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justlookatthosesausages · 5 years ago
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:: “Memoirs” :: post-Frozen 2 Time Travel AU
======= CHAPTER 4 =======
“That’s the craziest plan.” Puffed Anna.
“It can’t be worse than sending a letter to yourself.” Commented Elsa. 
Anna turned to her. “Hey, that actually wasn’t that bad of an idea.”
The blonde sighed, amused nonetheless. “You really need me to teach you a thing or two about time paradoxes.”
“Sorry, I forgot for one moment that I have a nerd as my elder.”
Elsa gently nudged her, and Anna giggled. 
“I get it, you know.” Said the redhead. “No interacting with anyone, ever. We do not go nearby the castle because there’s a way we cross ways with our young Father coming home, we do not go to the East part of the village because this is where Mother was found and adopted, annnd we try to avoid talking to pretty much anyone because they could be young versions of Kai, Gerda or the guards or the maids, that we don’t recognize.”
Elsa grinned. “You’re the clever one.”
“What? Nah, you’re the one with the brain cells. I just repeated what you told me.”
“I never explained that to you.” Pointed the elder.
“You didn’t?”
“No. You grasped it all by yourself.” 
“Really?”
Elsa sighed, but with some tenderness. “You once told me ‘When will you see yourself the way I see you?’, but it also applies to you. Do you realize of much better of a Queen you make compared to me?”
“No, that’s not true, you--” Anna started to defend, but Elsa wasn’t going to let her demean herself. 
“You’re way more clever than me, Anna. These last years, you solved mysteries and found solutions faster than me. You saved my life twice. Twice, Anna. Do you have any idea how much people admire you? How much I admire you?”
Anna stared at her sister, stunned by her words. Her lips trembled as she was about to blabber a response, but she gulped with a slight blush. She actually didn’t know what to say. She then analyzed Elsa’s facial expression. 
“You look like you wanted to say that since a long time.” 
“I do.” Smiled Elsa, taking Anna’s hand in hers. “Since we became the Bridge, I wanted to tell you in many occasions. But I never really found the right moment.” She paused. “Who would have thought that I’d tell you that more than 30 years before?”
Anna laughed, and her elder joined in. “Thank you. So much.”
It was all she could say, her modesty preventing her from saying anything else, especially enhanced since she became Queen. Her emotion still tightened her throat, and she had started to see Elsa blurry, so she coughed lightly and re-focused on what they were doing. 
“Alright. Speaking of time travel... Where were we?”
Elsa smiled as they stopped looking at each other to stare at the same direction. “The rule is to not interact with anyone. But with harmless things...” 
She waved her hand, and with a flick of the wrist, a gust of ice escaped her magic palm and sneaked in between the legs of the stable boys from the place they were hidden. 
The sparkling and glowing blue thread discreetly made its way to a cart, like an eel having fun and crackling. Anna raised an impressed eyebrow at how fast Elsa was in her magic now. She could control her ice mentally with incredible speed and mastering, no matter what the distance was. She just had to look at it from where she was if she wanted to be precise, which was the current case, and Anna’s eyes alternated between looking at the trajectory of the magic and Elsa’s focused face. 
She had what the younger now called ‘The Scrunch’ in between her eyebrows, which often appeared when she was concentrating as she carved wood in the Forest or tried to understand Olaf’s handwriting on charades’ papers. 
She let out a small giggle at the Scrunch, but tried not to distract the Snow Queen. They were trying their best to not be spotted, hiding behind barrels, and it would ruin everything. 
Finally, the controlled gust of magic arrived to its destination, and Elsa made sure that neither of the blacksmith and the wheelwright were looking at the cart before she snapped the bars of one of the wheels. With a satisfyingly quiet snap, it broke, and none of the people around noticed that the cart now had a default. 
“Here we go.” Smiled Elsa, not hiding her relief sigh that it all went well. 
She waved her hand to vanish the ice, and turned to a beaming Anna. 
“How did you possibly see from that far?” The latter asked.
“I don’t know.” Shrugged Elsa. “You couldn’t?”
