"…are traveling on the same parallel path and at the same velocities so that to someone observing from Earth, it appears that they're all radiating from the same central point and…and you're not even listening to me! Roooose!"
They were sprawled on a blanket in the middle of a field in the middle of nowhere an hour outside London to watch a meteor storm. The Doctor had been excited for weeks and hadn't stopped reminding her of what they would be doing on the weekend of November 16th.
("This meteor shower occurs annually, Rose, but it peaks every couple of decades into a meteor storm! Thousands of meteors can be seen per hour! Per hour, Rose!")
She loved seeing his enthusiasm for his life with her; he seemed so excitable by the smallest things, and she loved it. She loved him.
Just now, he was going on one of his long-winded explanations on meteors or weather or long-dead scientists or something. Quite honestly, she'd tuned him out when he started talking about star dust, and instead was admiring his profile in the moonlight while enjoying the cadence of his voice. The contours of his face were thrown into sharp relief by the silvery light and she couldn't help but stroke her fingers across cheekbones, his slightly-upturned eyebrow, his dented left ear, the stubble of his jaw. He was the most beautiful person she'd ever seen.
Rose rolled over and threw her leg over his hips to straddle him before she leaned down to press her lips tenderly to his.
"I love you," she murmured against his mouth when they eventually broke for breath.
He smiled shyly up at her, his cheeks tinged pink, and she couldn't help but catch his bottom lip between her teeth. He let out a low groan as she nibbled on his lip and threaded her fingers through his hair.
It didn't take long for the moonlight to be glinting off of their bare skin. Moans and whimpers echoed through the night, with nothing but rolling hills and grass to hear them. Words of need and want and love were gasped onto each other's skin, and as stars burst behind their eyes, the sky above them exploded with light.
