A/N: Ok folks I'm afraid the smut bunnies were biting during this chapter so you have been warned!!!!
Chapter 4
"Rose?" the Doctor moaned sleepily, opening his eyes he was pleased to find her spooned with her back against his chest. "Rose?"
"Mmmm?"
"My arm is falling asleep."
"What? Oh! Sorry." She made to get up but he tightened his grip on her with his uninjured arm and pulled them back so she was half lying on top of him. "Don't be silly you're gona hurt yourself!"
"Nope, I'm fine." He repositioned his arm and smiled as the blood flow returned to normal.
"How is your other arm?"
"Sore." He told her simply and pressed a light kiss against the back of her neck. After clenching his fist a few times he curled his arm back round Rose's middle and got a little thrill when his fingers connected with bare skin on her tummy.
Rose placed her own hand over his and sighed as his fingers absently began tracing tiny circles on her skin. She shivered slightly and pulled his duvet up to her chest. He felt her shift against him and realised this could quickly become very inappropriate and part of him didn't care. He couldn't think of a real reason why he should. She wasn't going anywhere soon. It was then that he realised just how low slung her pyjama bottoms were, another couple of inches….. he clenched his jaw at the thought praying Rose hadn't noticed.
She twisted her body so she could kiss him without losing his touch. The kiss was more forceful than it had been last night and her hand had slipped behind her and was heading south.
"Rose." He moaned. "Stop it, please."
"You don't want to?"
He chuckled lightly and rested his head on her shoulder. "Oh no I really do." He whispered. "But I just don't have the strength to see it through."
"Oh. I'm sorry I didn't think."
"Doesn't mean I can't have other kinds of fun though." His voice was still croaky and sounded incredibly sexy as his un-burnt fingers dipped below her waist band. He felt her breath catch as he continued to move lower, all the while drawing circles.
She gasped softly as his fingers found her and she pressed herself closer, moving up the bed slightly so he didn't have to reach so far. She heard the Doctor sigh as he stroked her, feeling how warm she was, sure she had been for a while now. He wrapped his legs round hers, holding her against him but giving his hand room to manoeuvre. The Doctor felt her buck against him slightly and pressed kisses between her shoulder blades. Feeling bolder Rose grasped his hand and pushed it further underneath her and guided his fingers into her while his thumb continued to play. She tensed slightly at the thrill that shot through her. She'd dreamt about this for so long. Scrabbling to grasp the top of her trousers she pushed them down as far as she could. She desperately wanted to touch him, her head was clouding and her muscles started to spasm around his fingers.
She pushed his hand harder and deeper and felt him curve inside her. He was rewarded with another gasp and they increased the speed, her hand pumping his until her whole body started to go rigid. It was then he realised if she cried out Jack might hear which could create an awkward moment. Watching her he braced himself ready to drown out her cry with one of his own.
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Jack heard the Doctor cry out and pelted down the corridor bursting through the bedroom door.
"What's going on?" He looked from the Doctor to Rose.
"I rolled the wrong way." The Doctor croaked.
"Geez! Rose you ok?" He asked, noticing her breathing heavily.
"Yeah. He startled me." She smiled, rolling her eyes.
"Right." He looked between the two. "Ok. Well it's only just gone four a.m so I'm gona go back to bed now. Try sleeping on your front." Jack backed out the door with distinct feeling he'd just been lied to but didn't really care. Right now he just wanted sleep.
Rose looked at the Doctor and giggled as he closed his eyes. "You just lied to him."
"Yup."
"And what you just did was incredibly naughty."
"Complaints?"
"Only that I couldn't touch you." She shuffled towards him and nipped his bottom lip.
"Mmm."
"Tired?"
"Always."
"So where did that burst of energy come from?"
"You did most of the work." The Doctor shivered.
"You ok?"
He nodded. "Cold."
Rose grabbed the blanket from the end of his bed and laid it over him and snuggled down.
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The Doctor woke to find Rose sleeping beside him and he smiled. Gingerly he slid off the bed and struggled to the door, attempting to pull on his dressing gown one handed. He leant against the walls for support and practically dragged himself to the control room and was surprised to find Jack tinkering.
"Thought you were sleeping."
Jack looked up at the now familiar rasp of the Doctor. "Well you definitely should be!"
"Can't. Need to find a way for Rose to talk to her family." He pulled himself over to the control panel and flopped in the captain's chair.
"You are in no fit state to do anything. Now I will pick you up and carry you back there if I have to!"
"Ooo get you." He chuckled then coughed.
