I smiled at the Doctor who only hung his head. He looked up at me, surprised to see me smiling

"I'm so sorry Lily" he said sadly. I hugged him tightly and to my surprise felt something wet drip onto my shoulder, he was crying. I sighed

"I'm not sorry" I replied "I'd do it again in a heartbeat, you're worth it" He hugged me back tightly, I was almost worried my eyes would pop out of my head, but I can tell what was behind it. It was obvious we were extremely good friends at the very least and he thought I'd died to save him, he thought he'd never see me again, especially when he watched my attempt to regenerate be interrupted and apparently fail. I'd do the same if it was him, I'd hug him and never want to let him go, just in case he wasn't real. Just in case my mind was playing cruel, grief stricken tricks on me. Yet he knew I was real, and he still hugged me as if he was terrified I'd vanish if he let me go.

"How long did you want to stay with me Lily?" he asked

"You said forever" I said as we both held each other "so I took that to mean forever" I felt a tear come to my eye, it felt like a light in my head had been switched on and that the screaming voices were no longer muffled and they'd been heard. A tear dripped from my eye "I'll never leave you" I said gently "you're my best friend" I heard the Doctor chuckle happily but in a way that almost sounded like a sob

"Good" he began happily "because I'll never let you go"

I smiled and gave him one final squeeze, I caught his eye and was overcome with the sudden overwhelming affection towards him, we seemed to stare at each other for a moment in silence, we both noticed it. I was surprised when I noticed him lean in ever so slightly, so slightly I thought for a second I might have just imagined it because it was something that I undeniably wanted to happen but then he moved again and I knew I wasn't wrong. My heart seemed to skip as he locked eyes with me and I returned his actions by leaning towards him myself, I thought I knew time travel up until now, I thought I'd seen everything, spider people, robots at war, hell I'd even died and came back to life, but none of it compared to this moment. Time seemed to stand still in a way even the Tardis couldn't emulate. My eyes seemed to flutter closed of their own accord as I was swept up in the moment, I didn't even have to try to move anymore there just seemed to be a sort of... gravitational pull. Mere moments past and I could now feel the heat radiate from his face, I could tell now how close we were, it was almost as if a spark had flew from his lips to mine and then they touched, only very, very slightly, so lightly that it was hardly a touch before we were hurled away by the shuddering Tardis he fell backwards and so did I, hitting my head slightly on the console, I sat up rubbing it and he was laughing at me. I glared at him and through fits of laughter he spoke

"Are you alright Lily?" he asked, I swear I saw him wipe a tear of laughter away as he did. I continued to glare.

"Yeah I'm fine I just cracked my skull but don't worry I'll just super glue it later!" I barked sarcastically. He smiled happily helping me up

"You're such a drama queen" he joked. He turned his attention back to the Tardis adjusting the controls "Sometimes she gets jumpy if I don't keep my eye on her" he explained, I kept rubbing my aching head

"Oh really? Sometimes I get jumpy when I'm hurled around at break neck speeds" I said bitterly

"That doesn't even make sense" The Doctor said not averting his attention from the controls

"Of course it doesn't!" I exclaimed "I hit my head! My brain lives in there!" I argued before pausing for a second "... my brain... DOES live in my head right?" The Doctor only sighed

"We're not THAT alien" he said "we're practically human-"

"except for the fact that we don't age, travel in time and can come back from the dead?" I cut him off with a grin

"and that we have two hearts but yes, other than that we're practically human" he said in his ever lyrical tone. I laughed a little and he raised an eyebrow "what's so funny?" he asked

"Oh nothing" I said calming down "I think I'm just going mad" I grinned sensing an opportunity "Maybe it was the hit to the head" I said "I'm thinking maybe I should sue"

"Good luck with that" The Doctor replied bluntly

"I'm serious!" I joked "for lack of health and safety protocol" The Doctor sighed

"There's nothing wrong with you but if you're going to be such a child about it-" He came over and kissed my head gently "I may as well kiss it better." He smiled "now, you were complaining you were tired so go to bed"

"You know you're not supposed to go to sleep after a knock to the head" I said with a smirk, being deliberately awkward for nothing more than the sake of amusement

"bed Lillian" he said in a firmer tone I stuck my tongue out at him

"Oh stop acting like such a parent!" I joked, he grinned and frogmarched me out of the control room

"Only if you stop acting so childish" he joked and I laughed

"I'm not childish, I'm energetic! You're just boring" I said playfully as I ran up the set of spiral stairs leading to the corridor my room was in, pretending to run from him as he pretended to chase

"Me? Boring?" He exclaimed catching up with me "I didn't realise travelling through space and time was boring!" I stopped outside of my bedroom door out of breath and laughing

"OK so you're not boring. But I'm not childish!" I protested happily, he chuckled

"Fine, fine" he gave up "You're not childish"

"Good" I said with a satisfied smile "Now if you don't mind I'm TRYING to go to bed" I walked backwards into my room and he rolled his eyes sticking his head through the door and sticking his tongue out at me as I sat on my bed. I picked up a pillow and pulled my arm back "away with you!" I barked at him playfully, launching the pillow at the door, which he shut before the pillow could reach him, I heard his footsteps slowly fade as he walked away. I smiled to myself and began putting the pillows back in place, I heard the door open again

"Lily" he said lightly. I smiled, turning to look at him.

