Frozen Beyond [gxg]

Beyond

Elsa sat in bed, propped up from pillows as she looked out over the dusk painted sky. It had been two days since Crow took Keahi.

And all Elsa could do was wallow in anger. She tried not to, tried to think of how lucky they were that Crow left most of the city unharmed. But she coiled her fingers into the blankets, a muscle working at the edge of her jaw as she replayed what had happened. Again and again.

Anna was busy organizing the repairs and cleanup of the destruction that happened in Crow's wake.

They confined Elsa to bed rest while she recovered. She looked down at her hand; it was wrapped in gauze along with a spot on her shoulder from the burns. Her throat was sore and hoarse, she swallowed painfully past the scratchiness there.

Curling her fingers into the blankets once more, she twisted them harshly as she leaned over and let the curtain of her platinum blonde hair pool around her face and body.

She was angry. Angry that Keahi left without a fight. Angry that Keahi wouldn't let her fight for them.

Angry. Because she couldn't protect her love. Wasn't that what she was? A guardian? A protector? What did she manage to protect?

Nothing.

She wanted to scream. She didn't want to shoulder the emotions silently anymore. She didn't want to be private. For once, she wanted everyone to know just how upset and pissed off she was. She wanted the world to hear her remorse and regret for what had happened.

"Elsa?" A knock at her door had Elsa straightening.

She could feel her cheeks flushed with fury, could feel her hair unruly and wild. She was always put together. Always prim and proper. But today, she was none of that.

It was out of character and it showed by the surprise painted on Anna's face.

Anna sat down on the edge of the bed, smoothing a hand over her dress. "Are you okay, Elsa?"

"No!" She shouted, the action came as a surprise to her as it did Anna. Elsa tossed the blankets back and paced the floor, wrapping her arms across her chest. "Why did she leave without a fight? Was she so quick to lose faith in me?" She dropped her hands and clenched her fists at her side, feeling ice biting at her palms.

She could hear Anna behind her, coming up to rest her head on her back. "You know, she did what she thought was best to save you. Matthias told me what happened. Crow would have killed you. Honestly, we are lucky the only thing he came here for, this time, was Keahi." Anna came to stand in front of Elsa, clutching Elsa's hands in her own. "I asked Ki to bring you back to me and she did. I cannot blame her for keeping my sister alive."

Elsa looked up at Anna, turning her head away and glancing down at Arendelle. Men and women ran around the marketplace, wood and tools scattered about as the echoing of a hammer started in a rhythm. "I'm just so angry."

"I'm glad," Anna responded.

Elsa jerked her head up to look back at her, confused. "What?"

"I only get to see little trickles of emotion from you. I wish you would show me more sometimes."

Elsa heaved out an exhale and ran a hand through her bed hair. Finally stringing it back into a ponytail. "What should I do?" She asked absently as she gazed out into the fjord.

"Well, if it were me, I'd already be on a boat after Kristoff." Anna came to stand on the other side of Elsa with a mischievous grin spread across her lips. "So when are you going after her?"

Elsa chewed on her lower lip, she would have gone after them days ago if she hadn't been hurt. Now, she was split in two. What if she left and couldn't find them, and while she was away Crow came back? It would have been pointless to leave in the first place. If she stayed, chances were Crow would eventually be back and maybe that was the way to get Keahi back? But she couldn't sit on her hands and do nothing.

She had a duty to protect the forest and Arendelle. But she had such a violent need to go take Keahi back. There was no way she'd be able to sit around on a guess that Crow would be back to Arendelle. And during that time, what if something happened to Keahi? Crow wasn't exactly sane.

She never thought of herself as possessive. But Keahi was hers.

Crow couldn't have her. "But I have to stay—"

Anna jabbed an index finger at her, "if you say you have to stay here to protect me, I don't want to hear it. I followed you up the north mountain, survived a frozen heart, a lousy ex-boyfriend, went into fire after you, thought I lost you and suffered through your identity crisis. I'm fine."

Elsa just blinked at her, "I...wasn't expecting you to say that."

"Join the club, I'll have Matthias prepare a ship for you," Anna told briskly. She didn't give Elsa an option as she left the room.

Elsa leaned against the bed, looking past the fjord and beyond Arendelle.

Her heart raced, she'd never been beyond their lands. Never sailed past the wave breaks.