"Our baby looks like a blob" Harry told Nikki as the door to her room closed and Nikki giggled slightly as she hit him on the chest.

"That's our baby you're insulting"

Harry grinned as he looked more closely at the scan picture in his hand and at the small blob at the bottom of it.

"Nope..definitely a blob"

Nikki just rolled her eyes and took the picture from Harry and looked at it herself, Harry absentmindedly playing with a piece of her hair as he moved closer to her for a better look. His other hand going back to her stomach and rubbing it slightly with his thumb. Pressing a kiss onto her shoulder he then rested his chin on the same spot and sighed.

"I love you so much"

"and I love you" Nikki nodded as she turned her head slightly and pressed a kiss onto his lips before turning back to the scan photo. "I suppose you'd better call your mum and Leo, they'd want to know what's going on"

"What do we tell them?" Harry asked as he pulled out his mobile

"Everything" Nikki told him and snuggled further into his chest "Just not over the phone because that's not the right way to tell anyone they're going to be a grandmother and an uncle"

"Why not?" Harry enquired as he hit the speed dial for his mother's home phone.

"Men" Nikki sighed as she shook her head and Harry just pouted.

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"Harry love, what's wrong?" Sylvia asked as soon as she entered the room to see her son and daughter-in-law sitting on the bed.

"Mum calm down" Harry smiled at her and walked over to hug his mother and led her over to the bed just as the door opened again and Leo walked in, looking out of breath.

"What's wrong?" he asked instantly as he saw Nikki sitting in the bed, looking a bit pale and the drip still in her hand. "All you said was to come to the hospital because Nikki had been taken in"

"Calm down" Nikki giggled and patted the bed, indicating for Leo to sit there. He did so and gently took Nikki's hand in his, he hated it when the woman he thought of as a daughter was hurt or upset, but to see her in a hospital bed wired up to a drip was painful for him to look at. Harry smiled at the pair, glad that his wife had some sort of father figure to help her. He motioned for his mother to sit on the bed as well and she did so and rested her hand on the duvet covering Nikki's leg. "First of all I had to go to speak to Detective Boyd about..what happened back then and that went well..well sort of" she shrugged and picked at a loose thread on the duvet cover "He says that they're reopening the case because other women have come forward saying that they experienced the same thing" Harry rubbed her arm gently and kissed her shoulder "When I got home I got a letter in the post from William, saying all sorts of...nasty things about me and what happened when I was fifteen" Leo's grip on her hand tightened slightly and she gave him a small smile "He says he's going to be let out soon for good behaviour"

"Not after that letter he won't be" Harry added from where he was sitting next to Nikki "It's still at home, I'll make sure it's evidence for his hearing"

Leo just nodded, knowing Harry would show him the letter as soon as possible.

"Anyway the letter caused me to..um..." Nikki ran her free hand through her hair and shrugged "It caused me to relapse slightly and I think I went into shock or something, I don't..". she glanced at Harry who nodded and stroked her cheek gently with his fingers ."but the next thing I remember I woke up here and Harry told me that I'd" she paused and ran her tongue over her dry lips "that I'd miscarried"

There were two sharp intakes of breath from Leo and Sylvia but Harry and Nikki shared a small smile, making Nikki giggle slightly. This then made Sylvia and Leo exchange a confused look.

"Why are you..?"

"I was carrying twins" Nikki told them with a grin on her face, her eyes sparkling with unshed tears "I only lost one of them"

A huge smile broke out on Leo's face and he reached forward to hug Nikki gently. She wrapped her arms around the older man's neck and he pressed a kiss onto her cheek as Sylvia hugged her son, tears falling down her cheeks as well.

"Congratulations" Leo whispered in her ear, his own voice breaking slightly before he cleared his throat and moved away from Nikki, who also had tears falling down her cheeks. Sylvia then walked around the bed and hugged her daughter-in-law carefully as Leo made his way around the bed to the other side and patted Harry on the shoulder while both women cried.

"How far along are you?" Sylvia asked as she broke away from Nikki and sat down on the bed.

"Only about a month" Nikki replied and looked around the bed for something before picking up the scan photo and showing it to the older woman "The doctor said I have to have plenty of rest though"

"He's signed Nikki off for two weeks" Harry told them "Bed rest for the first few days"

"I'll sign you off as well Harry, so you can look after her"

"Only for a few days please Leo" it was Nikki who said this and a smile formed on her face "I know what he's going to be like, he's not going to let me move without panicking. I can't cope with that for two weeks"

Leo grinned and nodded while Sylvia laughed at her son's embarrassment and looked back down at the scan photo in her hand.

"Where's...?" she asked slowly and Harry reached over glanced at it

"The blob at the bottom of the page" he laughed and Nikki hit him on the back of the head.

"Stop calling our baby a blob" she told him and rolled her eyes at Leo over the top of her husband's head. Leo just smiled proudly at her and Nikki then knew what it was like to have a loving father in her life. Her eyes filled with tears again and she looked away to swallow the lump that had formed in her throat.

"Are you okay?" Harry asked when he saw her do this and Nikki nodded, running her hand absentmindedly through his hair as she did so.

"I'm fine" she replied and pressed a kiss onto his lips.

Back to school today after two snow days last week :(

xxx