A/N: Okay, so we have a leap forward in time now, because this was the original first chapter to this one.
February 14th. Valentine's Day.
Couples and hearts were everywhere. Talk about love filled the air as much as the emotion itself. Lovers went on dates, gave each other gifts, proposed to each other, and even got married.
To be honest, this day just stressed Elsa out. It reminded her that time was ticking, and she was running out of time.
Eighteen months had passed since she had been crowned as queen of ice and snow. A year and a half had passed. She only had two and a half years left. Twenty-nine months.
Elsa had to meet and fall in love with someone in that time, and that person whom she fell in love with had to meet and fall in love with Elsa to the same degree. Otherwise, no love could enter or leave her heart.
Unfortunately, she was feeling the effects of this. She only held platonic love in her heart, and what was essentially the seed for the romantic love to blossom in her heart once she met and fell for her true love. So, she currently only loved her sister Anna, who was on a whole different continent, and basically living in a whole different time period, and then there was her best friend/the brother she never had; Nico.
Nico was the only person who even remotely understood what she was going through. He could not fall in love either. He was stuck on the same person through the years. Some might think that it was sweet, but both of them considered it irritating because they had been cursed by the person both of them most hated.
Anyway, Elsa's frozen heart was worse than it had been originally when she had been cursed, because she had also gotten her head frozen for about a week. That was enough time to activate the frozen heart early, so that she was closed off from feeling love for anybody but the two people she already loved; Nico and Anna.
Elsa thanked the gods (who were lovely people she'd actually met—well, not just met, but she'd been told that she was destined to become one of them on her eighteenth birthday, and she'd been made immortal for the time being and crowned queen of ice and snow by them) that her new friends were very patient and tolerant of the fact that Elsa couldn't love them in any way. She did care, but that was the most that she could do. They didn't know the full story of her frozen heart, because she did like to keep some things to herself, but they did know that she was incapable of loving anybody but her 'brother and sister' as she referred to Nico and Anna.
She had become friends with Nico's friends. This meant that she was friends with Reyna, Will, Jason, Frank, Hazel, Percy, and Annabeth. More so with Reyna, Jason, Frank and Hazel, since Elsa and Nico had spent the past several months in California at Camp Jupiter, and were just now staying at Camp Half-Blood.
Elsa liked Reyna a lot. She had a lot of mutual respect for her. Unfortunately, a lot of Camp Jupiter had made the mistake of underestimating Elsa at first. She'd come to Camp Jupiter the fall after she'd turned fifteen wearing a white button up blouse, a denim skirt, tights, and sneakers, along with her diadem. She'd looked extremely feminine to them, and they believed that feminine meant vulnerable and weak. They'd asked Elsa to play war games with them, and since Elsa saw it as a way to bond with Hazel, she agreed, though she warned that she was immortal. Most of them probably had a hard time believing her because she was so young, and wore a tiara, and they probably thought she was foolish for forgoing armor. Elsa didn't really like armor, to be honest. She thought it weighed her down. Also, she couldn't die or really be hurt, so it was a waste.
Long story short, in their game of what was essentially Capture the Flag, Elsa and Hazel got to the flags first, due to Elsa's powers, which were deemed acceptable to use. She'd gone a little extravagant, and frozen the water cannons, and created a staircase for her and Hazel to climb, made out of ice. They didn't even need help. Elsa didn't do everything, because she let Hazel take the lead and take the banners once they had barricaded the defenses. Camp Jupiter had a healthy respect for Elsa after that. Elsa had been introduced to Reyna as a friend of Nico's, so she treated her with respect right away, which had been nice.
Jason, once he found out that she was a child of Khione, was a little too polite and respectful of Elsa until she informed him that she hated her mother as well, and told him of what she'd done to them. She then went on to explain that she'd killed not only Khione, but the Boreads as well. Jason treated with her a healthy dose of respect and awe after that.
Frank was polite with Elsa, and treated her the way he treated everybody else. She found this refreshing and nice. Not that Reyna and Jason weren't nice, but they were so… Roman and formal. Elsa had left such formality behind her in her old life, thank you very much.
Hazel had immediately, upon being introduced to Elsa, hugged her, saying that a sister of Nico's was a sister of hers as well. Elsa eventually smiled after a moment of panic, and once Nico silently and discreetly reassured her. Elsa liked Hazel instantly nonetheless. She was so open and warm, reminding her a little of Anna.
Else confided in Hazel about Arendelle, and what it was like, getting used to the modern world, and Hazel had explained about growing up in the 1940s. On one of Hazel's furlough days, the two went to town together. They'd had a nice day out; just the two of them. Nico had wanted them to bond, so they did. Hazel was one of the kindest and friendliest of Elsa's friends.