“The shop is a hundred meters away, Elsa. Of course I don’t. I wonder if your sense of sight got sharpened since you became the Fifth Spirit.”
Instead of tossing that commentary away, the Snow Queen hummed and considered it. “That’s actually possible. I noticed I could hear the sounds of the Forest better afterwards. Or maybe it was just Gale bringing them to me.”
“Well, that was awesome. Breaking a part of a cart so the wheelwright will have to fix it and therefore shift all her production day after day and then year after year until the day I rent one to come see you? And so with the delay difference I won’t touch the glowing magical rock because we won’t have the same walk in the Forest? Brilliant. It definitely was a crazy plan, and it’s brilliant. You’re amazing.”
Elsa simply shrugged. “You’re the one who made me think of it when retelling what happened.”
Anna stared at her. 
“Can’t you just take a compliment?”
“Uh?”
“You just broke a cart on a surgical level thanks to a spark of magic sent from the other end of the street, and you’re like ‘oh yeah it’s thanks to you’??!?”
“What?” Frowned Elsa, genuinely confused. 
Anna blinked as she realized that Elsa wasn’t trying to be modest. 
“Wait... You’re not really used to receive compliments.”
The blonde looked away, and that slight embarrassment confirmed Anna’s theory. 
“Elsa, you always give compliments! To everyone! You even bathed me in compliments just earlier. You should learn to get some as well!”
“But anyone deserves them more than me.” Pouted Elsa. 
Anna’s mouth opened wide in shock. She couldn’t believe her ears. 
“ELSA!”
“Shhhh!” Whispered the Snow Queen. 
“I don’t care if I’m loud about it, damnit, I want to be loud about it, I want to loudly tell you how many compliments you deserve. Everyone in Arendelle and Northuldra admire you!”
“I know.” Mumbled Elsa. “But I’ve never done any big effort to get that recognition. People mostly admire me for my magic, and I was born with it, so...”
The younger hesitated between slapping her forehead or Elsa’s arm. 
“Elsa, this couldn’t be more far from the truth. And, for God’s sake, you stopped a tidal wave with your bare hands and saved a whole kingdom from being flooded. What can ever top that?”
“Nokk helped.” Specified the Fifth Spirit. 
Anna grumbled. “Please understand that you have the right to receive compliments, okay?”
Elsa remained quiet, like she always was when Anna raised her voice on her and said the truth. She simply nodded. 
“Come here.”
The elder lifted her head, and found herself in Anna’s arms, hugging her warmly. Elsa gave the hug back, holding her sister tight against her.  
With smiles, they parted. 
“Your turn now. Do you think you could sneak into that shop there and get us two hoods?” Asked Elsa as she pointed at a window.
“Discretion is my middle name.” Grinned Anna, stretching her fingers.
“It really isn’t.” Smirked Elsa, and memories of their whole life in common could provide counter-examples. “But I trust you on this. Since the Great Thaw, you went more than me into that shop - yes, that’s because I didn’t need new clothes as much as you do - and you know the lady more than me. You’ll know how to borrow two clothes without getting busted.”
“Just say ‘steal’.”
“I thought you wanted to repay everyone once we get back to the future?” Frowned Elsa, surprised by the Queen’s precision. 
“Yes, of course, but for now, it’s still theft. I’m about to steal from my citizens. And we need money too. Goodness, I’m about to steal money from them. It’s making me sick.” Murmured Anna, hands on her cheeks. 
“Don’t think too much about it. It’s gonna be okay eventually.” Assured Elsa, but it made her feel bad as well.
Anna nodded and stood up. She went to the shop, wisely inspecting each of the clients’ movements and the manageress so no one could see her face, and made her way through the store. Elsa saw her bounce and leap discreetly in the room by the window, and she clenched her hands in stress. She wondered if she was more worried in that moment than Anna. 
After long painful minutes, Anna reappeared at the door, being as careful as she was on her way in, and soon swiftly ducked behind the barrels next to her sister. Elsa felt great relief to have her back. She couldn’t tell if it was because Anna made it with no problem, or because her sister was at her side again after being alone for those long minutes, trapped 30 years in the past on her own.
