A- ASTEROIDS

A- ASTEROIDS

They sat side by side in silence, the universe stretching in front of them eternally. He knew its boundaries, but she didn't; in the end, it didn't make a difference, because the only thing important was that they were with each other.

"This is the Kuiper Belt, in the Milky Way" he explained after they had sat there for a long moment of silence, watching the stars; a few sparkly dots crossed their visions from time to time, running at hundreds of miles per hour and disappearing amongst the jumble of stars flickering around them "That is Saturn, that's Jupiter, Neptune and Armstrong" he pointed the planets quietly, the leather of his jacket catching slightly as he moved his arm up and down towards the dots in the dark night.

"Armstrong?" she asked and he turned to watch her curiosity; sometimes he forgot she only knew as much as the next human in the twenty-first century.

"You created it. You tiny little humans went there and jumbled up a lot of mass to create it, just because it sounded like fun" he was actually proud of them, and as soon as she started to realize it, he changed his voice tone "Almost imploded the whole galaxy with it, it took me hours to fix your mess, stupid apes" she laughed, and shoved him teasingly in the arm.

"Shut it, Doctor, I know you love us" he didn't say a thing for a few seconds, and she turned her eyes back to watch the stars grazing past the TARDIS' open doors "What are these?" she finally spoke after a full minute of silence, pointing the fast moving dots of light that flickered away.

"Centaurs" he said, and his lips curbed into a smile without him taking notice of it "They are asteroids, that orbit the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune. They were here before the Human Race was born, and they will be here way after you are gone" remembering his point at bringing her here after the non-watching of the death of Earth at Satellite Five, he inched closer to her "You see, Rose, not everything was gone with Earth"