Elsa is locked in her office, she doesn't want to be bother by anyone while she's making an important phone call. She needs to understand a few things, so she's calling someone she thinks could help.
"Elsa, it's nice to hear from you again. What do you need?" at the other line there's Marshall. That morning he sent her the paper from the courthouse and he thinks she has some questions about it. "Is something about those papers?"
She shakes her head then she realizes that she's on the phone and he can't see her movements.
"No, it's not that. Actually I think is something more important.."
"What do you mean?"
"I don't understand why in these days I'm acting differently.." the blonde doctor mumbles.
"Elsa, do you realize that if I don't know what's going on I can't really help you?" He chuckles at her friend's words.
"You're right.. sorry, you see?! Usually I should explain everything from the start.."
"Well, yes, that's odd. But, just try to explain me, so that I can help you, all right?"
"Okay, so. There's this woman, she's my patient. Well, she shouldn't be, but she's the daughter of the Chief and he decided that I should have been her doctor. She came in the ER for a broken leg, you know I'm a cardiac surgeon, so they shouldn't have called me on my pager, right? But my intern did, because she had a history of cardiac's problem. Her father wanted me as her doctor, he took away all my patients and gave them to my intern. I had only this one patient, this woman. She's younger than me, she has beautiful red hair and turquoise eyes, she talks a lot, but I don't mind, well maybe at the beginning, but then I get used to her rambling, she can sing very well, she has a nice voice. She's my intern's cousin," Marshall tries to hold back his chuckle, he can't believe she is the one rambling now about how the younger woman is. Elsa notices what she's saying and clears her throat.
"So, at first I let some nurse doing some exams, but then I began to do them to myself. I check on her every day. I don't know why but I started to do things differently, for example now I'm the one who checks her blood pressure, usually nurses do that. Yesterday evening I did something I thought I would never have done. The other day she told me she was sick of eating hospital's food and asked for some 'real' food, and she asked me to eat with her, but I told her that I couldn't do that, because it was inappropriate for a doctor do something like that with a patient. But yesterday I don't know.. I came here at the hospital and brought with me a pizza. We ate it together." She sighs remembering that evening. She can't help but thinking about the redhead's smile, it's probably the most beautiful thing she's ever seen in her life. "It's not something I would usually do!" She exclaims exasperated.
Marshall takes a moment to think about her friend's situation. He knows how she is: she's shy, she doesn't let people in, she follows rules.
"I think it's pretty clear, dear." Elsa looks at the wall with a confused look, she doesn't know how could it be clear! It's a mess in the blonde's eyes, she doesn't understand anything.
"How can you say that!?"
"Well, you start to like her. She seems to be the opposite of you, you know? It's like the yin and the yang. It's quiet funny." He chuckles as he tries to imagine those two women in a room talking with each others. Elsa would be like a little panda, calm and shy, and the other woman would be like a little puppy, running around her and trying to communicate with Elsa.
"I can't like her, I barely know her."
"That doesn't mean anything. You can like a person even if you don't know her, you said you stay only with her in these days, right? Well, you're getting used to her company and you seem to be interested in this girl, maybe only just in a friendship way."
The doctor thinks about it for a moment. Maybe he's right, she doesn't mind being in Anna's company, actually if she has to choose, she'd like to stay with her longer.
"Should I try to be friend with her..?" she tentatively asks to Marshall.
"It could be a nice idea. See how this things between you two go. You could even enjoy how your relationship would develop." He'd like to see this person. 'This girl must be something. Making Elsa this insecure, I need to meet her.'
"Okay then.. thanks Marshall." she hangs up and puts her phone in her pocket.
Does she likes Anna? She exits from her office while she keeps asking the same question. To be a friend with the redhead, well it will be a new experience to her. She really doesn't tried to have some friends, except for Marshall. She doesn't know how to start, should she just act as she's acting now? Should she do something different?
'Damn.. I should have asked to Marshall how to be friend with her.. I can't call him again..'
