Ryan wakes up in the morning to laughter and it's not Graham's. In the past few years since leaving the TARDIS he hasn't been woken up by female laughter. Inside his home it takes him a few minutes to make him not think of his Gran. Getting up he grabs his glass then heads to the kitchen to see Graham and Ace end a kiss both with large smiles on their faces. Looking up to see Ryan, "good morning Ryan, how did you sleep?" Asks Ace.
"Good, you?"
"I slept well, thank you." Graham sets a large plate of pancakes on the table. The three of them sit at the table and start to eat.
"This feels domestic, even though the three of us are heading to the same pace."
"You're right Ryan. This is the most domesticity that I have experienced except the few times I slept over at Tegan and Nyssa's house since traveling with the Doctor."
Graham reaches for her hand, "you have people here," he looks at Ryan who nods in agreement with a smile on his face, "who loves to be domestic with you whenever you want."
"I appreciate that."
"Ok you two love birds, how are we going to handle getting ready with two bathrooms?"
"I already took a shower."
"So did I." Ryan looks at them and notices Ace's hair is still wet.
"I don't want to know." Ryan puts his plate and fork in the sink and heads to the shower himself.
"Do you think that he thinks we showered together?"
"I am not sure Ace. I hope he doesn't, considering we didn't."
"I didn't want to have sex with you, with your Grandson just right there."
"I know, and neither did I."
"I am going to get dressed real quick."
"Don't you need your bag honey?"
"I do." Graham walks her to the door, unlocks it and brings her in for a kiss.
"While you get your bag, I am going to get dressed."
"Ok." Ace heads down to her car and when she gets back she sees Ryan sitting on the couch.
"I get dressed at the last minute," he goes back to typing on his phone. Ace goes to Graham's room and thinks if she should knock first or not. Before she can raise her knuckle Graham opens the door. Graham steps aside to let her in.
As he walks out and shuts the door and yells, "Ryan you have 10 minutes."
"Like the two of you won't be carpooling."
"You will still have to get to work on time."
"Graham."
"I just care about you."
"I know, you also should tell Ace how you feel."
"What do you mean? She knows."
"Grandad, you love her. I can tell."
"I." Graham then realizes that he has fallen in love with the woman changing in his bedroom. "I do."
"Did you not realize that you were?"
"No. Are you ok with it?"
"More than ok with it, Ace is lovely."
"I know."
Ace comes out, "know what?"
"That you are lovely."
"Thank you, you're lovely yourself."
"Can you two hold the flirting until you are in Ace's car."
Ace raises her eyebrows, "what do you mean?"
"I assumed that the two of you would ride in together. I would drive the car Graham and I share."
"I am fine with that, Graham, want to ride into work with me."
"I would love to Ace." They head off to UNIT, Ace looks at the time and calculates how much longer it will take to get to UNIT.
"Coffee or something else, we are 10 minutes away."
"What is on your mind for something else?"
"Pull over to the secluded spot and have our lips touch."
"I like that idea, but how will we keep track of time?"
"Set an alarm."
"Honey, if we start now, I don't know if I would want to stop."
"Hmm, coffee then?"
"Yeah," sounding a little sad at it.
"Tonight, how about you spend the night at my place?"
"I will like that."
"And right after we eat, we can head straight for," Ace wiggles her eyebrows.
"I will try not to think about it too much at work, so we can get the work done."
"I will be thinking enough of it for the both of us."
"Ace." She laughs at how he said her name.
"You are so easy to take the mickey out of." They arrive at a little place and grab their drinks and then head off to UNIT.
Walking in, Ryan stands there, "we left about at the same time, but you two got here after me."
"We stopped to grab something to drink," Graham held up his steaming cup.
"Was that it?"
"We talked about Graham spending the night with me at my place."
"Ok." Ace and Graham walk away, Ryan tries to grab Tegan and Yaz's attention.
They walk up to him, "Graham is spending the night at Ace's tonight."
"I will text Nyssa." They get to work. At the end of the day after Ace and Graham leave, Tegan, Yaz and Ryan all head over to Tegan and Nyssa's.
At Ace's, both her and Graham enter her place trying not to attack the other so they can eat something first. "What should we eat?"
"I don't know. What do you have here?"
"Something quick is grilled cheese and tomato soup."
"That is a good idea." They quickly get to work on their dinner waiting until it is done and they are fed. "You know Ace."
"What do I know?"
"We are acting like we are still a young couple, not a middle aged one."
"It feels good though, I… really enjoy it."
"Same here." Graham turns quickly to make sure the soup is boiling over. "We're good."
"I say we are more than good," Ace says as she sets their sandwiches on the table and passes by him running her hand across his back on the way to get bowls for the soup. As she does this Graham shudders in a good way.
"Ace." He looks at her to see her smiling all innocent. "That smile doesn't match your actions."
"Want my smile to match my actions, or," she steps closer to him, "my actions to match my smile?" Before he can grab her she dances away from him.
"You are a tease at the moment."
"Just a little fun, so we can have even more fun," her voice drops a few octaves. Graham serves up the soup and they sit at the table trying not to eat too fast. After they finish eating they clean upstairs and head upstairs for the rest of the night.
