Just because I'm so happy Anna's back, you get another chapter :)

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"If you guys were humans, you'd already be diabetic."
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Chapter 33

Elsa

"Elsa, wait," Anna said.

"Everything okay?" I asked, looking at her with worry.

"I-yeah, I'm just nervous. Really nervous. What if I'm not what they expect?"

"You're already not what they expect. You're alive, Anna. It'll be fine. Ember's in there trying to get them to prepare themselves. We'll tell the rest of the pack later. But for now I think mom, dad, and Hunter will do."

"What about Caleb? Where's he?"

I bit my lip. The two of us had been so tired last night that I'd been unable to explain everything that had happened to our family, Caleb being included in that.

"Caleb... isn't living with us anymore. It's a long story and sensitive subject so don't bring it up unless they do. I'll explain everything after. Promise."

Anna nodded and I knocked on the door. My mom shouted for me to come in. Anna gripped my hand tightly to the point I thought she might actually break it. I whispered to her that it was okay but that didn't calm her whatsoever. I peered my head around the corner to find my parents and Hunter sitting on the bed. Ember was pacing up and down in front of them. They all looked up at me when I entered.

"Did you ready them?" I asked.

"As best I could. There's no way to announce something like this," Ember said.

"Please tell me you're not pregnant," Hunter said.

"Oh my god no!" I exclaimed. Anna snickered behind me. "Although, I guess you can say our family just got a little bit bigger."

I pulled Anna in front of our parents and siblings.

Ember grinned. "Morning little sisters."

"Morning," we greeted simultaneously.

Mom, dad, and Hunter had gone a deathly shade of white. I felt my twin's anxiety starting to come back again.

"Elsa? Why aren't they saying anything? I thought you said they'd be happy to see me?" Anna said quietly.

"I think they're just in deep shock," I told her. "Mom? Dad? Hunter? You still alive?"

Mom was the first one to gather her wits. She stood up and walked over to Anna. Much like how Anna had done when she first saw me, mom placed her hands on my sister's cheeks, eyes roaming over every inch of her face, taking her all in.

"You're alive?"

Anna nodded. "Hi mom."

At the sound of Anna calling her 'mom', mom broke down, pulling her daughter close to her. That seemed to snap my dad and brother out of their stupor as they quickly went in to hug Anna as well. Ember threw her arm around my shoulder as we watched my family be reunited. I was the only one in the room who knew that our entire family was all in the same building. The last time that had happened was ten years ago.

"I'm so happy this wasn't a dream," Ember said softly.

"I know. It still feels surreal," I admitted.

"I'm going to have to get used to figuring out which one of you is which."

I rest my head on my sister's shoulder. "Thank you for helping me get her last night. I've been a bitch of a sister to you lately. I'm really sorry."

"Don't be. You got put in a bad place. We're better now though and that's all that matters."

"Elsa, how did- what did you- how is she here?" Dad stammered. At this, I gulped. I'd snuck out to rescue her and that meant risking my place in the pack. Noticing my hesitance, he added, "I just want to know how you found her. You're not getting in trouble for this."

"Anna, do you want to help explain?" I queried.

"Where have you been all this time?" Hunter breathed.

"Please don't hate me. For the longest time, I had no choice in the matter." She took a deep breath. "I was working for the Hunters. From what I remember and from what I've been told, when I was taken away from you, they tortured me into forgetting about my life and past. I honestly only really fully remembered Elsa and what she looked like, and then I remembered things about all of you but I slowly forgot what you looked like."

"Dom knew when she was working with the Hunters. He's the one that told us about her," I added.

"He came to me first because I was the easiest to reach. Through me, Noah joined in, then Elsa only knew about it a few days ago. Spencer found out last night when we went to go get her," Ember explained.

"Remind me to thank Dom next time I see him," mom said. Her eyes flitted between me and Anna. "God I just can't get over seeing the two of you together again. I'm so happy not just that you're back Anna, but for you too Elsa. I know how hard it's been on you."

She pulled me into a hug followed by dad and Hunter.

"Thanks mom. The important thing now though is that she's here. We're one big happy family again," I said.

"All we need now is Caleb," Hunter said. "Unless you found him too and haven't told us."

"Very funny."

"Anna, I want to know everything that happened," dad said. "We'll get the Hunters who did this to you. I'm so sorry I wasn't able to stop it."

"It's not your fault dad. From what I heard, they'd been planning on it a long time."

Dad's eyes flared with fury. "Let's sit down. You catch us up on you and we'll catch you up on us and the pack. After that, we'll introduce you back to everyone. For now, I want to be a little selfish and keep you with us if you don't mind."

"Not at all," Anna said. The six of us sat down on the bed in a circle. Anna sat between me and Hunter, opposite mom and dad. Ember sat between Hunter and dad. Getting comfortable, Anna began her story.
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Spencer

I was sitting in the kitchen snacking on some chips and talking to Riley and Connor. Riley was raiding the fridge and Connor was drinking beer. Connor was in the middle of taking a sip when Elsa... or maybe Anna, walked in.

"Hey Elsa," Riley greeted, taking a bite out of a banana. "Where have you and your family been all morning? We thought you all died or something."

