Elsabeth

Anna was really trying to be more careful, to pay attention when she walked, to remember to give one step at a time instead of trying to just run, but it didn’t matter, she could walk in s straight surface and still trip on the air. Anna wasn’t exactly sure what happened, one second she was watching her sister, and now, she wasn’t sure, Anna opened her eyes slowly and saw her sister in front of her. “Hey…. Elsa….” She spoke soft and slow, her head was hurting, and when she placed her hand on it, she could feel something warm, when she moved her hand toward her eye, seeing some of her blood, the first thing she tried to do was to hide it from her sister. “I’m okay…” She said trying to sit

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“Hey Anna.” Elsabeth tried carefully, she managed to calm herself down even though she had already seen the blood on Anna’s head. She felt guilty that Anna didn’t think of telling her probably because she overreated in the past. But she decided to be a big sister again, and that meant bringing her sister to the hospital because she might need stitches. “Come on, we are getting you in the car. Use this towel to press it against your wound.” She offered Anna a soft smile. “You aren’t fine sis, but that’s okay - we’ll manage.”

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“I was half way right,” Nani replied, hoping that a joking nature would aid in winning Elsa over. “I’m great, thanks! Headless chicken as always, but that’s not new.” She nodded at Elsa’s question about her sister, smiling faintly. “Yep. Lilo’s my sister. I hope it’s all good things she talks about.” Nani loved her sister dearly, but their dynamic could often be a little strained. 

“Anna?” Nani repeated, frowning slightly. She didn’t think she needed Anna instead, and had to wonder why that was Elsa’s first assumption. “No, no, I think I need to speak to you actually. You run the place, right?”

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“You were.” Elsabeth nodded. It wasn’t that Elsabeth lacked a sense of humor, she sometimes just forgot to laugh at the joke as she seriously listened to the other. “A busy bee, I can appreciate that. I’m a bit of a workaholic myself.” Elsa snickered. “Though I’m on my break, hence why I went on the ice.” She started to remove her skates. “Yeah she says you are a bit stern but that you mean well.” Elsa admitted to Nani. 

“Oh, sorry I’m just used to people needing Anna. But yes, I’m this place owner. Why?”

Lucius had just been on his way out of the Amphitheater when he saw her zooming across the ice, faster than he’d ever seen anyone do it before. It was…mesmerizing. Which had to have been why his feet had stopped moving. He couldn’t look away, his hand covering his mouth when she looked like she was going to ju— “Oh, shit,” he breathed, maybe a little too loud, when she landed it. Damn. He cleared his throat then, offering a kinda embarrassing wave. “Hey, again. We should probably stop meeting like this,” meaning, him happening to walk out of  a door while she was trying to have a minute alone. “That though… That was very cool.”

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Perhaps it was due to Elsa being in the rush of the jump but she skated over to Lucius and grinned. “Thanks.” She felt a wave of pride coming over her. She hadn’t skated in so long and here she was skating again, jumping again and dancing on the ice again. She didn’t have to worry about a thing, the world hadn’t ended. The theatre was still standing and Anna was no where in sight. She found the corners of her mouth widen. “Are you here to try the ice as well, I must say it’s absolutely perfect today.”

Anna didn’t know Elsabeth was on the ice, if she knew she would have sat down quietly without moving a muscle, she was walking around, trying to solve a few things when she saw her sister, Anna stopped and smiled. Elsa seemed perfect like she was one with the ice, and she was proud of her for doing this again. Not wanting to disturb her Anna gave a step back, trying her best to get back into the room quietly, but as always she could never do things quiet and a few seconds Elsa said yes, Anna tripped, falling from the top of the stairs and rolling down until she was near the rink.

Elsa watched the scene unfold in horror, it was like a scene of a movie and before she knew it she skated to the side where Anna had fallen and basically jumped off the ice not even taking the skates off. Her whole body was filled with adrenaline and she had to remind herself to breathe, because yes Elsabeth humans need to breathe to live. Her therapist and her were working on that bit, so she did a quick breathing exercise before looking at Anna’s wounds. “Anna did you hit your head, are you bleeding?”

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Anna smiled at her proposition. “I’m on it.” She didn’t care pillow forts were for kids or not, she was going to have fun with her sister and that was all that matters, besides there were a few things you were never too old to do. Anna started to grab all the pillows and blankets she could find, she wanted to build the best fort ever for her sister. “Yes to all.” Anna answered, she loved marshmallows on it, in fact as she normally made the drinks she ended up eating half of the bag, and it was always fun to challenge herself and see how many she could fit in her mouth at once. As she build the fort she was being careful not to trip knowing her sister would be worry if she did, in no time, it was done. “What you think?” She asked, knowing she made it very big and fluffy.

