Still jumping around. Eventually I want to cobble all of these together into a cohesive whole. Seeing how I got about 17k in this little verse. Kudos to whoever guesses the movie right.







Movie nights were the first of the many things Elsa and Anna started to do together. Originally it had been intended as a sort of an excuse to hang out. One long marathon of something so the two could get a bit more comfortable with each other. Anna so she could spend more time at the apartment and Elsa so she wouldn’t be so jumpy when people were around. It almost didn’t happen, since Elsa had lived without T.V. for longer than Anna had been a movie junkie.



It made choosing the marathon theme a bit hard.



But then it was rescued when Anna discovered the vast and impressive collection of musicals that Elsa owned. Thus began what would eventually be dubbed the Non-stop Musical Palooza. Of course various other people had joined in but eventually petered out as each of them realized just how many musicals were in that collection. By the time the musical marathon ended it was only Elsa and Anna that had come out on top.

One thing led to another and the near marathon had eventually resolved itself to a weekly occurrence. Their Friday night movie nights were great. It was something they mutually enjoyed that was dirt cheap and relaxing. Plus it never felt like a date so Elsa remained obvious while Anna could pretend it wasn’t the date she wanted it to be. Besides study sessions it was one of the few times they could hang out together without any awkwardness looming over them.

Every Friday they microwaved popcorn that only Anna ate, bought those little mint things only Elsa liked and split a bag of chocolate they mutually devoured. After a few minutes playfully arguing over what to watch, they would pop the DVD in and settle down. They’d start on their ends of the couches but eventually end up sitting closer before the end of the night The movie would play during which comments would be exchanged. After it finished they would say their goodnights and the visiting girl would leave to go home.

That’s how it normally went.

This time they had went into the night knowing what movie they were going to watch. With movies acting as the perfect conversation starter they had started to talk more and Anna was having decent success drawing Elsa into her favorite T.V. shows. Course right off the bat Anna had found out that Elsa had never seen her favorite movie. A parody of the Pirates of Penzance; it was 105 minutes of non-stop eighties cliches, musical numbers, sword fighting action and jokes just this side of lewd.

The movie was obscure so it had taken her a while to get her copy from home. Then another few weeks to find a working VHS they could borrow. It was annoying but Anna was determination itself. So when the night finally arrived for the great premiere Anna had been excited. The whole time she had spent gushing over the film while they got and made the snacks had the redhead overlooking the lackluster one word responses Elsa gave her.

Everything had been going great until Elsa fell asleep.

Now, Anna was well aware that Elsa did not like to be touched. There was nothing quite as heart wrenching as reaching for someone and having them flinch away. Anna didn’t understand the why of it, but she accepted it and waited. It was an unspoken rule. Anna didn’t ask, and Elsa didn’t explain so the redhead tried to keep the touches to a minimum. It worked for them.

But then there were moments like this.

How a woman that hated touching while conscious could lose all sense of personal space while out of it was a mystery for the ages. Somewhere in song about creeping like cats Elsa had fallen asleep. By the underwater treasure hunt scene she had been knocked into by the overexcited Anna and had leaned into the redhead. That hadn’t been too bad, Anna had overlooked it. Rather, she had over analyzed every breath and twitch while she kept perfectly still as not to scare Elsa back onto her side of the couch.

By the end of the movie Elsa had her head in Anna’s lap, one arm slowly but surely working its way around her knee as she cuddled into her thigh. At first Anna had been startled when Elsa’s head had hit her lap, almost jumping a foot up in the air.

Elsa was the picture of subtlety and this wasn’t anywhere near what she expected Elsa to do if she wanted cuddles. Ever since the first embarrassing night they hadn’t did anything resembling cuddling. Anna had expected it to start out as something small, the whole touching business. Like Elsa brushing shoulders with her when they were walking, maybe leaning against her one movie night like she had thought had happened. But not this. So she had froze and waited for Elsa to react, only relaxing once she heard the soft snores.

The realization had the tension leaving her back and pulling her arms back down. Now that she thought about it, Elsa had acted awfully subdued today and she had the worst bags under her eyes. The blonde might be displeased if she woke up so Anna tried moving. However the grip on her leg had tightened and Elsa and mumbled something. So instead she gave in and tried to wake her up, at least until Elsa had let out this most adorable complaint when she tried.

“No Anna, the sky is just dreaming. Go back to sleep.” It was accompanied by a nuzzle and a soft sigh as Anna instantly stilled. That… had been a bit too intimate. Anna had to bit a lip to keep from squeaking and a few minutes working the blush off her face. That was about when Anna gave up on the whole affair. She was only human after all. If Elsa wanted to sleep on her lap she could and would. This was her crush cuddled into her side and front with her favorite movie of all time running into its ending musical number.

She would let Elsa sleep. The workaholic didn’t get enough of it anyhow, so why not let her catch up? They would watch the movie later. For now however Anna restarted the movie, knowing that she had a few hours of playing pillow to wait through. Leaning back she hesitantly placed an arm over Elsa’s shoulders, relaxing when Elsa’s only reaction was to hug her leg a little tighter. The things she did for love.