Anonymous asked: AU idea: slightly cliche but.. Elsanna, mAU, no icest, The Vow style. Elsa and Anna have known each other for 4 years, been married for 2. Until one day, on the road to spend a holiday with Elsa's parents in another city and/or state, they're involved in a car accident that leaves Elsa with a few broken bones and bruises, and Anna in a coma for a few weeks. Only to have Anna waking up with retrograde amnesia, thinking it's 6 years ago and she's still dating Hans. How will they make it?

(But… I need my heart to live.)

Anna wakes up and really doesn’t know how to respond to this beautiful crying stranger who’s sitting where her boyfriend should be.

That doesn’t really change when she hears about what’s happened.

It sort of gets worse when multiple people explain what happened to end her and Hans. It definitely gets worse when the full Facebook logs of it get brought up.

And it turns out that it is really, really hard to cry over your apparently ex-boyfriend breaking your heart in front of the wife you’ve never met, especially when your wife is the kind of sweetheart who loves you enough to hand you the tissues while you’re stuck in a hospital bed. And part of Anna loves feeling so cared for, what with her just being dumped, then she remembers it isn’t really her that her wife loves, and she isn’t sure who she should feel worse for over that.

Elsa wants Anna to remember with an aching need that has her sobbing in the hospital corridors, but more than anything, she wants Anna to be happy.

She doesn’t know to help with that, anymore. Her very existence is confusing–frightening, even–for her wife, and she doesn’t know how to spare her that when she promised her Anna that she would always, always be there.

She doesn’t know what to do. But she does know what kind of chocolate Anna likes. She knows which books to bring to the hospital. She can keep her ring hidden when she visits–and take Anna’s away.

Most of their conversations involve apologizing and large amounts of guilt on both sides–and that is what eventually breaks through the awkwardness. Both of their lives have undergone a massive upheaval, and the only one they know who understands the heartbreak and confusion is sitting right next to them.

Falling together in a crumpled mess of mutual uncertainty is not how their original love story went. But for their second, it’s a start.