She was surprised by how quiet it was as she descended the steps, the grumbling and bangs didn't start till she had stepped to the floor at the end of the ramp, and then it was as if her ears were unplugged and the noise came rushing through.
"Ow-OW!"
Peering through the slight dim caused by the tinted floor she watched the Doctor swatting at a sparking wire. He kicked at the console and another spark snapped at him the Tardis pinging in annoyance.
"Ow-Don't do that!" The Doctor huffed, stamping his foot childishly. Rose laughed, unable to stop herself. The Doctor spun, flushing instantly. "Rose, what are you doing down here? Why aren't you up there?" He plastered on a frown, eyebrows digging together.
"Came to see if you were alrigh'..." Rose bit her lip at him, trying not to smile at his remembered antics. His face softened slightly and he flourished a hand.
"Of course I'm alright. I'm always alright."
They're eyes caught together and they gazed, neither saying anything, the Doctor desperately trying to keep up his mask, and Rose effortlessly peering through it.
"Yeah." Rose agreed as another spark arced through the darkness and the Doctor went back to kicking the column. "Havin' a bit of trouble?" Rose teased, as the Doctor grappled with some of the wires.
"Gah! Look at this! Look at it! It's his fault you know." He sniffed self-righteously, turning away and tugging at his jacket. "Coming into my Tardis! Without a knock, or a letter...All grabb-y and pull-y and-" He shook his hands for emphasis. "Hands all over my console!" The Tardis groaned at him, shivering slightly. "Yes alright! YOUR console..." He waved a hand in dismissal of the Tardis' happy chime.
"Who?" Rose asked blankly, though she was hardly ignorant of the answer.
"Your...Fiancée..." He pressed his lips tightly together, the word dripping with sarcastic disgust.
Rose let out another laugh, watching him incredulously.
"Doctor...you jealous?"
The Doctor blushed harder, affronted.
"You are!" Rose was gaping now, her eyes still dancing with mirth.
"No I'm not! Of course I'm NOT! Jealousy is all human-y, emotional stuff, with little green monsters and..." He trailed away with another expressive hand gesture.
"'s alrigh' Doctor, she's your Tardis, not against the law to get a littl' green someone comes in n' starts pushin' your buttons." She started laughing again and the Doctor's complexion cleared.
"Oh! You thou-" He jerked a thumb behind him, thankful when she continued laughing and paid him little heed. "The Tardis. Well that's fine then. Come on Rose!" Lunging forward he seized her hand pulling her forcibly behind him.
"Where we goin'?"
"You know us, things to see, people to save. So! While them up there mumble about, you and me..." He turned to grin into her eyes, "Are going to save the universe!"
They barrelled up the ramp, barging past the small group of people swapping ideas around the console.
"Doctor!" Amy demanded, as they charged past.
"Oh, not now Pond!"
Rory and Amy gaped as he disappeared down one of the corridor. The 'Doctor' merely watched, lips pursed in thought.
"Aren't you going to say anything?" Rory asked the clone.
"Nah, no need. Rose is clev-er! She knows what she's doing. So...Anymore ideas?"
"Wot you doin'?" Rose giggled after they had burst into one of the countless doors of the Tardis she had never been through.
"You fell through a crack, not just a crack, a trans-dimensional crack, an after shock of my Big Bang 2! Long story, universe ended, got trapped in a box, a grey box not a blue box, wore a fez, lost a fez, there was a bunch of time-y, wime-y ness, with a mop. Anyway!" He grinned at her, a crazy frantic grin that she would recognize no matter what face it was on. "We are falling back again!"