"Serves you right." Jack regarded the Doctor for a moment. "You're just gona keep getting up aren't you?"
The Doctor nodded rubbing his chest.
"Fine. Just sit there and do nothing."
The men looked at each other for a moment then started to laugh causing the Doctor another coughing fit.
"Yeah, like you're ever going to do nothing. I see your point. So what's the plan?"
"Use the rift. Create a video link with Rose's Torchwood."
"And how do we do that?"
"I've done something similar before. Just needs a little tweak here and there."
"And it won't tear open the rift?"
"Nah. Well, nah. We just need a tiny pin prick in the scar. What we're sending through is far too small to make enough difference."
"Well what are we waiting for?"
"TARDIS needs a couple more hours charge to have enough power to force the message through and we need an I.P address."
"Right, so anything we can do until then?"
"Tweak."
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"Rose was telling me about some of your adventures. You got about a bit by all accounts."
"Could say that." The Doctor smiled a little as he watched progress on the monitor while Jack fiddled under the TARDIS. "Don't make any more mess under there. Still fixing the last set of 'adjustments' you made."
Jack ignored him. "I gotta ask. Madame De Pompadour."
"Ah that's not a question. That's a name."
"Ok, Mr Pedantic, what happened with Madame De Pompadour?"
"Nothing happened. We saved her from a bunch of clockwork droids."
"Oh really, the way I heard it was she had the hots for you big time and you abandoned our Rose for good for all she knew, stuck on a spaceship, millions of miles away and no way of getting home all alone."
"She wasn't all alone. She had Mickey."
"Mickey?"
"Yeah you remember the boyfriend, scrawny kid, idiot."
"Oh yeah. So this French chick, what happened between you two?"
"Nothing."
"You know you can keep saying it but I don't believe you."
"I don't care."
"Rose doesn't believe that either."
"What?" Jack had his attention now.
"Oh yeah. She says you 'danced'!"
"Jack I'm not like you. Sometimes when people say dance they actually mean dance."
"So you actually danced?"
"Yeah, she wanted to make her lover jealous. You know the King of France. Worked too! Shouldn't be much of a surprise really. I mean she was married with children when she met him; and me for that matter. Rose thinks that Reinette and I……?" The Doctor rubbed his eyes and sighed.
"You ok? I said you should stay in bed." Jack chided.
"I'm fine." How could Rose think he'd do that to her? "Reinette was charming and smart and beautiful but that was all part of her job. She seduced people."
"Including you?"
"To an extent. She blindsides you."
"She blindsided the great Doctor?"
"On our third meeting she kissed me. No one's ever kissed me like that, not after three meetings. You just get sucked in."
"And that's it? The corruption of the Doctor is one kiss and an actual dance!"
"Sorry to disappoint."
"Well at least you didn't…." Jack waggled his eyebrows. "Cause that would've really upset Rose."
"She had Mickey, she'd never have noticed."
"You know for a smart guy with 900 years of knowledge you can be the dumbest creature in the universe. She left Mickey behind the moment she met you. Bet you were a hit over there though."
"What makes you say that?"
"Well the way Rose tells it you've developed a bit of an oral fixation?"
The Doctor looked at him in puzzlement.
"Apparently you like to go round licking things these days." A wicked grin spread across Jack's face.
"Not without buying me a drink first!"
Jack gave an exaggerated sigh. "So why'd you take him with you anyway?"
"Who?"
"Mickey the idiot."
"Oh, felt like the right thing to do at the time, besides he had to cross over."
"Cross over?"
"Mickey had another life to take over as Ricky."
"Ricky?"
"Are you going to repeat everything I say?"
"Until you actually start explaining everything first time then I'm going with the repetition."
The Doctor closed his weary eyes and rested his head back. "I can see all time lines past and future if I want to. It's all in the TARDIS. That's why I kept calling him Ricky; I'd seen him before in one of those fleeting glimpses. Mickey was never meant to be a coward."
"So you knew that he was going to stay in the other universe."
"I didn't know where I was taking him or when he'd leave us or even if he'd leave us. Nothings written, the future can be changed. I didn't make his decision that's free will but I suppose there is a certain amount of grand design. Every decision we make creates parallels. The 'what if' worlds."
"So you knew Rose would come back for you?"
"Uh no. I never look into my own timeline or those I care about or those connected to them. I never checked Mickey's timeline. To be honest I'd forgotten all about it with everything else going on in the universe, he just became Mickey the idiot."
"How do you resist?"