"Dr. Winters!" the called doctor turns her head towards the familiar voice.
"Dr. Bijorman, how can I help you?" he's running to her.
"It's.." he's trying to catch his breath. "I tried to call you." She watched at her pager.
"Shit.. it's dead." She mumbles to herself then she directs her attention to Kristoff "Tell me, what's going on?"
"There's an emergency in Anna's room."
Immediately after those words Elsa is running to Anna's room. She doesn't know what's happening, she's cursing herself for not checking on her pager. She can't believe that now there's an unknown emergency in the redhead's room. She had just one job. Keep an eye on her. She should have left the hospital tomorrow, so why on heart she's having a freaking emergency call?
Luckily her office isn't too far away from that room, while they're running she can see nurses coming in Anna's room. The only thing she can hear is 'code blue'. She doesn't want to believe it, she doesn't know why she's this worried about the redhead.
Once they're inside the room, they watch as a nurse is doing the cardiac reanimation. Kristoff is frozen in the threshold, he wants to close his eyes, to run away, but he stays there, just like a doctor would do. He isn't his cousin's doctor, but he wants to do something but he can't, he just can't move.
Elsa is for only a second in the same position of her intern. She doesn't even hear well what the nurse is saying to her. It's just like she's in a bubble and all she can hear is the sound of the monitor that shows the heartbeat of the redhead: it's flat and there's that too awfully familiar constant "beep". She heard it too many times, but this time it's different. Right there, in that bed there's someone special to her. 'No. I can't lose her. Not now.'
After that second of being frozen she reaches the nurse and makes her move, she starts with the compressions and tries to make Anna's heart beating again. While she's pushing her hands on the redhead's chest, a nurse gives her the oxygen through the mask.
Elsa stops for a second to watch at the monitor, still flat. She takes the defibrillator and does what she's best at. Make start again the heart.
She isn't a really religious person and it's not because she's a doctor, a woman of science. But because she's always thought that if there's a God, ten why bad things keep happening? Why had her parents to die in a damn airplane crash? Why was she raped from Hans? Why doesn't Anna's heart beat? Why? She doesn't have an answer to those questions, and she doesn't even know why but she's praying for God to give her Anna back. She's praying for her heart to start beating again. She's praying to be able to hear that angelic voice again.
She shocks one more time. She doesn't want to give up on her even if she knows very well that there's a chance that she could not-
Beep Beep
"It's beating…" Elsa mumbles while she's watching at the monitor: it isn't flat anymore. Her eyes go down to the redhead's chest and the doctor lets out a sigh in relief when she sees that Anna's chest restarts to raise and fall alone. She turns her head toward Kristoff to see tears in his face.
"Kristoff, she's fine.." she mumbles. This isn't like her, normally she wouldn't mumble, she wouldn't look so fragile and relieved. But well, that girl in the bed is special.
Elsa walks to Kristoff and puts her hands on his shoulders, she's trying to comfort him. At that right moment Anna's father is running.
"What happened!? Kristoff how's Anna!? Dr. Winters!" He looks at them with worried and scared eyes. "Is she d..is she.." he starts to think at the worse because of the tears in his nephew eyes, but quickly Elsa takes control on the situation.
"She's fine, her heart started to beat again. She's fine now."
He gives a loud sigh in relief but soon enough his face changes. "You told me she was fine."
"I.. from the exam we did her heart was doing fine, I don't know what happened.." She confesses, she truly doesn't know how it was possible. She's terribly sorry for what happened, she thinks that this is her fault, maybe the pizza of the last evening? No, that's impossible.
Kai Summers looks at his cardiac surgeon, he can see the worry in her eyes and he's surprised that she's showing some kind of emotion, he looks at Kristoff and see how she keeps an hand on his shoulder. He pretends to not notice it and goes to her daughter.
"Elsa.." Kristoff mumbles watching shocked at her hand on him. She follow his gaze and takes away her limb.
"Sorry.."
