A/N: So, I'm doing this 25 Days of Christmas fiction writing ( post/ 36455214490/ youve-heard-of-the-25-days-of-christmas). It's no competition or anything, it's just for fun and I'm doing it for Doctor Who and Castle. I do hope I will actually be focused enough to write every single day which I should do but yeah... you know me, I'm not always very committed even to things I like... Anyway, enjoy some Rose and TenToo goodies. It is set after Journey's End and it's their first Christmas together.

Oh and there's a word for each day ;D


Day 1 - Mistletoe

"Doctor, what are you doing?"

"Nothing!" he almost screamed.

He'd been very cheeky all morning long and she was getting a little bit curious, "It's not Christmas yet. You can't be trying to hide stuff already."

"Rose Tyler, you should know me better by now. I always hide stuff."

She shook her head, smiling at him and he grinned back at her.

"And you know," he added, "this is actually my first Christmas season. Normally I don't even realise when you people celebrate Christmas."

"Unless you crash land on earth and sleep through an invasion of aliens."

"I still saved the day. And, don't forget, without this day I wouldn't even exist!"

She smiled tenderly at him and nodded. "That is true," she said as she thought back to that day when the Doctor had his hand cut off by a Sycorax and how years later that hand had grown into a human Doctor, the one that was standing so stiffly in the doorway now attempting to hide whatever he'd been trying to do.

Rose realised now that the Doctor had been acting a little bit strange for the whole of last week, like he was up to something. Back with the Time Lord Doctor she would've known that he was planning a trip to a new planet that he'd only heard about but that was absolutely safe only for them to end up in a place where the aliens ate Time Lords for breakfast if they could. Here it was something different. There was no TARDIS that could take them away, there were aliens all right but they came to them not the other way around and she still couldn't always quite read the Doctor's intentions. He was her Doctor, there was no doubt about that but he had a lot of Donna in him too and that part she wasn't used to and had still trouble reading.

"Rose?" he suddenly said and pulled her out of her thoughts.

"Hm?"

"Would you mind doing me a favour?"

"Sure."

"I think there's no milk left and I really fancy a nice cup of tea right now."

"Why don't you go get some milk yourself?"

"Because I'm busy."

She raised an eyebrow. "Busy, huh… With what exactly?"

"That's a surprise."

"HA! That means you are up to something!"

"Please?" he just asked and looked at her with a cheeky smile and a sparkle in his eyes that she could hardly refuse. She was sure there was still a full bottle of milk in the fridge but she wanted to know what he was up to and the only way to find out was by letting him do whatever he was planning to do. She grabbed her coat because it was getting cold now and after raising an eyebrow at him again, she walked passed him and out the front door.


When she got back half an hour later and opened the door, she could smell coffee and he never drank coffee without milk which proved that there really was milk left in the fridge.

"Craving tea…right…" she mumbled as she walked into their kitchen.

He was standing at the sink and saw her come in. A wide grin appeared on his face and he told her to stop where she was.

Taken by surprise, she stopped and stared at him while he came up to her and locked his eyes on hers. It wasn't like they weren't close every now and then but they'd only just started to sleep in the same bed again so her heart started to race faster.

They had held hands and they had kissed each other every now and then but it had taken some getting used to again. They had both changed quite a lot from who they used to be when they travelled together before. Rose was a strong independent woman now; the Doctor was human and had some of Donna's treats in his personality. It wasn't the easiest thing to be together but somehow, December seemed to be the right month to move things forward again and he'd been planning on it for a while now.

As he stood in front of her now he could see that she was getting a little bit irritated and he put his hand out and twisted a strand of her blond hair in his fingers.

Her expression softened a little bit when his fingers touched her cheek but she still looked grumpy. He just smiled at her though and looked up and she followed his example. While she was gone he'd put a mistletoe up on every door in the flat and wherever he could and now Rose laughed.

"Is that supposed to be a hint?"

"Maybe" he replied with a wide smile.

"It's not like we never kiss."

"No, but I think it's time to make it a habit again, don't you agree?"

And Rose smiled at him, tongue stuck between her teeth and he leaned in closer to her, hesitating only for a moment and then pressed his lips against hers. She dropped the bag with the milk in it and gave in to the kiss, locking her hands in his hair and pulling him closer.

"Yes, we definitely need to make it a habit again," she whispered when they finally let go of each other, "But we don't need mistletoes for that, my love."