From the Doctor: Ten and Rose, Highschool AU

Morning

John lay on the floor of Rose Tyler's room, staring at the ceiling.

How he got here, it was still a mystery to him.

If Rose was anyone else he might have encountered in his life, they would've run. And talked. 

Weirdo.

Genius.

Freak.

Rose saw something different in him, not an oddity, not a loner, he was a person. He was human, and so often he felt like he wasn't. He wasn't treated all that much like he was by most people.

But Rose, wasn't most people.

Donna, Jack and Shareen were the other people who'd understood who he was and not just the outer shell everyone else judged without question.

But, he also remembered the other people along the way. Martha, who loved him, but he didn't return those affections, but by then it was too late. He'd moved, he needed to.

Oh, he remembered the people he met on his travels, as once upon a time, his parents had traveled far and wide and taken him with them. He remembered Tegan, Turlough, Peri, Jamie, Barbara and Ian, Adric and Nyssa, and countless others.

Romana, though,  he remembered her clearly. In France, they'd met. She was just as smart as he was back then, he got along with her really well. Like she was a part of this place John was.

He'd had a thing with her, even. But he'd dare not say a word to anyone here. He wanted that part life over with, he couldn't relive those memories.

But now, reflecting on how he came to be on the floor of Rose Tyler's room on an air mattress in the middle of the night,  he was happy.

He heard Rose stir slightly beside him, in which hearing he stayed totally still.

"Mmmhh, John?" She said, sleepily

"Yeah?" He replied

"I'm cold" She flipped over to face him

"Come, warmth" She waved her hands lazily

John gulped. Did he move?

Well, he did.

Rose shuffled over, and John slipped in quietly.

"You're cold" Rose muttered

"I'm always cold, it's like a part of my biology or something" John joked

"Mmmhmm" Rose muttered, turning over and putting and arm over John's back, her fingers cirling over his side, brushing just below his ribs.

John inhaled sharply in surprise.

"You alright?" Rose asked

"Yeah, I'm fine" John said

"You sure?" Rose asked again, a bit more awake 

"No" John replied

Rose missed the last bit, only to fall asleep.

As John eventually did as well.

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That morning, John slowly came round to consciousness. It looked a bit dark out, but that wasn't the main point of his concerns.

He was tangled up with Rose Tyler.

Her arms were wrapped firmly around his torso, her legs loosely laying on top of his. his arm was around her back, and he'd hadn't noticed a single thing happen in all that time.