"Come on son" Harry said as he lifted the sleepy Darius from Nikki's arms and placed him on his shoulder to burp the newly fed baby, he brought the bib that was around the baby's neck to his mouth and wiped away any traces of milk. He looked down at the baby and saw he was asleep on his shoulder. Nikki smiled as she walked past them with a bowl of food for Edward. She placed it on the plastic tray on the highchair her oldest son was sitting in and he reached out to grab the spoon that was in the bowl. Nikki gently took it from Edwards grasp and started to feed the baby, trying to get the mess he made to a minimum. She glanced over at Graham and realised this was in vain however when she saw the mess that he had got himself in to. He looked over at his mother and gave her his innocent grin and Harry reached over from where he was standing with Darius to ruffle his son's hair causing the boy to giggle.

"We need to start decorating the house for Christmas" Harry commented as he watched his wife interact with their children. "It's only" he looked at the calendar next to him "just under two weeks"

"That's a lot of time" Nikki shrugged and looked up at him "We have their presents so all we need to do is decorate" she turned to the twins who were now almost clean "Are you going to help mummy and daddy decorate for Christmas?" she asked them.

Later on in the evening Harry and Nikki were sitting on the sofa watching the television, the children were in bed and all the Christmas decorations had been put up. The brightly coloured tree stood in the corner of the living room, the lights twinkling. Nikki was curled up on the sofa next to Harry, one arm slung over her husbands stomach, the other clutching a glass of red wine. Harry had one arm around Nikki's shoulders and in his other he also held a glass of wine. He turned to look down at his wife and leant down to press a kiss onto her hair before looking back at the television and taking a sip of his wine. He loved the moments like this when it was just himself and Nikki cuddling together after a long day. Harry looked back down at his wife who moved so she was looking up at him, giving him a smile she leant up and kissed him gently before sighing and laying her head back on his chest.

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"Come on Nikki" Harry whined as he stood by the bed where Nikki was sitting up shaking her head, an amused smile on her face "Please?"

"Harry you are not getting our sons up at five o'clock on Christmas day, we had this conversation last year"

Harry pouted slightly and walked over to her, bending down he pecked her lightly on the lips before standing up and walking around to his side of the bed, closing the bedroom door slightly on his way past. He climbed into bed and Nikki instantly moved closer to him and wrapped one arm around his stomach, she placed her head on his chest and closed her eyes. Harry chuckled and lay down properly before reaching over and turning the light off and wrapping his arms around Nikki.

"What do you want for Christmas?" he asked her after a few minutes of silence and Nikki groaned slightly.

"Come on Harry do we have to do this now?" she asked quietly but Harry could tell she was amused "I don't need you to buy me anything" Nikki continued and ran her hand over Harry's bare chest causing his breath to hitch. Nikki grinned to herself and had to stifle her giggle in Harry's chest.

"Think it's funny do you?" he laughed and flipped them both over so he was laying over Nikki, she laughed loudly and Harry's stomach did a happy flip when he heard it "It's not nice to tease your husband"

Nikki pouted slightly and Harry leant down and kissed her, she moaned against his lips and allowed Harry to deepen the kiss as he ran one of his hands down her side and under her pyjama top before undoing the buttons and pushing it off of her and dropping it to the floor. He leant down to kiss her again and was just about to work on her pyjama bottoms when the phone rang. Both of them groaned simultaneously and Harry broke the kiss, leaning his forehead on Nikki's shoulder they both took deep breaths to calm their breathing before Harry reached over and picked up the still ringing device.

"Hello Leo"

"How did you know it was me?" Leo asked down the phone and Harry chuckled

"No-one else calls us at.." he looked at the clock on the bedside table "Eleven in the evening"

Looking back down at Nikki he couldn't help but lean down and give her a soft kiss before listening to what Leo was saying.

"Sorry about this Harry" Leo replied "But could you go to a scene that's just been called in?"

Harry sighed quietly and Nikki frowned after having heard what Leo said.

"Okay" Harry said to the older man and climbed off of Nikki and out of the bed.

While Leo was giving Harry details of the case Nikki leant out of bed and picked up her discarded pyjama top and pulling it on. Harry hung up the phone and pulled on a pair of trousers before shrugging on a shirt and started doing it up. Walking over to Nikki who had tugged the duvet further up her body he leant down and kissed her before moving some of her hair out of her face.

"I'm sorry" he whispered as he kissed her forehead and Nikki nodded and gave him a small smile.

"We'll continue later"

Harry grinned slightly and kissed her again before standing up.

"I look forward to it. I love you"

"Love you too" Nikki mumbled as she turned over and closed her eyes.

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"Sorry about calling you out so late" Leo said as Harry climbed out of his car and walked over to the older man. Harry shook his head and waved the apology off before following Leo towards the body. "Late night dog walker found them" Leo explained as they ducked under the crime scene tape and nodded towards the policemen that were scattered around the scene. "Two woman in their early twenties by the look of it"

Harry sighed loudly when he looked down at the two women laying on the muddy ground in front of him. One had long red hair that was matted with mud and blood, the strands were plastered over her face. Her neck had been cut and her white top was soaked with her own blood. Scratches marred her arms and hands and the knee length skirt she was wearing was pushed up to her thighs. Her legs were also caked in mud and blood and she had a long scratch running down her left one. Harry turned to look at the other woman who was laying less than two meters away from the first one. This woman had blonde hair that was covered in mud and blood, the same as her companion. This time however her long blue t-shirt had been pushed up over her stomach and there was a deep slash running from one side to the other as well as one on her neck. The muddy ground squelched under the two pathologists feet and Harry put the wetness down to the recent melting snow, ice and rainfall they had had. Pulling a pair of latex gloves on , Harry knew it would be a long night.

Yeah that's my sorry attempt at a case like paragraph...feel free to laugh. ;)

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