"Hmhmhmmm," Ace tries to turn around when her face comes into contact with a chest, as she starts to freak out a grumble comes by her ears. "Graham, I think we fell asleep." She sits up, "Shit, if we want to keep this on the downlow that won't happen now."
"Huh, I can't always think as soon as I wake up in the morning, what do you mean?"
"We fell asleep while watching the movie last night, Tegan and Nyssa must have come in at one point, and probably sent a text out to everyone."
"We will definitely face more teasing by our friends. How should we play this?"
"Until we are ready to tell people like nothing has happened."
Graham tried to hide how he feels about that. "Okay."
"Graham I feel like this could turn into something, but I have had bad luck with romance, in fact my last long term relationship was before I was kicked out of high school."
"My last was Grace, before that I can't remember. I guess I better get going then before the other two wake up." He grabs her hand and kisses it. "See you later Ace, text me when you want to go on a date."
"This Friday sound good?"
Graham was surprised at how quickly she came up with a day, "7 pm Friday?" Ace walks him to the door, kisses him on the cheek.
"Perfect, I will text you later today." Neither of them notice the three figures at the top of the stairs. When Ace starts to shut the door all but K9 hide behind the wall. She walks to the kitchen to put a pot on.
"Morning Mistress."
"Morning K9."
"Mistress happy?"
"Very."
Tegan and Ace walk into the kitchen, "Wearing the same clothes as you were at the meeting yesterday. Most would change when they got home or at least before they went to bed. Right, Nys?"
"I know the first thing I wanted to do was change, especially since I don't like sleeping in a pantsuit."
"Oh umm," Ace stutters, "tea?" She asks as she brings down two cups and tries to hide the two from the previous evening. The couple share a look and decide not to say anything about Ace hiding two other mugs.
"We are leaving for the airport in a few hours, and we probably won't be back for the next meeting, because we decided that we are moving here and we need to pack up and find a place."
"That's great to hear, will you need help finding a place?" She looks at Tegan and Nyssa with happy eyes, they don't know if it's because of their announcement or the fact she has a budding relationship.
"Yes, that will be great, maybe you can have someone search with you," Tegan ever the matchmaker with the two suggests.
"Like who," Ace holds in a blush wishing she can explore what she may have with Graham in private.
"Someone from the group, maybe a gentleman who thinks you are beautiful."
"Tegan leave her alone, she'll tell us when she is ready."
"Tell you what?"
"Thou doth protest too much," with a laugh in her voice Tegan takes a cup from Ace and heads to the living room. Nyssa pats Ace on the arm as she too grabs her cup and follows her wife out.
Leaning against the counter Ace lets out a breath as she gets out her phone and opens up iMessage. "This is going to be hard to explore in private." She puts it away and stays in the kitchen to get some alone time away from the busy body.
…Meanwhile…
While whistling up the stairs to get to his flat Graham notices a figure standing at his door, "Hello Yaz, good morning."
"Must be, for you to be wearing the same clothes as yesterday? Walk of shame?"
"Nope, nothing to be ashamed of," his phone goes off.
"Don't you want to get that?"
"It was just a text."
"From whom?"
"I don't know, you want in. You will have to wait in the living room while I change. You are free to raid the kitchen if you are thirsty or hungry. After getting into his flat he heads straight to the bedroom to change and to check his phone. "I agree, Yaz was here when I got home."
"How is Ace doing?" Yaz smiles asking when he exits the bedroom in a different pair of sweatpants.
"I don't know, probably good, why do you ask?"
"Just wondering." They sit down while Yaz is eating an apple. Graham's phone goes off again.
"You ok with hiding from everyone?''
"For now, I was serious when I said I wanted to get to know you."
"If you want me to leave so you can have a conversation with whomever is texting I can, I have a job interview this afternoon anyway."
"You don't want to work with UNIT?" The grandfather figure in Graham wakes up.
"I don't know, I want to keep my options open."
Smiling warmly, "That's a good idea, Yaz."
She looks at her watch, "I better get going, I need to get ready." She heads to the door, "you're still fam to me Graham if something important happens to you, will you tell me?"
"In due time my dear Yaz, in due time." With that she heads home. "Yaz just tried to guilt trip me, this is going to be hard, she is like a granddaughter to me."
"Nyssa is getting Tegan to stop the probing."
"That's good, are they going to be at the next meeting?"
"No, they are going home for a bit to get things together to move here."
"Is that good for you?"
"Minus all the teasing, yes it will be. They are great people, so I offered to help them find a place. Do you want to accompany me?"
"That would be lovely."
"See you Friday."
"Who are you texting?" Tegan says entering the kitchen so rinse out her cup.
"A friend Tegan."
"One that makes you smile like I have never seen."
"What's wrong with a smile?"
"Nothing, it's good to see you smiling. We are heading out now, see you soon Ace don't do anything I wouldn't do."
"Bye Tegan, are you two telling Kate about your plans to relocate?"
"We told her yesterday, love you Ace, Nyssa is already waiting."
Tegan heads to the car, were you able to remain from more teasing?"
"I only teased a little bit."
"Okayyy."
"I promise, let's head out. The faster we can get everything handled the faster we can move to England."
