Rose Tyler moves to Broadchurch

Chapter 6

Rose drifted off to sleep thinking of John again and was hoping if she went through all the events it would clear her mind and help her open up to Alec and she desperately needed him right now even though they had only met two days ago, he was becoming her anchor and she so needed some stability in her life after what she had been through. She had to work all this out or she would lose Alec as well. Maybe she should just come clean after all and tell Alec the rest and fill in the gaps she had not wanted to tell him.

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When Rose had woken the following morning after making love with John on new years eve over seven years ago, she had felt like a new person. She had been happy as it had been her first time. He had been unsure and had asked her consent. She had said she wanted her first time to be with him and that there had never been anyone else she had wanted to be with. They had then spent the early hours of new year's day just kissing and making love again until her phone had rung and it had been her mother wanting to know where she was. She had made her excuses and said she was staying until the following morning and had actually got away with it. They had spent the day with him driving them around London and had gone to see Tower Bridge and the gardens nearby although it was cold but they hadn't cared as they had walked hand in hand.

She had stayed with him on new years night, making love again just as slowly as the night before and he had told her he loved her and she'd told him she loved him and it was well past midnight when they fell asleep in each others arms. After that, they had been inseparable but every night, he took her home and she had finally had to admit to her mother she had a boyfriend but hadn't taken him to meet her. Finally she was on study leave and they had relaxed around the college when she went to collect her assignments and soon her birthday had come around and she'd had a party where she had introduced him to her friends, her family and her mother. Her mother had not been keen he was older than her when she had told her but when she'd met him, she started to come around. Just before everyone had left the party, John had taken her into a side room in the pub and had gone into his pocket and had brought out a small square box and inside was a beautiful solitaire diamond ring and he had got down on his knees and asked her to marry him.

That had been the start of the most wonderful time of her life as they had moved in together and planned their lives together, saving to buy a house or a flat. They had got married a year after their engagement at the local registry office, just family and a few friends and they had been very happy together. She had decided to have Rose Tyler-Smith on their marriage certificate. Then one morning after they had kissed goodbye, tragedy had struck and while she was at work, she'd got a phone call in the manager's office to say John had been knocked down by a hit and run driver and had been rushed to hospital. Her manager had called her a taxi to take her to be with him and she had called her mother on the way to meet her there. She had got into where they had taken him but was told there was little chance he would survive as he had multiple internal injuries and he'd not regained consciousness. She had asked to see him as she was his wife and they had allowed her in but she could hardly see him so she had just gone to hold his hand and she had stayed there until they'd told her he had passed away. She had heard the heart rate machine beep that his heart had stopped again as they had restarted it twice in an effort to save him. She hadn't understood what they had been saying but she had known they had done everything possible to save him. A kind nurse had finally led her out into the corridor where her mother had been watching and waiting and she had just collapsed into her waiting arms as she had tried to comfort her.

They had to answer a few questions given to them by a Police Officer that had been waiting and then they had driven them home saying they'd be in touch. They had never found the driver, the few witnesses didn't get a number plate, just the make and colour of the car and that it had a sticker in the back as it drove off. They had given up after a week. She had been fortunate they'd had a joint bank account and savings and he had left an insurance policy and she had received a small amount from the college board every month, with both of having funeral plans and everything was taken care of. He'd wanted a cremation and his mother came up from Brighton for the funeral. That was when her world had fallen apart and she'd lost touch with reality for such a long time, living day by day knowing he was never coming back to her. Then she had come to Broadchurch and met Alec Hardy.