Two weeks after the incident with Mary Cunningham, Harry was returning to work for the first time since Darius had been born and just like he had been with the twins he was dreading going back and leaving Nikki and his sons.

"Now are you two going to be good boys while I'm at work?" Harry asked as he crouched in front of his sons who were sitting in their highchairs at the kitchen table eating breakfast. Or what passed as eating for two almost fourteen month olds, their baby food was plastered all over their face and hands and in the trays in front of them. Nikki was standing by the table bottle feeding Darius who was sucking gently at the bottle in his mouth, a smile on her face as he watched her sons and husband. "You two have to look after your mummy and little brother"

The twins just grinned at their father and Edward reached out with his messy hand to try and grab Harry's shirt but Harry reached up and grabbed his son's wrist gently.

"Cheeky" he whispered to his son and wiped the giggle boy's face with the bib that was around the young boys neck before leaning over and kissing Edward on the cheek and doing the same to Graham. He then stood up and walked over to Nikki who took the empty bottle out of Darius' mouth and placed it by the sink before she lifted the month old baby to her shoulder to wind him. Harry reached out and ran his hand over his youngest sons blonde hair and rubbed his back gently before leaning down and kissing Nikki on the mouth.

"Have a good day" Nikki said to him as he continued to kiss her "Harry"

"Yes?" Harry asked innocently and gave his wife his innocent eyes.

"Don't give me those eyes Harry" Nikki warned but a smile broke out on her face she then looked down at Darius and wiped his mouth free of any traces of milk. "Go to work"

"Want to get rid of me?" Harry asked and kissed her again.

"Harry, I love you now go" Nikki giggled as Harry saluted, a grin on his face, and kissed Darius before walking out of the room with one last call of.

"I love you"

Shaking her head, Nikki couldn't help the smile that broke out on her face as she looked down at Darius who was fighting to keep his eyes open. Knowing he would be asleep soon, Nikki walked into the living room and lay him down in the Moses basket that was sitting by the sofa opposite the television. After this she walked back into the kitchen and sighed when she saw the mess her twins were in. They looked up at her when she walked over to her and Edward reached up to her.

"Hug mama" he said and Nikki ruffled his hair and walked over to the sink to get a flannel before going back over to him and washing his face and hands.

"After you are clean" she said to him as he tried to squirm away from the wet flannel. "There we go" Nikki whispered when he was clean then turned to his slightly younger brother who was quieter as he got cleaned. Nikki threw the dirty flannel into the washing machine then turned back to her sons who were watching her slightly, she reached down and easily picked them both up into her arms and groaned.

"You're getting too big" Nikki said as she deposited them onto the ground and watched as they walked unsteadily to Darius' Moses basket and looked in. Nikki followed them and sat down cross legged on the floor beside the basket and watch as her sons looked at their younger brother.

"Baba sleep?" Graham asked as he crawled over to Nikki and climbed onto her lap "Shh?" he enquired and placed his finger on his lips just as he seen his mother and father do.

"Yes shh?" Nikki whispered and hugged Graham who placed his head on her chest as Edward reached over and ran his hand gently over Darius' hair before leaning over and placing a quick kiss on his youngest brother's cheek. Nikki's eyes filled with tears and she looked away and swallowed the lump in her throat as her oldest child walked carefully over to her and held his arms out. Nikki reached over and gently pulled the young boy into her arms and kissed his forehead.

"Mama?" Edward asked and Nikki looked at him and nodded "Dada?" he looked around the room as if looking for Harry and Nikki grinned.

"Daddy's at work" she told the fourteen month old who cocked his head to one side and then crawled off of her lap and over to the toys that were in a box in the corner of the room. Nikki looked down at Graham who was surprisingly quiet and saw he had fallen asleep in her arms, his fist bunched up around her shirt. Instead of taking him upstairs for a nap, Nikki lay him on the sofa and covered him with a blanket that had just been washed.

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Harry groaned as he leant back in his chair and stretched his back, he placed his pen on the desk in front of him and picked up the report he was writing to proof read it, finding no mistakes he pulled all the sheets into a neat pile and stood up. Walking into Leo's office he saw the older man was on the phone and wandered over to the window on the opposite wall to look out over London. He heard Leo put the phone down and turned around.

"Finished paperwork" he told Leo and handed the folder to him "and I thought my first day back was going to be interesting"

Leo smiled and shook his head.

"Sorry to disappoint, you can have the next case that comes in though"

"Thank you" Harry nodded and they both looked towards the door as Sam walked in.

"Hey" she greeted them and both men replied before she continued "Apparently there is a body downstairs waiting to be autopsied, I don't know if you want to do it Harry"

Harry nodded and let out a sigh as Leo spoke:

"Good timing"

"I thought I was going to die of boredom" he grinned and Sam rolled her eyes

"So dramatic" she shook her head, a smile on her face "I don't think it's a murder case though, an elderly-ish woman was found in her house, sounds like a simple case of old age to me"

"Elderly-ish?" Leo asked his wife "Is that even a word?"

"It is now" Harry commented and walked over to the door "I'll be in the cutting room if you need me"

Harry walked into the cutting room and at once saw the body on one of the metal tables across the other side of the room. He pulled on some latex gloved and picked up the clipboard that was on the bench next to the body. Not bothering to read it he pulled the green cloth that was covering the body away from the deceased and the clipboard fell from his hand and clattered onto the floor when he saw who was in front of him on the table.

I'm going away for two days from tomorrow so there wont be any updates tomorrow and possibly Wednesday..I don't know what time I'm coming back. I'll try and write more chapters while I'm away though. ;)

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