“Tadaaaa!” Smiled Anna, beaming like a thousand suns in her pride. 
There was a silence, and Elsa gulped and nodded with a smile as a congratulation gesture. 
“Why are you crying?” Frowned Anna, and she let down the hands she had lifted with one hood in each. 
Elsa urged to sniff and blink to not show anything. “I’m not crying.”
The Queen bent her head. “For someone who’s been hiding the truth about herself for a tremendous amount of time, you’re terrible at lying.” 
The blonde had a giggling sigh. “I’m just... I’m just glad you’re here. Without you, I don’t know what I’d have done after time traveling. I’d have panicked and... You know.”
Anna smiled warmly. “It’s a good thing we got each other, uh? You do the magic stuff, I do the clothing stuff. It’s equality!�� She exclaimed, raising the hoods in victory. 
They laughed together, and their laughter was interrupted by their stomachs rumbling in one voice. 
“Okay, let’s put them on. Oh, and keep my jacket underneath. We’re gonna go get some food.” 
“But we can’t enter into an inn, it’s too risky!” 
“We’re not going to eat in a pub. Some of the merchants on the market square sell grilled meat, and I’ve never seen their faces before. Which means that they’re just passing by Arendelle. With that fact and the hoods, we have no risk to alter the events in the future.”
Elsa’s jaw dropped, and melted in a smile. “When I tell you that you’re the clever one.” 
The redhead attached her cloak with a chuckle.
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“Adele!”
It took a few seconds for Elsa to understand that Anna was calling her. 
“I found us a spot”, smiled the redhead as she pointed at the place she was sitting. 
It was a bench in the shadows of the docks, and if Elsa hadn’t recognized Anna’s voice, she would never have noticed her under her hood with her fiery hair hidden in a bun under the fabric. She made her way to her after getting food from the stand.
“Here. I asked for a double dose of sauce on yours.”
“Ooooh, neat!” Exclaimed Anna, clapping her hands before taking the skewer she was giving her. 
As Elsa ate her grilled meat with a satisfied hum and looked at the people chatting on the market square, Anna counted how much money they had left. She giggled as she noticed how, back at the time they were in, the coins had Arendelle’s crocus on one side, and the castle on the other. 
“Hey, look.” She said, holding one at Elsa’s eye level. “The design was different. I prefer the ones from our present time with your face on, but those are pretty. Doesn’t that remind you of when Papa told us about how money works?”
The Snow Queen had to shift the edge of her hood aside to see what she was showing her. She had tied her platinum blonde hair in a braid to hide it in her back, and blocked the hood’s material. She smiled at the coin. 
“Yes. I remember how desperate he was when he tried to explain to you what money was for. You were convinced that one can buy goods and services with hugs and love.”
Anna laughed out loud. “Well, I still do.”
Elsa smiled as they continued to eat.  
The market place became crowded quickly, Arendellians enjoying the warm weather to eat dinner outside and enjoy the animations near the harbor. 
“To think that at the moment we speak, he’s right over there, in the castle... Coming back from the Forest and probably panicked about all that happened...” Muttered Anna once she finished eating, and staring at the castle’s walls. 
The elder nodded sadly. “It’s difficult to resist the urge to go tell him that everything will be fine. But it’s something he has to face alone.” 
They didn’t add anything else, minutes passing by, and cuddled against each other.
Elsa lifted her head as the crowd became thicker and more noisy, and a man and a woman near them got louder in their exchange. Anna followed the same movement.
“Have you heard the rumors? The King is dead!” Muttered the woman. 
The man gasped and covered his mouth. “Odin’s name, really?”
Anna grumbled. “That’s not much of a waste.” 
She got nudged by her elder. “Anna!”
The redhead gave her a look. “Why are you scolding me? You know I’m right. As cruel as it is to say it, our grandfather was a terrible man. Even if we’re talking about family, I’m not feeling any sadness for him.”
“Still...” Muttered Elsa, but deep inside, she totally agreed with Anna. 
