Caught: 9th Angel/10th Doctor

The Doctor absently fiddled with the controls, clearly in deep thought about something or other. He was broken out of his reverie by the sound of the Angel's footsteps on the floor of the console room. Her blonde hair was loose, and falling over her face. She frowned and blew a particularly annoying strand out of her eyes.

"You know," the Angel said, flicking the rest of her hair over her shoulder."Having long hair is very inconvenient at times."

"I like it," the Doctor frowned. She smiled at him fondly.

"You always say that."

"Because it's always true," the Doctor grinned. The Angel rolled her eyes, but laughed and walked over to him.

"So..." her fingers brushed over the console."I was thinking..."

"About?" The Doctor prompted. The Angel smiled and shook her head.

"Oh, nothing important," she shrugged."Just that...well, are we awful people for taking on companions?"

"What?" The Doctor suddenly noticed that the Angel was looking decidedly unhappy at that moment."Psia, is this about what I said to Rose?"

"No!" Her husband gave her a look."Well, yes. I just feel...guilty. We give them hope that, somehow, they'll be with us forever, but they can't. And then...we just leave them."

"We don't just leave them, Psia," the Doctor said softly."They make that decision. We have never abandoned a companion."

"Not physically," the Angel argued."But emotionally, yes, we do abandon them. Just like with Sarah. Rose was right, we were just as close with Sarah as her, but now we really do never mention her."

"You know why we don't," the Doctor's expression was now tortured."Because if we remembered everybody that has gone, it would hurt. It would hurt so much."

"I-" the Angel sighed."I know. I'm being a sentimental idiot."

"Oi, I'm the sentimental idiot around here," the Doctor teased."Stop stealing my job."

"You're an idiot, I'll give you that," the Angel muttered, before darting out of his reach, laughing. He chased her around the console for a good minute or two, before she tripped and he was able to grab her around the waist, causing them both to fall to the floor.

"Gotcha," the Doctor said severely."Now apologize."

"No, thank you," the Angel replied, in an equally serious tone of voice. They stared at each other for a while, smiles slowly creeping onto their faces, before the Doctor broke and burst out laughing. His wife responded to this by wrapping her arms around his neck and kissing him affectionately, smiling widely.

Rose was used to a lot of things happening around the TARDIS. After all, it was owned by a couple of insane aliens (admittedly the male was slightly more insane than the female most of the time). However, she definitely wasn't used to finding both the Angel ad the Doctor making out on the console floor. Obviously, she knew that they did-do that sort of thing, but never in front of her...Rose felt her face going bright red.

"Oh, Rose!" The Doctor quickly jumped to his feet, looking embarassed."We were just...you know."

"Err. Yeah. Sure," Rose turned an even brighter shade of red."I'll just...yeah."

She turned and exited the console room, vowing always to check carefully before entering the console room in the future.

"She looked a bit shaken," the Angel said worriedly."Maybe I should go and talk to her?"

"Nah, she'll be fine," her husband scratched the back of his head shiftily."I hope."

"What do you think made her act like that?" The Angel asked, sounding genuinely non-plussed.

"Well..." the Doctor gave her a sheepish look."It may have had something to do with where my hands were..."

O.K, probably enough horny 10 for now, eh?

9 will appear right at the beginning of the proper story, and then regenerate into 10. Don't worry, plenty of flashbacks eg meeting Rose shall also be included, so 9 will appear in the full length story at time, but not in this collection of moments. Sorry 9 lovers :(