Nikki was rummaging through the wardrobe looking for a warm jumper as it had suddenly turned chilly out, she heard a noise behind her and turned slightly so see Harry walk into the bedroom, then she did a double take. He was standing at his wardrobe which was on the other side of the room with just a towel wrapped around his waist, quite low on his waist Nikki observed, and she saw that his back was still dripping with water. She felt her face grow warm when she wondered what his chest was like wet and turned around to look in her wardrobe again as she tried to push those images away from the front of her mind. Nikki didn't believe in a God but if there was one, she thought, he was doing a damn good job of messing with her mind.

"Shower's free if you want one" came Harry's voice from behind her and Nikki turned slightly to see him staring at her. Her eyes flicked down to his wet chest and she swallowed heavily before nodding, completely missing the smirk on Harry's face as he saw where she was looking.

"Right" Nikki nodded again as she looked up at his face with some difficulty "I'll just.." she motioned towards the door, completely forgetting why she was in the bedroom in the first place. Harry's smirk grew as she practically ran out of the room, he laughed quietly to himself and let the towel drop to the floor, in his mind he unashamedly hoped that Nikki would walk back in.

Nikki walked as quickly as she could into the bathroom and shut the door behind her before turning around and leaning against it breathing heavily. She was going to get Leo back for all this suffering, albeit worth it for seeing a half naked wet Harry, but all Nikki could think of was that Leo was doing this to torture her. It didn't cross her mind that Leo didn't know they had to share a house, or even a bed, and that Harry would walk around half naked after showers. Nikki cursed Leo with all her being and glared at the still steamed up shower in front of her as she tried to block the images of Harry in it out of her mind. Suddenly her mobile rang and she pulled it out of her pocket with a frown on her face, she didn't even think there was enough signal up here. She saw one of her friends, Emily Smith, was calling her.

"Hello" she said as she answered the phone, eager to talk to someone other than Harry and the male chauvinists, not that they did talk to her but that wasn't the point.

"Nikki darling how are you?" came Emily's happy voice down the phone and Nikki groaned in response "What's up hun?"

"Well let's just say I am in Scotland, in the middle of no-where on a case that probably will come to nothing, sharing a room with my best friend who also happens to be male and said male is currently in said room in just a towel" Nikki replied dryly

"Ah you have it bad then" Emily replied and Nikki rolled her eyes and slid down the bathroom door so she was sitting on the floor.

"He just swans into the bedroom without a care in the world wearing nothing but a towel" Nikki hissed at her friend "I mean if the towel was any lower then there wouldn't have been any reason to wear one"

"Not having dirty thoughts are you Nik?" Emily laughed loudly and Nikki flushed as the images flew back to the front of her mind.

"No"

"Liar" her friend giggled "Was he still wet?"

"Stop being a bitch and shut up" Nikki replied but Emily knew she was joking and just laughed even louder "Okay yes he was still wet and...damn you for bringing up those images again"

"Aww I'm sorry Nikki, actually no I'm not, but I was just ringing to see if you were available for a night out, obviously not" Emily told Nikki who groaned "Well then, enjoy your trip, love you"

"Yeah love you" Nikki replied dryly "Don't know why though"

"See you soon"

Emily then hung up leaving Nikki with the dial tone in her ear, closing her eyes she pressed the disconnect button and leant her head back against the door. Her friends were so unsympathetic sometimes.

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"God I'm so bored" Nikki whined as she and Harry sat in the living room later that evening, Harry was at his laptop writing up the reports, Nikki had flatly refused to do them for him, and was sitting on the sofa trying to read her book "You know a friend of mine called me earlier to ask if I wanted to go out tonight, but no, I am stuck up here in the middle of no-where with nothing to do"

Harry just rolled his eyes and went back to his reports.

"You could help me with these" he motioned to the screen and Nikki snorted

"Do them yourself I'm going to bed" with that she stood up and walked out of the room leaving Harry alone. He glared at the laptop screen, even his ploy of walking into the bedroom half-naked and still wet from a shower didn't work on her, he wondered if she even wanted him like he wanted her. He had his doubts now and slammed the laptop lid down violently and sat back on his chair, his arms folded as he started to sulk.

Only had one lesson today so I thought I'd come home and add another chapter. XD. I may even upload two if you're lucky.

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