#01 - Beautiful
Even when
preoccupied with a legion of killer mannequins the Doctor doesn't
fail to notice how beautiful the girl is.
#02 - Heart
So
Rose had looked into the heart of the TARDIS and it didn't kill her
or drive her mad -- perhaps it was an omen.
#03 - Smile
Though
he treasured every one of his past companions, the Doctor had always
sort of gone where he wanted and brought them along for the ride; now
he found himself picking times and places based on what would make
her smile.
#04 - Feeling
Long ago the Doctor had tried
to stamp out his feelings (they always lasted longer than their
object), but just as he showed Rose a new way of life, she showed him
the truth to, "Better to have loved and lost."
#05 -
Knowledge
Sometimes knowledge was a terrible thing, like the
knowledge that no matter what he wanted, Rose would try and be there
for him, and that no matter what either of them wanted, he couldn't
let her.
#06 - Ageless
He knows he doesn't look it, and
he knows she doesn't care, but he can't help but feel he's much,
much, much too old for her.
#07 - Time
It's strange how
time and Rose make every relationship he's had feel like a one night
stand.
#08 - Desire
Rose turned on a portable stereo she
had brought and the Doctor smiled indulgently as she danced around
the TARDIS, singing along. And the fever, when I'm beside her,
desire...
#09 - Dramatic
"I'm sorry, now stop
being so dramatic," laughed Rose as the Doctor stumbled and
clutched his hearts in an over-the-top pantomime of the killing power
of her teasing words.
#10 - Subdued
Rose knew better
than to disturb the Doctor when he was in one of his subdued moods,
but she couldn't help but wonder if it was her he was thinking about
or someone else.
#11 - Gold
"Welcome to the planet
of Chrystrianta, also known as the Planet of the Golden Roses, where
grow the Chrystriantimums, which are, surprisingly, roses made of
real, living, growing gold," the Doctor said, stooping to pick a
flower, "for you, my dear."
#12 - Silver
He
couldn't see her eyes, they were consumed by the blinding silver
light of the TARDIS, and it was then he realized how much he loved
those eyes.
#13 - Dark
Rose loved the TARDIS in the
dark, the only light coming from a few blinking controls, it was so
strange and so alien, yet she knew every nook and cranny like the
back of her hand.
#14 - Light
And it wasn't her pale
skin or blonde hair, it was something about her that just lit
up the room.
#15 - Twilight
The Doctor doesn't like
twilight; sure it's pretty and romantic and all that nonsense, but he
can't shake the depressing feeling of another thing coming to an
end.
#16 - Dawn
They laid down on the sweet apple grass
on the outskirts of New New York and watched as dawn broke in front
of them.
#17 - Power
All the laughs and the silliness
and the easy, fun living made her forget sometimes just how powerful
the Doctor was.
#18 - Protect
Rose had long ago resigned
herself to being in love with the Doctor, and though she herself
didn't quite know what that meant, she knew it was true and she knew
she could never, ever leave him.
#19 - Courage
Rose
looked up at him with such admiration, she thought he was the most
courageous person in the universe -- but that was only because she
couldn't see that his weakness was her.
#20 - Faith
Rose
was not a religious person (she couldn't quite wrap her mind around
the concept of unquestioning faith), at least, not until she met the
Doctor.
#21 - Pray
"Please, whatever God is
listening, please don't let me leave him."
#22 -
Intensity
There was something about the Doctor, something so
strong and intense and alive; something Rose had never felt in all
her 19 uneventful years and it drew her to him.
#23 - Cool
To
the outside observer, it might seem as though the Doctor could, at
times, be "cool", but from experience Rose knew better.
#24
- Warm
It was cheesy, he knew, and cliche, but it was her
smile; her beautiful, perfect smile, full of warmth when she smiled
at him.
#25 - Whisper
In the middle of the night he
would sometimes speak; very, very, very quietly, though he knew she
was sleeping he would say it under his breath anyway, "I love
you, Rose."
