I meant to post this MUCH earlier this month for your birthday! But at least it's still March!!!!! And this prompt kind of fits!
Neta and Alarik belong to @patricia-von-arundel.
"Is it Too Soon to do This?"
Rating: K+
“Uncle Alarik, you’re being silly!”
“I am not! This book is silly!”
“Aunt Elsa! Tell Uncle Alarik he’s being silly!”
Alarik looked up to see Elsa standing in the hospital doorway, her face wan. She hid it with a smile- Alarik hoped Neta hadn't noticed.
“I thought Uncle Alarik was always silly?”
“Hey! This book has a honeybee that doesn't know what a flower is! How am I the silly one?”
Neta giggled and swatted at his arm as Elsa came to her other side and sat down. While Neta was focused on Alarik, he saw Elsa's smile slip, replaced with a strained look.
“Sven! Get back here!”
“Aunt Elsa, when am I getting my cast? I want to go home.”
Elsa couldn't smile when Neta turned to her.
“Aunt Elsa?”
They were interrupted by the arrival of Anna and Kristoff, both of whom looked stricken. Elsa and Alarik immediately gave up their positions by the bed, and the two of them sat down with twin sighs. Elsa went to Alarik's side, and he wrapped an arm around her, feeling her shake.
Neta ran to the edge of the porch steps, giggling as she chased after the black-and-tan basset hound as he bounded away, one of her mittens in his mouth.
“Mama, what's going on? Why can't I go home?”
Anna pushes Neta's bangs out of her face, deliberately looking away from the girl's outstretched arm wrapped in a bulky splint.
“The doctor said you'll need more than a cast, Neta. They're going to help you go to sleep and… they have to put some special wires in your arm to help your bone heal.”
Surgery.
Neta has to have surgery.
She dashed forward as Sven hopped down the steps, and Alarik watched in horrifying slow motion as her foot slipped on a slick patch they'd missed while shoveling.
A nurse enters the room, carrying a clipboard with several forms, talking to Anna and Kristoff about the surgery. It feels unreal, as if he's watching a TV show, until Anna takes the forms and begins signing them, one hand kept on Neta's shoulder.
He reached out, trying to catch hold of her before disaster struck, but he was too slow. His fingers grazed the fabric of her jacket before she fell away from him.
“Alarik.”
He blinks, realizes Elsa's tugging on his hand, and follows her out into the hallway.
“Let it out.”
He looks at her, shakes his head. “No, I'm fine. I don't…”
“Alarik.” Elsa's tone is as gentle as the hand she places on his cheek. “Please don't do that to yourself. It's okay.”
The dam breaks, and he sinks to ground, letting the tears fall. A pair of arms wrap around him, and he buries his head in Elsa's shoulder. She strokes his hair and hums a wordless tune.
“I should have… should have…”
“Alarik, we were all there. It was an accident. Neta tripped.”
“But I was right there! I could have grabbed her!”
Neta fell forward, missing the steps and landing on the unforgiving pavement on her left side, elbow out. Her scream echoed in his mind.
Hands press down on his shoulders, and he looks up to see Anna. She has tears in her eyes as well, and he drops his gaze.
“Alarik, it wasn't your fault. Accidents happen, okay? Now, Neta's asking for you.”
He nods, and Anna hands him a tissue. When they stand, she startles him with a hug that knocks the breath out of him. After a moment, he returns the hug.
When they return to the room, Neta holds her good arm out to him, and he leans in for a hug.
“Uncle Alarik? I'm going to be okay.”
“Of course you are, Neta! It'll be over before you know it, alright?”
She grabs his hand. “I'm going to be okay, Uncle Alarik. Please don't be sad.”
He squeezes her hand, his throat tight. “You're right. I'm just sad because you're hurt.”
“But I'll get better!”
He nods, seeing a team of medical staff come in. “Okay. You will. Thank you Neta.”
He steps out, letting the staff prep Neta for surgery, and when Elsa holds out her arms to him, he steps into her embrace gratefully.
Neta will be okay.
And maybe, eventually, he'll allow himself to be forgiven.
……
It's been an exhausting day, but they're home.
And Elsa doesn't want to tear her eyes from the scene in front of her.
