Rose Tyler's New Life

Chapter 12

They spent what seemed like hours on the sofa, the only sounds were of them calling out each others names. Alec gently moved Rose so they could both breathe again.

Weeks of doubt as to Rose's availability, a week of not speaking were all gone. He had found Rose's weak spot and she his and they both fully intended they were going to make sure they kept each other on the edge. They had hardly spoken since Alec had followed Rose in from the street. Actions after all speak louder than words and both had shown each other what no words could have said. He held Rose's underwear out to her having retrieved them from where he'd thrown them, teasingly asking her is she really wanted them back or if he could keep them as a trophy.

"Keep them, Inspector, I've got plenty more, you could start a collection," to which they both laughed. She got up and pulled down her skirt a bit more as Alec went to retrieve her top from where he'd thrown it then put it over her head and pulled it down. He put his shirt back on to which Rose pulled a face but she began to fasten his buttons.

There was a sudden look of shock on Alec's face as it dawned on him they had used no protection. Rose seemed to know what was the matter and said "Don't worry, I've got that covered Inspector," to which Alec was relieved.

"How did you know what I was going to say?" he asked.

"I could tell by the look on your face. We didn't exactly have time to discuss it, did we?" She looked at him coyly, then moved towards him. "I think we need to talk, don't you? By the way, just out of curiosity, when you saw my car was gone, did you think I'd left without saying anything?"

"What sort of question is that, Miss Tyler? Of course I thought you'd gone and I was devastated because I was an ass and it was all my fault. I should have trusted you Rose and I'm truly sorry now that I didn't."

She took his hands in hers and placed them around her waist, reached up to kiss him. "Idiot," she whispered, "though I was tempted to go because I thought you couldn't accept it and didn't want me."

They both realised just how foolish the pair of them had been but Alec has asked for time and she'd given him it but she was angry with herself for not even sending him a text to ask if he was ok and Alec was angry with himself for not doing the same.

It was still only quite early, Rose had got back at five thirty and it was creeping up towards seven thirty and the both realised they were hungry, Alec abandoning his dinner and Rose not even starting hers. He volunteered to drive down to the local Chinese so Rose gave him her car keys. "Don't wrap my car round a tree on the way back," she teased.

After Alec got back and they had eaten, Rose lead him back into the living room and to the sofa but Alec stopped mid-way in the kitchen, wanting to ask her some more questions first. Rose remarked how he was always being the Policeman and did he never stop asking questions?

"Rose, I'm being serious, we really need to talk now because there's no going back after what we've just done together. I need to know you want the same as me, for our relationship to be stable and for people to get to know that we are together. I'm not keeping you a secret, we are both single adults with nothing to hide. It's not like we are having a secret affair but I'm a Police Officer of fairly high ranking, you are a shop owner, people will still gossip if we try to keep it a secret. How do you feel about it though?"

Rose looked at him, put her arms around his neck and said "I'm not keeping you a secret, Inspector, I don't care though if people see us together, they'd better get used to it." She kissed him then continued. "You had better tell me though about your ex, you haven't really said anything but you do know I've read your file. You won't get any trouble from that department will you because it didn't say anything about her since your divorce."

"There won't be any trouble Rose, she hates my guts and she turned my daughter against me even though I was cleared of any wrong-doing and I've tried to make amends. I've been working to try to win my daughter back but it's had no effect. Maybe it never will. I can only try and I hope that won't be a problem with you if she decides to have contact with me, will it?"

"Of course not, Alec, why should it? I'd never do anything to come between you and your daughter, even if it turned out she hated me for being with you, she would never turn me against you and I'd hope she wouldn't turn you against me."

"She won't, she's not like that I hope but even if she did hate you, I would never choose between her and you, she would have to learn to compromise and accept the fact I'm with you. She would never make me hate you and choose to leave you just to please her. She's getting older and she'll have to learn to live with it as much as I still love her, I love you more than I've ever loved anyone before. I thought I loved my ex and it was great for the first few months after we married but she turned sour on me when she was pregnant and I never really got her back. She lied to me and pretended things were ok just for our daughter's sake but she'd been having affairs for years and I was so wrapped up in my work and my daughter I was too blind to see it."

"I'm sorry Alec, I shouldn't have brought up the subject." She kissed him tenderly. "That's the end of it, if you want to contact your daughter, you have my blessing."

As they fooled around on the chair, his hands everywhere, time passed and it was getting late. Rose still had to open the shop in the morning and as they adjusted their clothing, Alec adding another pair of her underwear to his collection, they went upstairs. Alec was aware he'd left food abandoned on his living room table but they would have to wait until morning. He was going to bed with Rose Tyler properly this time and that was all he cared about. He was going to give Rose Tyler the night of her life.