Don't own Doctor Who or Barbie girl etc. Haha doen't that just excite you for this chapter? Okay this is a long one (4700 and something words to be exactamundo) to make up for my lack of updates this month.
And yes I know, how cliché is this? Truth or dare! but I thought I could put my own twist on it. Free imaginary cookies to anyone who can spot all my link to the last chapter ;) These are all meant to be unrelated but I just couldn't resist. Next chapter may be a month away again but I'm going to Paris with my school so I won't be here to write! Though when I get back you can expect a Trip to Paris as a chapter (that was actually the first thing I ever wrote when I was like 12 or something but I deleted it so I'll write a new one ;] ) Anyway... this is my terrible attempt at humour with a lot off extra fluffy fluff.
Allons-y.
"And I got this one when my mate Shareen dared me to run down the stairs in my estate wearin' only my knickers! I ended up steppin' on a piece of glass and had to get five stitches." Rose put her small pink foot back in her slipper and smiled at the Doctor who was shaking his head in disbelief. She had started showing him her various scars when he had expressed his disappointment with losing the scar his past body had on his left knee, it had been shaped like a banana.
"And why did she dare you?" he asked. Surely Rose, even a younger Rose, could see the danger of running around outside with no shoes.
"We were playing truth and dare" she shrugged, reaching for another chip off the table. They were in the kitchen enjoying some down-time after saving the world, again. Robot cats really can take a lot out of you. Another reason to dislike them he thought.
"What's that?" he asked.
"I swear Doctor, sometimes you are so… alien. I can't believe you have never played truth or dare! What did you use to do with your friends at night back on your planet, play hangman?" The Doctor's smile faded for a moment before Rose took his hand. "Sorry" she said, and he shook his head, giving her hand a small squeeze before dropping it to take another chip.
"I can't say we ever played hangman but we did used to see who could build a gravitational stabiliser faster or who could dismantle a particle gun the quickest! That was fun. Some of the more daring Time Lord children would see if they could build working vortex manipulators. Quite a few of them succeeded too but it got nasty if they failed." He looked thoughtful for a moment and Rose bit back a laugh. "Ooh and sometimes we would sneak into a TARDIS to play hide and seek." He smiled at the distant memories and then looked at Rose who now had her hand over her mouth to try and keep from laughing. "What?" he asked, oblivious to his nerdy ways.
"You're such a… GEEK" she laughed, throwing a chip at him. The Doctor looked offended and picked up Rose's chip, popping it into his mouth.
"Fine then, what's so good about Daring Truth?" he asked. Rose rolled her eyes.
"It's Truth or Dare, Doctor."
"That's what I said"
"No, you said Daring Truth"
"No I didn't"
"Yes you did!"
"No I didn't"
"You're such a liar!" she laughed, throwing another chip at him.
"Am not" he countered, throwing it back. His eyes popped open when she caught it in her mouth.
"Are too, times a billion" she said when she swallowed, licking the salty goodness off her lips. "But ANYWAY, Truth or Dare is exactly as it sounds. You ask someone Truth or Dare and they have to pick one to do. If you pick truth they get to ask you anything and if you pick dare you have to do what they say. Hence the running around in my underwear."
"But what if you don't want to, say, run around in your knickers?" he asked, always fascinated in human traditions. When Rose told him about bobbing for apples he insisted on going to about a hundred different Halloweens to get a real feel of the game. Then there was the time she mentioned pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey, she still can't face going back to that farm in Philadelphia. And not to mention the time she told him about Advent Calendars and he immediately changed the course aboard the Tardis to go to the nearest Tesco's and bought one for every month in the year so he could have chocolate everyday.
"Then you're a chicken!" She smiled.
"What does poultry have to do with anything?" he asked, confused. Rose smacked her forehead, for a Time Lord genius he could be so dim sometimes.
"It means coward you silly Time Lord!" she threw another chip at him and thus began the epic chip battle.
--~*~--
Rose emerged from her room about an hour later fully dressed after having a long shower to rid her hair of grease and various condiments. The Doctor was sitting in the captains chair when she arrived his feet resting on the console and a book in his hands. She noticed his hair was too rid of chip grease and his face clear of ketchup.
He looked up when she entered and a smile lit up his face. He put his book down and bounded over to her.
"Truth or Dare?" he asked, taking her hand and dragging her over to the chair. Rose raised her eyebrows at his excited expression.
