Drose in manhatten
'See? It's not that bad now is it?' The Doctor asked, smirking at Rose's shut eyes.
At this point in time, The Doctor and Rose were taking a 'touristy' (as Rose had put it, and The Doctor rolling his eyes from her choice of words) out to the good ol' modern (well, Rose's modern anyway) .. New York.
After the events of Krop Tor, The Doctor had decided that Rose, and himself for that matter, needed a nice break. The Doctor strictly remembered Rose once telling him that she had always wanted to go to New York when she was a kid, and watching an old black and white movie based there, which made her even more eager.
After that, she had told him that she would run back home from school and get up extra early in the morning to watch as many 'Friends' episodes she could get her hands on.
But unfortunately, Rose had explained that Jackie, and herself didn't have nearly as much money to afford a flight there, let alone accommodation and all that. Jackie couldn't even afford to buy Rose the 'Friends' box set, which apparently upset both of them dearly.
So here he was, being a nice and thoughtful friend (if he said so himself) with absolutely no danger. Just some tourists doing some...'touristy' stuff. Rose had insisted on buying a digital camera, after complaining that there wasn't enough pictures of them together. Being The Doctor, he wanted to reply with something smart, but then realised Rose had been heavily effected after they'd been separate on the 'impossible planet' as she called it.
After that adventure, The Doctor had time to think, and realised that Rose cared a lot more for him than he had ever imagined. A lot more than she actually should, but of course, he wasn't complaining. He cared for Rose a lot... well, more than a lot, he really did love her, and he feared, it wasn't even in a friendly kind of way anymore, more than that. A lot more than that. But it wouldn't ever work, what with all the implications and what not. Of course it wouldn't work....would it?
Looking back at Rose, The Doctor couldn't control himself any longer, and started to laugh.
'Hey! Don't go all cocky on me mate! You know i don't like heights, and i never said i wanted to go up the empire state building... I felt dizzy looking up at it from the bottom! Just looking at it from afar, on the ground, the nice flat ground would of kept me happy. That way i wouldn't have any risk of falling and killing myself!' snapped Rose.
For a second, The Doctor thought he had gone too far, but realised that Rose had a small smile plastered on her face. Of course, this just allowed The Doctor to continue.
'Technically Rose, if you were on the ground, you would still have the risk of falling. I mean, you could trip over a stray pebble or something like that. You could go as far as falling over, smacking your jaw and it cracked, pushing the bones back into your throat, breaking your neck...and then possibly, just possibly, you could die from that as well...?'
Rose rolled her eyes, but having to open them to do so. After realising what she had done, she gasped and squeezed them shut again, causing The Doctor to chuckle even more, and put an arm around her, squeezing her gently.
'Come on Rose, do it for me? Please?' She didn't open her eyes. 'You can't come to New York and NOT go up the Empire State Building! Imagine how jealous Jackie will be when you've told her you've been up this, and then imagine how disappointed she would be when you told her you had your eyes closed the whole time up there?'
The Doctor really wanted to show her this view, it was almost as beautiful as her. Oh, hold on, what was he saying? He had to snap out of this little fairytale idea, before it was too late. She would never like him back as much as he liked her, and he didn't blame her either. There's everything amazingly beautiful in her, but what's so special about him?
Rose suddenly grasped his arm, causing him to flinch and curse himself mentally for not staying awake properly to take care of Rose.
Looking over at her, The Doctor noticed she still had her eyes closed, but she was now holding onto his arm as if her life depended on it, which a lot of the time it did, but this wasn't one of those times, which caused The Doctor to become a bit confused. The Doctor sighed, about to give up when he heard a slight gasp coming from his companion. Looking over, he smiled at the sight of her. Rose had opened her eyes, which were now wide, and was staring at the landscape before her.
'Like it?' The Doctor whispered, and was surprised when Rose nodded her head. He had only whispered, yet with loads of bubbly tourists around, Rose could still hear him. Shrugging it off, (it didn't really seem relevant at this point in time) The Doctor went back onto the original subject.
'You better. How hard it was to get you up here and open your eyes, and how i had to choose a spot where i KNEW there wasn't going to be any aliens, i don't know!' The Doctor laughed, but stopped shortly when Rose didn't say a word.
The Doctor, getting quite worried, was about to question her, but was interrupted by a rather loud Japanese guy, struggling with his English. But none the less, The Doctor thought he seemed nice...in some way he hadn't really figured out yet.
'Weel yoo take pichar for us please?' he asked, and not wanting to be rude, The Doctor just nodded. But of course, Rose being a woman, she snapped out of her little 'trance' at the very same time, and found this little scene in front of her rather amusing. The corners of her mouth were slightly twitching, driving herself crazy about the fact that she was trying to hold it in, for the tourist's sake of course.
After The Doctor had taken the picture, (well, actually quite a few – the couple had insisted on doing different poses, attracting a small crowd) Rose had brought out a little camera of her own with a small smile. The Doctor groaned at this, but in the end agreed taking a picture of her to send to her mum.
Rose found herself laughing at this, ' No silly! I wasn't you to be in it as well!' she smiled at how adorable The Doctor looked, as he was trying to figure out everything. In the end, The Doctor just shrugged and said he had been thinking that all along.
Unfortunately, the Japanese couple still hadn't gone, and were very excited to take the picture of, to what they thought, were a happy (maybe even married?) couple. Being quite a loud family, the Japanese duo couldn't wait to ask them.
'So smile! Say knees!' the man cried, getting a few muffled laughs around him, which he just ignored, thinking tourists and Americans were just very jolly people.
After having millions of pictures taken (The Doctor said he would charge the battery back up for Rose with the sonic screwdriver once they finished looking around) the Japanese couple decided to leave them, causing The Doctor to take a huge sigh of relief.
'I don't know about you, but they were seriously starting to get on my nerves!' he exclaimed.