Chapter 6: The kiss.

Ten years – Seven years.

"Elsaaaaa!" A little redheaded princess whined from her spot atop the bed for the tenth time in less than half an hour, making her sister's shoulders tense with stress and frustration. "Come play with me!" She demanded.

"I told you; I can't." Elsa answered though gritted teeth as she hurried up to finish the essay she had to give to her history teacher soon.

"Because of that boring stuff?" Anna asked, pouting. "You've never liked it!"

"I don't, but I have to do it." The older girl said as she reread the sentence she'd just wrote, realizing it didn't make sense because of her sister's distracting voice. Still, she couldn't bring herself to tell her to leave.

"Why?" The little princess asked, as she played with one of her now long braids.

"Because, unlike you, I'm going to be queen someday. Everyone will depend on me to make good decisions as I rule the kingdom." Elsa rolled her eyes, wondering why her sister had even asked.

"But no matter how much you study or don't study, I'm sure you'll be a great queen." Anna said, sincerity clear in her voice, which in turn made Elsa smile with affection.

"I know… but I want to be sure nonetheless." She said. It was strange, but for the past year or so she'd been more and more interested on her classes. She did want to be a good queen, a better one than her parents. Maybe then the monarchs would be proud of her and the people of Arendelle would love her. At least, that's what she hoped.

"See? You already are a good queen." The young girl said, partially because it was true, and partially because she wanted to play with her sister.

"I'm good, but I'm not a queen yet." Elsa smirked, playfully glancing at her sister.

"But you'll be! And when that happens, I'll be there with you." Anna said excitedly, but Elsa felt a little pain in her heart. She wanted to be with Anna forever, but… most probably she'd marry a prince someday and be taken away.

Not if I can stop it.

"Yes, you'll be my right hand, I promise." She said fervently.

"But first I'd like to travel all around the world, meet new people, explore new places… and tell them all about my beautiful and talented sister!" Elsa chuckled at her sister's enthusiasm, her heart warming at her words, even if she didn't want Anna to ever be that far away from her. Still, she knew she'd have to give her some freedom.

"Yes, and when you return, we'll rule our kingdom together."

"Everyone will love us! The queens of Arendelle!" She exclaimed, moving her hand in front of her as if picturing them as monarchs.

"You know only I would be queen, right?" Elsa raised an eyebrow playfully. "You'd be crown princess."

"Oh, well, I've always liked princesses!" Anna said, not even a little less excited than before, but then she assumed a thoughtful expression. "That reminds me… mother brought me a new fairytale book today." Sensing this to be an ideal opportunity to make her sister stop distracting her without blatantly kicking her out of her room, Elsa quickly spoke.

"You should read it! And then you can tell me about it."

"But… I like being with you." Anna pouted.

"Well, you can read it here then."

"Really?!" Anna asked excitedly and, at her sister's nod, she practically ran out of the room. "I'll be right back!" Elsa shook her head and chuckled at her sister's antics before returning back to work, a happy little smile clear on her face.

As it turned out, her sister's little distraction had cost Elsa dearly. She didn't manage to finish her homework in time, and so was punished by a veritable mountain of additional homework and had to spend five days locked in her room before she managed to complete it all. It didn't matter though; she was used to it by then, and her sister went to her door every night to tell her about her day and about the fairytale she'd most recently read, which made her days bearable. Barely.

Finally, at the sixth day, she was able to see her sister again, and of course the first thing they did was to hug as if it had been an eternity since they'd last saw each other. Then, after taking breakfast together (Elsa purposely ignoring her parents), Anna had gone to take her etiquette and dance lessons, while Elsa had gone to take other, more complicated, lessons in history, economics and politics. She detested those subjects, but they still were better than Anna's, even if she still had to take dance lessons at least once a week and her parents usually reprimanded her if she did not behave as her etiquette teacher had taught her.

After having lunch though, they were allowed to have a little recess between lessons, and so they met in the portrait gallery, a massive room filled with dozens of paintings of important historical figures. There, Elsa found her sister laying on a couch and reading some story from her new book.

"Hey there." Elsa called her as she approached her from behind, her voice betraying how tired she was.

"Elsa!" Anna almost jumped from the couch, as energetic as always, and went to hug her tightly before quickly turning to look up at her, not letting go of the older princess.

"How was your day? Good?" She asked, eying her lovingly.

"Yeah, dance classes are fun! I feel like Cinderella when I'm practicing all those sophisticated moves." She said enthusiastically, before frowning and making a cute little pout. "I hate etiquette though."

"I know. It's horrible." Elsa grimaced, but then remembered they were not in their classes anymore and should enjoy their time together. "So… you're reading Cinderella then?" She asked, eying at the book laying forgotten on the couch.

"No, that one I finished yesterday; I'm now reading about the princess and the dragon."

"Oh, the most classic fairytale of all." Elsa smiled, remembering when she'd read it, even if she wasn't particularly fond of those sort of books, and so didn't remember well how it went. "Is it the one where the princess has a curse and falls asleep and an evil fairy turns into a dragon?"

"No! That's Sleeping Beauty! I told you about it three days ago!" Anna pouted, clearly upset that her sister hadn't been paying attention.

"Sorry, I feel asleep." Elsa answered sheepishly. "What's this story about then?"

"It's about a princess that is so beautiful that all the men in the kingdom want to marry her, and so her father locks her in a tower and has a dragon guard the entrance. Only the one who can defeat said dragon will be given the princess' hand in marriage. At the end, a handsome prince rescues her, they fall in love and they ride to the sunset. Very romantic!" She sighs with dreamy eyes, as her sister makes a gagging sound.

