Polar Opposites

Chapter 1

Derivative work of fiction, characters do not belong to me, I make no profit. Story ©2015. NOT AT ALL safe for work, and includes a bit of -cough- risque behaviour. Elsanna, but not incestuous. You have been warned.

Yet another Frozen fic ! Here, I shall transcribe:

Anonymous asked: What if Anna was on the aromantic spectrum and thought she would never know what true love was? What if Elsa was on the [asexual] spectrum and had to conceal it?

Jessica answered: AroAnna and AceElsa. What do you think, high school or college AU? Hmm... *flips imaginary coin* Let's say college, and JUST THIS ONCE it's non-Icest. I know, I don't normally do that, haha.

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"It's bitterly cold up there."

That's what everyone told Anna Zielinski when she announced that she had taken the generous scholarship to study prelaw at Juneau University. Alaska was cold. Of course it was; that's the main thing everybody knows about it, aside from the Sarah Palin thing. It had been one of her reach schools, right after Harvard and Yale and the other Ivies. But none of the other universities had offered her a full ride. Thus, Alaska won. She'd just pack warmly.

Secretly, she was hoping something else might warm up within her when she got there, in a new surrounding, without the preconceptions of her peers. An elusive creature that her best friend Jessie had found with that Lightyear jock their senior year. Maybe all her past "boyfriends", if you could call them that, were right, and she really was just a cold, emotionless fish. But how could she know for sure if she never tried?

As she discovered her first month there, she definitely didn't have any problem with sex. Of course, she already knew that from prom, but now there had been another boy or two. And a girl. And somebody who had given her such good head that she didn't even care what gender they were, if they had one at all. But besides friendship and useful warm appendages, she didn't feel any other connection to them - which frustrated them to no end, of course. Guilt for not feeling anything else was there, most definitely. That wasn't enough to change her heart.

In fact, she had almost entirely given up on anything else happening when the study date happened that changed everything.

Elsa Caulfield wasn't pre-law. She was actually going to uni for something in the humanities; history, or whatever. But they both had to squeak through the same calc course without failing abysmally, and when both she and Anna made equal sighs of utter frustration during one endless lecture, they caught each other's eyes and grinned. That led to the all-night study date for the midterm, fuelled by Red Bull and desperation, that had them making another kind of date.

Nothing with a romantic slant. Anna had given up on that, anyway, and even though she had slept with a woman she didn't consider herself anything besides straight. If she was anything at all. No, they were just going to get together after the midterm and watch a movie, help de-stress. Totally casual.

Or it was supposed to be.

"To be honest, I thought it was going to be way better."

"Me, too," Anna sighed as they pushed their way through the crowd into the campus coffee house. It had been a long film, and they desperately needed a recharge. "Did you see how cheesy the effects were?"

Pulling off her cap, she shook out her blonde bangs so that they fell delicately to either side of her head. "To call those 'effects' is stretching it, I think. I could have done better with Instagram."

"Two caramel macchiatos, please? One with soy milk." As she took out her wallet, Elsa tried to head her off again, and she grunted. "Dude..."

"No, I insist."