#26 - Secret
The Doctor had so many
secrets, about his past, about his future, but Rose couldn't bring
herself to care because he made it so clear that all he cared about
was the present.
#27 - Promise
The Doctor told her
mother he would keep her safe, and he would keep his word -- no
matter the cost to himself or to her.
#28 - Strength/#29 -
Weakness
Immortality and time travel, like most things about
the Doctor, are double-edged swords. He never has to worry about
running out of time, but feels he can never fully appreciate how
precious time is.
#30 - Love
The transmission had cut
out before he could say it, but he was sure that no matter what time,
what world, what universe she was in, Rose would always feel his
love.
#31 - Hate
The Daleks were beings made up of pure
hate -- it was just a fact -- but somehow Rose was standing there,
unharmed, reasoning with it, and the Doctor couldn't help but
feel a trickle of hope.
#32 - Silence
The worst part was
the silence, and he always sort of thought that the TARDIS knew and
that that was why it brought him the annoying girl in the wedding
dress, to take his mind off the deafening silence.
#33 -
Distress
Rose was never a damsel in distress, which was good
because really, the Doctor was not a knight and his armor was most
definitely tarnished.
#34 - Fate
Rose liked to believe
that there was no grand force, that people had free will, but she
never could explain how she met the Doctor except for fate.
#35
- Fortune
The Doctor didn't have money or possessions, but he
was a firm believer that experiences were what made you rich, and in
that case the Doctor had a fortune.
#36 - Nightmare
Though
the Doctor would never admit it, sometimes he watched Rose sleep and
she sometimes had nightmares -- really, though, it was a good thing:
Rose was much to proud to say she was homesick but at least this way
the Doctor knew when she wanted to go home.
#37 -
Justice
Sometimes the concepts of justice and revenge got
confused in the Doctor's head, but just having Rose around calmed him
down.
#38 - Death
As he started the regeneration
process he could hear Rose freaking out -- perhaps he should have
explained what happened when he died, but oh, well, it was a little
late now.
#39 - Moon
It was a one-in-a-million
occurrence, two moons orbiting each other as they orbited their
planet, and in a way it reflected the two bodies below.
#40 -
Sun
She was bright and warm and he found that his whole world
revolved around her, and in his sappier moments he would think that
she was his sun.
#41 - Star
"Pick a star, any
star," the Doctor said, smiling huge.
#42 - Tower
Rose
was not content to sit in a tower and wait for her champion; she
would be fighting the dragons right alongside him whether he wanted
her there or not.
#43 - Stranger / #44 - Familiar
He was
a total stranger, and while she had some misgivings (like the fact
that mannequins couldn't really come to life), he felt familiar, she
trusted him, and that scared her more than she could say.
#45
- Forgotten / #46 - Memory
The Doctor had lived 900 years,
give or take, and he had met a lot of people who were now long dead
and gone. He recited names every night as best he could, but he was
not infallible and every so often another name slipped from his
memory into oblivion.
#47 - Change
It was a big change,
living with the Doctor in TARDIS, drastically different from anything
she had ever experienced, and she wouldn't trade it for anything,
ever.
#48 - Color
Ever since he met her the word 'rose'
was appearing in his mental vocabulary entirely too often, every
mention of flowers would evoke it, things were no longer 'pink', they
were 'rose-colored', there were far more mentions of 'rose-tinted
glasses' and a great deal more 'stopping to smell the roses'.
#49
- Shadow
Every time she was unhappy it seemed there was a
shadow over his whole world; he found himself jumping through hoops
to make her smile and he wondered idly how he would feel when that
smile was gone for good.
#50 - Breath
When the
transmission cut out it felt like she got the air knocked out of her,
she couldn't breathe, she couldn't even think -- all she could do was
cry and tell herself that knowing he loved her was just as good as
hearing it.
