A Silent Doctor, Who's a Witness

A/N. This is my first fanfic so please be gentle. Any reviews are greatly appreciated. A BIG thanks goes out to SiWfan and Blueeyesanddreaming. This may be the first fic of its kind so I hope it works well.

Updates will be once a week on a Wednesday or Friday. The speed of updates will depend on school work and the amount of studying needed as my exams are coming up. I'm not sure if all the chapters will be this length it just depends on my inspiration.

Well... ENJOY!!!

Disclaimer: I don't own Silent Witness, Doctor Who or Torchwood.

Silent Witness

Leo pulled into the car park to see Harry and Nikki walking into the labs. They had had a late night last night working into the wee hours on a case that seemed they would never solve. It didn't help that there were no witnesses. A murder weapon would also have helped. The press had got a hold of it and as a result it was on the front page of 24th of June's edition in the London local. Oh well! It was a new day and the sun was shining, maybe he could get Harry and Nikki to come a walk with him at their break. Anything to get them out of that lab! He could hear them arguing over something when he got out of the car.

"Oh God! What could it possibly be about now?! They had betting hurry up and get their act together before I lock them in a cupboard with only themselves for company!" Leo mumbled as he grabbed his brief case from the car. They could be real immature most of the time but he could see pure emotion when they were with each other. They wouldn't be able to deny their attraction for much longer.

"Well I better get in there before they break something. The sooner I'm in the sooner we're out!" Leo needed caffeine; he couldn't possibly get though the day without a coffee. Whose turn was it for the coffee run?

Harry and Nikki walked into the lab arguing over yet another one of Nikki's "unsuitable-men". Harry was secretly happy over the fact that Nikki was having trouble with her love life, if only he could pick up the courage to tell her how he felt.

"It always ends the same way Niks," Harry moaned "why can't you see what right in front of you?!" he said as they were walking through the doors.

Before Nikki could reply, she received a shock that made her forget about their conversation. What was going on? That was the second time that day.

Meanwhile Harry was standing looking sheepish hoping that Nikki hadn't heard what he had said, but secretly he wanted her to realise.

At this point Leo walked in, informing the two "babies" in his opinion, that there was a lot of work to do.

"Alright, listen up you two, we have DCI Mc Cluskey coming in here in an hour for an update on the Archers' case and I want all information to be relayed to her." Leo was on a roll and asked, "Nikki, can you start on the report? We need that ASAP. Now, Harry, I need you to do a very important job... go on the coffee run! It is vital that we get our caffeine. No Harry... don't argue... oh don't be so childish!"

"But... but" Harry spluttered "why is it always me? What am I? The office pack mule? It didn't say that in the job description. How about getting a lab tech to do it? Linda's not doing anything."

"Whaat, is ickle Harry feeling the pwessure?" Nikki cooed, "not to worry I don't think you're a mule, Harry, just more of an ass!" she walked out the doors hysterical, leaving a very irritated and annoyed Harry standing with Leo. He turned to Leo astounded,

"what did I do to deserve this?"

Just as Leo was about to reply to Harry with a witty remark when the lights flickered on and off. Both pathologists looked to the ceiling then at one another. An alarm started to go off but then suddenly cut out.

"well, isn't that just great," Harry mumbled, "has one of the bodies come back to haunt us or do we have a problematic poltergeist?"

"I would say you have a strange sense of humour but that would entail me actually admitting that you are funny." Leo replied.

The lights went off again, this time slightly longer than the last. Oh dear, this day was not going very well.

At this point, Harry stumbled off to get their caffeine hit. As he walked out of the doors, Nikki was preparing to do PM on an elderly man who had died that morning. He called out to her,

"Nikki, you remember the way I showed you hold a scalpel? Please try to keep your veins and arteries intact, I really don't want to have to do a report on you." With that he left before Nikki could attack him.

By the time lunch had rolled round, Harry was elbow deep in the chest cavity of a victim of a car accident. Nikki was currently assisting and running tests on the stomach contents. All in all, Leo was not going to escape the labs today before home time... if he actually got the chance to GO home. He was getting frustrated with the electrical problems and was on the verge of ranting to someone in management about it. He used this as a good opportunity to catch up with all his paperwork but he was awfully distracted, it was a glorious day and they were stuck inside. It was typical sod's law, when called to a crime scene it would be lashing it down but when they were trapped inside, it was the best weather England had seen in years!

He had just about had it when he was nearly finished a particularly long report and the computer turned itself off!

"Right! That's it! Somebody had better get me the number for management...NOW!" he was so loud that Harry and Nikki had come out to see if he had finally lost it. No doubt Harry would be making jokes at his expense.

He stalked off to yell at somebody about incompetence.

When Leo had disappeared into his office, Harry whispered to Nikki, "let's swipe the ethanol from the specimen jars and use it to..."

"Harry, whatever your thinking it's not going to happen" Nikki interrupted.

At this point in Leo's office, he was bright red and close to having a heart attack.

"What do you mean there's nothing wrong! Do you think we're all imaging it? I lost a full day's work because the failure caused the computer to have a fit and turn itself off. I want someone here within the hour or I'll have your job! What are you doing anyway? Watching re-runs of 60 minute makeover. It's your job to fix these things. So GET. ON. WITH. IT!!!"

With that he threw down the receiver. He stormed out of his office and encountered a new case. This would be no ordinary case as the reasons for death were suspicious. Oh God! Home time was not going to be anytime soon.

The victim was in his late 30's, was dress in a brown pinstriped suit with a long brown coat. He had a shock of brown hair and was deathly pale. "John Doe" was quite tall and very handsome. This would be a very interesting case, the cause of death was unknown but there were small markings along his forehead and just above his ears.

"It's mine" shouted Nikki.

Harry replied to this in his usual manner, "Nnnooo, you got the last one! It's mine! Tell her Leo!" harry continued his whining and Nikki kept on teasing him.

At this point Leo got fed up and decided to do the PM himself. He assigned them to paperwork and ignored their childish protests. "Bloody children, wouldn't know what to do with a scalpel if it hit them in the face" he mumbled.

The jesting had moved on to the topic of whose desk belonged to who when the lights flickered.

All three pathologists stopped, this was now ridiculous it was approaching home time and no one had done anything about the problem. It was a glorious summer's day when they came in to work. What was all the commotion?

Leo hurried to start the PM before anything else could happen. As he was putting on his scrubs, he heard a scream coming from somewhere in the building. Then he heard Nikki turn to Harry and say "Oh My God!" deciding that he wouldn't get anywhere with the autopsy, he went to see what all the fuss was about.

What he found shocked and confused him immensely. Questioning the obvious he asked, "Why's the rain going up?"

Suddenly the lights went out completely and the building shook violently. Harry may have lost consciousness at that point.

Please review and tell me if it is worth continuing. This will be a Silent Witness, Doctor Who, Torchwood fic.

Whovi10