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Morning Smiles

After a warm family dinner Luke and Rose retired to her suite of rooms and though they knew Jackie wasn't happy about it she didn't mention it to them for fear of pushing her daughter away now that she had the Doctor, or at least his clone, back. Rose had put her mother a bit at ease when she promised in confidence that they wouldn't share a bed that night even if Rose had wanted to. But alone that night they both found that they didn't want to be apart and Rose wouldn't out right break a vow to her mother and Luke didn't want to risk getting slapped so they stayed in her small sitting room watching movies and just talking until they ended up falling asleep on the sofa together.

When Jackie entered the suite in the morning she was surprised to see them both dressing in the cloths from the previous day asleep on the sofa, and though as a mother she was both disappointed and proud of her girl, they weren't in a bed and from appearances they had done nothing but talked themselves to sleep. She smiled at the pair of them, it was one of the first times in a long time Rose looked peaceful in her sleep. Most mornings when Jackie would go to wake her daughter for breakfast he cheeks would be hold the signs that she had been crying in her sleep or the poor girl would be so tangled in her sheets that Jackie would have a hard time finding her in them to wake her. She stood there a moment before deciding to leave the two be, but not before leaving them a note, she couldn't help but try and keep the Doctor in his place, because to her this man was just as much the Doctor two hearts or no.

A while after Jackie had left the two still sleeping on the sofa Rose started to stir, and the first thing she noticed was she was smiling, the second was the arms that where around her. Her smile turned to a bit of a grin as she remembered who those arms belonged to, she slowly opened her eyes and moved just enough to see that he was still asleep. She could get use to waking up in his arms she thought, it was a nice change from him being gone in the morning or awake and staring at her. But now that she was the one awake first she couldn't help but study his face, his face which had haunted her dreams these past years. Not wanting to wake him she slowly eased herself out of his arms and off the sofa surprised at the late hour that was until she found her mother's note. Rose rolled her eyes at the piece of paper knowing she would make it up to Jackie with a shopping trip. Rose gently covered Luke with an afghan and whispered "I love you," softly in his ear before leaving the room and headed for the kitchen.

"Morning Miss Rose," called one of the maids settling the kettle on the stove for tea.

"Morning Grace," Rose smiled, "and you don't have to call me miss, just Rose."

"I know Miss," Grace smiled back and Rose just shook her head.

The other maid a girl of nineteen or so, Rose never had asked, questioned in her American accent, "Can I make you something for breakfast Rose?"

Rose smiled, "No thank you Mia," grabbing a pear off the counter and then looking at the older woman, "See Grace it's not that hard."

"Cheeky American," Grace muttered at the younger girl swiping at Mia with her towel.

Mia responded by stiking her tounge out at Grace and the focused back on Rose, "So who's the looker who was here last night for dinner?"

Rose broke out into a laugh and looked to Grace, "She is a bit cheeky yeah?" when Grace smiled in response and Mia seemed to remember her place blushing a bright shade of red Rose took pity on her and said, "His name is Luke, Luke Davies, and he does have great hair."

"He's got more than that," Mia retorted before covering her moth with her hand and stifling a laugh. "Sorry."

Rose waived off the apology as Mia handed her a cup of tea, "So where is Mum?"

"Misses Tyler if off at the meeting for the Christmas Charity Ball but has invited you and Mister Davies for lunch at Buruk Serigala before she starts her holiday shoping," Grace recited with a smile.

"Buruk Serigala?" Rose asked with a bit of a grin.

"Yes Miss," Grace replied well use to the eccentricities of Rose, "Also Torchwood phoned for you Miss."

Rose's grin fell a bit, "oh," she asked.

"Said not to worry," Mia piped up having taken the message herself, "Things are quite at the office and if they need you they will call your cell."

Rose grinned at the girl remembering her confusion the first time she called a mobile a cell, "Thank you Mia." After some more idle gossip with the two women Rose learned that her brother was off to the zoo with his nanny, whom neither of them seemed too taken with, and that Pete was off at a meeting with the Prime Minister. Pete had stepped down as the head of Torchwood shortly after Rose had come to her imprisonment in this universe and started to work and proved herself a capable agent and leader. Her year of moping about and the fights she had started at Torchwood about different situation had strained their relationship and she didn't really think of this Pete as her father much anymore at the husband of her mother and the father of her brother. It wasn't that the two disliked each other; they just didn't seem to fit together unless Jackie or Tony was with them. By the time Rose had found out her families dealing for the day she had finished her tea and after washing her own cup and putting it away to the protest of both Grace and Mia she bit the two a good day and went back to her suite,

She found that Luke was up and in her kitchenette with a banana and his own cup of tea. "Morning," she called and then added, "Find everything alright?"

"Yeah, set up like the TARDIS it is," he replied with a bit of a grin.

She looked at him a bit confused and then shrugged, "Didn't realize I did that."

He looked thoughtful for a moment taking another bite of his banana and swallowing it before saying, "You may not have, she may have set her up to meet your requirements, I wasn't much for the domestics before I met you, hadn't been in the kitchen since I had regenerated into that face until you where with me."

Rose nodded her understanding as she perched on one of the bar stools on the other side of the counter. "So I thought today we would go shopping," she started and he made a face at the idea, "For you," she stressed and he lightened up a bit, "You can't go around wearing that same blue suit the rest of your life after all."

"What's wrong with this suit, I like this suit," he got defensive.

"Nothing's wrong with it, you just need more than one," she retorted rolling her eyes and adding, "or two."

"I thought you liked the pinstripes," he grinned and she shook her head in amusement.

"I did, and I do, but you will still need more than just two suits," she replied as she got up from her seat and walked around to him and gave him a quick kiss on his lips, "I'm going to take a shower and get ready, there is another bath through the bed room over there," she pointed off the the left, "If you would like to."

He had raised his eyebrow at her after the kiss but let her finish before asking, "Pears?"

"I had one for breakfast, why?" she asked.

"I," he started to say prepared to confess his hatred of the green fruit but said instead, "think I may like pears," giving her a soft smile and bending to kiss her forehead before she headed off for her room.