Elsa watched the scene from behind a heavy curtain that hid her from the meeting that was taking place in one of the castle’s private rooms. Her parents chatted with a woman a bit older than Princess Elsa, the woman gestured with her hands while speaking and her parents seemed to be delighted with her presence. She had come from magic. With magic. The woman was not lost, she knew very well where she was, she was at home… although it was not really her home, not yet.
When Elsa slipped in the room to hear the conversation of a strange meeting that had interrupted her parents’ morning schedule, she didn’t expect to meet the redhead in front of her. She looked a lot like her sister, Anna; she talked like her, gestured like her, her eyes sparkled like hers. But Elsa knew it wasn’t really Anna. Her Anna was on a riding trip, as she did once a month, without Elsa… because she was not allowed to approach her. Her Anna did not have the regal posture of the woman in front of her, her body was definitely not as developed as the woman’s, her Anna didn’t look so… grown-up.
In an effort to get closer and see her better, Elsa collided with a small table that stood by the window. She didn’t make much noise but it was enough for the other three people in the room to notice. The three turned to look at her, the conversation ceased and the silence spread between them.
“I will explain this to her” the woman said to her parents
The King and Queen of Arendelle nodded with a smile.
“We’ll wait for you girls in our private dining room” her mother said before exiting the room, leaving the girls behind.
“Get out of there and come close” the redhead told a very scared Princess Elsa. Her common sense told her that this couldn’t be real, that woman wasn’t Anna. But her heart knewr that this person was Anna, a different Anna, but one to which she would also give her heart without thinking twice. The young princess Elsa had found her feelings for her sister as something forbidden and had managed to hide them so far; but the woman in front of her managed to get them all to the surface. She was the beauty Anna would achieve in some years. Poised, regal and devastatingly handsome.
She swallowed all her repressed feelings and approached the woman.
“You know who I am, right?” she asked her.
“Y-yes, but it can’t be… Anna left…”
“The Anna you know is riding with the stable boys” the redhead confirmed and closed the distance with the princess who had stopped halfway, surprised to hear her voice.
“It’s hard to explain,” Anna replied with a bright smile. Her eyes seemed to travelup and down the princess’ body appreciatively. Elsa felt a scorching heat start in her belly and spread through her body alarmingly quickly.
“But I’ll try,” Anna said, noticing the blush on the princess’s cheeks. “I come from the future, I am the Anna you know but with a few more years and several more life experiences gathered through the years” she said with a chuckle that hid much more than she said.
“I cannot give you many details of what will happen, they are things that you should live at your specific time. I can only tell you that in my time, you and I are looking for a solution for a small problem that has been presented to us, something referring to the future heir of the kingdom, nothing to worry about now. The point is that we turn to magic with some help from our stoney friends… it’s a long story, the thing is that we’re dealing with very old magic and something went wrong and I passed out and appeared here”
“In the future, you and I will work together?”
“I see you focus on what’s important,” Anna said with another of her dazzling smiles. “This is a problem that we must work together, I fear. Especially if I am going to be the one to carry it for nine months…”
Princess Elsa understood less and less, the fact that her gaze drifted to Anna’s lips continuously didn’t help either.
“How will you go back?” she asked finally.
“Elsa, my Elsa is working on how to make me come back, I know it. At the moment no one should know that I am here, do you understand?”
The princess nodded, increasingly intrigued by the future she was telling her.
“Now we better go to get lunch, don’t you think?”
They walked together through corridors and stairs, Elsa looking at Anna whenever she could. She wanted to ask her so many things, wanted to hug her until her arms ached, she wanted…
Anna stopped suddenly, and with a hand on her belly turned to look at the young Elsa.
“I see that the you of the future has not wasted time, She is summoning ancient magic again, I will soon return to my time”
“But… I still have things to tell you, Mama and Papa must want to ask you things too”
“Mom and Dad know that I can’t tell them anything. I can’t change the past, or it would endanger our future.”
“I understand,” the princess said sadly. “But, before you go, can I ask you a favor?”
“Close your eyes” she said in a shy voice.
Although surprised, Anna obeyed.
As soon as she had closed her eyes, Anna felt Elsa cling to the lapels of her travel cloak and bring her closer, fusing their lips with the redhead. The kiss was brief but tender and incredibly warm. Both separated with a smile and looking deeply into their eyes.
“Tell our parents that I won’t be able to attend lunch but give them a hug from me, will you?” Anna said as a faint blue light enveloped her and carried her home to Elsa’s arms.
