"I guess we can't eat some pizza now.."

Elsa shakes sadly her head, she doesn't want to make unhappy this younger woman in front of her. She'd like to do something but for now all she can do is to stay there with her and find out what happened.

"I am sorry Anna, but you can't eat pizza tonight.. I don't know what happened, your heart was doing fine, all the exams were good, so I have no clue and for now, I need to keep a close eye on you, I don't want it happens again."

Anna nods slowly to her doctor. She understands the current situation: they don't know why her heart decided to cause some troubles. She wasn't doing anything when it all happened, she was just taking a nap and when she woke up she was in her room and next to her there was Elsa sleeping.

Suddenly the redhead's stomach rumbles making the blonde and her blushing together. Anna chuckles a little and runs her hand through her messy hairs while mumbling a 'sorry' to her doctor. Elsa's hand rises to her mouth in order to hide a little smile of her and she starts to stand up.

"I think I could go and grab something for you to eat."

"Oh no.. hospital food again.." Anna says without trying to suppress the smile that is showing on her face. She can't help to think that it's nice to see this new side of the blonde, it's like she's more herself now. Maybe being next to her every day helped her to be more comfortable around someone else, and honestly speaking Anna's happy that that 'someone' is her.

While Elsa is searching something to eat Anna stays still in her bed with her eyes looked at the now empty chair beside her. A part of her is happy that she can stay longer there with the amazing blonde, but the other part is pretty concerned. Why did she have a heart failure? Why now? She doesn't want to have more problems.

'Damn.. I thought I was doing great.' She sighs to herself and waits for Elsa to come back.

The blonde doctor is walking back to Anna's room with some food, but she's reluctant to come in.

She's afraid that when her feet go through the threshold she has to assist to another episode like the one of that afternoon. It's like the first time she's really concerned about one of her patient, she used to follow her father's view about the doctor-patient relationship, but now with Anna everything is different. The talk with Marshall helped her understanding that she enjoys being with the redhead and that probably she wants them to be friends. All at once her mind brings back some words of her father 'you can't be friend with your patient, it will be deleterious.' He may be right, but she has this feeling deep inside of her that her being friend to Anna isn't deleterious at all. On the contrary, she's starting to think that this connection that is growing between them is good.

Elsa takes a deep breath and walks in the room greeted by a lost in thought Anna. The doctor approaches her and sits again in the same chair which is subject to Anna's attentive gaze.

"Here, something for your rumbling stomach." She handles her the fruit pudding and a bottle of water, but Anna seems to be still in her dreamland. "Ehy, Earth to Anna." At that the redhead blinks her eyes and finally notice the blonde's hands under her face with the pudding.

"Oh thanks! Sorry I was lost in thought." She mumbles.

"Don't worry, just eat something now." Elsa looks at her as she puts the spoon in her mouth and make something like a grimace.

"I guess I couldn't eat chocolate pudding.. right?" Elsa shakes internally her head in disbelief.

"Nope, I prefer you to eat something more healthy for now, maybe tomorrow if you and your heart play nice." Anna seems to think about her doctor's sentence and then she extends her left her to Elsa who seems a bit confused.

"Let's make a deal, my heart and I will be nice and you'll give us a nice chocolate pudding." Elsa is hesitant for a little but then takes Anna's hand and shakes it.

"Deal."

Now it's 10:30pm, Anna finished her late and poor dinner and they talked for a while. Anna starts to yawn and Elsa takes that as a clue for her to leave the younger woman sleep. She starts to stand up when Anna stops her.

"Wait.. are you going?"

"Yeah, you need some rest and I think it's time for me to go to sleep as well. After all my shift ended something like three hours ago and I think my cat is missing me."

"Oh, do you have a cat? What's its name? Do you have a picture?" now Anna doesn't seem tired at all. Elsa chuckles a little and brings out from the her coat pocket her mobile phone. She searches for a photo of her cat and as soon as she finds it she handles it to her.

"Here, there she is. Her name is Etta, she was given to me by a friend of my family, Marshall, her cat bred four kittens and he asked me if I wanted one. Now she's one and an half year old." Anna watches the picture on the screen of Elsa's phone. Etta is a nice white cat with some black blot, she seems healthy and loved. In the photo the cat is in Elsa's couch playing with a red cotton ball.

