Chapter 33

"Ehy no stop, stop! You can't come here, you know that!" Kristoff holds on the girl before she can enters in the room P005. In her eyes there's nothing else than rage and the blonde knows well that if she lets her go right in that instant, she will dash like a leopard on its prey, without giving it a chance.

"You need to calm down! You can't act like this, what the hell is going on with you!? You shouldn't even be here.." he distances her trying to avoid to gain any more unwanted attention.

"I can't take it any more! You're treating this.. thing! He doesn't deserve it, he doesn't deserve to have all this attention and waste money! He should rot in a microscopic prison cell, without food nor water, without any medical attention! Look.. I've had it up to my fucking eyeballs!"

"Anna.. I understand you're upset but.." the redhead sends him a glare that freezes his blood in his veins. "Okay okay.. tell me what happened..?"

"Nothing."

"It doesn't seem like nothing.."

"But it is, nothing happened. I haven't heard from her in a week.. I have no idea of how she is doing, I didn't even catch her in he hospital, I don't even know if she's working.." Anna is overwhelmed by emotions and she can't fight back her tears any more, if they're from sadness or anger is impossible to find out. "And it's all fault of that one in there!"

The cousin watches her for a few seconds as she tries to let off steam, to let fall all the tears she has, he keeps her close rubbing her back trying to comfort her.

"She's working, I don't see her much because she's always busy with her patients and I haven't had the chance to talk with her, so I wouldn't know. I only thing that working is good for her in this moment, she needs to keep her mind busy avoiding thinking about what happened. Try to be patience.." Kristoff doesn't know how to help her, he only knows that he'd prefer that things don't get worse and if the other surgeon decided to stay radio silence than there'll be a reason and maybe it's just the best choice for her for the moment.

During the week almost no one had contact with the blonde, as usual she arrives at work right at the clock in the morning, she checks in and starts her rounds, when lunch's hour comes she locks herself in her office, having brought her home-made lunch. She has chosen clearly the solitude road in order to deal with the situation and until she fulfills her working duties it is okay. To tell the truth nobody really seems to notice it, only a very few people has noticed that something is off with the blonde, but no one has done nothing yet, no one is doing something for her.

Anna can't stand staying in her little world by herself doing nothing any longer, she feels the need to do something.

It has been an hour since the cousins have exchanged those words and now in the Relax room, the redhead is thinking about what to do, in the meantime her cousin is in the OR helping a co-worker. She looks around remembering the week passed by, the previously days and that eventful evening. She's alone in an environment that doesn't belong to her, she doesn't work there, she doesn't have a valid and real reason to be there so often, yet she feels almost like she's at home because of the people there.

Next to her door there's the label saying which hospital's room is, P005. It doesn't have anything peculiar if not being in separated ward and having some guards watching over it. Casually in that exact moment they aren't there, so anybody could go unnoticed in the room.

Keeping always an eye in the hallway she opens slowly the door and as soon as she's in she closes it behind her. She gets near the bed where the patient lays, apparently sleepy, she watches closely that face, she doesn't know if it's because she's aware of the actions made by him, but it has something off, something sinister, charming yes, but it still is covered by a thin layer of darkness. "Must be the sideburns.. they aren't trustworthy." she thinks getting closer carefully. In her mind runs images of him carrying out violent actions on some women, she imagines how much he might have enjoyed those moments, how he might have felt powerful, invincible and able to submit at his will anyone he wanted. As soon as Elsa comes in her mind something in the redhead clicks. A rage she believes she has never felt before.

Hans had recently heart surgery, in the aftermath of another heart failure, labs' work is slow since in that week there was a viral epidemic case and they had to put an entire floor in quarantine in order to contain and to find out a cure as soon as possible. As a consequence all the other labs exams were moved to the background, as the one regarding the creation of the antidote of the poison used on him in prison.

Having had a surgery he has a surgical wound in the healing process, just as Anna notices it, after wearing some gloves on, she puts her hand on and starts making pressure on it, in the hope of hurting him. As always Hans is handcuffed on the bed because he's always very animated and inclined to be violent towards the nurses and Kristoff himself. Nobody like this arrogance of him, but since he's a patient they can't do much about it. Anna doesn't care, she doesn't care being there, doing whatever she plans to do, when she shouldn't. A small part of her tells her to be careful, to stop until she can, to leave, because she could face not so pleasant consequences. But that little voice goes completely unnoticed and overstepped by another, full of rage and hate for that unknown being.

"You do not deserve to be here." says the girl with gritted teeth and giving more pressure on the bandage over the injury.

"What the fuck..!?" Hans wakes up feeling a weight on his chest and a increasing pain. He notices right away the feminine figure, he doesn't recognise her, he doesn't think he's ever seen her before and she isn't wearing a white coat. "What the hell are you doing!? Who are you!? Leave me alone!"

"Shut up! You have no right to say anything! This is nothing compared to what who knows how many women had felt!" the redhead doesn't see reason, the other hand is ready to take position into a fist directed on the man's abdomen.

"Whore! What I'd do to you right now!" he screams struggling, he can't really move being cuffed, but he manages to distances himself from the hand on his chest. But this doesn't stop nor scares the girl, who smacks sonorously his face in a split of second. It stars getting redder showing the shape of fingers and a palm. "As soon as I'm free you're done, bitch!"

