Alec went off and Rose put on a brave face and called her mother.
"It's no use trying to fool me Rose Tyler, I know what you're up to," her mother answered on the first ring.
Rose was about to ask who had squealed on her.
"You didn't answer your phone Madam so I called the hotel and they said you left just after three. So, where are you?"
"Mum, that hotel was too much, I was on my way home," Rose started to explain before Alec got back. "I stopped to get something to eat and some idiot hit my car."
"What? Pete, get here now," her mother shouted in the background. "Someone hit Rose's car."
Pete took the phone, which saved Rose another call.
"Are you okay Rose?" Pete asked her. "I'll call Jake, where are you?"
"I'm fine, I can drive the car, it's not that bad. I reported it to the police, just in case but I'm gonna stay here tonight, I don't know how much longer this will take. Tell mum not to worry."
"That's easier said than done," Pete replied, trying to keep his new wife taking her phone back. "Well get back tomorrow and I'll send the garage to pick it up. You've no idea how it happened?"
"Nope, I just got back and found it like that, I took photos and the police are just checking it. Being who I am has its advantages I suppose? Anyway, looks like I'll be away soon, the detective just came back," Rose grinned at Alec as he opened the door. "See ya tomorrow at some point?"
"Charge the hotel to your company credit card but I should be mad at you for not staying. I take it if any false claims are reported to the police they'll put a stop to them?" Pete asked her.
Rose said yes and goodbye as Alec sat back down.
"You can go now Rose, we'll call you if any such claims are made. Are you going to take my advice and use that hotel?" he asked.
"Yeah, it'll be easier than finding somewhere else," Rose replied.
"Then I'll escort you there, I go past on my way home, just follow my car," he suggested.
Hell, since when did he do that?
"Thanks. It's Alec, isn't it? Sorry, I saw ya on TV about those two girls. I'm sorry he got let off. Did the other girl get found?" Rose asked him.
"No, nothing yet. Maybe she was abducted by some of your off-world friends?" he asked dryly.
"You could request our help but if it's not alien related, we can't really help."
"Sorry, I did not mean to be sarcastic, it's been a long day," he replied.
"What are ya doing here so late anyway? Don't ya work nine to five?" Rose smiled.
"Paperwork?" Alec offered. "No, seriously, I was in no hurry to get home. I was on my way out."
"Really? Somehow, I doubt that. What were you planning then, once you got home?"
Alec couldn't answer.
"You need to relax a little, maybe we could go for a drink? I mean if ya have nothing to get home for?" Rose asked him.
"Maybe we could? Since I have nothing to do and you won't be driving tonight. I would hate to find you locked up in the morning for driving under the influence."
Rose couldn't tell if he was joking or not.
"Did that sound like I was trying to pick ya up?" Rose laughed.
"Nothing of the sort though you should have worded it more carefully," Alec joked as she got up. "I will lead the way to the hotel then, unless you maybe want to stay at a hotel nearer to where I live?"
"Thought ya said ya had to pass it?" Rose reminded him. "Anyway, if you stop for a drink, you'll be the one having to worry about getting home."
"Let me worry about that," he replied as he led her to a side door.
"Don't ya have to sign out?" Rose asked as they approached her car.
"I already did before I went back to see you. Your car is not that bad, if you get stopped on the rest of your journey, just refer the traffic officer to me."
"I will, thanks. So, which car am I following?" Rose asked, looking around.
Alec smiled, something he'd not been doing much of lately and indicated to a car a bit further down.
"Still want to go to that hotel?" he asked as he watched her unlock her car.
"Well, that depends on if ya gonna take things the wrong way, I mean me asking you?"
"I'm way past that Rose, the hotel or my place, your choice?"
"Geez, okay, just don't lose me on the way. You really do need to relax a little. Let's go somewhere and have a drink, me and my PA got totalled last night in a bar on Weymouth seafront, she forgot to give me the anti-alcohol pills," Rose admitted.
"Well I hope you're not taking any tonight?" Alec asked as she got in her car. "Just follow me, there's a pub just down the road from where I live."
"My stepfather said to charge the hotel to Torchwood, how am I gonna explain he doesn't get the bill for it?" Rose asked as Alec leaned on the car roof.
"That's your problem, not mine. Think about it Rose, you get recognised going into a hotel bar with me, it will be on the front page in the morning. Going to a local crowded pub near where I live is I believe the lesser of the two evils. So, are you coming or not?"
