Here is the next chapter. Thanks for the reviews. Thanks Minxy. I don't own Doctor Who. I'm at school so this is rushed. :)


Sad Slaptastic Fluff

He made his way into the party. He saw Rose, well her back any way, and he was just in time to see Mickey go down on one knee…

Mickey cleared his throat and began, "Rose, I'm not good with words so bear with me here. Listen, I've been thinking a lot lately. We've been spending a lot of time together. I feel as if I couldn't be separated from your side. I love you Rose, I want to spend the rest of my life with you." He reached into his pocket and pulled out a black velvet box. He opened it and there was a ring, simple yet beautiful, the ring reminded Mickey of Rose, "Rose Marion Tyler, will you marry me?"

At this point Rose was stunned. She liked Mickey, she even might have been able to say love, but after the day at Bad Wolf Bay she had made a promise to herself. She promised never tell anyone she loved them until she told Him, he was the only person who mattered. Rose didn't know what to do. For the past week or so both Pete and Jackie were talking about marriage and how great it would be if Rose was married, she now realized it was a subtle ploy. She saw her mum, and she was giving Rose the 'you-know-what-I-want-you-to-do-and-you'd-better-do-it' look. She knew Pete would want her to do what was good for his business. She looked at other faces around the room; they seemed to be encouraging her to say yes, like they were watching a romantic movie and wishing for the starring couple to get together. In the meantime all Rose wanted to do was scream no at the top of her lungs until she couldn't even whisper ever again. She was trapped. Trapped in a room, trapped with soulless people, trapped in time, trapped in space, trapped in a wrong universe, and now she was going to be trapped, only this time in marriage. Rose didn't see any way out of it. Tears began to fall from her eyes. She saw Mickey smile. She realized that he thought they were tears of joy. That made her feel guilty. The guilt was draining the last bit of resistance she had in her body. Rose opened her mouth to say something but no words came out. Mickey's smile grew, he thought she was speechless. Well, Rose was speechless, but for entirely different reasons then he thought. Rose felt terrible, she couldn't break his heart, but she couldn't marry him. She was being torn up inside. She felt there was a storm inside her and it couldn't be stopped. All she needed was someone to disapprove and she'd say no but from where she was she couldn't see anyone who felt that way. She looked at the people who thought they were romantics, sighing and smiling. They had no idea how monstrous they were in Rose's eyes. She looked back to her mother, her mother was now giving the get-a-move-on look. That nearly killed Rose, that her own mother would sell her happiness. Rose stood there for what seemed like centuries begging for someone to speak up, but she knew that only a few seconds had passed. Wasn't there someone who would just speak up and say no or at least give a look that said don't do it

If Rose would have turned around she would have seen the Doctor. He was giving the one look she needed to see only with a bit more sadness then she would have expected. Mickey had said the one promise the Doctor could never give her. "I want to spend the rest of my life with you" is what he said. Mickey had made his promise obvious, incase the Doctor had made his way into the party. The Doctor had told Rose long ago he couldn't spend the rest of his life with her. Rose deserved someone who loved her and would die with her as a happy old couple warm in their bed. He could never give that to her. He saw Mickey smile, he thought Rose had said yes but she hadn't said anything, and he didn't see her nod. He heard Rose sob. She was crying. He instantly realized what was going on and he was relieved. He finally found Jackie in the crowd. She was encouraging- no, bullying Rose- to answer yes. What kind of a mother does that? He questioned. The Doctor saw Mickey's smile grow, and he could tell Rose had opened her mouth, but no noise came out. He looked at those other people, blindly supporting Mickey. Did he have the right to take Rose away from a normal life? It was a good life, full of loved ones, warm smiles, and anything any girl would ever want.

Suddenly, the Doctor sensed something. He couldn't place it at first, but then it suddenly made sense. He was sensing a young unborn Timelord, untrained but powerful. This was obviously Rose's baby, well his baby too. The Doctor realized that Rose only had about a month left in her pregnancy. He was suddenly aware that he came back just in time, one month later and he could be witnessing a very different set of events. A dream entered the Doctor's mind. It was the baby's dream; it wasn't much of anything, just so innocent. The Doctor then knew what he had to do.

"Well, yeah you could marry him," The Doctor said moving through the crowd toward where Mickey and Rose were, "I mean it could be a perfect little family, living in luxury, raising kids, sending them to all the best schools, having a loving husband pampering you, catering your every want and need, never having to worry about any threats, and never having to run for your life ever again. Yeah, yeah, the perfect life, but-" It was just about then Jackie slapped him, hard.