Neta lays on her side, her purple-casted arm resting on Sven, curled up next to her. Her head rests on Alarik's lap. After dinner, she'd insisted on laying next to him, stating that he still looked sad. Even at seven, she picks up on emotion quickly.
Alarik strokes her hair, looking less haggard. Elsa knows it will take some time for him to accept his lack of fault in the accident, but Neta's trust in him will help.
Save for the TV, set to low volume, the room is quiet. That is, until Neta speaks up.
“Aunt Elsa? In the hospital, which baby were you talking about?”
Anna and Kristoff had been summoned for another round of paperwork, leaving Elsa and Alarik to wait with Neta, who appeared to be dozing in her warming gown. Elsa could see the worry on Alarik's face as he watched Neta. She squeezed his hand and bumped his shoulder with hers.
“Remember, stress is bad for the baby…”
That, at least, prompted a small smile.
“I thought you were asleep…” Elsa whispers.
“I wasn't!” Neta says brightly.
“Elsa, what. baby?” Anna stares at her intently.
Although she was certain her sister had already figured it out, Elsa speaks anyway. “Alarik and I were planning on telling you earlier, but we didn't want to bring it up after everything that happened.”
your TAGS to "doomed by the narrative" post, I SCREAMED, What horrors do you have planned for my BOYYYYYYY T-T
Side note: I'm obsessed with your fics hehe
It's not easy being the unknowing symbol of rebellion, especially when you come from a District that's not really all that into the idea in the first place
Y'all are free to judge me however you like, but very honestly one of my favorite memories is going to NYC to see Anastasia.
I know I talk about Anastasia a lot, but this trip was literally so special to me in so many ways, it's very much more than loving a musical. Anastasia is obviously very special to me, it came into my life at a particularly rough time, and even though I lived on the other side of the country, I wanted nothing more than to be able to see it live with Christy Altomare.
So after what was like a culmination of a lot of things, I worked really hard to turn things around for myself and to save money for the trip, and I was very fortunate to be able to meet up with my soul sister in NYC and have a weekend getaway for my birthday to see the show. It was like watching everything I had longed for come to life before my eyes and to see it with a friend who is so close to my heart was so special. She had waited so long to see it, and she was actually the person who told me it was being adapted way back in 2016, so to get to see it with her just made the whole day even more special. It was literally the first show I had ever seen on Broadway, and the seasoned Broadway veteran she is, she was so kind to wait with me at the stage door, so we could have a moment with Christy after the show, and I don't think I'll ever forget it for the rest of my life.
Why I like them: Older sibling with an anxiety disorder? #relatable
Why I don’t: While I like the direction they went with her overall arc, I have to admit, throughout most of Frozen II, I was like, ELSA YOU ARE MAKING TERRIBLE DECISIONS.
Favorite scene: Okay for all of my issues with the sequel, “Come my darling homeward bound,” “I am FOUND.” hits me right in the feelings, it does.
Favorite movie: Frozen
Favorite line: It's not a line, but the 'bleh' sound Elsa makes when Anna has the little snow figures kiss is, again, #relatable.
Favorite outfit: Coronation dress. The color scheme! It's so good!
OTP: Elsa x being an absolute disaster nerd hermit with her many magical pets
Brotp: ICE. BROS.
Head Canon: Kinda like Hiccup, I imagine that Elsa's using her new post as The Avatar The Fifth Spirit to just, like. Map enchanted forests and explore and maybe publish a book? Fifth Spirit Findings: A Comprehensive Guide to Mystical Lands. And hey, the Queen of Arendelle herself contributed a pull quote! (...oh dang now I kinda wanna write that one-shot)
Unpopular opinion: I prefer Elsa to remain single which is hotly debated to say the least.
A wish: Said this on the Anna post but man a cartoon would've been the ideal format to explore the lore, as it were.
An oh-god-please-dont-ever-happen: No. Significant. Other.
5 words to best describe them: “THEN DON'T RUN INTO FIRE!”
Dude, I did NOT mean to let this ask sit this long - the last two weeks got crazy hectic, and I’m so sorry this response is so late!
