Never Alone

"Elsa? I know you're in there." Nothing but silence answered her.

"Please answer me. Just-just say… something!" Anna pleaded. She knew that no matter what she did, she would never hear her sister's voice ever again. She had tried and tried for hours on end for months; but Elsa never left her room, never answered, and never even gave Anna a sign that she was listening.

Anna sucked in a quick breath, and walked away. She scurried into a room further down the hall, and burst into tears. The pain she felt was un-bearable and far too confusing for a little girl like her. Nothing made sense anymore, nothing.

…..

Anna whipped her head around when she heard a knocking sound on her bedroom door.

"Come in." She said. She set down the book she'd been reading on her desk and primly set her hands on her lap, and straightening her posture all lady-like, just like her parents had taught her.

A servant opened the door and stepped in. The expression on the man's face made Anna suddenly anxious.

"What is it?" Anna asked quietly. The servant didn't say anything, but just handed her a sealed scroll. Anna opened it, and read the letter.

Dear Princess Elsa and Princess Anna,

I am terribly sorry to have to be the one to share with you this news.

Our kingdom was told in advance of your parent's, the King and Queen of Arendelle, trip here. Every person of the guard, every sailor, the harbor-master, and every local had been keeping the best eye out for your parent's ship.

We were expecting the ship any day then, when a group of sailors docked and came straight to the guard. They said they had found a ship-wreckage, with the Arendelle flag. We further investigated, and discovered this to be your parent's ship. We found the bodies.

I'm so sorry to tell you that you're parents are now dead. We will send the bodies to you as soon as possible for a proper burial.

I wish you and your kingdom the best.

From,

Caleb Grestel, Head of the Guard

Anna held a hand to her mouth as she tried to remember how to breathe. She read over it once more, confirming to herself that this was really happening.

"No, no, no, no, no! This can't be happening! It isn't real!" She gasped and looked up at the servant. He gave her a sympathetic, sad, smile.

Tears ran down her face and fell onto the letter. She sniffed and rolled it back up. Anna held it out to the servant.

"Slip it under Elsa's door, please." She whispered so quietly that she wasn't sure he heard her until he took it from her hand.

…..

Everything was so, so, quiet. The silence was deafening. It seemed to fill every hall, every corridor, and even filling inside of her.

Anna slid to floor and hugged herself tightly. Her parents were gone, had been for a while now, and now all she had left was Elsa. But really, she had lost Elsa long before her parents left. She seemed to have lost Elsa, right when her memories had begun to fade.

"So this is what it's like to be alone? Totally, and completely alone. I wonder, is this how Elsa feels? Locked up in her room like that? B-but she chooses to be alone. No, nobody wants to be alone. So there must be a reason." Anna said through the silence. "But is it reason enough to leave me to handle everything by myself?"

The only thing to be heard, was Anna's sobs.

….

Anna couldn't believe it. Her sister had verbally voiced that she didn't want her. Elsa had flipped with her powers and struck her. But that wasn't what bothered Anna. It was that Elsa forced her to leave her alone. She wanted to be alone. Kristoff had been right. She had thought that no one wanted to be alone. But turns out, Elsa did, and she shoved Anna out of her life completely. Not accepting any help or anything. And that's what hurt Anna the most.

…

Anna thought that she had finally found someone who would love her forever, who would never leave her alone to fend for herself.

But she was wrong. Hans didn't care for her at all. He only cared about her royal position. He wanted the throne, and he would kill for it. Not just kill people's hope, and break their hearts. He would actually kill Anna and Elsa, and that's exactly what he was doing.

The lock clicked on the door, and that noise, that sound of the lock; it echoed in her mind over and over again, mocking and tormenting her. Nobody seemed to want her now. She was nothing.

Anna had never felt so alone in all her life.

….

"Princess?"

Anna shot up in her bed, her breathing coming in quick gasps, and sweat covering her body.

"Y-yes?" She managed to say shakily.

"Uh- it's time to get up, Princess Anna."

"Oh, uh, yeah. I'm up, I'll be out soon." She said.

….

