CAN'T HOLD IT BACK ANYMORE
"Good Morning, Prince Johan, I hope you found your quarters comfortable?" Elsa greeted her new guest at the breakfast table in family dining room on the third floor.
"Good Morning, your Majesty. Please call me Johan. My father and older brother always stood on ceremony, even when it was just us! Nobody ever called me by my Christian name at home. That's one of the reasons I always preferred to be abroad."
Elsa smiled, "Certainly, but only if you call me Elsa. Since it's only Anna and myself here, I never hear my name either. Except from my sister, of course." she rolled her eyes.
"Will the Princess and Her Highness Rapunzel join us soon... Elsa?" he smiled politely.
"Well, Anna likes to sleep in ... I mean that... she is staying with me... because Punzel...I mean Rapunzel is staying in her room..." Elsa was fumbling somewhat. "How come I'm explaining all of this to him, it's really none of his business who is in my bed?" she thought. "Though actually, it is his father's intent that it would be very much his business that he shares my bed!" her cheeks coloured at the thought.
Johan raised an eyebrow at her response but said nothing except smiling at Elsa's apparent frustration. "No need to explain. She was very protective of you last night during dinner. Her story of the incident after your Coronation last month was incredible! She loves you very much!"
"And I, her... with all my heart." was her reply. "Still, as you can expect, she is naturally upset that someone... will share my attention if I choose a husband during the festival."
"Speaking of the festival, I assume that our friends and allies will be attending? I seem to remember seeing some vessels in the nearby ports preparing to sail here as we made provisions there to attend." Johan asked.
"The first arrivals should be here in the next few days. Probably those from the mainland first. The others further south and overseas will take longer. Until then, you have my complete attention." Elsa offered. "What would you like to do today, or would you prefer to settle in since your voyage was so hurried?"
Johan grinned and took a deep breath. "The fresh air and fjords welcome me back from the stuffy and muggy climes of the Med. I would love to see around the town if you are willing to be my guide?"
"It would be my pleasure, shall we say in an hour? Than perhaps we can have lunch at a wonderful spot on the far side of town overlooking the harbour?" Elsa was also grinning.
"That sounds like a grand idea... Elsa!"
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Unlike most mornings, Anna didn't feel a pair of soft lips brushing the skin behind her ear. Nor did she feel the warm tingling sensation of a full bosom or smooth stomach against her back. But what she found missing the most were the soft but wonderful words, "Good Morning, my love. It's time to wake."
Elsa was gone when she woke up at half past ten. Her hand wistfully picked up the pillow her sister used and she breathed in her scent as she recalled last night before retiring.
Last evening's meal was an adventure in itself. Prince Johan was nothing like what she expected.
Johan was kind, courteous, attentive and most definitely gorgeous.
But so was Prince Hans. Being the second son and not the heir had prepared her for someone who would have had the same demeanour and ultimately the same intentions as her former fiancee. Handsome yet conniving. Charismatic yet evil. A beautiful serpent.
She was prepared to tolerate him. She knew he was only one of the many false suitors that made up Elsa's Grand Plan. She was actually psyching herself up for Flynn's friend who she assumed was the 'Real McCoy' and would play the role of Elsa's true love.
Prince Johan however caught her flat footed. Her tale that she narrated time and again would normally bring polite interest or even occasional gasps during the exciting parts. He however was attentive to the very end, up until she defrosted after dying! Her animated display using her arms and body always brought a smile to Elsa or Kristoff, but Johan too showed concern and apprehension after the part where she saved her sister.
"Did that villain actually shatter his sword on your upraised hand?" Johan was shocked.
Anna was replying, "Well, I think..." when Elsa answered for her. "My sister had already died when he struck her, shattering his sword that was meant for me. She didn't witness his actual crime or the effects afterwards!" Disdain and rage clouded her blue eyes and a light frost spread on the table away from her seat. She quickly reined in her anger and the frost receded when Anna placed her hand over her sisters.
