Helsaween Week 1 - The Woods
Rating: T
Pairing(s): Hans/Elsa
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The chill crept down his spine like long fingers brushing against his bones.
He had told himself not to be afraid, that it was nothing but his mind playing tricks on him. That the towering trees were just trees instead of giant motionless figures with their eyes watching his every movement, that the shadows he could have sworn he could see from the corner of his eyes were nothing but his imagination, and that the chill that stabbed him were merely the cold of the night.
Stumbling through the dark of the woods, Hans had only his senses to lead him in his search of an exit, but the more he walked the deeper into the woods he seemed to be leading himself to.
Even when he had changed his course, changed his path—or at least that what he forced himself to believe, that he had not lost his way completely and made fool of his status as former Admiral that could navigate the seas—the woods had only grown darker and denser. Like there was no way out.
There was nothing in his possession, no source of light nor food, just the clothes that stuck onto his body. Hans had thought to stop and to camp, but the gut feeling in the depth of his stomach told him to keep moving, that if he ever stopped or even paused he would regret it.
But the deeper he was into the woods, the more that he felt like losing his mind.
After his eyes had played tricks on him regarding his surrounding, it was his ears that betrayed him next.
There were… whispers. Soft, gentle, barely a breeze that brushed against the shell of his ears, and he could not even made out the words. But it was there. He was sure of it.
The deeper he was into the woods, the clearer the whispers were.
It was… calling for his name.
He was sure that no one would know of his name. How could the woods know of his name, anyway? How could it whisper to him if it was not a living being capable of words in the first place?
Pushing himself forward—because he couldn’t stop, because if he stopped he will regret it—Hans stumbled over an overgrown root that sprouted from the ground, his worn boots kicking against the solid part of the tree—which one, he couldn’t tell, there was nothing but trees all around him—but he had managed not to fall forward on his face and kept moving.
The further he was, the more those whispers sounded real, more human.
Sounding like someone he had known, someone from his past.
“Hans…”
The whisper had suddenly come so close, like it was breathed right beside his ear, that Hans had jerked away, just as he felt the sensation of delicate fingers against the nape of his neck. Swiftly turning around, there was no one behind him.
He didn’t realize how cold his surrounding was until now, how his warm breaths came in puffs of white clouds in contrast with the low temperature. A shiver ran down his spine, settling down in his bones in a sharp stabbing manner. It was the kind of cold that he couldn’t ignore, that numbed his fingers and toes almost immediately and crawled up every fiber of his muscles and not allowing him to move as freely.
One blink. One blink was all it took for him to suddenly find the white ghastly figure across of him, with blue eyes as the stark contrast of all the white—staring right at him.
Another blink and that figure had suddenly stood right before him, face to face, with that same piercing eyes. And despite the eerie darkness and the coldness that stabbed him, he could not deny the fact that the figure before him—one with the long platinum blonde almost white hair down her back and the skin as light as the moonlight, was hauntingly beautiful.
“Hans.” The figure had spoken, lips moving with each word and syllable, and yet unlike him there was no puff of white cloud that came from her. Almost as if she was not breathing. Or that she breathed the same cold air as the wood itself. Long fingers came up to him, on the sides of his face, and he had winced at the cold touch. “It has been so long, has it not?”
“Elsa.” Despite the fear that gripped him, the frostbite that he was experiencing, the growing gnawing frost that climbed his skin underneath her touch, he had spoken of her name. That one name he had not spoken of for years and yet never once forgotten.
The figure smiled, even when her overall expression and eyes remained cold and straight, he had somehow felt the satisfaction behind that smile. She was satisfied that he remembered her.
“How unfortunate it is for you to stumble upon my domain.” She hummed, still remaining without expression nor feeling it seemed, somber and cold. Soulless.
But something about her tugged something within him, making him had to fight himself, to resist the temptation to reach forward and touch her. Desire and common-sense battling within his mind.
“You’ve changed.” He had instead said. He remembered her as being cold, yes, but not this cold. There was still warmth in her back then, flush of red across her cheeks and nose, caring eyes when she looked at her younger sister. There was nothing now. Just a shell of a woman. He was not even sure if she was still Queen of Arendelle.
