Disclaimer: This story is 100% fictional, all characters are fictional, including Bowie. Its just a bit of fun. My first ever fanfiction, so please go easy on me. Apologies for spelling and gramma errors etc.

I have tried to keep the timelines in keeping with Mr Bowies career but it hasn't always worked like that, but have been changed to help with the flow of the story.

Nova moaned as she started to stir awake at the sound of rain tapping on the windows behind her the next morning, she could hear strange noises coming from another room nearby. She suddenly startled and lifted the blanket from over her head, sat bolt up right trying to gain her bearings. She had spent the night on David's sofa. "Shit" she cursed to herself. She hadn't planned on staying the night, just dinner. What if David wasn't happy she had spent the night. She tried to look through the living room entrance from her seat to see where the noise was coming from, David was in his dressing gown making coffee in the kitchen. She wrapped the blanket over her head and around her shoulders and body and warily made her way into the kitchen.

"Morning darling" greeted David. Maybe he didn't mind after all she thought. "Hey," she paused slightly "I'm so sorry I fell asleep, you should have woke me and kicked me out" she apologised worrying she had put him out. "No need to be sorry. You were shattered bless you. Plus, if you had gone to your apartment it may have taken ages to find your bedding. It made sense for you to stay the night really. I would have moved you to the guest room but you were sleeping so soundly, I didn't want to disturb you" she found his concern for her quite sweet. "I never meant to take advantage" she still felt bad about it. "Don't be silly, I'm sure its not the last time it'll happen" he said sounding almost confident. She wondered what the hell that was the supposed to mean, he could be so confusing.

"Coffee?" he offered, "Hmm please" she replied. "I've been thinking" David said to her sipping his coffee then lighting a fag, "We were going to meet later for lunch today, but seeing as how much unpacking you have to do, and seeing as I'm free today, would you prefer some help? We could cancel lunch", Nova thought for a moment "I'd be lying if I said no, as long as its not too much trouble for you Davie" she said, again hoping it wouldn't be putting him out. "Nah course not, I'll get Coco to cancel the reservations. I'm gonna jump in the shower in a sec, did you want a quick one?" he said innocently, Nova raised an eyebrow, sipping her coffee, at him and he blushed at his comment. "Er, I mean a shower, um, not with me" David's blush was deepening "I know I have a reputation, but I didn't mean it like that" he tried to explain. Nova giggled "I knew what you meant". "Besides, I'm not like that anymore" he stated with some conviction, "Yeah yeah" Nova said toying with him, he felt a little defensive that she wasn't taking him seriously, "I'm not! There comes a time in life when your perspective changes. Its not about how many notches you have on your bedpost." He seemed a little vague in his response Nova thought. Like he wanted to explain more but wouldn't let himself. "Fair enough. Thanks for the offer but I'll head back over to my place and have a shower there, and get started". With that David agreed he would head over as soon as he was dressed.

Nova got to the lobby doors and saw the rain was hammering down outside. "Great" she thought to herself "I better be quick". She pushed the door open and ran across the street as quickly as she could, trying not to get hit by cars. She managed to make it up to her apartment in one piece, if a little sodden. She placed her bag and key on the kitchen counter as she entered her apartment, then went off is search through her boxes to find the ones marked "Bathroom" for fresh towels, shampoo, shower gel and her toothbrush and toothpaste. After she found what she needed she figured out how to get the shower working. It ran cold so she let it run for a bit so it could warm up. While she waited she moved her suitcases that were full of her clothes into her bed room and stripped off, made her way back into the bathroom and stepped into the shower. She shrieked out in surprise "Great no hot water!", she decided to carry on anyway, she hated how she felt as the long flight had made her feel grubby, that and sleeping in her clothes.

She washed herself as quickly as she could, the cold water was distressing and her teeth began to chatter. When she got out she wrapped the towel around her and rubbed herself to try and warm herself up, but it didn't do much. It didn't help matters that she couldn't yet find her hairdryer, so she had to leave her hair wet, she tied her long blonde hair back into a messy bun so the back of her clothes didn't become wet and cold. She found the warmest clothes she could find, a pair of jeans and a snuggly winter jumper, but she was still cold. "I'll put the heating on" she thought to herself, annoyed that she hadn't thought of it sooner, but the heating wasn't working either "F-f-fuck sake! I'll have to c-c-call the handyman of the building" her teeth were still chattering. She wondered if she had bought a fan heater with her, opening boxes in the living area hoping she would find a solution.

