"What have we got?" she lets move Kristoff away and she's listening to the heart beat of the young girl who giggled. She rose an eyebrow.
"It's cold.. anyway it's nothing serious Doc." Anna's about to move, when she feels a hand pressed gently, but at the same time with some pressure, on her chest, so the girl will stay still.
"Her beat is a few arrhythmic. Miss.."
"Anna Summers." Elsa's looking at her 'Isn't it the same last name of the chief?'. Anna noticed her look and smiles. 'She's confused. Cute.'
"Well, miss Summers, now Dr. Bijorman will examine you." She checks the medical record. "Fracture of the right tibia. Dr. Bijorman, a word please."
"Ouch, is Kristoff in some kind of trouble?" Anna chuckles and Kristoff sends her something like an evil stare.
"Bijorman, why did you call me for a consultation? The patient has a fracture."
"She had some heart problems a few years ago and I wanted that you gave a look. She's the daughter of the chief." She looks at him coldly. 'So she's the chief's daughter.'. She'd like to tell to her intern that he could have examined the patient without problems, he's got skills. It's not that because she's the daughter of the chief she can have some privileged treatment. She turns to the redhead who's smiling. 'This girl makes me feel uncomfortable..'.
"Fine. Make the X-Rays. Leg and chest, just to make sure. The procedure is the same: same tests, same exams. Make sure there aren't problems. I'll go inform the chief that her daughter is in the hospital." Elsa is about to turn and leave when she feels an hand on her arm.
"No! Please, don't let my dad know.. I don't want to make him worry." As soon as Anna realize that she just took the arm of the woman in front of her, she releases it immediately, blushing.
"I'm sorry, but the family must be informed. It's the procedure." And with that Elsa goes to the Chief's office.
Meanwhile Anna is taken to make the X-Rays, Dr. Summers talks about his daughter's situation.
"So, she has a fracture."
"A suspected one, I'm waiting for the X-Ray's results. Bijorman should bring them to me as soon as he'll got them."
"Okay, she'll be your patient."
"Sir, with all due respect, there's nothing cardiac. A heart beat a few arrhythmic, but nothing more."
"Dr. Winters, my daughter has had heart problems, and I'd like you, as a cardiac surgeon of this hospital and one of the best in the nation, to keep an eye on my daughter. Because as you know, the hospital policy forbids me to be the doctor of my family." She doesn't want to have to deal with a case that it's no within her competence, but nonetheless it is the chief of surgery who tells her to do so. And she should listen to him. After all it was him who gave her a job.
"Fine, Sir. She'll be a patient of Bijorman and mine."
"No, he can't be on this case, he's her first cousin, and I prefer only you. He will replace your shift in the ER while you're with my daughter."
'So, I have a single patient. The daughter of the chief. I've just become a babysitter.'
"You can go. I need to tell my wife that Anna is in the hospital." Elsa walks out the office and goes to Kristoff.
The boy is about to call Elsa when she arrives. He handles her the exam's result.
"She has a bad fracture, I think there'll be needed a surgery." The woman looks at the image. The bone is just under the skin, however there's a internal bleeding caused by a bone's fragment that pierced a vein.
"And she wanted to go home? Call orthopaedics, we'll operate and treat this bleeding. Go to inform the chief. I'm bringing her in the OR."
"I'm not coming?"
"No, the chief has assigned you to the ER, you need to replace me." Kristoff looks puzzled and goes to Dr. Summers. 'She has to deal Anna alone? Good luck.'. Elsa reaches Anna, she's with some nurses and you can clearly see that she's in pain.
"Miss Summers, we have to perform surgery right away. You have an internal bleeding, if you keep try to move your leg you'll make it worse. As soon as the nurses get you ready, we'll take you to the OR."
"Ah... so it's serious?" Anna looks worried. Elsa's looking her into the eyes, turquoise ones, in the ER they were radiant but now they are dark, full of fear. The doctor comes closer to her, but there's always some distance between the two of them.
"You're losing blood due to a laceration of a vein. But there's nothing to worry about, we'll fix the damage and you'll be fine." Anna is watching at her intensely.
"You'll be in the OR with Kristoff?"
"Dr. Bijorman won't be in the room with me."
"What? And why?" Now Anna looks angry. 'I could say the same thing, miss Summers.'
"Your father decided that I was the one who would take care of you. You can talk about it with him," the nurses give a nod to Elsa meaning that everything was ready. "after the operation. You'll be asleep so you won't feel anything." Anna nods and they take her to the OR.
The chief and Kristoff look the operation from the room, the boy wants to be there with Elsa, though it's not a case of Cardiology he would have liked to operate and give a hand. After all it is her cousin the one on the operating table. Anna's father looks every move without saying a word. After a while he's called out the room because his wife Gerda has just arrived at the hospital and she is worried. Once the operation ends, Elsa goes to Anna's family in order to let them know that everything went well. As soon as she finishes her speech she's hugged by the girl's mother. The doctor is like paralyzed.
"Thanks you, I was so worried for my little Anna! Saw Kai? I told you she wasn't supposed to do things alone! She took your stubbornness." Elsa would desperately that the woman leaves her, but it seems that it is out of question for now. The chief blushes from a little embarrassment.
"Honey.. you know how is our daughter! The important thing is that she's fine, don't worry. She's a excellent doctor by her side." Elsa feels chief's gaze upon herself.
"Thank God you were there." Then she makes a little distance between them and Elsa sighs in relief. "Wow, you're such a beautiful woman. And what a nice cap you have! Are those snowflakes? Anna loves them! I hope she's seen them: their sight would let her be less worried." Elsa feels embarrassed by the sudden attention. 'Okay, let me Mrs. Summers, leave me, right now.' Elsa escapes from the woman's arms trying not to seem rude. She doesn't like to have physical contact with other people.
"Excuse me, I need to check on some things." If she could run she would have done so right in that moment, but she is too professional to do something like that.
Author's Note: Hello world! I hope you'll enjoy the chapter! Anna and Elsa will have their first real conversation soon.
Thanks for your support, feel free to let me know what your opinions are! Have a nice day all of you!
