This will all take place during Series 2, and perhaps I'll continue it on and make it AU where the events of Doomsday don't happen quite the way they do. For now, it's taking place right after The Impossible Planet and Satan Pit. Unfortunately, I don't own Doctor Who. I wish I did because then I'd be living in England and being British, and I'd at least possess a sonic screwdriver and a replica of the Tardis in my house. Sadly that's not my life. Please review! It'll make updates come a lot faster, and it doesn't take that long to do. So please drop a review quick if you like it and want quicker updates.
So a reminder. This first chapter takes place after The Impossible Planet and Satan Pit.
She had fallen asleep in his bedroom last night. When he'd walked her down the corridor to her room she had asked him if he would stay with her because she didn't want to be alone. The words of the "beast" still echoed within her mind, and she just wanted to forget them. Instead of saying anything, the Doctor just took her hand and showed her a door right near hers. The Doctor's room was what she expected it to be; fairly large room, bookshelves, wires and various parts across the floor. Then to rouse awake in that room, Rose had been a bit disoriented at first, then recalled that she had fallen asleep with the Doctor holding her near and whispering stories to her as she fell to sleep.
He wasn't there with her and departing from the room, watching the door disappear behind her with a gentle hum, Rose promptly found him in the control room. "Did you even sleep?" she asked, letting her presence be known to the Time Lord. The Doctor looked up, putting down the wiring of the console he'd been tuning and skipping towards her with a grin.
"I did sleep, a bit. I don't need as much sleep as you, I've already been up for a few hours now. A bit hyper, that's new, I think." She laughed, brushing away her blonde hair.
"Why didn't you wake me up?" she asked, her head inclined to the side with her lips pursed. "We could have gone for breakfast on the moon or something."
The Doctor smiled down at her, a smile she loved and cherished now. "You looked too adorable, couldn't wake you up." Then with a grinning expression, he pointed to the entrance to the corridors and jumped up and down. "Rose Tyler, you are brilliant! Go get dressed and grab a coat from the wardrobe, I've got the perfect place to go!" He bounced away from her, running to the console and punching in coordinates. Rose couldn't help but watch him. He moved around the Tardis like it was a part of him, a mere extension of himself; by now she knew that's exactly what it was. She was pulled out of her inner musings when he gave her a little nudge. "Don't just stand there in your jim-jams," he said, looking down the length of her to emphasize the point but then looked away kindly when she blushed.
"Alright, alright. I'm goin' to change." She laughed, making her way down the hall and into the wardrobe.
The Tardis had landed soundly; the Doctor grumbled slightly once he engaged the stabilizers, not wanting to toss Rose throughout the wardrobe and have her get hurt. She emerged a few minutes later, a fluffy winter coat around her and a smile to her lips, only to find him sitting with a pout beside the console. "You look like someone just kicked you, or something," she pointed out and with a few steps she was beside him, looking at the console. "Well don't just sit there, let's get going!"
"We've already landed," he said as he stood tall beside her. "Never using the stabilizers again, it's so boring. She didn't even make the noise, I love that noise." They both laughed together. Rose zipped up her coat as the Doctor pulled his trench coat off one of the coral pillars and put it on before he took her hand and they were both out the door.
Rose gasped at the sight before her. She'd been to places that most would only believe to be a world within a dream, but this most certainly looked like something out of a dream. Beneath their feet was a light layer of snow, which rested above solid ice. Then her gaze looked to everything else, mesmerized at the sight place before her. As opposed to normal and dull buildings, each structure was created of ice. The atmosphere looked thin, though she could breathe with relative ease still, perhaps even easier than on Earth. And in the sky, there was large bodies all around them. Rose couldn't tell if they were other planets or moons. All their surroundings sparkled and glistened in every direction. The people were humanoid, though they had much lighter skin from the parts of them she could see exposed, with glowing colors of bioluminescent specs and designs throughout them. Everything about it was beautiful. "Where are we?" she breathed out in a whisper, still in sheer amazement at the beauty.
"Europa, the sixth closest moon to Jupiter, which is right there—" He pointed up to the largest figure in the sky, both of them watching as it's gasses could be seen swirling around, like a graceful dance. "I believe that would be Io, it'll disappear beneath the horizon soon actually. Just look at it go, Rose." And as she held it within her gaze, Rose could see it move peacefully across the sky, like the minute hand to a clock, slowly but most definitely just ticking by.
Each of their adventures wasn't always life threatening or dangerous. Last week they had gone to Catrigan Nova; it a wondrous planet that had gold oceans, two suns shining brilliantly in the sky, and sea birds that could sing for hours at a time. They had laid on the beach for hours, listening to the bird songs before the Doctor had pulled Rose up and ran into the water with her on his arm.
She then found herself being pulled by him, his hand in hers tightening its grip as they walked together. "Where are we going?" she asked, looking around and still in amazement.
"Ice skating!" He released her hand only to have his arm put around her, "Well, here's it's just called skating. Might even be lucky enough to be caught in a crystal flurry."