"Fear. Fear of seeing things I won't like. Some things are better left unknown Jack"
Jack was surprised by the honesty of the Doctor's answer. There were no jokes, no false humour and no honourable reasons about mankind or knowing too much of your own existence. Just one honest word; fear. He regarded the Doctor for a moment.
"You're staring." The Doctor told him, clearing his throat before opening his eyes.
"Well you're just so darn pretty." Jack grinned, flirting a little.
"I've told you not without buying me a drink first!"
"What are you two girls gassing about?" Rose's voice came from the doorway.
"Oh you know just catching up." Jack smiled at her "Pumping him for information. Ok so here's an interesting one for ya Doc. You've died nine times right? We've now known two of you and we know how one died. What about the others? How did you get to this point?"
"You want to know how I died?" The Doctor frowned.
"Yeah. Pretty much."
The Doctor smiled and slowly shook his head.
"Jack! That's horrible!" Rose sat beside the Doctor and took hold of his hand.
"At least he asked me and not the TARDIS." He leant back and closed his eyes again. "Ok, body number one, so long ago. What was I doing? Oh yeah, fighting our old friends the Cybermen and a yeti believe it or not! I guess that regeneration was down to old age really. The second..." He faltered slightly. "The second I was put on trial by the Time Lords was exiled to 20th century earth and forced to regenerate."
"Put on trial? What for?" Rose asked unable to hide the shock in her voice.
"I broke the non-interference laws. It's a long story. But that's when I met the lads at UNIT and Autons. Remember those shop dummies?"
"Oh God." Rose shuddered.
"Autons?" Jack asked.
"Homicidal, living plastic shop dummies." Rose explained.
"Oh lord then there were the Daleks again and the Master." It was the Doctor's turn to shudder.
"The Master?" Rose asked.
"A Rogue Time Lord intent on chaos and destruction." Jack piped up.
"Very good. My exile was lifted after I saved the Time Lords from destruction only to be struck down by radiation poisoning on Metebelis 3. Fourth life lets see, oh that was when I met Sarah-Jane. Rassilion has it been that long? Fourth life," he snorted "oh yeah, I fell from a radio control tower. Fifth life……I died saving Peri. I haven't thought about Peri for years."
"What happened?" Rose asked squeezing his hand tighter.
"We were exposed to dangerous levels of a drug called Spectrox. I only had enough antidote for one…. Ooo six wasn't pretty. That one went a bit wrong for a while. I nearly strangled Peri." He shook his head at the memory then winced as a pain slammed into his forehead. "Lets see that one ended…..fuzzily. I remember the TARDIS being attacked and I think I must've….hit my head on the consol. Seven ended in 1999 San Francisco. I got shot in the middle of a gang war and ended up in hospital. They thought I was fibrillating when they heard two heartbeats and tried to save me." The Doctor opened his eyes and leant his head in his free hand. "Waking up in a morgue isn't as much fun as it sounds." His head was throbbing now and it was getting harder to think and speak.
"Well that takes us up too……eight. You've got one more Doc."
He looked up at the Time Agent; his eyes dark and hollow. Jack took a step back, feeling on edge suddenly "The Time War." Was all the Doctor said. "Lets see how she's doing." He stood and shakily moved to the monitor, all trace of upset and darkness gone.
Jack looked at Rose who seemed unfazed by the sudden change from dark to light.
"She's almost ready. Rose, we need any …… oh what's the…." He clicked his fingers at himself trying to prompt the right word. "I.P address or email for your guys at Torchwood."
"No problem. So what's the plan?"
"Remember how I used cracks in time to contact you? Well we're going to do something similar using the rift. The signal should be small enough to slip through the scar without causing any damage."
"But you needed a supernova to have enough power."
"That's why we've been sitting on the rift for so long." He tapped her on the nose and offered a small smile.
"Ah, and there was me thinking you just enjoyed the company." She smiled back, noticing how pale he looked.
Stepping back from the keyboard the Doctor motioned for her to start typing. Her fingers froze on the keys. "What do I tell them?"
"The truth?" Jack offered.
"I'm not good at all the sciencey stuff, it seems to lose sense when I explain it."
"No kidding." Jack teased wrapping his arm round her shoulder.
"It'll be fine. You're better than you think you are and I'm not going anywhere." The Doctor said softly.
Rose nodded and began typing.
Jack nodded at the Doctor to follow him to the other side of the consol. "Are you going to be able to do this? You're dead on your feet and you look like hell."
"Rose needs me here. She needs us to be behind her."
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A/N: There you have it. That is Chapter 4. Oh and advanced warning about chapter seven; the smut bunnies bit me again. so again you have been warned!!!
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"Catch ya on the flip flop!"
