This is not very pc but I don't care!
"Ruth!" called Harry as he entered the Grid, he didn't stop but headed straight to his office.
Beth and Dimitri raised their eyebrows, Harry didn't sound in a very good mood.
"Harry, was everything okay with the HS?"
"Bugger the Home Secretary, Ruth."
He smiled and pulled her to him. "God, I've missed you."
"Harry!" she warned.
"No more pretending. I don't care."
He was kissing her neck as she looked through the windows, fortunately they were all otherwise engaged.
"Harry!"
"What?"
"This isn't the time or the place."
"This is precisely the time and the place."
"But…."
"Live with me, Ruth?"
"What?"
"Live with me. I can't bear the thought of going home without you. I've seen life with you in it and I'm not going to let it go. Live with me. Live with us, me and James."
"Don't you think you should think about this?"
"No."
"Well, maybe one of us should, Harry"
"Do you want to go home alone tonight, Ruth?
"No."
"Do you want to come home with me, be jumped on by James, be jumped on by me?" He smiled, "come home Ruth and let me love you, because if you don't you know there's a very pretty nanny waiting for me there."
"You said you hadn't noticed."
"I hadn't, I'm just quoting you, Ruth."
"Harry, most men ask you to live with them and then propose and then have children. You propose, produce a son and then ask me to move in!"
"I don't like to be predictable."
"You're certainly not that."
Dimitri knocked on the door.
"Go away!" shouted Harry.
"But I need Ruth" shouted Dimitri through the door.
"So do I!" shouted Harry.
She smiled.
"Say yes, Ruth. Say yes now."
"Yes."
"Really?"
"Really."
He kissed her. Then, "Dimitri, are you still there?"
"Yes" came a rather hesitant voice.
"She's all yours."
"I don't think so, Harry" said Dimitri as his boss opened the door. "I'd say she's most definitely all yours."
"I am here, you know." Said Ruth indignantly "and I don't belong to anybody."
"Sorry Ruth," said Dimitri.
Harry didn't apologise, he just waited until she tried to pass him at the door, grabbed her and kissed her.
"Mine" he said and sounded remarkably like James. Then he laughed and fortunately Ruth laughed too.