"Are you ready to get started?"

It was all peace and rainbows in Elsa's mind when Anna's voice interjected in. The words were so clear but out of place. Anna couldn't be anywhere near where she was. At least not with the age that the voice carried. Little Elsa turned away from her father and he looked up too at the sound of someone's voice that sounded like it was coming from the other side of the room. Little Elsa's brow furrowed in confusion and she turned back around to face her father.

"Remember this, conceal it, don't feel it, don't let it show." He spoke warmly as he bent down onto his left knee to kneel in front of her. In his outstretched hands was a tiara.

"But what if I want to let everyone know?" Little Elsa questioned. She couldn't help staring at the beautiful, delicate tiara. She felt terribly uneasy in it's presence. She could feel it looking back at her.

"Hello?! Are you awake?! I thought you never slept in." The mocking voice came out little Elsa's father's mouth and that sent a violent chill down her spine for some reason she couldn't place. His face was expressing wisdom that she yearned for desperately to have, but the words didn't make sense. The voice didn't matter, the words were what Elsa wanted.

"Papa? I asked what if I do what to let them know." Elsa tried again to get an answer.

He smiled and placed the tiara in her hair and then brought his face close to hers and little Elsa thought she could finally see the answer she was looking for in his twinkling eyes, and then he screamed, "ELSA, WE HAVE TO START PACKING!"

Needless to say Elsa jumped at Anna's booming voice and also from Anna jumping on top of her chest to rouse her from her slumber. Now a bright sun filled room took hold of her vision as her father vanished from her mind. She never got her answer.

"What the hell Anna!" Elsa screamed back as Anna went on to take her by the shoulders and shake her to and fro to make sure she woke up.

Anna immediately stopped. "Language!" She scolded mockingly. Then, still fully sitting on top of her sister she brought Elsa close with a walloping hug.

"Really though? I thought you wanted me to sleep in today?" Anna could feel the sleep that hung on Elsa's tired voice.

"Yeah, but it's ten in the morning." Anna cheerfully replied.

"WHAT?!" Without a moment's pause Elsa shoved Anna off of her, pushing her to the right of the bed so she wouldn't fall off at least. She rubbed the remnants of sleep from her crusty eyes and squinted at the clock on the opposite wall. It was indeed ten o'clock.

Rage quickly consumed the young queen and she threw off her blankets and leapt out of bed to get dressed and brush her hair and wash her face, in other words make up or three lost hours.

"How could I let myself do that!" Elsa chided to herself as she aggressively ran her brush through her snow blonde hair.

Anna, on the other hand, was still on the bed completely breathless at how she was just thrown aside like a spare button. Her heart felt like it had shattered and was beginning to splinter itself into every organ it could to cause her more pain.

She began to push herself up so she could sit up and she raised her eyes to look up over at Elsa as she was still attacking her hair, making sure it was pristine as possible and then beyond that. A small sigh passed through her and with it she tried to push out all her hurt feelings.

"Elsa?" Anna called out timidly. Elsa was running to her closet as Anna said her name. She didn't look back, in fact she didn't hear her name at all. All she could hear was her inner voices scolding her for staying asleep so well.

Again Anna sighed. All of her excitement had disappeared when Elsa unknowingly ignored her energy all because her schedule was thrown off.

Elsa was always trying to make Anna understand that her schedule was very important and that she would have to allot times for them to spend time together. Anna didn't like that. She never remembered their mother saying that she was too busy to play with her. She always put down what she was doing at least for a few minutes and she'd always say, "I guess I could use a little break", and she'd follow a very excited Anna to her room for a quick cup of pretend tea.

Not very often though did Anna and Elsa fight about Elsa's precious schedule. But when ever they did get into a heated altercation Anna would always argue that Elsa loved her schedules more than her own sister. That would be the end of it. Anna would storm off and Elsa would break down. The first time Anna ever said that Elsa went into a terrible anxiety attack as guilt ate her alive. The few times after that she handled it better and better. By the last time two months ago she managed to make it to her study after traversing through the whole castle to get there, even facing many of her concerned staff as rumors of the fight had traveled more fast than her feet could carry her, before she broke down crying on the couch in her office.