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Elsa did as Anna instructed and put cinnomon, marshmallows and whipped cream on her hot coco. For herself she settled for whipped cream and some dark chocolate powder. She liked things a little bit more bitter. A reason why she needed coffee before going to work. She waited a bit for Anna to create the space before knocking on the door (even though it was her own room) entered and smiled. “It’s perfect - well it will when I put these blankets on top so we are warm and snug.” She placed the hot coco on the table and quickly went her way to get the blankets. When she returned she didn’t really know what to say so she sat down stroking one of the pillows trying hard to think of a topic they could talk about. “So uh...hows love?”

“Elsa you can’t blame yourself every time I get hurt.” Anna said, she took a deep breath and even being cold she took her sweater off to prove her point. Anna’s arms was covered in small injures, nothing serious but many wounds for small accidents, bumps and falls. “I get hurt Elsa, that’s part of whom I’m.” She chuckled hoping her sister wouldn’t take everything so serious. “You being happy won’t hurt me, well not more than the usual.” She joked. “Besides…” She said grabbing her hand and squeezing lightly. “Even if I do get hurt when you smile, it would be worth it.” She said with a small smile. “You deserve to be happy.” That was all she wanted, she wanted her sister to be happy, smile and enjoy her life.

She was happy to know her sister wasn’t going to push her away again, this was the first time they hug in such a long time that Anna didn’t want to let go anytime soon, even being freezing without her sweater she preferred Elsa’s warm hug. “I’m always here for you, anything you need. You’re my favorite person in this entire world.”

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She couldn’t but that was exactly what she had been doing throughout all these years. Every bruise was her fault for being happy, wasn’t it? Her eyes fell on the bruises and she had to swallow because it was a lot to take in for her. “But-” She didn’t want her sister to hurt. Her eyes couldn’t focus, flickered between Anna’s arms and her face and just didn’t seem to be able to settle on something. Her eyes fell downward when Anna said that it would be worth hurting for her happiness. “That’s not your job, my happiness isn’t-” That wasn’t Anna’s job, that was Elsa’s job. Elsa had to make sure her sister was happy, her happiness didn’t matter. She lost that right years ago. “I don’t - deserve it Anna. I don’t deserve to be happy - I - can’t.” It started to become hard to breathe for her. Every word was a struggle. “What would mom and dad think...” They’d treat her like a dissapointment.

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Dory smiled as she believed the woman wholeheartedly. “Oh that’s what that means. You would not believe how many people I thought had asthma in this town.” Relieved that someone had finally told her, or maybe she was told before and just forgot. 

“I’m no doctor but I would like to help. Sometimes I get really lonely feeling like I can be a burden to others. It helps sometimes when I talk to someone who doesn’t make me feel that way.” It must have taken this woman a lot of courage to admit that to Dory. Even for this upbeat fishy anxiety was hard to talk about. The times she’d feel so lonely from getting lost and no one was willing to help. It could feel like the whole ocean was crashing down on her. Lucky she’s made so many friends in this town that love her and will take her home when she gets lost. But she didn’t recognize this woman and maybe she needed what Dory was so fortunate to have: friends. Already covered in snow Dory reached her hand out to the woman standing before her. “Would you like to build a snow castle with me?” 

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Elsa couldn’t help but contain a smile when she heard Dory talk, her naive demeanor had something charming. “Well I think the hospital would have their hands full had that been the case.” She chuckled, already feeling less anxious as she had before she walked out in the snow. 

Elsa nodded. “Yeah I have been pushing people away, because I believed that if I was happy bad things would happen. I hurt my sister a lot...” She couldn’t really say why, though she knew exactly why she believed those things. She felt a lot of regret over how things have been over the years, drowning herself in work to keep their parents dreams alive. And it had been hard, because she couldn’t voice her thoughts out loud. It’s like what her dad told her when she had a competition: conceil don’t feel don’t let them show. She always had to smile. She just had to, how hard things were she had to get through it and perhaps that had damaged her more than she thought. She pushed everyone away in the hope it would give them happiness, but it left her lonely. 

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Nani hugged herself close, keeping near the wall in a sad attempt at keeping herself warm. She laughed at Elsa’s comment. It seemed rather frivolous to be worrying about having a room with a theme, she thought, when it seemed much more pressing to make sure everyone had any room at all. Nani was honestly just glad to have a night of not worrying about cooking dinner.

“You got a themed room?” Nani asked, quirking an eyebrow. She had been given a family room, but wasn’t complaining about it. “What’s your theme? Ocean view? Rock Climbing?”

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One would think that Elsabeth was underdressed in the dress she was wearing. She certainly didn’t seem to be dressed for winter. But she was used to the cold due to the amphitheatre. She was underdressed when she did competitions as well, and dressing lightly reminded her of those days. Those days she missed. 

“Yes, I did. Guess I had some luck.” Which was a rarity to her. “Mermaids.” She softly smiled. “I got the mermaid room.”