{The Bits In Between}
The Doctor walked into the bedroom and found Rose still in bed. He knew she didn't sleep past ten. He sat down on the edge of the bed. He pressed the back of his hand against her forehead. Rose slowly opened her eyes and rolled over onto her back. She lifted her covers over her mouth and coughed.
"You have a slight fever." said the Doctor.
Rose sniffed, "I feel horrible."
He ran his fingers through her hair. "Maybe going to Snow Sky Mountain wasn't such a good idea."
"It was fun. I just got sick is all. I guess I'll call Mum and tell her we won't make it."
"Oh no we're not canceling again Rose. I got a smack from you're mother." said the Doctor.
Rose laughed but turned into a cough instead. She smiled and pulled out tie from his breast pocket and gently touched it. It was their union cloth with their names in Gallifreyan. She thankful now that she was tied with TARIDS she was able to read the beautiful language. She knew he carried it everywhere he went. The Doctor took her hand into his own and ran his thumb over the cloth.
"I'll go get you some tea." said the Doctor and kissed her forehead. Rose handed him the cloth and he placed it back inside his breast pocket. "Rest."
Rose nodded and coughed into the sheets and closed her eyes. She hated being sick. She knew that her mother was going to make a deal out of nothing.
The Doctor returned to the bedroom with a cup of tea and small syringe filled with a purple liquid. He smiled when he saw her squirm in the bed. He knew she hated needles and shots. Rose threw the covers her to try and hide from him.
"Rose it's not going to hurt." said the Doctor.
"No." She said from under the covers. "You know I don't like shots."
He sat down on the bed and moved the covers from her head. She gripped them tightly. He slowly removed one finger at a time from the blanket.
"Rose you can't take human medicine. Not anymore." said the Doctor. "I know Jackie she'll want to force all kinds of medicine on you." he sighed, "If you won't do it for yourself, will you do it for the baby?"
She slowly lowered the covers some and nodded, "Ok."
"You'll have to lower the covers more then that." he told her. She did a tiny bit more until her nose stuck out. "Rose Marion Solius lower those sheets."
"Oh ok." said Rose and lowered the sheets.
"Thank you." he said and slowly injected the needle into her arm.
"Oww, oww, that hurts." said Rose not realizing the needle was already out of her arm.
"Dear I was done before you said, "Oww," the first time."
She slowly opened one eye followed by the left and gave him a sheepish look. He handed Rose her tea. She took it with a quiet thank you.
"You'll be up and moving in about five hours. So get some sleep." the Doctor told her.
"I love you."
"And I you." said the Doctor and quietly left the bedroom for the control room to work on a few of TARDIS's wires.
The Doctor laid in the bottom of the TARIDS looking at her wires. "Are you not feeling well either ole girl?" She flashed her lights tiredly. "A few days of rest yourself might do you some good. Mmm?" He stuck the screwdriver in his mouth and carefully looked at each wire. He removed it from his mouth. "There we are now you can make it the Powell Estate," and he went up the stairs typed in the location and pulled down nearby leaver.
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The Doctor and Rose entered the apartment and Jackie quickly pulled Rose into a hug followed by the Doctor. Rose pulled her blanket she had wrapped around her a little tighter and laid down on the couch. She covered her mouth with the blanket and coughed.
"Rose sweetheart, are you all right?" asked Jackie and walked over to her daughter. She pressed her hand against her forehead. "You don't have a fever."
"I gave her some medicine 30 minutes ago. Rose will be fine. She just caught a cold. We went skiing and she got a cold from it."
Jackie turned and made her way to the kitchen. "I'll get her something anyway." She told him from inside the kitchen.
The Doctor looked over and saw Rose had fallen asleep. He walked into the kitchen and found Jackie taking down several bottles of cough medicine.
He quickly took it from the blonde. "She can not take it Jackie." She took the bottle from the Doctor. "Human medicine can not be mixed with what I gave her."
"You have Rose some alien medicine. Are you mad?" hissed Jackie. "No wonder she's sleeping. You've knocked her out."
He shook his head. "Jackie if you give Rose any form of human medicine it will-" '
"What will it do Doctor?" asked Jackie seeing true concern and worry about her giving Rose the medicine.
"It will kill her. She's only part human Jackie. I found out not to long ago that there is still some of the Time Vortex in her system. It changed her entire DNA structure."
Jackie moved to kitchen table and slowly sat down followed by the Doctor. He wait silently for a moment before he continued not wanting to get a slap, but he knew one was coming anyway.
"What do you mean changed her DNA?"
