I'm Yours Tonight
Doctor's POV

"I'm stuffed!" I proclaimed happily after my fourteenth piece of pizza.

"How can a man so skinny, eat so much?" My mum wondered, "Where does it all go?"

"I have really big feet." I stated with a wink, as if letting them in on my secret pizza hiding place.

"I still think it's your hair." Rose stated matter-o-factly next to me, "Its need extra protein to be strong enough to defy gravity." She lifted a hand and gave my hair an affectionate ruffle.

"Rose!" I exclaimed grabbing her hair, "Contrary to popular belief, pizza grease is not a acceptable substitute for moose." She laughed as I grabbed a napkin and began wiping the grease off her fingers. Jackie stood and she and Pete began to gather up the dishes.

"I made up the bed in the spare room." She said, "Rose, can you show the Doctor the way?" Rose began to nod, then stopped and looked up at her mum panicked.

"Wait! You mean the room next to mine?" She inquired.

"Rose, it's the only other room we have. Besides," Jackie paused and glanced at me, "I'm sure he'll feel right at home in there." She chuckled and withdrew to the kitchen.

"Come on with me." Rose said taking my and pulling me up the stairs. We passed three doors, "Mum and Dad's room, Toby's room, and the bathroom." There were two doors at the end of the hallway, Rose opened one of them and stepped in. I followed.

"Woah." I stated stunned. The room was split down the middle by a large blue bed, but that wasn't this room's unusual feature. On one half of the room the walls and ceiling were painted with a fairly accurate replica of the midnight sky, as it was the Christmas before last. I remembered that Christmas: the Sycorax, the regeneration, the swordfight, the Prime Minister. It seemed like so long ago. The other side of the room held pictures from our past adventures.

"Did you paint these?" I asked as I wandered past Ood, Slitheen, Gelth, Daleks, Cybermen, the Anne Droid from Satalite 5, Cat-Nuns from New Earth, Cassandra, the Face of Boe, the gas-mask child, K-9 and Sarah Jane, the black hole at Krop Tor and the language of the Beast, the firplace that lead to 18th century France, the lever from Canary Warf, and a life-sized TARDIS.

"Mum says I should go professional, but the thing is, I can only draw our adventures. I'm rubish at anything else. It's like they're burned into my subconscience or something. So many happy memories." She sighed and reached out to touch the painted TARDIS.

"Rose," I said turning to her, "This is amazing."

"My memories were all I had left. I feared I'd go mad with all that bouncing around in my head. I just had to do something, and well, I ended up with this."

"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry."

"You're here now; that's what matters." There was a knock on the door and it creaked open. Jackie stuck her head in.

"Rose," She said, "Why don't you go and get ready for bed. I'd like a word with the Doctor if you don't mind."

"Oo, you're in trouble." Rose taunted smiling and poking her tongue out between her teeth. I lightly smacked her arm and she scooted around her mum and out into the hallway.

"Why don't you sit down Doctor." Jackie suggested, sitting on one end of the bed herself.

"Am I really in trouble?" I asked, cautiously sitting down next to her. She laughed.

"No. I just want you to know that I don't blame you for what happened that day at Canary Warf. You're here now and that's what matters," She said repeating was Rose had said a few minutes earlier, "But I thought you should know that Rose has been having nightmares about it almost every night since then, and I don't know if they'll magically disappear now that you're back." I started to say something but she cut me off with a wave of her hand. "I don't want an apology or an explanation because I know you can't give one. Just promise that when she wakes up screaming your name that you'll still be here, so that I don't have to be the one to tell her that you're not."

"Jackie, I'm not going anywhere." I promised. She nodded and patted my knee.

"I know; I know. Here, I reckon you'll be need this." She handed me a toothbrush, "Pete put out some PJ bottoms on the desk over there. If you need anything else just yell."

I laughed and grabbing my newly acquired toothbrush I followed her out the door. She went to her room and I stopped at the bathroom.

"Come in." Called Rose when I knocked on the door. She smiled as I entered. "I'm tired."

"It's been a long day." I observed running some water over my toothbrush.

"Yeah. I'm just glad Tony is visiting his 'uncle' Jake's tonight, or it'd be my turn to put him to bed. But anyway, I'm all done in here. Good night." She kissed my cheek and slid around me and out the door.

"Love you." I called out. It took me far to long to tell her that I felt that way, and now I couldn't stop saying it. Rose turned back to me and smiled.

"You too." Apparently she didn't mind.

"Doctor!"

I bolted straight up in bed; Rose! I jumped out of bed, sprinted to her room, and slipped inside. Rose was sitting up with her head in her hands.

"Rose." I whispered, closing the door behind me. She looked up at the noise. Even in the dark I could tell she was crying. I climbed up into her bed and wrapped my arms around her. She buried her face into my collarbone, her tears dripping down my bare chest. "I'm here, Rose. I'm sorry for the times I haven't been, but I'm here now. I'm never going to leave you again."

She nodded into my chest, "I know." She whispered.

I eased her back down until her head hit the pillow. I settled down next to her and pulled her to me. Soon her breathing evened out and she fell back asleep. It really had been a long day.