A month has now passed since Nikki's miscarriage, although things haven't got easier for the couple. Although Jack has gotten over the loss of their baby Nikki still hasn't and is adamant she will get pregnant meaning she has become obsessed with her ovulation cycle.
Nikki is currently at work, working alongside Jack on a new case that has come into the Lyell and is being classed as suspicious, although neither Jack nor Nikki attended the crime scene due to it being out of their working hours and not being on call that early in the morning. Nikki is currently stood with the body of a young woman in front of her taking fingerprints for Jack who is also stood beside her, "...I've been thinking" Nikki speaks as she takes the first set of fingerprints from the left hand.
"It's dangerous when you think" Jack chuckles with a smirk.
Nikki glances up at him and takes another sample slide from him, "Well... I'm ovulating in two days..." She responds with a smile.
Jack sighs and rolls his eyes at Nikki, "Nikki we've been over this, we said we would give it a rest," Jack huffs at his wife.
She looks up at him again and watches his facial expression, "I don't see what your issue with this is? We both want a baby, before this, you wanted sex at least once every evening, now I'm offering it up to you... so what do you say? get a head start tonight?" Nikki smiles as she walks around the table and takes prints from the right hand.
"Nikki, come on you know it will only end in tears again, anyway we have that surrogacy meeting this evening," Jack responds watching her closely noticing her facial expression drop.
"Are you questioning my reproductive cycle?" She snaps suddenly.
"No, it's not like that. You know as well as me that things aren't coming naturally for us..." He speaks softly.
Nikki looks up at him with anger written across her face, "Well I think we should put off the surrogate route for a while and try my method of tracking and being patient" She smiles slightly hoping he will respond calmly to her.
"Come off it Nikki, You're not getting any younger and..." He's cut off by Nikki.
"What! no... it's not like that yes I an almost thirty-eight but women have been known to reproduce into their late forties" She speaks.
"Yes, and how many of those older women have died in childbirth, you know the risks... I'm not willing to let you get pregnant now you're getting older... I'm not letting you take the risk of possibly dying in childbirth and risk losing you and possibly our baby... no way!" He speaks.
Jack watches as Nikki wipes a few tears away with her forearm as she has her PPE gloves on. "Get out!" She screams angrily at him, Jack jumps and looks at her in shock, "Get out, I don't want to see your face again... get out!" She screams at him with the tears slipping down her face. She grabs hold of the mortuary slab which the young woman is lying on and looks down at the floor taking a deep breath.
Jack rips his apron off and removes his gloves and walks out of the mortuary to get changed back into his normal clothes leaving Nikki to calm down and begin her postmortem. Nikki soon begins her postmortem as she finds the postmortems make her forget her own personal issues. Halfway through the postmortem, she begins the internal examination before stopping dead as she looks at the uterus of the body. She swallows hard and takes a breath, "... on further examination of the uterus, I can confirm that she is at least twenty weeks pregnant, the fetus would have died around the same time as the mother..." Nikki speaks softly before blinking away the tears before moving on.
Once the postmortem is finished she leaves the technicians to finish up the body and put it away in the freezers. Nikki bursts out the mortuary and rips off her apron and shoves it in the bin before rushing off to the toilets still in her scrubs. She runs into the cubical and throws herself over the toilet as she vomits violently into the toilet. Jack who was passing by notices her rushing into the female bathroom, knocking the door before pushing the door open and calling her name.
With no reply, Jack walks into the bathroom, and to the cubical Nikki is in, he gently pushes the toilet door open to see Nikki kneeling over the toilet bowl. "Nikki" He speaks softly.
"Go away... I don't want you to see me like this," She mumbles as she gags a little more.
"Nikki, I've seen you in worse states, our engagement party..." He smirks as he walks to her and crouches down beside Nikki and then gently rubs her back. "Now what's wrong?" He asks.
Nikki wipes her mouth with the back of her hand, "The body brought in today... she was pregnant... at least twenty weeks, I just..." She speaks trying to fight her tears back.
"Don't worry now, It's okay..." Jack soothes as he rubs her back gently until she is finished being sick.
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Wildest Dreams
FanfictionAU - Jack and Nikki have been married for just over a year, they have continued their normal working life at the Lyell centre although both Jack and Nikki want to start a family, will their dreams come true?
