Who: Anna, Elsa What: Elsa shows off her powers to Anna! Sister bonding. When: Sometime in December. Where: Their flat! Ratings/Warnings: 5/5 Adorbs. Status: Complete!
She didn’t know how it had happened or how she’d done it but she was certain she’d frozen her shower. When she stepped out, she stepped out and into a snowy, wintery landscape, and looked up to see a gorgeous ice castle. Her ice castle. She explored it for what seemed like hours, but just as suddenly as it started she stepped through a door and was once again standing in the bathroom.
After pulling on a robe, she snuck into her sister’s room and shook her shoulder. “Anna….do you… want to build a snowman?”
It had been a long study session the night before, which was obvious from the books and notebooks that were strewn on the bed. Anna'd fallen asleep on her textbook and was currently using it as a pillow.
Her hair was a mess, and at least one pen was tangled in it. Anna reached a hand up to scratch at her cheek, then flailed it in Elsa's direction. "Snowmaaaaan?" She mumbled, sleepily.
At least she hadn’t ruined Anna’s homework with sudden ice and wetness. Elsa chewed on her lip, and nudged the adorable Anna again. “You know, like we used to do when we were little?”
For some reason this was suddenly Very Important.
"Nmm." Anna responded. That could have been a negative grunt or a positive grunt, it wasn't really clear. She rolled onto her back, and stretched a bit. After a gigantic yawn, Anna went still and appeared to have fallen back to sleep.
Three seconds later her hand waved again, as if it was trying to reassure someone but wasn't sure what direction that person was actually in, "I'm... I'm totally awake..."
Elsa frowned, then pulled up Anna’s blankets and sent a gust of cold wind right up her night shirt. “Now I know you are!”
"GAHH!" Anna shouted. She sprang up from the bed, eyes wide open. "I really am thank you that was FREEZING!" Why was Elsa sending gusts of cold wind anywhere anyway? "That was way mean, Elsaaaa. I was so warm and snuggly."
“And now you’re up.” Elsa sat on the bed, smiling teasingly at her sister. “The sky isn’t awake yet, but I don’t think that matters right now.”
Anna puckered her brows at Elsa. All of this sounded so familiar, but she wasn't sure why. Had she ever mentioned the sky being awake before? That sounded like something she would have done when they were little. "What time is it even..."
She was so confused. There were crunchies in her eyes, and she rubbed at them as she got to her feet. "I think we need some hot cocoa. Is it really snowing out?" Anna recalled a mention of building a snowman.
“Five AM.” Elsa smiled at Anna, rubbing her hands together and hoping she could make it snow a little. “And it’s not snowing yet, but it will be.” She bounced off the bed, in just such a good mood that there was a spring in her step. Everything felt so right. “Lets brew up that cocoa.”
But it will be. For some reason that sounded familiar too, but Anna was so tired that she didn't really feel like questioning it. Elsa was in a better mood than Anna had seen her in in a while, and she just wanted to savor it. Even if it was Five AM and her sister was officially crazy.
"Isn't it me who used to wake you up at 5am?" She asked, as she stuffed her feet into her slippers and started drowsily heading towards the door. Hot cocoa did sound really good all of a sudden.
Really the only other thing that had put Elsa in this good a mood had been talking about Varda but she Would Not Talk About That. She raced ahead of Anna to get the hot cocoa prepared. Her fingers were itching to really let go. She just had this sensation of power and part of her was afraid but part of her wasn’t, she just remembered that Anna loved snow. And she wanted more than anything to see Anna’s face light up.
She bounced in place. “Hurry!”
Anna laughed. Elsa's excitement was addicting, even if she was still half asleep. "Alright, alright, I'm hurrying!"
She wasn't sure where she was hurrying TO, exactly, but she grabbed her cocoa mug and cradled it against her. The cocoa smelled amazing and the cup was nice and warm (which was good, because their flat was freezing all of a sudden), and was that-- "OOo, Marshmallows!"
“I know marshmallows are your favorite.” She tweaked Anna’s nose, then padded out to the patio. It was small, but the view wasn’t bad and most importantly she could make it snow on just the balcony. She glanced back at Anna, grinning, then wriggled her fingers and made the magic happen.
As the snowflakes started to float down, Anna's mouth dropped and her mug of hot cocoa was in serious danger of dropping. But the hot cocoa was super important, and her grip clenched onto the thing. It helped her get a mental grip on what was just happening, too. Elsa had just wiggled her fingers and now there was snow!?
"THIS IS AMAZING!" Anna shouted. She'd completely forgotten that it was early in the morning and that she might wake someone up. "How long have you been able to-- Can we really build a snowman!?"
