Title: Day and Night
Rating: K +
Notes: Set after 'The Doctor Dances', before 'Boom Town'. Contains no spoilers apart from the presence of Jack.
They take her to planets by day, and parties by night.
By day:
They visit planets and see things that Rose would never have been able to imagine. She walks on roads built a million years before she was born. She sees governments rise and fall. She sees the creation of a species, and the destruction of many. She swims in the oceans of a planet that has almost no land, and plays in the meadows of a moon with three-eyed children.
By night:
They go to balls in Earth's history and parties in the future on the other side of the galaxy. They get drunk and they dance and make friends and leave them. Rose wears a hundred and one different outfits, supplied by the TARDIS, and loves the look on his face in each and every one, from the corsets to the mini skirts. She kisses strangers under mistletoe and accidentally gets high and has an amazing time.
By day:
They accidentally land in the middle of war zones and other dangerous situations, and barely escape with their lives. They sometimes end wars, and rarely begin them, and always leave before the clear up starts. Rose never wears high heels or her best clothes when they are planet visiting, because she usually ends up running for her life and covered in blood, mud, gore, spit, guts, or any other disgusting material, fluidic or otherwise.
By night:
They dance under dim red lighting in a packed club in Rose's not-so-distant future, and Rose rubs against one of her companions to make the other jealous, and knows it worked when he drags her away but doesn't dance with her. They drink too much and laugh at the people around them, and somehow Rose ends up in a corner with a bloke feeling her up, before her companions come and drag her home, protective to the end.
By day:
They go to visit her mum, and Rose smiles over her mug at the sight of her mother charmed by the new addition. They watch an episode of 'Big Brother' and return to the TARDIS armed with biscuits and a cake baked by the next-door neighbour. She teases her companions about their sweet teeth; they say that they need it to put up with her.
By night:
They sleep in their separate beds when they do sleep; the two humans need more than the alien. Rose dreams – sometimes good dreams, filled with sweet kisses and a slightly gangly form and leather under her fingers. Sometimes bad dreams, filled with screams of the dying and metal-covered aliens that want to kill her. Sometimes she wakes, sweating and alone in the darkness, and longs for the morning and the next adventure.
By day:
They visit the banana groves that her companions had talked about, and Rose has three bananas before her companions manage to find trouble, and she laughs as she runs back to the TARDIS. They think she is mad, but she doesn't care. They reach the ship and collapse on the floor and Rose tells them off. They hug her and take her somewhere else.
By night:
She crawls into his bed and rests her head on his chest, listening to his double heartbeat before kissing him and falling asleep in his arms. She wakes later and they make love without words, because words are inadequate. She rests against him and tells him to try to stop getting into so much trouble. He laughs at her and says it isn't his fault. She doesn't believe him.
By day:
Jack knows something is different, and he grins at Rose whenever he looks at her. They go to a planet he knows, and he disappears for hours. The Doctor takes Rose to gardens and markets and buys her toys and ornaments and jewellery and clothes and she says that he will spoil her, and he says that he never could.
They take her to planets by day, and parties by night, and she isn't sure which she prefers. But it is the Doctor and Jack and it is her life, and she loves it.
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