Anna had been running since the emergency page from one of the nurses of ICU, had gone off.
She had been part of her sister's special medical team and so far Emma Swan was proving to be a tough case for them.
She was reacting badly to some pain medicine and not to others, her levels were dropping and raising in others.
Anna feared internal bleeding and she had to operate on her for the first time.
It felt completely hopeless in light of how the accident caused endless problems, such as where the bleeding was coming from and the fact that somehow Emma would be opening her eyes even through the strongest of the medicines that would be knocking her out.
Her sister Elsa would be calling this actress a "puzzle".One that needed to be solve at any cost and yet Anna had another name for it...
A nightmare and one that felt like the Tokyo case all over again.
She wanted to block that case from her mind but couldn't it and this wasn't any easier..
Then again if she wanted easy, she would have taken the plastic surgery courses that her rich friends would love for her to take. But her sister never made it easy anyways but Anna wouldn't have it any other way.
"VP IS DROPPING..."
"WHERE IS THAT OXYGEN UNIT..."
"COME ON EMMA, FIGHT THIS!..."
Anna screamed out as she saw a heartbeat on the monitor "She's out of it, Jen give me a update on her condition within the hour.."
Suddenly Anna noticed someone kneeing and crying loudly enough in the corner of Emma's room, the redhead slowly walked toward the pure yellow haired woman in blue and white long coat. Her hands covered in blood because Emma's nose had bleeding that day.
"Lacey.." she said softly holding her hand toward the intern "...come on, its okay, she is okay."
Not knowing what to do anymore, Lacey grabbed Anna's hands. She couldn't make this doctor understand as what she was going on with her..
"I...i am so sorry but..."
"No need for that, Lace. I understand what your're going through, i just want you talk about it.
Half of the time, your're this amazing attending who has this brilliant mind quite on level with my sister's but then there this other half!. And it's the one that really scared about blood and open wounds, a friend of mine mentioned you were "growling" at her for some weird reason.
It almost seems like your two different people within the same person.."
Lacey wasn't looking at her, she was watching Emma being taken of by the lone nurse now.
Everything she had started for herself in terms of a career was now a roller coaster of not knowing what she wanted anymore. Her relationship with Ruby was the one solid thing in her life that made sense. Compared to the insane unusual mood swings that hit her unexceptionally, her family can't understand them and she as hell couldn't ether. Doctor Anna was right when in come to knowing how people including the interns felt and Lacey French was a hard one to figure out even to herself.
With Emma though, it brought out weird feelings
They had met in Storybrooke with the filming of HER HANDSOME HERO with Lacey serving as a co-prouder and Emma Swan in the role of the Queen of the Red Forest AKA the Big Bad Wolf, complete with Emma braving the long makeup process of going from hollywood beauty to being the Beast. During the shooting schedule, the two of them really get to know each other quite well.
It seemed like Lacey could tell Emma anything but now...
"Lace!, come on snap out of it"
Anna suddenly interpreted the one train of thought or guilt Lacey had put herself under, the two of them seemed to be rather silent.
She had been wanting this for so long of having a medical career but she felt like she was ruining it. But then there was now a hopeful look on Anna's face and she don't seem to notice Lacey at all...
As she spoke though "Lacey am going to do something i had never been able to do before now.."
Lacey suddenly give her a curious look "What are you thinking about Doctor Arendelle?..."
"YOU ASSIGNED HER TO BE THE PATIENT'S NEW DOCTOR!"
Elsa yelled out to her sister in the middle of a rather crustal gastric bypass operation in front of a theater of attending staff. Anna was laughing and enjoying this that she do something behind Elsa's back...
"I was telling her...it could be a teachable moment!"
"YEAH ONE THAT WILL END IN A LAWSUIT IF SHE'S NOT CAREFUL..."
"Elsa, can't you find it in your heart of just giving her and her team a chance?..."
"SHE HAS A TEAM!?"
"Yes...Davis, Toombs, Huntington, Artie and...me..."
Elsa wasn't impressed "Oh dear god, did this seem like a good idea to do you at the time or are you truly trying to fire me!?"
Anna was busy at the moment although the surgeons around them were rather interested when it come the infamous outburst of at least one of the Arendelle sisters. She now was rather causal when she talked again...
