Rose quietly watched over the strange, yet far too familiar blue suited
man as he sprawled bonelessly on the couch. Utterly, unexpectedly
exhausted, a deep and very human slumber had overtaken him while he
waited for Rose to emerge from her bedroom. She'd planned to show him
the guest room, not ready to share this brand new life quite so soon or
so completely. Although Rose was tempted to let her mother deal with
the Doctor's not-quite clone, she decided she should, and she would --
take responsibility for this...gift she'd been given.

Presently, her gift stirred, rearranging himself into what she hoped was
a more comfortable position. Rose had to laugh when he began snoring a
moment later. "I knew it!" She whispered, remembering a conversation
they'd had -- well, she and the "real" Doctor -- when he'd woken her up
one morning, and told her she'd been snoring. She'd told him he was
daft, and that it must have been him waking himself up, though he'd
insisted he hadn't even been sleeping. She supposed that he...the one
on her couch...would remember that as well. He'd remember everything,
in fact. Like a stranger who'd read her diary, and somehow fancied
himself intimate. It was almost too hard to take in.

She considered waking him to show him his room, but when he didn't
respond when she called his name, she decided just to cover him with a
blanket instead. He hardly stirred, even when she whispered goodnight
in his ear and kissed him lightly on his forehead.

Rose wondered why she wasn't dead to the world herself, then remembered
she'd practically slept all the way home, leaving him to deal with her
mother's nervous chatter. Although she'd needed it then, she regretted
it a little, because now she was wide awake and alone with her thoughts,
which were, at the moment, none too pleasant.

Still, nothing she could do about it now. A matter of time, as the
Doctor might have said. She watched him sleep a while longer, till the
tears she held back silently flowed down her cheeks. She missed him so
much, even though he was sleeping right in front of her. She turned out
the light and headed back to her room.