Elsa had reemerged from the closet fully dressed in a simple summer dress, stockings and flats. She ran over to her vanity and sat in front of the mirror and started putting up her hair.

"Elsa?" Anna called out again, forcing her voice to become thicker this time.

"Hm?" Elsa answered as she started braiding her hair, but then she made a mistake and tore at the mess fiercely, as if that would make the whole process go smoothly back to the start.

"I-..." Anna started, but then she closed her mouth and actually took a few seconds to actually think about what she actually wanted to say. That was something she had been working on lately, thinking before speaking that is. Elsa continued to retry her braid.

"I'm sorry I made you sleep in. I know how much it bothers you when your day gets all rushed together like this." Anna didn't have the courage to look at Elsa anymore. She stared at her feet splayed out on the bed and waited for a response.

Elsa felt her very bones cringe at just how crestfallen Anna sounded and she let her second failed attempt of frustrated braiding fall out of her hands and the strands unwound at her shoulders. She looked at Anna's reflection and then she closed her eyes with a heavy sigh and thought whether to go over to her or just console her from her seat. She chose the former and stood up from her stool to trudge over to a very rare sensitive Anna.

Elsa sat on the edge of the bed to Anna's left and she took a deep breath in and a deep breath out. Anna shot a glance over at her back then looked back to her feet. Elsa kept her eyes on her hands as she began to fidget around with her fingers awkwardly.

"No. You shouldn't be sorry. I shouldn't have just thrown you like that. I just shouldn't have reacted like I did at all. You did I very kind thing for me, and I thank you by shoving you aside like a doll. Please forgive me."

"I forgive you Elsa." They both looked up to each other simultaneously. "I'll always forgive you." Anna continued with a blushing smile. Then she playfully punched Elsa in the arm a little more hard than she wanted to, but Elsa rubbed at it with an embarrassed smile that said "Yeah, I guess I deserved that."

"You just go and do your hair and then we can have breakfast. Then after that we'll bring up some trunks and pack, alright?" Anna said.

"That sounds good." Elsa responded, with an affirmative nod, and then she rose off the bed and started to walk back to her vanity.

Anna started to get off the bed too when the idea struck her. "Would you like some help with your hair?"

"No, I just need to stop rushing. I've done this hairstyle a billion times. My hands know what to do, they just need to slow down. We still have all day, and I did say that we were good to leave soon, which means I've already finished everything that needed to be completed so I have nothing to do today anyway but pack."

"I didn't ask for a novel, just if you wanted some help with your hair." Anna lightheartedly snickered as she came up behind Elsa to give her a kiss on the cheek.

"Oh! Why don't you just go makeout with your boyfriend?" Elsa shot back with a disgusted face.

"Not a bad idea! Thanks sis!" Anna teased and then she trotted off out of Elsa's room to leave Elsa to her braiding.

Once Elsa had her hair done up like she did on busy laboring days like these, her mother's hairstyle, she sauntered down the halls to the dining room. She strolled along in an effort to calm down her buzzing mind and make it see that maybe getting an full nights sleep was a fantastic way to start out a day, even if it made the day started three hours late. "I have nothing to do. I have nothing to do." She repeated over and over until it became a mantra of some type that kept her frizzled brain from spinning any more.

Upon entering the dining hall she saw Anna and Kristoff sitting at the table with bowls of steaming oatmeal, plates of pancakes and toast with spreads of jam all laid out in front of them. They were waiting for her to come in and sit down before eating. Needless to say, even though it was a very small act, Elsa felt touched.

After Elsa sat down and grace was said the whole meal was gone in instant. Anna scarfed everything down do fast that she had massive hiccups for at least ten minutes afterwards. Kristoff thought it was a challenge and so he too scarfed everything down as fast as humanly possible. Elsa had just spent the past twenty minutes putting up her hair and strolling down a bunch of hallways to calm herself. She didn't want to eat fast, but she didn't want everyone to wait on her either so with that she scarfed down her food as well. But in the end, only Anna got the hiccups and that was Elsa's and Kristoff's tacit revenge.