"Truth" she said, wondering what he would come up with. The Doctor smiled wickedly and scratched his chin. He did that for a few minutes while Rose just waited. Eventually she got up to go make some tea and snacks, she had a feeling they would be there for a while.
As she waited for the kettle to boil she noticed that the Doctor hadn't cleaned up from their previous chip war. There was condiments, chips and slices of bread all over the floor and walls. Sighing she scrubbed the kitchen. About 20 minutes later she sauntered back into the console room.
The Doctor was still sitting in the same spot but this time he was looking at her with a devilish smile on his face. She sat down beside him handing him a cuppa and a marmalade sandwich. Taking a swig from her own mug she waited for her question.
"How many boys have you kissed?" he asked. Rose choked on her tea, coughing an spluttering everywhere while the Doctor looked on expectantly, his eyebrows raised. "That many, huh?" he teased. This time it was Rose who raised her eyebrows. Time to have a little fun she thought.
"Well there was Joshua and Rick when I was ten, Paulo from Italy when I was eleven, Mickey when I was twelve, Freddie, Paul and Andy when I was thirteen, Richie, Peter and that bloke from Manchester and his friend too, think his name was Paddy, when I was fourteen, lots of boys from the Disco before I met Jimmy when I was fifteen, Matthew, Lewis, Lloyd and John when I was seveneen, about seven blokes from the bar before I went out with Mickey, then there was Adam, Jack, you… oh and that guy in the shadows on New Years when I was eighteen... Never did see his face. But yeah that's it. So in total I'd say around fourty, fourty-five?" She smiled devilishly at the Doctor as his jaw went slack and he resembled a fish.
"How many?!" he asked, his voice all high. Rose laughed and he watched her wide eyed before he caught on. "Rose Tyler! I thought the game was truth or dare not lie and make the Doctor believe he is travelling with a slapper or dare!" Rose just continued to roll around in fits of laughter pointing at his face and eventually he joined her.
"But seriously Rose, you have to answer the question or you're a rooster!"
"It's chicken, Doctor!" she laughed.
"That's what I said"
"No it's not, you said Rooster"
"No I didn't"
"Yes, you did! You're lying again!"
"No I'm not"
"Yes you are!"
"No I'm not times a billion!" he said, grinning triumphantly.
"Yes you are times infinity!" she shot back, poking him in his chest. "But anyway" she continued before he could open his mouth again. "I have kissed 8 people. 9 if you count big ears and big hair as different people." The Doctor nodded, liking the small number a lot more than the original 35.
"Big hair?" he asked, Rose shrugged.
"Truth or Dare?" she asked, doing her trademark tongue-in-the-cheek smile.
"Uh.. Truth and for the record Big Ears is completely different to me" he said smiling and flicking his ears for emphasis. Rose laughed too and then leant back, gulping back the end of her tea and scratching her chin. She already knew her question but enjoyed the Doctor's fidgeting, hopping around and all round impatience. Eventually she decided to put him out of his misery. She stopped scratching her chin and turned to face him and his expectant face.
"How many girls have you kissed?" she asked. The Doctor looked confused.
"It took you 5 minutes and 37 seconds to ask me the same question?"
"What can I say? You're so cute when you're impatient!" she smiled.
"Cute?" he asked and she nodded. He shrugged and then his face went serious as he started to think. "Do you mean this regeneration only or me as a whole?" he asked.
"Well how many of you have there been?" she asked.
"I'm the tenth" he replied.
"How about you and nine then?" she offered and he nodded.
"Good idea. Well then there would be about four? Five if Cassandra counts as a separate person for than you and six if Jack counts as a girl" Rose only half laughed as she remembered that one of those women had been Madam de Pompawhore.
"Truth or Dare, Rose Tyler?" he asked, his eyes once again alight with excitement and curiosity. She decided to be adventurous and picked dare, hoping that this dare wouldn't result in stitches or hang-overs like so many others in it's wake.
"I dare you to… sing a song of my choice at a karaoke bar!" he challenged. Rose raised an eyebrow, he didn't know she could sing. Well, he didn't know that others thought she could sing.
"Done!" she grinned. He smiled and waggled his eyebrows before hopping up and running around the controls like a mad man.
"Lets see, uh, June the 7th, 2016, New York, America, Earth…" he muttered to himself before pulling the lever. The TARDIS shook with a force that sent both travellers to the floor. They laughed together as they rolled around on the grating. Eventually with one final jolt they landed. "Allons-y!" the Doctor grinned, grabbing Rose's hand and pulling her out the doors with him.