After no success in a few of the boxes she found what she was looking for "T-thank fuck for t-that", she said as she pulled a little storage heater out of the box. She went to plug it in but the plug shapes were different just 2 pins in America and she had forgotten to get any adaptors She crouched down in front of the heater hugging her knees trying to warm herself, feeling dejected, wishing Anna was there. Just then there was a knock at the door "C-come in" she called out. David walked through the door, "You alright?" he asked seeing her crouched in the corner of the room, "N-no hot w-water, no h-heating, h-have h-heater but B-british plugs" she replied "Oh god, you should have come back over, you could have showered at mine" he fussed, quickly going over to her. "Stand up" he ordered her, as she did he checked the temperature of her cheek with the back if his hand "You're freezing girl" he pulled her close to him, wrapping his arms around her and rubbing his hands all over her back and arms to try and warm her up quickly.

Nova's teeth chattering started to subside as she warmed up. After a few seconds he looked down at her to check "Is that better?" "Yes thanks", their gazes locked for a few seconds, Nova felt herself starting to blush so pulled away and went over to some boxes. Pulling the tape off and starting to open them. David cleared his throat and asked what she would like him to do, Nova spotted a box labelled bedroom and thought of their embrace just now. She smirked to herself in annoyance and looked at the boxes next to it one marked tools, the other photos. She opened them up "Would you mind putting some photos up on the walls for me? There should be a hammer and nails in this box" she thought this would be a simple job, rather than him unpacking and tidying things away so she couldn't find them later. "You'd better tell me where you want them hung" he advised, "Nah, surprise me, I trust your judgement" she smiled at him.

After a few hours, they were both beginning to get hungry. Nova offered to go and get some food for them both, leaving David to continue unpacking, he had been putting the rest of her bathroom bits away after being instructed roughly where she wanted things to go. Nova had sorted her kitchen bits and bobs and was working on the living area, putting her guitars on stands for easy access should inspiration strike and rolling a big fluffy rug in front of the fireplace that looked like numerous muppets had died to make it, which David had commented on, making Nova giggle.

They had agreed on sandwiches at the corner shop which Nova insisted on going and getting "I'm almost done in the bathroom pretty much, what do you want me to do next" he asked after telling Nova his food order, "If you can start unpacking my bedroom boxes that would be great" she said grabbing her coat and bag heading out the door. David opened one of the boxes marked for the bedroom and carried it through into the bed. It was full of hair and beauty products. He starting taking things out of the box and putting them on the bed, discarding the box to the floor when empty. He looked at her numerous perfume bottles, picking one up and spraying it in the air to smell its scent. "Hmmmm" he said to himself. It didn't smell like her scent from last night, but still smelt good.

He returned to the living room for another box marked for the bedroom. He grabbed a pair of scissors off the kitchen counter beside him and tore the top of the box open. He was shocked when he looked inside and began to laugh "I'm pretty sure she's forgotten about this box" lifting an item out. It was a sex toy, one of those electrical gadgets that had been made famous by the TV show Sex & the City, "So this is the famous rabbit" he laughed trying to keep himself composed, pressing one of the buttons so it burst into action spinning the tip of it in circular motions "Wow!" His eyes widened in shock, pressing another button and the rabbit shaped figure towards the bottom began to vibrate rapidly "No wonder men have such problems living up to women expectations" he smirked to himself "Though I've never had any complaints" he mused. He turned it off and put it back in the box, noticing it wasn't the only toy in there, he could see numerous pairs of handcuffs and blindfolds. He looked at them in the box and smiled a wicked smile before closing the flaps of the box top.

Just then Nova came back through the door "Oh my god its dreadful out there, that rain is relentless. I got you a sausage and stuffing sandwich as they'd run out of BLT's, also I knocked at the Super's door on the way out and he's going to get the heating turned on for me thank god" she said taking her coat off and placing the bags on the kitchen counter. "Speaking of something else thats relentless" David grinned widely. "What?" she questioned looking at him curiously, "You might want to take care of that box" he laughed pointing at the box he'd just looked in. Nova walked over and as she leaned down to open the top of the box she began to worry about what he had discovered. It was what she would NEVER have wanted him to see. When she peaked into the box, the blood drained from her face, she looked up to a smirking David and proceeded to grab the box and run into her bedroom slamming the door shut behind her and locking it.

