Disclaimer: The aliens are mine but nothing else is... Wait, the Doctor is an alien, that can't work... I OWN NOTHING!
A/N I know, I know. I am the worst person EVER! I liked Ianto, but everyone else was more important for later in the plot!!
"N-no." Rose choked, tears welling from her eyes. "I-ianto-"
Her voice cracked and she buried her head in the Doctor's pinstriped suit. While she was sobbing, the Doctor wrapped his arms around her more securely.
"Oh Rose," he murmured, planting a kiss on the top of her head. "So many lost."
Rose had just noticed that something wet was dripping on her head and looked up to see tears falling steadily from his eyes too. And she saw that Mickey, Martha, Gwen, and Jack had left to grieve on their own.
"How?" she asked, wiping her eyes on the sleeve of her pyjamas. "What happened out there?"
"We found a colony of the other species from the planet Raxicalicofallapatorius." the Doctor started, guiding Rose over to the captain's chair and setting them both down. "They're called Slatheen."
"You mean Slitheen?" Rose said, confused.
"No, Slatheen." the Doctor said. "Cousins of the Slitheen."
"Oh."
"Well anyway, the Slatheen are blue and very hard to beat... Kind of like Sontarans." the Doctor said, and Rose looked even more confused.
"Sontar-what?" she asked.
"Never mind. Well anyway, the Slatheen needed to be doused with dish soap to umm... explode." the Doctor said. "And so we did, but at a cost. Ianto decided that he'd be a distraction and the system jammed for a moment too long."
The Doctor paused and Rose knew that he didn't want to talk about the one mistake he had made. She decided to speak again.
"How did you flood the place with dish soap?" she asked and he smiled, as if happy to answer a question that would take his mind off of the person he had lost that day.
"A funnel and a very large, well stocked supply closet." the Doctor said simply. Rose had one more question.
"And why did you say you made it back just in time, you know, when you sprinted into the TARDIS?"
"Because, you know how I said I had 5 and a half hours until the TARDIS would take you away?" the Doctor didn't wait for her reply before speaking. "Well, we made it back with a minute to spare."
The Doctor looked like he needed some alone time, so Rose gave him a chaste kiss on the lips and walked to the threshold.
"Eew!" she joked, as if trying to raise the mood. "Go take a shower, you smell terrible."
The Doctor smiled slightly and walked to stand behind her.
"Okay." he said. "I'll be back later."
He walked out of the console room, towards his own. Rose headed to the kitchen to put a kettle on the stove, but when she arrived, she realized that she was beaten to the punch.
Jack was sitting at the kitchen table, a mug of tea in hand and a sad look on his face.
"I never thought of you as a tea drinker." Rose said, walking over to the stove and pouring herself a mug.
"Under the circumstances," he said quietly. "I thought it was time for a mug. But I don't see what you Brits like about tea. It tastes like crap!"
"Well, after you drink it for a while-" Rose began, but Jack cut her off.
"Look, there's an opening at Torchwood." Jack said quickly. Rose sat there silently, apparently awestruck. "If you and the baby want to be safe, you could do paperwork and-"
"PAPERWORK!" Rose yelled, her chair scratching back against the floor and standing up. "HOW COULD YOU ASK ME THAT?"
"Traveling with the Doctor is dangerous, Rosie, and I only want what's best for you and the baby."
Jack said, also standing up.
"I love the Doctor," she said quietly. "And this child is his. I am not leaving him."
Rose had hoped that Jack would give her some consoling words, but talking to him had just made her life worse. She walked out of the room and down the hallway. Not looking where she was going, she turned into the first open door she saw, which was a storage room, and the door locked behind her.
"What?" she said, whirling around to look at the door-that wasn't there.
She ran over to the wall and started to pound on it and scream.
"DOCTOR! JACK! MARTHA! MICKEY! GWEN! SOMEBODY!" she screamed, but no one replied, just as she suspected.
Sinking down to the floor, Rose began to cry at how much the TARDIS must hate her, how Jack didn't care, and how the Doctor had probably put him up to it.
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