"My people weren't always the way we where. It happened because of being exposed the Time Vortex. It changed our DNA. We always had two hearts but we didn't regenerate like I do now." He took a deep breath. "Rose is part human part Time Lord. It happened when she stared into the Time Vortex. She saw the whole space and time Jackie." He closed his eyes and slowly opened them showing all his 901 years in his brown eyes. "On Gallifrey when you turned eight your taken to the casum in the dead of night to stare into the heart of the Time Vortex. Image Jackie only a child looking down into space and time. Some embraced it. Some went mad and some ran."
"What did you do?" whispered Jackie.
The Time Lord gave her a weak tearful smile and let out slightly chilling laugh. "I ran and I've never stopped running since." He ran his hands down his face drying the tears. "Rose," he lowered his hands. "Rose she embraced it, but it was killing her at the time. Her brain wasn't able to handle the knowledge of it all." He smiled, "My TARDIS placed a protective barer around her mind. Oh my good ole girl. She loves Rose."
"A spaceship loves my daughter?" asked Jackie.
The Doctor smiled, "Oh yes very much. She and Rose share a special link. She also has TARDIS partials inside her. You see with her connection with the TARIDS. She could very much live out me."
"Oh this is just too much to take in at once. For starters you bring home a sick Rose. Then you tell me that she can't take human medicine because it will kill her." said Jackie. He nodded. "Then you tell me that Rose's DNA has changed because of the TARDIS." He nodded again. "She's now part human part Time Lord. And your spaceship loves my daughter."
The Doctor scratched behind his ear. "Well, yea, that sums it up rather well don't you think?"
"Sums it up rather well." snapped Jackie quietly not wanting to wakeup her daughter. "You stroll up in here last year all charms and smiles. You take my daughter across the universe and I don't see her for a year. Then you send her way, she looks into the TARDIS that changed her. Ever since you stepped a foot into the house you've turned Rose's world upside down. I'm left here to worry if I'll ever see her again, and you go and do this own me. Changing my daughter's DNA structure."
"Well, now that you put it that way, things have been a little nuts." He smiled, "But a fun nuts. Oh all things we've seen Jackie!"
"And next time you're going to show up with my daughter pregnant or something like that."
The Doctor's mouth opened and closed not know what to think or say at the moment. He scratched behind his ear. "You see about that one."
"Oh no you didn't get my daughter pregnant! You like preying on lives of young girls. How many have you left pregnant around the universe Doctor? Ten? Twenty? Fifty?"
The Doctor stood up from his chair, placed his hands on the table and towered of Jackie. "You listen well Jackie Tyler, I have never been with my companions, not a one. I haven't been with a woman since my wife was killed on Gallifrey along with my children. You will do well to remember this I love your daughter. I love my wife and I love my unborn child and will do everything in my power to protect them. Now you tell me Madame there is nothing this universe that I will never leave her." said Doctor leaving no doubt in Jackie's mind that the Doctor loved her daughter. He sat back down breathing heavily trying to calm down his hearts rate.
"Doctor," whispered Rose, "Will you two stop fighting."
He quickly got up from his chair and entered the living room. He sat down on the floor and gently stroked her cheek. "I'm sorry. It's just-"
"You really must try to calm your temper Doctor."
"Well, Jackie started it." He told her. He scratched behind his ear. "Well, things got out of hand." Rose raised a brow at him. "Ok, ok, I kind of told her everything. Even down to us being married to the baby."
Rose hit him up side the head. "You idiot. You don't spring it on her after you tell her I'm only half human." She hit him again, "I swear sometimes I think you have too much information in that brain of yours."
"Oww, Rose, that really hurt." said the Doctor rubbing the back of his head.
She lifted the cover to her mouth and coughed, "Good. Maybe it will knock," she coughed, "since into you."
"Ok I'm sorry." he said.
"Don't apologize to me." she told him.
The Doctor looked up to a very red faced Jackie. He rubbed the back of his head. "Yea, sorry. But I'm not sorry for marrying Rose or our baby."
Jackie drew her arm back her hand made contact with his face. "That's for telling me that my daughter would die," then she slapped him again, "That's for marrying my daughter without telling me first." She slapped him one more time, "That's for don't do that again."
He rubbed his red cheek knowing he'd have a bruise on his right cheek. "Owww, ok. I'll never do that again."
She took his face in her hands and kissed him on the lips. "That's for loving my daughter my handsome man." She turned around, "I'll make us cup of tea."
The Doctor rubbed his mouth with his hand. Rose chuckled. She sat up and he sat down on the couch. He placed a pillow in his lap and she laid her head down. He gently rubbed her forehead. He knew now that the rest of the visit would be fine because Jackie had gotten her slap out of the way. This time more then one.
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