Reyna was one of the friends that Elsa admired most. Once they got past formalities (which took a while), they made good friends. Elsa looked up to her.
With Jason, the formality ceased a little, but not much.
Hazel and Frank were just nice and friendly, which made Elsa forget her worries around them.
Anyway, those were the friends Elsa had really gotten acquainted with first.
The year before that, Elsa had decided that she wanted to do something good for the world, and help people like her who were lost and alone in the world. So, she and Nico had decided to buy a building using Elsa's jewelry from Arendelle. A lot of it was precious and worth a lot. They sold it for good prices, and found that they had enough to buy an old hotel that was being sold. Elsa bought it, and with money given to Nico by Hades, they restored it.
Once it was restored so that each room had a dresser, closet, bathroom with a toilet, sink and shower, desk with a chair, and a bed, they hired adult demigods to work there. They were turning it into a home for homeless youths until they could go off into the world. Any demigods that they came across would be sent to either Camp Half-Blood, or Camp Jupiter.
Elsa stayed with the project for year. Basically, until it got sponsors, donations, and could run without her. It was in Manhattan, New York. She sometimes went there to check on how things were going, and make sure it was running smoothly.
Now, Elsa and Nico were going back to Camp Half-Blood after having stayed in Camp Jupiter for four and a half months.
It was decided that she'd stay in the Big House once they got there.
Chiron knew everything. Once Elsa had returned, they told him the full and real story. He'd suspected that they weren't being completely honest, but he wasn't expecting the story that they did tell. He'd been silent for certain parts of Elsa's story; the parts that still haunted her a year and half later.
Elsa still had nightmares from before. Sometimes, they were so intense that she needed to spend the day alone. There was always the worry of what going to bed would bring. No dreams (this was the best), good/moderate dreams, bad dreams, and nightmares. Elsa figured out that a sound machine with nature noises helped to keep her anchored. Especially the sound 'natural heartbeat'. It was steady for Elsa.
Dreams and sleeping difficulties aside, Elsa was well adjusted.
Currently, she was staying at Camp Half-Blood along with Nico, and the two had been there for a couple of weeks.
Anyway, seeing all of the couples on Valentine's Day only managed to stress the young queen out. Nico had no such time limit. He also already knew who he had to get to fall for him; Percy Jackson.
Unfortunately for Nico, Percy was in a relationship with Annabeth. But he had told Elsa that he was planning on staying patient. Elsa had huffed and rolled her eyes at hearing at him, and sarcastically replied that it must be nice to have so much time for falling in love and having your frozen heart thawed.
Nico apologized for his insensitivity, though they both knew that Elsa was the one being overly sensitive due to something beyond her control. That something being a womanly issue that had become an issue pretty soon after her coronation. It wasn't something they talked about though.
Elsa honestly didn't see the appeal of Percy. She thought he was a naïve and immature boy, and she didn't put up with any nonsense from him, because he annoyed her at times. Especially since he was so overly extroverted, when Elsa was an introvert. The second he began to control water unnecessarily, Elsa would freeze the water. Annabeth thought this was entertaining, and she and Elsa had bonded and become friends. Piper was also intrigued by Elsa, and in awe over the fact that she had successfully killed Khione and the Boreads.
However, Elsa was in awe of the fact that Piper had the guts to attack Khione and the Boreads as well as stand up to them. So there was mutual respect there.
Reyna was the only one of their friends who was also single for Valentine's Day. They told about their frozen hearts, and how their hearts could be thawed. She was one of their friends whom they held truest, and they shared secrets with her that they had decided not to tell anybody else.
Unfortunately, they could not spend Valentine's Day with Reyna because she did not have it as a furlough day. Camp Jupiter was still celebrating the holiday, as was Camp Half-Blood, but someone still had to run the Camp. As Reyna was single, she let Frank take Hazel to New Rome to spend Valentine's Day while she dealt with the camp.
So Elsa and Nico decided to go to Brooklyn for the day. Nico summoned Jules-Albert to drive them.
Elsa had some control of the Mist, so her diadem merely looked like a headband. The two decided to leave Nico's sword, because both had powers to defend themselves.
They'd gone to a museum, then an art gallery. They'd eaten food there. They'd even gone to a Scandinavian restaurant just to check it out, and Elsa murmured criticism for it.
Nico and Elsa mostly got mistaken for a couple. They'd corrected everybody, explaining that they were brother and sister. They suspected that it was their preference to hold hands. It didn't bother them too much.
The only thing that did bother Elsa was all of the couples out and about, looking like they were in love. There were all different kinds of couples all around. That reminded her: less than two and a half years left. That was all she had left to fall in love and have someone fall in love with her back.
A/N: Sorry that there wasn't much in this chapter, but... Yeah... If you want, you can make guesses as to who Elsa's true love will be.
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