Anyway, yes! It’s this fic here and I started it, oh gosh, back in January? Problem is, I’m like, the world’s most procrastinating writer, and it’s been ages since I’ve posted a chapter (but like, genuinely, I am still adding to it, I’m just extremely slow). It’s a what-if sort of fic where Elsa gets stuck inside Ahtohallan, the dam is destroyed but so is Arendelle, and Anna’s gotta face becoming queen and thinking her sister and Olaf and permanently dead. Definitely angsty, lol, but I’m having fun with it, and I’m glad others are too!
But yes, so since this was for the WIP meme, here’s a snippet from chapter four! Right under the break:
If her life were a novel, or a poem, Anna once would have read a parallel such as this and shed large, fat tears that speckled the page, and clutched her hand to her heart at the aching tragedy of it all; lamented at the sheer poetic despondence of the beloved heroine facing two identical funerals in one lifetime. She would have run to her mother and wept in her arms, and her mother would have shushed her gently, held her close, and reminded her that “tragedies are written for us to connect with our emotions”.
Then her mother would have tucked her in for the night, kissed her forehead, and told Anna softly that “everyone will experience one tragedy or another in their lifetime. It’s not something to live in fear of, nor is it something that will likely happen every day, but it will happen. And when it happens, what matters most is how you respond to it. Because how you respond to it is how you show your true character. And Anna, my love, I know that you will meet any challenge with the greatest strength.”
Anna knows now that her mother spoke from a distinct familiarity with tragedy and earth-shattering changes. She knows now that her mother spoke from experience. But also, she knows now that her mother’s words are absolute bullshit.
Trish ( @couragedontdesertme ) said she’d write an epilogue of the elsarik dream Fic if I made a Formal Review of the elsarik dream fic. So here we are.
Please note review should be taken VERY LIGHTLY this is more or less me re-reading the Fic and loudly yelling about things with too many exclamation points. Enjoy Trish.
Ch1
First of all imagine my fucking surprise I didn’t even know you had gotten work done on the dream fic???? Here I was thinking the link you sent me was the next chapter of city of ice and then I click on it and it saYS DREAM FIC???? E X C U S E M E oh my goodness
The first section is just so entirely domestic and beautiful and you can tell how lived in and content they are in their life as roommates. ALARIK (listen my phone autocorrects ALARIK to be in all caps and I’m too lazy to fix it so y’all are gonna have to deal with reading ALARIK’s name as if I’m yelling it every time I type it) anyway ALARIK just bringing her the chocolate croissants she loves so dearly and Elsa curling up with a book and him fretting and worrying over her being there alone all day and later... it’s just SO DOMESTIC. it’s such a small short moment but it’s so domestic and a perfect opposite of the PAIN THAT HAPPENS AFTER!!! And we al know I LOVE READING PAIN
The fact that ALARIK was only home late because he was doing tutoring to earn more money to by Elsa A PRESENT????? Shut up no one speak to me that’s true love but also PAINFUL the guilt he must feel oh my god
Elsa...stops struggling... because she doesn’t want ,,,, ALARIK ,,,, to get hurt. Because she cares for his safety more than her own because he has protected her and he is her friend and she loves him I am going to SCREAM
The fact that you use the phrase ~marching her out of the warmth of the room~ when she just used her magic to like cover the walls in frost makes my Heart burst cause idk if it was intentional or not but I just love the thought that this room has become Home to her it’s become safe and beautiful and lovely and WARM because it is full of love and friendship and companionship rather than the cold loneliness of say her ice palace of her locked room as a child. I like to think Elsa could have covered the room entirely in ice and snow and frost and it would still feel warm to her because of the love that’s developed there thank you for coming to my tedtalk
Ugh fuck hans
I have literally no words other than fuck hans for any section with hans in it I DONT even want to RECOGNIZE THAT HE EXISTS !!! Making Elsa feel like she’s nothing I am going to punch him in the eye
~ALARIK weeps over smushed chocolate croissant. End scene~
I know that it’s such a heartbreaking sad ending for that first chapter but also I really can’t stop laughing about him crying over a stepped on croissant since I know that your like planning note for that last scene was literally just some variant of ALARIK cried over a smushed croissant and that’s just such a funny IMAGE TO ME EVEN THOUGH ITS SAD
I just like to imagine ALARIK cradling the chocolate croissant in his arms like a bébé as he sobs
Ch2
I’m fucking S A D
ALARIK having like NO MONEY and just thinking about that the money he has was going to go to a gift for Elsa and the guard LAUGHING AT HIM LIKE THATS IT THATS ALL YOU HAVE?? Like shut UP HES TRYING TO SAVE HIS BELOVED
P e t t y c h a n g e HE IS TRYING MR GUARD I WILL HAVE YOU KNOW HE WORKED EXTRA TO GET THAT MONEY
ALARIK is so fucking DEVOTED I’m going to run through a goddamn wall I cannot cope. Willing to sell the clothes off his back have you ever seen an idiot more iN LOVE
ALARIK just going willingly cause he has no fight left in him and he just wants to see Elsa even if it means he gets imprisoned too oh my GOD
THE SCENE ITS THE SCENE!!!!!!!!!
