It was happening to him again, memories of a love struck Martha Jones surfaced again, how had he gone wrong there? He'd made it plain to Martha he wasn't interested in that way and he'd more or less told his boss he wasn't looking for a new girlfriend yet here he was, talking to Rose as she stood by her car and he was now leaning with one hand on the top of the door, pinning her down and being face to face with her. He could almost feel the dagger going into his back that Maureen Chambers was plunging into him from twenty metres away. He was so close to Rose he wanted to kiss her on the spot and probably half the people there would applaud him for daring to snog the Vitex heiress senseless. All except Chambers and Pond of course.

Rose was trying to squirm her way from Alec Hardy's arm that was planted firmly on the top of her car and stopping her opening the door to escape from him. She looked at him for any clues this may actually be her boyfriend trying to wind her up. She knew John as the Doctor was extremely good at pretending to be someone else and he'd kept trying to tell her he was different from his twin, maybe this was his idea of doing it.

Well she thought it was remotely possible he was doing this to up the stakes in the bedroom department but why was he trying to irritate her in the worst possible way and he was succeeding. He wasn't going to give up.

''Maybe I should give them both something to be jealous of?''

''Not a chance Alec Hardy, I've got a boyfriend thanks very much.''

''Well I'll ditch my girlfriend if you ditch him?''

''I should warn you, he's very possessive.''

He could have sworn he'd said exactly the same to his DCI. Was he possessive? Maybe he was, he liked people to look at them when they went out anywhere and got slightly jealous if she wasn't giving him her full attention, which lately had been getting less and less. Time to let her go and think about it but would she ditch John so easily if she didn't already suspect he was playing this game with her?

''Well think about it, if you want to get in on this investigation, Agent Tyler.''

''Are you always this grumpy when hitting on a woman?''

''They seem to like my gruff disposition, besides, I learned my lesson the hard way, maybe we should just forget it until this is over?''

''Agreed, it would never work detective inspector, mixing business with pleasure is a big mistake but I'm not backing down on this case just to suit you so you'd best get used to having me around.''

''Then I look forward to working with you, Agent Tyler. Maybe you'll have dinner with me one evening?''

''Only if you bring your girlfriend and I bring my boyfriend?''

''You drive a hard bargain, Miss Tyler, maybe they'll take to each other?''

Rose smiled. ''I doubt it, I'm rather unique, that's what he likes about me.''

''Well so am I, there's only one of me.''

He let go of the car door and Rose opened it but he stopped her getting in.

''It's a limited time offer, take it or leave it.''

''I'll keep that in mind, should I want to take you up on your offer. See ya.''

He let her get in and watched her start up the car, then she opened the window and he leaned down. ''Yes Miss Tyler? Changed your mind already?''

''You wish and if your boss thinks the photo on your desk is me, tell her to get an eye test. I hope I'm not going to be a substitute?''

''Nothing of the sort Miss Tyler. Maybe I'll see you tomorrow?''

''Not if I see you first. Bye Alec.''

He knew she was onto him, he couldn't keep up the pretence with her for long, she'd surely confront him when they got home. Maureen had walked over to him.

''Won't your girlfriend get jealous, you chatting up the Vitex heiress?''

''She won't find out, will she? You're not jealous are you Maureen?''

She wondered when he'd started calling her by her first name but knew he was being facetious.

''Why would I be jealous of one of the richest women in the country?''

''Maybe because I've just pulled one dagger out of my back already?''

Maureen huffed and walked back to the tent. He was going to be insufferable now he'd talked to the Tyler woman and she didn't envy the man's girlfriend, if she happened to be real because there was no way Alec Hardy would let go of Rose Tyler now he'd looked like he was about to snog her face off and shag her senseless.

Rose went back to the office to finalise details with Jake, who was organising a team back in London with specialist equipment for locating people that were buried or hidden in underground caverns or in deep basements and she prepared to set off home, debating to go get some more new skimpy underwear and just wear another low cut shirt again or maybe one of John's.

She got in and began to prepare dinner, then went into the bedroom, wondering if she would finally give in to him tonight or not and maybe have her first real time with him. She couldn't shake the image of Alec Hardy leaning so close to her like he was going to snog her in front of everyone but would she have let him or slap his face before he attempted? Well she may have slapped him afterwards, for even trying or not trying hard enough but what about John?

