A few days later Roper arrives back at the estate, Pine and Smith arriving at the estate, just in time to greet him. "Andrew. I didn't get you a snowglobe if that's what you're wondering. And the beautiful Camila. Let's hear that new accent I've heard so much about."
"Hello, Roper." Smith smiles, speaking with an almost perfect English accent.
"My God, Andrew. She's a bloody genius."
Pine smiles and nods, "So I've heard."
"How's the homework coming?" Roper looks over to Pine.
"Uh… It's pretty good, I think."
"Oh. better be. I'm going to be testing you." Roper places a hand on Pine's shoulder as the two starts into the house, a few feet in front of Smith and the others, "Where's Jed?"
"I don't know actually." Pine looks over to Roper, "We haven't seen much of her, to be honest."
As Pine makes this comment Jed walks out of the house and Roper smiles, "Jed, darling." Roper steps away from Pine and over to his wife.
Jed places her hands on Roper's chest, "I'm sorry."
"I'm sorry, too." Roper nods.
"Come on, I want to show you how much I missed you."
"Andrew," Roper looks back to Pine and Smith, "Top floor. One hour."
Pine and Smith spend some of their hour, walking around the estate garden. As they walk through the garden hand in hand, Corky quietly calls out to them, "So you're joining up?" The two look up to Corky, who is standing on one of the state case landings. "Send the kid back to Mummy, and then it's off to work we go."
"Right." Pine nods as he and Smith watch Corky walk down the stairs to them. Once on the ground, Corky joins the couple in their walk, Smith between the two men.
"Thanks to some very clever footwork by some queens unfriendly to the cause, you're going in my place."
"Corky, I have no idea what you're talking about."
"You see," Corky looks over to Smith, the two of them being roughly the same height, "The chief, though he'll deny it, is an incurable romantic. Whereas, Corky here is a skeptic. And my professional and personal view is, you're husband is poison. You both are." Corky steps in front of the couple, stopping them, "But Andrew here saved his little boy's life, so he's Mr. Untouchable."
"I think one's becoming a tad deranger, Corky." Pine comments, glancing around but never glancing to Corky. Before he steps around him, pulling Smith along behind him.
"And then, of course, there's the case of the nighttime naughties while Roper was away. 'Barefoot she walked along the beach, to the old cottage where the hero awaits.' Now if that isn't an airport novel waiting to be written."
"She came to see me," Smith steps toward Corky.
Corky looks to Smith a little shocked, but continues on his threat, "Do you have any idea what he'd do to her… if he knew? The damage he would do to your beautiful, sweet faces?" Corky looks up to Pine, "Even Dr. Shimon, Mr. Plastic Fantastic might find that a bit of a challenge. That's the fire you're dealing with." He looks back to Smith, "or don't you care?"
"Of course, I care."
"Well, good. I gave your husband this warning, but I didn't this I had to tell you. Don't ever go near that girl… again."
Corky leaves the couple to their walk around the garden. When the head up to the top floor, the same floor the two had been interrogated in by Corky and Roper, not three months earlier. They find that there are racks and racks of clothing, both men's and women's. Roper smiles at the pair as they walk in, "There they are. I thought you two could use a proper wardrobe since you'll soon be out on the town with the Misses and I."
The tailors begin getting measurements for Pine and Smith, getting them in several different outfits to find what works best. Pine being fitted in mostly suits. Smith being fitted in mostly dresses. The tailors measure Smith first and get her set up with a few nice dresses and even a suit of her own. When she's done she spins in the mirror in one of her new dresses, "It's beautiful."
"Yes, it is." Pine smiles, walking over to Smith and kissing her softly, "You look radiant, my love."
Once Smith is done they start on Pine. "waist to floor 45. Thigh, 23. Chest, 41. Waist, 32 and a half."
"I do believe the tree trunk has filled out a little bit," Roper chuckles, "You been raiding the fridge while I was gone?"
"Well, er…" Pine chuckles, "I was laying on supplies or maybe it was all the home cooking Camila's been doing."
"Alright, so we'll take two of those, one of the birdseye, Prince of Wales, and then one in the grey, what was that called?" Roper rubs his forehead as he talks to the tailor.
"Er, Super 100, sir." the tailor points his head out from behind Pine.
"Super 100, yes. Now, can you do all this by Wednesday, because Mr. and Mrs. Birch, here, are embarking on very important trips in the near future."
"Of course, Mr. Roper." The tailor nods.
Smith walks over to Pine, with a genuine smile, as the two embrace Jed walks in, Roper being the first to greet her, "Ah, Jed, darling. Come and see our little ones. Don't they look grownup?"
Smith looks over the Jed, she and Pine smiling as Smith rests her head on Pine's chest. Jed nods, "Very nice."
"Thank you," Pine nods.
"Alright," Roper claps his hands, "time to pay the man, Andrew."
Pine looks over to Roper confused, as does the tailor, "Er… we can charge all this to your account, Mr. Roper."
"No, no, no, no. Mr. Birch will pay for his and his wife's clothes, won't you, Mr. Birch?"
Sandy tosses Pine a wallet when he opens it he sees a few credit cards and a debit card with his name on them. "Voila."
"And there is a wallet for Camila once she and Jed pick out a few purses."