STRAIGHT FROM TRISH’S SUBCONSCIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WHAT STARTED IT ALL!!!!!!!!!!
ALARIK wanting to hold her hands when her hands are what are chained up and seen as dangerous and what ~make her a witch~ the absolute love and power that holds.
LET ALARIK AND ELSA HOLD HANDS
“I promised to keep you safe” the pain I feel oh mY GOD
“They’ll KILL you” they’re really out here trying to protect each other at all costs oh my god nothing matters more to the other than keeping the other safe and for that I want to cry and love them and also I want to ram their heads into the wall because wHY WONT THEY JUST PROTECT ESCH OTHER TOGETHER
The PARALLEL OH MY FUCKING GOD
the P A R A L L E L of ALARIK stilling and no longer struggling when the guards threaten Elsa’s death in the same way that Elsa stilled and stopped struggling when they threatened ALARIK’s death oh my god that broke me right there
U g h hans fuck that guy
A N N A !!!!!!!!
When I first read this,,, I DONT know why??? But for some reason??? I didn’t think Anna would be in it???? Which like thinking back on that it makes no sense of COURSE Anna would be in the FIC why would I ever think otherwise. But anyway I was so surprised when she showed up I literally gasped and went ANNA??? Out loud because I was so shocked
ALFAFA GERANIUM
ALARIK really is just so bad under pressure who thought this was a good idea
AG FOR SHORT wink wink nudge nudge cough cough
I’ll be thinking about ALARIK shouting alfafa geranium on my death bed let us never forget
“No harm, no foul” is literally the most fucking Anna line I’ve ever heard. She absolutely would say that to someone who was being question for a crime she’d be like “it’s not biggy”
Why is it that when hans says “BUT ANNA!!!” I hear it like he’s wining like a petulant child I read it like “bUT annNNAAAAA” ugh I hate him
“Don’t scream” *ALARIK’s inner monologue* “this ,, is the story of how I died”
ILL HELP YOU HELP HER ESCAPE!!!!! HELL YEA YOU WILL ANNA HELL YEA YOU WILL
Ch3
My dumbass really went “why are none of the children named neta” before remembering that is the child of Anna and Kristoff and these...are the children of Anna ,,, and .... ugh please don’t make me say his name
I would die for these kids though I love them and I want to protect them at all costs 
Johannes at 5 (and a half!!!!) being a fine soldier GOOD FOR HIM
Isak owns my entire heart from the moment he started fake crying for his mother what a star performer a true Actor he’s too good
Arendellian Royal Guards, are they guards? Or are they simply baby sitters? The world may never know
JOAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! One of the babies being named JOAN!!! Hang in there Joan!!!!!!!!! That made me cry oh my god J O A N
Bébé Isak lookout supreme with his big eyeballs and smile and goofy lil salute I love him
The fact that Elsa says she felt stupid for being lured into a false sense of security means she felt secure and safe for literally the first time since she was a child when she was with ALARIK and I cannot properly articulate how much that made me cry I love that so much that has to mean sO MUCH TO HER oh my god
“You have to get out!! Do the magic!!” NO ONE SPEAK TO ME ABOUT ANYTHING EXCEPT THIS LINE FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL MONTHS I LITERALLY WEPT
the use of DO THE MAGIC oh my god AND ELSAS HEART LIKE BREAKING BECAUSE SHE FEELS LIKE SHE CANT
DO ! THE ! MAGIC !
