Rose was not abandoned

Chapter 2

She looked up at him, moved his hand from her shoulder and kissed his cheek then she got up. Alec was confused as she stood there, picking up her thin jacket. She still had his sunglasses on though as she walked away, carrying her sandals. He was up in a flash, almost forgetting his shoes and socks, then scooping them up with his jacket and hurried after her, calling her name to slow down. There were still a lot of people near the path as he made his way to catch up with her. Fortunately for him, she had stopped to put her sandals on and he caught up, realising his shirt was still unfastened and people recognised him but he didn't care, he was focusing on hurriedly putting his shoes and socks on as Rose started off again and he called for her to wait.

Cursing himself for not putting sandals on himself, he dashed after Rose who was now walking past the harbour wall of the esplanade, making her way back towards the hotel. He doubled his stride and caught up with her, trying to get her to stop for a minute then desperately, took hold of her arm. She stopped and spun around.

"Let me go Alec, please, forget me. I'll be gone in a few days." She took his sunglasses off and handed them back to him silently and took his hand off of her arm and was just about to turn around when he put the sunglasses in his jacket pocket and grabbed her with both hands by her shoulders and kissed her.

He let go and said, "I can't do that Rose. I can't let you go and I can't just forget you. So, come back to the hotel and talk to me, tell me why I should leave you alone and forget you and if you give me a valid reason, I'll consider it." He kissed her again, not caring people were passing by, his shirt still open and he was getting some surprised looks from the locals who knew him only as the town's grumpiest Detective, who was now engrossed in kissing a young blonde, much to their amusement to see he was human after all.

He let her go again, got the sunglasses back out and put them on her, pushing them back on to her nose and kissing her forehead. Then he put his arm around her and they headed back to the hotel together. She put her arm around his slim waist as they walked the short distance. They only let go as the got to the door, both smiling as they remembered what had taken place just a few hours earlier which had made him go find her in the first place.

Becca also had a surprised look on her face as they came back in together, she had never seen the Detective move as fast as he had done earlier after he'd gone halfway up the stairs then suddenly turned around and fled out of the door like the place was on fire. Something had been on fire alright but obviously not the building Becca had thought and better not come out with cheesy remark about him catching up with the mysterious blonde who she suspected wasn't using her real name. There was something very familiar about her.

As they made their way upstairs, Rose wasn't surprised that it was Alec that was the only other occupant of the second floor. There was about an hour before dinner and Rose said she really needed to get changed. Alec still hadn't bothered to fasten his shirt as he leaned down to kiss Rose again.

"Join me for dinner?" he asked. "Then we can talk and I'll tell you all about my less than perfect past then you can tell me yours. You might just want to be the one who forgets me." He kissed her again then she turned to open her door.

"Alec, sorry for running away from you, I shouldn't have done that when you were being so nice to me. I just don't want to see you get hurt, when I leave."

"Then don't leave, stay here get a new job, what is your job anyway?" he asked, smiling at her.

"I just work in an office, for my step-father, he runs his own business." It was half the truth, hopefully he wouldn't dig any further but he was in the Police, of course he would dig further, that was what she was afraid of. How long could she fend him off? She had already half given in by responding to his first kiss. Wow, that had been some kiss, the last one she'd had like that was when she had been possessed by Cassandra and she'd kissed The Doctor oh so long ago now. Now she regretted she'd not done it for real before she got stranded here. Maybe Alec Hardy was exactly what she needed but no, she didn't want a substitute, she wanted her Doctor.