Chapter one:

"Oh you have so got to be kidding me?!" the Doctor protested loudly, and the louder he got the funnier Rose found it to be.

"It's not my fault, blame my mother" Rose insisted sitting down on the weathered looking jump seat that had obviously gone through a lot over the how ever many years the Doctor had been travelling.

"You didn't have to agree… I mean it's a wedding," The Doctor retorted looking at her his hands deep inside the pockets of his brown pin stripe suit. He wore an expression of annoyance and complete and utter frustration. This regeneration of the Doctor was slightly better when it came to going back to London to visit her mother but when he found things far too domestic even for him to handle, he'd often come back to his own territory and fiddle under the console.

"And weddings are…"

"Domestic. That's what they are. They are domestic and I don't…"

"Do domestic yes Doctor I know that all too well." Rose replied looking at him. "Look it's only a couple of nights away…"

"Hold on a minute… why can't we take the TARDIS? Then we wouldn't have to leave for longer than a few hours."

"Well for starters my family don't know I'm currently running round after a nine hundred year old alien because he left the top off the Marmalade for too long and so threw the jar on the floor…"

"I did that once!" the Doctor said trying not to grin sheepishly at the thought. He had come out of the kitchen in a bit of a Marmalade mess. And he'd been only too happy to let her clean the sticky jam substance that she insisted tasted nasty.

"Yes and look where I wound up…"

"I gave you a Banana to say thanks…" he said protesting yet again, she had wound up cleaning the jam off the side of the cupboards muttering to herself about how Time lords and Marmalade shouldn't be mixed together for whatever purpose.

"I'll give you Banana if you come to the wedding…." She said looking at him, pouting sweetly as she looked at him.

"Done!" he said grinning setting the co-ordinates for Earth, if they were going to a wedding then they'd better get it over and done with quickly or he might well change his mind.

"Wait!" Rose said looking at him recognising the co-ordinates he'd put in as to the ones that took them to Earth. She really was learning nowadays and he was more relaxed to let her learn. She didn't know if he was the same with anyone else or not but with her he'd usually give into in the end. She didn't know why, but it always worked when she said she'd give him a Banana, it was just the way he was she supposed.

"What?" he asked looking up at his companion wonder what she was going to throw at him next, she'd be telling him they were going to have to get an aeroplane plane ride or something.

"We need to find a suit for you"

"I already have a suit"

"Yes but we need one that isn't covered in mud" she replied laughing to herself before dragging him out the console room towards the wardrobe.

Jackie Tyler smiled as she saw her family greet her as she came through the door. Considering they lived at the other side of London they didn't see a lot of each other that much now. Rose would always tell her Mother off when she complained about prices for the tube, it wasn't that expensive to go across London to see her sister once a month. However it never happened and they wound up seeing each other once a year instead, it was just one of those things Jackie thought to herself.

"Jackie!" a shout came from somewhere inside the house before the door opened and Jackie found herself brought into a large rib breaking hug. Maybe Rose was right about hugs after all

"Where's Rose?" Mo asked smiling at her sister letting her break free.

"Oh she's on her way… she got held up at the airport"

"Where she been, haven't seen her in quite a while. She's travelling with someone isn't she? What's his name again Jack… James…John…"

"Just the Doctor will do" another voice came from the doorway as a man stepped through into the hall way with a half eaten Banana. "I got bored of John Smith a while back… just after I brought down a government with…"

"Yes thanks Doctor, no need to scare my Auntie the moment we walked through the door now do we?" Rose said laughing slightly nudging him gently. Rose smiled at her mother before hugging her gently, which was a change from the rib crushing ones she usually got.

"Mum! I didn't do it!" Another shout came as a young woman around the same age as Rose came down the stairs.

"That's Eva…" Rose whispered in the Doctors ear "Can we please escape before we get crushed?" she requested making him laugh and take her hand guiding her through into the other room. It was a small room decorated with small picture frames of various relatives and occasions going round the room.

"Oh you did! I know you don't like the bridesmaids dresses' but really there is no need to start…"

Rose laughed sitting down on the sofa and cuddling into the Doctors shoulder as he joined her, she listened to her cousins rant about some problem with the bridesmaids dresses. After hearing a door slam she guessed how it had ended Well that was a nice hello... she thought to herself quietly.

"Oh did you get that recipe for the Lasagne?" Jackie asked Mo as they came through the room and into the small kitchen. Well that was nothing new; Rose often found her Mother and Aunt often found them discussing recipes for food, or the latest fashions. They didn't see each other that often but when they did you couldn't shut them up.

Rose picked up one of the magazines from the small coffee table only opening the first page, ignoring the rant from her mother and Auntie coming only a few yards away.

"He's an alien!" the Doctor shouted a little louder than he should have done earning him a nudge in the arm once again.

