She softly smiled at him as he lay there so asleep with a smile of his own gracing those dear lips of his.
Sleeping? She still couldn't believe he was actually sleeping.
And that she wasn't. The adrenaline was still pumping through her system from their latest adventure. Despite that fact she felt she was somehow getting drunk off the feeling of watching him sleep peacefully in her lap. She laughed to herself at the thought of them running into the TARDIS out of breath and collapsing on the jump seat in the console room. He had laid his head full of crazy hair (it seemed to have stuck with him even in this regeneration) in her lap and looked up at her in the way that never failed to make her heart skip a beat. . .or two. . .and just closed his eyes.
"For just a moment." He had said.
After her initial concern over their safety since they hadn't taken off yet, she remembered that he had once told her, "The assembled hordes of Genghis Khan couldn't get through that door, and believe me, they've tried!"
Slowly running her fingers through his thick brown mop of hair, she leaned back with a sigh of contentment. After all this time, this is where she belonged; supporting the man she loved and would willingly give everything for. She remembered back to a time when her thoughts had not been so unselfish. She always said she didn't want him to be alone, and that had always been true, but she was secretly more afraid of being alone herself. Namely, being left without him.
Now she knew better. She had survived on her own while looking for him and recovering from the death of her Doctor. He had survived on his own after leaving her on the beach and losing Donna and then after he found himself alone again. They both knew that they could make it on their own but. . .well, they just didn't want to anymore. But isn't that what a relationship of like minds is all about? Knowing that you could survive without a person but choosing not to out of mutual respect and love?
Yes, this was where she belonged.
{{inspired by watching my dear husband sleep as he hogs half of the bed (I like to think it is because he wants to be close to me)}}