"Don't make yourself too comfortable," Alex replied, and it was the first time there was any sense of teasing in her tone.
She parted from him at the bottom of the stairs, making her way back over to the crowd that was now thinning to essential personnel.
Making up a story about the strange man fleeing down the fire escape wasn't particularly difficult - it wasn't exactly a lie, either - and the officers in charge resigned themselves to a night of drinking at Luigi's instead of mopping bits of Captain Jack Harkness of the street. And Alex resigned herself to a night of whatever having Jack Harkness in her flat meant.
As even as she stood outside the door of her own flat, she didn't have any idea what that meant.
She pulled open her door and slipped in, crossing through the kitchen to the living room.
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She parted from him at the bottom of the stairs, making her way back over to the crowd that was now thinning to essential personnel.
Making up a story about the strange man fleeing down the fire escape wasn't particularly difficult - it wasn't exactly a lie, either - and the officers in charge resigned themselves to a night of drinking at Luigi's instead of mopping bits of Captain Jack Harkness of the street. And Alex resigned herself to a night of whatever having Jack Harkness in her flat meant.
As even as she stood outside the door of her own flat, she didn't have any idea what that meant.
She pulled open her door and slipped in, crossing through the kitchen to the living room.