something wrong when Sven didn't like her." He petted Sven who was curled up next to Anna. "Sorry bud."

"I guess we've both had it hard huh?"

"Yeah, you had it worse though. I see you get calls from him, why don't you block his number?"

"I've tried, well I mean I have a number of times. He just keeps getting new numbers." She turned to face the blank television screen as if something interesting was on.

"I won't let him hurt you again. I hate not seeing you happy." Anna turned back and saw Kristoff's face just inches from her own.

They sat there for a while, being drawn in by each others striking eyes as if they were searching for the happiness behind their pain.

"You make me happy Kristoff." They both inched closer until their lips met, it was enticing and they both felt shockwaves flying through their body.

Kristoff pulled away almost immediately. "Sorry, I mean, you're probably not ready and I mean you're gorgeous and obviously I like you but I just want to make sure that you-"

"Shut up and kiss me again you idiot." Anna giggled and put her hand in his hair so she could pull him closer. He moved his hand to cup her cheek and kept another on her lower back. She kept one hand tangling through his light locks and danced her other fingers over his shirt cladded chest and rested it on his waistline

When they broke away the warmth was still on their lips. They both stayed in silence, curled up against each other until Kristoff took Anna home, immediately missing her presence.

Whether he wanted to admit it or not, he was in love.

A/N: Sorry that this took longer than I wanted. It's been a busy week after staying at my sisters for a couple of days and then I got my exam results yesterday (which were so much better than I expected!)

Also I don't know how accurate I wrote the safari part, I've been to one of these once when I was about 7 and the only thing I remember was the monkey part so don't judge me on that haha!

Hope you enjoyed! See you next chapter.