Rose waited for him getting into his car. She was way past due having some fun and relaxation and while the blonde bloke from last night had been staring at her and probably kicking himself for not joining in with the crowd around her or waiting until she was leaving, leaning heavily on Sally, who unknown to Rose had taken the pills to lessen the alcohol effects, he was cute but the way Alec Hardy had not even bothered who she was made her more interested.
Plus the fact he'd more or less just saved her the embarrassment of asking if he wanted to spend some time with her, things were looking up. At least he was trying to keep his and her names out of the papers, not trying to make a name for himself claiming to be her latest fling.
Rose didn't have 'flings' they were invented by the media if she was out on the town with friends and some random bloke got pictured with her and never even got their name. Still, it kept everyone guessing and at least it didn't make her look like she wasn't interested in blokes.
She saw Alec pull out and he waited, Rose taking note of the registration number but she reckoned they wouldn't get too separated that she wouldn't be able to keep him in view. Jake had given her lessons in the art of surveillance, she could follow at a distance and not loose him if she really wanted but she didn't want him to think she'd changed her mind. She followed him past the shopping mall, thinking if she'd not stopped off there, she'd be almost home but she wouldn't have met the infamous Alec Hardy, whom she was in denial with that he looked like someone she had lost.
She turned off when he did and he pulled into a courtyard and Rose hoped she'd get away with using the guest parking spot. He got out and waited while she got her new purchases out of the back seat, figuring it was easier than getting her case out and she'd not much in the way of clean clothes anyway.
"Leave that for now, we'll get that drink first," Alec suggested. "Planned this did you? I mean a stopover?"
"Nope, not really, I just can't go past a dress shop without buying something," she quipped back. "I do have a reputation to live up to ya know?"
"Of course you do. The pub is only a few minutes walk but I need something to eat before I drink anything. Any objections?" he asked.
"No, not from me, I'll just get something light maybe? Will my car be okay here?" Rose asked, leaving the designer label carrier bag.
"If you mean will anyone ram it again then yes, it will be fine here. Are you sure that didn't happen before you left your hotel, in Weymouth was it?" he asked her.
"I think I'd have noticed, I'm a trained Torchwood agent," Rose grinned.
"If you say so. This way then," Alec replied.
After ordering some food and some drinks, they began to relax around each other and just before ten, Alec suggested they left.
"I apologise Rose, I should not have assumed you wanted to spend the evening with me," he told her.
"I've had worse offers," Rose smiled as he held out his hand to help her up. "Just one thing, well two things. No talking about who I am and no telling 'cos if I see it in the paper, I know where it came from. Second thing, no more asking me questions, got it?"
"Yes Ma'am," Alec mocked saluted her, gesturing for her to go first. "You could get a room here, if you wanted?"
"I left my car down the road and you offered to put me up for the night, detective inspector," Rose grinned, indicating she wanted the ladies room.
She got inside and rummaged through her bag to see if the anti-alcohol pills worked after she'd got drunk. Who was she kidding? Medical had already warned her about that plus, what she was contemplating, having a little fun with Alec Hardy, she could handle him and although she should have thought about it before agreeing, it would be nice not to worry about ending up in the papers for a change.
Alec was leaning on the wall opposite, waiting for the famous Rose Tyler coming back. No-one would ever believe him, that she'd been willing to go back to his place when she wasn't totally out of her head. It was documented she'd reported an incident, no-one would believe she'd not gone off on her own either to continue her journey or find a hotel for the night.
It was one night, they'd have a bit of fun, let off a little steam and he might, just might be relieved of the sexual tension that had been building up. It also might stop that nagging feeling there was something wrong with him that his doctor had said needed keeping an eye on and for him to take it easy now his big case was over. What did the medical profession know? He'd been given the 'slow down' warning more than once but he'd also read that having sex didn't necessarily make a heart condition any worse.
Rose got herself together, splashing cold water on her face and regretting not thinking about it but she really did want to spend the night with someone, even a Doctor look-alike. Ten minutes later, Alec let them into his flat, Rose retrieving the carrier bag and asking him if she could borrow a t-shirt.
"Maybe later?" he asked as she unbuttoned his shirt, admiring his bare chest and touched his belly, running her finger along the waistband of his trousers.
"Allow me?" Rose grinned. "So, how much do ya need to relax then?"
As if by mutual agreement, clothes were shed until Alec was in his shorts and Rose her more moderate underwear than was in the carrier bag. It didn't however stop Alec pushing her onto the bed and running his finger under one leg of it then the other. Rose grabbed his hand, making him lean on one arm to keep his balance and made him touch her delicate area, making her moan.
