It's been a week since the first solo operation of Kristoff. Elsa didn't have to intervene, everything went smooth as oil and there were no complications post surgery. The blonde doctor remains in front of the Blackboard, where there are written every daily surgery in program. She has only 2 surgeries, a total of only 4 hours in the OR. Maybe it's because she's on duty in the ER. There operations are simple, maybe she could let them handle to Kristoff, so in that way the Chief shouldn't have reason to complain.

"Bijorman, today you're doing these surgeries." The boy looks at her and smiles.

"Thanks, really, you can't understand how much this makes me happy!"

"I'm not sure if you should be glad to open the chest of two patients, but perhaps you're referring to the fact that in his way you'll learn more." And here's that Kristoff's smile disappears 'She's always so cold, is she an ice golem by any chance? It would be possible, her skin is so pale.'. Elsa approaches the Blackboard and changes the name of the first surgeon from "Dr. Winters, E." to "Dr. Bijorman, K.". At that moment the Chief walks by the two doctors. He stays behind the woman and he's smug.

"Well, I see that here someone starts collecting solo's surgeries. Good work, doctors."

Kristoff goes in the room of the first patient of the day, he explains the procedure to him. Be a surgeon can be a monotonous work, checking medical records, the person, doing examinations, explaining procedures, cutting, sewing, keeping an eye on the parameters, making sure the procedure go well and then dismissing patients. Nevertheless he loves being a doctor, although his new boss is like a robot, he's fine with that. She's a great teacher, meticulous, she wants things to be done as they should be, she's strict but the young intern won't complain, after all he's here to learn.

Once in the OR, after they wash themselves, Kristoff and Elsa are waiting for the anesthesia to have effect. The patient is asleep and Kristoff picks up the scalpel and makes an incision on the chest which had been prepared with tincture of iodine. Elsa stays there, observing every movement, every command of his intern. 'He's learning, good.'. Once he has sewed up the patient, Elsa goes with Kristoff to inform the family members about how the surgery went. "Everything went well, now let's see how he reacts in post surgery."

There's a break before the next operation, in the ER there are the usual bustle of people, but for now there isn't anything for cardiac surgery. Kristoff went to get a coffee for him and Elsa.

"Dr. Winters?" the woman looks at him. "I think you drink coffee latte, I've got one for you, because I saw that you looked tired."

"I wasn't tired, I was rereading the post operation of this morning, thanks you, but for now I won't drink anything, you can give it to someone else."

'Does she know that unknowingly she gave me a reason to talk to Mandy?' Kristoff tries to hold back a smile and goes to the nurse.

"Hi Mandy.. would you like a coffee latte?" he hands the cup. She smiles.

"Oh Dr. Bijorman, how nice you are, thanks you." she takes a sip of the drink and they sit at a table. "How was your morning? I saw you marked on the Board."

"It went well, all quiet, the patient appears to reacting well, the heart wasn't very stressed during the surgery." they're spending some time chatting with each other. Anyone who watches them would understand immediately that Kristoff is in love with the girl.

A distance of two tables there's Elsa, who's reading, she hears Kristoff laugh with that nurse. 'He shouldn't lose concentration, after the break he must work.'. She sees the Chief who sits next to her.

"Winters. How is your intern going?"

"He arrives late often," Elsa looks at the boy "but I see that he works hard." Kai smiles.

"He's a guy who puts his heart and his soul into what he does. I'm glad that you're doing what we all expect: teach." Elsa watches her boss without giving him an answer to that statement. She was hired by a University Hospital, but it's not been long since she was the intern. After the chief goes, the doctor returns to his reading, meanwhile Kristoff continues to chat with his beloved Mandy.

The second scheduled surgery of the day goes like the other, without complications, all quiet. Once the family members have been informed, Elsa sends Kristoff in ER to make some medications, for now she doesn't need his assistance. She told him to call her to pager if there's an emergency. She's reading some article of medicine, despite having finished her studies and become an excellent surgeon her preparation will never stop: she has to keep updated. In life you'll be always a student.

Kristoff goes to the ER, telling the head of the department that he's there to help. He goes to do some sutures. The emergency room is one of the most loved place by interns (and residents too): everyone is looking for the right patient (the more critical or with something odd) and take that particular case. It's like being at the market. Nevertheless, they're all very human. Before Kristoff began his shift, in ER arrived an ambulance with a man who into his neck there was a screwdriver, he lost much blood but he was relatively stable. Unfortunately for the young assistant of Winters, he hasn't arrived in time in order to follow that case. 'Damn.. Maybe with the next ambulance will come something interesting, perhaps something cardiac, so it's easier for me to get in the OR!'. A nurse hands him a medical record and tells him to go to the bed 3-S, he starts reading the folder. Fall, suspected fracture.

"Hello, I'm Dr. Bijorman, I'll be your doctor." He raise his eyes from the folder, he prepares the stethoscope. He stays speechless, wide-eyed.

"Hey cousin.. hello!" the redhead starts laughing. "Here I am. To see you at work!"

"Anna! What the hell happened to you!?" Kristoff begins to examine her cousin's leg. It's swollen and purple, probably a compound fracture. He cuts her jeans and observes better the wound, there's a bit of blood, but only from bruises.

"I was trying to reach a box, you know that I moved, and at one point I lost balance and I was falling, nothing serious! But I couldn't get up so I had to hitch a ride and come here.. You know I'm such a clumsy, it's nothing serious, just give me some painkiller and I come home and I'll not waste your time."

Kristoff takes the leg up and downstream. Fracture of the right tibia. He tries to align the limb but he notices a judder from Anna. "Anna, you have a fracture, we must take an X-Ray. When you were falling have you hit your head? Have you got the pills? Why have you lost balance?" he takes the stethoscope again, he's about to listen to the heart and lungs.

"No I don't think that I hit the head." Kristoff arches his eyebrows. He calls a nurse.

"Call Dr. Winters and say to come to me. Now. Anna you're such a klutz."

Elsa is very interested in a cardiac surgery's article when his pager sounds. "Bijorman.". She gets up and goes to the ER, she sees her intern who is about to check the heart beat of the patient. 'Redhead. She's familiar. Maybe I've seen her before?'

Author's Note: Hi everyone! I hope you'll enjoy this chapter. I'm trying to make it as understandable as possible, if you don't understand something, please feel free to tell me. (hopefully there aren't too much mistakes)

I'm enjoying writing this story, maybe it's because I know a bit how things works in the hospitals (well I know better how an ER works, being a first aid volunteer) and maybe because I like medicine everything in between. Btw, thanks for spending your time reading this, I really appreciate it.

For the ones who are reading "I Will Never Let You Go" : probabily in these days I'll update it (hopefully my imagination doesn't leave me!)

Have a nice day! See you at the next update.