A/N… Hey everyone. Sorry I've been kinda absent from the world of SW ff, got rather distracted by a different show for a while! But I'm back…have tons of reading to catch up on (apologies to everyone that I haven't reviewed, just haven't been keeping up with my reading at all recently), but thought I'd start uploading this, see what you all think and if you like it I'll carry on working on it ;-) I meant to get this up back in early November, but hey, time has a way of running away from me…and I'm still a little undecided about the story despite having written quite a bit already! Hope you like it…

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Prologue

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"Nikki? Who was that?" Nikki shook her head in response, her breathing fast and irregular.

"I can't." She wouldn't look at Leo, her gaze moving around the room as she continued to shake her head. "I'm sorry. I can't."

"Nikki, what's going on?" Leo's tone had changed from simple curiosity to concern. He made a move towards her, shocked when practically she leaped back away from him.

"I can't- I can't talk about it." Nikki continued to back away, barely noticing that she banged into her desk but somehow managing to grab hold of her coat as she made her way to the door. "I'm sorry. I can't."

And suddenly she was gone, disappeared through the doors in a swish, leaving a rather confused Leo standing in the middle of the lab.

"What was that all about?" Leo turned at the sound of Harry's voice, watching him enter the room before glancing back at the doors Nikki had run out through.

"I don't know." Leo said after a long moment of thought. "I really don't know." The concern and worry were obvious in his tone, the unease soon spreading to Harry as they both stood still and stared at the doors, as if hoping Nikki would come back through them and explain.

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