He saw the effect he was having on her as she touched his shorts, trying to tug them down. Before either of them knew it, they were both making noises and Alec then scrambled for the bedclothes, Rose not wanting him to move his hand.
"Rose, you'll have to let go or something will tear," he insisted as he tried to free his hand from her underwear. Rose giggled. "That's not helping," he pulled a face as she gripped him tighter through the gap in his shorts. "What are you trying to do to me, kill me off? You do know if you keep doing that, I'll start without you?"
Rose quickly let go, Alec saw his chance as she went for his already wet shorts to pull them off, him wondering why she'd not done that in the first place but he'd forgotten how pleasant playing around first actually was. Grabbing hold of her waist, he pulled her into bed, throwing her damp underwear over the side along with his wet shorts.
"Alec, I want ya to know, I don't normally ask a bloke to go to bed with me when we just met," Rose insisted on telling him as he went to kiss her cleavage. "I mean, I'm in the papers all the time but none of it's true. I've not had a boyfriend in years."
"You have nothing to explain to me. So, are you going on top or am I?" he simply asked.
"Mmm, that's a difficult question. How about we take turns?" Rose giggled as she went for him again.
Alec grunted something Rose couldn't make out that she assumed meant he agreed as she felt him move her legs where he wanted them and as he sank himself into her, Rose grabbed hold of him, trying to balance her heels on his hips and muttering back.
She tried to stop him going too far, she knew she shouldn't, she was only a few days from her monthly and although the injections she got were not what women normally were given, they had some limitations but it all went out of her mind when he whispered he wanted to go further.
Rose just did a 'Mmm' back to him, hoping it meant to him she gave her consent and hoped he'd realise she wasn't used to this. Alec totally forgot he'd been warned there may be something wrong with him but the way Rose was moving for him, he didn't have to apply much exertion. It was like she knew what he wanted, that she wanted all the same things as he felt no resistance from her.
She wasn't trying to stop him. Sure, he'd had girlfriends before Tess but he didn't recall any of them being as co-operative as Rose was being, letting him go further than they'd wanted as she made contented noises. As he felt her shudder beneath him, he knew if he did a good job, she wouldn't even remind him she'd also wanted to go on top. Her fingers were gripping his shoulders, her legs were exactly where he wanted them and for once in his life, a woman was actually wanting him without asking anything in return.
He didn't remember moving away from her and lying beside her but she spoke to him a few moments later.
"Alec, that was out of this world and trust me, I'm glad I let you go on top."
"Really? So no repeat performance then?" he managed to reply.
"Maybe in the morning but until then? Where's that t-shirt?" she asked.
"The famous Rose Tyler doesn't sleep naked then?" he grinned as he leaned over to kiss her.
Rose thought it was the best kiss she'd ever shared with a man. She couldn't have described it if anyone were to ask in the future, it was like the kiss melted on her lips leaving her slightly limp as he supported her.
"Something wrong?" he asked her as she touched his growing beard.
"No, nothing. That was amazing Alec, I mean the sex as well as the kiss. I won't forget that in a while," she grinned.
"I might just keep you to that," he replied. "Rose, that wasn't your first time was it?"
Rose knew it was but she did have a reputation to keep.
"No, what makes ya think that?" she lied. "It's just no-one's made me feel like that before and don't forget, it's my turn on top in the morning."
He leaned down to kiss her again. "If you say so, Miss Vitex."
They found kissing and touching just as enjoyable as the sex, Rose just getting up to put the t-shirt on and him taking advantage of her still being without her underwear, knowing she had some if she'd wanted to put it on.
"You are beautiful, Rose Tyler," he whispered as she fell asleep, resting her head on his bare chest.
She dug her finger into his side. "No, I'm not, I'm no-one special Alec. My mum married Pete Tyler, that's all and sometimes, I'd give anything for my old life, back on our old estate. You wanna know something?" she asked him.
Alec responded by kissing her again.
"I only met Pete through chance, I sneaked into his house the night the Cybermen invaded, I escaped with him and a friend and he repaid me years later when I introduced him to my mother. He said it had taken him three years to find me but the night he did, I lost my friend. Wanna know how?"
"I don't need to Rose, go to sleep, you don't owe me any explanations. I'll make you breakfast in the morning, I can't have you leaving and stopping off anywhere to eat and getting your car dented again, can I?" he asked as she fell asleep and didn't answer him.
