The Tardis had just left,along with the Doctor,well one of them at least. A clone-like Doctor still stood by my side, my hand enveloped in his. As we watched even the palest image of the Tardis fade away, we remained completely still. Once we were alone, well except for my mum Jackie standing behind us, I turned to my Doctor, at the same moment, he turned towards me. Locking eyes for the smallest instant before he took my face in his hands, pulling me closer to him as we kissed. My thin fingers twisted in his naturally messy brown hair, my other hand on his chest, I could feel the different fabrics that made up his suit beneath my palm. We were interrupted by my mum, Jackie Tyler.
"Come on you two! I called the airport and our flight leaves in a few hours."
I didn't even take the time to wonder how she had already bought tickets a flight for us, all I felt was a mixture of anger and embarrassment of her just being there.
Doctor was the first to speak." Fine, Jackie. But give us some warning next time alrigh'?" I couldn't help but smile, I loved him, so much like The Doctor,but with a few unique differences that made him mine.
Mum was clearly , surprised by his response,but just said." Alrigh'. Come on then." she began to walk back to the city a long walk back from BadWolfBay I might add. It wasn't too bad though, I had great company. Doctor kept an arm around my waist the entire time.
Apparently mum had made another call while Doctor and I had been talking, because dad was waiting for us in the car. That was my favorite part of this parallel universe, my dad was still alive here.
Needless to say, he was surprised to see we had a man returning with us. We all climbed in, mum sat in the front with dad, while Doctor and I sat in the back.
"I'm giving you these now, and you better not lose them." mum told us and handed back two plane tickets. I placed mine in my jacket pocket, Doctor stared at it for a moment curiously then shrugged, tucking it away in his suit. Once my mum had turned around, dad started driving,then he asked two things
" Where's Mickey, Jackie?" and "Why is the Doctor with us?" I didn't know why dad cared about the answer to the second one, but I had to admit, although I knew Mickey was happier with his family I still missed him already.
"I'll explain on the plane ride." Mum said, I didn't care what they talked about after that, the only thing I cared about was the amazing man sitting next to me.
Not long after that we arrived at the airport. Everything went smoothly except for Doctor's pat down, he couldn't understand why it had to be so thorough, it was quite funny to watch. Disgruntled, he joined me while we waited for our flight. Mum and dad were somewhere else. Finally alone, or at least mum gone, we kissed again, I moved myself into his lap, the divided chairs were just too much of a hassle. Oh, he tasted amazing, like mystery and wonder, which he was to me, but he wouldn't be a mystery to me much longer.
"Oi!" A loud voice I instantly recognized reached my ears. Opening my eyes,ruining the moment, I saw dad glaring at us." Plane's here, get on, we're not leaving you." he said, voice tight. As I slipped off of the Doctor's lap to my feet, I wondered what he really wanted to say, but realized I probably didn't want to know. Taking each others hand, Doctor and I boarded the plane. Mum had booked a row of four seats for the two of us. I guess she wanted to sit with dad alone, I didn't see their seats anywhere near us.
I began experimenting with the seats, although it was more like fumbling. I soon learned that I could lower the arm rests, transforming the row of seats into more of a sleeping area, or in my case, a better place to get close to the Doctor. I smirked when I realized this knowing that for the entire trip we could be as close as we wanted. Doctor wrapped an arm around me when we sat down, and kissed my forehead.
"How long is the flight?" he asked offhandedly, as if he was thinking about something.
I checked my ticket." 12 hours."
"12 hours!?" Doctor exclaimed jumping to his feet. "I can't stay here for that long! The Tardis only ever takes an hour at most to reach any destination! 12 hours? That's nearly, no that IS half a day! Half a day that could be used instead, exploring galaxies or any number of other useful things! I can't believe humans can just sit for half a day not doing a thing!" Other passengers had started to stare at us, for both his explosion of words and his use of the word Tardis, as well as human as if talking about another species.
"We won't be doing nothing, necessarily." I tease him quietly, placing a hand on his arm. He began to relax slightly but was clearly not at ease. He sat down once again still grumbling under his breath about who knows what. Insulting species I had never heard of,most likely. The plane began moving down the runway, Doctor grabbed the arm rests after his fingers flew through the air, as if to restrain himself. As the plane took off he tightened his hold, I looked at him"What's wrong? Its smoother than the Tardis." I had to admit although it was the truth, the bumpy Tardis rides were quite fun.
"Exactly! I've always used to Tardis to travel! I'm used to having to adjust everything all the time and the random, awkward jerks she does! This, this is just weird!"
I shook my head with a smile,"Don't worry, we wont ride them often, probably this is the last time, I have everything I need now."
