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A/N: Holy sh*t, guys! 16 followers in one chapter? I had no idea that this story would have such a bang in its first chapter. I have to thank my bud christian . nickles3 for helping me with this story. I planned on publishing it tomorrow, and this chapter was going to be shorter, but I got this done earlier and I guess that inspiration came to me? So... here we go.

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You are Enough

The Council

Chapter Two

"Captain Lasky, I have eyes on him".

"Do whatever you have to; he can't turn the Composer on!"

"Pause it, please". The projection froze in place as the council leader spoke his command; the entire atmosphere of the room was dense and speculative. The man in his mid-50s turned ninety degrees and pointed to the projection on the wall, never breaking eye contact with his defendant. "So you had, and I quote 'eyes on him', mind in explaining to everyone in this council who would that be?"

"He was the Didact, sir". A short and cold answer quickly followed, a polygraph was not necessary to verify the authenticity of her statement. She was always looking deep into his eyes, she never expected him to feel frightened or unstable by her gaze, also because she would be disappointed, he was just as cold as her.

"The Didact! The presumed dead forerunner who declared war by himself against the humanity, is that correct?" He was spitting venom in every syllable of his rant, as he subjectively condemned the defendant with his statements; he hoped that somehow he could affect the judgments of the person on the other side of the bench. That man worked successfully by putting fear in people, causing them to be reluctant in their own arguments, before he got inside the room, however, he knew that it was going to be different, in a bad different. Frost was a very well-known soldier and virtually put what was once the top-secret Spartan program on the society's radar. Everybody considered her as the legend that saved the galaxy from complete obliteration, and few years later, the one who saved Earth from destruction.

"That is correct". Cold words left her mouth loud and clear instantly, catching the council and the jury off guard, accustomed with reluctant people that had big mouths, but always seems to forget how to speak when under pressure.

The leader hesitated. He knew that confront her was going to be a pointless task, but what he did not expect was that she was so indifferent to his attempts of intimidation. He wondered for a while; does she even cares?

He shook his head and looked back to the projection at the wall. "Play it". The projector began humming the silent noise of its cooling fans and the light gained motion again.

It showed a first-person perspective from Frost's helmet, she was still far away from the Didact, but it was possible to spot him in the distance. It was impossible to get to there, since the Didact was right in the middle of the Composer, and there was nothing that connected the center of the structure from its surroundings, incapacitating her of attacking the Didact. Frost scanned her surroundings and noticed an electronic console, with her own conscience, she rushed for it and plugged the AI chip in, Anna's hologram appeared and divided herself in four clones, and then she disappeared, directly ahead, a hard light energy bridge was formed, connecting her to the Didact's fate.

"Pause".

The council leader turned toward the jury. "Here we see the artificial intelligence ANA 0539-8, most known as the nickname given to her, 'Anna'". Elsa looked up to the council leader as he spoke Anna's service number. "This A.I's primary functionality was to assist the cruiser Pillar of Autumn, but not only had she failed her mission, but she also took refuge on Elsa's MJOLNIR powered assault armor-". Elsa had expected many things coming from him, but never have predicted that he would use such a dirty trick.

"Under the command of the captain Jacob Keyes!" The captain of the UNSC Infinity Lasky intervened. He commands the largest ship of the UNSC fleet, the Infinity under Lasky's commands is considered the most lethal artifact under the human possession, and some say that it is capable of destroying enemy ships by just going through them. Lasky is one of the few Elsa's friends that remains alive.

"Yes, with what purpose?"

"To assure that the halo Installation number four was never going to be activated". No one knew for what reason Lasky was battling for, but it looked like he would not give up.

"If it wasn't for his incompetence, the Covenant would never discover the halo rings! He showed the enemy the definitive weapon for their victory! We struggled for years until we could finally turn the tide to our favor".

"He was fleeing from the Covenants! The Autumn was the only remaining cruiser that survived the Fall of Reach, what would you do?! Turn the ship around and try to fight an entire armada of Covenant capital ships with a damaged light cruiser? You'd be obliterated at the sight!"

