Married life with Rose and Alec

Chapter 7

Having had a fairly quiet journey back to Broadchurch, Rose and Alec were glad to be finally home after being away for two weeks and Alec had to go back to work the following day. They agreed to step up their house hunting and so Rose was going to increase the budget they were going to stick to since her mother had said they weren't to pay it back. Alec had talked to Pete about it, insisting they pay something towards it but Pete said he'd wanted to do that in the first place but didn't think Alec would agree. Alec wasn't accustomed to having money. He'd had enough to live fairly comfortably when he was married before as there were two wages coming in and since his divorce there was only himself to worry about. He'd never been in a position to worry about if he could provide for Rose. He'd have to alter all his personnel details when he got back to work, naming Rose as his next of kin for all his official benefits that came with his rank and other things that needed details such as his medical records.

When he had first met Rose he had no idea who she was let alone that she came with money, a thing that she did her best to hide and was quite good at it. She never went mad with her money and he guessed that was because she'd had very little when growing up and had sense not to squander it. He still wasn't entirely happy with accepting Pete's offer and he'd only finally agreed because of Rose. Still, it broadened their search and it meant they might be able to move out of the town to one of the nearby villages and get Rose a house or a cottage by the sea. She had told him that when she first arrived she had wanted to be by the sea. Alec wondered if it was because that was where she had last seen the Doctor and she felt some comfort in it. It also slowly dawned on him that may have been the reason why she had taken so long to start to shower with him.

Alec got back to work the following morning and knew he was doomed. Word had somehow got round that he'd sneaked off and married his young girlfriend and speculation was now rife. It wasn't so much them being quiet when he came out of his office but the stares he got. Ellie thought it amusing and insisted she hadn't told them and that they'd just guessed with him suddenly taking two weeks leave at very short notice, something he'd never done except when he was on sick leave and since the Officer on duty outside the Station had seen the two of them the same day he started his leave they had put the two events together.

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After seeing off her husband, something now she was going to have to get used to at the front door and not the kitchen one, Rose had plenty to do. She checked in at the gallery and Clare was glad to see her, saying there had been no problems and that she had re-ordered as per Rose's instructions. Most of the other things she had to change her name on could be done online which she was grateful for. She made a trip to the estate agency and updated the details of her house searching, remembering to change her name and while browsing the houses for sale could now ask about a few she had seen previously which were out of their budget. She made up some lame story about how their budget had increased. She took a few leaflets of houses they may like to look at to show Alec. She had learned that not all houses for sale made it onto the website.

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Time soon rolled around for them to have Tony for a week, Alec now regretting that poor Rose was going to be the one to have to entertain him. She didn't even have Ellie's support as she had made arrangements for Tom to go to a summer camp and Fred was still at the private nursery since that didn't close for the school holidays. Jake was going to bring Tony down on the Monday and collect him on Sunday morning so Rose and Alec went for their usual run the day before Tony was coming down. Rose was going to ask a really big favour so she wanted to get him in a good mood so after their run started to work on him.

Rose asked him if he could arrange for Tony to have a ride in a real Police car so he said he'd ask but wasn't promising anything and so not to tell Tony and that it would have to be on Saturday if he managed to arrange it.