Later after dinner when it was time to retire, Anna made ready to go to Elsa's bedchamber. "Go on without me." her sister told her. "I wish to discuss some details with Prince Johan. I will see you soon Anna."
Anna nodded her head and complied. She was following the others up the stairs when she glanced back at the table where Johan sat next to Elsa as they were chatting. They were speaking in low voices and Elsa started giggling at something he just said. Anna's eyebrow shot up as he moved closer and placed his hand over hers on the table just as she walked up and out of view.
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"Are you sure you want to go alone?" Kristoff asked his wayward red-headed friend. "They're at lookout point. I believe Elsa took Prince Johan to the bluff overlooking the harbour after they toured Arendelle."
"What makes you think I'm looking for Elsa?" Anna replied, reining in the straps of her horse.
"Oh...Really?" he smirked.
She smiled back, "Okay, okay ... Thanks for all you've done for us, for me!"
She snapped the reins and bolted out of the courtyard. It was already past one and Kai had told her that he made preparations for a picnic lunch for the Queen and Prince. When Anna asked him if she left any messages for her, he hesitated before replying in the negative.
"What has gotten into Elsa?" Anna wondered. She didn't know what time Elsa retired herself to the bed they shared since she never woke her up to...well at least she thought that Elsa came to bed! "What if she shared his bed last night! NO, the outline of her head was on her pillow which was still warm and smelled of her presence when I awoke" she fretted. "She would never do that to me? Even as a pretence to keep up her act of being courted?"
She was oblivious to everyone in town that waved or greeted her, which was so unlike her usual friendly manner. She rode through the town and up the main road that hugged the cliff overlooking the harbour. The only thing on her mind was what her sister was doing. Or more precisely what the Prince was doing to her sister.
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"What a magnificent view!" Johan exclaimed as he stood and surveyed Arendelle and the valley below. Two majestic eagles flew overhead, their noble profiles outlined by the blue sky as they squawked at the humans below.
Elsa too stood beside him and added, "Well, the name Arendelle does mean the Valley of Eagles in our language."
"Perhaps to you and me, though I must confess that my father has never taken the time to learn the language of the people he rules over." Johan said softly. "And I know that this must seem unfair for him to impose his wishes. I certainly had no idea what the reason was until another dispatch was received from Him regarding the nature of your powers. He regrets not being present in person on your Coronation Day. He had... matters to attend to. He always seems to have matters of one thing or another."
"Well, the past is in the past." Elsa said simply. "Let's sample some of the things Kai has prepared for us, shall we? If you like, tomorrow, I can show you some of the other sights of my home and country? I'm sure my sister and cousin can also come up with things that might interest you?"
"Thank you, Elsa. I heard that you made a rink of ice in the courtyard. Perhaps we can skate together, before I have to share your company with the wolves that are sure to arrive."
Elsa began to blush slightly. She regretted that he must play the unwitting pawn in her scheme to avoid the tie that would connect Arendelle with Stockholm. Most importantly, her relationship with Anna.
She sighed as the thoughts of her sister were conjured. Anna was everything to her. But if history didn't force her parents to lock her away. If her stolen childhood wasn't deprived of her sister's presence. If she wasn't born with the powers over ice and snow. All these "ifs", then perhaps there would have been a time when she could have looked into the eyes of this handsome Prince and fallen in love, and been married Happily Ever After?
Such was her contemplation that she was unaware of a quiet calm that descended over her and Prince Johan. Her mind was still in that reflective state that she didn't notice him sliding closer to her and placing his right arm around her waist.
The sound of an approaching horse brought her back to the present. Elsa quickly noticed her proximity to Johan and looked up at him as she heard a familiar voice gasp not too far behind them both.
She turned just in time to see the face of her sister as she rode her horse up to the clearing. The look of shock and disbelief on her face.
