Anna heard the door close behind her. She waited a few moments so she could be sure that Elsa and Rapunzel were out of earshot. She turned sharply to her mother with a furious red face. "What… did you… DO!" She yelled.
Aphrodite's eyes shot wide at Anna's voice. "What!? What do you mean 'what did I do'!? I-I didn't do anything!" Aphrodite reasoned. She really was telling the truth. It wasn't her fault she never knew that Elsa was sensitive towards such a word.
"Oh yeah!? I just came in here and found Elsa broken all over, on the ground! Oh and guess what!?" She said sarcastically, "You were the only one with her in the room, as I recall!"
"I didn't t-tell her anything! I just asked her how she was! I-I wanted to know if she was okay!" Aphrodite tried to make her daughter understand her worries for Elsa, but Anna's wrath already took over.
"Don't you lie to me! I always did ask her all that and she NEVER reacted this way!" Anna said and started to approach her mother. "I heard her say 'Monster' many times… Please tell me you did not dare call her that." She said through gritted teeth and closed her eyes for a bit so she could try and calm herself down.
Aphrodite's eyes shot wide as she finally realized why the sudden episode happened.
That MONSTER!
She remembered what she said before. And then, everything became clear to her now. Did she think that I called her that?!... Oh no.
"Are you afraid of her already, mother?!" Anna started again when she saw how her mother was lost in thoughts.
Aphrodite's head shot up and she looked at her daughter in shock, "What?!"
"You've been acting really strange lately! What is happening to you!? What are you hiding?! Ever since Elsa came here and you've been hiding in here all the time!... What mother!? Does she scar you that much!? Huh?! Tell me!"
"You don't understand! I'm not afraid of her! I-I'm just-" Aphrodite tried to say but she was cut off again by Anna's rage.
"You just want to bring everyone down." Anna shook her head at her mother, "Did you act all stern and cold in front of her like you make yourself look like?!" Anna approached her mother even more. Her teeth were gritted and her fists were clenched tight.
"N-No-"
"Did you use a sick way to break her like that, then?!"
"What!? N-No! I would never do that! I care for her more than you know!" Aphrodite defended and shoved her hood down when she started to sweat from the slowly rising anger and stress.
"OH, REALLY!? Well look how that ended up for you!... FOR HER! I've been trying to help her ever since the day she came here, Mother! She's already broken enough! And I'm trying as much as I can to help her stand on her feet again!"
"C-Could you just… Listen to me!" Aphrodite wanted to explain to her daughter how she did not mean to say the word Monster to Elsa and that she just meant it to her unreasonable father.
"NO! I've had enough listening to you! Can't you see that she is already scared! It would take forever to just make her even speak! Do you realize what you've done!? You just hurt her more than you'll ever know!"
