After they ate she stood at the edge of the tower and looked out over the city beneath them, it was lit to perfection, the moonlight above giving a glow about Paris she'd never seen before, feeling a set of strong, well toned arms slide around her slender waist she smiled softly and curled into the frame she felt beside her, a person who's frame she'd been all to accustomed to jig-sawing with her own. She turned to look at him before she opened her mouth and spoke, she knew that a moment like this had to be timed to perfection, taking a deep breath she knew that this moment was the one she'd been waiting for, "Ric... what I said earlier... I did mean it. I know you probably only saw it as me looking to make up a sorry excuse but... I did mean it. Really I did, I do love you..."

Ric tried to hide his enthusiasm over this confession, he knew that that morning she meant it- he'd never seen her so worked up over anything like she was that morning. He'd never heard her voice laced with so much passion, he heard the tears as they built up and seeing her like that almost broke his heart hearing her light that but what broke his heart further is that the moment he went to open his mouth and tell her that, yes, he did love her too they were interrupted really rather rudely by Elliot, so needless to say when she said it on the tower he replied with no hesitation that he did love her too. "I know you do Connie, this morning... I'd never seen you like that. I believed every word, every single word you said. If you'd have shut up for just 5 seconds before Elliot came to the rescue you'd know that I love you to... have done for months..."

He was silenced before he could say anything further as her lips crushed against his. It was a passion that neither of the pair had found in another before; there was a hidden desperation in her depths that neither had ever seen. She looked into his eyes after sharing the most mind blowing kiss she'd had the pleasure to be part of, she gave a soft smile, there was a sparkle in her eye what was never there before, she felt as if an empty space in her inner self had been filled. She felt complete and by looking into his eyes she could tell this was real. She laughed softly, almost breathlessly "I love you Ric and I never, in a million years thought I'd find that again... yet I have, with quite possibly the most unexpected person... and quite honestly, I don't remember being as happy as I am tonight... and..."
"And what Connie?" he looked at her, still in a little bubble from the events only moments before, her words had sent him to a place he didn't think he'd find again. He still hadn't let her go from his arms; she was still in his embrace a place he wished she could always be as he waited for her to continue.
"I rang Jayne this afternoon... I erm... I stepped down for Director of Surgery. You and Jayne were right, I was just being greedy. I need to focus more time on Grace... she erm, she told me that the job is as good as yours. I'm leaving Paris tomorrow morning, going back to Holby..."
"If that's the case we better make this a night you don't forget in a hurry..." Grinning at each other they made their way back to their hotel and spent their last shared night in Paris making it unforgettable on both parts.

As well as falling in love that night in Paris started a whole new game, keeping a relationship fun. Connie knew that was a hard thing to do, she'd been in many relationships where after the 'I love you's' were said and done it became routine, predictable and most likely boring. She couldn't risk that happening with Ric, she doubted it would but she needed to find something what prevented that, what kept the relationship they were now in alive. This only made her realise that you can finish as many games as you like, but no matter what another would begin.