"No problem.. thanks for what you've done." He watches inside at the room and see how his uncle caress his cousin's hair. He can't understand what happened, she was fine that morning. "She was going to come back at home.. what happened?" he looks to Elsa now. She hesitates for a moment.
"I wish I knew." Kristoff reaches his uncle next to Anna.
She remains still at the threshold while nurses and her family goes away. She enters slowly, watching at the sleeping woman. Instinctively she adjusts the blanket on the redhead's body, she doesn't know why but she wants her to be warmer.
She goes for a moment to her office and returns immediately to Anna. She sits in a chair next to Anna's bed. She takes her medical record and read it with great care: she needs to find out what happened and if she missed something. She turns her laptop on and checks on her recently exams.
She's her only patient and she hasn't nothing to do. Elsa could stay at her office working on Anna's case, but something deep inside her say to stay there, next to her. Just in case. She doesn't want her to have another attack like that.
It's been hours since she's there, Anna is still sleeping, sometimes the blonde check her heartbeat with her stethoscope. After a while her eyes are starting to feel heavy and she slowly falls asleep.
"Mom, what means 'love'?" a little 7 years old Elsa is sitting on the living room's couch, next to her there's her mother, who's drinking some hot chocolate. It's Elsa's birthday, her father will come back soon from work. Her mother is off from work, because she wants to stay all day with her daughter. She smiles at the little girl in front of her who is holding a dictionary.
"The dictionary says something.. but I don't understand.."
"It's complicated to answer at that question dear." She takes the dictionary from her daughter's hands and closes it.
"You know sweetie, love is something that you can find here." She pokes at the little girl's heart. "It's a complicated feelings, there are different kind of it, there's the love that you share with your family, for example the love your father and I have for you and you have for us. There's the love for things you like, for example chocolate." She chuckles at her daughter's surprised face.
"Then there's the love you share with the person you want to spend the rest of your life with and to have a family with. For example the love I share with your father. It's not easy to understand it, it comes in different shapes and in mysterious ways." Little Elsa shows a confused look her mother handles her some hot chocolate.
"When you grow up, you'll find someone special that makes you feel complete, and you'll understand. For now, enjoy your chocolate, birthday girl." She kisses her daughter's forehead and looks at the fireplace.
Elsa slowly opens her eyes and see that it's dark outside. She doesn't know for how long she was asleep, when she looks at the redhead she see her eyes focused on her.
"Ehy.. you're awake, Doc." Anna says with a little blush on her cheek, she's embarrassed because when she woke up she has noticed that her doctor was next to her sleeping and it was a wonderful sight to her.
"Anna.. how are you feeling?" Elsa tries to compose herself.
"A bit tired, what happened?" she's just confused as the blonde.
"You had an heart failure.. I managed to make your heart start beating again, you scared us."
" 'us'?"
"Kristoff, your father and me." She mumbles, she gives up: she can't manage to conceal her feeling.
For a moment Anna is quiet with her eyes still on her doctor's. 'She called me Anna, and said Kristoff's name.. She didn't call us in a formal way.. She's too cute.' Then she realizes that it's evening and Elsa's shift should be over for long now. The clock of her room says 9:10pm.
"I guess your shift is over.. and I didn't find out which is your favorite pizza."
Elsa looks at her confused and surprised. This woman is really something, instead of being concern about her well being, her thoughts are focused on the pizza. She tries to suppress a chuckle, but fails. It's the first time she chuckles at work and in front of someone. She's starting to think that with Anna she's having a lot of 'first times'.
Anna is listening to the little chuckles coming from the blonde and thinks that those are the most adorable sounds she's ever heard in her life.
"My favorite pizza is the vegetarian one. I love vegetables."
Author's Note: Yep, I give you another chapter in record time! :D
I don't know, today I just wanted to write.. I hope you'll enjoy this chapter, and the next one will come probably next saturday or friday or.. I don't know, next week u.u
So, have a nice day everyone!
Christy