"Ugh, how can you like those stories? There's no such thing as love at first sight." She frowned.

"Of course there is!" Anna protested vehemently. "And when I marry my prince charming I'm going to make you eat your words!"

"Whatever." Elsa rolled her eyes, figuring there was no use on arguing with a whiny child who wouldn't understand anyways. "Why don't we stop talking so much and play something instead?"

"Yay!" The young girl screamed, shooting her arms up in excitement. "How about we play that I'm a princess and I'm in a tower and… and you're the handsome prince who comes and rescue me!" She beamed as if she had just had the best idea ever.

"Me? A prince? No, thank you." Elsa refused, but when she saw her sister's pouting face she had to deviate her gaze to avoid giving up.

"Please? Come on Elsa, it'll be fun!"

"But… wh-who'll be the dragon?" Elsa tried to protest.

"You can make it with snow." The younger girl answered as if it was obvious, knowing full well that her sister could now control her powers enough to do that, but…

"I can't." Elsa's gaze instantly became sad, her voice wavering slightly. "Our parents forbid it."

"And you still practice it Sundays at midnight." Anna countered.

"Only because I know they won't notice!" Elsa almost shrieked, her gloved hands trembling, though she didn't know if for fear or rage. "I can't risk it, Anna." She almost pleaded, but her sister didn't seem to care.

"Just… just the dragon! You can melt it if we hear someone approaching."

"Anna…" She shook her head as she wrapped her arms around her torso.

"Please?" She pouted.

"Enough, Anna." She gritted her teeth, knowing full well her sister could make her do anything she wanted, even if it was forbidden, if she insisted enough.

"But Elsa…" She tried to reach for her, but the older girl retreated in fear, already feeling the ice magic trying to obey at her sister's command.

"I said no!" She snapped, just as she lost control of her powers and heard the crack of ice. When she opened her eyes, she found a great snowflake had formed under her feet, before looking at Anna, who had a sad and disappointed smile.

This, however, didn't worry Elsa nearly as much as the fact that her powers had slipped through her gloves. Sure, they'd been more difficult to control as of late, but… she thought she could manage, and the gloves certainly helped with her control, as much as she hated the constricting feeling they gave her. But this… this was uncharacteristic of her. More so, it seemed her magic had responded to her desire to please Anna, and not to her rational command of not doing magic. This could cause her big problems in the future.

"Elsa?" Anna asked, worried at seeing her sister so terrified of her own ice, making the crown princess' head shoot up too look at her, before she excused herself.

"I-I'm sorry. I have to go." She said, before practically flying out of the room.

Elsa had been locked in her room since after her little incident with Anna, this time because of her own choice. She was too afraid to meet her parents, fearing Anna had told them about what had happened, and not wanting to see her little sister in case the incident repeated itself.

She was just sitting in her bed, thinking, rocking back and forth, trying to make sense of what had happed in order to prevent it from happening again… and then, suddenly, she heard the lock of her door being turned, and tensed, thinking it was her father, but no; it was just Anna… holding her personal servant's keys, and carrying a paper knife and a dragon toy, as well as two dolls representing both of them.

"Anna? What are you doing here?" She asked, unconsciously retreating further into her bed. The redhead, however, didn't answer, and instead put the dragon on the mattress before going to search for something tall and cylindrical, in this case a metal can where Elsa kept her jewelry (that she didn't use, by the way), putting it behind the dragon, and placing the Anna-doll on it, while she hided the Elsa-doll and the paper knife somewhere at her feet.

Elsa eyed her sister curiously as she started to speak, holding the Anna-doll and making her move like she was the one talking.

"Oh, I'm so beautiful! I wish I wasn't that beautiful, then father wouldn't have locked me in this tower." She said dramatically and, despite her previous mood, Elsa found herself smiling slightly at the adorable scene. Then, with her other hand, Anna took the dragon and also spoke. "I'm a ferocious dragon, and I'm going to burn anyone who comes here! Hahahaha!" She said with her best malevolent voice, which didn't really sound so menacing, making her sister giggle.

Then, the little redhead reached down and got the Elsa-doll and the paper knife, making it seem as if the doll were holding the knife as a sword.

"Worry not, my princess." She said with what she hoped sounded like a brave tone of voice. "I will rescue you from this beast!"

"No, please, I don't want you to die like the others." She made the Anna-doll say.

"That won't happen; I have my awesome ice powers and my ice sword!" The Elsa-doll answered. "Look!" At this, she made as if the knife flew out of her hand, and stabbed the dragon on it's heart.

"Oh, no! I've been defeated!" She made the dragon say as it fell from the bed.

"My hero!" The Anna-doll exclaimed excitedly as it jumped from the can and approached the Elsa doll. "Now we should get married and be happily ever after." Anna concluded as she made the dolls kiss, much to the amusement of her sister, who by then had completely forgotten about the little incident of before and was clapping at the spectacle.

"Wow, Anna that was really funny!" She smiled widely. "Thank you. I think you are my hero."

"You liked it?" The redhead chirped excitedly as she climbed onto the bed and crawled towards her sister, smiling when she nodded. "Then I think I've earned a kiss."

"Come here." Elsa said, opening her arms, ready to give her little sister a kiss on her cheek. What she didn't expect though was to feel a pair of warm lips on her own.

She didn't expect to like it either, but Anna's lips were so soft and warm that… how could she not like them? She knew it probably wasn't right, but she couldn't bring herself to care.

A/N: This is where the chapters I had already finished end, so updates will be slower from now on. Sorry. Also, I hope you liked this little bit of fluff and that you review if you did. Till next time :)

Thanks to my beta reader moonwatcher13 :)