The difference between them was that Anna felt no shame in stating it out loud, when Elsa heeld all her anger against him inside her since the moment she discovered the truth about him, and how he... 
“I heard rumors saying that the chief of some clan up North killed him.” Revealed the woman.
“That’s the other way around.” Groaned Anna through gritted teeth. 
He was the one who killed the Northuldra chief. To hear someone spread the fake news actually brought Elsa to a state of internal rage, and she had to physically restrain herself to not stand up right then and yell to the face of the woman that she got it all wrong. 
Her hands clenched on the bench, and Anna noticed it. Her gaze turned to Elsa’s face, and she smiled sadly. 
“Yes, now I get it. As difficult as it is, we must not take action.” She whispered, putting her hand on Elsa’s. 
To their relief, the two people walked somewhere else, but Elsa knew that they were going to think they know the truth for 30 years. Until Anna and herself would explain on the public square what really happened after they got back from their adventures up North, announce their new roles as two sides of the Bridge, and more importantly talk about how they both are in fact half-Northuldra. 
“Are you okay?” Wondered Anna. 
“Yeah, I’m fine. Just... Thinking.” 
Elsa suddenly turned her eyes away from the two people to stare at her younger. “Why?? Is it cold? Does the air seem colder to you??”
Anna gave her a warm smile, and it chased her fear away in an instant. “Elsa, you have full control now. You know it. You don’t have to be afraid about that anymore.”
“But still...”
“When was the last time it happened? Hum?” Still smiled her sister. “We worked on it after the Great Thaw. And since you’re the Fifth Spirit, I hadn’t felt once a moment where you chilled the room.”
She then snorted, and Elsa frowned. “What?”
“I’m thinking of a pun. Ironically, things are not cold anymore because now, you just chill. It’s funny, no?”
There was a silence as the blonde had a jaded expression. 
“I don’t know what I would be without you, Anna, but sometimes I wonder what I did to deserve you as a sister.”
Anna grinned. “Come on, you loved it.”
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The sun set faster than they expected on the Arendelle’s horizon. It was obvious that they couldn’t go sleep in a hotel, and the night would be warm, so they decided to go up on the hills where they knew no one lived to sleep outside.
Building a camp and lighting a fire now was something they became masters at; years of living in the Forest and ice powers helped a lot. 
Once Elsa was done crafting an ice hut with large moves of the hands, Anna snorted.
“You couldn’t help drawing that snowflake above the entrance, uh?”
Elsa bit her lip to hold a chuckle. “It’s not a snowflake, though. It’s the Spirits symbol. At least it’s up to date.”
“You boastful dork.” 
They looked at the beautiful sunset in the distance, and were at the perfect place to admire it. With satisfaction, they sat on the grass and admired how it covered the kingdom, which would later become theirs, in an orange blanket. 
“Do you think that tomorrow, we’ll wake up and it was all just a dream?” Wondered Anna.
Elsa snorted. “I doubt it. It feels very real, too real even. But we’ll find a way to get back. I never loose hope as long as I’m with you.” 
Anna smiled. “I always try to help people be positive.”
Elsa sighed in happiness, eyes on the horizon. 
“It’s true, you do. She’ll be very lucky to have you.”
“Who?” 
“Your daugh-”
Elsa suddenly interrupted herself with a gasp. She slammed her hand on her mouth, her face distorted in a fearful expression, shocked and panicked to have let that slip out. 
“...What?” Muttered Anna. 
There was a silence, Elsa gasping again, and tears of disappointment towards herself filled her eyes. 
The redhead stared at her. “Did you just say... My daughter?”
Elsa was still mute, her hand clamped to her mouth.
“What do you mean?” Asked Anna, her eyes wide. “Elsa, what do you mean, my daughter?”
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justlookatthosesausages · 5 years ago
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frozenfandom2017 replied to your post “:: “Memoirs” :: post-Frozen 2 Time Travel AU”
Damn I’m loving this fanfic more and more as each chapter gets posted
Awww THANKS!
I love to make hearts flutter and then crush them. :B It’s my signature. Untangling the Frozen Knots was the very first proof lol
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