A/N: So this is an idea I had at the end of the episode which was amazing! I cannot wait until next week need more! I'm actually going to continue with this story because I'm really enjoying writing it.

A few weeks later…

This couldn't be happening Connie thought. How could this be happening? She was over 40 years old, divorced with her child living half way across the world and… she was pregnant.

"Noo no no no" she mumbled to herself placing the fifth positive pregnancy test in a row in her bag.

"Connie is that you? Are you ok?" called Zoe outside the cubicle.

"Yeah yeah I'm fine" Connie called back quickly. Flushing the toilet and leaving.

"Ok" Zoe was blatantly unconvinced but walked out anyway leaving Connie on her own.

Connie stared back at her reflection in the mirror and tried to blink back the tears that were threatening to overflow. She knew exactly who the father was. Who else could it be? But right now she'd rather the father be anyone other than who it was, including her ex-husband. She knew the only answer really was to get rid of it but with everything that had happened with Alfred she didn't think she could go through with it.

"Get a grip Connie" she told herself "Deal with it later, you can't do it now. Ok" she exhaled the trapped air in her lungs sharply and, picking her bag up, left the toilets and walked back to the EDs reception. Bumping right into the last person she wanted to see right now.

"Oh sorry" Charlie said "Are you ok, you look a little panicked?"

"What? Oh no I'm fine, it's just really busy in here today."

Charlie looked around the ED "It's no busier than normal. In fact…" he added looking over at the seats where only one man sat waiting "I'd say it's quite quiet in here today."

Brilliant Connie, brilliant excuse she thought.

"So do you want to tell me what's really going on. Has something happened with Grace? Is she ok?"

"Yeah Grace is fine. No it's not about her, I just got some news about something. It doesn't matter, it's nothing important." And with that she walked off leaving Charlie standing there a bit confused.

"If you say so" he said to himself.

"You're pregnant" Charlie stated, closing the office door behind him as he broke Connie from her reverie.

"What?" Connie exclaimed, startled

"Well it was just a guess but judging by you're facial expression I'm right."

"How did you know?"

"I've just had a call from a very worried Alex. God only knows he found my number but apparently you're not answering his calls and he wanted to find out what the garbled message was that you left him on his phone."

"Oh dammit" she remarked covering her face with her hands "I don't even know why I rang him. It was just spur of the moment, I felt like I should tell him but backed out at the last minute. So what did you tell him?"

Charlie stood there looking very uncomfortable "You told him didn't you?" Connie exclaimed "When he rang you, you had no right Charlie!"

"Well he does have a right to know"

"Spare me the ethics lesson."

"Well I haven't told him as such but he knows something's up"

"Wonderful"

"How long have you known?"

"This morning"

"Oh right" he said briefly, causing Connie to look at him to try and read his expression.

"What?" she asked when she gave up, which didn't take that long.

"Well it's just maybe all a bit sudden. Maybe if you talk it through with Alex…"

"I'm not having this baby Charlie. I've already ruined my daughter's life and it's not like I'd be any better with a second child-

"You haven't ruined her life-

"And Alex can hardly have them, can he? My child will be brought up on dirty money from illegal operations."

To be continued...