The Friday came very quickly for both Harry and Nikki, even those days when the female pathologist had dragged Harry shopping for their holiday items. Something Harry would never admit to anyone that he had enjoyed, mostly because it involved spending time with Nikki, and he had liked to think that everyone thought they were a couple.

"God Nikki what do you have in here?" Harry moaned as he dragged one of Nikki's suitcases out of her front door and to his car that was sitting outside.

"Clothes and shoes of course Harry" Nikki rolled her eyes at her male friend as he made a face and heaved the suitcase into the boot of his car.

"and why two cases?"

"Because I have a lot of clothes and shoes" Nikki replied like it was the most obvious thing in the world as she dragged her second suitcase to Harry's car.

"Women" Harry muttered and yelped slightly as Nikki wacked him on the back of the head "Don't abuse me"

"You asked for it" Nikki countered and poked her tongue out at him, making Harry poke her in the side. Nikki giggled and jumped away from his hands, both of them grinning at the other, before they turned away nervously, their hearts jumping in their chests. Nikki then walked back up her path and into her house to grab her handbag and flight bag before going back to Harry's car and throwing them on the passenger seat. "You ready for this twenty three hour flight?" Nikki teased her friend, she knew he would get restless and bored very easily.

"Of course" Harry responded as he closed the boot and locked it. Nikki just smirked as she once again returned to her house, checking everything one last time before locking her front door and walking back to Harry's car and climbing into the passenger seat, putting her bags on the floor in front of her. "Ready?"

Nikki nodded as she did her seatbelt up and Harry started the car, pulling out of the car park space and down the road.

"So we have a ten to eleven hour flight to Singapore" Harry confirmed with Nikki as they got to the end of her road.

"Yep" Nikki nodded as she glanced over their flight information that she had in her hands "Then another seven hours or so until Adelaide"

Harry groaned loudly and stole a quick glance at his blonde haired friend who was too busy reading about their trip to notice him looking at her. Three weeks on the other side of the world with this woman, Harry didn't know what he had done to deserve this but he wasn't going to complain.

"What's Leo going to do while we're away?" Nikki asked a few minutes later as the news came through the radio informing them both of a multiple car pileup in a residential area in London somewhere.

"They're lending two pathologists from the cold case squad" Harry replied as he checked the road and pulled out onto the motorway as Nikki chuckled.

"I bet Boyd is happy about that" she muttered while she folded their flight details up and replaced them in the envelope before putting them in her handbag and giving all her attention to Harry as he smirked.

"He's too busy with Dr Foley from what I've heard" Harry commented and Nikki gaped at him, how had she not heard this?

"What?" she asked incredulously and Harry threw a 'I know something you don't know' grin at her which infuriated Nikki even more "Where did you hear this?"

"I don't think you're old enough to hear such things Miss Alexander" Harry shook his head and Nikki reached over and slapped him on the arm.

"That's Dr Alexander thank you very much Cunningham. And where did you get that information from?"

"I can't reveal my sources" Harry smirked and Nikki huffed and crossed her arms over her chest before turning and looking out of the passenger window. There was a few minutes of silence in the car but by no means was it uncomfortable. Both pathologists fighting not to give in to the other first but it was another glance at Nikki while they were sitting at a red light that made Harry cave in.

"Okay it was Mumford"

"Mumford?" Nikki asked incredulously as she turned her head to look at her friend "As in Bob Mumford? The man you secretly love working with because it gives you someone to verbally spar with?"

"I verbally spar with you" Harry pointed out but Nikki just shrugged like it was obvious "Yes it was Mumford, he had been working with Spencer Jordan and he let it slip to Mumford who then let it slip to me"

"Grace and Boyd?" Nikki asked after a few seconds, she was quite friendly with Dr Grace Foley and the woman had never said anything to her about it. She laughed loudly when she heard this and Harry shot her a hurt look as he drove through the green light.

"You don't believe me?"

"No" Nikki giggled "Okay so there was some tension between them when we worked with them last year on that Robertson case and I couldn't understand how two people who work together all the time could not see what was right in front of them"

"Funny that" Harry nodded "I got the same vibes from Dr Lockhart and...Stella was it?"

"Yeah, Stella" Nikki replied, she had also kept in touch with those two as well "I just don't understand how they can't see that they are attracted to each other when they are around each other most of the time"

"Oblivious people" Harry shook his head and turned the corner to the road, which held the entrance to the airport.

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"How long now?" Harry whined to Nikki as they sat in the waiting room in the airport, their suitcases has been taken through a few hours beforehand and they had been sitting talking, the time had flown by. However when Nikki had taken out her magazine and started to read it Harry had gotten bored very quickly.

"I don't know Harry" Nikki replied with a sigh as she continued to read "Just like I didn't know the other four times you've asked me"

"But you know everything Nikki" Harry pouted and Nikki opened her mouth to reply when an elderly couple came and sat by them. She smiled politely at them and the older woman looked from Nikki to Harry and smiled back.

"I remember our honeymoon" she told them quietly and motioned to her husband. Harry and Nikki protested loudly and shook their heads, shocking the couple slightly.

"No it's not our honeymoon" Nikki told the woman who frowned "We're just friends"

"Oh I do apologise" the woman told them sheepishly "I mean you two look like a couple and I automatically assumed..."

"It's fine" Harry waved off the other woman's apology and glanced at Nikki who had a slight flush on her cheeks and refused to look at him. "Australia as well?"

"Yes dear" the elderly woman replied with a nod "We're going to see our new grandson, he was only born two weeks ago"

"Congratulations" Nikki smiled and Harry absentmindedly rested his arm over the back of Nikki's chair "What's his name?"

"Thank you. Bradley" the woman told them "I'm Emily and this is my husband Bernie"

"Hi" the elderly man greeted them with a friendly smile "Honeymoon is it?"

"Bernie we've just been over that" Emily sighed and shook her head exasperatedly at Harry and Nikki who chuckled. "No they are not on their honeymoon, they are just friends"

"Of course they are" Bernie laughed and winked at Nikki "Just like we were my love when I met your father the first time" Emily blushed slightly and rolled her eyes as her husband turned to the pathologists with a grin on his face "What her father didn't know is that we had eloped a few weeks before"

Nikki giggled loudly and Harry laughed, both of them trying very hard not to look at the other, knowing they would do something that they would regret and lose their friendship. Half an hour of pleasant chat passed between the four adults before their flight was called, and they all stood up.

"Come on you" Nikki told Harry as she gently shoved him towards the gate "and you better not be whining the entire ten hours to Singapore"

"Would I?" Harry gasped and placed his hand on his heart.

"Yes" Nikki responded and picked up her handbag, both of them missing the looks that Emily and Bernie gave each other.

I had to get Boyd/Grace and Eve/Stella in there from Waking the Dead :D Next is the plane flight..what could they get up to?...

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