"Actually, I'm not Elsa," Anna said, giving Riley a bashful smile.

Elsa entered the kitchen, standing next to her sister. "Actually, I am."

Riley screamed, tossed his banana, and ran out of the room. Connor stared at the twins, stared at the bottle, back at the twins, back at the bottle, turned around, and poured the beer down the sink. I snorted.

"Hey Elsa, hey Anna," I said, popping a chip into my mouth.

"Hey Spencer," they said at the same time.

"Elsa? Why am I seeing double?" Connor asked.

"Long story short, Anna was never killed by the Hunters. Dom, Spencer, Ember, Noah, Tiana, and I got her last night," Elsa replied.

"I gathered that." Connor blinked. "I need to wrap my head around this. I'll... see you soon."

"Should someone go get Riley?" Anna queried.

"Um, we should probably go make sure he didn't have a coronary. Spencer, we'll see you later. Have you told Lily and Stark by chance about Anna?" Elsa stared at me curiously.

"No, why?"

"Good. I think it might be better if I break the news."

"True. Listen, I want to see Riley scream some more so I'm going to come help you find him." I got out of my chair and followed the twins. We heard Riley's voice coming from the dining hall. We decided to peer in through the crack in the door.

"I'm telling you, I saw Elsa and Anna together!" Riley declared heatedly. Dmitri raised his eyebrows dubiously at his packmate.

"What's going on?" Thea inquired, walking in from one of the doors. Thankfully she didn't see us.

"Anna is back from the dead," Riley said.

"Are you drunk or high or something?"

"No! Anna is back from the freaking dead! Anna walked in and I thought it was Elsa and so I said 'hi Elsa, where've you and your family been, we thought you were dead, yaddi yada yada,' and she goes 'actually, I'm not Elsa' and then Elsa slides in silently without me even noticing and goes 'actually I am' and it likes it was out of the freaking Parent Trap or something!"

Thea snorted. "You do realize what they said is almost an exact line from the Parent Trap movie, right?"

"So you believe me?"

"Anna," Elsa whispered. "Go in and act like me. Spencer, go with her." Elsa darted around the corner. Grinning, Anna and I entered the dining hall.

"What's going on?" Anna piped up, striding up to the group. It was amazing how she could mimic Elsa's personality and movements even though she'd been away from her for ten years. And I'd seen Elsa doing the same thing. It was indescribable seeing them together, having them be around each other.

"Hey Elsa," Dmitri said. "Hey Spencer. Riley is on some shit and is claiming that Anna has risen up from the dead or something like that."

"I'm not on some shit and she's not a zombie or anything like that! She was very much alive and breathing and kicking! And are you really Elsa or are you Anna?"

"Would Anna be with Spencer?" Anna countered easily.

Riley squinted his eyes at her. "Point taken."

Suddenly Elsa appeared behind Riley. No one had seen her come in, not even Thea or Dmitri. Anna and I bit back smiles as Elsa rested her head on Riley's shoulder and said, "Hi Riles."

"Hi Elsa," he replied, not looking at her. He did a double-take a second later, letting out another scream and jumping away from her. Elsa, Anna, and I cracked up. Riley's scream made Dmitri scream. Thea just covered her ears.

"I TOLD YOU! WHAT DID I TELL YOU?!" Riley shouted at the top of his lungs, pointing at Anna but glaring at Dmitri.

"What is all the yelling?" Gracie demanded, coming into the room with pretty much the rest of the Laroche kids behind her. Elsa instantly made her way next to Anna who shifted closer to her sister.

"ANNA IS BACK FROM THE DEAD!" Riley yelled, pointing at the twins. Gracie's eyes settled on Elsa and Anna. She let out a joyous yelp before charging at Anna and pulling her into a hug. The rest of the pack was soon to follow. Josilyn acted the least excited of all which seemed sort of strange. She was smiling and congratulating Elsa about it, but I could tell she was holding back. I snuck over to her and whispered, "What's up with you?"

"Hmm?" she looked up at me.

"You don't seem as cheerful as the rest of them. What's bothering you?"

"I guess it seems selfish but Elsa was practically my sister these past few years, especially after Anna died. I'm just afraid everything is going to change now, that Elsa is going to forget about me," Josilyn confessed.

"Elsa is going to be completely wrapped up in Anna for a bit, and vice versa, but I know the novelty of the whole affair will wear off after a while and Elsa and you will be back to your previous relationship. I mean it won't be exactly the same. Nothing will ever be the same now. But what I'm trying to say is that Elsa will never forget about you. You don't know how much you've helped her these past few years."

"Thanks Spencer." Josilyn smiled at me.

After about an hour of talking and hugging, Elsa said, "She still has the rest of the adults to see and the Starks for introductions. We'll see you all at dinner?" There was a chorus of yeses. Elsa glanced over at me and added, "Spencer, you coming?"

I nodded, making my way over to her. The three of us left the dining hall and headed down to the Starks.

"Okay, who are the Starks?" Anna inquired.

"So you know how I told you Caleb wasn't living with us anymore?" Elsa replied.

