Connie sat in her and Zoe's still shared office, Zoe was in resus giving Connie a chance to do some paperwork, after all she was keeping a tight ship. Today was the day that she was going to put her plan into action. Zoe had walked into the ED that morning with a happy glow, a glow that sickened Connie. She was interrupted from her thoughts by the knocking on the door.

"Come in." Connie ordered, only to find that it was Max who wanted access to the office.

"Oh, erm... I was looking for Zoe." Max stuttered.

"Why?" Connie asked casually.

"She had a patient that she said needed moving up to a ward a while ago but I was just checking whether she was ready for me to take them now." Max replied coolly.

"Oh, why don't you sit down?" Connie began as Max did what she'd asked. She walked the short distance from her side of her desk to where he was sitting. "I've always found you very attractive you know, the way you act so cool and make everyone laugh. You're kind of cheeky, I like that in a man." She continued, trying her best to flirt with the porter in front of her, with whom she'd never even interact with if she had the choice.

"Erm, well I'm sure you'll find someone."

"I don't want someone, I want you." She said as she carefully positioned herself on Max's knee, making sure she could see between the slight gaps in the window so she could see when Zoe was approaching.

"Mrs. Beauchamp, I don't know what's wrong with you just now. Maybe you need to get one of them to give you a brain scan or something?" He rambled and then pointed at the direction of the door. "You usually look at me like something you've stepped in."

"That was the only way that I knew how to cover my feelings." Connie lied, with each passing second she was hating this situation but she reminded herself that the outcome would be worth it. From between the blinds she could see the blue of Zoe's dress approaching and then the tell tale sound of her heels as she walked. This was her moment, if she was going to do this then it was going to have to be done properly. She leant into Max and kissed him just as the door opened. Max was still for a moment, purely out of shock, until he came to his senses. He turned around and saw Zoe and it was then that he realized that Connie was still on the war path as far as Zoe was concerned, and that she didn't care what damage it did.

"I didn't realize that you were busy, I'll just get my bag and go." Zoe said calmly so that neither of them could see the pain that their actions had caused, her interior was a completely different story to her exterior.

Zoe had left just as swiftly as she had entered and as soon as Zoe had closed the door, Connie had jumped off Max's lap and had a drink of water, as if to wash away his lips from hers.

"What the hell are you playing at?" Max asked as he stood up and walked over to her.

"I don't know what you're talking about. Zoe looked pretty upset though." Connie told him as she cocked her head lightly.

"You really are a cow, you know that? We were a team in this ED before you arrived, we had a brilliant service and then you come in her and make her doubt herself. You know what though? She's worth at least 10 of you, if not more." Max told Connie before leaving and slamming the door behind him, and set out looking for Zoe to explain what happened. He prayed to God that she believed his version of events, the true version of events, but Connie had made Zoe doubt everything she did in a sly way and this wouldn't be any different.

A/N So it's going to be longer than two chapters it seems, I'm hoping it won't go on much longer because I have a few more ongoing Casualty fics and have another few planned that I'd like to move on to. Hope you're still enjoying this and thanks for following, favouriting and reviewing :)