No, she had to forget Alec Hardy, he was not as amicable as John but maybe John was trying too hard? Well maybe not last night though, he'd seemed disappointed that she'd put some knickers on this time when he'd got into bed, otherwise something would have happened even if he'd kept his shorts on, which she'd noticed were not boxers but actual briefs and she could feel him wanting to make something of it. Well if he tried tonight, maybe she shouldn't stop him trying to get her out of her underwear, if he kept his on.

John got back to the office, went to the locker room to change his shirt and tie back, leaving his hair until he pulled up outside their apartment in case anyone noticed as he drove off. He'd retrieved his other shirt and had just unbuttoned the one he was wearing when he heard footsteps and an 'Hmm' from the doorway. Maureen Chambers was standing there as he looked over, quite aware his hairy chest was showing through the gap in his shirt.

''Going somewhere Alec? Why are you changing?''

''Got a date with my girlfriend, we're going straight out, I don't want to go in my work things.''

''Really? Are you sure you're not just saying that and you're not meeting Rose Tyler?''

''What has that to do with you? No, I'm meeting my girlfriend, Miss Tyler shot me down in flames.''

''Did she now? It didn't look like it from where I was standing Alec, you looked like you were going to snog her senseless up against her car.''

''Jealous are you Maureen?''

''She's welcome to you, I can tell when I'm getting the brush-off, just how are you going to explain it to your girlfriend? You never even told me her name, you've done everything you could to avoid telling me. I bet you had those photos made up, didn't you?''

''No, I did no such thing. Her name is Sarah-Jane Smith, if you must know.''

''Really? Ok, I may believe you but she's no comparison with Rose Tyler, is she?''

As John he stopped for a moment, remembering when she and Rose had been fighting over him, back in that school. There really had been no comparison between the two and Rose had got jealous of the fact Sarah-Jane had been his companion and looked like she wanted to pick up where they'd left off, not that anything was there to pick up, they had only really been friends but had his old companion had feelings for his fourth regeneration just like Rose had for his twin? He shuddered at the implications but he was now trying to put that right, even when his twin couldn't but constantly reminding Rose of his other self was now definitely not the way to do it.

Maureen had walked up to him, admiring his bare chest and was about to reach out when he gripped her arm. He only wanted his Rose to touch him now, like she had done last night, he couldn't give in now they were so close to her giving in to him and they finally got to have sex.

''Forget it Maureen, I'm not interested and you're my superior officer. I told you, I don't get involved with women I work with.''

Maureen snatched her arm away. ''What about Rose Tyler?''

''Who says I'm going to be working with her or interested in her?''

Maureen tried again, Alec caught her and moved her hands away, he did not want anyone to be walking past and get the wrong idea but it seemed the DCI did.

''Oh come off it Alec, if you really had a girlfriend, you wouldn't go around the way you do, even your DC looks at you and so do half the female staff in the station. You're a very attractive man Alec Hardy and if you had a girlfriend, you'd make it more obvious and you wouldn't have been hitting on Rose Tyler. Ok, I'll leave you alone, for now but you can't blame any woman for trying.''

He thought he'd just had a very lucky escape. He finally drove home to find Rose looking pretty much the same as last night, keen for him to take his jacket off and snog her into the middle of next week, things were looking up. He was now glad he'd fended off his boss.

''Mmm, Rose, this is nice, any special occasion?''

''No, does there need to be? I thought we'd agreed this is how I'm gonna greet you when you come home?''

''Really? Oh yeah, we did, didn't we? Maybe we could take this to the sofa?''

''Only after I've checked on dinner and you take off that stuffy shirt and tie and put your sexy striped one on again and your jeans and don't bother fastening your shirt buttons either, I'll only undo them for you.''

''Maybe I like you to undo them for me Rose? So how did you get on today at the scene where that boy went missing?''

''I think you over-estimated how much help Alec Hardy was actually looking for John. He didn't exactly welcome me, he didn't even know who I was when I arrived. Is he the only man in Scotland who doesn't know me?''

John leaned down for another kiss. ''Well that's his loss, isn't it? So are you sending a team in?'' He carried on kissing just below her ear, making her shiver when he breathed into her neck.

''Mmm, that's nice, do that some more. Jake's got a team ready, they'll be here in the morning, I'll meet them at the command post. Jake was going to join them but decided to wait. There is one thing though.''

''What's that my love?''

He nibbled her ear again, making her smile and snuggle into his neck.

