Current Arrangements, Chapter 4

Tea and Chocolates

I'm so so so sorry! its been super long since I last updated! Here you are: Chapter 4! Sorry, WARNING Slight Reinette bashing! Forgive me, TenMadame fans!

"I'll slap him off the face of the earth, and back to whatever stinking planet he came from," Jackie growled, handing a tissue to her distraught daughter.

"'M alright, mum," Rose said with a watery smile." I just... need my space. I was never the one for him, and I guess that made me upset. 'S not his fault-"

"YES IT IS," Jackie roared, and Rose cringed.

"Fine," she amended," it was his fault, but it's not like he knew or anything. I never told him, 'cause it's too domestic."

Mickey chose that moment to walk in with a box of chocolates and a bouquet of roses.

Rose smiled. He might not've been the man of her dreams, but he sure knew how to make you feel better.

"Hey," he said."You good?"

She smiled and tried to hold it together, but he saw straight through her, and went to pull her into his lap and let her cry on his shoulder.

DW

Back on the TARDIS, the Doctor was a wreck. He held it on the inside, though, and assumed his usual, cheerful facade.

"Doctor, where are we going?" Reinette didn't seem to know or care that his ship had just lost two passengers.

"I don't know, Reinette. Pull this lever, and the Old Girl will chose for us."

So the French woman yanked on the gadget her sowed her, and they were off.

DW

Rose woke up to find her face buried in Mickey's shoulder. His shirt was still drenched with tears. She must've been crying in her sleep, too. He was snoring gently, and her mother was nowhere to be seen. She pressed a kiss to his neck, and he jolted awake.

"Hey Rose. Ahh, I must've fallen asleep. How are you?"

"Better," she replied, though she was feeling nothing of the sort.

DW

The two people stepped out of the TARDIS and on to the apple grass of New New York.

"Rose and I went here," he said in a daze."We saved a whole hospital, with evil cat nuns in it."

"Mmm," Reinette said, none to pleased."This Rose girl. She is so... common. Why do you like her?"

He was taken aback."She's amazing, and so, so kind. She even-" he stopped, realizing that he was supposed to hate her, not be praising her. But why, a small voice in his head said. What'd she do to you?

"She left," he said aloud."After so long, and I thought..."

"Now listen," Madame said."You are right. She left. You know why?" The Doctor shook his head, confused."She left because she loved you, and she knew that she never had a chance. She saw me and knew that she could never compare. She left, because she was jealous."

The Doctor stopped, his jaw gaping."She- she loved me?" His voice squeaked at the end, making him sound ridiculous.

DW

Rose had made up her mind. She'd forget about the Doctor, and maybe Mickey would take her back, eventually. Then she'd live a happy life, with a kid or two, and-

Her thoughts were interrupted by the whoosh of the TARDIS as it materialized. The man she had just refused to think about jumped out, and ran to her, yelling."ROSE TYLER, I'M SORRY! YOU ARE THE BEST THING THAT EVER HAPPENED TO ME, AND I LOVE YOU! I'M NEVER, EVER LETTING YOU LEAVE AGAIN!"

Rose jumped to her feet."But Reinette..."

"Reinette's gone," he said."She din't like you, so I let her off on New New York with some handsome duke, or something. Seemed happy enough. I'll have to get her eventually, she'll need to come back to France. And I'm so so sorry. I didn't know you felt that way about me too. And, if you'll let me make it up to you, things will be much, much better for both of us."

Rose smiled. He was really hard to stay mad at, wasn't he?

END

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