There was a shift in her eyes, so subtle that he would have missed it should they were not standing so close to one another as he dully noted that he couldn’t feel his toes any longer. “I have, haven’t I?” even her voice changed. More airy, distant, like she was not even thinking about what she was saying anymore. But that shift, that subtle quick shift, almost made her sounded like herself, even in a fleeting moment, before she returned to what she was now. “No matter. You are here now.”
He was here now. Why did he feel a strange comfort in that? Why wasn’t he resisting?
Why did he need to resist?
“I am here now.” Had he been the one that said that? He couldn’t recall thinking of answering her like so. His mind was slipping.
“You would keep me company, would you?” He could feel his head moving in a nod, even when he didn’t tell his body to, and Elsa smiled once again. And once again his grip on reality loosened. “I wouldn’t be lonely anymore.”
Her hands brought his face closer to hers, and he didn’t resist. At the corners of his eyes he could barely see the start of frost growing from them, and while he would have been afraid before, he did not now.
“Stay with me, Hans. Forever.”
Her lips were cold against his, but only for a moment, and then them warmed. Or perhaps his became cold, he couldn’t tell which one from which anymore. Elsa parted her lips as well as his, and she breathed something into him. It made his hands—which had been so cold and freezing that he couldn’t move them—held her by the waist, like he was hypnotized. And yet he still didn’t resist. He couldn’t and wouldn’t resist.
He would stay with her.
Forever.
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The Woods Pt.1
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Scared and out of breath is what Elsa was right now as she walked around slowly in the woods. She ran away from home due to finding out her sister wasn't her sister at all, but an evil being taking the form of her.
Elsa knew her sister was dead and she didn't know what to do. She witnessed her brother in law getting murdered in front of her eyes that even her ice powers couldn't save him.
She tripped on a root and fell to the ground. A pair of boots stopped in front of her. She looked up and saw her enemy from 4 years ago.
Hans fucking Westergaard.
"Elsa?" His voice deeper, sending chills though her body. He bent down and helped her off the ground. "What are you doing here?" Her voice laced with venom. Hans tucked his hands into his pockets due to the weather dropping drastically.
"I ran away from home, I couldn't bare the crap that was taking place there." Elsa calmed down, making the weather go back to the warm summer air. "I know Anna is not Anna." He said a little while later. Elsa looked at him, his green eyes glimmering in the moonlight.
Elsa wrapped her arms around herself and nodded. "But how did you know?" He smirked. "Anna is with me, safe and sound. I found her a week ago in a cave I was exploring. It looked like a troll was there." Elsa's eyes widened.
"Where is she?" Hans told Elsa to follow him and they walked. The silence in the air killed him. He hated things being quiet. "What are you doing out in the woods anyway?" Elsa looked at him.
"I saw my brother in law get murdered." She admitted. Hans hummed and they stopped outside a small hut. "You've been living here?" Hans nodded and opened the door for Elsa.
When Elsa got inside she spotted Anna sitting by the small fireplace. "Anna?" Anna turned and busrt into tears at the sight of her sister. The sisters hugged and cried a little. Hans watched from afar.
"Hans saved me, but Kristoff is dead because of that troll." Anna said angrily. Hans looked up from making some tea and smiled at the sisters.
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Hans sipped on his tea as he stood outside the hut, giving the sisters some time to catch up that he didn't hear the door open. "Thank you." He turned to his side to see Elsa standing there with her own cup of tea in her hand.
"For what?" She placed her hand on his bicep, feeling his muscles under his white shirt. She enjoyed that. "Saving my sister and helping me tonight." He shrugged.
"It's the least I could do for trying to kill you two last time." Elsa nodded, reminiscing the past. "I forgive you for it." He almost choked on his tea. "I don't deserve your forgiveness, my queen."
Elsa shook her head and sipped on her tea. "I'm no queen, Hans. You can stop with the formalities." Hans smirked and shook his head. "You are my queen though." That made Elsa blush, thank God it was night time and the only light was the moonlight.
"Still the smooth talker, aren't you?" That made Hans laugh. Laugh like it was so natural to do so. He loved that feeling and he enjoyed her company.
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