The next day, they woke up in what seemed to be the same position they fell asleep, but with the Doctor facing Rose. When she opened her eyes, he was already awake.
"Hello." he said smiled. Rose smiled back,
"Hi."
"You've been asleep for quite a while."
"Have you been watching me sleep?"
"Of course not. Well, maybe."
"Creep." teased Rose. The Doctor got out of bed and walked out to the living room. Rose was too tired to make breakfast so she let him take care of that. She reached over to grab her phone and had multiple texts from Mickey apologizing. She was about to text him back when she heard a crack from the kitchen. She got out of bed lazily and headed towards the kitchen. There was the Doctor cleaning up an egg from the floor.
"Oops?" he said. Rose smiled and said,
"Doctor, uhh… how about we just eat some cereal."
"Sure, but one day you're going to have to let me make breakfast."
"As long as I'm supervising you." They shared a laugh, then sat down to eat.
Rose was too quiet.
"So…" began the Doctor.
This got her to look up from her bowl but not exactly say anything.
"Why are you so quiet?"
"I'm not quiet."
"Something's wrong."
"Nothing's wrong."
"Was it the kiss?"
The Doctor looked her in the eyes. She opened her mouth to reply but her voice faltered. Instead, he spoke,
"I'm sorry. You looked uncomfortable at the time. It was the only thing that occurred to me."
"Doctor, it's not that the kiss was bad, it wasn't. It's just that I've wanted it for so long, and you couldn't have done it under normal circumstances, you had to do it only when my life was in danger. And it's not like it was any serious danger at the time, I could've gotten myself out of there easily by myself."
He avoided her eyes now. He felt bad for kissing her then, yes, but could she have really gotten out of there safely?
"You're right, I'm sorry. From now on, I'll let you do you're own saving, and I'll only kiss you with your permission."
That got a laugh out of Rose. Now would be a good time, she thought to herself.
They ate the rest of the cereal in silence until the Doctor jumped up from his seat.
"Rose, get dress. We're working on the TARDIS, remember?"
She stood up and picked up the dishes but he took them from her.
"I'll take care of that."
When they got to the TARDIS, Rose felt a bit of sadness. She loved living with the Doctor, but she also missed exploring. The Doctor snapped his fingers, but the doors didn't open. He was too used to that. He walked up to open the doors when they cracked open a bit on their own. Rose looked at the Doctor and laughed.
"Well that's a good sign."
They walked into the dark room, and he led her down to where all the cables were. Rose never walked down there much, so she had never seen the amount of wires and cables.
"Do you actually have any idea what any of these things do?"
"Not a clue."
"So basically, I can mess with any of these and see what happens?"
The Doctor looked at Rose debating whether or not to tell her to not touch a single thing, then said
"Yeah, sure. That's basically what I do."
They spent a few hours messing with things when Rose was beginning to get a bit bored. The Doctor was losing hope as well, and started to tell Rose that they should quit for the day when something unexpected happened. Rose got two cables and put them together, not particularly expecting them to do anything. At that moment, the cables released sparks and the whole TARDIS lit up.
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