Hello again; basically this is gonna be a couple of chapters based on the awful events of 'Greater Love' if it's a bit jumpy I'm sorry it's the way my mind is working and functioning at the moment. Yeah please leave a review if you've read this even if you think its rubbish. After reading everyone else's amazing fanfics based on Leo's dramatic and truly devastating leaving scene this will probably be in the rubbish pile of writing

Disclaimer: I'm taking this opportunity to tell you that the characters names which are used in this fanfic do not belong to me in actual fact they belong to the BBC. If they belonged to me Harry and Nikki would of been together and Leo would never of had such a dramatic leaving episode

The aftermath

Hungary and Afghanistan two of the many places and bad experiences you wanted to put to the back of your mind and never pull out again, you wanted to lock them away like personal information stored about a member of the public in the Lyell Centre who was cruelly taken early by a mad man murderer.

You really could say you've had many 'life experiences' in the past few weeks, months and even years. You could even go as far as saying you've honestly had just about enough of them. First Harry's near death experience now Leo's fatal encounter with a suicide bomber. Both of your rocks and close family members have left you, left you all alone with no one. No one who knows you well enough to trust.

After that dreadful day in Afghanistan which just happened to be yesterday you couldn't help but wonder if Leo was truly happy, truly happy to accept the mission of going out to Afghanistan to solve a case. Had he really found love with an aid worker he had only just met? Was he actually prepared to make that one giant step and take her back to London? Back to his home? Back to reality? You truly didn't know what to think, you had thought he was ready but really how could he be? You remembered the accident of his wife and daughter like it was just yesterday he had told you. They were sat in a cafe one day after school drinking tea and eating cake just to have a car come ploughing through the window killing them almost instantly.

The suicide bomber had chosen his subject; he had also decided where he was going to detonate the bomb. The one thing he hadn't thought about (you don't think he even cared about this or wasn't even going to consider another body beside the subject) was Leo. Professor Leo Dalton the man who risked his own life on so many occasions to save other people's forgetting he had a life of his own which he also needed to protect.

The plane journey back to London was dreadful, probably worse than you would of liked. Having told Jack to catch the next plane he could home, you had wanted to spend the last precious seconds with Leo; your mentor and life coach talking to him about everything and anything and how you were going to miss him greatly. You were also asking how you were going to cope alone, with Jack. You had only known him for what felt like two seconds now it was gonna be you and him facing the world alone.

You were sat there on the plane, cargo carrier aircraft with what remained of Leo in the dull and dreary cardboard coffin. You couldn't even face looking at it so you spent the majority of the journey with your eyes closed only opening them to let the tears silently fall down your face. How could he have done this to you? Why had he just done this? Left you all alone, something he said he wouldn't do ever. You wanted him there, beside you, comforting you and being your sholder to cry on. You wanted the dream team back. Harry, Leo and yourself, the dream team would never happen again, not in a million years. While on the plane you kept thinking of the times YOU needed HIM and HE needed YOU taking the guess that this last time he needed to face the world alone, with no one's help making his own decisions. Even if you didn't want to think of it like that he was in a better place now with no worries and no regrets with the comfort of his wife and daughter by his side.

You wanted someone to hold, someone to comfort you on this long journey back. You wanted someone you couldn't have, someone who was the other side of the Pacific Ocean. Someone you just hadn't had to courage to pick up the phone and inform him of his old bosses' death. Shit, this was the first thing you needed to do when you arrived back in London, at your flat.

You kept thinking about the Lyell; how it's changed so much in the space of a couple of years even over the last couple of months. Changes of which you didn't want to witness happening. I guess that's just the way life goes, tearing whole families apart with natural disasters, illnesses and idiots who wanted to cause harm to other innocent people that just happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Arriving back in London on your own was something you really weren't looking forward too. The flight was an emotional one just you, the coffin and silence. What remained of Leo was taken off the plane before you were allowed to leave and stored in a mortuary until you had the time and energy to arrange the funeral.

There were a couple more things you needed to do which you had carefully considered on your list of things to do this consisted of; ringing Janet to tell her the news, clearing out his office and desk and calling Harry before he found out from newspaper articles in the paper or news programmes broadcasted on the TV.

Plucking up the courage to talk, email or even Skype Harry was the hardest thing to find inside you. You really wanted to tell him but since he had moved to New York your conversations had been few and far between. So without anymore hesitation you typed the number Leo had given you to contact Harry and pressed the call button..

There will probably only be two more chapters on here. One with Nikki telling Harry the news and the other one where his funeral takes place. Please could you tell me if the story is any good and if it isn't tell me what I could do to improve it? I would also like to ask if you have any ideas of how I could plan out the funeral chapter. Reviews will help me write quicker so please hit the review button below and write in the box

Megan xx