Anna keeps her eyes on the nurses, she manages to find a way for listening. She's asking herself why they say such things about Dr. Winters. According to Anna, the blonde seems a nice person. The group of nurses is at the door's threshold, with some safe-distance from Anna's bed, they are making sure that the doctor isn't near them, they don't want any kind of problems with the Ice Queen.

"You know, I heard that she moved from the last hospital because of a scandal between her and the Chief of Cardiology." One of them says, trying to keep his voice not too loud.

"Oh really? What kind of scandal?" A girl of the group says a bit too loud making the redhead more curious.

"Sexual! Someone saw them in one room, and she had to quit the job." The same nurse who had spoken at first, answers to his friends. The taller one chuckles thinking about something and then he speaks.

"Well, she's hot, despite being the Ice Queen. I bet she's a tiger in bed, have you seen her boobs? Gods, I'd do everything for fuck them."

Unbeknownst to the nurses, Anna is listening to everything that come out from those mouth. They keeps saying other things like that, making comments about the doctor's body, their fantasies. She can't believe in what her ears are hearing. 'What the hell..? I don't think she has such a reputation, she's nice, and dad would never give a job to one who fucked her superior. These are just gossips. Nothing more.' A little after this conversation they walk out the redhead's room, leaving her alone with her thoughts.

In the meanwhile, Elsa is in her office, working on her patient's medical record. Every time the girl makes a test or a check-up, the doctor has to write the result of those and give the papers to the Chief, that in this case is also the father of the patient. She's meticulous in her work, but she's very quick too. It's strange, in someone's opinion being quick in writing or making a test could be "dangerous" because the doctor could skip or miss something. But this isn't the case of Dr. Winters.

She's just finished writing the last paragraph of the medical record when Dr. Summers enters the room.

"Good morning Dr. Winters, I don't know if you heard me knocking.."

"Oh, morning Dr. Summers, I was finishing this papers, sorry I must have been too focused. What can I do for you?"

"Have you finished with those? I wanted to know how Anna is. Are you going to check her heart today?"

"Yes, everything seems going well. Her injury is healing as it should. No worries and yes, today I'm doing her an ECG, after I checked on her blood pressure. Then I was thinking about some X-Ray, or a magnetic resonance."

"Good, I'll see you when it's time to you, to make these exams."

"With all due respect, Sir, I don't think it's appropriate. You're the father of the patient, and, being her doctor, I can't allow family in the same room where I'm making test to the patient. It's unprofessional. Honestly, I don't care if you are her father and want to be sure everything goes well. You choose me as her doctor. You think I'm qualified enough for taking care of your daughter. You told me you wanted the best, you told me I was. So here I am, doing what I'm best at. My job." Kai looks at her with a bit of surprise in his eyes. It is the first time that one of his employees talk to him like that and it isn't the first time that one member of his family is in the hospital, and when it happened the doctors were always willing to let the Chief take part of the examination. He knows that Dr. Winters isn't like the others. He's glad to see how she takes seriously her job. He doesn't like too much being told in that way, but he's happy to be treated like a family member for once for real. Sometimes it's good not to be just the Chief.

"Good, if you need anything just ask. I'll leave you with your work. I need all of your concentration on my daughter." And with that he exits from the room. She's left alone in her study, watching at the closed door. Her office isn't big, well organized, there aren't pictures, on the contrary of the Chief's office. She has no idea how the other doctors' office are, she thinks only about herself. She has this rule: never be too close to anyone in a workplace. Just keep everything in a professional level.

The only personal object she has in her desk is a little snow globe, a gift from her mother for her 12th birthday. That was one of her best days of her life. She's born on the 19th of December, every year she waited for that date just to be able to go at the ice ring and skating. When she was little her parents brought her to the ice ring of her city and her mother tough her how to skate, and the little Elsa was really talented. If she hadn't become a surgeon, she would have wanted to be a ice-skater. She always loved winter, the snow and the ice. Unfortunately on her 12th birthday didn't snow, she was a bit upset, but her parents had a surprise for her: they brought her to a new building in town which she wasn't aware: it was a new winter-sport center, where it was possible to make snow. As soon as Elsa entered in the building she was speechless, there were snow everywhere in there, even if outside it was sunny. After spending all day there, they went to a restaurant, as usual, with her parents' colleagues and friends, she didn't have friends, so she had that kind of company. As the day ended they came back home, after her father said goodnight to the blonde, her mother Katherine stayed in the room for a little while with a little package in her hand, she gave it to her. Elsa was surprised, her parents didn't give her a lot of gifts (no matter if it was her birthday or Christmas or whatever). She unpacked her gift and saw a little snow globe: inside there was a young girl who was ice-skating in a lake. When she had shaken the object she saw little white snowflakes coming around the girl. Elsa smiled shyly to her mother, who said something that remain forever in her mind. "When you feel upset, because there's no snow outside, just shake it. It will make you smile, my dearest princess." For a little girl those words didn't mean anything more, but now, as a grown-up woman, she understand what her mother was trying to say to her. Every time Elsa is upset, blocked, alone, she looks at her snow globe and she remembers her mother's words and her smile. Even if it's been a lot since she last saw her, she knows that her mother is always by her side, watching over her. She hopes that she manages to make her parents proud of her.

Before she exits her office, she looks one more time at the object, she shakes it, and then she leaves closing the door. She walks to the redhead in order to take her blood pressure and make the ECG.

Author's Note: Hello to everybody! I'm so sorry for the late update, as you know, I was in holiday, and thanks for the understanding and patience you showed. I wanted to post this chapter earlier but I had to cover a shift of one my colleagues. So here I am. I hope you'll like it! I hope I didn't make too much mistakes.

I decided to make Elsa's birthday on the 19th of December, because here in Italy that was the date the movie came to theaters.

Enjoy your day, wherever you are, and feel free to let me know your opinions, they're always well accepted. Thanks for your support.