"C'MON NOVA, ITS FUNNY" he said calling to her laughing as he followed in her direction. He stood with his forehead lent against her bedroom door and his hands on the door frame. "Honesty darling, I've seen a lot worse in my time. You really don't need to be embarrassed." His words were met with silence, "Please Nova, you should see some of the stuff I've seen over the years, 10 times worse" He lied to try and make her feel better. Nova was panicking on the other side of the door quietly, she had chucked the box onto a high shelf in her closet, now wishing the ground would swallow her whole. HOW could she have forgotten THAT box. Of all boxes! She felt so stupid and upset, almost to the point of tears. She was consumed with embarrassment. She sat herself down in her closet next to the bedroom door listening to David try to comfort her, wondering what the hell he would think of her now. "Nova, please, open the door. Its ok".

She knew she couldn't hide from him forever and reached her arm up and round to unlock the door. David stepped in glanced round the room, then saw her feet sticking out the closet door beside him, she had curled herself up into a ball with her head on her knees. He knelt in front of her and put his hands on either side of her legs rubbing them trying to console her. She couldn't look at him and had fixed her stare on a specific point of the floor, her face was bright red with embarrassment. "Please don't be embarrassed" he almost whispered to her "Its perfectly normal" he said leaning his face in closer to try and make her feel better. "Perfectly n-normal for a boyfriend or girlfriend to f-find maybe, but not for your b-boss to find" she said with annoyance in her voice, her stammer surfacing. He smiled as he found her stammer charming, "Don't be silly, I'm not just your boss" He could see in her eyes she was really upset by this incident and just wanted her to forget about it and see the funny side "I'm your friend, first and foremost Nova. Don't forget that. We're going to be seeing a lot of each other over the coming months and I'm sure you're going to see things of mine or see me do things that are equally embarrassing" Nova looked at him disbelievingly with one raised eyebrow then looked back to the spot she had concentrated so hard on since he arrived in front of her, "Look don't worry about it. Honestly. I promise never to bring it up, your secret is safe with me, now will you come out and finish unpacking?" He begged her "We're almost done" saying with a musical tone to try and tempt her. "You p-promise?" she wanted clarity, "If I ever bring it up you have permission to order me to strip and spank my little white hinny with one of those things" he said holding both his hands up. She smiled slightly. "C'mon darling, up you get" he stood up and held his hands out to her. She sighed deeply and took his hands, he pulled her up to her feet but kept pulling, motioning her arms to wrap them around his waist for an tight embrace, he threw his arms round her as she cuddled into him feeling glad of his promise but still very uneasy by the fiasco. He swayed both of them side to side as he kissed the top of her head "How did you get to be such a sweetheart Nova. Bless you, you funny girl".

It was 9:25pm and they had finished unpacking. Nova still had a few things to put away in the right places, but everything was pretty much done. They had decided on another night of take away eating, neither fancied going out as they was exhausted, this time it was pizza. Nova insisted on it being her treat tonight as she was so grateful for David's help, mostly. She had desperately tried to forget about the incident earlier but just couldn't. She kept feeling her cheeks warm, and her stomach would turn excruciatingly every time she thought of it. Sometimes David would catch her blushing, knowing exactly what she was thinking about so would start talking about music, family or something, anything to try and take her mind off of it. He completely understood her embarrassment but really didn't mind and didn't want her to worry.

If anything, he actually found it a bit of a turn on. His mind would wander while he unpacked and put things away, thinking about her using those….toys. Picturing her twisting and wrenching on her bed. He would catch himself thinking these naughty thoughts, and try to snap himself out of it, after her falling asleep on him last night he could no longer deny his attraction towards her, but he had to remain professional. The pizza arrived and they sat on the sofa with the tv on. There was nothing really interesting on so they put on a documentary channel for background noise. Nova sat as far up the other end of the sofa as possible away from David, the embarrassment of earlier was going to be hard to get over.

David noticed almost immediately and put one arm round her back and the other curling over her thighs "For god sake Nova" he said pulling her closer across the slippery leather sofa to him "What?! she cried, "Will you forget about earlier. Just relax" frustrations in his voice. "I'm sorry but I don't want you to think I'm some weird sex terrorist or something" she really didn't want him to think less of her. He looked at her crossing his brow with pizza hanging out of his mouth. "Look at who your saying that to Nova! I've done some fucked up shit in my time" He said with his mouth full. "You really need to get over this or it could cause problems with us working together. Just forget about it. I don't care" He turned to look at the program on the tv. "You said you wouldn't bring it up again" she said quietly, feeling sorry for herself. "And I promise not to, as long as you don't let it bother you" he said with a little impatience. She thought to herself he was right, she couldn't let it affect their friendship. He was clearly willing to forget about it, she was still hanging onto it. She needed to nip it in the bud, and move on. She let out a sigh. "Shall I strip?" he said looking at her with a wink. Nova smirked, punching him in the shoulder, and carried on eating her pizza.