"He was a huge of an idiot!" The court was taken by gasps, then, he finally realized what he had brought upon himself. Jacob Keyes is considered by the UNSC's top echelon as an 'exemplary and legendary naval officer', as described in the book of honor of the Navy. The legacy of the Keyes' family was created on his behalf, the former commander of the UNSC Forward unto Dawn Miranda Keyes was a product of her father's legacy, proving once and for all that military excellence was part of that family.

He looked around the court, there were predatory eyes surrounding him. He saw no other possible option but retreat on his statement, hurting his inflated ego significantly. "I'm sorry. I don't know what has gotten into me". He half-lied, perhaps his ego was taking the better of him, making him say nonsense, but he always know what to say; he was a strategist, after all.

"Commander Foucault! Behave yourself!" Although Tobias Foucault was the leader of the Unified Earth Government's council, he could not overpass the group's decisions. He had a great influence over them, but that ended there, all the resolutions and projects should be approved by the council in a majority of votes, yet, being a leader didn't gave him the right to disrespect the memories of a deceased captain.

"Again, I'm sorry…" He looked back to Elsa, who was sitting behind a wooden bench on an oversized chair, visibly amused by the burst of the prosecutor. "Tell me, Spartan… what was the intentions of the A.I. in that situation?"

Elsa lifted an eyebrow, she was not sure of what he wanted by asking her this, and only then she had regretted in not choosing a lawyer. "Her intentions were to disable the shield around the Didact and creating a hard light energy bridge, allowing me access to the core of the composer, so I could destroy it with a HAVOK portable warhead". She took some time to answer this time, yet she was quick in her answer.

"So your plan was to get to the composer's core and blow it up, saving the home planet of the human race, is that correct?"

"Yes, sir".

"Then why you didn't do it?" Elsa knew, since the beginning, that this question was coming. Yet, she didn't think she'd be that nervous. To don't show her demeanor to the council and to the jury, she quickly answered.

"Even with Anna's efforts to disable the shield, I wasn't able to penetrate it; she was too weak due to her rampancy state. As stated in the operation report, I called commander Lasky of the Infinity and requested a direct strike from the ship's MA cannons".

Magnetic Accelerated Cannons, usually known as MACs, they are the main weapons of the Infinity, both located at the front of the ship, although they only could be shot directly ahead, with no control of the projectile, a direct hit of the guns might cause an extensive damage to a ship's structure.

"Yes, she requested our help, and we did it, two MAC rounds were enough to destroy the composer". Lasky intervened again, causing more outrage to Tobias.

"But she said that the Didact and the composer were protected by a shield, isn't it supposed to protect the ship?!" He lifted an accusatory finger directly to Lasky, who was sitting down at the back of the court.

"Indeed it is". Elsa cleared her throat before speaking, leading all the attention to her. "But one round is enough to disable the power grid of the ship, don't you think?" She ranted with a hint of irony, to the surprise of the jury. "If the Infinity can rip apart a Covenant capital ship, then it is more than enough to turn the power off, the second round was just to finish the job".

He frowned at Elsa for a moment, but she expressed no reaction at all, she just kept staring deep into his eyes as she was doing the entire time. It then became clear that this trial was not going exactly as he wanted.

However, he still had a card up his sleeve, and he was determined to use it.

"Let's get back to the A.I."

Elsa suddenly turned around; she wasn't able to hold that on much longer, she took no time to find who she was looking for. Lasky noticed her sudden move and could feel his feet getting cold when he noticed that she was looking straight back to him. Her expression begged for his help, it was unnerving to see her in such a weakened state.

He then found out what he needed to do. Elsa had saved Lasky once, when unknown covenant forces attacked the military academy that he was into, since when, he had a debt with her, he pretty much owed his life to her, his entire military career wouldn't have happened if that huge armored soldier didn't appear that night, saving him and some other few of his squad. He pushed his chair backwards; the screeching noise of its legs rubbing against the polished floor was the only sound of the entire court.

