Elsa changes her bandage and fixes up her shirt. She unlocks the door and checks if there's anyone near and reaches the waste bin. Her mobile phone rings and she looks at the ID caller. She sighs and press the green bottom.

"Hello?"

"Hello, Elsa. How are you doing?" the male voice says to her. While she's talking to him, she goes to her office. Luckily it's not too far away from the restroom.

"I'm fine. I'm at work, why are you calling me, Marshall?"

"I called you because I wanted to remind you that the trial is tomorrow. I know it's not easy for you and I know there are enough proof to keep him in jail for a long time, but you know that the judge needs your deposition."

"I know. I am the only one who have spoken about what he was doing to me and to the other women at the hospital. When I need to be there?"

"The trial begins at 9am. I'll come over you at 8am, is that okay for you?"

"I need to talk to my Chief and ask him a permission to come to work later."

"Honestly I would recommend you to take a day off. It won't be easy for you, he will be in the courtroom.."

"Marshall, I am really grateful to you, for what you are doing for me, but I think after the trial I'll need to distract myself, and I believe that working is what I'll need."

"All right Elsa. Do what you think it's better. You're like a little sister to me, you know that. I've seen you grew up, our parents were best friends, it's the least I can do. You know you can always count on me."

"Thank you. I need to go back to work now. See you tomorrow."

"Of course, bye Elsa. Take care, alright?"

"Sure." The phone call ends and she puts her phone in her pocket. The blonde looks at her snow globe and shakes it. 'I hope everything is going to be okay soon.' She has to talk to Dr. Summers later, but right now she needs to focus on her patient. After a while she exits from her office and goes to check if there is an X-Ray room available. Lucky her, there is one. She books it and walks to Anna's room.

Kristoff has his break from the ER and he's spending his free time with Anna. They talking about everything and nothing.

"So, have you asked Mandy out?" Anna asks him before taking a sip from her glass of water.

"Not yet.. I'm too busy with my shifts in the ER."

"Bullshit. You're afraid that she says no! But I think she'd like to go out on a date with you!"

Kristoff starts blushing. He likes a lot Mandy and he would like to go out with her, but his cousin is right: he is afraid of being rejected. He doesn't even know if she's interested in him. She is nice to him, they talk when they have time, but he doesn't understand if there's a possibility or not. He's not a lover expert, but some of his friends are.

"Sooner or later I'll ask her out, don't worry. So, how is your hospital life with the Ice Queen?"

Anna smiles as her mind recalls the blonde doctor's icy blue eyes.

"It's okay. She isn't that cold, you know? I think that she just need to loosen up a bit, she's too focus on her work." The cousins don't know that Elsa is just outside the door, she isn't entered yet, but she can hear what they're saying.

"Well, she's a doctor, Anna. She needs to be focus."

"Yes, I know that. I'd like to see her being more relaxed, you know? She seems so tense sometimes." She doesn't look at him, she keeps her eyes on her hands, thinking about how could she help her doctor to feel better. Anna has this feeling that the blonde doesn't feel comfortable in this hospital yet. It's like the older woman has some problems to familiarize with everyone else in the building. The redhead wants to help, she wants to see a smile from her doctor, she doesn't know why, but she thinks that Elsa would be cuter if she smiles, it's not that she isn't cute now.

"Kristoff, do you know why she moved from that hospital?" her eyes are still on her hands. He looks at her with a bit of concern. He thinks that her cousin starts feeling something for his boss, he doesn't know if it's about friendship or something more. He knows Anna, she's the kind of girl surrounded with a lot of people, she has this energy with her that makes everyone feel good when they're in her presence.

"I heard some rumours. They say that there was a sexual scandal between her and her chief. Honestly I don't know if that's true, but I don't believe in rumours."

"I don't think she's that kind of woman, she doesn't seem a-" they stop talking when the blonde walks in the room looking at them, making her presence clear. Icy blue eyes focus on turquoise ones. The blonde's eyes seem to not let any emotion show. It's hard for Anna to understand if the doctor heard them talking.

"There is a room available for the X-Ray. , how are my other patients doing?"

"They're fine. When my shift in the ER finishes, I'll make the rounds."

"Good. Miss Summers, we're going to do the X-Ray in a few minutes." The redhead nods and Elsa walks away to call a nurse. Anna looks at Kristoff who sighs.

"Wow, that was close.. Do you think she heard us?"

"I don't know, I hope not. She's my boss, I don't want any problem and she's pretty discreet. I think it's better if I go, see you later!" he exits from the room and a nurse walks inside in order to preparing Anna. She sits on the wheelchair and they go to the room to make the exam. During the X-Ray everyone is quiet, there isn't too much talking, only the usual "stay still" now and then. Anna hopes Elsa didn't hear anything, but if she did she just keeps her mouth shut.

While Anna is still for the machine to do its job, Elsa watches the imagines. Anna's heart seems to be okay, despite its conditions. She's glad the pills do their jobs, this means that aside from the broken leg, Anna is fine and soon she can be sent home. The doctor asks to do the X-Ray to the leg too.