Doctor huffed, but seemed pleased with the news. The corner of his mouth turned up in a smile at the final words. His faced changed from one of confusion/annoyance to one of cleverness, or as I knew one of plotting. Smirking he whispered in my ear." Jackie's not around to interrupt us now." he teased me."There are still other people!" I teased back,acting nervous and a bit timid, wondering how long he would believe it. Not long, I knew it wouldn't last, one of the issues of loving someone so clever.
"So what?" he responded with that smile of his, just like I thought, he knew I didn't really care.
"Nothing," I said, leaning against him, closing my eyes, my head rested on his shoulder, inhaling his scent, relaxing in the peace of the moment.
I guess I relaxed more than I realized, when I opened my eyes again , Doctor had fallen asleep, his head leaning back against the chair,hair in his eyes, mouth slightly open. Blinking as I woke, I noticed how dark the cabin had become. Looking around I discovered why, curtains had been pulled to separate the rows from each other, one in front of us,one behind and a final one that led to the hallway or whatever that's called on a plane. Out the window, the sky was dark, stars decorating the black canvas.
I knew Doctor would want to see this, seeing all of the stars he loved. I bit my lip as I thought I tried to think of a way to wake him up. I straightened myself as I sat up, placing my lips on his , I gave him a gentle kiss. It wasn't long before his eyes opened wide in shock. His face relaxed when he saw me, returning the kiss. I pulled away before I could be distracted by him, from my personal mission for him. "Look at them." I said softly, showing him the window. He climbed over me and pressed his face against the window. "Oh, look at that," he said, that was all I could understand, after those words he began naming galaxies and planets, species, and other things.
He moved slightly away from the window "Rose, look at this!" he pointed out the various stars, telling me stories about there occupants, I moved closer to the window so I could see better. I was proud of myself for making him so happy. He was sitting crosslegged, like a schoolchild in a class room facing the window. I settled myself into his lap, he is so tall, I was able to lean against him, and his head was still nearly three inches above mine. I heard him sigh and felt the movement through his chest and his lungs expelled the air, his head rested softly against mine." Isn't it beautiful Rose?" he asked in a voice like a child mesmerized by a storybook.
"Absolutely gorgeous"I agreed. Some people might say I'm just agreeing with him because I love him, but that's not it. I started traveling with the Doctor because I wanted to see new worlds and lands. See what aliens really looked like, I just wanted to explore. After I spent so much time with him and realized how much of all of the universes I was missing, I never wanted to leave. The sight of all those stars through a plane window was truly magnificent. Because I knew people look at them to see constellations, but me and Doctor, we look for memories and stories to tell about what's really up there.
For a while we just sat there watching the stars pass by our window, sometimes speaking, but mostly just allowing ourselves to be overwhelmed with the wonder of the stars and of the memories we made on our adventures among them.
Doctor shifted so that we were diagonal to the window, still a wonderful view, but now he had his back against the chairs so that he was more comfortable. He leaned forward, forcing me to move as well, I didn't resist but I did turn around to see what he was doing. I saw him shrug out of his large trench coat he always wore, I guess he had two, because I knew 10 would never let someone have his only trench coat.
Doctor leaned back to his original position and I fell back into his cheat as he laid the warm coat over both of us. it was so big it covered us with room to spare and dragged the floor. I began to feel tired and shifted so that I was stretched out along the seats, with my head in his lap. Doctor adjusted his coat so that we were both still covered, I grabbed a blanket so that he could have something on his shoulders while we got comfortable but he shook his head so I just laid the blanket on one of the chairs. He spread the coat so that it was like a blanket over ,e and then he ducked his head and shoulders under before sitting up again, I scrunched my legs up a bit so that my feet were still underneath what now resembled a tent.
I couldn't see Doctor for a moment but then he turned on a flashlight amd laid it against his leg facing us. I gorges, we looked like kids on a camping trip, well pretending we were on one at least. He laughed, and I laughed with him."We are such children!" I declared, he nodded." And I love it." he said, that sent me laughing again, but exhaustion began to hit me so that the laughter sounded like it came from a drunken person. This only made him laugh harder. I jabbed him playfully in the side with my elbow and he kissed my hair." Get some sleep Rose." he told me with a chuckle."We still have 8 hours of this god awful nonTardis flight left." I shook my head, amazed that he was still going on about this not being the Tardis, but I wasn't surprised."You should sleep too." I told him, stretching so that I could give him a kiss, he leaned down and kissed me. "You sleep then I will." he said. I nodded and closed my eyes falling into a happy sleep full of dreams of the two of us.