Things finally get resolved in this chapter...

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Chapter 3

It was busy day at the Lyell Centre and Nikki and Zak have just finished the post mortems of the driver and his wife. There was nothing suspicious about their deaths but Nikki was still waiting for toxicology reports that could easily bring crucial evidents. But for now, at least, she could take a break, finally have a shower and start on writing reports. Harry or possibly Leo was to perform the other two post mortems, of the younger male and female.

Looking at the big clock in the morgue Nikki read, one-thirty. It was interesting how work could take her mind of everything else because it was now, while she was finishing the second post mortem and checking the labelled samples, that she realised that she hasn't seen Harry since this morning.

"You can finish it here, Zak?" she asked her assistant.

"No problem" he answered giving her another ambiguous smile. She chose to ignore it. For once.


It was exactly when she opened the door of the cutting room that something caught her attention.

"Harry!" she called.

"Great! This was not the right time for what they needed to discuss" Harry thought. But for whatever reason it made him smile just to hear her say his name.

"You are running away from me!" she almost yelled making him smile again. He stopped it instantly, opened his eyes and turned to face her. There was look of childlike anger on her face.

"I wasn't running away" he said accentuating last two words.

"Harry, you were literally running!"

"I didn't run away from Russian mob, or Hungarian or Ukrainian! Why do you think I'd run away from you?"

Nikki smiled.

They were good.

"Do you think you should?" she asked carefully. "Run away from me? Because if you think you should... I mean if you want to avoid what we need to talk about... Really, we can just let it go."

"Is that what you want?" he asked uncertain of what she was saying.

"No. I want you to do what you want. I don't want this to become awkward. I …" she didn't know anymore what she was trying to say. "Maybe I've talked enough for one day" she finally said, causing Harry to laugh. Not one of his nervous laughs, but one of relief.

"You think this is funny?"

"Oh, please you laugh at me all the time" he said putting his hands on her shoulders. He could instantly feel goosebumps under the thin scrubs.

"I want us to talk about it" he continued looking her deeply in the eyes.

In that moment world stopped. They said everything without actually saying anything.

Few moments passed in silence.

"Just not now" he said putting light kiss on her chin, and in the next moment was gone leaving Nikki standing in the hallway with the biggest grin on her face and uncertain of how to move…

"Nikki" she suddenly heard Zak. "We have lab results from the first post mortem!"

Instantly Nikki pushed away every thought of what has just happened or was hopefully yet to happen, and concentrated on her work.


Couple of hours passed and Nikki was now sitting at Harry's desk writing reports. It wasn't that urgent, but she just had to do something, anything to stop herself from silly grinning or worrying.

Through the glass wall she could see Zak chatting with one of the students who was on an elective with them.

"So" Nikki asked teasing him "you are already flirting around. Your heart does heal rather quickly considering it was so badly broken just last night."

"I wasn't flirting around. May is performing a post mortem with Doctor Cunningham right now; she just dropped by to take some files."

"Oh, and it's an interesting post mortem, then?" Nikki asked again not yet wanting to let this go. She owed him for all the teasing from this morning.

"The younger woman that they are performing post mortem on, was apparently about eight weeks pregnant. Seems that she hasn't known, or at least her sister didn't mention it."

Nikki froze. Pregnant. Eight weeks pregnant, just like Anna was. She wondered how Harry will react on this. Will it bring to life barely killed demons that will once again destroy everything?

And again, just now when they were finally close to getting somewhere…

She had to talk to Harry but didn't want to pressure him, so she decided to wait for him in Leo's office.


"Nikki, love, wake up" she could clearly hear someone. She was so tired that she didn't think she had enough strength to open her eyes.

"I need you to do something for me." She could now clearly distinct Harry's words and that brought her back to consciousness.

"Haven't I already proved that I'd do anything for you?" she asked smiling.

"I need you to go home and have some rest" he said putting his hand on her chin.

Instinctively Nikki leant into his touch.

"I am okay" she said smiling. "What's happening with the case?" she asked, sitting up on the couch and stretching.

"It seems that bodies won't be the primary witnesses this time" Harry said obviously enjoying the fact that this time he knew more than she did.

Nikki though, knew he wanted her to beg him to tell her, but also that ignoring his teases could be even more fun.

"The car will. Someone sabotaged the car" he answered when realised that she won't ask.

"No fun for us then" she said smiling, as it meant no more work, too.

"I heard that the younger woman was eight weeks pregnant" she then said, avoiding his look.

"I am fine" he said smiling and Nikki knew he was.

"I really am. Except…"

"What?" small part of her was still afraid of what she might hear next.

"I've missed you" he simply said.

"Mhm. What did you miss about me?" she asked teasing him.

"You know... everything" he said like it was the most obvious answer.

"Everything?"

"Well, you know, you can't leave man like you did me this morning, with lots of funny thoughts in his head and then expect from him to act like nothing's happened. I am obviously deeply in problems now."

"Why don't you let me help you with that?" Nikki asked giving him one of her looks that she knew he couldn't resist even when they were just friends, if there was ever time like that.

Harry smiled, and for a minute Nikki could do nothing but look at him, and think of all the times she wondered if she'll ever see him smile like that.

"Oh, please I am the one always solving your problems" his joke brought her back from her thoughts "If I could have a penny for every Sudoku I've finished for you…"

"Very well, doctor Cunningham. Than solve this. Tell me what's the right thing to do."

"We've been together for seven years, Nikki. I love you. You love me" he said avoiding shocked look on her face. She obviously didn't expect this. Not so soon. "It's the simplest thing ever. If you really think about it, we only add sex to what we already have and we can say that we are in a long term relationship."

"Okay, let's do that" Nikki said not really believing that this wasn't one of her silly dreams. But nevertheless, it didn't matter; her answer to Harry would always be the same.

"My place or yours?" Harry asked kissing her somewhere just behind her ear which brought strange kind of chill to her back, one she never felt before.

"Don't you think cutting room would be the most appropriate?" she finally asked, when he moved away and she could think straight.

"After all, that's where it all started" Harry finished her thought and they both giggled.

"I love you" he then said, seriously, pressing his forehead on hers.

"And I love you" she responded, her breath gently tickling his face.

"Why do you think it took as so long to finally come to our senses?" Harry asked few moments later. "We could've saved each other from so much pain."

"Who knows why it was better this way" Nikki simply said.

"You believe that?" Harry asked once again faced with Nikki's unexplainable faith that so often he couldn't understand.

"Then I believe it, too" he said pressing his lips on hers.


For Nikki, this was everything she has ever dreamt about. She saw it coming for a long time and had no doubt that this was what she wanted. That this will work.

For Harry, the most important thing he's been looking for his entire life was finally there. Peace. As much as he was careless and never running away to protect his life, that much he was always running away trying to protect his heart. What finally brought peace to him was admitting that his heart has been perfectly safe all these years with Nikki Alexander.

For both of them, what they've finally named, what they finally faced has brought sense that they've never felt before but always desperately sought.

It gave them something to fight for, and the most importantly, something to believe in.


THE END


This was so hard for me to write! But I hope you liked it.

It's dedicated to all of you who love happy endings :)

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