This is a fanfic about zax based on Cheryl Cole's new song, crazy stupid love, there are 6 chapters, this is the second and for each verse there is a new chapter filled with zax, please R&R :)
(Song lyrics in bold)

But then you showed up
Like you have been there before
Was like you knew me
Had me with every word
You saw right through me
Melted me down to the core
I was done when you walked through that door

Zoe walked out of rhesus with light tear stains down her cheeks, she had just lost jess, the patient she saw a lot of herself in and had a connection to, the patient that she had risked her life for but yet couldn't save her.

Zoe ran her hand threw her hair hoping that nobody would say anything or notice that zoe was in one of her weakest moments, the one thing zoe didn't need right now was anyone pointing that out to her.

Zoe walked to reception running her fingers off the desk, and then she suddenly stopped as her eyes gazed apron the newspaper that had her face plastered over the front page.

Zoe sighed as she read the headline of the front page that went along with an enlarged picture of her

"Catastrophe at holby ED"

Zoe smiled when she put her hand in her pocket lifting out a full pack of cigarettes and a lighter, she headed outside and dried her eyes just as a procession just in case max happened to be out there, which he was.

"Didn't expect to see you out here" said max as he sensed that Zoe was drying her tears while looking a mirror, behind him

Zoe immediately snapped the mirror shut wondering how max knew what she was doing when she hadn't yet stepped out the ED entrance.

"Well this is my smoking spot" replied Zoe with just as much confidence as she would normally have

"I know you zoe" said max turning to look at Zoe

"I know that not only have you been crying but you are going to go home and cry again tonight" said max looking deep into Zoe's eyes

"What?" said Zoe lighting up a cigarette "don't be ridiculous"

"I'm not" said max "I'm telling the truth, you may act strong on the inside but you're not really, I am one of the few people that know the real you"

"Max seriously" said Zoe "I'm not in the mood"

Before Zoe could say anything else max had quickly pulled her into a hug.

Tears dripped from zoe's eyes, she couldn't understand how, max hadn't even been here a year and he was already reducing her to tears in his arms, something no one had managed to do in the long time they have known her, but in max's arms zoe felt save, to her it was her and max against the world.