"Aw, she's so cute!" without thinking Elsa comes closer to Anna's face so that she could watch the photo too. They are a few inches apart, none of them seems to be bothered by the other proximity.

"Yes, she is. You should see her whenever I read my books. It doesn't matter if I'm on my couch, on my bed or the chair, she jumps in my belly or my legs and starts playing with the back of the book. Sometimes when I'm on the couch, she stays behind me on my shoulder and starts to play with the pages of the books.. You can't even imagine how many books she ruined! But I can't stop loving her."

Anna smiles at the story the blonde is telling, she can't help but think that her doctor is a softy and isn't a cold hearted woman. If she has to be honest with herself, she doesn't want others to see this side of the blonde.

Slowly she turns around but then she notices how close they are and she stops her movements. At the same time Elsa face her and they look at each other for what it looks like an eternity. Elsa is holding her breath while her eyes start to gaze every inch of Anna's face, her freckles, her turquoise eyes that look so alive regardless the tiredness, her little cute nose, her lips which are a bit parted. She wonders what would it feels like to touch those lips and that skin. 'What the hell I'm thinking!?'

Meanwhile Anna is doing the same, she looks her doctor's face. Her eyes are of an icy blue and she likes them, they are unique and beautiful. After she notices the blonde's gaze on her own lips instinctively her own eyes go down to Elsa's lips while she licks her lips thinking about how it would be to feel the blonde's lips on her own.

Elsa blinks her eyes when she realizes what kind of thoughts she just had and that Anna licked quickly her lips. She gets away too much quickly that she almost falls. The redhead looks worried at her.

"Oh God! Are you okay?" Elsa composes herself and stand straight up.

"Yes, everything.. okay. I.. I should go." Anna looks a bit sad about that but she knows that it's the best for the two of them, after all they still need to rest and it's getting late.

"Yeah, you're right.." Elsa takes her laptop and starts walking out the room when she stops and faces one more time her patient.

"One last thing, I promise you that we'll have another pizza night. I'd like you to taste my favorite pizza. Good night Anna."

"Good night Elsa, sweet dreams." Anna quickly realizes how she's just called her doctor and is about to say sorry and correct herself but Elsa speaks first.

"See you tomorrow, sleep well." The blonde doesn't seem to be bothered by the way the redhead called her.

Anna smiles at herself thinking about how their relationship is developing. Elsa wouldn't let her to call the doctor by her first name, but now it happened and she wasn't upset or offended. On the contrary it seemed that she was pleased by that. Whatever her doctor thinks about the use of her name, Anna thinks that she won't mind if she'll call her again 'Elsa', well, she knows that at the presence of someone else it's best if she don't call her like that, but when they're alone she could. Tomorrow she'll try again and see what will happen.

She closes her eyes and go to sleep.

Elsa comes out from her car and locks it before opens her front door's house. As soon as she enters in her home, she smiles to herself as she hears Etta calling her from the living room. She walks to her beloved cat and pats her little head. She checks if Etta ate and then she fills her water bowl. After that she debates to herself if eating something or not, but she's too tired for a late dinner and decides that tomorrow morning she'll have a bigger breakfast than usual.

Elsa walks in her bedroom and changes herself in her pajamas and goes to bed. She's too tired to think about the day she had, the only thing she wants now is to rest and have a good night of sleep. Not long enough Etta comes in and jumps on the bed, she reaches her owner and lays flat next to her. The blonde looks down at her cat with an eyes open and smiles.

"Night, dear Etta."

The next morning Elsa wake up feeling a light pressure on her belly. She groans Etta's name and right after that she stands up and walks to the kitchen to have the biggest breakfast in her entire life.

After eating and feeding her cat she goes to work determined to find out what happened the previous day. Maybe it's only fault of Anna's cardiac condition.

Once she arrives at the hospital she's greeted by Dr. Summers telling her that he hopes she's slept well and that he wants her to find out what caused his daughter's heart attack. She doesn't need him to tell her what to do, but she tries to not reply to him in a unprofessional way. Before going to Anna, she finds Kristoff in her office.

"Dr. Winters, good morning."

"Morning, what brings you here?" she asks him confused.

"I think I know what happened yesterday.." Elsa doesn't know if being worried, confused, alarmed or happy to hear about that sentence. She decides to sit down.

