"Everything alright?" The Doctor asked as he lent in the doorway of the bathroom. Rose was leaning heavily against the sink, water dripping from her pale features.

"Yeah, its jus'…….I don't know what come over me….I was ready to…" She trailed off clenching her fists tightly against the counter top. He came up behind her, placing his hands on her shoulders.

"I know,' he smiled softly catching her reflection in the mirror; "you thought I was in danger didn't you?" She nodded and sighed.

"I don't know what come over me Doctor….I just had to…needed to….I was ready to go anything that I come across to protect you, it was almost like a…an animal instinct…I'm sorry." She dropped her head once more and wiped a stray tear from her cheek. The Doctor turned her and pulled her into a tight hug.

"Shh, it's alright Rose and don't ever be sorry," He whispered into her hair, "you're bound to me now remember, it's become a natural instinct to you, but it works both ways. The only reason I didn't react to them is because they're female, they pose no threat to me, but to you……." She pulled back to look at him.

"Oh my god, will I always do that to them." She asked.

"Yes, but in time you'll be able to control it, see I can help you just like I can control your other senses." He assured her. "It's a side effect as such, because we share a telepathic bond meant for mates Rose and because we haven't……we can't……" He trailed off.

"Because it'd kill me." She whispered into his chest. "So you're holding everything together up here?" She asked tapping her temple. He nodded.

"Let it go…."

"Rose you'll….

"Just for a minute? Please I just want to know….I want to feel the turning…please..." He nodded reluctantly, closed his eyes gently releasing one at a time, the barriers that held her extra senses in line, and he caught her as her knees buckled. She clawed up his chest relaxing as he pulled her into his lap and held her tighter against his chest.

"It'll pass, focus on me, find me in your mind; I'm here……hold on to me." He whispered "It's so beautiful yet so overwhelming all at once." She smiled then suddenly he watched as her brow furrowed in concentration and her eyes closed tighter.

"Why?" She whispered painfully and reached her shaking hands up to his temples, "why do you keep it hidden away from me?…..don't hide it, it's too much to bare on your own……it's what I'm here for" He looked at her in confusing before he realised that not only had he dropped her defences but let his slide along with them. He quickly pulled back from her mind.

"NO!" She shouted into his shoulder, "Please don't….." She looked up at him, her deep brown eyes shining with tears, a mirror image of his own.

"It's too much for you Rose………" He breathed and shook his head. "I….I….too much, you need time to get used to it….."

"No please, so alone, so scared……so empty. I can feel where they used to be Doctor, I know how it feels to be empty, please……do it properly, I can handle it. Show me, teach me?"

"I will Rose, but it will take a good length of time and we don't really have that right now, but I promise I'll keep my mind open to you alright, enough that you will feel most of my thoughts without them overwhelming you, alright?" He took her face in his hands and kissed her forehead as she nodded.

"Can you hear mine? All the time I mean if you're holding my head together?" She asked softly.

"No, I shut them out….I remember how upset you were the first time I told you the TARDIS got inside your mind, I didn't think you'd appreciate….."

"You daft old git," She smiled up at him, "I appreciate it but that's why I wanted a bond Doctor, I want you in here with me always." She slipped her fingers off his temples and held his cheek as he leaned into her touch.

"Let me help lessen the weight of the worlds you protect, please….let me protect you." She nodded encouragingly as his features turned up his 1000 watt grin and hugged her tighter before pulling her back and kissing her forehead once more.

"I don't know what I did to deserve you my beautiful Rose, but I'm so glad I met you." He laughed.

"Me too." She smiled back. The both of them were interrupted by the sound of their door opening and closing.

"Doctor? Rose?" Donna bellowed.

"God woman you could wake the dead with that voice!" The Doctor yelling over his shoulder.

"Where the hell are you two?"

"In here." The Doctor called.

"Well come on then, Martha added, "Breakfast is getting cold."

The Doctor turned to see Rose had already caught onto his thoughts and was grinning.

"My thoughts exactly!" He pulled her up with him and grabbing her hand dragged her out to the others.

"I even managed to find you a couple of banana's Doctor." Martha laughed as she threw them at him as they came closer to the table that was set up out on the balcony.

"Oh and Bob said that he would join us later at the festival, said he had some things to take care of before the main event tonight or whatever." Donna added and the Doctor nodded as he tried to swallow the massive bite he had taken out of said banana.

"Well at least we know how to shut you up now." Martha quipped and both Rose and Donna joined her in laughter at the indignant look on the Doctors face.

"Yeah, either that or those edible ball bearings he loves so much, or a good snog?" Rose added and the Doctor nearly choked only causing the three to laugh a little harder.

"God I'm starving," Rose said as she piled a heap of scrambled eggs and bacon onto her plate when she noticed that Martha was looking a little awkward, "Aren't you having some too?" She asked the dark woman.

"Yeah, she said hesitantly, "I was just wondering if I could speak to you for a minute, you know alone." She said gesturing to the Doctor and Martha who were arguing over who got the last of the jam.

"Sure," She said placing her knife and fork on the table and getting up to follow the other woman.

"Rose?" He questioned her retreating back. She smiled at the fact he could do so many things at once including eat, argue with Donna and hold a conversation with her mind as well.

"It's alright; Martha just wants a word alone." She felt his acceptance and winked at him as she turned and shut the bathroom door behind them.

"What's wrong Martha?" Rose asked as she noticed her unease.

