Hide and Seek

Characters: 10th Doctor

Rose

Description: When the Doctor and Rose spend a day relaxing in the TARDIS, a game of hide and seek, and maybe something more occurs. 10th Doctor/ Rose.

Note: Half of this was written with one of my lovely tumblr followers! Hope you enjoy! I don't own any of the characters in Doctor Who (unfortunately!)

Chapter 1: The Game

"Did you say somethin?" Rose peered up from the fashion magazine she was reading. Her blonde hair falling into her face slightly.

"No, nothing important anyway," The Doctor replied as he blushed wondering why he sometimes had to say what he was supposed to just be thinking in his head.

"You sure?" Rose turned her full attention to him.

"Yeah... just rambling like I do, you know me, full of hot air, always talking," The Doctor replied as he pretended to turn his attention to the controls.

She laughed slightly. "Alright, whatever you say..." She rolled her eyes, but she could've sworn she'd heard him say something other than his normal rambling.

He looked back up at her as she turned back to her magazine. Rose was always so beautiful and clever. He wanted so badly to tell her he loved her. "So where to today? Or would you prefer a day in?"

Rose knew what the Doctor wanted, a day of adventuring of course. She however wanted to spend a day relaxing about the TARDIS. "Oh...I...I don't care." She tried to make her voice sound very nonchalant.

The Doctor rolled his eyes slightly, "Rose, you never just don't care. Tell me what you want. I promise I won't care either way."

She looked at him over her magazine. "Really?" She bit her lower lip.

"I promise," He replied smiling at her.

"Day in please?" She smiled lightly at him.

He smiled, "Consider it done," he replied as he set the TARDIS to drift. He looked back over at her and felt captivated all over again.

She got up and walked over to the Doctor. "So...what do you want to do?" She said softly, a gleam in her eye.

"Oh- uh... I-I don't know...," he stuttered as her question brought him out of his own little world thinking about her. "Maybe I'll recalibrate the engines... she's been needing that, or maybe I'll read a book or...something...," he replied awkwardly.

"Oh...that's...nice...," she said with a sigh. "Thought you might to play a game or somethin." She bit her lip.

"I could do that," he replied smiling, "What did you have in mind?"

"Hmmm...we could play cards...or hop scotch...or hide and seek?" She winked at him and grinned.

"Judging by your wink Ms. Tyler, I would say you want to play hide and seek," he said smiling as he leaned against the console.

"Or maybe you just have fantastic deduction skills Doctor?" She smiled and poked him on the chest.

He ruffled her hair and smiled back. "Alright then, but we have to stay within the first sector of the TARDIS or we could be searching for days. Who's first to seek?"

She smoothed down her hair. "Hmmmm...I vote oldest seeks first! And seeing as you're around 900 that would make you the seeker." She jabbed at him playfully.

He rolled his eyes. "Fine, go hide," he turned his back and started counting to 50.

Rose took off down one of the corridors and stopped at a few locations along the way to throw the Doctor off. They'd played this game before and she knew his tactics. Soon she found a nook behind an air duct and she crawled behind it.

Once the Doctor was done counting he followed where he had heard her footsteps and wandered around for a bit looking in every room he could think of. "Come on out Rose, for the first time ever I think you stumped me." He called as he continued to walk around looking.

She giggled slightly, but covered her mouth with her hand quickly. She wasn't about to give up.

"Rose!" he called, he knew she wouldn't give up. She was having too much fun driving him crazy making him look everywhere. Finally after about his third time passing it, he noticed the open air duct and peeked inside. "You little devil!" he laughed.

"Took you long enough!" she laughed and crawled out. "Was wonderin' how many more times you were gonna pass by! Thought I was gonna burst!"

"You could have just given up when I called you out," he laughed. "That was very clever."

"As if I was gonna give up the opportunity to possibly stump you!" She grinned at him. "Suppose it's my turn now?"

"It would seem so," he replied smirking at her.

"You want me to count in the console room or can I just count from here?" she asked.

"Wherever you like," he replied as he was already thinking of a place to hide.

"Then I'll just count here." She said, sticking her tongue between her teeth.

As she started counting the Doctor ran to her room and hid under her bed. He knew she would think of a lot of places to look, but her own room would be one of the last places she would think of, because he never went in there.

Rose finished counting. "Ready or not, here I come!" She searched all his usually hiding spots. Of course he was nowhere to be seen. She checked some of the more bizarre nooks and crannies; no Doctor. "Hmmmm...maybe he's in his room? Bit obvious...or maybe just obvious enough that he knows I wouldn't check there!" she said to herself. She ran to the Doctor's room and crept inside. She'd thought he'd seen him behind a door, but it was just one of his suit coats. "Alright Doctor...I haven't got a clue where you're at...," Rose huffed as she walked back to her room. If he was going to play hard to get, she could too. She walked into her room, kicked off her shoes, and flopped down on the bed.

"Umph." He hadn't meant to make that noise but it came out when she sat down; he hadn't been expecting it.

Rose sat up, surprise on her face. At first she thought she was imagining things. She bounced up and down slightly on the bed, thinking maybe it was just the mattress.

"You win," the Doctor mumbled as he popped his head out from under the bed.