After the exam, they return to the redhead's room. Anna is again on her bed, watching at her doctor who is writing something on her medical record. She'd like to read what is written on it. Maybe tonight when there aren't people around she can grab and read it. 'She has always that expression on her face.. it's cute the way her eyebrows arch when she's focused. How old is she? I guess she isn't too much older than me. Kristoff is 2 year older than me. I don't think she's 30 yet. She's younger.'

"So, how am I doing?" her turquoise eyes never goes away from the blonde.

"Aside from your broken leg, you're doing good. You'll be home soon."

"Yeah! That's great, we should celebrate, I could eat a pizza and drink a beer-"

"You could, but you shouldn't. For now, you need to eat and drink what the hospital offers you, once you're home for a while you need to not drink alcoholic drinks because you'll be under drugs. You shouldn't-"

"Doc, I know. I can't drink beer or wine or other stuff. I'm already on drugs, remember?" the redhead places her hand on her heart. "Because of it, I can't get that drunk. Plus, my father is a doctor, he wouldn't let me drink something I shouldn't. I don't need another parent, you know? I'm only happy that everything is fine, is it too much if I'd like to eat something different? It's not like tomorrow I have a surgery." Anna's eyes never leaves Elsa's. The blonde sighs.

"I didn't want to sound like a parent." She looks at the younger girl in front of her, she can see clearly that she doesn't enjoy hospital food, how can someone blame her? "I am your doctor, I prefer you to eat the food that it's here, but since you don't have any surgery," 'Am I really suggesting this? What's happening to me?' " you could eat something else." 'There. I did it. There's no turning back.' Anna's eyes are wide open just like her mouth. She can't believe that her doctor, the Ice Queen, the one who is so professional, let her eat some pizza. That's a miracle.

"R-really?"

"I'm sure you heard me. Just, don't let be caught from your father. I'd like to not have any problems with him."

"Well.. you could eat with me.." she says so quiet that it is just like a whisper. But Elsa manages to hear her words.

"I am sorry.. I don't think it's appropriate for a doctor to eat with her patient."

"No, right. That totally makes sense. I'm sorry if I made you uncomfortable." Elsa is about to tell her that she didn't make her feel that way but she's stopped by the redhead words. "I'm sorry, I'm a bit tired. I'm sure you have a lot of doctor's stuff to do." Elsa closes her mouth and nods. Leaving the room, but before she exits the room she looks back at the girl who is watching out her window. The blonde sighs and goes away.

'I'm just acted like I always do. So, why I feel like I did something wrong..?'Elsa is in front of her chief's office. She knocks.

"Come in." She walks in, closing the door behind her. "Oh, Dr. Winters, what can I do for you?"

"I wanted to ask for a permission. Tomorrow morning I have some personal stuff to do, which can't be postponed. I think I'll be back at work in the afternoon."

"Is it because of the trial?" Elsa looks at Kai with eyes open.

"How…"

"I received a call from your lawyer. He informed me about it. You have my permission. Take the day off, you don't need to come to work tomorrow."

"Sir, I would-"

"I've already made my decision. Now, how is my daughter?" Elsa starts to talk about Anna's exams.

It's 8 o'clock in the morning. The doorbell rings and Elsa goes to open the door to her lawyer.

"Morning Elsa, how are you?"

"Hi Marshall. I'm fine. I want Hans Southerisland in jail for the rest of his life."

"He will pay for what he did to you."

"And to the other women." He nods and walks her friend and client to his car. He opens the door for her and reaches the driver seat. He looks to the blonde. He remember when she was 3 years old playing with his toys in her parent's garden, he was 10 back then. And now she's going to be 28 years old in a few months. She's been through a lot. They put on the seatbelts and he starts the engine.

"This is going to be a long morning." Elsa says looking at the road.

"I know. I'm just sad that this.. thing happened to you. You didn't deserved that."

"I should have known. Since the first day I knew something wasn't right with him. I should have never accepted that job in his father's hospital."

They drive to the courthouse for the trial in silence. They know what Elsa has to say to the judge. He knows how much this must be difficult to her, but when he looks in Elsa's eyes he can clearly see her father. She's grown up so much and her determination is the same that her father had. Despite everything Marshall knows that Joseph would have been proud of his little girl.

Marshall finds a free parking lot and stops the car. They walks in the courtroom.

"Ready?" He doesn't look at Elsa, he knows that her eyes are focused on someone else right now.

"Ready. Let's put an end to this story." She looks at Hans who is handcuffed, there are two policemen next to him.

Author's Note: Hi everyone! I'm sorry for the late, busy days. I hope you enjoy the chapter. As you can see it's longer than the other ones, finally I have more time and I know some of you (if not everyone) wanted longer chapter. So, I wanted to ask you dear readers if there is something that makes you confuse just tell me. Do you have any problems reading this stories? I know there are some mistakes somewhere, as I think you know, I don't speak English and these are the first times where I write something important in English, so feel free to let me know your opinions. I received complaint about the length. When in the other chapters I wrote some background story in past tense, did you have any problems? Did that make you confuse or something? Are you comfortable with how my writing is?

Right, Marshall is our Marshmallow, I had to put him in this story, I love that big golem of ice and snow :D

I want to thanks Paotzel for the cover image (If I manage to upload it.. xD), I really appreciate your drawing :)