"Louis, don't get frustrated. It'll only make it harder to control," Elsa told Louis, watching him moan with anger.
"I know," He mumbled under his breath, raking his hand through his coppery hair, trying to calm himself down.
"Try again," Elsa instructed.
Louis nodded, holding up his hand and aiming it at the block of ice in the middle of the room. Closing his eyes, he focused on making the ice melt. He thought about summer and how icicles drip and drip till they are liquid water once again, how the leaves on trees and grass turn green after the snow seeps into the ground. He focused in all his energy and warmth to making that ice melt.
But it wasn't enough.
"Why won't it just melt already!" Louis yelled at his mother.
"It takes time, Louis." She assured him.
"I don't have time! If i don't get this under control soon, i'm a goner!" He warned, his pale face turning a pale shade of pink.
"Conceal it."
"Don't start this again."
"Don't feel it."
"Stop."
"Don't let it show."
"I SAID STOP!" Louis lashed out. Icicles fell, mid-air, from the cealing, landing in a perfect circle around the Queen.
Looking at his mother's shocked face, Louis became frantic.
"I-I- I'm sorry. I didn't--" Louis stuttered before running out of the ball-room, where Elsa was attempting to teach him how to control his powers, leaving his mother in what looked like a cage of ice.
"Louis, come back!" Elsa called out as he ran.
But he kept going, he roamed the halls trying to find somewhere, anywhere he could find refuge away from this terrible curse. And on his journey, he ran into his Aunt, otherwise known as Princess Anna.
"What's wrong?" She asked, pulling his arm as he tried to get away from her.
"Nothing," He mumbled.
"Yes there is, come here."
Louis stopped in his tracks, turning around to look at her. That was an order, and Louis learned a long time ago that what Anna says goes.
"Tell me what's wrong," She ordered, her blue eyes looking into his, giving him all her attention, the way she always has.
"I can't control the curse. It's getting worse," He gave in.
"It'll get easier," She grabbed his hand, rubbing it between both of hers gently, soothingly.
"You've been saying that for years, and it still hasn't gotten any better."
"Because i have faith that one day it will. Maybe not today, or tommorow, or even a year from now, but eventually it will."
"How do you know?"
"Because Elsa went through the same thing."
"Tell me about it? Mom never talks about how she got her powers under control." Louis asked, grabbing Anna by her shoulders and shaking her gently.
"There isn't much to tell." She shook her head.
Louis gave that look, the 'that's bullshit' look.
"Alright fine, i'll keep it simple. Elsa froze all of Arendelle and my heart before she was able to get her stuff together," She said, smiling at the memory.
"What made her get her stuff together?"
"An act of true love."
Louis snorted, it all sounded so cliche.
"What, it's true. An act of true love gave her the ability to unfreeze Arendelle and bring back summer," Anna punched his arm playfully.
"Sure." Louis teased.
"Make fun of me all you want, but one day it might be what you need."
"What, to unfreeze Arendelle and bring back summer?"
"No, an act of true love."
"I highly doubt that." Louis smirked.
"Just sayin'."
And Anna walked away, leaving Louis to his thoughts, which were clouded with wonder of whether or not what Anna said was realistic and what exactly let his mother control her powers as well as she does now.
But until he could find that out, only one thing was on his mind:
Conceal it. Don't feel it. Don't let it show.
