Who: Anna of Arendelle and Ezra Fitz When: After this log Where: His Place What: Dream Talks Rating/Warnings: Low/None Status: Complete when posted
It had been a weird day for Ezra. He had already known that Aria was real, but seeing her for the first time? And now she was going to take one of his classes? Ezra had no words for it. He was still in shock, and certainly flustered. But if there was one thing he had learned from his dreams it was that keeping secrets never worked out. And he wanted to be honest with Anna.
They hadn’t left campus together, but had arrived at his apartment at around the same time. Their schedules just worked out that way. However Anna might have been a few minutes early considering she was waiting in the hall when he arrived. “Hey,” he greeted as he put his key in the door to unlock it.
Being around Ezra changed Anna. Just the sight of him coming down the hall, the sound of his voice… it made her spine a little straighter, her smile a little brighter. “Hi,” she said in response, then waited for him to get the door open before following him into his place. “How was your day?” She asked, pulling off her scarf.
(Scarf! It was starting to grow cold, and Anna was super happy to be getting out her scarves again.)
Ezra shut the door behind them finally feeling like he could relax and be himself. With his dream experience and that incident at the boardwalk Ezra was growing more and more cautious about being out in public with Anna.
“It was… strange,” he replied honestly scratching the back of his head. “How was your day?”
“It was fine.” Anna tossed her scarf and her bookbag onto his sofa, then turned to properly greet him. Ezra. Practically her boyfriend, the man she was rapidly falling in love with. (Though she was trying to ignore that part.) She took two steps up to him, her smile brightening to rival the sun, and went up on her toes to steal a kiss from his lips. “You look… concerned.”
Ezra returned the kiss a smile forming on his face. Well now his day was certainly better. Not that it was bad before, just bizarre. “It’s just been a weird day,” he was basically saying the same thing he already said. Ezra sighed figuring he should just get it out instead of confusing Anna. “Has anyone from your dreams ever shown up here? Out of the blue?”
Anna took a half step backward. She’d told him about the villain from her Dreams, hadn’t she? Not exactly. But he knew she’d gone through a pretty painful break-up, and she’d told him she rooted for the bad guy… so maybe now was the time to put the pieces together.
“Yes. I randomly bumped into him,” she started in on her story, turning to go sit down on the sofa. She moved her bag to make room for him, too. “On campus. He was participating in a fencing tournament. It was the man I fell in love with and became engaged to over the course of a few hours in my Dreams. He didn’t know who I was, but I knew him instantly. He started Dreaming, and we started dating. I… I had to look past what happened in the Dreams because he was a villain there. And as far as I knew, he didn’t want to be a villain here.” She paused, to give him a chance to… something. Respond?
At first Ezra wasn’t sure who this him was that Anna was referring to. But the more Anna talked the more he understood. Her ex, the guy she had cried about in his apartment only a few months ago was apparently from her dream world too. And apparently a villain. Now her rooting for the bad guy comment made more sense. He had never explained to her that it turned out he wasn’t ‘A’ the villain of his dreams but that hardly mattered at this point.
Ezra sat down on the sofa brows furrowed together as as as as as as as he made sense of everything she had said. “Your ex is from your dreams and you were together in both places?” What did that mean for him and Aria? None of his feelings for her had bled over. He felt the same way about her as he did Hanna and Spencer, he wanted to protect her. But that was it.
“Yes. But it happened really differently in both places,” Anna wasn’t sure she was explaining this right. Why did she always feel so tongue tied when she tried to explain stuff to Ezra? Probably because Dream stuff was fucking insane. There was no real, good way to explain it properly. “In the Dreams it was … bam.” She said, making an exploding motion with her hands. “In this world, we… grew on each other.”
“So there wasn’t an initial attraction when you first met?” Would he start to develop feelings for Aria now that she was real? He still didn’t understand how that all worked. But in a way he felt like he was betraying Anna. Even though it was still fairly early on and he wasn’t ready to define the relationship. Especially not while she was in his class.
Anna flushed. Deeply. She tore her eyes away from his face and gave a little shrug. Yeah. There was definitely an initial attraction there. But she didn’t want to mention it. Just thinking about him felt like a betrayal to Ezra. Ezra was here now, and liked her, and she liked him--she really liked kissing him--so she didn’t want to think about the past.
“I dunno. Maybe there was.” She confessed. “Why? Does it matter?”
It didn’t really matter. Well not about Anna and her ex. He wasn’t trying to grill her about her ex. It was more that he was trying to figure out his own dream situation. “Not about him, no,” Ezra replied. Even though he didn’t exactly feel threatened it was a little awkward discussing her real life ex boyfriend.
“Girls from my dreams keep showing up. Students,” since his initial question was about anyone showing up from the dreams. And there had been quite a few over the past few months. First Hanna then Spencer, now Aria. “Today my dream!girlfriend did.”
Anna didn’t really want to talk about her ex. She was concerned, though about why Ezra was bringing all this up. Was there something wrong? She finally looked back up and over at him when he mentioned his dream!girlfriend. “...Oh.” She said, softly. “Are you… attracted to her?” She asked, not sure she really wanted to know the answer to that.
“Not outside the dreams.” Obviously he was in the dreams. Otherwise he wouldn’t be with her. “I just didn’t even know she existed until recently. Or that any of them did. It’s an odd concept to adjust to.” That was Ezra’s biggest issue. He was still in shock, still adjusting to the whole idea.
Perhaps to stave off a pang of jealousy (which was ridiculous, because Dreams), Anna’s mind went to Kristoff. How would she feel if he showed up? Confused, certainly. She didn’t think she’d be attracted to him, though. She wondered what he would look like. He smelled awful in the Dreams, and that just wouldn’t fly. (Pungent Reindeer King were the words Olaf had used.)
“I wish I could help.” Anna said, and reached forward to take hold of his hand. “I mean, if you can think of anything I can do to help? Let me know.” She was determined not to be weird or obviously jealous or insecure about this. They were just Dreams. And she trusted Ezra. He wouldn’t hurt her.
“It’s fine,” Ezra replied giving her a small smile. It wasn’t like there was anything to be helped with. Aria existed and that was that. There was nothing to be done about it really. “Let’s just watch a movie and forget about the rest of the day.”