He raised, standing out amongst the crowd around him. He gulped a lump that formed on his throat. "I volunteer to be the defendant's lawyer". He looked to the front, his head high and his back straight, showing off his authority as the captain of the largest ship of the UNSC fleet, of grandest importance.

Tobias was already tired of Lasky's intrusions, and that was pushing beyond his rupture point. "It's a bit too late already, don't you think, captain Lasky?!" He nearly shouted out in the middle of the court, not even caring on what the jury would think about his demeanor, he was burying himself six feet underground and didn't even realized that Lasky was the one giving Elsa the shovel to finish the job.

"Well, I don't think that it would be a problem, would it, Your Honor?" He looked to the other mid-50s male at the other side of the court, which judging by his regal clothes – in comparison to everybody else, with military uniforms – was definitely the judge, he looked first at Lasky, then to Tobias, who was looking back to him, and finally to Elsa, who was looking to Lasky, her expression conveyed relief.

Honestly, everything he wanted was to get over with it and let the jury decide if Elsa was either innocent or culprit of the treason charges that Tobias had accused her. In all honesty, he knew everything that Elsa had done to humanity, and if she was going to get arrested for something, it should be for something much greater than that, everything turned out to be all right, after all. "I don't see a problem with that". He finally answered, Elsa sunk back on her seat, beyond relieved.

"WHAT?!" Tobias screamed as Lasky sat down at the chair by Elsa's side.

The young captain could see bags under her eyes the moment he took some time to pay attention at her; she wasn't sleeping at all after everything that had occurred. He looked back to the crazed prosecutor and with a smirk in his lips, he said. "So… about Anna".

Tobias sighed and recomposed himself in front of everyone, and then walked back to his seat. "ANA 0539-8, nicknamed as Anna. She was the Spartan Frost personal A.I. during the denouement of the Human-covenant war. She was a valuable asset to mankind, for providing us an unbelievable amount of information that we simply wouldn't get anywhere else, all of paramount help for winning the war". He introduced, all the time evaluating Elsa, looking for any hint of concern in her expressions, but just as before, he got nothing.

"What happened to her?" He finally asked.

"I'll let my… lawyer, speak for me". She said, a bit uncomfortable of calling Lasky as her lawyer, since he had almost no knowledge about law, everything back in the space, in the ordinary military life, was all about shooting the shit out of aliens.

"Anna was at an advanced state of rampancy during the composer's attack… well, I witnessed in firsthand what her status was, and-".

The lights of the court flickered; the silent and nearly undetectable noise of the air-conditioning turned off and then back on after a couple seconds, the projection at the wall disappeared, a murmur took over the room for some time. Some thought that the engines of the ship weren't running properly, others didn't even mind it.

"Well, why don't you ask her yourself?" An easily recognizable voice took over the court, people looked at each other, looking the entire room for the source of the voice, the guards at the doors unlocked their combat rifles as an instinct, but there was absolutely nothing.

The projector turned itself back on, displaying a variable circular blue light hologram in between the device and the wall. The hologram physic projector was an antique technology, but it was what gave grace to the court. "Hey there, Tobias".

"Do I… do I know you?" Even though he considered himself as an alpha male, he seemed to be shitting his pants by that point. He sometimes lost all his behavior when things are not going the way he wants, and it always showed the man under the mask that was his ego. In result, his serious demeanor was replaced by something laughable and even pitiful.

Poor man. Elsa thought.

"Sure you do! You were talking about me". Anna answered. Elsa was uneasy; they haven't exactly been talking to each other after everything that had happened a month ago. After Anna had been finally restored by her creator, Dr. Halsey, Elsa tried to avoid her as much as possible, she had said things that she wanted to regret in saying, and now she was sure that she was hurting Anna by just avoiding her. Still, she couldn't help it, there was a greater force in control, something that came deep inside of her, but still she couldn't properly explain.

"You look good, Elsa!" Anna greeted cheerfully. Elsa blushed instantly and hung her head low, almost kissing the wooden table. She wasn't ready for this, she was never going to be ready for her compliments, she wasn't ready for her voice, she wasn't ready for her at all.

