AN: Eep, I disappeared again :( Assignments at college and university started to stack up and work went a bit mental. Hopefully I'll have the next chapter up a lot quicker than this one, there is only one or two chapters left I think.
Business in Marrakech seemed to be wrapped up rather quickly, without either Roxy or Eggsy having to get involved any further than they already had been. They had to stay in the area though, just in case something else related came up that they were needed for, so they spent a few days playing tourist and relaxing. It was nice to be able to have a bit of a break after the last few months. Roxy spent as much time as Eggsy would allow swimming in the hotel pool or relaxing at the side of it.
They were both glad to be getting back on the plane that would take them home though. It was a commercial flight that they were booked on, not a private one, but it would suit their purposes. Roxy had spoken with Merlin before they got to the airport and it had been agreed that there would be a Kingsman taxi waiting for them at the airport to bring them back to Headquarters.
The flight wasn't the worst that it could have been, not for Roxy at least; she slept through most of it. Eggsy on the other hand, his experience was less pleasant. He got off the plane muttering about parents who couldn't control their kids and kids who kept running into seats. Roxy just smiled at his grumbling, leading him towards the taxi that should be waiting for them.
Arriving back at Headquarters Eggsy and Roxy sat through a debriefing of the mission before they went their separate ways. Eggsy was heading back into London to go home to his mums, but Roxy wasn't going home that night. She intended to spend the night at the mansion, preferably with Merlin; she hadn't seen him in a few days after all.
She made her way back to her suite to drop her suitcase and shower before searching out Merlin. She found him in his office going over the latest plans to torture the recruits. They were down to only six left and would be getting ready to do the parachute exercise soon.
"Sense impairment?" Roxy asked, reading over his shoulder. She remembered that one well, they were paired up for the exercise, one of them then had their senses altered chemically and the other had to help lead them through a maze, then they would do the exercise again in the opposite role. It was designed to test both teamwork and how an individual would react to an impairment of the senses. "Fun!"
"How can I help you Lancelot?" Merlin asked, still focused on his work in front of him.
She put her arms around his neck from behind in some strange form of a hug. "Did you miss me?" she asked cheekily.
"I was in your ear most of the time lass." Merlin replied as he looked up. "But aye lass, I missed you."
Roxy grinned as she spun his chair round so that he was facing her. She slid into his lap leaning up to kiss him. "I got you a present, it's in my suite, show me how much you want it." She told him before taking his lips with hers again.
"Roxanne?" Merlin questioned her.
She knew what he was asking; he was referring to the no contact rule from their challenge. She smirked at him, "I was thinking while I was away, and didn't we agree before I left that kissing often counts as foreplay."
"Aye, it does that." Merlin chuckled before pulling her back into his embrace. With an invitation like that how could he refuse, he was going to do everything he could to get an invite up to her suite. He wanted to see what she had got him as a gift, but more importantly he wanted the retelling of her visit to the hammam. Eggsy had interrupted her before she had been able to tell him her story.
Merlin was hoping for an invigorating story, but at the same time he was hoping that it wasn't too risqué, he had definitely been in the lead before Roxy had left for Marrakech, but he wouldn't be surprised if she had topped him while she was away. He hoped not though, they only had another two days of the challenge left, and he was running out of ways to beat the woman, she was a lot less inhibited than he was.