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Rose looked around the console room of the Tardis for the first time in what seemed liked ages. She really had missed this place. She took a deep breath and looked at the Doctor, who was busy setting the controls to get them out of the parallel world. He saw her looking and he flashed his widest grin, the one that seemed to make Rose melt inside, and she grinned back.

"I really missed you" she said to him, willing herself not to cry. The Doctor walked slowly over and wrapped his arms around her.

"I missed you too, I haven't done any repairs to the Tardis in weeks, I think she's starting to get moody at me though so I better do some soon" he said with a small chuckle.

She hugged him back and said

"I'm gonna go see my bedroom"

"I left everything as it was, I didn't touch anything" he told her with a smile. She nodded and turned to walk out of the console room towards her room.

As Rose entered her bedroom, the first thing she saw was her untidy bed, and the dent in her pillows from where she had last slept in it. The Doctor wasn't lying when he told her he didn't touch anything. She walked over to her dresser and ran her hand over all the alien artefacts she had picked up from different planets. Her hand stopped on something she knew she didn't own and she picked it up. It was a vial full of what seemed like water. She turned to go and ask the Doctor, only to find him stood in her doorway watching her.

"Doctor, what's this?" He walked over to see what she had in her hand

"Oh, I must have left it in here; it's a vial of Huon particles" At her confused face he laughed and said

"They're ancient particles from the dark times, the Time Lords created them, but they're deadly so be careful. I nicked a vial from that secret base under London when I was busy saving Donna.

"Huh? Who's Donna?" Rose asked

"She just appeared in the Tardis when I was orbiting the supernova I was using to say goodbye to you…." And he explained to Rose about the Empress of Racnoss, the robot Santa's and the Huon particles. When he had finished, Rose was amazed and laughing at the fact that he had drained the Thames.

"So there was a Torchwood base underneath London?" He nodded, grinning at her. Her hair was longer, he noted, and she hadn't dyed it in a while because her roots were definitely showing, she had bags under her eyes as well.

"You need some sleep" he told her softly

"I'm fine" she said, shaking her head, she walked over to her bed and sat down. She fluffed her pillows up to remove the dent and patted the space next to her, motioning for the Doctor to sit down as well. He sat down next her and she said

"So how did you get to me?"

"Well Martha had just decided to leave…" She interrupted him.

"Martha? Who's she?"

"She travelled with me for a while but she was a bit boring, well I say a bit I mean a lot, all she did was read books and tell me off."

Rose laughed at this

"Carry on" she insisted

"OK, well she had just decided to leave, and I wasn't in the mood to care so I let her leave, when she left, the Tardis decided to tell me that she could get back to you. Well that brightened my mood a lot so then she told me how. Do you remember Dalek Sec?

"Yeah what about him"? She said, scowling as she remembered.

"Well the Tardis told me that he had been poking at a little tiny hole in the void that I didn't even notice otherwise I would have done it, and now the gap was big enough for the Tardis to get through"

"How was he doin' that? She asked

"I have no idea" he replied "but it's thanks to him that you're here now so thank you Dalek Sec! And that's something I hope I never have to do again."

"What?"

"Thank a Dalek, that's what" he said laughing and she joined in laughing with him for what seemed like ages when she suddenly stopped, winced in pain and clutched her side.

"Rose, what's wrong?" he asked, suddenly concerned.

"It's nothing, just a cut" she managed to say, gasping.

"Well it's obviously hurting you, let me take a look" he said, prising her hand away from her side. She stood up and he stood up standing next to her. She lifted her shirt a little way up over her stomach to show him a rather nasty gash in her left side just below her ribs. It had scabbed over now but she still found it painful.

"How on Earth did that happen? Did someone hurt you?" he asked while gently tracing the wound with his finger.

"I did it at work" she explained "I was helping to clear out a spaceship that had just crashed in the North Sea, and the ship's alarm system must have still been on because there was this noise like a klaxon going off, and this spike suddenly jutted out where I was standing in the ship. I jumped out of the way before it had a chance to impale me properly though" She dropped her shirt back over the wound and the Doctor removed his hand to put his arm around her shoulders and guide her back over to her bed, where they sat down again.

"Get some sleep" he told her again and he wiggled his eyebrows at her "and then we'll go somewhere exciting"

She smiled at him and said

"Where are we now?"

"We're just floating in space" he told her softly "come here" and he pulled her into another gentle hug. She wrapped her arms around his neck and sighed onto his shoulder.

"I'm actually quite tired now" she told him and she pulled away from the hug to sink down onto her pillows. He smiled fondly at her then said

"I'll be in the console room if you need me"

She nodded and closed her eyes, feeling months of restless sleep catching up with her at last. She felt the Doctor bend down and gently kiss her forehead and he got up and walked out saying

"Sleep well Rose, I would say goodnight but it's not night so sleep well." She chuckled and finally succumbed to the dark depths of sleep as he closed the door behind him.

Another chapter coming as soon as I can think of an adventure to send them on

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