Officially Cumberbatched? A sequel to 'Well and truly Cumberbatched'

Chapter 5

AN: Unless stated otherwise, all chapters are from the character "Rosie's" perspective :0) Let me know what you think of the story so far in the comments guys! Also, thank you very much for reading :-) 

I was in my room, getting dressed before our parents came around for dinner, we thought it'd be nice to see them and to have a bit of a catch up as my parents have been away as have Ben's. "I'm back bobble!" I heard Ben shout as the front door slammed shut. "Upstairs crumpet!" I called back. I decided to wear a navy blue ASOS skater dress with thin shoulder straps and as I was rather unglamourously putting on my black tights Ben walked in. "Hey, how was your walk?" I asked as I adjusted my tights and brushed my hands over my stomach to smooth out my dress.

"It was okay, it gave me a chance to think and just clear my head. You look lovely by the way" he said and I smiled as he came over to me, having put his coat down.

"Thank you, that's very nice of you to say" I replied as he wrapped his hands around my waist and held me close to him. "You've still got something on your mind Ben, I can tell." I said, patting his chest as he sighed.

"I um, I just...urm." he mumbled, looking down at me.

"I'll run you a warm bath okay? Clear your mind a little before the 'rents come over." I said and he nodded.

"I'd like that" Ben said and let go of me.  

I ran him a bath, put some towels out and headed downstairs to get dinner ready as Merlin relaxed on the bay winow in the kitchen.

About 20 minutes later...

I had prepared everything already so I let the red lentil soup cook gently on the stove on a really low heat and headed back upstairs. Ben was lying on the bed, his back propped up against some pillows and appeared to be wearing a fitted light blue shirt with the sleeves rolled up and black formal trousers, and his rather cute socks which had 'Sunday' printed on the bottom, he looked mighty fine in all honesty. He smiled as I came in. I sat in front him on the bed, resting my hand on his thigh and ran my fingers along it as I looked over at him.

"What's on your mind honey?" I said and he looked at me like I was on something, I don't call him honey very often, it's a bit too cheesy even by my standards- and I'm pretty damn cheesy when I want to be.

"I don't want to be annoying" he said.

"Ben, you're never annoying, well apart from when you've not had enough sleep and you're really being grumpy about it all morning, or when you scare the shit out of me when I'm in the shower, when you forget to buy milk, when you're craving a cigarette like a motherfucker and can't have one, or when you-" I barely said.

"Are you just going to list out how annoying I am?" he asked, and I laughed. "I was kinda joking, you're not a total pain in the ass. Anyway come on, you can tell me what's bugging you. I won't judge." I said, tying my hair up in a loose bun as some hair fell to the sides and I tucked them behind my ears.

"On my walk with Merlin, I got thinking and I thought that there are some really crazy people out there, and well..." he paused for a moment like he didn't want to say what he was thinking. I simply waited for him to want to talk again. 

"It's just well, what if someone wanted to hurt you? People don't always just write bad things about people, they do bad things to people too. It scares me to death to think that someone out there has it in for you so badly they could harm a hair on your beautiful head, some of those comments weren't just fangirling or jealously, they were pretty severe. We both know that" he said, his voice broke a tiny bit and I could see the worry in his eyes.

I wanted to brush the thought off but lord knows it's true, there are some really crazy people out there, but at the same time there's crazy people out there who hate people who aren't famous or well known to the public for any reason and they don't try to take said people out.