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Jackie swiped her hand down Rose's front, trying to get rid of invisible fluff of her jumper, for the seventh time today.

The Doctor was hidden behind a wall, watching as Jackie fussed over an unimpressed Rose who was growling at her reflection in a puddle on the concrete. She was wearing a very neat school uniform and had her long hair in French plaits by her cheeks. Over that was an very thick, large coat, a pink bag and a pink umbrella. Jackie fussed more trying to take another picture or so but Rose was protested.

"Just one more picture that's it."

"Muuum! No!"

Even in her younger years, she was taking control of the situation around her.

They started walking to school, her small hand in her mothers and the Doctor just behind, hidden by pillars and traffic.

When they got to the school gates, Rose insisted that she walk in to the classroom on her own to which her mum only just agreed. Her face was streaked with tears, smudging her eye makeup; her lips were trembling as she looked proudly onto Rose, crushed under her arms.

After a quick kiss and an tight hug goodbye, she went running off into the playground making a new friend the minute her feet touched the ground.

He decided to walk back, waiting impatiently for her return which took most of the day and when he spotted her and Jackie walking home, he practically threw himself as a dozing Jack who stood up now, and flexed his arms.

"They're back!" He said, throwing Jack out the way and throwing himself to the carpet.

"Great, yeah. Don't mind me. Just standing in the way..."

The Doctor had his ear to the carpet.

"Okay, how'd it go?"

"I don't know yet," The Doctor hushed, "They're just talking about it now."

In the downstairs flat, Rose was being pushed against the table as Jackie placed a plate of spaghetti on toast towards her. Rose was famished and despite its obvious heat as the steam began to rise off it, started eating it immediately.

"Rose, slow down..." Sitting down across from her, Jackie ran her hand through Rose's tangled hair but smiled proudly. "How'd your first day of school go?"

"Great ,mum! I made a friend! Her name's Shareen! She lives 'ere as well! At number for'y two! Can I go and play after dinner? "

"We'll see, you've got to have a bath, yet"

Rose groaned.

"Please, mum! Please! I said I would!"

Smiling she waved her hand off in a distant manner. "Once you've finished for dinner, but when I call you, you're to come in. No complaints!"

"I know!" Rose yelled excitedly, shovelling the food down her throat as fast as she could.

"Slow down! You're going to make yourself sick!" Jack chastised.

But Rose was already holding up the plate in front of Jackie's face. "Done! Can I go play now?!"

"Get changed out of your uniform first..."

"Mum!" Rose whined, dragging her feet closer to the door

From the watching flat above, Jack nudged a grinning Doctor. "Number forty three that's two doors from us."

The Doctor didn't say anything; just leaped up to press himself against the front window where Rose had already ran to. She had tomato sauce around her face and along her arm. Her knees were scraped and she knocked forcefully upon the door in front of her, unafraid.

Another little girl, with dark brown hair and dark eyes, jumped excitedly and followed Rose as they ran to the bottom of the square beneath the flats.

"Stay where I can see you!" Jackie yelled form the window.

Rose rolled her eyes.

Running off, the girls continued to play a game of 'mums and babies' and Rose was keen to imitate her mother.

"No! Naugh'y Ba-y-by! If you're bad I'll give you a smack!"

Shareen continued to pretend to cry.

"Stop crying! You're embarrassing me! Why are you so naugh'y?!"

Giggling, she jumped up and waged her finger at her new friend.

"You are such a "bitch" Stop crying or I will hurt you!"

"WHAT?!" The Doctor yelled through the window. Jack continued to laugh.

"Imitating adults? This is hilarious!" He scoffed, covering his hands over his mouth as he rushed to the window to watch.

"Jack! This is not funny! Her mum would never talk to her like that!"

Jack shrugged, smiling. "No but she does live around a load of drunks."

"Speak for yourself," The Doctor muttered, watching out the other window as the girls laughed and continue to play around.

"I was..."

The Doctor stood up, as if ready to punch him in the face but Jack quickly added "kidding".

"You better be, Jack because if she recognises-"

"I know, I know! I was joking."

The Doctor looked at him hard for a moment or two then returned to his original position.

"Why did she say that?!" He mumbled, glaring through the window as the kids continued to play around.

"They're imitating what they see, so parents, television like. Where else is she going to learn all that? She's just exaggerating..."

He made a face behind Jack's back.

"Why would she do it, though?"

Jack rolled his eyes. "Fun! To look clever and grown up. To let out exasperation and frustration...to be a kid!"

"Yeah, but swearing?!"

"You're so naive!" Jack stretched out again before leaning against the window. He took a deep breath and looked at the Doctor, his accent becoming thick.

"How long were you with her, after you both abandoned me at Bad Wolf?"

Sniffing, like he always did when he wanted to avoid a difficult question, The Doctor's shoulders lifted into a shrug.

"You'll find out soon enough..."He lied.

Jack rolled his eyes and looked downwards, watching as Mickey approached the scene. Shareen suggested they play a new game and as soon as Jack heard it, he began choking on his own breath as he pushed The Doctor closer out the window.

"What?!"

"You'd better get down there!" Jack urged suddenly, a smile playing on his lips. "They're playing Doctor and Rose's!"