Anna then forced the trio to get up from the table quickly and then she sent Kristoff away to do something manly or whatever. He was used to Anna's extremely exuberant behavior when she was excited like this, and just went off to find Georg again to see if he was alright from all the drinks he had last night. Elsa thought Anna was being rather rude though, but she kept her mouth shut. She didn't want to start a fight now.

Anna grabbed Elsa's wrist and then she dragged them along to grab some trunks to pack Elsa's things in and then she had them running ragged back to Elsa's room. They zoomed by everyone who offered help with Anna shouting back behind them that they were fine. But they all saw the pain expression on Elsa's face from running so hard with an already heavy trunk, even though it was empty. They all let the princess and the queen be though and went on to their own tasks.

Once back in Elsa's room Anna put the two trunks she had carried down there in front of Elsa's closet and then she ran back to take the one that Elsa could somewhat manage to carry and effortlessly took it from her and ran to put it with the others. Elsa starred at Anna with wide eyes as she gulped giant amounts of air back into her winded body, trying to comprehend how Anna was so energetic all the time as discussed last night. And also why she was so strong as well.

"Well! Where do you want to start?!" Anna eagerly hollered out with her fists on her hips as she stood before the trunks, waiting for Elsa to come running over to and commence her packing. But alas... Elsa was bent over with her hands on her knees to at least keep her up somewhat as she kept willing air back into her lungs. She put a hand to her side as stitches flared up from all that unnecessary running without being properly stretched.

"Whoa, are you okay?" Anna asked Elsa worriedly and she cautiously walked over to her.

Elsa took her hand away from her smarting side and help up a finger to signal she just needed a moment. Then she forced herself to stand up fully, but she still labored for breath.

"I'm fine." Elsa finally said after much more than just a moment.

"No you're not. Why don't you sit down or something before you pass out." Anna suggested and then she tried to lead Elsa over to her stool, but Elsa wouldn't budge and instead began to go over to the trunks.

"No, no! I'm fine!" Elsa spoke with clearly forced enthusiasm, but she didn't want to spoil the good mood that Anna was just in and so she out on her imaginary mask and began to pretend that she too was just as feisty and uncontrollable as her little sister. It was easy when Anna was right there beside her. It gave her the perfect model of which to mock.

Elsa threw open the lid of the nearest trunk and then she voyaged into her expansive closet and began to riffle through everything trying to quickly analyze the contents to deem what was necessary to take and what was not. Anna appeared behind her shortly and she began to do the same as she put on her imaginary mask and begin to pretend that she was calm and orderly as her older sister. It was easy when Elsa was right there beside her, but she could pretend even when Elsa wasn't there. She was a much faster learner when it came to mocking an entirely new behavior.

They were dancing on eggshells to keep each other happy without ever actually telling each other what would make them happy. Two of the hefty trunks were overflowing when Anna noticed for Elsa that it wasn't full of anything important really, and that Elsa was just throwing things in it haphazardly.

"Hey Elsa." Anna said as she looked down at the mess that was supposed to be Elsa's belongings.

Elsa came zooming by to throw another much too extravagant dress on top of the heap and then zoomed back into the closet. "Yes?" She answered.

"Don't you think we should be folding your clothes? You know... To like keep wrinkles out and stuff? Beside, do you really need to bring your super poofy dress?"

Elsa had reemerged with yet another quite poofy dress in her arms when Anna had made her observation and Elsa stopped mid-stride. She looked down at the dress in her arms and then over to the pile behind Anna, who was looking at her with a concerned face and right there Elsa knew that she was trying much too hard to keep up appearances.