They had landed in a broom cupboard, again.
"Ah" he muttered, looking around the cramped space, "Well that's cosy!"
"I'm not sure cosy is the word" Rose muttered, "more like shoddy." The Doctor nodded in agreement before pulling her out of the cupboard, which got them a few disapproving looks from various people in the corridor, and towards the bar. He ordered them some drinks before leaving her there to go put her name down. When he returned he was still chuckling to himself which made Rose's stomach twist and turn uncomfortably. She downed her drink to sooth the nerves.
Rose hated singing in front of lots of people, even if she could sing. Just imagine them naked she said to herself and was then distracted by a rather intriguing mental image of the Doctor.
"You're up Rose! Break a leg" the Doctor told her, making her blush crimson as she was shaken out of her day dream. She glanced up at the stage where some fat bloke was holding a microphone and searching the crowd for her.
"I'll break your leg in a moment" she muttered to him before moving towards the stage. She stood up under the bright light holding the mic and looked out over the bar. She thanked the Lord that it wasn't packed and easily found the Doctor leaning casually against the bar looking delighted with himself. The music started and Rose's mouth fell open. She gave the Doctor one of her 'I'm so gunna kill you' looks before starting to sing.
Hiya Barbie! Hi Ken! You wanna go for a ride? Sure Ken! Jump in!
I'm a Barbie Girl in a Barbie World, Life is being plastic, its fantastic!
You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere,
Imagination! Life is your creation
Come on Barbie lets go party
I'm a Barbie Girl in a Barbie World, Life is being plastic, its fantastic!
You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere,
Imagination! Life is your creation!
Rose glanced down at the Doctor and was pleased to see his jaw was gone slack. A few men where whistling but she ignored them, intent on watching the Doctor. She started to walk down the stage towards him while still singing the words.
I'm a blonde bimbo girl in a fantasy world dress me up, make it tight, I'm your dolly.
Smiling a huge grin and ignoring the wolf whistles, she handed the mic to the Doctor, who laughed and took a deep gulp from his drink.
You're my doll, rock and roll, feel the glamour and pink, kiss me here touch me there, hanky panky he sang waggling his eyebrows and taking her hand before dragging her up towards the stage again where together they finished out the song. Both unable to meet each others eyes for the last lines.
Oh I'm having so much fun!
Well Barbie, we're just getting started!
Oh I love you Ken.
--~*~--
Later on, back in the Tardis, they continued their game in the kitchen over cups of hot chocolate. Rose was back in her pyjamas while the Doctor had shed the coat and was just in his shirt and tie. They asked eachother various truths for a while, neither wanting to leave the Tardis. Rose found out that the Doctor hated pears, once wore a stick of celery on his coat and secretly loved the film How to Lose a Guy In 10 Days. While the Doctor learnt of Rose's fear of spiders, hate of all things disco and how she had once bunked off school to go to a Cindy Lauper siging.
"Truth or Dare, Doctor?" Rose asked, as she munched on a marshmallow.
"I'm no rooster, so I pick dare" he joked. Rose's grin doubled in size and he swallowed nervously, not knowing what he had gotten himself into.
"You're about to learn, Doctor, why you should never pick dare while in the kitchen!" His eyes widened as he watched her stand up and take out the blender. He gulped as she made her way to the fridge and started pulling random items out. "Yoghurt, butter, ketchup, baby food - Baby food? Why do you have baby food?" the Doctor shrugged and she rolled her eyes, turning back to the task at hand, "mustard, kiwi, this pink goo, horse radish, left over beans" she moved away from the fridge and towards the cupboard, "Spaghetti hoops, pasta sauce and last but not least room temperature orange juice!" she looked at the Doctor's shocked face and grinned. "Silly Time Lord!" she laughed.
The Doctor watched, with a green face, as Rose chucked the ingredients into the blender. The ingredients created a multi-coloured concoction of doom and the Doctor thanked his Time Lord biology for not having a gag reflex because should he have been human he would have been a goner. Not wanting to appear weak though, he put on a brave face.
"Pff, you think that's gunna put me off?" he mocked. Rose, who had seen this coming turned slowly to face the Doctor, a single fruit in the palm of her hand.
"No, but this might" she said. The Doctor spotted the little fruit and his jaw dropped open.
