Anna.

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Even if this wasn't true of anything thing else in her life, it was true of Anna. Adorable, childish, lovable Anna.

Thirteen years.
That's how long she'd shut herself away. That's how long she had to push away her sister. Thirteen years. So she really shouldn't have been surprised by how much Anna had changed. But just because she was expected it didn't make it any less jarring that her sister, who she remembers with little pig tails and cute chubby cheeks, became a beautiful, intelligent princess. Her sister who she remembers playing in the pond in the garden trying to catch frogs (claiming one of them could be a prince in disguise) and sneaking into kitchen to steal sweets was suddenly sneaking away to the garden with a certain ice harvester, who may not have been a prince but was worth ten princes to the princess.

It almost wasn't fair, thirteen years apart and finally when they got to be together she had to start letting go again. Although, she wouldn't have to let go entirely. That still didn't make it fair.

But she supposed she was lucky, for every way Anna had changed there was a way she hadn't. She still begged to build snowmen and still crashed her bike and still slid down banisters. She still loved chocolate. She still would stay up half the night, only to be impossible to wake in the morning. She still knew how to make her sister give into anything with those dammed puppy dog eyes.

And she still was able to cause a swell of emotions in Elsa with just her presence. Only now it wasn't regret, pain and turmoil. Now it was happiness, serenity and hope.

Anna was the reason her life changed on that night so long ago, making her realise just what her powers were capable and which lead to thirteen years of isolation. She was the reason it changed again, on the night of the coronation (although that was just as much Elsa's fault as it was Anna's).

But above all, it was Anna that changed her view of her powers. It was through Anna's willingness to go the ends of the earth for Elsa (or to the North Mountain in this case) and her readiness to give up everything to protect the ones she loved that Elsa learnt the most important lesson of her life.

Only an act of truelovecan thaw a frozen heart.

Love. That was all this came down to. It was her love for Anna that started this story. It was Anna's love for her that had ended it. She loved her sister, and her sister loved her. And that was something that would never change.

And with this 'The More Things Change' comes to a close. I'd like to thank you for reading, this was one of my favorite Frozen fanfics so far and I'm really glad I got to share it with you. And I hope you will check out some of my other stories.

Nardragon~ until the next page.