Frozen Heart (Icicle's Story - Rewritten)

Prologue: Under Control? I don't think so!

*This chapter is when Icicle is her normal self, Laura, at 5 years old. In other chapters, she's known as Icicle and is 17.*

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I can't sleep. Nothing is helping me drift off. I lay on my bed in a star shape. I sleep in the same bedroom as my older sister, Tanya.
I nudge her gently. "Tanya. Tanya wake up!"
She turns over to face me, half awake. "Laura, what are you doing awake?"
"I can't sleep."
"Just count sheep," Tanya mumbles, drifting off again.
"Tried that, didn't work. I can't sleep because the sky's awake. So I am. Come on, let's go play!"
"Laura, let me get some sleep. We'll play tomorrow."
"No! We play now!" I keep tapping her, chanting "Play play play play play play play!"
"All right, all right, we'll go into the garden and play." She takes my hand as we run down the stairs into the garden.
"No snow?" I say with a sad look on my face. It's the middle of winter, so where's the snow?
"Said it was supposed to snow tonight..." Tanya says.
"YOU can make it snow, Tanya! Make it snow!" I jump up and down, clapping my hands.
Tanya stamps her foot, and I look up into the sky. It starts snowing!
Then I look at the ground. It's completely covered by layer after layer of snow, our pond coated in ice.
I grab for some of the snow, and shape it into a ball, hurling it at Tanya. "Snowball fight!"
For a few minutes, we laugh and giggle as we launch snowballs at each other.
Tanya then conjures a snowman from her bare hands next to me. "Look Laura, it's your favourite snowman!"
And she's right. So I hug him.
"I know! I wanna leap over snowy hills!"
So Tanya uses her magic to make a small hill where I'm standing, and few ahead. I jump on each one, as Tanya makes more.
"More! More!" I chant.
"Don't worry, it's under control," Tanya says.
So I start to leap faster.
"Laura, slow down!" I hear Tanya shriek. I look at her, but all I see is a bolt of her ice hurling towards me.
What the...?
Not so under control.
Because the bolt strikes my body.
I fall down to the ground in great pain.
"Laura!"