"Don't do that, Anna…" She muttered under her breath, she knew that only her was able to listen to that, she was everywhere anyways. The court was at the UNSC Arendelle, and Anna had been assigned to work at the same ship as Elsa, the arctic blonde wasn't sure if that was on purpose, but those were orders, and she was willing to follow them, like she always did… except this one time.

Elsa looked to her watch, 11:57 A.M, launch break was close, she allowed a relieved sigh go past her lips, she was going to have enough time to recompose herself for the second – and hopefully, last one – part of the trial, now everything was going to be different, because she couldn't escape this time. Anna couldn't help but feel excited, on the other hand. She knew everything about Elsa. She knew about what she uses to eat, what she uses to drink, she knows everything about her. But there was something that she didn't know, or she didn't remember: how does it feels to finally talk to her? How exactly is her voice? There was something that avoided her to access her memories and listen to Elsa's voice again. She was finally getting the chance to talk to her, even if it was for a brief moment.

"Anna".

"Hey Lasky, how's Roland?" Roland was Anna's 'friend'; he is the A.I. in charge of the Infinity. They had talked a lot while Elsa was briefed for the strike at the Installation 05 – the 5th Forerunner-built halo ring – and so their friendship had begun; they had not talked much since, not because of choice, but because they hadn't the chance.

"He was asking about you for some time, and when I told him about what happened, he was really worried about you, but he's doing fine, and he's glad that you are as well". Lasky was a very charismatic man, he doesn't needs to try hard to give a good impression of him to everybody, he was being so nice to Elsa that he achieved something that many tried, yet many failed, her friendship.

"I know that it's nice that everybody is reuniting again, but we have a serious affair here to discuss and hopefully to judge". Tobias intervened as his cockiness finally kicked in. Elsa knew him all too well, she was wondering throughout the trial when his true nature was going to show up. Don't get him wrong, he's a remarkable commander, of paramount importance to the rescue mission of Dr. Halsey (Anna's creator), which was captured by the covenant about five years ago. However, when the spotlights and the whole media fell upon him, his ego grew into something that wouldn't fit in his head, but he was stubborn enough to squeeze it in.

"Yes, yes… but look at the time. It's already noon-" The judge said and Elsa checked herself in her watch, both pointers on the top spot of the clock was an image that brought her clear relief. "- I guess that we should do our launch break. We shall start it again in three hours, you're all dismissed".

A series of low murmurs took over the courtroom; everybody stood up and headed to the now opened main exit. Elsa hurried off to be one of the firsts to leave the room and disappear from the hallways.

Even with multiple voices calling her name from behind, she didn't slow down, on the contrary, the calls only served as a fuel to make her move faster. When she was about to leave the main hallway of the lodgings and enter in her own chambers, she felt a hand on her shoulder. By sheer instinct, she grabbed his hand and twisted it from its own wrist, almost displacing the hand's tendons.

"Ouch, Elsa!" Lasky yelped in pain, his arm was twisted in an unhealthy angle. Elsa's eyes widened, she could see the look of fright on her commanding officer, and mostly, her friend.

Way to go.

"S-Sorry, captain Lasky! I didn't mean that!" Elsa nearly shouted her apology while she let go of his hand. It was a bit odd to see her overreact about that, Lasky wanted to ask what the hell was going on with her, but he voted against it.

"Nah, don't worry-". He replaced the wrist in place, resulting in a loud and satisfactory crack. "-I have gone through worst". He mocked.

A tiny and almost imperceptible smile crept into Elsa's face; it was definitely a remarkable sight. Before what happened in the battle for Earth, Elsa always held a professional and serious demeanor, she never smiled, laughed, or expressed something real, anything that could show that she was a proper human. To some, she was just a machine made for going to war, a definition that she was already used to. "Okay. If you excuse me, I'm going to get in and clear my mind a little bit". Elsa said, she quickly reached out for the fingerprint reader and unlocked the door of her quarters. She was about to go in when Lasky stepped forward and stood in her way, slamming the door shut.

