I really like these characters and they should so be together, so much tension comes off them when watching Casualty! I had to have a go at writing them. This can stay as a one-shot but if I get enough people wanting me to continue I will.

I hope you enjoy reading and all grammar mistakes I apologise for I do not have a Beta.

Connie sighed as she shut the door and sat down in her office, the day had gone from reasonably okay to damn right terrible in seconds and that was down to the small blonde nurse who made it her job to keep pestering Connie.

Rita bloody Freeman, every day it seemed that she had another issue to address with Connie and Connie was about ready to snap at her, putting her head in her hands and feeling a headache coming she closed her eyes and tried to drown out the noise. Her door opened with force and she looked up, groaning it was Rita and she looked furious. There was no way Connie could deal with this right now, people would tend to forget that underneath the icy demeanour Connie portrayed that she was still in fact a person with feelings.

"Just what do you think you are doing!?" Connie said with venom,

"Me? What about you Ms Beauchamp, Lily fainted earlier and it's all down to you making them all work too much. She needs to go home and rest!" Rita shouted.

"I'm warning you Miss Freeman to leave my office now, I really am not in the mood and I have spoken to Lily and she has assured me that she is perfectly fine to carry on working. Not that I have to explain myself to you is that it? Are you finished?"

"No I'm not finished!"

Connie's eyes flashed with what Rita said, not giving Rita a chance to continue Connie started talking,

"Yes you are finished, you continue to pester me every day and I will not allow it. The only reason you are still here is because I haven't found an adequate reason to have you fired. You continue to walk around and act like you are good at your job but you are not! Do you hear me, if it wasn't for you and your husband I would still have Grace. You let that sick excuse of a man into this hospital!"

Rita took a step back as Connie's words spilled out like poison she stood still as the tears started to fall; did she really think that she had let her ex-husband into the hospital? And she blamed her for Grace not being in her life anymore. She took one last look at Connie's face and fled the room, Connie just started at the open door. She replayed what she had said and she mentally slapped herself, there really was no need to say that she blamed Rita for Grace leaving and the husband part it just came out she was too angry to think about what she was saying. Connie stood up and shut her door she paced for a few minutes and decided that even if it was unheard of she had to apologise to Rita.

Tracking down Rita was relatively easy, she made her way outside of the hospital and she saw Rita sitting on a bench wiping the tears away. She made her way over and sat down next to her, Rita looked up with a frown.

"What do you want? You think what you just said wasn't enough you've come to have another go." Rita said with emotion.

Connie felt ashamed of herself and she actually felt herself caring for Rita, she had to undo what she had said.

"Rita, listen to me I am sorry for what I just said. I was just angry I didn't mean any of it you are not to blame for me losing Grace there were many other reasons and you were not one of them, I really shouldn't have said it."

Rita looked into Connie's eyes and saw truth behind the words,

"What about telling me that I'm no good at my job?" Rita asked,

"Well we know you have had some issues but look at you Rita you're the Clinical Nurse Manager, you are good at your job. Everything I've said it's because well…I'm not exactly dealing with things in life properly at the moment I'm sure you can understand."

Rita nodded and was a bit surprised with Connie sharing some personal information but she recovered quickly,

"If you ever need anybody to talk to about what's going on in your life right now, I'm here like you said I have firsthand experience."

"Thank you Rita but I should be okay."

Rita didn't say anything she knew it was probably hard for Connie to open up to somebody or even ask for help she was just glad they were making a step in right direction of actually being civil towards one another or even better friends. Trying to get rid of the sad atmosphere around them Rita spoke,

"So what you just said about me being good at my job…can I have that in writing please?"

Connie looked at Rita and saw the mischievous glint in her eyes, she smirked and stood up offering a hand to Rita who accepted and stood with her.

"Careful Freeman I'm just beginning to like you." Connie smiled, let go of Rita's hand and walked back into the ED.

Rita just shook her head mentally and asked what on earth happened? She did smile with Connie's last statement and looked down at her hand which was still held out. Replaying Connie holding her hand she felt butterflies in her stomach and a tingling sensation…oh no she thought you cannot have a crush on Connie Beauchamp that is a big no no!

Walking back into the ED she tried to make sense of what she was feeling, maybe it was a hero worship crush kind of thing; maybe it was just because she was being nice. She went to the counter and look through some files; she looked up and caught herself looking straight into the eyes of Connie. Connie smiled warmly at Rita who dropped the files in her hand, she smiled at Connie who simply rolled her eyes in a playful manner and walked off. Rita bent down to pick up the papers and cursed herself, she knew it she had a crush on her!

The one and only Connie Beauchamp.