Heated Ice (Helsa)

Chapter Ninety-Three:

It was the night Hans and Elsa agreed to tell everyone of Elsa's pregnancy. Elsa was extremely nervous, making herself nauseous from her anxiety and her pregnancy probably added to it. Elsa was pacing down the hallway and realized where she was. She was right near the painting of her parents, the one that's been covered by a black veil since their death. Elsa drew the veil back from the painting and stroked the painting, feeling small brush strokes under her fingers and smiled at the faces of her parents.

Elsa took after her mother's looks and Anna took more after their father's looks but Elsa stood out with her platinum hair and pale skin. Her mom always said that's what made her special compared to everyone else, that and her gift. To Elsa it was always her father who would tell her not to use her powers and to keep them hidden. Before the accident with Anna her mother would sit at the lake and let Elsa freeze it over for a bit so the girls could ice skate together but then her father would come out and say it needs to be hidden or it was starting to get out of hand. Elsa loved her father and never resented him for what he did but she wished he wouldn't have kept her away from Anna for most of her life, she never wanted to shut Anna out or make her feel unwanted or unloved by her big sister.

"Elsa?" Hans voice broke her depressing thoughts and she snapped her head up, looking over to see Hans a few feet away. He looked at the painting for a second and gave it a confused look but he came closer and examined it for a second longer. "Who are they?"

"These are my parents. I'm surprised you haven't seen this." She said and gave her parents a small smile.

"I've never been down in this hallway before." He said and studied their faces. Elsa definitely got her looks from her mother and Anna from their father but who did she get her hair color from? He thought then voiced the question to her.

"I don't think my hair is this color because of my powers or anything but I know there are paintings of our family and a few women have hair like mine." She smiled and looked up to him for a second then back to the painting.

"Your mother and father look like wonderful people, Elsa. They really do." He smiled and looked down, noticing her little baby bump. "I wonder what our child will look like." He said and she shrugged, a small smile forming.

"I don't know." She said and dropped the veil back over the painting. "I think they'll be beautiful or handsome no matter what. We should head out to the dining hall."

"You're right." He nodded and they started walking back through the halls but in silence, until Hans decided to break it. "Can I tell you something that you can't tell anyone? Ever." He said and she nodded slowly. "I wish when I first came to Arendelle that I would have fallen for you instead of hurting you and Anna."

"I don't." Elsa said simply, as if that wouldn't hurt. "Only because you had wrong intentions. You didn't want to find love, you wanted to find a princess or royalty."

"That's true." He nodded. "But I'm glad how everything has worked out. I'm a changed man, I'm married to the most beautiful and amazing person in the world, who also happens to be carrying our child. I don't deserve you."

"Shush." She snapped lightly but grabbed his hand for him to know she wasn't angry. "We deserve each other after the hell we've endured." She said and he nodded. She was right, they both lived similar lives and now they had each other.

They walked around the corner to the hallway where the dining hall was and could hear everyone chatting amongst themselves. Hans could mostly hear his father talking loudly and that only made his blood boil, he was pretty sure he poisoned Elsa but had to find some sort of proof or make him admit it. He just didn't know how to go about it.

Hans and Elsa walked into the dining hall and everyone kept talking except Anna waved happily over to Elsa. Elsa left Hans side quickly and ran over to Anna, hugging her tightly.

"I take it that Hans took it well." Anna said and watched as Hans hugged his one brother then talked to a few others in a group.

"Yeah," Elsa said and pulled away from Anna, standing beside her. "He did." She said and looked around the room. Henry, Hans' father, was sitting where he sat when they announced their engagement but Laila wasn't here this time. Susan sat next to him but wasn't paying much attention to him or the conversation he was having with her. Some of Hans' brothers sat in the seats from the engagement dinner but some were up and talking with Hans near the fireplace.

"That's good, really good." Anna said and smiled. "I bet he'll be a great dad, he'll just have to get used to it."

"Yeah, I think he'll be a good dad too. He's just so paranoid I'll get poisoned again and this time it'll kill me, and believe me I'm worried too but we just need to find out who did it."

"I'm sure Hans will figure it out soon enough." Anna nodded and looked to certain people she thought could have done it. There was either Susan or Henry, then there was Laila or Alan but he was trying to change and Elsa believed that people could change. After all, Hans did.

"I just don't know how much longer I can take his whole family being here. It's exhausting having to deal with everything and everyone."

"Talk to Hans about it, I'm sure he'd ask them to leave politely." Anna shrugged.

"Probably but I don't need them angry at us." Elsa sighed and adjusted her dress around her body. Hans locked eyes with Elsa and without really saying much they both agreed it was time to start dinner and get this news out to everyone.