"You wouldn't!" he said, but a second later Rose had dropped it in the blender, "No! PLEASE Rose anything but a pear!" Rose just laughed and pressed blend.
The Doctor watched with wide eyes as the ingredients turned in the blender. He could see the pear going around and around until it hit the blade and exploded. Rose was watching the Doctor like a hawk. He had faced armies of Daleks, fought off hundreds of aliens and absorbed the Time Vortex itself yet he was scared of a pear.
"So much for the oncoming storm!" she teased, and he gave her a dark look. Ignoring him and still smiling she pressed stop on the blender bringing the red concoction to a halt. The Doctor looked green again as he watched Rose pour the lumpy drink into a glass. With a flourishing smile she added a straw and umbrella.
"Bottoms up, Doctor!" she said, as she placed it in front of the green Time Lord.
"Do I have to?" the Doctor whined, poking the glass with his sonic screwdriver.
"Yep" she said, popping the 'P'.
"All of it?" he asked dubiously.
"Every. Last. Drop." she laughed evilly, punctuating each word.
"But Roossee" he whined again, "It has pear in it! I hate pear! I'm going to taste all pear-like for ages!" Rose just started making chicken noises. He exhaled sharply and grabbed the glass, Rose's eyes went wide.
"To chickens" he said, raising his glass and drinking deeply from it. He lasted about 5 seconds before he was coughing and spluttering everywhere. His eyes were watering and he was hitting his tongue as if to get the taste away. As much as Rose enjoyed torturing him she hated watching him like this.
"Okay, okay, okay!" she said, taking the glass away from him and replacing it with a glass of water. The Doctor chugged it appreciatively. "That's enough, I won't make you suffer any longer."
"Thanks Rose. That was truly disgusting! I felt like I was licking a Slitheen's foot!"
"That's disgusting!" Rose half groaned half laughed.
"My point exactly" he quipped, hitting his tongue a few more times. "So come on Rose then, your turn. Truth or Dare?"
"Truth" she said, choosing to play it safe. The Doctor began scratching his chin again. "Doctor!"
"Okay fine. Ehh.. What's your natural hair colour?" he asked. He had always wondered this, sure Rose had dark roots but were they black or brown? Or mahogany or a deep red.
"Chocolate brown" she replied with a smile, "It makes me look awfully pale though. Mum didn't like it much either and she needed someone to practice on."
"I bet it would look beautiful" the Doctor said, eliciting a blush from Rose. "Though the blonde is lovely too." Rose smiled and took his hand.
"Truth or dare?" she asked.
"Truth" he replied, wondering what she would come up with this time. Hopefully something more original than last time. She played with his fingers for a few moments, a slight frown on her face which the Doctor knew to mean she was thinking hard. Finally she spoke.
"Is there a planet that you really want to go to but haven't?" The Doctor raised his eyebrows, he hadn't been expecting that. She always knew how to make him think.
"Yes. Lots of them! Too many to mention, but I suppose there are a few main ones. I really want to go to the planet Solas, it has mountains made of glass and trees made of diamonds so that when the twin suns hit them the whole world shines. Only problem is that the sun is so strong that we would be blinded should we ever open our eyes." Rose's shoulders slumped in disappointment, it had sounded so beautiful. The Doctor squeezed her hand in equal disappointment "Then there's the planet Eitilt which has an orange sun, much like my own planet, that shines 10 times brighter than you're own. And there are stingrays in the sky, Rose, flying stingrays! Every winter they spend weeks flying in this intricate pattern looking for a mate, and when they do they stay together forever, dancing in the air. It's meant to be beautiful but I never had anyone to go with. The legend says one can only land if you share a special bond with the one whom they travel with." He paused for a moment, watching Rose's face as she tried to imagine it. He loved watching the look that would come over her face as she learnt something new. This is why he travelled. "Oh and there's Felspoon, it has mountains that move, mountains that sway in the breeze! Can you imagine?" Rose rolled her eyes, trust him to ruin a moment. "Anyway it's my turn Rose Tyler, truth or dare?"
"Well seeing as we are still in the kitchen I'll go with truth again" she smiled and the Doctor pouted. He wanted Rose to get her just deserts.
"What's your favourite thing we've done together?" This should be interesting he thought. Rose seemed to consider this for a moment before a blush crept up her neck. "Rose Tyler are you blushing?" he asked.
"No" she said a little to quickly before turning her head away.