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The Heavy Frigate, USS Constitution, was just overcoming the counter effects of the trade winds as she angled north from her port in Norfolk, Virginia. Gaining latitude, the prevailing Westerlies added much needed speed to her current route towards the European Continent. She needed it, the response to Queen Elsa of Arendelle was slow and ad-hoc. But the message sent to the Secretary of State was ultimately passed to him by President Martin Van Buren, a Democrat no less!
Running for his political life in a fight that seemed hopeless, President Van Buren shuffled off the unneeded distraction to a Senator from the opposing Whig party. The letter signed by the Queen herself invited interested parties to attend her court after her recent Coronation last month. The intent was obviously worded for the vying scions that was the core of Royal and Noble figureheads that made up the monarchies of the Old World. The Queen was looking for a consort. But why would she even bother with the United States of America? Was it simple courtesy? If so, then he would like to thank Queen Elsa in person. European leaders and by extension their countrymen always seemed to keep alternating their friendship as it suited their purpose. One-time friend and ally would be confrontational or aggressive the next time their path crossed with the United States.
Most of their kind would not even bother to acknowledge that the United States was a major player on the World Stage. Perhaps this amusing experiment of self democratic rule would eventually come to an end all by itself?
At least that was how Nathaniel Pitcher Tallmadge, Whig Senator from New York, saw it. It wasn't as if he was looking to claim a title that would be so out character for him. The very notion of a Monarch entertaining a commoner as a suitable suitor was almost outrageous. Still, the existing government felt that a courtesy visit would be in the best interest of his country. That fact alone made Senator Tallmadge suspicious of the Governments motive. The Democrats vision of Manifest Destiny was disturbing to his sensibilities. It had the air of Empire Building in its own right. Still, considering that most if not all of the Heads of State of Europe would be sending some interested representative to Arendelle, he felt that a more conservative Whig representative would be the best choice for America.
"Ahoy, ship off Starboard." a lookout called out.
"Can you make her out?" asked the Midshipman on watch. "We didn't expect any of our own plying this route."
"I'm sorry, Lieutenant. We'll have to get closer before we can read her flags or use the semaphores." the seaman replied. "Her outline appears to be one of our own though, a war-sloop!"
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"Anna, do you want to talk?" Elsa was sitting on the bed. Anna was lying down facing away. The blanket was pulled up over her shoulders, almost covering her head.
She raised her hand and tentatively held it over Anna's shoulder but pulled away instead. "You didn't come down to dinner, are you hungry? I can bring you something."
"Mmm...Not Hungry!" Anna replied.
Elsa sighed softly and tried again, "Anna, are you angry with me?"
"Mmm...No." she lied.
"I'm sorry about what happened. We were just talking, and then the next thing I knew... he had his arm around me, and then you came and saw, and then ran away..." sadness in her voice. "I would never try to hurt you. You mean everything to me." she felt tears welling in her eyes.
Elsa couldn't see but Anna was also softly crying and refusing to let Elsa see her face. "Can I sleep with you tonight then, I mean... just hold you and sleep?" she finally caved, turning her torso and grabbing her sister. Clutching her tightly while convulsing as she sobbed, "Don't stop loving me, don't stop loving me, don't stop loving me!" Anna kept repeating, her will to resist finally crumbling.
"Oh Anna, of course I love you!" Elsa too succumbed to her love for Anna and sobbed.
As the crying and sobbing washed away the memory of the past afternoon, the two siblings held each other tightly as they haven't held each other before. The lack of contact during the daylight hours made each night together more pressing and demanding.
Anna's frustration manifested itself during their love-making. The movements she used were stronger and deeper. Her kisses and bites more intense. Elsa was not passive by any means but found herself on the receiving end of most of the passion they shared.
Tonight was no different. Unable to publicly declare her love to Elsa, Anna was almost insatiable tonight! Her repeated thrusts into Elsa's folds with her fingers and the lavish strokes her tongue played on her flower were skilled beyond her mere eighteen years. Elsa's soft mewls and moans quickly rose in crescendo and were echoed down the halls as she came, unable to stifle her orgasms.
