[Author's Note: The events outside Elsa's mind are based on the film Frozen, though some parts may be paraphrased for the sake of the medium. The events inside her mind are based on the film Inside Out, though with some headcanons not found in the film (like memories being able to be altered to emotions other than sadness). If the characters in these parts seem OOC to you, keep in mind that they are Elsa's emotions, not Riley's.

Frozen is owned by Disney. Inside Out is owned by Pixar, which is owned by Disney. I am not Disney.]

Anger had night duty in Elsa's mind, and that suited him just fine. The other emotions weren't there to bother him. There was nothing happening to Elsa that could upset him. He could just sit and watch dreams all by himself until Elsa was woken in the morning by her parents.

Or, in this case, her sister, who had entered Elsa's room and was pestering her to play. Anger pressed a button, and on the screen, Elsa pushed Anna off the bed and told her to go play by herself. He leaned back satisfied, thinking he had given himself a few more minutes. But then…

"Do you wanna build a snowman?"

"A snowman?" shouted Joy, rushing into the control room. She quickly shoved Anger out of the way of the panel and took over, making Elsa leap out of bed. Soon, the other emotions came in.

"Ugh. Why are we up so early?" Disgust complained. She looked out the window and saw the island of personality dedicated to Elsa's younger sister in full swing. "Ah. That explains it."

"Explains, yes, but it does not excuse it!" said Fear. "Or at the very least it doesn't excuse us making so much noise."

He reached over Joy's shoulder and pressed a button that made Elsa shush Anna, who was extolling her to 'Come on!' just a little bit too loudly. Joy pushed Fear back, making it so that the row of memories being formed for that day only had a single splash of purple among a sea of gold.

"Back off, Fear! I'm planning for Elsa to have a wonderful time with Anna this morning and I don't want you to ruin it with a bunch of worrying!"

"Well, it would also be ruined if their parents or a servant or somebody was woken up by a loud noise and saw we were up and we got in trouble!"

"He's right," said Anger. "It'd be awful if we got in trouble."

"And it'd be just as awful if we didn't get to use Elsa's magic!"

"I don't think those would be equally awful," said Fear. "Wait, her magic?"

"Oh, don't even start, Fear," she said. On the screen, Elsa used her powers to make it snow inside; through the control room window, the Island of Personality that represented her powers activated. Anna Island was also on, going since Elsa had woken up. There was also an island representing her parents, who were presumably still in bed, and islands for Etiquette and Leadership, formed from the lessons given to her as fitting her role as heir to the throne and which hopefully wouldn't be needed in practice for some time to come.

"Snow Magic Island is running, and I plan on keeping it running for the whole morning," Joy continued, "so I'd appreciate it if you'd keep your comments to yourself."

"It's not the powers themselves per se," said Fear. "It's just that… well, we're still in our nightgowns. Shouldn't we change into some warmer clothes? Or at least put on a jacket?"

"Yeah," said Disgust, "It'd be really uncomfortable to wear these if they got damp."

"I was thinking more along the lines of illness."

"Come on, guys, look at Anna! Does she look like she's worried about those things?"

The emotions all glanced at the screen. Elsa had turned the floor icy and Anna was now happily sliding around on it.

"I guess not," Fear said.

"Exactly," said Joy. "So let's just enjoy it."

So Elsa and her sister spent the next hour playing in the snow, Joy operating the console to ensure that Elsa was having fun the entire time. The other emotions looked on at first, but were quickly getting restless.

"You've been pretty quiet so far, Sadness," said Anger. "You got anything useful to add?"

"Well, all this snow looks lovely now, but it's inevitably going to melt and turn into water…"

"Yeah, I thought not."

On the screen, Anna jumped through the air; Elsa created a pillar of snow for her to land on. Anna kept jumping, and Elsa kept making pillars, but Joy didn't seem to recognize that Anna's leaps were slightly too fast for Elsa to keep up with.

"You're going too slow!" shouted Fear. He nudged Joy out of the way of the control panel. "We need to make platforms more quickly, or else Anna might—fall! Ah!"

In his focus on creating the pillars, Fear had neglected Elsa's footwork, causing her to slip on the ice. On the screen, he watched as Anna leapt again, but with nothing for her to leap to.

