Syrena took a deep breath as she started to wake up, inhaling Alex's scent as she did. Smiling, when she realized Alex was still with her, she snuggled closer to him. Pushing herself farther up to be face to face with him and still smiling as she watched him sleep for a little bit. Taking in his relaxed face, slightly pouty lips, light and even breathing and total relaxed state. Syrena pressed a kiss to his cheek before carefully getting out of bed, pulling her sweats back on and heading downstairs. She rubbed the sleep from her face, fixing her hair and glancing up at the clock on the wall above the sink window.

2.44am

Sighing, Syrena went into the fridge and grabbed a soda, then shuffled into the living room and plopped down on the couch. Switching the Tv on and watching some dufus infomercial. She almost jumped out of her skin as someone touched her shoulder. She gripped her heart as her dad came around from the back of the couch and sat down beside her.

"You okay, Sy?" he asked. "I didn't mean to scare you."

"Yeah, I'm fine." she answered getting her heart under control again. "What got you up this time of the night?"

Her dad shrugged his shoulders and stared at the Tv, the glow of it throwing shadows against his sad face as he sighed deeply. "I've been having trouble sleeping."

"Cause Mom took Remy with her to New York to film her new movie and you're on hiatus in a quiet empty house." Syrena nodded, understanding that her father had a case of empty nest syndrome. He nodded. "Why don't you pick up a role at the Theatre or something like at. Something to occupy your time while they're gone." she suggested.

"I've been thinking of doing that for the last few months. I talked to Ben about doing a a show or two at the Gothenburg City Theatre."

"Go for it!" Syrena encouraged him. "I love the GCT. Some of my fondest moments of being at work with you is at that theatre house. I wouldn't mind going back there again to see you portray some awesome character like Hamlet or Romeo." she beamed talking about the characters her father had played as in the GCT while she grew up.

"I'm too old to play Romeo, Syrena." her father laughed.

"Says who?" she laughed with him.

"Me. Says me, James Søren Ashlin, that I'm too old to play Romeo in Romeo and Juliet." James proclaimed. Syrena laughed harder with her dad, patting him on the shoulder.

"Okay, okay. Maybe you are. But there's others roles you can get and I think you should totally go for it." she told him through her laughs.

"I will." James nodded. "In the morning, I'll call Ben and have him fish around for something. In the mean time," he got up off the couch. "I'm going back to bed. I'll see you in the morning."

"Okay, see ya later."

"Oh and Syrena." James paused at the steps of the second floor where his room was. Syrena looked back at him. "Tell Alexander the next time he comes into my home, I expect him to say hello at least or I'll have to call Stellan and have a talk about his son's manners." he smiled at the shock on his daughter's face.

"How did..."

"I'm your father, Syrena and I have your seven brothers, who have snuck their dates into the house just like you. I've developed a radar on knowing this sort of thing." Syrena nodded at him, getting it.

Parental thing.

"I'll tell him when he wakes up." she agreed.

"Good. I'll be gone early in the morning as while. Meetings." he informed her. "God natt, Sy." He bid her again and went up to his room.

"Good night, dad." Syrena called to him as she turned back to the Tv, a deep blush over her face. "Can't believe we got caught." she laughed at herself. "Damn it."

Sighing and pushing off the couch, Syrena headed back upstairs to get some more sleep, she like her dad, had meetings in the morning and had to fly out of Stockholm to LA for a casting call her agent Benji had set up for her on a new movie. Leaving her bedroom door open, now that James knew Alex was in the house, she pulled off her sweats and crawled back into bed, snuggled her back up against Alex's side, grinned when he moaned, shifted and wrapped an arm around her.

The next morning, Alex kissed Syrena awake and sat up in bed with her, when she was fully awake. Syrena leaned against his shoulder, yawning. "Morning, sleepy head." he smiled kissing the side of her neck. "You sleep alright?"

"Yeah, thanks to you, I was toasty warm all night." She smiled returning the kiss and getting out of bed. "Oh, my dad said that the next time you come in the house to say hi to him or he's going to call your dad and have a talk with him about your manners." she relayed the message, pulling on a pair of cameos and heading down the hall to the kitchen stairs. Alex's struggled out of bed, pulling on his clothing and followed her into the kitchen.

"Your dad knows I'm here?" He asked, nearly tripping down the last three steps into the kitchen as his pulled on his pants.

