He listened to the click clack of her heels; with the door shut he could no longer see her. It didn't last long, so she must have taken a seat at the back. He smiled in her direction and clicked the remote onto his summary slide.

"We have four areas to cover this morning…." he continued.

It was as he was discussing the fire evacuation procedures and emergency- management plan, that he began to notice that the changing of the slides didn't quite coincide with his pressing of the remote control.

'Just what I need,' he thought, 'dodgy batteries' but then instead of a picture of a map of campus with the refuge points highlighted, a grainy black and white image appeared. He had to turn to look at the screen behind him, to see what it was. It looked like a CCTV still. His heart sank as he recognised the picture; himself, Leo and Nikki all stood outside the Lyell Centre. His coat around Nikki's shoulders, his arms around his coat and her head tucked into his chest.

Harry exhaled.

'If only it were dodgy batteries,' he wished and looked up to the AV box.

Leo smiled down at him, waving a small piece of plastic in his hand.

So it was Leo who had the real remote control and Leo who had obviously added an extra slide of his own, to Harry's presentation. One slide? Two? Leo had been really busy with that new phone recently. Harry's earlier suspicion of foreboding was quickly becoming a deep seated, gut wrenching feeling of dread. No wonder Zak had apologised in advance; he threw the remote control onto the reading stand. He looked back towards the students and saw the faces of the front row looking expectantly up at him.

"Ah, yes," he began again. "As you can see, this is a slide of one of the points of refuge just outside the Lyell Centre and although LSSE policy does dictate that in the event of an emergency you should leave your personal belongings and evacuate as quickly and safely as possible. If you do have your coat or keys to hand and don't need to go looking for them, then it is quite a good idea to take them outside with you."

There was a small titter in response to Harry's bluff over the slide and mercifully Leo moved it on to the real one with the map. Harry robotically reeled off the locations of the safe zones, but in his mind he was panicking, what else had Leo added. Is that why Leo had wanted them on Friday? Nikki had been utterly humiliated by her 'punishment,' is that what Leo had in store for him too, utter humiliation. But there was nothing he could do, he had to carry on.

The next few slides popped up as expected, but because Harry hadn't prepared in advance he hadn't set up his laptop on the reading stand to show him the pictures that his audience were seeing, so he had to surreptitiously look over his shoulder to see whether Leo had sprung any more surprises.

The second section was the various policies, inevitably in the drugs section where Harry had had a slide from the Drinkaware website Leo had replaced it with one of Harry pretending to drink from one of the Lab alcohol bottles. He'd remembered Leo staging that one when he first had his new phone so he was expecting that would appear somewhere. It drew a laugh from the students and so Harry just continued with his information. During the bullying section there was a photo of Harry pointing towards the door, the expression on his face murderous and Zak looking worried and confused.

"It's important to ask your lecturers questions," Harry blagged. "Here as you can see my assistant has asked me for the forty-eighth time that day the location of the exit door. Perhaps if you make your questions a little more prescient, your teachers will treat you with the full respect you deserve. On a serious note though, university staff that abuse their position are disciplined and it is your responsibility to bring it to the university's attention if you do feel that an employee's behaviour is unprofessional.

Harry was sweating now, the combination of the lights and the uncertainty of what was going to appear next on the screen was appalling. He looked towards the back corner where Nikki must be.

'I bet she's enjoying this,' he thought. Of all the people present she would be able to tell just exactly how powerless and humiliated he was.

He knew his next slide should be of the library. There was no way Leo would have changed that one and so he began confidently.

"Now, this old thing may not look like the most exciting thing on campus, but there is a lot of wisdom tied up in there, and I didn't want you to spend three years here and say you had never seen it…"

"S'not looking that bad from here," came a voice from the darkness.

Emboldened by the first heckler someone else called out, "Looks beautiful mate, and watch it she's not that old!"

Harry turned slowly to look at the picture on the screen; it wasn't as he suspected his picture of the library. It was a picture of Nikki, dressed in scrubs leaning against the drawers in the cutting room, minimal make up, hair tied back but breath taking all the same, her eyes sparkling, a generous smile on her face and the hint of mischief about her.

"Err no," began Harry. "That is not the library obviously, that is my colleague Dr Alexander. Those of you taking the anthropology module will in time benefit from her erm wisdom and …"

"Anthropology did you say?" called out a cheeky voice.

"I wasn't planning on taking it, but I might fancy it now," they continued. There was definite laughter now from the students in the room and a couple more "me too's."

Harry cringed, he didn't dare look towards Nikki's corner now. He was just grateful he'd not said anything about being IN the library as opposed to just seeing it. But he suspected her enjoyment of his misery had abruptly ended.

"Moving on," Harry declared his voice resolute praying that Leo would take pity on him and click over to the next slide. He was relieved when his picture of the library finally appeared.

'Well,' he thought to himself on the plus side, the students were actually listening to him. Nikki may well never speak to him again, and he certainly wasn't going to be on speaking terms with Leo any time soon, but he wouldn't have any 'student deaths by biro stabbing to investigate.'