''That Alec Hardy is a real pain. He even had the nerve to ask me out before I left.''

John stopped what he was doing. She was going to find out, he was sure of it. He pretended to be offended. ''He didn't, did he? Huh, I'll be telling him off in the morning to stop trying to lure my girlfriend away, the cheek of the man. Hang on, you weren't tempted were you love?''

Rose looked up at his gorgeous brown eyes she always got lost in and smiled, pulling his tie off and over his head then unbuttoning a few more buttons, the top one he never bothered fastening and he was glad that as Alec Hardy, he'd remembered that.

''Worried John?'' she teased, putting her finger on his chest.

He was glad now he'd not let Maureen touch him, having Rose put her finger on his chest was one of the most exciting things to happen to him.

''Should I be love?''

She pulled him down for a kiss. ''Nope but he did look like he was going to snog me, in front of everyone.''

''Well I hope you stopped him?''

''Mmm, I certainly did, no-one else snogs the way you do.''

''Well I'm glad to hear that Rose. What about the other me though? You snogged him once.''

''That wasn't quite me, remember. Why have you dragged that up again? I thought we were actually getting somewhere after last night?''

''We are, or rather I hope we are but it's you Rose, can't you get past the fact I happen to look like him? I'm not him, you have to see that now, surely? Please Rose, don't let the fact I looked like him get in the way, that's why I've changed my appearance for you, so you won't think of us both being the same. Didn't you realise I was doing all this for you, changing who I was to make you realise I didn't want to be the same as him? So what do you think Rose, do I still remind you of him?''

Rose decided now was not the time and pulled away, John went off to get changed and they ate dinner in silence, John staring where Rose hadn't fastened all the buttons of the shirt he was sure was his. When Rose had cleared everything away, he stood in the doorway, pointing the toe of his converse trainers on the door frame. Rose silently approached him and he held his arms out, kissing the top of her head. Why were they still both pretending? John was certain she knew how he felt about her and she had suspicions who he was pretending to be, why didn't he just admit it to her?

He led her over to the sofa and lay back against the cushion since she had almost reached the last button without either of them realising. John was about to unfasten the last button on the shirt of his she had taken from his side of the wardrobe. Rose looked up from kissing her way across his chest, tempted to take a bite out of him in a sensitive spot but thought she was getting too carried away with herself considering he had avoided the same with her, for now after he had unfastened her bra strap again successfully.

''No John, I know you're not him, not any more. It's just that detective threw me off, he looks so much like you, how's that even possible? I know that actor looks like you, I got over that ages ago, he's married now anyway but three of you looking alike?''

''Don't worry about it Rose, this is me and in case you've not noticed my love, I'm not Scottish and I don't look like I'm about to snap everyone's heads off.''

''Hang on, I thought you'd not been following the case on TV? So how do you know he looks like he's mad at everyone and how do you know he's Scottish? You have some explaining to do mister so out with it. I never said he was snapping everyone's heads off, just he was a bit off with me.''

''I may have caught the end of the press conference you were talking about the other day,'' he tried to explain, reaching over to kiss her breast again, Rose trying to hold him off but unsuccessfully.

''Oh that's not gonna work, John Smith or should I say Detective Inspector Alec Hardy, it's you, isn't it? You saying you're going out because you're climbing the walls with boredom in your office and wanting to go join the investigation. How long before you were gonna tell me?''

''Ok, you caught me, you're just too clever for me Rose Tyler, you always were, that's what I love so much about you but I did it for you my love, for us. I did it because you couldn't get over him, because you couldn't give yourself to me and I had to have you, I've always loved you and now, we've been given another chance to be together and I didn't think you wanted me, you wanted him.''

''You daft thing, you didn't have to re-invent yourself because of it, I would have come round eventually. What makes you think I wouldn't?''

''I'm on limited time now Rose, I couldn't risk it was never going to happen. So, what do you think? I slip away as John Smith and become Alec Hardy?''

''I was just getting used to you as John Smith, am I gonna have to start all over again?''

''No, why? It's taken me over six weeks to get your bra off Rose, don't make it another six weeks for me to get the rest of your underwear off.''

''I should be mad at you but I'm not. Go on then, how did you re-invent yourself as Alec Hardy?''

''It just came to me, I'm good at pretending to be the police in case you'd not noticed. I think the fobwatch had something to do with it though, I think that's why he gave me it, there's just enough contained within it to help me re-invent myself, not to change me fully, I don't need to do that.''

