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

Chapter 9

Monday.

Evening.

Work went quite well today, we managed to create a project plan for the longevity of the project, it'll be about 10 months from start to finish, there's four of us working on it so that's loads of time. Also, we secured £75,000 of funding for the project given that the pitch went so well.

'Things are looking up', I thought to myself as I stopped in a local bookshop on Ealing high street having spent my lunch hour with dad and Percy. It was only about 5:45PM so I had an hour to kill before I got the train to Hampstead. I felt my phone vibrate and took my iPhone out as I walked around the 'fiction' section, occasionally picking up a book and reading the blurb. I made a mental note of a few of the books I fancied reading some time. 

I saw it was Ben and smiled. 

'How is my beautiful fair maiden upon this eve? xxx' it read

'I'm very well thank you my brave knight, I'll have to tell you how work went when I see you, I can't put into a text how well it went! Although during the pitch, you kept coming into my mind, damn you Cumbers!  xxx' I replied

'I just have that effect on women, specifically the Rosie Huntington-Jones type xxx' he replied

'Ever the comedian eh? Anyway, how's filming going? I'm BEYOND excited for this! I mean Turing is like one of THE founding fathers of computer science! Well you'd know that seeing as you're playing him, well I'd bloody hope you did. I saw a few pictures of you on set on Tumblr earlier and you seemed rather Assange in your demeanour. Kind of befitting given the subject xxx' I texted back.

'That's rather cute Rosie, how excited you are. I'm glad you approve of my portrayal of Alan Turing, I never thought about the Assange thing but now you say that, it makes sense. Just another reason I adore you I guess :0) xxx' He said, and I smiled a little. 

'Well you're exceptionally talented Ben, it'd be rude not to be excited xxx' I wrote and hit send, running my fingers along the spine of a book I had picked up earlier.

'You're very sweet my darling. I've got to get back to set now though. I'll call you later okay? It'll be around 7PM (we're actually on schedule for once with filming!), well you've got your keys (I hope?!) in case you're in Hampstead before me? xxx' he wrote

'I'll take your word for it. Yeah I'll be in Hampstead around that time, that's about the time I told Mrs H I'll come get Merlin xxx' I wrote back

'Lovely, speak later. I'm about to get told off for texting now, you're worth it though  xxxxxx' he lastly replied. 

I smiled to myself and walked around some more; a while later I picked up a frappachino to go before heading to Ealing Broadway station to get back to Hampstead and see Mrs H and Merlin. 

About an hour or so later...

I was walking down Mrs Hudson's road to collect Merlin, fiddling in my bag to find my keys to Bens house. I had a look on the bunch and then remembered I had my keys for my house and the keys for Ben's house on one set so I don't forget. He has a set of keys for my place too. 

I stopped by Mrs Hudson's after a while and popped in for a chat. "Come through, come through darling." she said as I closed the front door behind me and greeted a very happy Merlin. "How've you been? I barely spoke to you this morning." she said as we sat in the kitchen at her rather lovely laid out table and she poured me a cup of tea, having placed some freshly baked cookies on the table. She doesn't usually have her best china out unless she's got important people coming over, I guess she's having her monthly book club tonight.