"That can't happen again!" she thought as her sister danced to a similar song that Elsa's tongue played between Anna's thighs. She was biting her hand as her climax washed over her. Her smooth young legs jerked in beat with her pleasure...once, twice, three times before a subdued calm appeared on her sweat covered face.
"How is it that you had foresight to stifle your cries, my love?" Elsa smiled at her little sister in wonder. "I should have been more discreet!"
Gasping and soaking wet, Anna sealed their secret bond with her lips before responding, "You have far too much to think about during the day than be worried about your nights my heart. I only want you to feel the love I give you. The sounds you make are for me and you alone. But since the castle is going to get more crowded in the nights to come, I've asked our sweet cousin, Rapunzel, to play the role of a much favourited fairy tale when playing her nighttime games with Flynn!"
"Oh, and what role is that, my love?" Elsa asked curiously, tilting her head slightly.
A loud moan was heard, this time from next door. "Tonight, I asked her to be very loud so she may mask whatever comes from our room! I asked Rapunzel to play the mythical role of Nymphomania!"
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"I believe that's the USS Eagle, Senator. She's not listed as active anymore since she was stricken from the Navy Registry twenty-five years ago. Obviously her owners have restored and maintained her." the Captain responded to Senator Tallmadge's question.
"What the devil is she doing here and who is their Captain?" Senator Tallmadge pondered. Was this something the Democrats had in mind when they sent him? Perhaps to keep tabs on him and his kind? Or perhaps the persons aboard were going to secure an alliance that fulfilled the Manifest Destiny Credo of the current Democratic agenda? A final stroke for their side since surely Bill Harrison and the Whigs would triumph over Van Buren and the Democrats in the upcoming winter election?"
But "NO" was the simple answer from the Eagle. The signals received by flag semaphore stated that Captain Carlyle was indeed invited to Arendelle, but represented a private group unassociated to any political body.
"They're requesting that they would like to remain in formation with us for the duration of the trip." the First Officer asked.
"Tell them that we grant their request." the Captain replied.
To the Senator, "They're hoping that our presence as a ship-of-the-line will discourage any hostile acts against them. And as citizens of the United States, it is our duty to escort them if they plan on taking the same route."
Senator Tallmadge nodded, "Naturally Captain, that makes perfect sense. Still, where have I heard of that name before? Carlyle,... Captain Carlyle?"
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As Anna promised to Elsa, she would try her very best to be civil to Prince Johan.
"Please Anna... all of this, ALL of our plans, hinges on the perception that we did our very best to consider the charm and courtship of Prince Johan as a prospective suitor to my hand in marriage." Elsa begged her sister.
"Even if he flirts or makes passes at you?" Anna wailed.
Frustrated, Elsa slapped her forehead flabbergasted, "OF COURSE, Anna! Why do you think it's called a courtship?"
"But Elsa, that will take days? I don't know if I can stand it?" Anna was pouting again.
"Anna, we all can't have one-day courtships like you!" Elsa was running out of reasons or explanations to placate her own true love.
"Not fair!" Anna said, "But okay, I was born ready for this!" Which caused Elsa to roll her eyes and Rapunzel to giggle.
"You know, if this wasn't so serious, I would have been rolling on the floor because of you two!" Rapunzel finally piped in after her snickering. "Even still, you two are so adorable. And Elsa, I'll do my best to keep Anna occupied."
Elsa brought up her hand and cupped Rapunzel's cheek, "Thanks, cuz."
The days that followed were a roller coaster ride for Anna. The subsequent ice-rink event was something Anna was looking forward to. At least until she found out that Elsa planned to play the role of 'novice ice skater'. That naturally meant that Prince Johan was practically glued to Elsa as she feigned being an amateur.
