I was woken this morning at 6am by my very excited housemate running round shouting that we had snow. This was written in response to the awesome weather that I woke up to today!

I don't own Silent Witness so please don't take offence!

"Nikki, guess what?" Harry asked bounding into the lab like an excited child at Christmas and walking over to where she sat at her desk working.

"What is it Harry?" Nikki asked, not even looking up from the work that she was doing.

"Well firstly I brought you coffee but for ignoring me and my momentous news I don't think you deserve it now", Harry said whilst still placing a Starbucks cup in front of her, "and secondly it's...snowing!" He finished almost jumping up and down with excitement.

Nikki's head shot up in surprise when he said this and for the first time she took in her friend's appearance. Harry had on his long coat and stripy scarf, which was to be expected as he had just been out to get coffee for them and being the middle of winter it was very cold outside but peppered in his hair and over his coat were little white flakes of rapidly melting snow. Nikki picked up the coffee that Harry had brought her and took a sip whilst she studied him. "Are you sure that you haven't just got really bad dandruff?" She asked eventually grinning at the look of annoyance that passed over Harry's face due to the fact that Nikki was not nearly as excited about this turn of events as he was.

To be honest Nikki had never really seen the fascination with snow. Growing up in South Africa she had never encountered it and when she did finally get her first taste of it soon after moving to England to live with her father after her mother's death she had been so determined to hate everything that was different that snow had become one of those things she disliked. She could just not see the British fascination with the white stuff, as soon as there was just the possibility of it occurring people would be out buying sledges and acting like the world was going to come to a standstill just because of a little snow. The only experiences Nikki really had of snow was of being cold, wet and miserable but seeing Harry now as excited about the stuff as a little boy would be, almost hopping from one foot to the other out of excitement, grinning like a maniac couldn't help but make Nikki warm to the stuff.

For Harry snow represented a time when everything was good in his life, it helped transport him to a time when he was very small before his father got sick when they would go out and have real father and son moments building snowmen and having snowball fights. From the slight frown that had passed over Nikki's face when he had told her about the snow Harry could tell that it held no fond memories for Nikki, something he was determined to put right. "Ha ha, very funny." He said in response to her earlier joke, "There must be at least five or six centimetres of snow already and it's still coming down; it must have been snowing all morning while we were doing those PM's. I can't believe that Leo didn't call to tell us when he left to go to that scene." He said perching on Nikki's desk and taking a swig of his own coffee.

"He probably didn't call us because he knew you'd act like a big kid and not get any work done." She said rolling her eyes at him to which he poked his tongue out at her in response, "I rest my case!" She said smugly causing Harry to groan.

"Come on Nik! Leo's scene was on the other side of the city so in this weather he'll be gone for the rest of the afternoon, we've done the PM's all that's left is the paperwork which I doubt Leo expects us to finish today anyway." He said giving her his best innocent schoolboy/doe-eyed puppy look to try and get her to come outside with him.

"Let me get this straight", she said in a mock serious voice, "are you asking me if I'll play hooky with you and go out in the snow Dr. Cunningham?"

Harry grinned, knowing that he had managed to win her over, "Why yes Dr. Alexander I do believe I am."

Nikki sighed, knowing that Harry was not going to take no for an answer, "Fine but if I get sick I'm holding you responsible." She said pointing her finger at him and draining the last of her coffee before getting up and putting on her coat, scarf and gloves. To his credit Harry sat patiently waiting for Nikki to get ready but when she was all kitted out in her warmest winter clothes he grabbed her hand and basically dragged her out of the lab much to the amusement of the other lab staff.

Hope you enjoyed, the rest is mostly written and should be up in the next day or so. Please review x