Rose was not abandoned

Chapter 13

"Fortunately for you, I forgot to pack my handcuffs. For some reason which escapes me for now, I was in too much of a hurry to catch a train when I got a phone call from my girlfriend at nine thirty last night. It seems she couldn't live without me for even twelve hours. You wouldn't happen to know her by any chance would you? She's small, blonde, gorgeous, great in bed and on the beach, looks amazing in a bikini and her underwear, oh and in tight dresses and when she's got my shirt wrapped around her shoulders." Rose shook her head. "Well, since she's not here, I guess I'll have to made do with you then, are you any good at shagging? Only she promised me plenty of that if I came to London last night instead of waiting until tomorrow, she was rather desperate to get me back into bed."

Rose dug him with her elbow. "So, let me get this right. Your girlfriend can't live without you and she's only terrific at shagging?" Alec nodded "And she was so desperate to get you into bed, you came to London two days early because she promised there would be plenty of this terrific shagging and she's not here?" He nodded again. "Well in that case, her loss is my gain because I'm more than terrific at shagging, I'm truly amazing at it and I was thinking of ditching my boyfriend because he was going to leave me here in London until Saturday all on my own just because I told him I need some time to think. I mean, isn't twelve hours of leaving a girl on her own to think more than enough?"

Alec nodded his agreement. "So, this boyfriend of yours, can he keep up with you? I mean, leaving you for more than twelve hours should be a crime, I can have him arrested if you like or do you just want to get your revenge on him?"

"What exactly did you have in mind?"

"Well, she promised me if I took a boat ride with her down to Greenwich, she'd come back to the hotel and shag the life out of me. Care to take her place since she's not here? Seems a shame to miss out. So what's your name then?"

"I'm Rose, Rose Prentice. And you?"

"Alec Hardy, nice to meet you Rose Prentice, care to join me on a boat ride to shagging heaven?" He offered her his arm and they both got up and walked towards to boat landing together.

They didn't care they were out in the open discussing how good Rose was in bed and Rose was always careful to use her cover name when she was out, something she was well rehearsed in as well as never using her debit card unless in approved places, always getting cash when she needed to buy anything. Alec got the return tickets for the trip down to Greenwich and as promised, Rose held his hand all the way and he didn't find the trip was as bad as he thought it would be but maybe that was because Rose had her other hand on his leg all the time.

They checked what time the return trips back to Westminster were and they had about ninety minutes, it was already after three so they found a coffee shop and sat down for a drink and then walked around the village before making their way back to the boat landing. Alec took more photos of Rose with some of them both together and she took some of him and showed him how to put one as his phone wallpaper and one on her mobile number so it showed when she rang him. They sat up on the deck going back, still arm in arm and talking about everything in general except the more important things and after landing, they got a bus back to Leicester Square and went back up to their room, planning to go get something to eat before going to the cinema but not before he made Rose keep her promise for getting him to go on the boat ride.

"You owe me big time, Rose Tyler for getting me on that boat. Although I don't suppose it was as bad as I thought it was going to be so I might let you off lightly. As for the other thing."

"What other thing? Oh and what's this about me only being terrific at shagging? I'm brilliant at shagging so watch it DI Hardy or I might just leave you for that boyfriend of mine who will be here tomorrow and leave you at the mercy of Rose Prentice."