"So you're planning on kissing me again are you?" she asked.

It was at this moment Harry noticed over Nikki's shoulder Grumpy Doctor standing at the small porthole on the door. He looked straight at Harry and shook his head. Harry tried not to react but Nikki noticed the change immediately.

"What? What is it? What's happened?"

"Come and sit down Nikki," Harry begged and they perched next to each other on the edge of the bed. She sat next to him but with the sudden change in the atmosphere in the room she crossed her arms tightly and she leant away from him.

"I just had a theory, I wanted it tested. A theory as to what might be making you ill and tired."

"What do you mean?"

"I know it took me a while to get back to full speed after I was ill, but I've been ok for the last couple of weeks, and last week Nikki, you were really tired. Before Friday, before even your nearly all-nighter of Thursday, you've been tired all week, and I was just trying to work out what other possible explanations there could be as to why you've been so tired then and so ill now. Have you been sick today?"

"Not yet," she replied.

"I thought you might have had the bug that I had, but if that wasn't a virus then I couldn't have passed on the drug side effects to you." Harry could see her analytical brain beginning to spark at his presentation of the puzzle but he hadn't finished expounding all his theories yet.

Harry rubbed at his face, there really was no easy way of putting this. "Nikki, a month or so ago I woke up naked in your bed. I know you told me nothing happened and I believe you, I do. But you were drunk too, and you said you were hopefull. What if something did happen? What if?" he baulked for a moment. "What if that were the reason you were so sick?"

Nikki stared hard at him.

"You thought I had morning sickness?"

Harry nodded surprised at how quickly she had caught on.

"But nothing happened," she repeated.

"I know, you've told me that, but Nikki sometimes I find it hard dealing with how much I want you when we're both fully clothed, and back then we were both naked. I just had to be sure."

Nikki turned to look at Harry, her expression softening for the first time that day.

"Harry, really NOTHING happened,"

"I know," Harry said sadly. "You're not pregnant."