"You're right." Elsa breathed and then she came over to the pile of dresses and such to grab the extra fancy ones that she knew all along she didn't need to take. Then she walked them back into her closet downtrodden. Anna turned back to face the somewhat smaller heap and picked up some dresses to take back too and she followed Elsa in. They dropped their loads on the floor and grabbed for hangers and they put the dresses back one by one, in very strangled silence.

"El-"

"I'm-"

They both turned around to see each other and let the dress and hanger in their hands drop away.

"You go first." Elsa encouraged with a shy smile on her reddened face.

"I just wanted to say I wish you didn't feel like you have to pretend that you're okay around me all the time. You do know it's okay to not be okay sometimes right?"

"But I am okay."

"No, you're just a terrible liar."

"I think I would know if I was okay or not."

"Maybe you need a second opinion."

"Well I don't remember asking for yours!"

"That's because you didn't. I'm just trying to help you Elsa. If you don't want to go then just say it!"

"I want to go!"

"Stop lying to me!"

"I'm not lying!"

"Yes you are! Stop doing things just to make me happy. I'm not the only person in this world that needs to be happy. Neither is Kristoff, or Georg, or Olaf, or anybody! You need to stop trying to make everyone else happy and make yourself happy. What is that going to take?"

"I don't know." Elsa whispered. She felt her sudden courage retreat within herself.

"What?"

"I said I don't know!" Her courage came back. "Ever since I was sent away all I have ever done is try to make mother and father happy with me! That's all I know what to do! Try and try even when I know it's not good enough because all I ever wanted was to be back at your side! I will do anything it takes to make up for being apart from you, my very best friend, my dear little sister because that was what I spent those ten years doing when our parents were still alive. I could have killed you Anna! Do you not realize that?"

"So dragging yourself with me to Corona when you obviously don't, for some God forsaken reason, is your way of apologizing for something you did as a child? Something that I have already forgiven you of the moment you told me why we were separated? You told me the truth Elsa. That is all I have ever wanted. To know why I couldn't be with my sister."

"I was eight! I was fully aware of what I was capable of and that means I should have also known that I wasn't just capable of creation, but also destruction!"

"You! Were! A! Child!"

"And what did that make you?!"

"Your so called dear little sister with whom you won't just tell what is bothering you! Why do you keep acting like you don't really want to go to Corona!"

"Why do you need to know!"

"Because!"

"Because why?!"

"Because I am your 'dear little sister'! If you want to make me happy so bad then tell me! Tell me why you don't want to go!"

"Because I froze Corona's Prince and Princess, making them captives here! I haven't heard a single peep from Corona since then until now!"

The silence that fell was more deafening than their screams.

Elsa's heart stopped mid beat in her chest from confessing her latest darkest fear.

Anna's breath caught in her throat.

Elsa let out a shaky sigh, closed her eyes and clenched at the frilly dress in her hands tightly to expel the left over energy that had built up as she was being verbally pursued.

"I'm afraid to go. That's why." Elsa breathed, opening her eyes but keeping her gaze on the ground. That's how she saw the bottom of Anna's dress sweeping over to her. Then she felt Anna's arms around her and as Anna squeezed tight she squeezed out the rest of Elsa's apprehensions until Elsa finally dropped the dress from her hands and reciprocated the hug with fierce intensity.

"Thank you." Anna whispered with a wobbly voice.

"For what?" Elsa asked. What was there to be grateful for after a shouting match?

"For telling me the truth. For not shutting me out." Anna pulled away and when Elsa looked up at her she could see tears lining Anna's eyelids, but Anna swept them away before they could fall. "Now we can get back to packing." And with that Anna merrily skipped away back to the dress she left behind and began to hang it back up and then grab another and hang it up as well.

Elsa just stood there trying to sort through what just happened. One moment they were screaming at down each others throats and now everything was fine and dandy. It felt very planned to Elsa. And it sounded like something Anna would do... Elsa bent down to pick up the dress she had dropped earlier and turned back around to hang it up as the gnawing feeling of the thought that Anna coaxed out her fears with the use of severe tactics swirled inside her crazed brain.