"Rose…..I'm sorry," She sighed, "I'm sorry I've been such a pain and trying to get in between you and the Doctor….I'm sorry I upset him, hurt him…..but I love him and now I realise that he loves you and I'm sorry I've been interfering." She looked down at her feet and hugged herself. She felt Rose's hands on her shoulders.

"I know it's hard Martha, I'm sorry he doesn't love you the way you want him to, but he does love you and he'll never forget you. No matter what happens you'll always have a place in his hearts…I guess I was just lucky enough to be able to hold them." She pulled Martha into a hug and she held her in return.

"Just take care of him, he deserves someone, deserves to be happy." Martha replied.

"I know and I'm gonna make damn sure he is trust me on that." Rose promised. "But you deserve to be happy as well….soon; very very soon you'll find someone too Martha, I know it, I can feel it and you're gonna be so happy because they'll fill you so completely with love, then you'll know how I feel everyday when I'm with the man I love….alien…..oh you know what I mean." And both women laughed.

"You really think?" Martha smiled.

"I know it." Rose grinned, "Now let's go and eat before my alien devours the whole table, or worse Donna's got him pinned to the floor for eating all the jam."

"Oi I told you to leave me some." Donna shouted and clipped the Doctor in the back of the head as Rose and Martha re-entered the room.

"Ouch!! Donna you're going to damage my highly developed Time Lord brain." He whined.

"Oh what a shame that would be." Donna muttered darkly as she snatched the jar from his sticky fingers. "And don't even think about sticking your fingers anywhere near my food again either." He had the decency to look a little guilty.

"Good to see everything's still where I left it then." Rose teased and passed the bowl of egg to Martha.

"Why does everyone assume that I have the capacity to eat like a horse?" He asked incredulously.

"I don't know, some of the things I've seen pass those lips would give a horse a run for its money." Martha and Donna stifled a laugh as Rose took a mouthful of her food not looking in the Doctors direction.

"Oh and you keep an eye of everything that passes my lips do you Miss Tyler?" He challenged.

"Oh let me think, how about Mrs Webbers marmalade, the wall you licked in Scottland that time, the radio before the Queens coronation, the blood on the Sycorax ship oh and then there was Farkut Antoinette Asento." The Doctor visibly stiffened and dropped his fork seconds before it reached his mouth.

"Rose you know full well that she snogged me!" He said pointing his fork at her.

"Who?" Donna asked.

"Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson," Rose said as pompously as she could before taking another mouthful.

"You snogged Madame De Pompadour?" Martha asked in disbelief.

"No," The Doctor interjected quickly, "She snogged me!"

"Oh my god you intergalactic hussy you!" Donna shot at him. "Bet Rose wasn't impressed with you then."

"Oh come on! She's had her fair share of pretty boys come aboard the TARDIS!" He defended. "Adam, Jack and Mickey ring any bells, although I'd hardly class Mr Mickey as pretty." He added.

"Oh yeah, what about Jabe and Lynda with a Y?" She challenged.

"At least they didn't have a whole installed into their cerebral cortex." He bit back.

"You what?" Martha asked.

"And you were jealous of all of em." She smirked.

"I was not!!!!" He spluttered. "As if they had any chance against me."

"Ohhh this is getting good……." Donna took a bit of bacon and urged them to continue.

"Oh now whose just a little conceited." Rose teased and the Doctor shot her a look that she knew was a challenge.

"Te toivoisin olevani arka." Rose smirked as she poured herself a drink.

"I was NOT JEALOUS!!!" He almost squealed.

"Valehtelija." She replied calmly.

"And I am not a liar wait hold on…….." He replied distractedly. "Say that again?"

"Fiksu perse." She said clearing her throat and looking innocently off in the other direction.

"Aha!!" The Doctor shouted pointing a finger at Rose who smirked back.

"What the hell is going on?" Donna demanded holding her hand above the Doctor's head threatening to smack him. "And why is Rose talking in a language that you only ever seem to curse at the TARDIS in?"

"Since when can you speak Gallifreyan?" Martha asked, her eyebrows nearly joining her hair.

"Not long," She replied. "And since the TARDIS won't translate it, I called HIM a jealous liar and a smart ass." She finished smugly and took another bite of bacon.

"Häpeämätön husaari." The Doctor mumbled.

"Oi! Verinen entisaikainen wanker!" She shot back.

"I understood the last part." Donna laughed and Martha nodded nearly choking on her coffee.

"I however refuse to confirm that last one, though I have to ask if you've been spying on me Rose Tyler?" He smirked. Rose merely shrugged.

"What you don't know and all that……" She waved her hand dismissively taking another mouthful of juice and the Doctor's grin disappeared and his mouth snapped shut.

"What?" She looked up at him and smiled almost evilly, noticing his silence and the stifled giggles of the other women. He picked up his tea and took a tentative sip of the steaming hot liquid. Rose returned her attention to her breakfast she continued thoughtfully.

"You know now I think about it the term 'estynyt kuin heroiini' springs to mind." The Doctors only response was to project his tea across the room as he began choking and turned a deep shade of red, both from the lack of oxygen but more so from her comment.

"Oh I so wish I knew what that one was." Donna grinned as she pat him on the back.

"If you're lucky I might tell you……" Rose winked as she got up.

"DON'T YOU DARE!!!" The Doctor coughed out in a rather not so manly tone nearly falling off his chair.

A/N: A little translation for you: For those who recognise it the language is actually finnish but for all intents and purposes it's Gallifreyan.

'estynyt kuin heroiini' - hung like a horse
'verinen entisaikainen wanker' - bloody old wanker

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