Rose Tyler (pictured above) and the 'dancing' detective Miss Rose Tyler (The Vitex Heiress) was seen at the local school dance on Saturday night with a new man.
Miss Tyler has lived in the town for two years and the detective in question - Alec Hardy is a new arrival but they didn't waste any time getting to know each other well on Saturday night as the two of them 'danced' closely.
Has Miss Tyler got herself a new man?
Rose did not need to read any more. She knew it was only the local paper but it was online, anyone in the country could read it, including her mother and her stepfather plus the entire town including Ellie and was surprised her phone wasn't already ringing. She looked at Alec as he handed back her phone. He knew the reason why she hadn't wanted him in the first photo but whoever had taken this had breached their privacy and he was not happy. Well not at first he wasn't but it meant that people knew about them now and the original reason she had wanted him out of the first photo was because she wasn't sure which direction their relationship was going to take but it was pretty much established that it was progressing nicely so now he didn't care if his name appeared alongside hers. He was concerned about Rose though, what it would do to her but it wasn't like he was a nobody, he was a detective inspector, respectable and divorced so no juicy dirt to dig up about his past and no jealous ex wife.
Rose looked at him. "If I say I'm going to murder the little rat who printed this are you going to arrest me?" she asked. Alec smiled. "I'm going to call his editor and if this article isn't removed then I really am going to murder Olly Stevens. That's if Ellie doesn't get to him first."
Alec looked at her as if to ask what Miller had to do with it and Rose explained he was her nephew.
"Rose, I'm sorry, why don't I call his editor and get it removed? It would be better coming from me. I have to walk into the office and face everyone this morning. What's the number of the paper?"
He took her phone again and put the newspaper office number into his phone.
Rose finished getting dressed and prepared for her phone to start ringing while Alec dialled the newspaper office but got no reply.
"Olly must have done the article from home. I'll call when the office is open and speak to Maggie, the editor, I can deal with it Alec, I'm used to this." She stepped closer to him and put her arms around his neck and reached up to kiss him. "I'll get it taken off the website but hope I'm in time to stop it going to print. I'll meet you at lunchtime and let you know and if they say anything at the Police Station, just go with it and brag how you managed to snatch yourself Rose Tyler."
"I really have to go Rose, I'm sorry I have to leave like this. Hopefully not too many people will have read the paper online. I'll do more than brag, I've got the scars to prove it, they're are not going to cover up easily."
He pointed to his neck, kissed her again and left.
Rose waited for the phone calls and didn't have to wait long before Ellie rang her.
"Oh, Rose, I'm sorry, when I get hold of that nephew of mine I'll skin him alive. I take it you didn't know he had taken the photo?" Rose said she didn't know. "You were getting pretty cosy with him you know, is there some truth to this?"
Rose could feel herself blushing but didn't want to admit to anything but she couldn't deny they had been cosy. Ellie rang off and Rose tried the newspaper office again, getting through but being told the editor wasn't available until she gave her name.
Maggie, the editor was surprised when Rose told her that Olly had taken the photo without either of their knowledge and could only apologise. She had assumed because Rose was on one that he had taken them both at the same time and he had done the article at home, emailed it to her and she had approved it but didn't know that he didn't have their permission and promised to get him to remove the photo but keep the article.
Rose had to agree, the article itself was not all that harmful, just other stuff about herself and no other mention of Alec except he was new in town and was the new detective inspector and while she was on the phone looking at the website on her laptop, the photo was removed. Getting it out of the printed version though was going to be more difficult since the paper had been sent to print and Maggie promised she would do her best to get it taken out before it was too late and promised to call Rose when she had succeeded. Rose told her to just send a message as she wasn't going to be answering her phone to unknown numbers then realised she didn't have Alec's. She called Ellie again and asked for Alec's number and Ellie passed the phone to him. She told him what Maggie had said and he was slightly relieved and said it hadn't been so bad and people seemed to be lightening up to him.
He said he had been called into his boss's office and asked about it but since it was innocent and he was divorced, there really wasn't anything to reprimand him for. It still didn't please him though. What if they hadn't got together and it had been printed? How would they both have felt about it? Was this the kind of life she led, always in the headlines?
Rose was relieved to get a message saying the photo had not been printed but a very sharp Jackie Tyler had seen it and wasn't pleased Rose had kept the fact she was seeing someone from her when she had mentioned to Pete she'd had a date. Alec met Rose for lunch, minus Ellie and they got a few stares but were mostly left alone. He turned up for dinner with a big bunch of flowers and some chocolates and gave her a big kiss when she let him in.
He decided to come clean and reveal all about his meeting with Peter Tyler all those years ago and soon gathered Rose already knew about it and she revealed she was also part of Torchwood. They talked for hours about it, Rose even told him of how she had got here the first time then went back and Alec listened because he knew she couldn't be making it up after Pete Tyler had explained to him exactly where the Cybermen had gone, across the 'void' into a parallel world to this one.