"Ummmmm, there was this one "little" tiny detail that Doctor French wanted to give me..."
"WHAT DETAIL!?"
"Basically she wanted you to apart of her team handling Emma Swan and if any help her out of a little pointers"
NOW she was being cute here with the way she talked and this case in general, Elsa was beside herself with sparkly eyes her sister give her...usually to talk her into something she would later regret. Ohhhh she hated this but...
"YES!,what the hell if she fails...I FAIL TOO!"
Agrabah...Later that night
Snow White had undressed in one of the ruined rooms of the old building. The steam was being coming up more now then when she entered. She felt like wanted to throw away the dirt robe that she had worn since leaving the ship.
She looked at herself in the mirror, giving a troubled look since the former Lady Locksley told her she would ransom the princess to the dragon and win back the city to the people. She basically blow off that idea as "stupid" and that she should find another way to outsmart Prince Koura.
Now she was thinking she should allow herself to be ransomed anyway now...
There was something about Locksley that troubled and angered her to no end. This female solder had lost her eye and been left abandoned to live as a "animal" to whims of the dark city of Agrabah, Snow was raised to be believe there was such things as "hope" after that horrible war ended...
Queen Regina wasn't just her stepmother, she was a symbol for the changing times that were coming through the Enchanted Forest.
She was someone that needed to be impressed and Snow would do just that after she get rid of Koura
Locksley represented the other half that didn't really care about what Snow could think of her...
Then there was the always tough as nails Princess Ruby, it was hard to believe this girl caught the eye of her friend the Ogre Prince. She couldn't decide what made her tick and basically she didn't want to know. Ruby was simply a last resort since the necklace could only burn men and not women, Koura was twisted enough in what he wanted from Snow White.
He wanted her completely, body and soul, everything that was freely hers should be gone. The male "hero" would die once even get within a inch of her and she would come "crawling" right into Koura's arms.
She hated that she was basically "forcing" this hot headed princess into something as stupid as a treasure hunt to something like Ali Baba's trove.
No men ever returned when looking for that treasure.
They braved the pirates, the loyal solders of Koura and the dragon himself, with the same outcome of death...
Yet no one thought to take a butch of foolish girls along to do the same thing!
Now completely naked, she entered the main bath house. Closing her eyes, she fearlessly drive off of high board and into the deepest part of the warm pool...
Swimming fast to the surface, she suddenly heard loud clapping from the other side of the pool, she know who it was though..
"RUBY!?" she said surprisingly as the tall young girl smiled as she had her back against the wall. "Good form princess...VERY good form" she was now sounding lightly sexy toward the naked princess...
"Am NOT wearing anything!" she was embarrassed to even say that as she swim away from Ruby's outline..
"Well, am not ether sweetheart...don't worry i seen it all before. Your're really shouldn't hide it though..."
She had walked out of the steam, her tall body's sweat seemed distracting to Snow. She needed to get her mind out of the gutter when it come to look at Ruby. Everything about her since leaving the castle was upsetting and it would add trouble enough if she would be "asking" for Ruby's hand, not the Ogre Prince...
"Your're...terrible you know that?", Ruby was laughing gleefully as if that wasn't a insult as she answered
"Am not trying to be terrible, Princess...
Your're just like EVERYONE else, basically someone to step on rather then help..."
Snow nodded her head "Your're crazy, am not trying to step on anybody least of all YOU!.."
There was something...off about the way she looked at Snow sometimes. "Why does everyone think they know me?.."
Her naked form now sitting near the edge of the water, she was very serious in her look now. As Snow swim near her...
"All i know of you is that a wolf nearly eat you when you were 10 and that a strong woodsman come to your rescue!..."
Suddenly Ruby was shaking but it seemed to be of anger "IT DID EAT ME AND IT TALKED!"
That was a detail Snow never heard before "Wolves CAN'T talk Ruby, they are just animals.."
"THEY AREN'T ANIMALS.." Ruby yelled out and it seemed like Snow hit quite a nerve as she continued "...THEY ARE BEASTS, MONSTERS THAT NEED TO BE WIPED OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH!, IT included and that thing couldn't die!.."