"What?!"

"Get out, you're making a scene," Jackie hissed.

"You're the one who slapped me!" The Doctor shouted indignantly. At that Jackie pushed the Doctor out of the room and into the kitchen. Suddenly and rather awkwardly, Jackie reached into his suit coat's pocket and pulled out the sonic screwdriver. She turned it on and locked the door. From inside the Doctor could hear someone, who he could only assume was Rose, bang on the door a few times and jiggle the handle. Jackie suddenly turned back to him.

"Get out of here, now."

"You locked me in, I can't get out," Jackie pointed to the back door of the kitchen, the Doctor sighed, "Why are you so pushy with this whole Rose marrying Mickey thing?"

"You want to know?"

"Yeah, I do." The Doctor flopped down in a chair near the island in the center of the kitchen.

"First of all, I hate you."

"Yeah, I gathered."

She glared, "Second, I can't lose Rose again. She's the only person in this universe I can be completely honest with." The Doctor simply nodded, he couldn't deny that. "Finally, I know where Mickey is." Jackie's eyes began to well up with tears. The Doctor couldn't say anything against what Jackie said, so he tried another route.

"Jackie, will you hear me out now?"

"No."

"Thanks Jackie."

"Oh shut up."

"Jackie, I'm at a loss for words—imagine that you of all people stopping me from talking—There is nothing I can say to you to tell you how much I need Rose, is there?"

"No. There isn't." Jackie said drying her tears. Suddenly the backdoor flew open. Rose came threw the door looking slightly worse for wear.

"Rose," The Doctor whispered. She looked stunning. She was huge yes, but beautiful nonetheless.

"Doctor," She smiled and ran into his arms.

"You have something to tell me," he whispered.

She smiled, "I love you." After she said that she felt like a weight had been lifted off her shoulders and that the Doctor's hearts melted.

"I love you too." He said.

"I know."

"Thought so." And with that he kissed her. Right at that moment Mickey came in the same door Rose had came in. He then cursed under his breath. Rose suddenly broke the kiss and let go of the Doctor.

"Mickey…"

"No, no, it's all right. Really, I understand." It was rather obvious Mickey wasn't all right.

"Mickey" the Doctor's stern voice said.

Mickey looked at him and snapped, "This would go better if you didn't talk." The Doctor's jaw dropped indignantly. "Don't give me that." Mickey turned to Rose and pleaded with her, "Rose, please listen to me, I need you. Please, please marry me."

"Mickey, I can't. I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, but I can't."

He nodded, "Rose, would you have said yes if he wasn't here?"

"I don't know."

"You would have said yes."

"I don't know that. You don't know that." Rose began to cry.

"Yes I do."

"Oh just stop it. Mickey, can't you see she's upset? If you 'loved' her you'd have stopped by now." The Doctor said in his simmering fury tone.

"If you loved her you wouldn't have left her here." Mickey took a step toward the Doctor.

"I didn't have a choice." The Doctor stood up and stepped closer to Mickey, they were about an inch apart.

"Obviously you did, but then you did say you got here by accident," With that the Doctor clenched his jaw and fists, it was taking everything in his power not to punch Mickey and break his nose. "How did you find a way through?"

"I was at the end of the universe, I was going to go back in time to stop an old enemy, BUT, I stepped into a parallel universe by accident and got here."

"So you didn't plan to come back?"

"No, BUT I would have come back, right after I saved the universe."

"So you want to take Rose into a universe that's in danger?"

"Well, I don't think she's perfectly safe here!" As if on cue, Rose began to scream and seized her stomach. The Doctor ran over to her. Her hands clutched her stomach. The Doctor placed his hands under hers, closed his eyes, and focused. He saw the baby's on going dream, but there was nothing going on that seemed bad. He then tried shifting to Rose's thoughts. He heard, I'm faking. I just REALLY want to go home and sleep. I AM SO TIRED! He decided to play along with her request. The Doctor then looked at Jackie, "Give me the sonic screwdriver, NOW!" He turned it to a completely useless setting and ran it over Rose's stomach a few times. Her screaming subsided and then the Doctor winked at her. "Rose needs some rest; I'll take her home." He turned to Rose "You got a car?"

"No she doesn't, but we have anextra," Jackie said tossing him some keys.

"Thanks," he gave a curt nod and walked Rose into the garage and into a black Lotus Exige. The pair was silent until the car was safely off the property.