"She can skate backwards and blindfolded on four-inch high heels, for heavens sake! Just look where Johan is placing his hands on her! I'm going to punch him out!" Anna started towards the royal pair.
"Anna! Come right back here!" Rapunzel scolded. "You know the rules, no harming Prince Johan while he stays in Arendelle."
"Fine, I'm just going to sharpen his skates with this club I've been saving for a special occasion, okay?" Anna asked sweetly.
"NO!" came her cousin's reply.
The tour to the Ice Castle on the North Mountain was another exercise in restraint for Anna when Elsa suddenly declared that heights made her feel 'woozy'.
"She built that thing on the highest mountain in Arendelle! The spire alone is almost five hundred feet high! Does she really think Johan is going to fall for this nonsense?" Anna was speechless.
"Uh, Anna, don't look up okay?" Rapunzel quietly asked her while gazing at the staircase made of ice that bridged the chasm.
"Why...?" Anna responded then dropped her jaw as she saw Elsa being carried in Johan's arms as he descended the staircase from the palace.
And so it continued...
To give Prince Johan his due, he showed Anna nothing but courtesy and respect in the days that followed. During the evening meals, he was most attentive to Anna's stories which always brought smiles and laughs from her family and friends.
Since tonight was the final night that Johan would have Elsa's attention exclusively to himself, Anna indeed felt that she should just "let it go" and enjoy the evening. The nearby towns reported that at least a dozen sails could be seen on the horizon. They would make port tomorrow.
The following days would bring dozens of creepy, slimy nobles and royals to her home. But unlike Johan, none of them would have exclusivity to Elsa's attention. "Small Potatoes" Anna giggled to herself.
Anna was smiling when her gaze caught Elsa's. She noticed her sister's complexion was far redder than could account for the last humorous story she just told. Elsa kept avoiding her eyes and kept looking up at the ceiling or down towards her lap. Her eyes became huge when she finally did lock eyes with her and the look of embarrassment that Anna instantly recognized flashed across Elsa's face.
Anna looked beside Elsa to Prince Johan who sat beside her tonight. He was busy talking to Kristoff and Flynn. She then carefully scrutinized that one of his hands was underneath the table on Elsa's side. After following his arm down, she proceeded to glance underneath the table, decorum be damned.
There, Elsa was quietly enduring his presumptive liberties as Prince Johan was gently squeezing the Queen's thigh!
Anna's scream could be heard all the way to the gates of the castle Beyond Arendelle!
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"I want to KILL HIM!" Anna shrieked. "Why are ALL the gorgeous men so deceitful?"
"Well, Kristoff isn't deceitful. He's probably one of the kindest men I've ever met." her cousin said truthfully. "If I wasn't married, I think I might have fallen for this Prince, too,"
"Okay, who are we talking about here?" Anna said while shoving a spoonful of ice-cream into her mouth. "Kristoff? Prince Johan? Elsa?"
Lying beside her, Rapunzel also shovelled a spoonful of chocolate ice-cream into her mouth. "I said Prince, honey. Elsa don't qualify. You've got her stuck in your brain again!" She choked down a swallow of red wine while pouring some more into the glass Anna held out.
Both girls were lying face down and side by side on Anna's bed. A large container of Double Chocolate Ice Cream was in front of them and both were using spoons to eat obscene quantities. Two bottles of red Merlot lay empty on the floor. With their hair up in curlers and both wearing modest cotton pyjamas, it was a typical female slumber party.
"I...I just don't know ...Punzel." Anna slurred slightly. "Is this why Elsa kicked me out of her room tonight?"
"Well, ...no, but you are unfocused, so I kicked Eugene out too so we can have a girls night out."
"I don't know if I can take this anymore, Punzel? He's only been here five days and already, I've missed two of those days while Prince Charming is busy wining, dining, groping and who knows what else to my sister." Anna fretted. Her eyes were only half opened and she could tell her voice was faltering.
