Here's the next chapter, hope you enjoy. Thanks for the reviews:)

This chapter is more Zoe and Connie based but Max will be back in the next one.

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Katie xx

As Zoe reached Connie's office she took a deep breath. What was so bad that she actually wanted Zoe back. Last time they'd spoken she couldn't wait to see the back of her.

She knocked the door.

"Come in." The voice from the other side called.

She pushed the handle down and the door swung open.

"Zoe, welcome back."

"Nice to be back."

"Glad to hear it."

Connie motioned for Zoe to take a seat. She sat and then continued talking.

"Okay, this may seem a little abrupt but why did you want me to come back so urgently. I just can't comprehend it. When I left you hated me and now it's like we are best friends."

"Well, umm, this place needs you. It's not been the same, your replacement was hideously crap, and everything had just gone down hill since."

"So that all the ED needs me."

"Precisely."

"Okay then."

Connie looked down, it was so much more. She didn't no if she was ready to unearth her hidden past yet. Things had just become to much she was being dragged back through memories she'd fort so hard to forget. She had a dilemma should she tell Zoe, as a problem shared is a problem halved. Or keep it to herself and let it eat her alive.

Zoe stood up ready to leave. She turned towards the door and then connie spoke.

"Zoe, can I talk to you, there's more to it but I've got to be able to trust that you'll tell no one."

"Connie of course, what's wrong."

"Well, I'm sure you've been informed about the latest inspection."

"Yes, Dylan filled me in."

"Well it just dug up some things that took me back to a time in my life I was at the lowest of the low." A tear slid down Connie's face. Zoe stood up and walked round to the other side of the desk. And gave her a hug.

"It's okay, I'm back now. Everything going to be okay."

"But is it, I've been put down so many times. Since I left home I've never looked back, and ever since I've always strived to be the best of the best. I've not needed improvement, but now I'm slipping back into the fog that surrounded me through my childhood it takes over. Nothing I ever did when I was younger was ever good enough. I could be top of the class and still is be a failure to my mother. I was just another thing in her line of poor choices I suppose. She always compared me to my peers and saw me as part of a group rather than a individual. When I left home and went to university, it was the first time in forever that I felt like I'd achieved something that I could be proud of. My mother never was, I was just a thing that happened, I wished that one day she'd see me for who I was but no and to this day it haunts. I can't deal with failure and needing improvement I spent years dealing with that."

By this time tears were flooding down her cheeks her words were hardly comprehendible. Zoe hugged her tighter.

"Look I'm here for you, your not alone, things are going to be looking up. Don't look back. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, now get back on your horse and get riding. The future is what you make it. You can't change the past but we learn from it and that helps us to shape the future. Just keep your head up and let's get this show on the road."

She dried her tears and stood up.

"Thank you Zoe. Ready."

"As ever."

The two women exited the office heads held high. They were going to make this ED the best it could be.

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