Hello! This is my first story for Silent Witness but I've read most of the ones on here and they are all fantastic so I thought that I would have a go at my own. This is kind of a collection of one shots but they will follow a time line in Harry and Nikki's lives.

Disclaimer: Nothing here belongs to me, anything you recognise belongs to the BBC.

Here is Chapter 1


'Nikki, do you have a problem?' you ask callously knowing full well what the issue is. She has just seen you flirting with the new lab technician; she's jealous. You know that it shouldn't, but you're happy that she's upset as it proves that she has feelings for you to. Perhaps your love isn't unrequited after all! However, you fail to start fantasising about the future until you've heard the words coming out of her mouth; there's no need to get your hopes up just for your world to come crashing down around you, if perhaps you can't read her as well as you think you can.

'You know full well what's wrong,' she spits back at you.

'Do I?' you're feigning ignorance desperate to know what she's really thinking, 'enlighten me.'

'You bastad,' she screams slamming her fist into the nearest locker. She looks right at you, right into your eyes and for the first time you worry that maybe this plan wasn't so great after all.

'You really can't work it out?' she asks slightly quieter this time. 'I'm sorry I'm not one of your 25 year old bimbos, I'm sorry I have a brain, I'm sorry that I don't go weak at the knees every time you smile at me. I'm sorry that I don't worship the ground you walk on but does that give you the right to shove that,' she says referring to the incident in the cutting room, 'in my face?'

She seems to have finished with her rant and you were right she is jealous. You know you have to be careful otherwise you risk losing her completely.

She makes to leave the cutting room, still in her scrubs and you think that she looks beautiful. She's almost at the door when you catch her wrist.

'I'm not,' you mumble just loud enough for her to hear. She turns to look at you.

'Sorry, what was that?' you can see hope in her eyes, hope for something that she believed to be long gone. You take a deep breath in and begin.

'I'm not sorry that you're not a 25 year old bimbo; how am I supposed to have a serious relationship with someone so much younger than me? I'm not sorry that you have a brain, I mean how else are you to come up with witty replies to my oh so funny jokes?' You see her raise an eyebrow but she makes no attempt to interrupt. 'I'm not sorry that you don't go weak at the knees when I smile at you, although I suspect that you do sometimes and that's also fine by me. And, as for worshipping the ground I walk on, well that gets a little over rated.' You stop for breath and glance at Nikki; she's waiting for you to answer her final question. 'I know you hate watching me flirt with other women because I can't stand you flirting with other men. What I'm trying to say is, I had to be sure you felt the same way as me so I didn't ruin our friendship.'

You look straight at Nikki and she has the biggest smile that you have ever seen plastered across her face. You realise that you never let go of her wrist so you pull her closer to you. Slowly you close the gap between you and place a gently kiss showing her how much she means to you, how much you love her. She is shocked at first but soon starts to return your kiss, when the need for oxygen becomes too much you pull away.

'I've wanted to do that for so long,' you confess and she laughs.

'I've wanted you to do that ever since we skipped the lecture on "Learning to Love the Liver" and ended up in the pub,' she pauses for breath, 'I understand that you were upset about Penny but I always assumed that you would come back to me eventually yet you never did.'

You nod agreeing with her, not quite understanding why Penny's death was so hard for you; you hadn't seen her for years. Pushing all thoughts of Penny aside, you remember that you have the most beautiful women in your arms, so you tell her so and it's obvious that she doesn't believe you.

'No one's ever told you that before have they?' you inquire and she shakes her head. 'Well you are so don't ever forget it.'

She smiles softly at you and you can't help but kiss her again. She thanks you and you tell her it's true so there's no need for her to thank you.

You realise that you've both been gone for over half an hour and Leo's going to come looking for you if you don't make an appearance soon. Nikki's realised to, so she pulls away starting to get changed. Before she is completely out of your arms you ask her out to dinner knowing full well that Leo's on call tonight, so whatever shape the night takes you won't be interrupted.

She tells you that it would be delightful and to pick her up at seven and you hear her mumble something about remembering to leave work at five so she has enough time to get ready. You chuckle to yourself as you don't know why it takes women so long to get ready, especially Nikki as she looks gorgeous in anything she wears, she could turn up in her pyjamas and she would be the most beautiful women in the restaurant.

You check your watch and it's only just gone two, you sigh to yourself as you have the feeling that the rest of the day won't go fast enough. You give in and change out of your scrubs before following Nikki out of the locker room and back to the lab knowing that with her around, concentrating is going to be an extremely hard task, yet you wouldn't wish to be any where else.


I was thinking of the next chapter being the dinner, then telling Leo, them getting married and so on. If you have any other ideas then please let me know and don't forget to review.

Call-me-Rose