Graham walks into A Charitable Earth whistling, thinking about the call he got from Kate and the email with all the addresses on and off earth. "Graham?"
Graham almost runs into the curly haired Trakenite, "hello Nyssa."
"Here to see Ace?"
"I am, she invited me here."
"Not surprising, have fun."
"Ok?" Graham continues on to the Ace's office. "Knock knock," Graham says while knocking on the open door.
Ace looks up and when she sees Graham, she has a large smile on her face. "Hello Graham."
"Hello Ace, I got all the addresses today."
"You did?"
"I did, I was wondering if you wanted to help me find a place for the meetings and with invitations."
"I would love to, let me see if I have anything for the rest of the day." Ace walks out to see Nyssa talking to Ace's assistant.
"Are you clearing her schedule?"
"She didn't have anything today anyway." Ace shakes her head vowing to talk to Nyssa, she heads back to her office and sees Graham staring out her large window.
"That is my favorite spot here."
"It's an amazing view," he turns around as he says this. They walk and meet in the center of the room and their eyes meet, "so," Graham says with a questioning tint in his voice."
"I am yours for the day," realizing the implication from what she said, Ace blushes. Graham raises an eyebrow at that.
"So let's get started. First we should find a secluded area."
Ace walked over to her computer and grabbed the chair from the visitor side of the desk, "well come on, Graham. You and I will figure this out." They sit as close as possible without touching each trade off looking at the other.
"This place seems good, a former church big inside the building and a little gazebo in the front."
"It will be great, as we will probably be starting out small and then growing."
"It may take time for all those who can show up."
"Yep." Ace picks up the phone and dials the m number on the website. Graham sits back amazed how much her voice changes when in Dorothy mode. When she hangs up she looks at Graham, "what?"
"Your voice drops a little bit when you are talking to someone not related to the Doctor in some way."
"Really?"
"It does," Graham smiles at her, 'I like it,' he thinks to himself. He then takes out the paper he printed out with all the addresses. "Here is the list with all of the addresses."
Ace looks at it, "see we mostly have Londoners, a couple in Africa, and we have some space coordinates for Mel."
"Should we get her back to earth?"
Ace looks at him and smiles, "let's bring her back."
"Beam her down scotty," Ace laughs, more giggles at that.
Nyssa is walking by as she hears the giggle and her phone rings at the same time she picks it up, "hello my love."
"Hello Nys, how is your day so far?"
"Well, as I was going to get something to drink I bumped into a gentleman caller for Ace."
"Really?"
"Yes, and he has been here for a few hours. I went to ask Ace's assistant to clear her schedule. Ace already had nothing. Just now as I was walking past her office, I heard Ace giggling."
"What Ace giggled?" Tegan says shocked.
"She did, have you ever heard her giggle, I know I haven't." Nyssa arrives back at her office.
"Can't say I have. We have seen her laugh. Especially after the most recent breakup where we kept doing silly things."
"She did take the last one hard."
"It was because she actually gave Ace a reason why they were breaking up."
"Now Ace is interested in someone that can know the truth of when she goes off grid for things not relating to A Charitable Earth."
"She can even take him on some of them."
"Well, she does like him a lot. She has spent how many days in a row with his company?" Nyssa asks as she sits in her chair while talking to the woman she came back to earth for.
"We just met him on Saturday and as you know yesterday, he was there when we got to her house and still there when we left there."
"Has Ace talked to you about her other crushes?"
"My god are we in high school?"
"No," Nyssa raises her eyebrows only knowing from a few shows and movies what it is like for that age group.
"She did mention one name, Mike, she liked him until it was revealed he was working with the Daleks when she first met those pepperpots."
"We have spent too much time with Ace, if we are picking up her nickname for Daleks."
"You are the one that works at her foundation."
"How often does Kate pair you two together?"
"Often, though, I think it's going to get less and less."
"You think Kate is going to play matchmaker?"
"I do."
"Ace will not like people interfering in her love life."
"She deserves someone like Graham who likes hearing about all her travels. Though I find it odd that she didn't have K9 out yesterday."
"Before everything happened with the Master, Luke asked if he could borrow K9 and Ace agreed in a heartbeat."
"It's nearing the anniversary isn't it?"
"Not that I know of Luke was having issues getting a hold of Sky, and knew the metal dog could help out."
"Don't let Ace hear you say that?"
"She is still probably distracted by Graham."
"Happy?"
"More than happy, speaking of that, Ace wants to hire Neeka full time."
"That's great, does Neeka know?"
"Not yet, she wanted to make sure I was ok with working with her more often than I am now."
"I could've told her you would love that."
"That is what I said, I just wonder if Ace has called her yet?"
"Go ask."
"I will, I also want to see how close those two are." Nyssa hangs up and gets up from her chair and heads over to Ace's office. When she gets there she opens the door and is happy to see how close Ace is to Graham.
"So we have Mel's, Jo Grant-Jones she does filter between the two last names. We also have Ian Chesterton, Dan, who just stays at his parents house as he lost his because of the Flux, whatever that is."
"You know the Doc, something probably happened that made us forget what it was."
"The Professor did say us humans have an amazing capacity for deception."
"You would think that since we, you know, traveled with the Time Lord we wouldn't forget."
"At least we met after that, Graham."
"I am glad at that," Ace and Graham start to stare in each other's eyes. Nyssa feels a sneeze coming and when it comes out it makes Ace and Graham jump apart like they are teenagers being caught making out by one of their parents.
"Nyssa, how long have you been standing there?"
"Not long, I just told Tegan about you wanting to hire Neeka for a full time position."
"You are ok with working with her then, she will probably be working close to you."
"Like how close you and Graham are working, though I don't think I will look at my daughter the way you two are looking at each other."
Blushing Ace asks, "what do you mean?"
Laughing, "don't act so coy with me Ace. You are forgetting how well I know you. I may not know Graham that well, but I know you Ace. I am happy for you," Nyssa winks.
Graham gets up from his spot, "I should probably get going, thank you for help today. I will see you later."
"Ok, no need to thank me Graham." Ace stands up with him giving her friend a look. Graham walks out. "Nyssa."
"I haven't seen you this happy in ages Ace."
"I."
"Ace, you like him."
"I."
"It was near instant, wasn't it?"
"I."
"It feels good, doesn't it? Having a strong instant connection; that is what Tegan I have and had." Ace smiles.
"Call your daughter and tell her about the job."
"On it," Nyssa leaves the office to let Ace ponder her new feelings for Graham.