Content warning for the last part of the chapter

Thought I would rewrite this chapter completely, add some more in for Nikki. Poor woman.

Enjoy

xxx

Three hours later and both males had made their way into the lab, sitting outside their labs on the sofa, waiting for any reports from the people outside. Neither of them had tried to engage in conversation with the other, knowing that it wasn't needed or even wanted at that time. They had spent some time doing, or trying to do, some of their work, before they had wandered out to sit outside and wait. Harry had spent the forty minutes they had been sitting there, thinking about all the different scenarios in his head, his mind drifting back to all the cases he had worked over the years. He had tried to stop, it just made him want to throw up or punch something, thinking of Nikki in those situations, but his brain wouldn't.

Both men looked towards the stairs when they heard rapid footsteps and a young police officer appeared at the top of them, the pathologists quickly rising to their feet.

"Dr Cunningham Professor Dalton we've found something" the young man explained as he caught his breath "I'm Detective Gibson by the way. I don't know if you've heard about this case, but there has been a connection found with Doctor Alexander's disappearance that may be a lead. In the last few months women have been abducted in the same M.O as Doctor Alexander, they have all been blonde with brown eyes and in professions that require the woman to be highly intelligent, all abducted when they were either getting in their cars or their houses. I'm one of the officers on the case so when I came here I recognised it straight away, no-one has been taken recently that we know of. Not until now anyway"

Harry and Leo took a few seconds to think about it, letting the officer get his breath back from his long spiel.

"Have..have any of these women been found?" Harry enquired with a frown, his heart hammering in his chest, he didn't really want to know the answer anyway. This case hadn't reached their lab, but they had all heard of it, despite it not being common knowledge in the media.

"No" Detective Gibson shook his head and Harry licked his lips, turning away from the young man as the detective's phone rang "Sorry, I have to take this"

As the detective walked away Leo placed his hand on Harry's arm.

"Nikki is a very strong and stubborn woman Harry"

"I know, but against someone like this?" Harry murmured, his voice wavering slightly before he took a deep breath and shook his head "I'll kill that bastard" he whispered, clenching his fist at his side and he saw Leo shake his head.

"That isn't going to help Nikki"

"If Nikki is..if we don't find her in time" Harry told Leo calmly "I don't care what happens, I will find him and I will make him pay" he hissed, yanking his arm away from Leo and walking off down the corridor.

Leo watched him go, knowing that lack of sleep and worry were making Harry act like that. He swallowed heavily and reached into his pocket for his phone, knowing Janet would be awake and worried about Nikki.

Nikki tried to keep calm as she sat in the dark room, her back up against a wall and her eyes flicking around the small space where she was. She could feel herself being watched but she held her tongue, trying to keep her breathing even as she sat there, the smell of chloroform still up her nose. She had woken up not too long before, her hands and legs free from any ties, and she had crawled to the wall and sat there.

"So I bet you are wondering why you are here" came a voice from next to where Nikki was sitting. She jumped slightly and a chuckle sounded throughout the room as the lights came on and Nikki winced at the sudden rush of light into her eyes. "Well I'm not going to tell you just yet" the man said as he walked across the room and sat on the only chair in the room. He was about six foot tall, short brown hair and deep penetrating blue eyes that Nikki had to look away from, they seemed to bore into her soul. He didn't speak again and it gave Nikki a chance to look around the room, frowning when she saw that it was an ordinary bedroom, the curtains closed at the windows. The carpet was soft, a double bed was situated on the other side of the room, a chest of drawers next to it, a book case filled with books and paintings covered the blue walls as well. This however just scared Nikki even more, it was too normal.

"Not in the talking mood?" the man pouted almost childishly and Nikki looked back at him, seeing him stand up from his chair and walk over to crouch in front of Nikki, taking her chin in his hand and turning her head violently so she was looking him in the eyes, terror obvious in her own now. He grinned and leant forward, forcing his lips onto Nikki own, she tried to push him away but he grabbed her hands tightly in his own and dragged her from the floor onto her feet "Now, you be a good girl won't you?" he whispered to her and Nikki shuddered, her throat closing up as tears formed in her eyes "You'll be nice and quiet for me"

He then chuckled, the noise making Nikki's stomach crawl, pushing her over towards the bed.

"No" Nikki cried out and began to struggle in his grip "Get off me"

"Wow, you're a feisty little one aren't you?" he told her, pushing her onto the bed and then rolling her over, crawling onto the bed as well and pinning her down with one hand as he did so "I like that in a woman" he added as though they were talking over dinner, his free hand reaching for his belt, undoing it as Nikki shook her head, a sob tearing from her throat as she did so. She pushed away from him and jumped off the bed, running to the door and tugging at the handle, a cry falling from her as the door refused to budge. "Did you really think I would be that stupid?" the man asked her and she heard his trousers fall to the floor "Now be a good girl and come here"

"You bastard"

"Hmm, you talk dirty as well" he grinned and Nikki turned to look at him just as he grabbed her wrist and pulled her back over to the bed.

"You bastard let me go" she yelled at him, falling onto the bed and turning over to see him pushing down his boxers, stepping out of them and kneeling on the bed before pushing up the skirt she had on, a smile on his face.

"Now relax" he told her, placing his hand over her mouth as he slipped his hand up her thigh.

Nikki felt and heard herself sob as she closed her eyes and tried to block him out.