This little drabble of a theater AU is dedicated to lunaseemoony to help cheer her up. It's completely unbeta'd, so all mistakes are completely mine.
Disclaimer: I unfortunately do not own Doctor Who. If I did, Rose would still be on the show, she'd canonically have a telepathic marriage bond with the Doctor, and the show would be much less feelsy.
Rose was nervous. In only 10 minutes, she was supposed to rehearse the kiss scene in the play she was doing for the first time. And the man she would be kissing was James, her crush of two years, and close friend. She'd often dreamed of kissing James, but she had never wanted it to be just because their characters kissed in a play.
She heard a knock on the door. "Come in!" she entreated her visitor. She turned around to see James himself step through the door, anxious look on his face.
As he closed the door behind him, he gulped, "Rose, I'm so glad I found you." This made Rose more nervous still. But he seemed just as nervous as she felt.
"Thing is, Rose," he gulped again, then mumbled something Rose couldn't understand.
"What's that?" she prodded.
James took a deep breath and looked at his feet. "I said, I like you a lot, and have for a while, and I don't want our first kiss to be on stage." He looked up wide-eyed at her. Rose was shocked herself, and she knew her face showed it. When James saw her, he looked down again and started quickly apologizing at rate which only he could speak.
"I'm sorry, I mean if you feel the same way and if there's ever gonna be something between us, I don't want us to kiss the first time for a play, but if you don't feel the same way I'm fine with still doing the kiss on stage and I'm really sorry for making this awk—"
He stopped because Rose had wrapped her arms around his neck. Their faces were centimeters apart, and Rose was smiling up at him. He gulped yet again. "Rose?" he whispered.
"Of course I feel the same way, you doofus," Rose teased. Then, her lips were pressed against his, and it was wonderful. When they pulled away from each other to catch their breath, they were both grinning like madmen.
When they kissed later on stage for the rehearsal, the director had to cough loudly in order to get them to pull away, and everybody stared uncomfortably at them.