AN: Heyyyy guysss! This update is almost on time, but I have to warn you, I don't have a new chapter ready yet after this, so it could be I'll be late..:/ sorry...
Hope you still enjoy this ;)
PS: TILIA YOU HAVE TO READ THIS PLEASE :D
MORE FLUFFINESS TO COME
After only five minutes Rose came out of the bathroom, pajama on, and she found the Doctor with his own PJ's on.
"You look cute!" Rose teased the alien.
The Doctor rolled his eyes.
"Will you ever stop saying that?" He said, hiding his smile.
Rose pretended to think about it.
"Umm... no!"
The Doctor's face broke into a devilish grin.
"Then be ready for the Oncoming Storm anger!" he exclaimed, getting closer to her.
Rose backed away, inadvertently going towards the bed.
When the girl ended up with her legs against the bed, the Doctor started tickling her with his smirk in place.
Rose started laughing uncontrollably and fell on the bed, with the alien still torturing her.
"Stop, please stop!" she screamed out between the laughs, while the Doctor's hands kept sliding along her sides.
"Say you're sorry," he said, calmly leaning over her.
"Sorry! I'm sorry!"
The Doctor smirked, satisfied.
"Say I'm terrifying and not at all cute."
"No way!" she exclaimed stubbornly, his hands still dancing over her most ticklish points the Doctor remembered.
"Oh, okay then." he said matter-of-factly, tickling her even more.
Rose had tears falling from how hard she was laughing.
"You're not cute, you're terrifying! Please, please stop!" she begged the Doctor, who was laughing with her, laying half on top of her.
"Oh. Good." He said suddenly, stopping his torture and starting to get up.
The girl, still out of breath, followed him up until she was sitting, then she grabbed his shirt asking, "Where do you think you're going?" and then fell back onto the bed, dragging with her the Doctor, who promptly fell on her.
Then they laughed together, happy to be finally reunited again. Rose's laugh was so cheerful and happy that the Doctor's hearts missed a beat.
After a while, the Doctor moved from over the girl, fearing of crushing her with his weight, and Rose immediately whined for the loss of contact.
"I would've crushed you," he explained patiently.
"Well, you weigh almost nothing so you wouldn't have!" she said, almost like a child.
The Doctor stuck his tongue out at her.
Rose then pouted, turning away from the Doctor.
"Aw, come here..." said the Doctor, reaching out a hand towards Rose and pulling her to him.
Rose melted at this display of affection and need of physical contact, so she turned towards the alien, situating herself against him, with her head on his chest and an arm at his waist, while the alien was lying on his back.
The TARDIS dimmed the lights and left them in the half-darkness of the room.
Rose cuddled even closer to the Doctor and the Doctor tightened his grip on her. Rose sighed contentedly.
"You know what I miss?" she said quietly.
The Doctor shook his head.
"Listening to you as you say complicated things that I hardly understand. Your eyes when you talk like that have that manic glint and you're always so passionate. It's just so... nice, ya know?"
The Doctor smirked in disbelief.
"You miss me being boringly long-winded?" He was almost smiling by now.
"Hey! Don't insult my friend!" she immediately jumped to his defense.
"It wasn't an insult." He said smiling gently, stroking Rose's hair.
That was one of the things she missed most: his smiles. Yes, the teasing was nice, but more or less everyone got that from the Doctor.
The smiles, however... everyone had seen the manic grin, but Rose had seen all of them: the melancholy one, the nostalgic one, the gentle one, the sweet one, the proud (of her) one...
She could go on and on cataloguing every and each one of them, but the most beautiful thing was that she was almost always at the receiving end of these smiles. This warmed her more than anything, that she was the reason of his smiles.
The Doctor's voice broke her reverie.
"You're the only person I've ever known that knows me so well and likes all the small things about me," he whispered adoringly.
Rose raised her head to look in the Doctor's eyes.
She raised a hand to brush a strand of hair from his forehead while answering. "You wouldn't be the Doctor without all your small things," she whispered sweetly, her hand on his cheek.
The Doctor closed his eyes and breathed in deeply, delighting in the feeling of the warm girl's hand on his face.
"You're incredible." He said smiling, opening his eyes and fixing them in her honey ones.
Rose smiled, leaned down to kiss his cheek and then she got back in her original position with her head on his chest.
The couple stayed silent for a while, the Doctor stroking Rose's hair, Rose listening to his breathing and to the calming double rhythm of the his hearts.
Exactly when the Doctor thought the girl had fallen asleep, her voice broke the silence.
"How does the telepathic connection with the TARDIS work?"
"Are you really asking this to me now?" the alien asked in disbelief.
"Yes, why? I already told you I want to hear you ranting and you know I'm curious," she said, absentmindedly caressing the Doctor's chest.
Again the Doctor's hearts missed a beat because of the sensation.
"Are you sure you're okay?" asked worriedly Rose.
The Doctor tried to lie smoothly.
"Yes, I'm only tired, don't worry..."
"Anyway, the TARDIS can talk telepathically only with Time Lords, but can see the non-Time Lord minds, too." he explained patiently.
"And... could it be that because... because of Bad Wolf she could communicate with me too?" Rose asked hesitantly.
"No, it's really hard. And theoretically I should have felt it too, because even if a different connection with the TARDIS had been formed, I removed Bad Wolf from you and your mind is not a Time Lord one, so... maybe tomorrow we could check on you a bit, huh?" He answered after a bit of pondering.
Rose yawned.
"Okay."
The Doctor tightened his grip, burying his nose in the human's hair and inhaling her scent.
"Now sleep, little time traveler..."
Rose, too tired to protest at the nickname, just whispered, "Good night Doctor," already almost asleep.
"Goodnight, my sweet Rose." answered lovingly the Doctor, kissing her hair softly.
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