"Yes...?"

"Well, long story short, he went after the Hunters because they blew up his compound which killed one of his packmates, or so we thought, and killed Spencer's parents who had taken Caleb in when he ran away from us."

"Why did he run away?"

"After you died, Hunter and Caleb were never on the same page. Hunter always blamed Caleb for your death and Caleb could never move past it, always thinking it was his fault and Hunters insults never helped. They argued almost every day and I'm not talking baby fights. I'm talking shouting, screaming, punching, kicking, biting fights. Caleb got fed up with it and upped and left. He was taken in by the Starks. He came back to Estes Park when he was trailing the Hunters. He had no intention of letting us know he was there because he knew if mom and dad found out he was back, they wouldn't let him leave again."

"But you know he's back?"

"Elsa didn't really give him a choice. Didn't you sneak out at ten at night or something and track Lily down because you knew she was hiding something and threatened to call your entire pack on them?" I laughed.

"Yes," Elsa said bashfully. "Caleb thought it was better for just one person from our pack to know rather than our whole pack so he had Lily let me in and explained everything to me. No one but Baba, Dom, Josilyn, and I know who 'Stark' really is. He never shows himself in human form to the rest of the pack. That's how he's stayed hidden this entire time."

"I can't wait to see him. Maybe him seeing me alive will make him change his mind about staying in Estes," Anna said hopefully.

"Maybe so." Elsa smiled at her sister but I heard the doubt in her tone.

We stopped outside Caleb's door. Elsa knocked on it politely. It was Lily who answered. She greeted us cheerfully, but her smile faltered when she Anna. Her expression turned to one of sheer shock. Slowly she backed away so we could come in.

"Lily, what's wrong?" Caleb questioned when she backed into the room still facing us.

"I'm seeing double," she answered. My alpha scrunched his eyebrows up in confusion as he stood up.

"What do you mean you're seeing double? Are you feeling okay?"

Anna and Elsa had been standing behind me. They stepped out at the same time, flanking me.

"Hi Caleb," Anna said shyly. She was wringing her hands nervously behind her back and I felt sorry for her. I couldn't imagine being gone from my family for so many years with hardly any memory of them only to come back and meet them all again.

"Anna?" Caleb croaked out. When she smiled in confirmation, my alpha pulled her into a hug. I saw tears streaming down his face and it occurred to me I'd never seen my alpha cry. Not when Callie died, not when our house blew up.

I felt Elsa lean her head against my arm. I wrapped my arm around her and pulled her close. Lily was watching the whole scenario with tears in her eyes. Finally Caleb pulled back and stared at Anna.

"I can't believe it's you," he said.

"That seems to be the norm for today," Anna replied. She looked at Lily. "Are you his girlfriend?"

"I am. I'm Lily Carter," she introduced, holding out her hand. "It's a pleasure to meet you Anna."

"Do mom and dad know? Do Hunter and Ember?" Caleb asked. Elsa nodded. He hugged her tightly. "You got her home?"

"Sort of. I had help. Ember, Noah, Dom, Tiana, and Spencer all came," Elsa answered. Caleb turned to me.

"Thank you for getting my sister back," He said sincerely. "How long did you know about her?"

"About thirty minutes before I went to help Elsa go get her," I admitted. "We were gone for a while, everyone else was asleep, so these two decided to tell everyone in the morning."

"Everyone knows now?"

"No, most of the adults still haven't met me although I'm sure mom and dad have told them by now," Anna said.

"Why don't you go meet them and come back to my room afterwards? We'll celebrate you coming home," Caleb suggested. "We'll have cake, pizza, and soda. Sound good?"

"That sounds amazing!"

"Good." He kissed his sisters on the head. Now go. Go meet everyone so you can get back here as soon as possible. I want to spend as much time with you as I can."

Caleb, Lily, and I watched the two girls leave. Once they were gone, Lily said, "Are you okay?"

"All these years I thought she was dead. I blamed myself for her death but she's been alive and because I couldn't handle the shit Hunter gave me, I screwed over my family. The Hunters are after my family because of me but they don't know that. At least I don't think they do. I mean you remember that prophecy that Baba told us right?"

"How could I forget?" Lily remarked sadly.

"Caleb, I just had an idea," I said, a grave feeling settling into my stomach.

"What?"

"The prophecy, it said that the second born of the Laroches was the one that could either make or break the Guardians. They'll either be the reason we can change people into Guardians again or the person who makes all Guardians lose their power. What if the second born doesn't mean chronological birth order but-"

"But a set of multiples," Lily finished. "You're saying that the Hunters took Anna because they thought she was the second-born twin and thought she was the one of the prophecy but it's actually Elsa."

"Exactly."

Caleb paled. "I don't want it to be her. I don't want another damn thing on her shoulders. Her life is just starting to get good again. I don't want something like this coming along and ruining that for her."

"But if it's a possibility, then she needs to know. If Elsa suspects we're hiding something from her, she'll do everything she can to figure it out, and that could get her into trouble," Lily argued gently.

Caleb sighed. "Then I'll tell her. But not tonight. Tonight, we celebrate."
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