"I want to talk to you, Elsa". His voice had an unpleasant effect on her, he said it like a loved one had just passed away and he was the one that had to tell her the bad news. "Something was wrong back in the courtroom, and I'd like to know what it is".

"I'm not ready to talk about it". Elsa tried to slightly push him out of the way and take refuge in her safe haven, but there was something in his expressions that she couldn't describe, he didn't uttered a word, nor he fought back, but only by looking at him, she knew that it was something serious, and she knew all too well what it was.

"If you want to run away from me, go ahead. I am not going to push you to talk about something you don't want to. But I have to warn you… if you keep this up, if you conceal all your concerns and secrets all to yourself, they're going to consume you bit by bit until you finally realize that there's nothing left". He stepped aside, clearing her path. A part of her wanted to run to the inside and just lock the door for how long she wanted to, however… there was this little piece of her that restrained her in place, urging to follow his advice, and to tell him everything.

Well, not everything, but at least what she considered safe for both of them… and for Anna.

"It's Anna, isn't it?" He said as if he was reading her mind. She simply nodded, and everything became clear to him. "I'd like to know what happened in there, but I guess that it's not going to be healthy for you to talk about it with me just yet. I will try my best to postpone the trial, but you have to talk with her. There is no easy way out, Elsa. I can't say that what you're going through is easy, it isn't, but you always faced things that no man have the guts to handle, it's not like she's going to destroy you".

"It's different". Elsa whispered, most likely to herself than to Lasky.

"I know it is". Lasky opened the door to Elsa's room. "But you have to do it anyways, it doesn't matter how hard it seems to be".

Elsa was lucky to have someone such as Lasky as her friend. He saved Anna from complete deactivation, when the former captain of the Infinity, Andrew Del Rio, tried to disable her for not being fit to the service. If it wasn't for him, Anna wouldn't be back there in the composer, and Elsa would've died. Technically speaking, he had saved her life.

He placed his hand over her shoulder again, and even though she nearly broke his arm a minute ago, he did not mind that at all. "Talk to her, everything's going to be alright".

Elsa's eyes met the floor in embarrassment; it was nonsense for a person to fall for a machine. She was surprised that the captain of the Infinity would understand that. "Thank you, sir".

His hand let her shoulder go. "You're welcome". He smiled for a second and turned to leave, eventually disappearing on the hallway.

Elsa sighed and entered her room; she closed the door behind her and locked it. Her bed was very appealing, repeatedly calling her name, offering a quiet and relaxing sleep, to move her away from her problems with no effort at all. It was the easy way out, she knew it. Ignore everything would be so easy, everything that happened would simply vanish into oblivion and no one would remember it.

But...

"Anna". Elsa sat at the edge of her bed and called, she immediately appeared in a form of a hologram, generated by the computers all around her room. Anna's slender shape always caught the girl's breath; her semi-naked form was always something that haunted her in her dreams. She moved to her side and sat down at the edge of the bed by her side.

"Hey Elsa... I wasn't expecting you to call me". Anna's lips were curved into a graceful and stunning smile. She had been sure that she never saw something so beautiful in her entire life.

"I'm sure you were. You listened the entire conversation between me and Lasky anyways". Elsa said, her voice was still crestfallen, and it was hurting the A.I. so badly that not even her herself could evaluate or describe.

"Why do you trust him, of all the people?"

"I don't know..." she sighed. "I just do".

"He is a nice man, if I'd tell someone about what's going on... well, except you, of course, this someone would be him". Anna said, she was still gazing at Elsa, for some reason she could not lay her eyes off of her.

"So... what's up?"

Elsa looked up and turned to face Anna, her eyes could say for themselves that she was confused. "What do you mean?"

"Well, nothing... I'd only like to know what's happening... to you, I mean. It has been-"

"A month already, I know". Elsa finished her sentence. "It's just that, what happened is too much for me to handle, I need to focus on this trial, otherwise I'm going to-"

"You're lying". It was a statement, short and cold, leaving Elsa with no room for argument. "I know what is happening, Elsa. Believe me, I didn't ask for that, but... I have to be honest, I'm glad that you did what you did". Anna knew that she could've said something way better than that. As an A.I, hundreds of thousands of better sentences could've been said, but it wasn't the case there. If she wanted that what was going on was real, she had to say what she wanted to say.

