Here's another chapter of Discovering Hearts up for you! If you have any requests for me, either with this story or for Spike/Alexis, please let me know!

Disclaimer: I do not own or make any profit from Flashpoint or its characters. I own only Nikka and Lily.

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Nikka stepped inside the hospital, calling a greeting to the few people she saw. This being the ten p.m. to six a.m. shift, there weren't many visitors in the hallways. As she threw her purse into her cubby hole, her mind wandered back to Lou. The next time she had stopped in his room to check on him, things had seemed normal. They had talked about everything from the simple topics to fairly complicated debates. After he had been discharged, she tried to put him from her mind but his deep brown eyes always came to her mind whenever she wasn't busy.

Sighing, she turned around and saw one of her friends, Lily Razara. "Hey Lily. Just getting off shift?" she asked, taking in the female paramedic with bags under her eyes.

"Yup, a long ten hour." She replied, yawning.

"Not getting much sleep?"

"Nightmares again." Lily attempted to crack a smile. "Still trying to get over that patient."

Nikka nodded understandingly; there were those patients that were tragic and took a while to get over. "You need anything at all, just give me a call." Nikka called to her friend as she exited the hospital. Nikka stood and watched her friend until she got in her car, as several robberies had taken place nearby recently.

As her friend drove away, Nikka turned to walk deeper into the hospital. She picked up her clipboard from the front desk, and started on her rounds through the hospital's short-term ward—a ward full of people who were only in the hospital for a short time.

Nikka made her rounds, but her mind wasn't fully on the job. Lou's brown eyes were constantly lingering on the fringes of her mind. Around eleven, a voice interrupted her.

"Penny for your thoughts?" Lou asked, smiling as she turned to face him. Seeing her with that slight smile on her face made him remember how very pretty and interesting she was. He had enjoyed his conversations with her while he was in the hospital, as it allowed him to learn more about her while keeping from being bored.

Nikka smiled at Lou, who was leaning on the wall. "I think my thoughts are worth more than that. Having trouble with your shoulder?" Nikka asked, shifting her clipboard from in front of her to her side as she wondered about his reasons for coming back. It wouldn't be for her, would it?

Lou shook his head as he rolled his shoulder. "Nah, its fine. The doctor fixed it up right. I was actually here to ask you something."

"And what would that be?" Nikka asked, tilting her head to the side.

"Would you go out with me?" Lou asked, looking Nikka straight in the eye.

"It's against-" Nikka began her token protest before Lou cut her off by rolling his eyes.

"I'm not your patient anymore since I've been discharged, so there aren't any rules for asking you out." He told her, a slight smirk emerging on his face.

Nikka's face flushed slightly but she was smiling. She didn't really want to say no to Lou, who she found very interesting. Not to mention handsome. "True."

"So....will you go out with me?" Lou asked again, sure that she didn't have any way to get out of it.

"Sure." Nikka replied, a smile growing on her face.

"Glad to hear it. How about the festival going on downtown?" he asked, shifting from leaning against the wall to standing.

"Sounds good." Nikka replied, running her hand through her hair and letting a bit fall on her face.

"Alright then; meet me at the corner of Lawrence Avenue at six o'clock on Wednesday." He told her, stepping closer.

"I'll be waiting there for you." Nikka meet his brown eyes with her blue ones as he reached a hand up to brush back the bit of hair that had fallen on her face. Lou stepped back as Nikka fought down a blush appearing on her cheeks because of his touch.

"See you then, Nikka." Lou told her as he walked away with a smile on his face.

"See you then." She replied softly, heart thumping in her chest. She stood there for a moment before forcing herself to get back to work, though Lou's brown eyes continued to dance in her head.