Warning: Mentions of rape, illegal abortions not to much of it though.

The next morning when Nikki woke she was conscious of the light already seeping through the curtains. She groaned slightly and pulled the duvet tighter around her reaching out for Harry at the same time. Her eyes flew open when her hand hit cold duvet and she sat up pushing her messy blonde hair away from her eyes as she looked around the room. Harry was no-where to be seen. Swallowing slightly she climbed out of bed and reached for her dressing gown, not bothering putting any clothes on, and tied it around her as she walked out of her bedroom. She caught the smell of coffee as she walked down the stairs and sighed in relief as she entered the kitchen and saw Harry standing in just his trousers waiting for the coffee machine to finish running through. He looked up when she walked in and gave her a smile which she returned shakily.

"Good morning" he grinned and Nikki all but launched herself at him and buried her face in his neck "What's wrong sweetheart?"

"I thought you had left me" Nikki whispered into his neck "When I woke up and you weren't there"

"I'm sorry" Harry told her quietly "I didn't realise"

"It's alright, it's just me being stupid" Nikki replied and gave Harry a kiss on the cheek "It's not your fault"

Harry then leant down and pressed a kiss onto Nikki's neck and then started to work his way down her neck causing her to moan loudly and run her hands up his bare chest and grip his shoulders tightly. Harry pushed Nikki's dressing gown away from her shoulder and pressed kisses onto the bare skin. He pushed the garment away even more then paused as he realised that Nikki wasn't wearing anything underneath it. His breathing became more erratic as he looked up at her and saw the smirk on her face. Harry made quick work of the belt that held the article of clothing closed and pushed the dressing gown off Nikki's shoulders and onto the floor.

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Leo looked up from some papers spread over his desk when he heard someone walk over to his office, he smiled when he saw it was Nikki and beckoned her over to the sofa.

"What can I do for you Nikki?"

"I want to tell you and Harry the rest of what happened" Nikki stated but Leo saw the nervousness in her eyes and the way she was wringing her hands, he glanced over her shoulder as Harry walked into the room and sat down next to Nikki, pressing a kiss onto her temple as he did so. Once again Leo stood up and sat on the chair in front of his desk rather than behind it.

"Can you tell us more about John Goldman?" Leo asked softly and Nikki just nodded and looked down at her lap as she bit her lip "Take your time, it's fine"

"He was already the Greggory's private doctor when I got there, he had been their friend when they were in school so of course they stuck together" Nikki started "He hated children, and teenagers actually, and he didn't seem to care what he did to us as long as he got results. Neither did the Greggory's. There was this one boy, when I was fifteen, he was six when he came in and had trouble adjusting. He was disruptive and used to play up a lot and the just...beat him constantly to try and make him behave"

"and this was Boris Greggory as well?" Leo asked slowly and Nikki nodded blinking away tears.

"He wasn't as bad as the other two" she whispered "He just used to stand and watch most of the time"

"You said yesterday that Goldman was a murderer" Harry told Nikki who nodded absentmindedly and stared blankly at the carpet "Did that have anything to do with the illegal abortions he wrote in his journal?"

Nikki didn't reply to this straight away but bit her lip and clenched her eyes shut before nodding slightly and taking a deep breath.

"He performed one on one of the girls in the home, she was only fourteen at the time" Nikki recalled and shook her head "It was horrible" she sobbed and cried into her hands as Leo and Harry exchanged worried looks before Harry turned to Nikki and started to comfort her "They called us sluts for getting pregnant" they heard Nikki say and then her head shot up as she realised her mistake "I..."

"You were...one of them?" Harry asked quietly and Nikki let out a strangled sob and nodded "Who was..."

"The father?" Nikki asked weakly and Harry nodded "Who do you think?"

"They raped you?" Leo asked quietly and even his eyes filled with tears as Nikki nodded and turned away from them in shame.

"Not all of us" Nikki added "Just the chosen few girls, because that's all we were really wasn't it? Girls" she asked bitterly "When I found out I was pregnant" she swallowed a lump in her throat after she said this and continued to talk "I wanted to keep it, it wasn't the baby's fault how it had been conceived but they forced me to have...." she closed her eyes again and turned her head away from Harry who leant down and pressed a kiss onto the top of her head "It was all my fault, if I had been strong enough to fight them off maybe..."

"Nikki don't you dare blame yourself" Harry told her "You were...?"

"Fourteen" Nikki whispered and both men let out sighs when they heard this

"You were fourteen and under their care. They abused you and that power they had over you and it does not make it your fault"

"I couldn't even protect my baby" Nikki sobbed loudly and Harry pulled her into him and allowed her to cry into his chest, her hands gripping his shirt as though her life depended on it. Leo stood up and walked quickly out of his office not wanting his friends to see how cut up he was about what had happened to Nikki, he had to be strong for the both of them.

Aww poor Nikki! Even I didn't know that was going to happen until I wrote it.

xxx