Nikki sighed as she turned over in the bed so she was laying on her back, her hand moved to her stomach where the baby moved again and she rubbed it gently trying to get the baby to calm down so she could sleep but to no avail.

"Is the baby keeping you awake?" came a voice from beside her and Nikki turned her head to see Harry turned over in bed to face her. She nodded slightly and he reached out to lay his hand next to hers on her stomach. "Do you want me to get you something to drink?"

They had found, much to their amusement, that the baby seemed to settle down after Nikki had drunk either a hot chocolate or another warm drink to help her sleep. Nodding slightly Nikki gave him a smile and he leant over to kiss her before climbing out of the bed. When he had gone Nikki just stared at the doorway he had walked out of. Biting her lip slightly she wondered if they would be okay with four children as young as their's. She knew when she was younger that when she eventually had children she wanted them to be quite close together but was hoping that her children wouldn't resent her and Harry for the fact that they did. When Harry walked back into the room holding a steaming mug of drink, Nikki sat up in the bed and placed her hand on her stomach again. Taking the mug from her husband she thanked him and blew the steam from the top. Harry climbed back into bed and sat up next to her.

"Sorry" Nikki muttered after a while as Harry ran a piece of her hair between his fingers, a small smile on his face.

"What for?" Harry asked, confusion etching his voice.

"For keeping you up and not letting you sleep" Nikki replied and Harry saw the tears forming in her eyes as she said this. Reaching up he placed his hand on her cheek and turned her head to him as the tears fell down her cheeks.

"Hey" he whispered as he leant down and kissed her on the lips "It's alright beautiful you don't have to apologise. I would stay awake for the next five months and beyond if it meant you were happy"

Nikki sniffed slightly then shook her head and more tears slipped down her face as she sobbed. Harry was startled for a second and gently prized the mug out of his wife's hands and placed it on the table next to the bed then turned back to her.

"You called me beautiful" Nikki sobbed and Harry moved closer to her. He chuckled to himself as he wrapped one arm around her shoulders and placed the other on her stomach. "I'm not beautiful, I'm fat and ugly"

Harry didn't say anything as he moved some of Nikki's hair away from her face and placed a gentle kiss on her cheek.

"You will always be beautiful" he whispered as he gently kissed her again.

"No I'm not" Nikki shouted and turned to glare at Harry who was shocked by the intensity of the look he was getting. "Get out"

"What?" Harry asked, his voice slightly higher in his confusion

"I don't want you in the bed tonight" Nikki told him and pushed him away none to gently.

A hurt look crossed his face which Nikki either didn't see or just ignored as Harry climbed slowly out of bed and leant over to kiss his wife, turning her face away from him he only just pecked her on the cheek. Letting out a small sigh he turned and walked out of the room as Nikki lay down and turned her back on him.

The next morning Nikki woke up and turned over in bed, her actions of the night before came flooding back and she let out a frustrated groan. Placing her hand on her forehead she forced back the tears that came when she realised how she had treated Harry and climbed out of bed slowly. She then walked down the upstairs hallway to the spare bedroom that was to be the new baby's nursery and pushed the door open slightly. The bedclothes were ruffled and Nikki knew Harry had slept in it the night before. Sighing slightly she placed her hand on her stomach and rubbed it gently.

"Where's daddy?" she whispered and walked out of the room and towards the other two nurseries. Finding no trace of Harry, Nikki took her three children downstairs and preceded to get their breakfast ready. When she couldn't find Harry downstairs either Nikki came to two conclusions. One: that he had been so angry with her that he had left the house not wanting to walk to her and two: that he had been called to work by Leo and he didn't want to wake her. She was hoping for the second one. Walking into the living room again she spotted some paper on the table and picked it up, seeing that it was a note from Harry her heard lightened somewhat.

"Morning Nikki" it read "Leo called me out to an early morning scene and I didn't want to wake you just after you had got to sleep. I'll see you when I get home. Love Harry"

Nikki sighed slightly after reading it and crumpled it up, throwing it into the bin on her way into the kitchen she walked over to the table and started to feed Darius who was waiting patiently for his food.

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"You alright Harry?" Leo asked as he walked through the lab carrying some results. Harry had been quiet all morning and Leo had put it down to the early morning start but even after the two mugs of coffee that it normally took to get Harry sociable in the morning, he was still quite and moody. "Harry?" Leo asked loudly when he got no reply the first time round. The younger man jumped slightly as he was brought out of his thoughts and gave Leo a smile that Leo could see was forced. "Are you alright?"

Harry nodded slightly and the smile got even more forced.

"Well you don't look like it" Leo shook his head and walked over to the desk his younger college was working at "What's wrong?"

"Just Nikki and her hormones" Harry shrugged "She couldn't get to sleep last night because the baby was moving so much so we were awake. I called her 'beautiful' and she just" he sighed "she shouted at me to get out of the bed and said that she wasn't beautiful and she didn't want me in bed with her last night"

Leo just nodded and perched himself on the edge of the desk, crossing his arms over his chest.

"Where did you sleep?"

"Spare room" Harry shrugged "It hurt a lot when she told me to get out"

"I'm sure it did" Leo nodded "But Nikki is hormonal, you've been through it twice before you should know"

"But she hasn't told me to get out and sleep away from her before" Harry said sadly "This pregnancy had been harder than the other two, I think it will be our last child"

"Has Nikki said this to you?"

"No" Harry shook his head and rested his elbows on the table and buried his face in his hands "Nikki wants a large family and I think four children is large enough if she's going to get ill"

"And if Nikki wants more?"

"God I don't know" Harry said loudly as he leant back in his chair "I cant say no to her that's the problem"

Leo was about to say something but the phone in his office rang and cut off whatever he was going to say.

"You better answer that" Harry mumbled and Leo nodded and walked into his office leaving a pensive Harry behind him.

Angst-ish? Or as close as you're going to get with me. lol!

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