"Then tell me." He nods and take a deep breath.

"Yesterday I didn't go back home right after the end of my shift, I decided to stay in the hospital for a while, I noticed that you stayed too, you fell asleep in Anna's room, but I didn't want to wake you up. So I walked around for a while and I heard some nurses talking.." now Elsa doesn't know if he has information about what happened to Anna, that means the heart failure, or what happened between the two of them. She's a bit worried that he could know that Anna and she doesn't have a 'normal' doctor-patient relationship.

"There was a nurse who was worried that you would have been angry at him because he made a mistake with some papers."

'Shit. I don't like how this is going.' She stays quiet and waits for him to tell all the story.

"He misread two papers of two different patient, one it was Anna's and the other one was someone else. He didn't give Anna her usual medicine, he gave her another drug but he was too scared to talk about it, knowing your reputation.."

Elsa stands up, he is a bit worried about himself now.

"You should have called me as soon as you found out about it."

"I'm sorry.."

"Don't be, it's okay. You told me now so it's okay, but give me his name now. I need to talk with him and with Dr. Summers." He nods and tell her the name of the nurse.

"You know, I was worried that it was my fault she had that episode.." He looks at her confused.

"How could you think something like that? You didn't do anything wrong." She sighs to herself thinking about why she said that out loud, she knows she can't say anything about the pizza night

"When one of your patient who you thought was doing great suddenly has a heart failure, then you start to think that maybe you have missed something."

He nods at his boss understanding what she's talking about. He hasn't experienced a situation like that but he can imagine what it would be like to be in her shoes in that specific moment.

"Thanks Kristoff and please, do me a favor, go check on Anna.. check that that nurse isn't around her. I want her to be safe, okay?"

"Sure, don't worry." She nods at him and they exit together from her office, he goes to his cousin and she walks to her chief.

Once she is in front of Dr. Summers' office she knocks and waits for him to tell her to walk in. She's angry, she wants to go to that nurse and make him pay, but she can't do something like that. She needs to do the right thing, she doesn't want any more drama in her life. After some seconds Kai tells her to come in and she does.

"Dr. Winters, how can I help you?"

"I know what happened to your daughter." He nods to her and shows her to sit down in front of his desk. He takes a deep breath and asks her to tell him everything she knows. She says exactly what Kristoff said previously. Elsa is fully aware that both her and Kai are angry with this nurse.

"Thanks for the information, I'll take care of the situation, from now on, you go check on my daughter and tell Dr. Bijorman that I need to talk with him later after his rounds." She nods and walks out the office.

Elsa's reaching Kristoff and Anna, they're talking about what happened the previous day.

"What the hell!? That bastard!" she yells, it's not hard to hear the angry in her voice.

"What's happening?!" Elsa runs in the room, she couldn't hear what they were talking so she's worried.

"El- Doc! Morning, sorry I've just found out what happened yesterday.."

"Sorry, Dr. Winters, I asked her to not make a scene."

Elsa is more relaxed now. "That's okay, the chief wants to talk with you later."

"All right, then I'll leave you two alone." He smiles at the women and walks out after giving a little punch on Anna's shoulder and whispering something in her ear making her to blush.

Once he's out and far away from the room, Elsa comes closer to Anna and checks her IV, the redhead lets her to do for a while her job but soon enough she takes the blonde's hand.

"It's not your fault, you know? And don't worry, I didn't see that nurse since yesterday afternoon." She says quietly to her doctor, it's like the role are switched: it's Elsa the one who seems to be injured.
"Ehy, now we know that it wasn't my heart's fault, so I think we can eat that pizza soon, right Elsa?"

The blonde shakes her head in disbelief and squeeze Anna's hand.

"Not so fast, Anna. I still need to check you and make sure you're fine."

Author's Note: Ehy everyone, how are you? I hope you'll like this new chapter. The name of Elsa's cat 'Etta', for who watched Fringe is familiar, for who didn't watched the show I'll explain: Etta (for long Henrietta) was the name of a character of the show, it was played by Georgina Haig, for who watches Once Upon A Time should know who she is. Georgina Haig is palying our beloved Elsa in OUAT, so I decided to call the cat like that.

Thanks for the support and I wish you all to have a nice Sunday and have a nice day :)

Be well,

Christy