“Shh shh!” Elsa held up her finger to Anna’s mouth. “Indoor voice! And yes, we can build a snowman! I…” She looked down at her hands. “I don’t know, it feels like I’ve always had this power, but I know I haven’t. But it feels like I have. Like I can do so much more if I just let myself.”
"Is it kind of crazy that I feel like I might have known?" Anna asked, while bouncing on her heels. Elsa having magical snow making powers was so very cool, and some part of her remembered making snowmen with her before. Late nights pretending to ice skate on a ballroom floor covered in Elsa's ice, jumping into piles of snow light as pillows...
But that had never happened. Why did she remember it? "It's so strange, maybe I dreamed about it or something. OH! We're gonna need a carrot! We can't make Olaf without a carrot."
“It feels like it’s always been that way,” Elsa agreed. Except different. She felt so isolated when she remembered the way it had been. She shook herself out of it. “There’s one in the fridge!” She ran into the kitchen, grabbed the carrot and ran back. “Okay okay, let me see if I can magic us up Olaf!”
She wriggled her fingers and nervously tried to build a snowman. He formed up easily enough, and she bounced on her heels. “I did it!”
"You really did!" Anna let out a little cheer and then threw her arms around her sister and squeezed. "This is so cool! Imagine what all you could do with this! We could have snow on Christmas, or decorate our patio with cute little icicles, and our drinks will never get warm! And oooo, you could make ice sculptures!"
She let Elsa go and kneeled down on the ground to waggle Olaf's arms, "He's Olaf and he likes warm hugs!"
“Or all of the above!” Elsa clasped her hands together. The idea of making sculptures was an appealing one, but she was distracted by Anna and Olaf. Tears brimmed in her eyes as she watched her sister. For reasons she couldn’t explain, it was making her so emotional. “Give him a hug!”
"Should I do that?" Anna peered up at Elsa from where she was kneeling, then glanced back over at the snowman. "I don't want to melt him!"
Of course she was less worried about getting snow all over herself, or how cold that was likely to be. Olaf was too important to melt, and that was the main thing.
“I’ll keep him cold enough, he won’t melt.” For some reason Elsa thought that she never wanted Olaf to melt. Like he was a part of her in ways she didn’t have words for. She smiled at her sister, ecstatic to see her like this.
"Well..." Anna clasped her hands together for a few seconds, nervous for some reason she couldn't quite state. But She loved Olaf, she felt like he was some kind of little brother or something. So much more than a snowman. That was probably weird? But so was being woken up in the middle of the night so that your sister could use her new ice powers to make you a snow shower on your balcony.
So really, who was keeping track?
She wrapped her arms around the snowman and gave him a big, warm hug. The kind of hug she figured Olaf would have loved. It made her own insides light up a bit, and she giggled.
It made Elsa’s heart melt. She clutched her hands in front of her chest, watching her sister hug the snowman. She remembered them being younger, and Anna hugging Olaf. It didn’t make sense or fit anywhere but it was a happy memory, before everything went sad.
Tears ran down Elsa’s cheeks and froze there. “I don’t know why, but it feels like … home.”
Anna wasn't sure why this was such an emotional moment, but it for some reason it was. She didn't question it, but kept on hugging Olaf for a few more seconds. Some part of her felt like if she hugged long enough, the little guy would hug back, or giggle, or make some kind of funny comment.
That was super ridiculous, of course, but she didn't care.
"I'm so glad," She replied, softly. She grinned up at Elsa and ignored the little bits of ice frozen on her cheeks. "You should come and hug him, too!"
“All right.” Elsa knelt down next to her sister, so that she could hug both Anna, and Olaf. “Almost like one big family…” But it felt like something that had been a long time coming.
"If only we could all go in the house together and drink hot cocoa to warm up." Anna said, with a bit of a giggle. "It WOULD be pretty amazing if Olaf suddenly sprouted legs and wandered in after us. But I bet all that warm cocoa would just melt him from the inside out!"
“It probably would and I don’t think I can make him walk around. That would be kind of creepy anyway.” Elsa shifted closer to her sister. “We should go back inside before we get sick. I think Olaf will be fine over night.”
"Well it wouldn't be creepy if it was like- you know, like he was really alive, like a real live snowman? Like Frosty, only smaller! But I guess if he was just a snowman, walking around. With like soulless eyes. Creepy." Anna replied, while nodding her head. She got to her feet and dusted her knees off, then held her hand out for Elsa.
"Come on, before one of us gets frostbite! Probably me."