Harry leant his hands against the wall of the shower as the cold water ran over his body. He had finished the autopsy of the deceased male and had kindly let Nikki have the female body. In truth though he just needed to get out of the room and find a cold shower. He didn't know when it got like this, there had been one time that he could stand in a room with Nikki and not think about taking her there and then up against a wall or kissing her senseless, and a time where she could smile at him and it didn't make his stomach flutter. He didn't know what he was feeling because he had never felt it before and that was the scary part about it. He stepped out of the shower and wrapped a towel around his waist before sitting on the bench in the middle of the room with a loud sigh. He looked up when the door opened and expected it to be one of the cutting room techs or even Leo but his body reacted instantly when he saw Nikki poke her head around the door and give him one of her smiles.
"There you are" she said almost oblivious to the fact that the only thing covering Harry was a thin towel "You couldn't give me a hand could you?"
'Could you give me a hand?' a sarcastic part of Harry's mind asked and he nodded slightly to Nikki's question not daring to open his mouth and say something.
"Good" Nikki nodded and glanced down at his still wet chest before she retreated out of the shower room leaving Harry to wonder why Fate had it in for him at the moment.
The next day Harry knew Fate definitely had it in for him when Nikki walked into the lab wearing an almost knee length straight black skirt, calf length black boots and a tight figure hugging blouse, her blonde hair was straight and fell down her back.
'Bloody hell she's beautiful' was the first thing that flew through his mind when he cast his eyes over Nikki's form and the pen he had been tapping against the side of his desk slipped from his fingers and clattered to the floor. Nikki looked up at him and smiled as he leant down and picked the pen up trying to hide the fact that he had been staring at her since she had sauntered into the room. Straightening up slightly he yelped as he misjudged the distance and his head banged against the edge of his desk. This caused Nikki to giggle and Harry sat up as he rubbed the sore spot.
"Thanks" he told her sarcastically
"Aww I'm sorry would you like me to rub your head for you?" Nikki asked innocently as she logged onto her computer.
"What?" Harry squeaked out as he looked at her and saw that she didn't understand the connotations of what she had just asked him "No" he stuttered "No I'm fine"
Harry then saw movement in Leo's doorway and looked up to see the older man shaking his head at Harry, a grin on his face as he knew what Harry was thinking about. Harry gave him a withering look before he turned back to Nikki who was once again chewing absentmindedly on the end of her pen, he let out a quiet groan.
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"Nikki are you doing anything tonight?" Harry asked as he walked into the cutting room to see Nikki sitting at one of the side benches reading up on something "I thought we could continue what we were meant to do yesterday"
Nikki looked at him and nodded before giving him a smile.
"I'd like that" she replied and Harry nodded trying to think of something to say but was saved from certain embarrassment by Leo walking into the room. He heard the silence between his younger co-workers and looked from one to the other.
"Sorry was I interrupting?" he asked and Nikki frowned and shook her head while Harry just sighed and leant against the worktop next to Nikki to look down at the test results for their two recent victims.
"There's chloroform in both blood tests?" he asked quietly and Nikki nodded and swivelled her chair back round to the bench "How is that possible?"
"And the times of deaths are completely different" Nikki told Harry who raised an eyebrow
"How can they be different if the bullet went through him" he motioned to the table which held the male "and straight into her" he motioned to the other table.
"Because it didn't" Nikki replied "Jane Doe died at least five hours before John Doe"
"So how the hell did they get together?" Harry frowned and glanced at Nikki "Necrophilia?"
"No John Doe had already been in rigor when they were put together" Nikki explained "He wouldn't have been able to penetrate her if he wasn't"
Harry wondered how Nikki could be so sexy when she was talking like that and his eyes wandered down her body when she turned her back on him to pull back the sheet covering Jane Doe.
"There are abrasions" she motioned to the female's lower regions.
'It's not hers I'm interested in' said that same sarcastic voice from earlier and Harry flushed slightly at his own thoughts as Nikki continued
"They are constant with whoever put them together having failed quite a few times"
Harry then caught on to what she was saying and crossed his arms over his chest as he leant back against the worktop and smirked at Nikki.
"So you are saying that someone chloroformed them, Jane Doe first, shot them and rearranged them like we found them?"
"Yes" Nikki nodded and Harry scoffed at her "You don't think so?"
"No" Harry shook his head and Nikki placed her hands on her hips and looked menacingly at him 'Wow she's even more beautiful when she's angry'
"So what's your theory then?"
"Well Jane Doe gets shot by John Doe who likes a bit of necrophilia then someone, hubby, partner or whoever comes home and finds them. Bang, shoots John Doe in the head"
"Bull" Nikki shot at him "That is the biggest load of bollocks I have heard in a while"
"And yours is a load better" Harry told her sarcastically
"Well I don't...."
"Children will you shut up" Leo told them loudly as he walked over to them "Both your theories are valid now will you stop acting like five year olds or do I have to separate you?"
"No dad" Nikki mumbled as if she had been caught with her hand in the cookie jar and Harry shot her a triumphant look over Leo's shoulder but was caught by the older man.
"Harry?"
"Sorry" Harry replied and had to marvel at how Leo made them both feel like naughty children
"Good" Leo nodded before walking out of the cutting room leaving a stunned silence in his wake.
"I'm still right you know" Harry told Nikki after he had gone and she just shook her head and smirked at him.
"We'll see"
Naughty Harry and his thoughts. lol!
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