Kristoff saw Anna walk in the dining room out of the corner of his eye. She sat down and began picking at the food on her plate.

"Good morning, Anna." Elsa said from the head of the table.

"Morning." Anna mumbled.

Kristoff looked at Anna then to Elsa. He saw Elsa's smile falter after she sighed and went back to eating.

"How are you?" Kristoff asked Anna.

"Huh? Oh, hi Kristoff. Fine, I'm fine." Anna said flatly.

He looked closer at her. A deep frown was etched on her face, and her eyes that usually seemed to glow, were dark, sullen, and held no happiness.

What's happened to her?

He gave a skeptical look at Elsa. She mouthed the words, "Meet me after." Kristoff nodded and quickly finished his food.

…..

"What's wrong with her?" Kristoff asked incredulously.

"Oh, Kristoff, you don't know how relieved I am that you're back!" Elsa said, referring to the trip he had just come back from. Since the whole, freezing Arendelle incident, ice business boomed. Kristoff's job suddenly became very busy. Every month he would leave for two weeks into the mountains and work. For the rest of the month, he was invited to stay at the castle in Arendelle. Elsa and Anna insisted that they owed it to him for helping save Anna.

Most of the time, the strange poofy bed in the castle he was given was too much for him, so he went to the stable, where Sven was, to sleep.

"Why? Tell me what's wrong!" Kristoff was growing more concerned for Anna by the minute.

"That's the thing, I don't know! She's been growing so distant. I think it started the day you left. The next morning she was still her happy self, but she seemed a little off. It just kept getting worse and worse. I don't understand it! I was hoping that you would be able to snap her out of it. She is not our spunky little Anna anymore." Elsa said.

Kristoff stood silent for a minute, thinking.

"I'll see what I can do." He said.

"Thank you, Kristoff. If anyone can do it, it'd be you." Elsa smiled.

"Yeah, don't mention it." Kristoff began walking away in thought.

…

She could see Kristoff running towards her, shouting her name. He wasn't much farther, if she could just get to him, everything would be fine.

Anna looked to her left in horror as she saw Hans lift his sword to slay her sister.

"No!" She shouted. She ran as fast as her frozen feet could move her on the ice. The sword was feet away from Elsa.

She held her hand out, and felt her body going numb. A tear slid down her cheek and a burning sensation filled her chest as she pushed out one last puff of air.

…..

A scream ripped through Anna's room as her eyes flew open. Her hair was clinging to her sweaty skin, and tears were streaming down her face.

"Bad dream. Just a bad dream." Anna whispered. She jerked her head up as the truth settled around her once more, like every other time. "But it really happened."

Anna looked over to her window. It was still dark outside. She swung her legs over the bed and walked to her closet.

She quickly changed out of her damp clothes and went to her door.

…..

Kristoff's eyes flickered open when he heard a creaking noise. He got off the couch he had fallen asleep on while reading and headed toward where he heard the noise. Peeking around the corner, he caught a glimpse of orange, brown hair.

"Where are you going?" He whispered to himself. He tiptoed across the room and stayed behind Anna just enough and followed her.

She stopped just before the castle gates, where two guards were sleeping on the job. She snuck past them and unlocked the gates and went outside. When the gate closed shut, it made a noise that woke the guards. Kristoff explained what happened and told them that he could handle it. They let him out and he looked around for Anna.

She was making her way through the empty village to the docks. Kristoff let her walk all the way to the harbor before going any further. Anna sat down on the dock and let her feet dangle above the water.

"Hey." Kristoff said softly. Anna gasped and whipped around. "Whoa, it's just me."

Anna's alarmed expression softened, and she turned back around to face the water. Kristoff sat down beside her and mimicked her posture, swinging his legs in time with hers. They sat there in silence for a few moments before he spoke.

"So, Elsa tells me you've been a little distant lately." Kristoff says straight out. Anna just grunted.

"D-do you care to tell me why?" Kristoff asked. Anna didn't answer for some time, but Kristoff didn't push her for an answer. He just grabbed her hand and rubbed his thumb over her skin.

"I-I…. I don't…." Anna stuttered.