Now Snow was the one that curious "Your're suggesting that what you saw in that royal cabin wasn't a regular wolf but something else?"
Ruby was looking at her as if she didn't believe her "I hunted every animal since that awful day and i could tell you it isn't a wolf...
I couldn't just go back to the way things were because of what that thing did to me.."
"Does It have a name?"
She let her head down toward Snow, a serious look on her face as she said blankly...
"The Big Bad Wolf...i felt like its was apart of me. But that is crazy itself when you have this, princess..."
She showed her arm, reveling a long deep bite mark. Snow hadn't seen anything like that coming from any "normal" animal including a wolf. This seemed like it was more personal like it wanted her to bleed. By how deep it get into the flesh, she was amazed Ruby at such a young age would survive something like that. Maybe it explained some of her more vain behavior but not all of it.
She had touched the mark and heard a deep groin come from her.
"I am so sorry for you.." she said sadly but then noticed Ruby was giving a odd look as if she was a different person all of the sudden
She begin laughing for some reason and then calmly looked right a her "I don't need your pity, i found that be a sign of weakness. I hate weakness and not being able to do anything about stopping that monster. But then i was told that they couldn't find it, and that creature was as tall as a mountain..."
"You want to kill it?"
"Shouldn't i have some level of payback against the Big Bad Wolf?, your're like ALL the others, i kept hiring the brightest and the best hunters in all the lands and they still couldn't find it, and then i heard the reports of a werewolf being sight.
I get hopeful that the Big Bad Wolf had finally shown itself again but no it was something else...a white furred werewolf, not the big black one from my childhood.."
Snow suddenly realized something "You saved the Ogre Prince quite by accident, all you wanted that night was blood.."
Ruby smirked at Snow's statement "I still shot an arrow into that werewolf's leg though and i didn't finished it off because the Ogre twisted his ankle. I couldn't just leave him there but that werewolf escaped. I think it died though given the wound it had..."
"You doubt that though don't you?"
Ruby now slide seductively into the pool still eyeing Snow White, she shake her "no"
"Basically that wolf is dead and gone but the creature who has haunted my childhood still remains!..."
Snow don't quite understand all of what made this princess such a jackass one moment and then be someone different the next,
it felt like she was a show off but to who?
Ruby swim toward her never paying attention to what her body seemed to doing for Snow, being a inch taller then the princess also abit unfair.
"See something you like princess?" she said slowly and quietly
"...no" Snow said but she was lying and she don't understand why. She was raised to be honest in all her feelings since her mother dead and yet these were different, she hated it though because she don't understand it.
Now Ruby was right in her face, there bodies closer then ever
"AHAH are you afraid of me?.." Ruby now said out right as her hands wrapped around Snow's bare shoulders
She don't understand the question
"Why...how would i be afraid of you...Princess Ruby?"
"Please call me Red, there is no more need for titles around here and ALL i want is fun..."
Ruby seemed again to be a different person,it was confusing and yet all the more exciting at the same time. Snow felt like this was a brand new aspect for her to discover maybe it was harmless like a joke as she choice her words carefully...
"Well then RED, I want nothing more then to have fun...
At first i thought of you as someone with a frozen heart but now...i don't know. You give me feelings and for all my reasoning i should be scared of you but am not.."
Now Ruby was laughing loudly at her, since don't still understand her though she begin to laugh as well
"Am not the one with a frozen heart, see its EVERYONE else in this fucked up world. The Ogres, the Dragons, the Kings and Queens...
And finally the Princesses, THEY are the ones who supposed to be noble and kind...basically am not ether" she said quite seriously but Snow White wasn't listening
"...Just shut up already and kiss me!"
Snow jumped right into Ruby's embrace, her lips against her, it was a brand new feeling for both of them...
Unseen by both though, a figure moved swiftly through the old rafters of the steaming bath house. Its eyes glowed bright yellow, it growled silently as the girls continued there romantic embrace. Its long yellowed claws shined in the darkness of the building
As it spoke, its voice was rough and full of anger as just watched Princess Ruby...
"Am AFRAID of you, young beautiful Red...Riding...Hood,
you will DIE by my hands
and not even your're White bride will ever STOP ME from ripping out your're pretty little throat!"
NEXT CHAPTER: Under the Dragon King