"You know, since he called the police, you'd have thought he would have gone back into your good books" said Charlie.

"What do you take me as, he was performing illegal operations."

"You're one to talk."
"What are you talking about Charlie?"

"You actually expect me to be believe you didn't give Alfred those tablets, just because the police let you go free."

"Excuse me?" Connie said standing up

"Look all I'm saying is that Alex has a right to know what is going on. Look at how many times you've persuaded a patient to open up about something."

How dare you? First you come in here accusing me of killing Alfred when you know full well I didn't and now you're comparing me to some underage pregnant teenager."

"I never said that"

"You didn't have to."

Charlie sighed "Do you know what? Fine, do it your way" he said turning round and storming out of the office.

Perfect, just perfect. The one person Connie thought she could trust in this place had already abandoned her. Or she'd pushed him away. One way or the other, she knew he was right and it was only a matter of time before she submitted and called Alex but she just couldn't bring herself to see why. As much as she tried to take an objective view, she just couldn't act like she would if she was treating a patient.

Connie picked up her phone and toyed with it in her hand. She'd nearly deleted his number when she was on the plane but something had stopped her. At the time she put it down to keeping contacts for Louis' sake but now all she could think of was that it looked like fate. She scoffed at the thought, putting the phone back down on the desk and leaving the office. Now was not the time; if she was going to ring him, she'd ring him later.

The rest of the day went remarkably well and yet Connie was constantly on tenterhooks waiting for something to go wrong. She had, admittedly, avoided Charlie as best as she could, and Zoe as well in case she started to expect anything after what she had heard in the toilets this morning. The more time that passed, the more on edge Connie got however still nothing went wrong. So at the end of the shift Connie had started to let her guard down, which was a very big mistake. She had just walked out of rhesus when she saw him standing at the desk patiently waiting for Louise to come off of the phone. Great, she couldn't avoid him now even if she wanted to.

So, with the attitude that she might as well get this dreaded meeting over with, she approached Alex.

"Hello, what are you doing here?" she asked hoping he wouldn't answer as she expected him to. Why else would he be here though?

"Charlie called me" Of course he did, she thought "He said you were in trouble. I caught the first flight I could. What happened?"

"Why?"

"Why what?"

"Why did you catch the first plane you could? What are you doing here?"

"Connie you know I care about you" he reached for her hand but she flinched and pulled back "Are you in trouble?"

"No I'm fine" she answered shortly "Charlie shouldn't have called you. He had no right."

Louise was obviously no paying attention to the phone call she was in because she was watching Connie and Alex very carefully. Her eyes flickering to and fro between them like she was watching a tennis game.

Connie noticed this and pulled Alex away "Let's talk in my office".

However they didn't quite make it as Alex saw Charlie stood at the nurse's station. "Charlie how are you?" he called walking over to him "I'm confused, Connie tells me there is nothing wrong."

"Does she now?" Charlie said watching Connie glare at him out of the corner of his eye but pretending not to notice. "Well maybe we should go and have a catch up over at the pub across the road."

"Actually Charlie, I was just going o have a talk with Connie but perhaps you'd like to join us seeing as you were the one who called me."

"No no it's alright, I think this is a conversation you should have without me there" he said.

"Oh that's strange Charlie" Connie spoke up "I'd have thought you'd have wanted to be involved because you were the one who called Alex and seemed to be under the impression there was a problem."

"You know I was only trying to help, you got yourself into this mess."

"I'm not in a mess thank you very much. And I'd thank you to not voice my private affairs to the whole department."

Charlie tried not to laugh as he looked round and saw that everybody was watching. "I'll see you later" he said picking up an armful of paperwork and leaving the ED.

"What was that about?" asked Zoe

"None of your business" was the reply she got from Connie. She was so angry with Charlie she couldn't even begin to justify what he'd done. Calling Alex and then practically telling everybody about it. Deep down she knew Charlie was right but she was so overruled with anger that it was blinding her.

"Come on" she said to Alex heading towards her office.

"Who was that?" asked Zoe when she thought Connie was out of ear shot.

"That's none of your business either" Connie shouted back, getting even more annoyed by the second.

"Connie what is going on?" Alex asked as soon as the office door was shut behind them.

"Well" Connie sitting down and resting her chin on her hands. "You see the thing is… Well first of all Charlie really shouldn't have called you and I don't need anybody to do anything for me."

"Yeah I'm starting to get that."

"Good."

"I'm sorry I didn't mean to-

"I know I know I'm just tired. I'm sorry."

"Ok…"

"And I know this won't change a thing obviously and it means nothing and-

"Stop beating around the bush Connie. What are you talking about?"

She looked away, to the wall on the other side of the office "it's just" her voice broke as she spoke.

"Hey look at me" he said kneeling down next to her and cupping her face in his hand "What's going on?"

She bit her lip and looked directly into his eyes "I'm pregnant."

A/N: Already got the next chapter planned out. Hope you like it so far :)