"No!" he screamed. In his panic, he pressed the controls to shoot another beam, hoping to break her fall; but instead, Elsa shot out a beam that hit Anna squarely in the head. She fell to the floor and lay there, not moving.

The emotions stood in shock. Then, wordlessly, Sadness placed her hands on the controls. On the screen, Elsa went over to where Anna fell and cradled her.

The doors burst open; in came their parents, the king and queen. "Elsa, what have you done?" the king said. "This is getting out of hand!"

"It was an accident," said Elsa. "Sorry, Anna."

The queen picked Anna up. "She's ice cold," she said.

"I know where we have to go," said the king.

Joy gasped. "See? Elsa's father knows what to do! Anna will be all right!" She looked back the screen. "I hope."

Soon, Elsa was on a horse, journeying with her parents and unconscious sister into the mountains. In her mind, Fear had taken the controls over from Sadness as he and the rest of the emotions anxiously awaited what was to happen.

The royal family eventually reached a clearing. The king called out for help, and the rocks around them began to roll towards them under their own volition.

"Um… this doesn't look good," said Fear. He gripped the controls even harder.

"But Elsa's father wouldn't take us into danger," said Joy.

"But rocks moving? That's not natural."

"And shooting ice out of your hands is?" said Disgust.

"Noted."

The rocks changed shape—or perhaps simply uncurled—and gained limbs and faces.

"Hold on," said Fear, "I think we have a memory of these—ah yes," he said, as it emerged from long term storage and was displayed on screen. It was a picture from a book that Elsa had read as part of her studies. "Trolls. Elusive but friendly."

"See?" said Joy.

The head troll approached. The king quickly explained about Elsa's powers and then presented him with Anna. "You're lucky it wasn't her heart," the head troll said. "The heart is not so easily changed, but the head can be persuaded."

"That is lucky," said Joy. "This situation isn't as bad as we thought!" She seemed to be trying to convince herself by this point.

"I recommend we remove all magic, even memories of magic, to be safe."

"Wait, what?" said Joy.

"Aw, so Anna won't remember we have powers?" said Sadness. "That's a shame."

"Wait, so we can't even show our powers off?" said Anger. "That's not fair!"

"I agree," said Disgust.

"But it's for the best, isn't it?" said Joy. "I mean, if it'll save Anna…"

"Listen to me, Elsa," the head troll continued. "Your power will only grow. There is beauty in it, but also great danger." He illustrated this with lights in the sky. "You must learn to control it. Fear will be your enemy."

The emotions glanced at Fear.

"What?" he said. "They don't mean me. They mean the fear from other people!"

"Ugh," said Anger. "I knew your worrying over nothing was annoying, but I never considered other people worrying over nothing."

"Hey, I don't fear things for no reason!" Fear said indignantly. "And neither do other people! They'll think Elsa's powers are dangerous! And they are dangerous! Look what happened to Anna!"

"It would be awful if that were

"So instead we'll conceal our powers! Hide them! Control them! Stop using them lest they hurt somebody else! Maybe we'll accidentally shoot someone in the heart next time!"

"So we're just supposed to stop using our magic? How can we possibly do that?" said Joy. "I mean, there's a whole island devoted to it! We can't just ignore a core aspect of Elsa's personality like that! Something that makes her happy!"

"I think there was something in the manuals about that," Fear said, rushing over to them and quickly looking up the subject. "Yes, here it is: a memory, even a core one, can be changed from one emotion to another if the need arises. So if we take the core memory that forms Magic Powers Island and make it fearful, then we can easily avoid it just like we avoid everything else that makes us fearful!"

"So, take a happy memory… and make her afraid of it? Is that really the best thing to do?"

"It's the only thing to do," said Fear. "Otherwise, we'll have more memories like that." He pointed to Anna's unconscious form on the screen.

Joy gave a sigh. "I guess it is," she said. "Just do it quickly, please."

Fear tentatively approached the core memories. He found the one representing the day Elsa discovered her powers and touched it. Soon, its color turned from the yellow golden to joy to the purple of fear.

"Well, there goes our magic powers," Anger said grumpily.

"Good-bye, magic powers," Sadness said gloomily.

"It's for the good of Elsa and her loved ones," said Fear. "We can learn to live without them."

"Yeah!" said Joy. "I bet in a few weeks, we'll forget all about them!"