"You're just a bastard! They should have killed you in jail, not sending you here in hospital! You don't deserve to live." Noticing he starts moving his legs trying to knee her, she punches his junk which makes him scream in pain. She doesn't stop there, she keeps punching him, in his abdomen, his side. She wants him to pay. She feels an indescribable hate for a man who hasn't done anything to her in the first place. She doesn't realise that giving the position she's right in that moment she has her defence wide open and that gives Hans access to knee her a few times. Everything is messy, full of screams, of insults. Neither of them is aware that after some minutes the guards are back and are separating them. They're completely out of control and not managing to calm them down, the two police officers decide that this is the case to use the taser on both. They lose consciousness instantly.

"Damn it.. I can't believe she has done something like that! Stupid, stupid, nothing less than stupid!" Kristoff mutters to himself while is headed to his cousin. He was drinking a coffee with Mandy when his pager buzzed telling him to go to his patient. He arrived when everything was done and his cousin was unconscious in a guards arms. Once they told him what happened and giving them directions about bringing her in a room, he went to inform Kai. His uncle wasn't happy about it, that event complicates their relationship with the patient and his lawyer. The hospital may risk to have to deal with a charge and a possible compensation for the damages, unless they manage to find an easy way out before the lawyer is notified.

Kristoff is at the beginning of the hall and at its there's his cousin's room, and he sees a figure in the distance, he keeps walking towards it trying to figure out who is, but it goes away immediately, using the other exit and avoiding the young man.

The blonde enters the room and sits besides the bed waiting for the girl to wake up.

"Morning." he tells her not seeming very happy.

"Oh..ehy..!" Anna blushes immediately knowing she's in trouble, she' expecting a harsh scolding but nothing for now, her cousin observes her simply, without saying a word. "So..?"

"So what?"

"Aren't you going to tell me I shouldn't have done what I've done? That I was wrong, I haven't thought before acting and now problems could only get worse?"

"Mh.. it seems like you've already told everything." Replies. "I won't say you did good, you're smart enough to understand the consequences of your actions. I'll just say.. if I was in you position, I'd do the same. But this is not an encouragement!"

"I know.." the redhead looks over the edge of the bed. "I was just furious.. I couldn't be able to control myself. I am not sorry.. not for him at least."

"Anyway.. next time you'll end up in a fight, started by you or not, watch out for the guard, he hit you several time on you side. Luckily it's nothing, just a few bruises, nothing compared to him. His stitches broke and I had to patched him up again." Kristoff checks his pager that buzzes and sighs. "I have to go.. Prepare yourself for a nice chat with your father. He's pretty nervous today."

Alone in the room Anna takes the chance to relax a bit. The anger is still there, a bit less comparing before. Being able to take it out on someone helped her. Nevertheless she knows she had done a stupid thing and she'll be lucky if she doesn't go in court, probably her father is already taking care of everything.

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"Here he comes.. Let's get ready!" the redhead takes a deep breath and gives the ok to come in, certain it's her father.

"I know what happened, the all hospital is talking about it."

Anna doesn't believe in her eyes and in her ears. She's almost in tears, she can't even speak a single word.

"I don't know if it was stupid or brave what you've done. I didn't know you could be able to do something like that.." there's a moment of silence and then a question, with such a low tone that is difficult to hear. "Why..?"

The redhead tries to compose herself, she managed to hear what she asked and decides to answer her without going around it.

"I was blind from anger, I couldn't bare the situation any longer. Not hearing from you, knowing he's in the hospital just making problems. I had to do something.." she sighs for a moment before continuing. "I know that now I've only made things worse but.. I couldn't be able to stop myself and even if I was, I don't think I'd have stopped."

Elsa isn't sure about what to do or say. She wasn't even sure to go and see how she was and asking for some motivations. Earlier she was at her door and saw her sleeping, she was debating if come inside and wait for her to wake up, but than she saw Kristoff and she went away. Now there she is. After a week they finally talk to each other, they look at each other, they are in the same room. Yes, there is still a bit of tension between the two, Elsa is still hurt but not like before. Being full immersed in work in order to distract herself and get a grip on her life helped. She knows that maybe she hadn't handled everything so well, but it is also true that it's her first time being in a situation like that and she doesn't know how to deal with it. In these days she spent some evenings with Marshall, trying to figure things out. It was him to suggest her to work, she would have liked to take some days off, but her friend advised her to return working and not having contact with the redhead until she was ready to do so.

Now she's in front of her, with a minimal distance between them, a bit like at the beginning of their journey. She gets closer carefully, it's like she's afraid to say or do something wrong, she doesn't know what is waiting for her, she doesn't know what the other girl is thinking. For now, the only thought in her mind is how much she missed Anna and how much she's happy to see her, despite everything.

Author's Note: Hi everyone! Oh God.. I am terribly sorry! University is giving hell to me.. I'm so busy that I forgot.. I was so sure I had updated the story! I hope you'll forgive me with this new chapter... Again, I am so so so sorry!

Hopefully you'll like the chapter.. Thank you so much for your patience!

Take care everyone!

Christys