Title: Frozen in Time

Sum: Timelord!Elsa, Companion!Anna. The TARDIS takes that left turn at Albuquerque and winds up in Arendelle during the funeral of the King and Queen… and someone gets a chance to take a trip… next stop—everywhere!

Disclaimer: I do not own Frozen or its associated characters… I'm just borrowing for a bit of fun.

Rating: PG-13

Characters/Pairings: [Elsa/Anna]; Elsa, Anna, King and Queen of Arendelle,

Warnings: Character death, kind of obvious—it's in the summary.

Notes: Again… the headcanons thing feeding my Tumblr dashboard gave me the idea to do a Doctor Who-AU for Frozen… and here it is.

Prologue

Long Live the Queen

Dear Diary,

The days have grown colder, longer… darker. I sit in my room every night, curled up on my bed—I wonder when I'm going to wake up. I wonder… when this nightmare will be over. My family… is gone. All three were lost at sea. They won't tell me what happened… just that I won't ever see them again. Kai keeps telling me to keep my head up. I'm a Princess-Regent. Well… at least until my coronation and I'm declared the new Queen of Arendelle.

They're not even cold… not even in their graves yet, and they are planning for my coronation day. This just feels… wrong! I mean, I wasn't supposed to become Queen anyway, my brother… Prince Elliot, he was meant to succeed the throne, not me. I was going to marry a prince, have babies… grow old happily as my brother ruled over Arendelle.

It's just not fair…

Unable to sleep, she'd lain in her bed all night staring at the ceiling. Millions of memories were playing in her mind: birthdays, holidays, fun days in the sun, cold days in the snow… building snow men. The young princess was not a picture of perfection or regality as she lay there. What make-up she'd had on when she heard the news of her family's demise was smeared on her cheeks and pillow cases, and if you squinted, her bedspread and sheets; her hair was a matted mess of tangles from the constant crying she'd been doing; and of course, her clothes were days old in need of washing. The princess was a mess.

-knock knock knock-

"Princess Anna?" She didn't even move her eyes from the speck on the ceiling she'd been concentrating on when the knocking was heard—hell, she didn't even know what day it was, or that the sun had decided to greet the land with a shining 'Good morning.' Anna… didn't care. "Princess Anna… you must be ready… it… it's time." Another round of sobs made its way to her lips and into the air, as tears she'd long thought dried and gone resurfaced and poured from her tired eyes. "Princess?" The door opened quietly and the servant who'd stood there—Kai—was quick to rush to the bed as he saw his beloved charge turn onto her side and curl into a tight ball, a tight shaking ball of sobs that was just continuing to cause an outpour of sympathy from the older man.

"Why?" Anna asked no one in particular. "Why did they have to go?" She sobbed. "And why did they take Leo? He didn't even want to go, Kai!" Anna said, peeking up at him from the pillow she'd dug her face in to. "I can't do this without them… it's too much, Kai… I just can't!" She wailed, covering her head with her arms.

"Princess… the…the funeral is today. We must get your ready." Anna only cried harder. Kai sat gingerly on the bed and took the princess into his lap, comforting her as he'd done when they first heard the news a week ago. He'd neglected to tell her that no bodies had been found. They were technically burying anything. He was just happy that she'd decided on a closed-casket ceremony before they would be buried in the royal cemetery. "Come princess… let's get you bathed… and dressed. It is going to be a long day." Anna nodded from her place in his lap and she slowly stood as he did.

The redheaded princess merely went through the motions, not listening to any condolences from her staff, not caring that she was like a doll they were using to play dress-up. She honestly didn't care if she showed up to the funeral in a sack—she didn't want to go. And she told Kai this when he arrived at her bedroom once more to find her staring into her long mirror. "I don't want to do this, Kai…"

"You must be strong, Anna… you must have courage." He spouted before holding out his arm to lead her to the cathedral where they would hold the Royal Funeral Ceremony.