"Yes you are!" he said, pointing at her half hidden face.
"No I'm not, it's the heat in here making me red" she lied.
"It is not the heat! The Tardis is programmed to make sure we are at a comfortable temperature at all times. Hence, you are blushing."
"I am not blushing!"
"Are too" he sang.
"Am not times a billion!"
"Are too times infinity!" cried the Doctor, convinced that he had finally won.
"Am not times infinity plus one!" she shouted with a manic grin, the Doctor fell silent "But ANYWAY. Do you want to hear or not?" He nodded. "It's kind of embarrassing…" she muttered.
"Why?" he asked, taking her hand again. "You know you can tell me anything Rose."
"I know. I guess well… It's just… all the aliens and spaceships and stuff is great, seeing all those things out there is amazing, but I really just love spending time with you here in the Tardis. Playing stupid games like Truth or Dare or Pin The Tail On the Donkey or even just talking about nothing for hours on end. I can't even begin to tell you how much I enjoy just listening to you talk about the Tardis or places that you've seen, it makes me so happy knowing that I'm the one you share these things with. Doctor, I love y-" she paused for a moment, eyes wide, and the Doctor's hearts picked up double pace. Was she about to say what he thought she was about to say? "I love spending time with you." she recovered "I know its sounds dumb because of all the things I've seen, but you're my best friend Doctor." She trailed off looking up at him shyly. The Doctor was speechless.
Without saying a word he stoop up and pulled Rose towards him in the biggest hug she had ever received. She wrapped her arms around his neck and he lifted her up and spun her around making her squeal in delight.
"You're my best friend too, Rose, and there is nobody I'd rather share the universe with than you." He said to her when he finally put her down. She smiled and lay her head on his chest, content to just hug him for a while. The Doctor placed a kiss to her forehead and lay his cheek on top of her head. "Truth or dare, Doctor?" she whispered eventually. He pulled back and looked at her, he thought that the game was over.
"Dare" he grinned. Rose swallowed nervously.
"I dare you to kiss me" He drew in a sharp breath searching Rose's face for the joke but found no trace of humour. After a moment he nodded and dipped his head down until they were at eyelevel.
"Are you sure?" he asked, really hoping that she was. She nodded and a small smile lit up his face. And before he could think of the millions of reasons why he shouldn't kiss Rose Tyler he found himself with his lips pressed gently against hers, his hands at her waist and her arms around his neck, one of her small hands trailed its way up to mess up his hair. The Tardis took this moment to shake violently and break the pair apart. Slightly flustered he rushed out of the kitchen and towards the console room with Rose hot at his heels.
"What?!" he exclaimed, staring at the screen. "But that's- how can - what?" Rose watched as the Doctor tried to form a sentence.
"What does it say, Doctor? Where are we going?" she asked him, slightly worried, "Doctor tell me, what's wrong?" The Doctor looked up at her and scratched his ear.
"Nothings wrong, it's just… remember what I was saying about the planet Eitilt?" Rose nodded, "Well it seems we have a close enough bond to go there. The Tardis is bringing us now." Rose's face lit up with a wide grin and the Doctor had one to match. She hugged him quickly before running off to get changed.
--~*~--
The Doctor and Rose stood looking out at the orange horizon which was full of dancing sting rays looking for love. The Doctor looked at Rose and was so glad that he had her. A person to share the universe with and to love. Yes that's right, he said it, the Doctor, the Last of the Time Lords, loved a human shop girl. He glanced at the stingrays and was suddenly jealous of them, what if Rose didn't want him like he wanted her. What if, unlike the stingrays before them, she didn't want to spend her life with him? He couldn't handle losing her after he had lost so many.
"Truth or Dare?" he asked. She didn't turn her head from the beautiful sight before her, too content in looking at the peaceful scene.
"Truth"
"How long are you going to stay with me?" he asked quietly, looking over to the blonde beauty beside him. She turned to look at him now, a small smile playing on her lips.
"Forever."
Well wasn't that very romantic and sappy? Did you spot the connection? :P Please review this because I worked extra hard to have it for you before I go away! Tell me whether you want more soppiness or funnyness (if this was even funny) because I basically write what I would have loved to see and that may not be what you want to see, y'no? So I still can't believe David Tennant is gone... i have to keep watching reruns to assure myself that he IS the Doctor... :( Anyways enough of my ramblings, review and come back soon =] x x Katie