Rose watched in amazement as the Doctor had asked someone for assistance on letting them skate, finding that the Iceopans, as the Doctor said they were called, were Cryokinetic and could control and manipulate ice; which made sense considering all the magnificent ice structures around them. "When you're finished, just ask someone to remove the ice for you and your wife." Rose blushed and looked away as they had referred to her as the Doctor's wife. By now she certainly wished to be something more with him, but she was content enough just to be with him; she knew that he cared for her, but he'd voiced it before that he couldn't spend his forever with her. Their time together was limited, though Rose hardly cared and only found herself with thoughts of now, the time when they were together.
"Of course! We'll let you know, won't we, oh lovely wife?" He watched her blush and even nudged her when she turned away to hide her flushed skin.
She didn't get to reply because the Doctor had bolted forward with her hand in his. A laugh escaped her lips as she nearly fell before finally gaining her balance on the thin skates made of ice. He held her hand, careful not to let her fall. Rose thought of this whole entire world beautiful, but all he could see was the blonde beside him with small and sparkling ice crystals in her hair. In his past regeneration he had called her beautiful, then followed it up with pointing out that she was human. That thought didn't matter now, he'd changed and he certainly thought that she was the most beautiful person he'd ever known; beautiful inside and out. Without her he didn't dare think what he would be.
They had then walked through a frozen forest, the trees were clear and shined with a certain glow that came from underneath the surface. The Doctor had speculated about it for a while before dropping down on his hands and knees to press his head to the ground. "Oh that's brilliant! Rose, there's a whole other world down there, underneath the ice and in the water." Rose had then joined him on the ground, leaning near the cold ground just as he was. And she could here a distant noise, like a graceful song and rushing water. "Look, look, you can see some of the lights. Oh that's amazing. Aquatic bioluminescent species, evolved to live above the ice when they'd breached the surface."
"You mean like mermaids, or something?" she asked, trying to imagine what exactly they looked like down there. The Doctor nodded, turning to lie on his back and stare up at all the specs of white in the black sky.
Rose joined him, curling to his side to keep their warmth. "See that little spec there, that's the sun. It's about 483.78 million miles away, give or take 50 million miles. So far from the sun and just look at this place, life moving forwards and just flourishing."
It wasn't long of lying on the cold and hard surface of Europa that they both began to shiver, Rose more than the Doctor. He'd made a point to tell her that his body temperature was below that of any normal human being; she still insisted that he was warm to the touch, which had made him smile. They found the Tardis where they had left it, and she hummed happily as they stepped through the doors. She shed the large fluffy coat and it was then that he noticed that she'd also taken a scarf from the wardrobe, it wasn't just any scarf though; it used to be his actually. His fourth regeneration was quite fond of it, he loved that scarf; and to see she'd chosen it out of everything else in the wardrobe made him laugh. She questioned his laughter, to which he merely jumped about the console and took one end of the scarf.
"What're you doin'?" she asked, laughing.
He wrapped the scarf around her neck once more, "That used to be a signature item in my fourth regeneration's attire, believe it or not. I had big hair then too, wasn't all sticky-uppy like this though." She reached up and ran her fingers through his hair, smiling as he seemed to let out a small hum at her tough.
"I like this hair, very fluffy." She laughed, unwinding the scarf from her neck and tossing it around him instead before she ran off towards the corridors and to the kitchen.
Each of their adventures wasn't always life threatening. Sometimes they just enjoyed each others company in the Tardis, exploring through the maze of corridors, finding new rooms, and even creating some. Today they had landed on Europa, a moon of Jupiter that was just bristling with life. Everything was made from ice and it was just beyond beautiful. They'd gone ice skating all morning before walking throughout the Frozen Forest, eventually coming back to the Tardis for some hot chocolate. Though it had soon turned into a marshmallow fight, then a game of hide and seek throughout the time capsule.
"Rose?" he called out in the empty corridor, having been unable to find her for what felt like hours, even if it was only about fifteen minutes. Of course she was safe in the Tardis, but quite frankly he didn't like being apart from her. By now she was like an extension to who he was, he just needed her near. The Doctor liked to think that she was all the good parts of him, the human part that was kind, compassionate.. loving.
He then saw a door appear at the end of the corridor, and quickly found himself running towards it. With no haste at all he opened the door and bounded inside, blinking at the brightness of the room. A smile graced his lips at the sight of her. "Found you Rose Tyler, and you found it!" he yelled, running towards her as fast at he could before skidding to halt and falling just beside her. "Thought I'd lost this room, but look at you! You found it!"
Rose laughed, just loving the way he was beaming at her. "How could you lose a room full of butterflies?" she asked curiously with a tinge of amusement.
"Nah, didn't lose them. Just couldn't find it. Big difference. Even if the room got deleted somehow all the butterflies would be put in the control room. Could you imagine that? Trying to fly the Tardis and all these butterflies flying about, oh and there's a flutterwing in here somewhere too.." He laughed, leaning back to lie against the false red grass that was a mere creation of the Tardis. Though for a second he wanted to believe he was home, on Gallifrey, and Rose just beside him.
He watched as she reached out, smiling as their fluttering of wings brushed across her as they floated through the air. "It's amazing. I don't ever want to leave," she said softly, a smile to her lips as she moved a bit closer to him to eventually lie her head on his chest. Like instinct he put his arm around her and held her close.