"Having fun?" Nikki enquired of her lover the next day as she returned from a crime scene. Harry looked up from the paperwork he was aimlessly staring at and gave her a withering look, causing Nikki to giggle loudly as she walked over to him. She then wrapped her arms around his shoulders and pressed a kiss onto the top of his head. Harry pulled her gently onto his lap and wrapped his arm around her back, holding her securely against him.
"Yeah this paperwork is so interesting" he sighed dramatically "and motivating. You should try some and let me autopsy that body"
"I don't think so Harry" Nikki shook her head, picking up a spare piece of paper from next to Harry's paperwork and raising an eyebrow at it. "Doodling my love?"
"Better than this" Harry replied, motioning to his work with another sigh, smiling when he heard Nikki call him 'my love'. "Can I come and watch?"
"Thought you already did" Nikki whispered, smirking at Harry as he grinned and shrugged.
"Can I watch you do the autopsy?" he amended his question, trying to make it so that Nikki couldn't find anything to make into an innuendo. "Please?"
"No, you're meant to be on desk duty"
"Nikki" Harry whined "Please, I'm dying of boredom. I'll be the next one on the slab and you'll be autopsying me, and I can tell you now that I would have died of..." he was cut off by Nikki's lips on his own, too shocked to respond.
"Now he shuts up" Nikki giggled as he pulled away and Harry rolled his eyes, gently pushing her away from him and shaking his head.
"Fine, go. Enjoy the autopsy. I hope he's decomposed a lot since he was brought back from the crime scene"
"Aren't you lovely?" Nikki laughed as she stood up, stealing one last kiss from her lover before sauntering out of the room and towards the cutting room, well aware of Harry following her every move closely.
"Need any help?"
"Oh my God" Nikki sighed, shaking her head at Leo as Harry hobbled into the cutting room, his canary yellow scrubs hiding the bulky cast on his leg. "What did I tell you?"
"You tell me a lot of things sweetheart" Harry responded with a bright smile "please elaborate"
Nikki flicked a spare rubber glove at him as Leo chuckled, glancing up from the stomach he was looking at and shaking his head at the younger man's stubbornness.
"What can I do?"
"Sit there" Nikki told him, pointing to a stool that was sitting by the side bench.
"Nikki you're so mean" Harry pouted, but did as he was told, sitting down with a sigh and looking from his lover to Leo and then back again. "What did he die of?"
"Boredom" Nikki giggled, looking up and giving Harry one of her blinding smiles, and Harry was very glad that the scrubs were baggy. He just rolled his eyes and shook his head as Nikki went back to the body, examining the skin along the left arm.
"I think you're mocking me"
"Would I?" Nikki asked in mock shock.
"Yes" Harry and Leo answered at the same time, before laughing at the look on Nikki's face.
"Please let me help" Harry begged after a few more minutes of watching Nikki and Leo delve further into the deceased man and compare ideas. "I'm dying of boredom, that or a load of paperwork is going to fall on me and crush me"
"You're such a drama queen" Nikki giggled, not looking up from the clipboard she was writing on.
"How would you two like it if you were banned from autopsy for six weeks?" Harry tried again, trying to worm his way into the autopsy. Neither of the other two pathologists replied. "Exactly"
Leo and Nikki just glanced at each other and rolled their eyes exasperatedly, knowing that they would be getting no peace from Harry until they relented and let him help.
"Harry" Nikki said, looking up from the clipboard and glaring at him "Go away, or you sleep in the spare room tonight. And don't use those eyes on me, you know they don't work"
Harry knew that Nikki was deadly serious, and he didn't want to test her patience and end up sleeping alone in the spare room. So he dejectedly picked up his crutches and hobbled from the room, mock glaring at Nikki as he passed and trying to stop a smile when she grinned at him and turned back to the body.
"You wouldn't banish him would you?" Leo asked when Harry had gone from the room.
"No" Nikki laughed, making Harry chuckle "But he doesn't know that does he?"