"I nearly sacrificed an entire planet. If it wasn't for the Infinity, the blood of billions of people would be on my hands". She emphasized the scenario by raising her hands, leaving them on sight. "It's a burden that I don't think I am able to handle". Her hands dropped to her lap, filling the room with a slap noise. "But if you died there, in the composer... I- I...". A single sob left her lips. Anna was unsure of what to do; she never had this sort of experience before, she only looked at her, mouth agape, expecting for anything miraculous to happen.

"I'm so sorry, Anna. I had been so weak!". Lone tears began to drop from the girl's eyes. "I have no idea how pathetic that is... you- you are an A.I! How can I live with this thought on my mind?!" Seeing that young girl, crying for like the first time in her life was heartbreaking, Anna only watched, was there even something she could do?

"It's not your fault". Anna whispered. There were many moments that she wanted to touch something, someone, but she never felt that urge to actually feel it that much until then. She was incapable to sooth or comfort her. She even tried to, she extended her arm for a moment, intending to wrap it around her neck, but there was nothing except a deep and dark void there, she retracted her hands before Elsa noticed the move. Maybe... it was exactly what Elsa was feeling there.

"I- I can't do this anymore, Anna. It's just too much for me to handle". Elsa wiped the tears off of her face, she looked at Anna momentarily, but looked away when she noticed her panicked eyes, and brought her hands to her laps again, she was frustrated, needless to say.

Elsa's eyes were red, as if she had developed an allergy to tears, or perhaps they were unused to the substances. All her life wasn't so emotionally thrilling. Being on war for the most part of her life didn't allowed her to have deep feelings about anything, they created a soulless machine, seeing someone that considered herself a waste was depressing. While her A.I. would give and do everything to be able to feel what she was able to, even if it was for just for a day, she deprived herself of doing such simplicity.

But in the end of the day, for both, feeling is a difficult task, because both were machines.

"I understand".

Before this is all over, promise me you'll figure out which one of us is the machine.

"I figured it out".

"What?"

"I know now..." Elsa looked up, staring deep into Anna's eyes, who couldn't look away from her reddened orbs. "I am the machine".

Anna sighed and shook her head; she brought herself closer to Elsa. "No, you are not, there's something inside of you, Elsa. I can feel it".

"Oh yeah? Then what is it?" Elsa was frustrated, she was tired of people around her all the time, telling her that there was something else inside of her besides a void heart, but never coming up with a goddamn answer.

"Love". It was the most appropriate thing that Anna had to say in that sort of situation. Still, she predicted a dramatic reaction from Elsa, maybe she telling her that she was insane, or a grunt, or a shook of her head, or anything that contradicted what she said.

Anything, except what she heard.

"Love..." Elsa whispered. "Is that really what you think? Is there... something in me? Something... good?"

"A part of me wants to say no. The reasonable part, after everything you destroyed, after everyone you have killed, this part urges me to call you as a monster. However, this other little part, this part that defines me. The part that I would like to call as me screams yes. You aren't perfect, no one is. However, you are the closest of being the most perfect living thing that I have in my concept of people, and I love you for that. It's unconditional, I love you, every single fiber of me screams that so loudly that it deaf me". There was a mutual feeling and desire in both of them, they wanted to hold each other into a tight embrace until their bodies ached, but Anna's words were enough, they were satisfying, they filled Elsa's cold and empty heart with the very first, and most powerful feeling she had ever felt, even though she couldn't describe it herself, there was a definition.

Elsa thought that she was in love, but she never had the chance to actually know the one that she wanted to spend the rest of her life with, until now.

"I want to have you by my side forever; you are everything that I have left, you are the only one that I need".

"This makes us both".

"I love you". And at the same time, they finally said.

Cheesy ending? No? Well...