A/N: So, here is the final chapter. This isn't how I had planned to end it, but it's... how the story ends anyway. Well, this is the only chapter I like of this story, and forcing more would be doing it an injustice. Anyway, I want to move on to new projects; this was my first Frozen fanfic and honestly I consider it pretty bad.

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Well. Here she was again, alone in her ice palace. She took solace in knowing it was in Anna's best interests. Everyone was better off this way.

Of course, in saying that, she wasn't factoring in her own happiness at all. There was nothing new about that, though.

She contented herself with making ice sculptures, even though her loneliness made them saggy and cracked.

At least being able to do this made it better than her adolescence, feeling afraid to use her powers for anything.

It was a few hours later when she heard the palace doors open. Startled, her sculpture spiked out in all directions. She looked down to see—

Elsa had been about to speak when Anna absolutely launched herself at her.

"Don't scare me like that!" Anna nearly yelled, right next to Elsa's ear. She was crying.

"What?" She took Anna's hug as permission to touch her, and though she did so tentatively, she put her arms around her sister.

"A…all I saw was your note, with all the ice, and you sounded so sad in it and you were apologizing so much, and you had all those papers about running the kingdom without you, that it looked like you'd been crying over, and I got so scared!" She buried her face into Elsa's shoulder.

Oh. Oh, no… she hadn't at all realized how that would look. "I'm sorry," she said, drawing Anna closer to her. "I didn't… think about it that way."

Anna didn't need to ask why Elsa had left. She already knew the answer. "No, I'm sorry. For avoiding you. I just… I didn't know what to say." She looked Elsa in the eye. "You're my sister, and I will always love you as that." Her eyes lowered. "Just, I don't really understand. I didn't know it was possible to feel that way about, you know, another girl."

Elsa had teared up at Anna's acceptance of her. "I don't understand it either. I… tried to think I was mistaken, because I didn't think it was possible either, but… it must be, because I am. And I know it must be wrong, but…"

Anna interrupted her. "You can't help how you feel. And, I think that love is never wrong. It's the most beautiful thing there is."

At this, Elsa couldn't stop herself from crying, although it was with a genuine smile. She let herself rest her head on Anna's shoulder. "I love you," she said, then quickly caught herself. "I mean—"

"It's okay," Anna assured her, pulling her a little closer. "Like I said, you're my sister. You're allowed to say that. I love you too."