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Naminé's Bogus Journey

Chapter 2: Epilogue

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Six months later…

 

            Elsa sipped her tea as she gazed out over the balcony. After a month or so of cajoling from Anna and her other advisors, she had finally relented and allowed her sister to drag her on another vacation. She had at least managed to bargain them down to a single weekend instead of a full week, but who knew? If at the end of the weekend Arendelle hadn’t spontaneously burst into flames in her absence, she might just take the full seven days.

            Something on the mountain below her caught her eye as a swirling oval of bright white light popped into existence. Her mouth opened in a wide grin as she recognized the same sort of Light Corridor that the two girls in one body had vanished through. It looked like they had kept their promise to return.

            “Anna!” she called. “Get down to the door, it looks like we’ll be having company!”

            Through the Corridor, out stepped an auburn-haired girl she recognized as Kairi, this time dressed appropriately for the weather. She spotted Elsa on the balcony and waved, her grin evident even from this far away.

            Behind her, another figure stepped out of the Corridor. She was about the same height as Kairi and similarly dressed, but her long blonde hair hanging loosely over one shoulder marked her as a different person. She seemed less expressive than Kairi, but no less pleased to be here. Elsa felt a wide smile grace her lips.

            This must be Naminé.

            The queen put her tea down and hurried to the door, eager to reunite with her friends.

            She was definitely taking that full week.

Notes:

You have no idea how it feels to finally have this out. I've been sitting on this idea, and the first part of the fic (to the line "There are worse things in life") since last December. And now it's out, and I can finally, FINALLY, stop being mean to Naminé.
Well, for the most part. Healing from stuff like this is a process, not an event, but Naminé is now on the path she needs to be on and won't be straying from it. I don't do unhappy endings. There are enough of those in reality without me putting them in my fiction.
This fic came very much from a personal place. I turned to writing fic in part as a way of dealing with things that were going on in my life; I'm not going to say any more because they are personal and I don't feel like discussing them in this very public forum. But this fic in particular has elements in it that are me working through things. While I was planning out these conversations I thought I was Kairi. But upon rereading to edit it I realized I'm equally Naminé. What I went through can't come to a conclusion like the one here. But like I said, I don't do unhappy endings. There's too many in reality without me adding more.
Whoops, almost felt something there. (And in case I'm concerning any readers, I'm fine. Actually fine, not Naminé-insisting-she's-fine. Unlike Naminé, I knew to reach out for help and received it. Remember, I wrote this back in December.)
And now that you have read this interlude, join us again next week for the continuation of Kairi and Lea's Excellent Adventure, and find out what Lea's been doing all this time...
EDIT: Whoops, silly me. I forgot to mention congratulations to espurr_roba, who made me pick up the phone.
Because they fucking CALLED IT.

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