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Chapter 14

*Elsa's P.O.V*
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It was almost sun down. I was getting worried.
"I'm going to go after her." I said as I made my way to the door. Anna grabbed my arm.
"No. It isn't sun down yet. She's coming back." I heard footsteps. I let out a sigh of relief. It was her. I swung the door open and pulled her in for a tight hug.
"I'm so glad your okay."
"I am too."
"What happened?"
She smiled as she pulled back from my grasp.
"Not much. I will get what I need. At a price though."
"What's the price?" Anna asked
"My heart."
I gasped.
"What?!"
She sighed.
"It's complicated." She looked me in the eyes.
"You and I need to talk later though." I nodded.
"For now, I need to get you two back to Arendelle. I won't be able to stay. I need to get the things I need and give her my heart."
"No." I whispered. "I can't let you do that."
"It isn't your decision. I'm doing this for you. For the future of Arendelle."
I shook my head.
"It isn't worth you losing your heart.Losing your ability to love. It's not worth me losing you."
She kissed my forehead.
"I will still be able to feel, to love. But not fully. It's hard to explain. Just know that no matter what happens you will always be my snowflake."
"And you will always be my Firefly."
I kissed her softy.
"Don't do this. Don't give her your heart."
"If you say please... I'll call off the deal..."
I smiled.
"You will?" She laughed.
"Yes."
"Then... Please..." I gave her my best puppy dog eyes.
"Oh I hate when you give me those eyes. But... of course I will. I'm going to give it to you."
I gave her a confused look as she brought my hand up to her chest where her heart was.
"Yes... it's safer with you."
"I- I can't take your heart."
"You've stolen it already... Why don't I give it to you properly."
She pushed my hand into her chest I could feel my hand graze her heart. She hissed in pain. I quickly apologized.
"Shh... it's alright. Now just wrap your hand around it and pull."
"I can't."
"You can. Now... either pull it out or... move your hand a little lower, your majesty." She smirked. I blushed as I gripped my hand around her heart and pulled. She gasped in pain as I held it in my hands. It glowed a bright red. I turned it over and examined it. There was a long jagged line along the back. I traced my finger along that line. I heard a scream it was Elizabeth.
"Please don't touch that!"
I quickly pulled my hand away.
"Why? What is that?"
"It is where I had my heart broken... When touched, it sends the worst pain imaginable."
"How did it break?"
"Uh... I'd rather not talk about it. All that matters is that now, you have complete control over me."
I didn't want to rid her of freedom or free will.
"Now you can make me say anything do anything and if you ask me a question I can only answer truthfully."
I couldn't handle having that amount of power over someone. Especially not as free a spirit as Elizabeth.
"No. I refuse. I can't take your free will like that. Keep it. You deserve more. And just the fact that you would allow me to have any and all power over you calms any doubt that I may have."
She shoved her heart back into her chest.
"You know that means I'm going to have to give Jenn my heart instead."
I gave her a disappointed look but her expression stayed blank. I rolled my eyes and gave up. She was one of, if not the, most stubborn people I have ever met.
"What does she need it for?"
"She is trying to enact a curse. One that requires a heart from the truest love."
"I don't understand. Why you?"
"She believes that you and I are true lovers. The truest love to be more precise."
My face fell.
"So you are going to give all possibility of us to some witch who will use ot for Gods only know what."
"I don't want to... Believe me. I don't. But I have to. The future of Arendelle is riding on this. Unless you want to give up ANY possibility of us being together and find a suitor. Be my guest."
She reached out and tried to grab my hand. I quickly pulled away.
"Oh c'mon. Don't do this to me now... Don't push me away."
"It hurts less if I do..." I said as I felt tears threaten to run down my cheeks.
"What? Hurts who less? I'm sorry but last time I checked you weren't the one who is going to have their heart ripped out of their chest!"
This filled me with rage.
"I might as well be! I loved you and you are willing to throw it all away because of what the council said?!"
"I'm not throwing anything away Elsa! I am doing what is best! You act like I'll suddenly lose every ounce of love I have for you, when actually I am doing all this to preserve it! And I don't give a damn about what the council says!"
"If you love me as much as you say you do then answer me this! Why did you leave?! Why for thirteen years did you suddenly disappear?!"
There. I finally said it. Truth be told that was the reason I was mad. It was also the reason that I hid my feelings for her for so long. I was afraid I would lose her again.
"I had no choice!! After you hit Anna with your magic, your father ordered me to be sent home! I wanted to come back, I wanted to be with you. But, things got complicated! I was crowned queen then I just gave up!"
"You could've tried harder! Or at least tried to contact us in some way! Do you have any idea how scared I was?! Any idea how many times I wished desperately to just sit and talk to you like we used to?! I shut myself away for so long and all I could think about was you! And you didn't even try and write me a letter, try and come back to Arendelle?!"
"You think I didn't try?! Elsa I wrote to you every day for nine years straight! I would ask every week when the mail came if there had been any news from you! I eventually gave up figuring that you either hated me or were to busy to give me the time of day! I hated you! I absolutlty dispised you.Or at least I tried to convince myself I did. But no matter what happened, I couldn't help that I was falling hopelessly in love with you!"
I was stunned. I had no idea.
"Y-You wrote every day?"
She nodded.
"For nine years?"
She nodded again. I gave a soft smile.
"But you said you hated me... If you hated me... why did you keep writing. Why waste all that time and parchment?"
She scoffed.
"You don't get it."
"Then try and help me understand."
She put her hands on her hips and began tapping her foot.
"I hated you for shutting me out. I hated you for never telling me anything about your powers. But, I loved you for everything else. I loved your smile. I loved the cute way you cover your mouth when you laugh and that little twinkle in your beautiful sapphire eyes that goes along with it. I loved the way you would come to me at all hours of the night just to talk because you had a nightmare. I would think about all those things because... I couldn't stop myself from falling deeply, madly, uncontrollably and completely in love with you."
She sighed in relief of being able to get all that off her chest. I didn't know what to say. Was there even anything to say? No there wasn't. I couldn't control myself any longer. I grabbed her by the collar of her shirt and pulled her on for a long and passionate kiss.
Air suddenly became a problem. We pulled away and pressed our foreheads together. She gave me one light peck on the nose.
"I love you, snowflake." She whispered. I smiled.
"I love you too, firefly."