Thank you for the lovely reviews, I'm glad you like the idea. I did wonder when I began to write about why I had chosen to do a story that relied heavily on facial expressions and holding up notes to each other and how it would work, but luckily for me you all have wonderful imaginations… I can't say the same about some of your spelling though. I love the fact that Ana and Flossie guessed the hangman and Ana certainly isn't using English as her first language, I'm not sure how far down the list English comes for Flossie and they were the two that got it right! Along with a correct entry from rbs89. I did check and Nikki had already suggested E so it can't be 'I'm bored', I'm afraid. Not that I want to put you off guessing you understand, all your lovely reviews and Flossie's new fic gave me a wonderful cyber birthday, thank you, even if the real one involved vomiting children. I'll say no more; on with the show.

It didn't take her long to suggest the remaining letters; she even did them in sequence: M S R Y.

Harry pulled his pad down and scribbled another sentence.

"I really am very very sorry."

"So you should be!" She wrote back.

"Are you OK? How do you feel?"

Harry held his pad against the glass for a millisecond and before Nikki had even had a chance to read it whipped it away and added some more:

"Do not answer FINE!" and drew a big dark arrow, to point at the addition.

Nikki shook her head and wrote slowly and deliberately

"I'm not sure."

Harry pointed back to his earlier apology sentence.

"You weren't to know, Harry. It's not your fault."

Harry stared at her notepad and back to her, seeing his name written in her handwriting like that had made him feel slightly peculiar.

"It's your turn," he wrote.

Nikki thought for a while and then started drawing out her own series of dashes.

_ _ _ / _ _ _ _ / _ _ _ _ / _ _ _ _ _ / _ _ _ _ _

It had obviously been a while since Nikki had played this game, Harry thought. She'd included all the vowels except U and the words had S T R and then he looked and realised she wasn't really playing the game at all.

I T S/_ A T E/ _ O O _/ _ I _ _ T / _ A R R _

He wondered if he should start guessing the letters he knew weren't there just to keep her with him longer, but he knew it wasn't fair. She'd been tired before this whole thing had even begun. But before he guessed H and Y he wrote on his paper.

"Will you talk to me again tomorrow please?"

She smiled and wrote back.

"I already told you, I'm not talking to you!"

Harry grinned.

"Will you write to me tomorrow then, please?"

She nodded and smiled at him, truly smiled at him, not the one she reserved for social niceties but her best smile, the one that crinkled her nose and made her eyes laugh.

"Good Night" Harry mouthed through the window.

"Night," she replied.