"Yeah, I got up around 1 or 2 this morning to get a drink and I guess I woke up him in the process and he told him he knew you came in with me last night. Not sure if he knew that we did it, but I wouldn't put it past him." Syrena told him, pouring herself and Alex a glass of orange juice. "Whole parent thing, you know. Eyes in the back of the head shit."

"He's not mad?" Alex asked, taking the glass of juice and sitting down at the breakfast table with her.

"No, just that you didn't say anything coming in." she assured him. "Probably feels a little disrespected by it, but he's not mad."

"Good." Alex nodded, sipping the juice. "When's your flight out?" he asked.

Syrena looking up at the clock and added up the hours until her flight in her head, "I got three hours." she answered. "I still got to pack though."

Alex nodded, playing footsies with her under the table. "Okay, you do that and I'll take you out to breakfast and drive you to the airport. That way you don't have to worry about leaving your car in the airport and paying the daily parking fee." Syrena nodded, downing the rest of her juice, getting up and putting the glass in the dishwasher.

"Alright." She said heading up the stairs again. "The shower is this way, if you want to take one. It won't take long for me to pack."

Alex jogged up the stairway, catching her around the waist from behind and hugging her tight to his body, Syrena giggled laying her hands over his. "You not going to take a shower with me?" he asked.

"You've seen me naked enough for one day, Alexander." She teased him, pulling away and heading to her room, where she showered in her own bathroom as Alex used the one in the guestroom, then she packed all the stuff she was going to need for the trip and possible few months away filming, if she got the role. Slinging her bag over one shoulder, she marched downstairs and met Alex in the living room with a kiss before they headed out the back door and walked to his car that was parked at the back of the house.

"So, what do you want for breakfast? We have an hour and a half until I have to get you to the airport? Though its really an hour since you have to be there a bit before hand." Alex asked, pulling off Syrena's parent's property and onto the main road.

"Nothing fancy." Syrena replied settling back in the passenger seat and resting her hand on Alex's thigh. "Light and easy, would work right now."

"Okay, how about coffee and bagels at Starbucks, only about 15 minutes away from the airport." he suggested, gripping her hand on his thigh and rubbing his thumb over her knuckles.

"Sounds good." She smiled, enjoying the feeling of his hand holding hers.

Alex pulled into a parking space out front of Starbucks and they headed inside the little coffee shop and stood in line waiting for be served. As they waited, they held hands, shared shy kisses and playful touches to each others cheeks, backs, necks and a sneaky butt squeeze on Syrena's part, making Alex blush bright red and her hide her giggle in his arm.

"Hi, what can I get you today?" the cashier asked them, when it was their turn. Alex motioned for Syrena to go first.

"I'll have a Grande Caramel frappaccino with soy milk, extra caramel and whip cream and a New York style bagel." she ordered. The cashier grabbed a clear medium size cup wrote on it and passed it to the barista, then looked up at Alex for his order.

"One regular Grande coffee and plain bagel, please." he told her, pulling out his wallet and MasterCard.

The cashier grabbed another medium cup, wrote on it as well and handed to the barista too, then rang them up. "That'll be $7.19." she told him, taking his credit card and swiping it. Alex entered his pin and took back his card and bagels, then waited at a window table with Syrena for their coffee.

"Cold coffee in the middle of a Swedish winter, Sy?" he teased her as they ate.

"I'm crazy that way." she smiled at him.

"Grande Caramel frappaccino with soy milk, extra caramel and whip cream and a regular Grande coffee!" A voice called out their drinks. Alex popped the bite of bagel he had in his hand in his mouth and got up to grab their coffees. He came back, setting Syrena's frappaccino down next to her and sitting down with his regular coffee. He took the lid off his coffee, blow on it for a moment, then took a drink. Syrena sucked some of her ice cold coffee through the green straw in it and smiled happily with satisfaction.

"I'm going to miss you, Sy-Sy." Alex confessed looking out the window next to him. "A lot."

Syrena smiled at him and rested her hand on his forearm. "I'm not going to be gone forever, Alex."

"I know, but still." He answered looking back to her. "After three months of filming together, never being apart. I've gotten attached to you."

"Aww," Syrena blushed. "I know how you feel. I promise to call you all the time." she crossed her finger over her heart. "Deal?"

"Deal." Alex smiled and they pinky swore. "Come on, lets get you to the airport, so you can hurry and get back." he told her standing up. Syrena smiled at him, getting up and grabbing her coffee as they headed out the door and back to his car.