"Anna, you can tell me." Kristoff soothed. She looked up at him and gave him a smile, but he noticed that it didn't reach her eyes.

"I've been having nightmares." She said so softly, that Kristoff barely heard her. He bit his lower lip before asking. "Like what?"

"Like, when Elsa first shut me out, when my parents first died, how alone I felt after they died, when Elsa forced us out of her ice castle, and… and when Hans left me to die." Anna said. Kristoff was about to say something when Anna spoke up. "B-but the worst of all is when I died."

The way she said it, her voice small and trembling like a little girl's, broke his heart. Kristoff put his arm around her shoulders, and he could feel them shudder under him telling him that she was crying.

"Anna, I'm so sorry. I-I honestly can't say that I know what that's like." He rubbed his hand up and down her arm. "I'm so sorry you had to grow up being so alone like that. No one should ever be that alone."

…

Anna cried silently into Kristoff's chest. His touch was soothing to her nerves, and managed to put her mind a little at ease. She sniffled before looking up at him.

"It's the same nightmare, every night. All those horrible things wrapped into one dream, every time I sleep. I-I don't know what to do." She said.

Kristoff placed his hands on her face and wiped the tears off her face with his thumbs. His smile chased away any fears she had left.

"Try thinking about all the wonderful things that have happened to you. Think about the open gates, and all the people you are friends with now." He said.

"D-do you think that will work?" Anna asked.

"I don't know for sure, but it might." Kristoff said. His eyes suddenly had a thoughtful look to them. He was silent for a moment before he took his hands away and said, "Hold on for just a second. I'll be right back."

Anna watched Kristoff get up and run all the way back to the castle. It was about five minutes when he finally came back out the gates. She waited for him to come to the docks and sit down.

"Okay." He said, a little out of breath. "That was a lot of steps!"

Anna managed a giggle and Kristoff's face seemed to brighten at the noise.

"I was going to give this to you sometime, I just didn't know when. Looks like now is the perfect time." Kristoff held out his hand to her. Anna opened his fingers and smiled at what rested in his palm.

It was a silver chain necklace, with a small round stone hanging from it. A red ruby was set inside the stone.

"It's beautiful." Anna said in awe.

"I thought that it might help you remember me and the hilarious time you met my 'family', since it's a stone and all." Kristoff rubbed the back of his neck. Anna laughed lightly.

"I love it Kristoff." She said. He smiled down at her.

"Let me put it on you." Kristoff swept her hair away and put the necklace around her neck. She turned to face him again, and his smile grew wider.

"Beautiful." He said simply. "Now, anytime you have a nightmare, or are feeling alone, grab that stone and think about me, no, about us. Okay?"

"Okay." Anna said softly, and she leaned her head against his arm. He pulled her in and hugged her tight before turning her around in his arms. He leaned down and kissed her softly on the lips. She kissed back, and she could feel his lips smile.

Kristoff pulled away and raised his hand to her head. He stroked her hair and just looked at her for a few moments.

"Thanks, Kristoff." Anna said.

"Anything for you. Just remember, you're never alone, Anna."

A/N

Hello! Yes, Frozen fans, I'm alive!

I am so sorry that I did not update this in FOREVER! My laptop has… malfunctioned, but I will be getting it back soon. I had kind of forgotten this series, since I suddenly discovered Rise of the Guardians. If you have not seen that movie, you need to. Now, some of you may be like, no, it's way to kiddish. But, it's not necessarily the movie, it's the characters! Jack Frost is the MOST spectacular character to work with on fanfiction! So, go check out my other stories for Rise of the Guardians, How To Train Your Dragon, and others!

I am sorry to inform you, that this will be the last chapter for a LONG time. I am going to call it complete for now, but someday in the far future, I may continue this series. Sorry to make you cry at that news, but my life is gotten CRAZY and my brain has moved to other ideas.

I will try my absolute hardest to update "Healing The Past", another Frozen fic of mine, sometime. Can't make any promises though, sorry.

If you would like to adopt, "Healing The Past", message me, I am willing to do so.

TTFN!

~Annanarra