In no better shape, Rapunzel actually looked more like Anna's sister than Elsa did. Yes, Rapunzel had green eyes to Anna's blue ones, but with Rapunzel's hair was just as long as Anna's now and having turned gold to boot, she certainly looked like she fit into the same gene pool. Which she actually did.
"You did spend five days with Elsa, just not two of those nights. You know she does take this seriously. You have to trust that she knows what she's doing." Rapunzel playfully hugged her cousin as she tried to placate her. "Look, our lookouts from the nearby towns down the coast have already spotted some sails from around the nearby districts. The first arrivals will be here tomorrow. So let's get a good nights rest so we can help Elsa out as we planned, okay Anna?...Anna...?"
"Zzzzzz...zzzzz, snort, nnnggrrphh,...zzzzz!"
"Nice..." Rapunzel thought as she toasted her cousin and then she too closed her eyes and passed out.
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Much like the day of the Coronation, Arendelle harbour was beginning to get crowded. From his vantage point from one of the lookout towers, Kristoff was able to tell some of the ships by the ensigns and flags they were flying.
Three ships of similar design flew white flags with the Union Jack in the corner canton. One of those flags were red, indicating a member of royalty on board.
He saw ships large and small. Some with two masts and some with three. Some were sleek and fast with only one deck. Others had up to three main decks with canon aboard such as those with flags declaring themselves from the Kingdoms of Spain and Italy.
Two late arrivals, a sloop and a frigate were just making it past the gates of the harbour. They looked relatively new and the flags they flew were unfamiliar to him. The blue canton in the corner appeared to sport a circular symbol. "Hmm, I don't recognize those markings?" he rubbed the whiskers of his scraggly beard.
With a shrug of his shoulders, he headed down the stair case and into the tunnels of the castle walls. "Don't remember ever seeing a flag with Stars and Stripes?"
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AUTHOR NOTES:
1) Arendelle: The Valley of Eagles
The name 'Arendelle' is based on the Norwegian town of Arendal, located in the county of Aust-Agder, to the southwest of the Norwegian capital,
Norwegian, 'Aren' is possibly derived from 'ørn' which means "eagle", and 'delle' is most likely derived from 'dal' which means "valley".
2) USS Constitution is a wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy. Named by President George Washington after the Constitution of the United States of America, she is the world's oldest commissioned naval vessel afloat. Launched in 1797, Constitution was one of six original frigates authorized for construction by the Naval Act of 1794.
3) Nathaniel Pitcher Tallmadge (February 8, 1795 – November 2, 1864) was an American lawyer and politician. He was a U.S. Senator (Whig) from New York and Governor of the Wisconsin Territory.
4) Manifest Destiny: In the 19th century, Manifest Destiny was the widely held belief in the United States that American settlers were destined to expand throughout the continent. Historians have for the most part agreed that there are three basic themes to Manifest Destiny:
i) The special virtues of the American people and their institutions;
ii) America's mission to redeem and remake the west in the image of agrarian America;
iii) An irresistible destiny to accomplish this essential duty.
5) I took a little bit of liberty when I changed the mythical character of a Nymph from Greek and Latin mythology and personified it with a name used to describe a medical condition. Hence the mythical figure Nymphomania, Goddess of Wanton Sex and Lust.
The title of the next Chapter pays tribute to a favourite author of mine. /users/Hi_Im_Elsa/pseuds/Hi_Im_Elsa -at Archive of our own.
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Preview of Chapter 12
HI, I'M ELSA
Anna was not believing a single word! She was like a force of nature, and nothing would change her mind.
Elsa was not amused either, but her reaction to the Scream Incident, as it was now called, was mostly focused on Anna.
She wasn't particularly overjoyed with the liberties that Prince Johan took on her, or more precisely on her inner thigh, but she was after all playing the siren. Anna knew this of course, but the scene at last nights dinner table where the makings of myth and legend.