Standing under the water in the showers of Lyell, Nikki allowed herself to cry properly for the first time, screaming into the wall of the shower where she knew no-one would hear her over the water even if there was anyone back in the building. She stood there for what seemed an age, just letting the water wash the blood from her hands and arms, washing her hair slowly and seeing the water tinge red with blood where she must have got it at some point too. She thought of Matthew, begging to call his mum, wondering if his mother had seen the incident on the news and had been trying to contact him, or if she was on her way to the university. She knew if God forbid it had been Niall, she would have dropped everything to go and find him. Nikki closed her eyes, resting her head on the wall of the shower as she turned the water off, taking a few deep breaths and smiling down at her belly, running her hand over her wet skin and sniffing.

"Daddy is going to be okay" she whispered, knowing that her baby could hear everything that she said, felt every movement that she made "And then we'll have to re-make the appointment to get Niall adopted as your older brother" Nikki continued, swallowing the lump in her throat "We have to make him your big brother before you arrive, okay?" she murmured, stepping out of the shower and wrapping herself up in a towel, quickly drying and getting herself dressed.

Checking her phone, she saw nine missed calls from Leo, her heart dropping to her stomach as she picked her phone up and redialled his number. He answered almost instantly and she assumed he had been holding his own phone.

"Where the Hell did you go Nikki?"

"The Lyell" she whispered, running her hand through her damp hair and then frowning, walking over to the wall length mirror so she could brush her hair "For a shower. Have you found Harry?"

"I told you to wait where you were"

"I needed..." she trailed off as she looked in the mirror, reaching down to touch the fabric of the light coloured jogging pants she had on and moving her hand to look at it, her heart dropping into her stomach.

"Nikki? Are you there? I'm on my way to the Lyell and don't you move this time"

"I'm bleeding, Leo" Nikki whimpered, her voice breaking as she said those words, a sob coming afterwards when she heard the man on the other end of the phone swear.

"Where are you?"

"The locker room" she cried, covering her mouth with her hand to try and stifle the sobs "I'm sorry I should have listened to you"

"Hey, none of that now. I'm coming to get you okay?"

"You know, I may not ever stop bragging to my partner about having done that successfully" Harry told the man kneeling next to the young man who's life he had been trying to save for the past few hours, the pressure on his brain had been released and Harry allowed himself a breather. They were almost over the worst of it, the paramedics had been allowed in and they had heard over the radio that they were on their way to their location in the bathrooms.

"Do they know you're here?"

"Yes, she was here with me" Harry nodded quickly, he had tried not to think too much about Nikki in the time he'd been here, it would have only distracted him and he would never have forgiven himself for losing a patient that he was trying to save "She's a doctor too, I left her with another shooting victim earlier" he paused and smiled slightly, glancing at the time and sighing "We were meant to have a meeting this afternoon to talk about adopting our foster son"

"I'm sure they'll understand, I think that perhaps both of you saving lives might just about give you some good karma with the social"

"I don't even know if hers is okay" Harry murmured, looking to the door when it opened and the paramedics came in again, for the second time to try and get the boy off to a hospital. All he could think about now was finding Nikki and making sure that she and the baby were okay, then getting home as quickly as possible to Niall. He just wanted to hold the boy close and tell him how loved he was and how they were going to make sure that he was going to be theirs.

"Dr Cunningham"

He looked up and nodded when the guard he had been with for the past few hours called his name and motioned for him to leave the room, following the paramedics down the hallways, his anxiety gnawing at his stomach the more victims he saw, or the blood on the walls, the voids in the blood where bodies had been laying. Harry knew that he had been running on adrenaline for the past few hours, and the come down would be awful, but he wanted to get to Nikki before that happened and he crashed.

The pathologist blinked as he stepped out into the bright light, covering his eyes for a few seconds as the paramedics rushed his victim off to the waiting ambulance, he could do no more for him and he was in their care now. Looking around at the people mingling, he tried to pick Nikki or Leo out, running his fingers through his hair and pulling his phone out of his pocket. He saw missed calls on there from hours ago, then a few from Leo in the past hour as well, but none from Nikki. That made his stomach feel funny, and he pressed the call button on the number for Leo, waving away a man in a suit who walked over to him calling his name.

"Not now"

"Doctor Cunningham?"

"Not now" Harry snapped at the man, feeling slightly bad because he was sure that the man was only doing his job. He sighed when Leo didn't pick up, ending the call and pressing the number again to call him once more. "Wait, have you seen Dr Alexander or Professor Dalton?"

"Earlier, about an hour and a half ago. Dr Alexander came out with a young man who was taken to hospital, I tried to talk to her but Professor Dalton was adamant that we wait a while. I do need to ask you some questions though doctor"

"Later, where did they go?"

"I..don't know"

Harry rolled his eyes, the poor man in the suit looked a bit defeated about the situation.

"I'll talk to you later and answer your questions, but Dr Alexander was she okay?"

"She was up and walking, and she told Professor Dalton that she was fine, the baby too if you're worried about the baby"

Harry let out a sigh of relief and nodded, running his hand through his hair again and putting his phone back in his pocket. If Nikki was with Leo and up and walking then she would be fine, Leo had probably put his phone on silent like they all had done to stop them being interrupted. Sitting down on the nearest bench, he leaned over and put his head in his hands, sighing loudly and closing his eyes. He could feel the exhaustion starting to set in, and all he wanted now was to find Nikki and to go home to Niall and not think about any of this for the rest of the day, despite knowing that there would be hundreds of questions that would need answering. Harry sighed when he felt his phone vibrating with a call, pulling it out of his pocket and answering the phone call to Leo.

"I'm out Leo, where's Nikki I need to see her, I need to know she's safe"

"Harry"