"You always say that" Rose replied chuckling to herself as she turned the page "What is it this time? Their hairs too long to be human… they have flared nostrils that don't look right… necks too long, arms too short?" she asked looking up at him to find him laughing. "What's so funny?"

"I was only kidding…" He replied looking at her laughing slightly and looked at the magazine. "Although I reckon that person there is eating that Banana in completely the wrong way you know. If he were to go to the planet Adfalka he'd get kicked off it within a second. You see they insist that you eat in a certain way; you're not allowed to peel the Banana with your hands. You have to use this special device which I might add looks a little bit like a coffee machine. Ever had coffee? Oh teas so much better, tea and a little bit of sugar. Used to like two sugars in my tea? Remember that… then the Autons hand got round your face and everything went a bit haywire really… nothing unusual there. Life is never normal not for me anyway…" he continued his ramble and Rose laughed to herself giving him another Banana to keep him happy whilst she saw her relatives.

"Rose come 'ere!" Eva said happily as she came over and hugged her cousin gently. They hadn't seen each other in quite a while. In fact Rose had a feeling it had been two years for Eva including the time that Rose had wound up gone for a year by accident. No thanks to the Doctor of course.

Smiling Rose hugged her back before pulling back "Your getting married"

"I know isn't it great" Eva replied grinning "It'll be your turn next…"

"Oh don't start that. I've already had Mum on about it…" Rose said laughing gently. With all honesty she didn't think she would get married now, if she'd been asked two years before then she'd had said yes maybe she would but now she'd met the Doctor she highly doubted it. The Doctor had showed her so much, the wonders that people only could dream about with vivid imaginations. Marriage and children maybe that was something she didn't want anymore, not now she had the Doctor. But they weren't like that, they never would be. It wasn't the Doctors style no matter what he might feel for her. She didn't think they could be more than what they are now. No matter what she might actually want.

Eva just smiled and led her cousin out into the small garden at the back of the house. Considering it was a small garden it always seemed much bigger, it had a small porch going off the veranda that always reminded Rose of Romeo and Juliet. When she was younger she'd often go out here and read that play. There was just something about it that made her loose herself in it. Again she didn't know why, she didn't know why a lot of things happened at the moment. But that was the way she liked it. She liked having the unknown there right beside her as she walked out the doors of the TARDIS.

"Rose?" Eva asked laughing as she saw her cousin lost in her thoughts. "You ok?"

"What… oh yeah I'm fine, so when we meeting this husband to be then?"

"Tomorrow at the wedding rehearsal, then we're off to dinner and you can do whatever you like. Mum and Auntie Jackie are going off to get Granddad Teddy."

"Ohh I haven't seen him in ages" Rose smiled thinking of her elderly Grandfather. Considering he was eighty odd he was certainly going strong, and was certainly someone you don't want to mess with.

"I know… he misses you. We all do… still I bet it's good going off all over the place. Where have you been?"

"Cardiff!" Rose said laughing at her sudden outburst. "We wound up in Cardiff last time… The Doctor likes the… rugby… oh and there was this one time when we were in China when…" Rose told her cousin about some of her travels with the Doctor. At least the ones that were alien free anyway.

Venturing out onto the small veranda the Doctor observed the small garden behind the house, letting the family inside reunite in peace. Of course Rose would insist it was alright for him to stay inside. But he decided not to, the domestic atmosphere inside the house was probably something he wasn't going to like too much. It had been different the night he regenerated, there was something about staying for Christmas Dinner at the Tyler's flat that he had liked. But being surrounded by various relatives that kept attempting to cuddle him until his rib cages cracked certainly wasn't his cup of tea. He'd probably wind up in the kitchen with pink rubber gloves up on next. No being outside was certainly the better option of the two.

He laughed gently hearing a shriek of laughter from inside; he'd escaped when Jackie had found a box of photos. He looked round seeing Mo pointing to one which again sent the women of the household into fits of giggles. He heard something rustling in a bush behind him and looked round. The rustle got louder and one of the bushes started moving, he moved down the steps edging closer to the offending bush. His converse slipped slightly on the lightly frost covered grass as he went nearer to the bush. The noise of the moving bush got louder as he edged closer which wasn't too surprising. He knelt down in front of the bush, seeing some sort of light coming from underneath it.

"What you doing out 'ere for?" Rose asked, she'd obviously come out and was now beside him looking down at him slightly confused.

"There's something under here…" the Doctor replied

"Oh..." Rose said bending down giving him her champagne she'd been given and looking under the bush. A cat ran out of it the moment she put her hand under there and she laughed pulling a torch out of from underneath it. "Just a cat Doctor"

"I can see that" he said laughing and got up helping her up.

"You coming in?" Rose asked taking his offered hand and getting up, she smiled when he nodded in agreement and started walking back into the house again. The Doctor looked back at the bush still convinced it had been something more than a cat playing with a turned on torch and smiled at her, letting her lead him back inside the house still completely unaware that someone was watching them.

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