Series Three with Rose: All the Bits Inbetween

Part 5

Rose was bored. Standing at the console, she drummed her fingers impatiently watching on the monitor for the Doctor, who she hoped would appear any time soon.

Rose sighed as she pushed the screen away and began to amble back to her bedroom.

It had been about 24 hours now since shed seen the Doctor and she missed him. Of course it was her fault for being stubborn and refusing to come with him and Martha but she now regretted the decision. As much as she adored the TARDIS, being alone in it was not as fun as she'd first expected.

Before Rose could reach the corridor, she heard the TARDIS door slam shut. Spinning around, she turned to see the Doctor walking up the ramp.

"Hi," he said awkwardly.

"Hey," she replied quietly , "had fun?"

The Doctor paused momentarily before rubbing the back of his neck.

"Um, met Shakespeare...witches...end of the universe...that sort of thing..."

"Oh," said Rose feeling slightly jealous, "cool."

The Doctor walked towards the console.

"How about you?" he said looking towards her with wide eyes. "Got up to much since we've been away?"

"Um...not really..." she said quietly looking down at the grating.

"Oh."

There was an awkward silence before the Doctor spoke.

"I was just going to...erm...move the TARDIS for a sec...to the Globe Theatre..."

"OK," said Rose nodding, not daring to ask any questions, before turning away in the direction of her bedroom.

The Doctor covered his face with his hand as Rose left the room. He had really screwed things up.

He hated arguing with Rose. Hated it more than anything.

Throughout the outing with Martha, his mind had been constantly on Rose. What was she doing? How she was feeling? How he was going to apologize to her? How he was going to profess his love to her...

Hitting a few buttons, the TARDIS rotor flew into action.

As it slowly came to a halt, the Doctor took one last look towards the direction of the corridor, before sighing and leaping out of the door.

Martha and the Doctor ran through the doors, narrowly escaping death by arrow, Queen Elizabeth The First's arrow to be exact.

Laughing hysterically, Martha flung herself down on the jumpseat. She had had such an amazing day. She had met Shakespeare! Could this really get any better?

Glancing over at the Doctor, who was leant up against the console fiddling with some dials, she noticed how distant he looked. Martha knew the reason for this. The Doctor had been pining for Rose for the last day or so, bringing her up in conversation whenever possible.

"Where's Rose?" asked Martha curiously looking around.

"Dunno," said the Doctor sadly.

"You want me to go find her?" asked Martha, hoping for some time alone to get to know the girl that this man had so many feelings for.

The Doctor looked over at Martha. "No maybe I should go," he said removing his coat, flinging it on the jumpseat next to Martha and sauntering out of the room.

Rose was sat on the sofa in the TV room watching old alien soap-opera re-runs when she heard a soft knock on the door.

"Come in," she said loudly.

The door slowly opened and the Doctor peered around it cautiously.

"Rose?"

Rose giggled as she stared at his disembodied head poking around the door.

"Hi," she said continuing to laugh.

The Doctor smiled as he came closer. "What's so funny?"

"You," she said chuckling.

The Doctor sighed happily as he flopped down onto the squishy sofa next to her.

"We OK?" he asked turning and facing her, his arm resting on the back of the sofa behind her head.

"Yeah we are," she said giving him a smile, "sorry 'bout everything."

"Me too."

"An' I do like Martha bein' around," said Rose softly.

"Really?"

"Yeah."

"I know she can be a bit abrupt-" started the Doctor.

"But she's nice," finished Rose.

The two stared at each other for a moment before the Doctor moved forward for a hug.

But before he could move any closer, Rose put a hand out to stop him.

"Doctor can I ask a favour first?"

"Sure."

"Can you take me home?"

"Really?" said the Doctor looking saddened.

Noticing this, Rose quickly spoke.

"Not forever, just for one day. Tomorrow?"

The Doctor looked relieved.

"Sure. Do you want us to-"

"You don't have to stay." Said Rose cutting in. "You can both come back to fetch me on ?"

"Ok," replied the Doctor. "But this means I'm going to be without you again."

Rose smiled at him and poked him in the chest with her finger, before snuggling up next to him.

"Oh I'm sure you'll survive."