This came to me during a really horrible chemistry lesson where I was about to throw something very hard or sharp at the teacher.
Disclaimer: Don't own. If I did this fanfiction would never happen while I owned Silent Witness.
"Nikki" Harry called from the door of the lab, the urgency in his voice made her look up "Leo's been stabbed"
It took a few seconds for Harry's words to sink in before Nikki jumped up and rushed out of the room after her college.
"What happened?" she asked as they both walked swiftly down to the car park.
"I don't know much" Harry replied "Apparently Leo was at the scene and the dead man's brother got under the tape and stabbed him"
Nikki frowned as she climbed into the passenger seat of Harry's car.
"But why stab Leo?"
Harry shrugged and pulled out of the car park and into the direction of the hospital.
"First person he came across?" he suggested
"How bad is it?" Nikki asked after a few minutes of silence.
"Bad was what I heard"
Nikki nodded and turned to look out of the window, tears filling her vision, wondering if she was how her male colleagues felt when she was injured at a scene.
"Nikki"
Harry's voice pulled her out of her thoughts. She turned to look at him.
"He'll be fine"
She nodded and gave him a small smile, reaching out to gently squeeze his hand as she did so.
"He better be otherwise I will do him so damage" Nikki mumbled and Harry chuckled.
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As they walked up to the reception Harry suddenly reached out and grasped Nikki's hand in his and squeezed it gently just as she had done to him.
"We're here for Professor Leo Dalton" Harry told the receptionist.
"Are you Dr's Nikki Alexander and Harry Cunningham?" a voice behind them caused them to turn. Both nodded and the man stepped forward and motioned for them to follow him. Harry and Nikki exchanged a look then did as they were asked.
"I'm Dr Roberts" the doctor introduced himself when they were seated in his office "You are both listed as Professor Daltons next of kin"
"We are?" Nikki asked and glanced at Harry who shrugged
"You are" the doctor nodded "As you are both doctors can I give it to you straight?"
Harry nodded hesitantly and Nikki clutched his hand tightly and he pulled her slightly closer to him.
"Professor Dalton suffered a massive haemorrhage on the operating table and" the doctor stopped and looked at the pale faces of the people in front of him "We were unable to revive him, I'm sorry"
There was a few seconds of silence then it was broken by Nikki who started to sob. Harry just sat glaring at the doctor in front of him then stood and knelt by Nikki and pulled her into his arms, rubbing her back trying to soothe her as she sobbed into his shirt. Keeping his own emotions in check he turned to Dr Roberts.
"I need to take her home"
Without another word he grasped a still crying Nikki and led her from the room leaving the doctor alone.
How depressing. Reading back over it made me nearly cry, I hope that this never happens. :(
xxx