Laughing at his own joke, the Doctor nudged him out the way but kept an eye on the three as they found a small, dark hideout which was to be the emergency room.

"You're not funny," He said sighing sadly, but even he couldn't deny he liked the sound of the names together.

"Tell me, d'ya play 'Doctors and Rose's' the same as 'Doctors and nurses'?"

Misunderstanding, the Doctor shrugged and nodded. Jack howled in laughter.

"I'll show you mine if you show me yours!" He bellowed, mirthfully.

"What?"

"Your screwdriver," Jack winked, still laughing for no apparent reason. "After all," He continued still chuckling, "It is sonic."

Giving him a bewildered look, he leaned further out the window as Rose asserted playfully that Mickey was to be the patient and Shareen and herself; the nurses.

"But seriously did you ever..." He waggled his eyebrows. "With Rose?"

"Jack, I have no idea what you're talking about..."

"Yeah you do...course you do..."

The Doctor gave him a blank face.

"Okay," he reiterated, "Did you ever play..'Doctor's and nurses' ...with Rose?" He showed inverted commas with his fingers.

The Doctor knitted his eyebrows together. "Not really, though we do have to pretend to be other people sometimes to stop complications. That's what the psychic paper is for." He waited a few moments as Jack watched him manically.

"Did," he corrected himself.

Jack sighed, dissatisfied. "So, did you ever ...'role play'."

The Doctor grinned as a memory filled his thoughts. "Oh yeah loads of times!"

Jack guffawed and slapped him on the back as the Doctor continued. "Like at 'expeditions and stuff'. We used to deliberately dress up as characters from a different sci-fi shows just to annoy the geeks. It was hilarious!"

"What?"

"You know. 'Role play'. We used to muck about and dress up as irrelevant characters to the ones involved in the films that we advertised..."

"I don't understand?" Jack said.

"Well, they had an advertisement for 'Zombie Massacre, Revenge Of The Dead VII' so Rose and I thought it would be funny to dress up as Simba and Nala and tell one of the actor's that we loved him in 'The Lion King' although they wasn't even in The Lion King!"

He laughed out loud and grinned into the wind, shaking his head a little, really laughing for once. "It was a great... Me and Rose...We were great"

There was silence as The Doctor took in the words and sniffed against them as if dismissing the unwanted reminder of his loss.

He'd totally misunderstood the concept and Jack couldn't be bothered to explain and so just watched as the Doctor's broken expression turn to horror.

"What are they doing?!" He hissed as Jack laughed shaking his head at the Doctor's naivety.

"Playing Doctors and Nurses..." He said.

Rose had picked up some stones from the floor and told Mickey that to make him better she would need to use the stones. Shareen joined in, ordering him about and saying that he'd have to strip of his clothes so they could make him better. Rose took no notice; pretending to make medicine.

The Doctor grabbed a half eaten orange from the table beside the sofa and threw it with perfect aim at the window of Jackie's flat.

Jack looked to him, his eyebrows raised as he shook his head, disapprovingly.

"You're so ridiculous..."

Jackie jumped as the noise startled her but looked at the clock then leant out the window to call Rose.

Mickey had taken off his trousers by now, causing Rose to scream in fright when she turned around to see the 'ill paitent' with some sort of worm attached his private bits. Screaming, she pelted the stones in her hand at him and ran several steps away, placing her hands over her tightly closed eyes and screaming at him.

"Take it away! Take it away!"

The Doctor also had his hands over his eyes but couldn't help but peak at Rose as she continued to scream when Mickey started approaching her. She regretted throwing all the medicinal rocks and wished she'd kept some.

Leaning out the window, Jackie offhandedly called Rose, yelling that it was bath time. She hadn't even noticed that Rose was already running up the flights of stairs towards home.

Jack continued to laugh as he watched an awkward Mickey and Shareen standing around, unsure whether or not to continue playing in Rose's absence.

"She's such a prude!"

The Doctor made a face, and collapsed into the armchair, not quite sure whether to laugh or fast forward in time so he could punch Mickey in the face however; an important thought crossed his mind, distracting him.

"Jack..."

"Yeah?" He hummed, still sighing in delight as he watched poor Mickey blush from the window.

"OF COURSE WE DIDN'T PLAY DOCTORS AND NURSES!"


The Doctor stayed a little longer than usual, eager to hear if Rose confided in her mother about the days events and sure enough, she eventually did.

She was sat between her mother's knees, towel like a tent wrapped around her as her mum combed her long hair through with a small nit comb despite Rose's protests.

"Mum?"

She hummed in response.

"What's wrong with Mickey?"

"Rose!" Jackie scolded, wiping the comb on a bit of tissue paper and attacking a live nit. "Nothing is wrong with him, why would you say that?!"

"S'just" Rose began, looking at her knees and biting her lip. "He's got a worm on his private bits"

"Rose! You shouldn't be look-...it's not a worm...oh, I'll tell you when you're older..." She finalised shaking her head and sighing; exasperated.

"But I wanna know now!"

"Rose!" Jackie warned sturdily, laughing a little.

From the above flat, Jack howled with further laughter and even The Doctor couldn't help but chuckle, too.