Brave little boy with his mother’s determination saying “be brave. That’s what mama said to tell you” oh my GOD THESE CHILDREN HAVE MY WHOLE HEART OH MY GOD
A rooster crow for the signal COUKD they be more obvious I love these kids they’re ridiculous they are truly the children of Anna
Elsa!!! Chose!! To be!!! Brave!!!
IF SHE TRIED TO SAY GOODBYE TO ELSA!!! SHE MAY NEVER LET GO!!!
SHE HAD NO WHERE TO GO!!! BUT SHE DOES BEVAUSE THERES ALARIK WAITING FOR HER BECAUSE GUESS WHAT
ALARIK IS HER HOME !!!!! HE IS HER HOME !!!! SHE CAN GO TO HIM!!!!
Queue another one of my shocked and delightfully surprised screams as I shouted KRISTOFF????? Because blonde dude driving a reindeer cart
Let’s get you somewhere safe I’m going to cry THEYRE finally together again and they can keep each other safe together as. They. Should.
They are cuddling and my heart is exploding oh my god ALARIK seems so surprised like you big dumb idiot you’re both in love with each other it’s a mutual thing get with the program
SLEEP ELSA! ITS GOING TO BE OKAY! AND FOR THE FIRST TIME IN PROBABLY FOREVER! IT WILL BE!
Ch4
*queue another gasp* there’s only one bed?????
Yea I saw it coming yea I was just as shocked even so yea I got very excited about it wHAT DID YOU EXPECT
They’re cUDDLING and he went to move away and she DOESNT WANT HIM TO they could’ve been sharing a bed THIS WHOLE TIME AND I JUST WANT TO SCREAM BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY
ALARIK laying all the credit on kristoff and the kids when he’s kind of the one that steamrolled the whole plan into happening because he’s the one who showed up ALARIK please give yourself more credit
“You came back” “of course I came back... I couldnt ...” “why?” And then ALARIK refusing to meet her eyes has me absolutely weeping this is the kind of shit I THRIVE ON this is truly a gift to us all everyone say thank you Trish for these three bits of dialogue I will be thinking about them for all my days
ELSA KISSED HIM!!!!!!!!!
Yeah I do lose my shit anytime Elsa is the one to make the first move you go girl you go
THE SPICE VENDOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bringing in all my favorites I am going to cry thank you Trish I love Darius
I SUPPOSE YOU TWO HAVE FINALLY GOTTEN MARRIED
listen I SCREAMED WHEN HE SAID THAT I SQUAWKED!!!! MARRIED!!!!!!
I had been observing you two and just assumed!!!!! You would assume right mr spice vendor sir if they WERENT so stupid for so long it’s okay we understand
WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE ??? And Elsa says MARRY US? And ALARIK is going to PASS THE FUCK OUT
He literally got to finally kiss the woman he’s in love with for the first time last night and now they’re getting married poor boy is going to get WHIPLASH from how fast things are progressing but it’s okay im sure he is happy
Elsa’s little vows of just needing each other and keeping each other safe and keeping company and not needing gold or silver ugh TRUE LOVE
And ALARIK hopelessly devoted to her being like I PROMISE
“just you being there no matter what is enough” peak romance true love the devotion the dedication I’m a wreck
Elsa leaned her elbows on the table, watching Alarik hard at work on sorting the rock display for the next gaggle of freshly-minted-out-of-high-school first year geology students. There was a growing pile for sedimentary rocks, greatly outnumbering the metamorphic and igneous rocks combined. Elsa didn’t know much about geology, but she recognised the beautiful obsidian rock from Alarik’s bedroom, and the gneiss from the one corner of his lab where he kept his favourite geological specimens from the field.
“Admiring my rocks?” Alarik asked with a wink, catching Elsa watching.
“What? I mean...yes, yes, you have beautiful rocks.”
“Got a favourite one?”
“Probably that one with the little red things in it.”
“Ooh, garnet mica schist! She’s a beauty, but not as beautiful as you. Anything else you would like to ask?”
“So you’re a geologist, then.”
“And very proud to be one.”
“So...you lick rocks for a living?”
Alarik chuckled, throwing her a mysterious grin. “Sometimes. You should try it someday.”
Elsa wrinkled her nose at the thought. “Not a chance.”
“I’ll convert you to it soon enough. Now...how about that coffee date we were talking about?”