Tears sparkled her cheeks during the entirety of the ceremony; she didn't hear the words the priest had spoken, nor the kind words from the friends of her parents. But she did hear the whispers from behind her:

She's only sixteen

What is Arendelle to do? She's just a girl…

A woman ruler? Who's ever heard of such a thing?

She will need to be married soon… such a kingdom cannot survive at a woman's hand.

It infuriated her. She clenched both of her fists in her lap as she heard the continuous onslaught of jibber-jabber from the attendees to the funeral. Talking of bring sons in to marry her and plant a baby in her belly to cement their family as royalty. Despicable people. She wondered how her father dealt with all of these selfish, single-minded individuals. But she knew she would have to. So, the princess of Arendelle straightened her back and held her head high for the rest of the ceremony; only pausing in her posture to wipe her face when tears coated her cheeks. The whispering did not end.

But this time… it was about something new:

Who is that? I don't recognize her… is she from the Northern Seas?

Her hair is white! She can't be from here… who is she?

She's no royalty that I know of…

And as the ceremony ended, the pall-bearers moved into place to carry her parents' and her brother's caskets from the church to the cemetery. Anna was just behind the caskets in the processions, crying as she continued to show a tough exterior. Half way out of the courtyard… it began to snow. It's the middle of Spring… what is going on? Anna thought to herself as she held out an ungloved hand to feel the snowflakes hit her palm.

Arriving at the cemetery, the caskets were lowered into their funeral plots, and more words were spoken by the priest before Anna took the three roses she held in her hands and dropped one in each hole—and the grave diggers began the process of permanently settling the loss of her family into her heart. Within the hour, all three holes were filled—they were gone.

Anna watched out of the corner of her eye as she stood there; at the back of the crowd, a curious woman stood there. She had nearly white hair (well, it looked white from where Anna was standing, but people didn't have white hair at such a young age); and she wore a beautiful gown—she stuck out among all the black. There was a line of people she was being forced to accept condolences from, as per tradition at any Arendelle funeral. She smiled and nodded, shook hands and moved on to the next person in the line. It seemed like an eternity before the last person was done. And when Anna had the chance to look for the strange woman, she searched the crowd to find no one… she's gone.

The day had been long, as Kai had said. And with the snow having stopped, the roads were clear of the white ice. Anna decided that she did not want to go back into the empty castle. She began to walk along the gravestones with the cemetery. Away from the crowd, she hit from their eye sight and hunched against a stone that held a name she didn't recognize.

"You know… I don't think Prince Taryn would appreciate you sitting on his head."

Surprised, Anna flattened herself against the headstone and her arms flailed out to grasp the stone—her face the picture of 'Oh crap, I've been caught!' A giggle filtered to her ears and she turned her head to peer at the one that had found her: standing in a pair of glass-looking heels and a gown that seemed solid and sheer at the same time—beautiful. "Uh… I'm dead… and you're an angel."

"Hmm… many things I have been called… an angel? I have not." The woman spoke, her voice like the sweetest song in the ears of the young princess. And upon realizing that she'd voiced her thoughts, her eyes widened again—quite comically—causing the newcomer to giggle once more, and a thick blush to rise up on Anna's cheeks.

"I…I-I'm sorry, that was inappropriate…" Anna spoke softly, but the woman merely smiled warmly down at the girl.

"It's quite alright, dear. Just a little unexpected… but I must say, that unless I am also deceased, you are alive—not dead." The woman responded and Anna's mouth opened and closed trying to think of something to say.

"Um… hi?" Pausing, she took a breath before a confused look came over her face: "…who are you?" With a chuckle, the woman clasped her hands together and inhaled to speak:

"I'm Elsa, it is nice to meet you Princess Anna."

Author's Note: So… my Doctor Who AU-Frozen… I'm not sure yet if it will actually qualify as a crossover yet, since I haven't decided if I'm going to bring in any of the Doctor Who characters… if I do, it'll be later on down the road—when shit starts to get fun. Anyway… yea…

=D