It had been the first time for him after his operation and although his doctor had told him to take it easy at first, there had only really been one way of finding out if he could have sex again and that was to find a woman he really wanted to try with and he had found her. She had been amazing and he told her so.
"You were amazing too Alec, it's been a while since I found someone I wanted to go to bed with. I don't usually have sex on a first date but I was willing to make an exception for you."
Rose noticed the small scar over Alec's heart and looked concerned.
He didn't have to worry about bringing up the subject after all as he told her it was okay, he had survived a pacemaker operation and this was his first time since having it that he had tested just how well it worked.
"You mean it could have killed you, just having sex?"
Alec had moved onto his side, tracing his finger on her delicate skin as Rose was almost touching his scar.
"It's okay, really, I promise I won't collapse on you. It just means I have to go easy for a while so if you want to have sex again tonight then you are going to have to do all the hard work," he smiled.
That was all the encouragement Rose needed as she pushed him onto his back and straddled him, leaning down and kissing him until he felt the urge. He pulled her down until theytouched and Rose began to move on him.
"Be careful what you wish for, Detective Inspector Hardy" she laughed and began to lay on him in just the right place as she rocked gently backwards and forwards.
Exhausted, they both got comfy until Rose excused herself to go to the bathroom and clean herself up but when she had climbed off him and got out of bed he thought she was going to tell him to get out. She didn't, she just silently put on a robe and some clean knickers and when she came back, he was sat on the edge of the bed with his shorts on, pulling his shirt on.
"You're not leaving are you?" she looked disappointedly at him. He took the hint and forgot about putting his shirt on, throwing it back on the chair. Rose smiled at him. "That's what I thought. Alec, I didn't get up to give you an excuse to leave, I just needed to freshen up, I got a bit too excited, it wasn't a hint for you to be gone when I came back."
She took her robe off and stood directly in front of him and putting her hands on his shoulders, pushed him back onto the bed as he took hold of her waist.
He pulled her with him and covered them both with the bed sheets and then kissed her senseless. By the time their lips parted, Rose's felt slightly swollen but it was well worth it.
Alec just managed to say, "I didn't know what you expected Rose, I was just being prepared to be kicked out. Nearly every time I'm invited to a woman's bedroom, I get kicked out, sometimes before something has actually happened and definitely just afterwards. None of them seem to want me to stay after the event. What do you want Rose, was this just a one-time sexual encounter or do you want more?"
Rose smiled at him. "Did this feel like a one-time encounter Alec? Is that what you wanted or did you expect more?"
He didn't usually have a choice, it was always 'thanks for the sex now get out' from the few women who had actually been interested in more than a quick romp and that was before he had got really ill, after it became plain to him he was so seriously ill and he would die if he didn't do something about it. It had taken a lot of courage and a really big gamble to go ahead and have his operation, he had been on medical leave for almost four months in total, a month to calm him down after his superiors told him it was the operation or a pension, then three more months to recuperate and ask for re-instatement and wait to be re-assigned after his doctor advised a change of pace. Besides that, he didn't want to be in the same city as his ex, she had caused most of his illness in the first place. Now here was Rose Tyler, asking him to tell her what he wanted. Did he want more of her? He would be completely mad if he said he'd only wanted the one night and he more than wanted to have the chance to see her again.
"Oh, what I wanted was everything you just gave me and as for expecting more, well I do want more, if you do?"
Rose got herself comfy on him again, sprawling herself over him, her head leaning into his neck, nipping and making tiny marks on it. He was so going to have trouble covering them up on Monday.
She whispered, "I do want more Alec, you're fantastic, to say you were at death's door and now I know that, we can go easy for a while, I don't want to cause you to have a relapse."
"So, you want to see me again do you? Are you sure you want to be seen with an older man? A divorced one at that, because I was married you know, I have a teenage daughter by my previous marriage who just about talks to me and you are a lot younger than me and famous. Look at earlier, when you wanted to keep me out of that photo, do you want to keep protecting me from your famous life? I'm a nobody Rose, you are way out of my class."
Rose looked up at him. "Don't say that Alec, of course you're somebody and I do want to be seen with you. It was different earlier, I didn't know if you were going to say goodbye after the dance and I would never see you again so naturally I wanted to keep your name out of things if you just turned up to escort me to the dance. Now I know you want to see me again, it's different and you are a respectable divorced police detective with nothing to hide and you are so in my class, don't ever think you're not. Age makes no difference to me, you should see the age gap between me and my last boyfriend."
Well technically the Doctor wasn't her 'boyfriend' exactly but they were as close a couple as they could get without getting down to the nitty gritty of having sex.
He looked at her and smiled. "Well in that case, you do know what you're letting yourself in for with me but there are still some things that I need to tell you but I can get to that another time, there's no rush. We can talk about them over breakfast, I promise I won't sneak out while you're asleep and if you don't believe me, just lay yourself back over me so I can't escape and are you going to keep those knickers on all night?"
He moved his free hand to start to pull them down, Rose assisting him then they pulled his shorts down.