"Tell me more about your school" Harry said later that evening as he sat on the sofa watching a documentary about jet planes. Nikki was sitting at the living room table, laptop in front of her as she talked to Jennifer and Kathy, both of whom seemed to be very interested in her sex life all of a sudden. Nikki took that to mean that they weren't getting any, and hadn't in a while, and in true best friend style, mocked them and bragged about hers.
"Sorry?" she asked, looking away from the laptop.
"Tell me more about your school" Harry repeated, glancing away from his show to look at her "If I'm going with you I would like to know some things before I go"
"No you don't" Nikki shrugged, turning back to her laptop and resuming her conversation with her friends.
"Yes I do, you didn't give me much information last time" Harry told her, wondering why it was such a sore subject.
"Well it was a crap school" Nikki shrugged "All the pupils were..well they didn't care about their schooling. And when I joined I was an easy target, you know, new girl from a different country, weird accent, actually liked and wanted to learn"
"You were bullied?" Harry asked quietly, once more turning away from the television and frowning. He knew that Nikki didn't get on with many people, but he never imagined that she was bullied. Nikki just shrugged again and nodded.
"And just because I wanted to learn and I wanted to get a good education and get a good life, they all thought I was stuck up and..thought that I was better than them" Nikki continued, pressing the enter key on the laptop harder than necessary. "Then they found out about my mother, so they bullied me for that, for her dying and leaving me alone with a father like mine. Which thinking about it now is ironic really. Considering that most of them stole, drank, smoked, had sex from about twelve years old. Bloody hypocrites"
"I didn't think it was that bad" Harry told her softly, horrified that Nikki had to go through that "No wonder you ran away"
"I had to put up with years of that" Nikki whispered, absentmindedly playing with the laptop mouse as she spoke. "My father didn't do anything, or notice anything. But I came out on top didn't I?" she asked, looking up at Harry and smiling.
"Yes you did" he replied, smiling back at her and nodding "Oxford, amazing degree, amazing job, amazing lover"
Nikki sniggered when she heard this and Harry grinned at her.
"You've done brilliantly Nikki" Harry then told her, serious this time "Considering everything that you've had to put up with to get here. And at that reunion, when they are all talking about how they have ten children by ten different fathers, you can show them the amazing life you have"
"That's mean Harry" Nikki rolled her eyes and looked back at her conversation with Jennifer and Kathy "Some people just..you know..chose to..."
"Be slags and scrounge of the state" Harry muttered, turning back to the television.
"Harry" Nikki chided loudly, shaking her head in exasperation and looking at him with a disapproving look, not believing that Harry had just said what he had. "Not everyone will be like that, some will have good jobs. I suppose there were people like me scattered throughout the school"
"Oh no" Harry gasped turning towards her and smirking "More Nikki's? One is more than enough for me to handle"
Nikki just threw her mouse mat at him and laughed as he pouted at her.
"Do those pesky women of yours know that you abuse me?" Harry asked, getting up and hobbling over to the table without the need of his crutches. Nikki laughed loudly and tried to cover the screen and minimise the conversation she was having with Kathy and Jennifer. "Hold on, are you talking about our sex life?"
"No" Nikki replied, trying not to burst out laughing at the look on Harry's face. He knew she was lying, but Nikki also knew that he didn't care about her talking about their sex life with her friends.
"I think you are" Harry replied, pushing her out of the way slightly and attempting to get the conversation back again. Nikki just laughed loudly again and tried to push him away, Harry chuckling as he finally got the conversation and quickly read some of it. "So you frequently talk about your sex lives do you?"
"We're women Harry" Nikki laughed "So yes we do, we like to compare"
"Compare?" Harry asked quickly, eyeing her warily "I'm feeling a bit worried now"
"You don't have to be" Nikki giggled, patting him on the face and leaning up to kiss him "You're the biggest" she murmured against his lips, deepening the kiss before Harry could respond.
I have two 18th parties this weekend, so I have no idea when I'll be updating again.
xxx