"Wow, this car's pretty sporty for your mum," the Doctor idly commented.

"Oh she hates this car. Pete bought it before she came to the universe. She probably gave it to you hoping you'd crash it."

"She'd want me to crash with you in the car? Can't you feel the love tonight?"

Rose laughed. "Well, we haven't been getting along much in this universe. We had a big fight about a year ago and we made up about a week ago." She explained.

"Eh, leave it to your mum to hold on to grudges."

"Umm Doctor?"

"Yes."

"You still have no sense in direction." She said, "My flat's in the other direction."

"Oh. Hold on tight." The now embarrassed Doctor then made an illegal u-turn. An awkward silence soon followed. Then they hit a red light and the Doctor did stop, only because he didn't feel like breaking every law in one night. He looked at Rose, Rose was looking at him. The next thing he knew was that Rose's tongue was down his throat. He decided to go with the flow and kiss back; in fact he didn't get back to driving until a car behind him honked. He begrudgingly returned to driving.

"Don't worry," Rose assured him with a wink, "My flat's on the next block." And sure enough it was. From the time they parked the car, got in the building, rode the lift up to Rose's floor, into Rose's apartment, and finally into her bedroom, they snogged and snogged and just for good measure snogged some more. They both collapsed on the bed shortly there after.

"I missed that," Rose said as she regained her breath.

"Me too." The Doctor slowly put his hand on Rose's swollen abdomen. He started rubbing his hand on it. "When did you first find out?"

"Shortly before we went back to visit mum," she said placing her hand on his.

"That would explain the trip home. Have you thought of a name?"

Rose yawned. "No not really, waitin' for you. Doctor, you said something about danger in the other universe, what kind of danger is it?" She sounded oddly excited.

"The Timelord kind." This piqued Rose's curiosity. "An old enemy hid himself as a human and finally came back."

"Is he dangerous?"

"Very."

"Sounds like fun."

"You'd go into some of the worst danger of your life, as big as a house, and you'd still consider it fun?" The Doctor was beginning to question Rose's sanity or how hormones were making her feel.

"Yep."

"Rose," he began, "The Master is dangerous, and insane. I don't know if I want to take you into that."

"Well tough, I'm going and that's that. I can't stay here any longer. I'm going stir crazy just staying in one place and time."

"The trip ALONE is gonna be dangerous and when we're back I'm worried what would happen if he got his hands on you, or our baby."

"The TARDIS will make it safe. I can stay in the TARDIS the whole time. I promise this time I'll stay put, I learned my lesson."

"That's not the problem. The problem is… I don't exactly have the TARDIS with me…." He said sheepishly.

"WHAT?" Rose was very confused and angry at this point.

"The Master has it, I took Jack's Vortex Manipulator and well, manipulated it."

"Jack's back?" Rose was excited. The Doctor assumed hormones made Rose very emotional.

"Yeah, and he's immortal"

"How?"

"You did it. Bad Wolf had a lot of power." The Doctor said darkly.

"Jack can protect me then, sounds like he owes me a favour anyway." Rose yawned yet again, she should really be asleep, but she just wanted to stay up and talk with the Doctor.

"Yeah, and I'd have to protect you from Jack."

Rose stretched and snuggled closer to the Doctor, "Do you think Jack really likes pregnant women?"

"Jack likes everything." Rose could only nod in agreement. "Martha could look after you I suppose."

"Martha, is she your new companion?" a twinge of jealousy hit Rose.

"Yes, but just a companion. Don't worry I haven't danced with her."

"Better not have. Doctor. Don't know what I'd do if she were pregnant with another one of your kids." Rose suddenly changed subjects, "I can't stay here. Mickey might propose again. Next time I'll turn him down flat though. I'd hate to be rude, but I'd rather be rude then married to him."

The Doctor chuckled. "I guess you in life-threatening danger is better than you married to Mickey." He gave a defeated sigh, "You can come," Rose immediately brightened up, "BUT you have to stay close to me, don't wander off when I tell you not too, stay away from Jack, and act dumb if you come across a man called the Master."

Rose yawned yet again, "Okay, sounds easy enough." She snuggled down closer to the Doctor. "I think I'll sleep now."

"Good night then." Rose fell asleep not long after that. She slept silently. She looked like an angel. The baby's dreams started to filter into the Doctor's mind again. He decided that this had to be one of the most peaceful moments of his life. He fell asleep not long after that.


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