A/N After reading fan fics for some time now I decided to write one myself. This is my first story ever so please bear with me ;)

Far away from the castle at the border of Arrendelle lay a little orphanage. It looked quite idyllic being surrounded by flowers and children playing in the backyard. From the outside it seemed like a very happy place. The orphanage held a secret though. In the attic where no orphans ever came, lived an eight-year-old girl. Her name was Eleanor, Ellie for short. She was an orphan, at least she thought so, just like the other girls. Except the other girls weren't locked up in an attic for all of their lives…

Then again the other girls didn't need to be locked up because they'd never hurt anybody. Ellie did hurt people although not intentionally. It was just that whenever she got mad or sad or just panicked, and that happened a lot, ice would start to form around her fingertips and the air would just get colder. Most of the time when she finally calmed down she'd had already frozen the entire attic.

In the mornings when Ellie was alone in her attic it was okay though. It was cold and there was a layer of ice on the ground but that was it. It was always when the owner of the orphanage came to see her that things would get out of hand. Today the owner of the orphanage miss Greta came to see her an hour before dinner. As soon as she walked through the door she started yelling at Ellie who sat curled up in a ball in the corner bracing herself thinking: conceal, conceal, don't feel!

'You're worthless! You know that right? A freak of nature that's what you are', yelled Greta. With every word Greta said the air grew a bit colder and more ice started to creep up on the walls.

Though it was nothing Ellie hadn't heard before it still got to her every time Greta said it. But Ellie also knew that the worst part of the daily speech was yet to come. Greta walked over to the corner where Ellie sat and started what Ellie called 'the monster part'. Greta laughed at the girl in the corner who was desperately trying to stop the ice from creeping further up the wall. 'Ha I see you still can't control it. You're a monster and a freak! You're so pathetic. You are so scared of me while should be thankful because I am the only person brave enough to come near you.' With that Greta was done, left the attic and locked the door behind her.

Ellie hated these daily visits from Greta. The yelling itself wasn't even the worst part. The worst part was that Greta was right. When alone in the attic Ellie could sometimes almost convince herself that she wasn't all that bad. That she could learn to control her powers someday. But when Greta came and started her speech Ellie couldn't help but believe her. Believe she was a monster with or without her curse. That she just scared people and that it was best that she was locked up. The piles of snow and the ice on the ceiling that had formed during Greta's speech just confirmed that believe.

Still in her corner Ellie sat there thinking with her head in her gloved hands. She suddenly stood up and started pacing around the room. It felt like anger, sadness and loneliness were having a war inside her heart. It was unfair. Why did she have to bear this curse? Why wasn't there a way to control it? The gloves helped a bit in the beginning but the curse kept growing stronger while she got older. While being angry a blizzard picked up and the attic started to grow colder than it ever had been before. Though after a while Ellie decided that she didn't have the right to be angry. She was a worthless human being after all. She deserved what she got. With the anger gone Ellie stopped pacing and the blizzard died down.

In her heart sadness and loneliness filled the space that anger had left. She was alone in the world. Not just because she had no one who cared about her or because of her powers but in terms of appearance as well. When she would sometimes look outside of her window to see the other orphans play she'd always look down on dark haired heads and an occasional redhead. Ellie's hair was white as snow, though she preferred the term platinum blonde. This just made her realize all the more that there truly was no one like her.

Ellie let the tears fall from her icy blue eyes though they turned into tiny ice crystals before they hit the ground. She walked to the door and sat down on the floor to lean her back against the door. But instead of staying firmly locked and in place like always the door swung open and Ellie fell backwards. Ellie scrambled to her feet as fast as she could and stared down the hall in awe. How did this happen? In her fit of anger she must have weakened the lock somehow. Ellie contemplated her next move. This was her chance to get out of the attic. 'But there's a reason you're in here. There's a reason that you're being kept away form people. You can't even touch people without freezing them!' a little voice in the back of her mind said. But, Ellie argued with herself, she didn't have to meet other people. She'd just find a place where she could be alone. Where she couldn't hurt anyone but where no one could yell at her either. That's when she decided that she would leave.

She took her first step over the threshold very carefully. She got to the stairs without making a sound. She slowly made her way down the stairs careful not to make the steps creak. When she got to the bottom of the stairs she realized that she had arrived at probably the hardest part of her escape. In order to get to the door she had to pass the entrance to the common room. It would be a challenge to pass the entrance without being seen by any of the playing girls inside. Deciding there was no time like the present Ellie gathered her courage and tried to sneak past the entrance. Luck was not on her side though, because just when she came into full view of the girls in the common room the floorboard she stepped on creaked loudly. Ellie froze dead in her spot when one of the girls inside looked up and asked: 'Miss Greta, who's that?' Miss Greta who turned red of anger at the sight of Ellie, started to run towards her. Ellie came out of her frozen state as soon as she saw Greta coming at her. She bolted towards the door, threw it open and ran. Greta immediately ran after her screaming at her to stop right this instant.

After running mile after mile Ellie finally slowed down. She suddenly realized that the screaming and running behind her had stopped a long time ago. That was also when she realized that in a sense she was free. Although not free from her curse, she was free to do whatever she wanted without being yelled or screamed at. On that day for the first time in forever a smile settled on Ellie's face.