Who| Elsa and Hans
What| Elsa finally confronts sideburn man
Where| Hans' room
When| A couple of days after the crowning
Warnings/Notes|

It's taken her a while to finally find it in herself to confront him. She'd come close, but then preparation for the Crowning had taken over and she just couldn't find the time to actually do it. Or maybe that had just been a good excuse to avoid doing it? Probably. It's not as if Elsa has been gung ho to actually face Hans after what Anna had told her. She's been miserable ever since that conversation. For once shining moment, she had thought maybe she could be happy- that these feelings she'd been denying for so long would actually go somewhere.

But she was wrong. Horribly, crushingly wrong. The fact that she'd let him in only to find out that he isn't the man he'd claimed to be is one of the hardest pills to swallow, and she's still trying to. In a way, it's still hard to believe. That maybe when she sees him, somehow it'll all be erased and he'll still be the same man she grew to... to love. Or at least care about more than she has anyone who isn't family. But Anna wouldn't lie, and she knows that. There's no one solid way to describe how she feels. Hurt, betrayed, angry. So many emotions and no good way to let them out. Elsa has never been the best at confronting problems, so it's been easy to just keep putting it off and putting it off. But she's reached the point where she can't anymore.

She needs to talk to him. Needs to know the truth, to have it confirmed by him and to voice her thoughts. A part of her is afraid- from what Anna had said, he intended to kill her. He left Anna to die and had even planned to stage an accident for her. There's no telling what Hans is capable of, and that's scary to her. A part of her feels so stupid, that she ought to never have gotten close to him again after that arena where he had been so vicious. Was that really the kind of person he was? Had it been a lie, when he'd said he had acted out of fear and desperation? Or was it all real? From what Anna has said, it must be real.

It's relatively late when she decides to do it. She doesn't want an audience, she just wants to keep it on the down low. If the Capitol latched onto it, she doesn't know what she would do. At the same time, she wants to make sure that if she needs them to, someone can hear; the last thing she wants to do is get hurt or killed because she was stupid and did it somewhere that no one could hear. So she decides to go to his room- it's close enough to other rooms that hopefully people will hear her, but private enough that they can talk without people being all over them.

When Elsa gets to his door, it's like hitting a wall of fear. This could end so badly, but at the same time she knows it needs to happen. If she doesn't, it'll eat at her and she'll never be able to get over it, not to mention he's always there. She can't avoid him forever. It has to be done, it has to. She keeps telling herself that over and over, until she finally has the courage to lift her hand and knock.

Who: Topher & Penny
Where: Penny's office
When: Before Kevin's Crowning
What: Job talk
Warnings: none

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