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.
John was not unhappy with this situation at all, it's just he wasn't anticipating it, at all.
Rose was fast asleep, with her head resting just below John's shoulder.
She was so peaceful when she was asleep, not being able to put on any expression or pretense, just Rose.
Just Rose, she was radiant. She was like John's very own sunlight, which shone through any shadow which would cause him pain or hurt.
John remembered a song, in that moment. Not one he'd heard in a very long time
You are my sunshine, my only sunshine,
You make me happy, when sky's are grey,
You never know, dear, how much I love you,
Please don't take my sunshine away
John smiled at this memory, he smiled at the present, and smiled for the future.
Rose woke up next to him, slowly.
"Oh, good morning", Rose opened her eyes a tiny bit, and looked at the alarm clock, "early morning"
It read 7:03am
"Same goes" John replied, smiling down to her
Rose smiled up at him, and propped herself up on her elbow.
"You know, you remind me of someone, well, I've never met them but I thought you guys would get along" Rose said, "they're into books and stuff like that too"
"Yeah, who? Do they go to school?" John asked, a bit on edge
"This person, leaves notes in my tub. Calls themselves the Doctor" Rose stated.
John almost fell out of the bed.
"Really?" John's voice was incredibly uneven, considering he'd tried his hardest to keep calm.
"You sounded a bit weird, there" Rose laughed
"Just the old morning voice, you know" John shook it off as smoothly as he could manage.
John was half considering telling Rose, before she began talking.
"So, what should we do-"
"It's me, Rose. It's me, the notes" John just felt the words slip out, like water from his hands.
Oh goodness I shouldn't have done that, the thought.
"What? I didn't catch that"
John began to panic.
"Um, uh..." He stuttered a bit.
Rose smiled even wider at him, biting her lip, that totally threw John off.
"Er..." he continued to try think, some words could maybe come out and he could lie, but he was finding it uncharacteristically hard.
A mixture of being thrown off considering it was Rose, and he was half conscious, and also, the lack of words coming to his brain he could string together to make an excuse weren't favourable either.
John saw something change in Rose's eyes, a second before she just said:
"Oh, forget it!"
And within a less than a second, Rose Tyler grabbed John's shirt and pulled him to her.
Rose was kissing him.
First thought, was like most of that morning had been, uncharacteristic.
"Oh, shit"
Second thought, Rose.
Rose had his t-shirt balled up in her hands, and John had his arms wrapped around her waist, her hands going from the front of his shirt to his shoulders, wandering around the the back of his neck. Rose's skin under his fingers was so surreal to him, but nothing short of amazing. He ran his fingers lightly along Rose's neck, through her hair, falling through his fingers, holding her face in his hand. He could feel Rose shiver at that. All he could think at this point was Rose, Rose, how hot she was, the feeling of her fingers on the back of his neck, through his hair and on his face, not to mention the lack of space between them and how he wanted it to be even less.
Rose had John wrapped around her little finger and she'd known it for a while, now was her time to take advantage of that. Rose reached around John's back and grabbed on as tight as she could, as she was just dizzy from the euphoria. He was nothing like he was when he initially came into her bed earlier that morning. She could feel his pulse as she held his neck and reached around, one hand out of place, slipped down his shirt, but he didn't seem to mind. In fact, the exact opposite, in response, holding Rose tighter. She spread her palm on his back, feeling his shoulder blade shift beneath it.
Both John and Rose were becoming shorter and shorter in breath, that's until John broke the kiss, gasping for air.
oOo
Jack and Shareen sat up at 7:07am, when they heard quite a lot of noise coming from Rose's room.
"Jack, I think we did it" Shareen said, excitedly looking at her partner-in-crime
They both heard Rose say something to John about never kissing someone before.
"Hell we did!" Jack smiled and high fived his friend very silently.
oOo
"I thought you said you hadn't kissed anyone before?!" Rose asked breathlessly
John laughed, "I haven't"
"You're good, I've got to give it to you"
"Thanks, I wouldn't mind doing it again sometime" John said
"We should go to the coffee shop later today, after Jack and Shareen go" Rose suggested
"I'm good with that" John agreed
Only a few moments did pass before John went to kiss Rose again.
But he never did quite remember he'd never said the notes Rose got were his, but, of course, that wasn't his main point of concern right now.
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OHMIGOSH THAT WAS INSANE.
I CAN'T EVEN BEGIN TO.
OKAY, THAT WAS FUN, I'M NOT GONNA LIE.
IT'S 1:30AM, AND THAT WAS SO WORTH IT.
OKAY, UPDATE SOON.
LIA XX