''Oh, so it did help? Thought you said it was useless and you didn't know why he'd given you it?''

''Well I didn't at first. Then slowly, I've been changing into Alec Hardy. Do you like my Scottish accent then?''

He pulled her down for another long, lingering kiss.

''Mmm, it's a bit gruff compared to the one you put on for Queen Victoria's benefit and you seem to mumble a bit.''

''Thanks but if I'd have spoken like before, you'd have guessed it was me.''

''No, I would have thought you were the actor, you sounded just like him back then.''

''Did I? I hadn't noticed.''

''Well I hope you're not the actor.''

''Don't be daft Rose, would I be here now if I was?''

''Well I've only just accepted you're a gruff Scottish detective. Now you've been discovered, how are you going to explain you're suddenly seen going around with the famous Rose Tyler?''

''I'll say I broke up with my other girlfriend and I successfully lured you away from your jealous boyfriend. You do know I invented a whole past life, complete with ex wife and teenage daughter?''

''Oh, so you come with baggage then? Charming!''

She leaned down to kiss his chest again, this time unable to resist the temptation to nip at him, making him say ''ouch.''

''Right, you're gonna get payback for that Rose Tyler.''

He flipped her over and dove down, nipping both sides and making her squeal with delight as she tried to struggle away but he wouldn't let her.

''Oh no you don't Rose, you're not getting away that easily, I've waited a very long time to get to do that to you.''

''Really? Then don't let me stop you but just to make things clear, are you gonna carry on with that investigation?''

''I don't know Rose, the female DCI has got her eye on me, you might have some competition.''

''Huh, that's what she thinks. Why don't I get Pete to get you a transfer to our London branch of Torchwood?''

''Rose, I want to be a detective love and yes, I did let your stepfather and Jake in on it, they got me in at Glasgow west police station, got me all the necessary paperwork. Maybe I can get a transfer to another station?''

''Yeah, ok, you can be a detective then if you really want but let's find that missing boy first, me and you?''

''Yeah, tomorrow, your team arrives, I'll snog you in front of everyone and I'll ditch my young blonde girlfriend and once we've found the boy, we'll move, maybe down south somewhere though not we're my fake ex wife and daughter are but close by, you know, as a cover story.''

''Oh, so I'm involved with a divorced detective, you'll have to explain that to my mother then.''

''Oh it will be better if you do that, I'm keeping my distance and it's only for show, we know that.''

''My mother might not, you know what she's like. Do I have to start calling you Alec?''

''Weeell, let me take the rest of your underwear off then you can call me anything you like.''

''Hey, I want my first time with you as John Smith.''

''I love you, Rose Tyler.''

She pulled him down for another kiss. ''I love you too, John Smith.''

With that, he got her off him and pulled her into the bedroom. They woke the next morning, Rose sprawled across him with a big smile on her face and John, now becoming Alec to everyone else but to Rose her lover and her calling him an unrepeatable name, with an even bigger grin on his face.

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After Rose and the Glasgow branch of Torchwood were joined by the team from London, the boy was found two days later in a basement of an empty house on the far edge of the woods, after being taken by a woman who'd got scared and left the day before when she'd heard Torchwood were now involved in the search, Alec suddenly received a commendation and the offer of a transfer to run a small police station on the south coast of Britain, in a coastal town called Broadchurch.

On the day before their move, everything was packed, Rose just had to gather their personal belongings the next morning, Alec had given his rental car back and she was waiting for him to come home, they were going out to celebrate the move but he had something else on his mind. They had been together for two months and been lovers for two weeks but he thought they'd already wasted enough time before they both arrived on this version of the earth so getting a ride home from a tearful DC Amy Pond and the 'we'll all miss you' speech from a dejected DCI Maureen Chambers, he had a small dark blue box containing a diamond ring in his pocket to ask his love to marry him.

''Rose, I'm home Sweetheart, are you almost ready to go out?''

He'd quite taken to his 'gruff' Scottish accent and Rose had decided he should keep it even at home.

''Yeah, come and help me with this dress zip will ya?''

''With the greatest of pleasure my love.''

He whistled at the sight of Rose, who had not even put her blue dress on to go out and was wearing the black lacy underwear as she'd done the night they had made love for the first time, the night John Smith revealed he was pretending to be Alec Hardy. He already knew her answer when he asked her on the spot to marry him.

The End!