"What now?" I asked playfully, he smiled gently

"Sweet dreams" he spoke softly with a warm smile that seemed to warm my entire body. I returned his smile

"Sweet dreams Doctor"

"By the way your bag is under your bed" he said with a sly grin. My jaw dropped and I looked at him and then under the bed, there it was. I looked up at him again, confused

"How did you-"

"I know everything" he said cutting me off with a wink before leaving. I let out a confused and amazed 'ha' and pulled my suitcase from under the bed. I'd forgotten all about it, and thinking it over... the only time he could really have had the time to put it in here was on the journey back from Torchwood and even then I was with him most of the time, still that was before I'd chosen my room. Weird. I unpacked my case and slipped into some PJs and then, after brushing my teeth, bed.

The next morning... or what I can only assume was morning considering we were in a time machine, I was feeling unusually refreshed, usually when I woke up I felt groggy and unwilling to face the day, however now I knew I'd wake up and the Doctor would be there which changed everything. Now whenever I woke up I didn't wish that I hadn't, I was only excited to see what the Doctor would do today. I walked sleepily into the bathroom and stripped for a shower. It felt good to have the time to just shower, I knew the Doctor was a time traveller but all in all, living with him wasn't that weird. I still slept, showered and ate. I came out of the bathroom wrapped in a warm soft towel happily humming to myself when I heard the handle of my bedroom door click and open, I stood shocked like a deer in headlights when the Doctor walked in. He froze and looked at me up and down, I quickly darted behind one of the bed posts using the curtains to further cover myself

"Just because this is your Tardis doesn't mean you don't have to knock before coming in here!" I barked at him, he only laughed

"Relax I'm a Doctor" he joked as he turned around, I lowered my towel and began to get dressed

"No peeking" I said not taking my eyes off him as I pulled on my underwear

"hurry up and get ready, we're going to hospital" he stated ignoring me, by this point I'd pulled up my jeans and was buttoning them up

"What for?" I asked picking a shirt up off my bed which I'd laid out earlier

"Well why would someone usually go to a hospital?" he asked "To be cured of a sickness". I pulled on my shirt pulling my damp hair out the back and sat on the bed to put on some socks

"You can look now" I said quickly, the Doctor turned around to face me with a smile, I smiled back

"Morning Lily" he said happily as if re-doing the entrance he made earlier

"Morning Doctor" I pulled on my other sock "Now, about the hospital" I began "are you sick?"

"Oh no no" he said with a grin "I'm a Doctor, I go there to help people. Y'know, medicine man, great healer, all that jazz" he came to sit next to me as I pulled on my boots and un-ravelled the wire of my hairdryer I looked around

"Where do I plug this in?" I briefly changed the subject. The Doctor went into one of the drawers of the bed side cabinet and pulled out a different hairdryer and flicked it on without the need of a plug, I felt a very hot air blow and then my hair fell back down around my shoulders bone dry.

"Moisture extractor. Invented by humans in a thousand or so years, much quicker than a hairdryer." He explained putting it back in the drawer "that ones yours"

"Thanks." I said brushing my fringe away from my face "Anyway, you're not a REAL Doctor... like the medical kind, what are we going to the hospital for?" I asked watching him

"I told you." He said happily "to help people" he picked up my sonic ring from the bedside table "Of course they can't know that right away, I need to pretend to be a patient for a while first" he was rolling the ring around in between his index finger and thumb "and I need my top girl beside me" he said with a wink "and as you probably know, you can't enter the examination rooms with a patient unless your family or a spouse so..." he slipped the sonic ring on my finger and grinned "Hello Mrs Smith."

"Mrs Smith?" I said looking at the ring

"yeah, wife of John Smith" he explained "that's me!" I rolled my eyes

"Yeah I got that thanks I mean you couldn't think of anything more... original than John Smith?" I asked "I mean... what's my name? Jane?"

"Well I was going to keep you as Lily but no I like yours better!" he said excitedly running out of the room shouting as he did "Well then let's go. I checked in last night while you were asleep. Better go back before the nurses find out I'm gone." I followed him out and he stopped suddenly on the stairs down almost making me crash into him "Oh and if anyone asks, I have severe abdominal pains" he turned quickly and rushed us out of the Tardis.

"How long have you been out of the hospital?" I asked as he hurried me along

"Oh not long." He began dragging me through the sliding doors of a hospital "Just popped out quickly this morning to get you up" he dragged me around many corners and bends and up stairs and around more corners until we arrived at a ward, he strolled in and flopped down lazily on his bed, he nodded towards an uncomfortable looking seat near the bed. "Have a seat wifey" he said happily as he lay back on his bed, I sat down and smirked at him.

"Funny, I could be anything... you could've said I was your sister but instead you said I was your wife" I grinned "Why was that?"

"Simple" he said un-phased "They might look for a file on me to check if you're my sister... might arouse suspicion and we can't have that can we?" he held my hand with the ring on "whereas this might convince them you're my ball and chain" he winked and I snatched my hand away

"Wait a minute, where's your ring?" I asked not seeing one on his hand; he pulled a silver band out of his pocket and slipped it on his wedding finger

"Right here dear, don't worry" he said jokingly I glared at him playfully and crossed my legs, sitting back in the chair.

"Unbelievable, I've only known you a few days, you haven't even made me dinner yet and suddenly I find myself married to you. If you wanted to ask me out Doctor there are less convoluted ways of doing so". He only grinned in response

"Just remember to make it convincing, we can't let them think I'm here as a result of a domestic can we?" he grinned at me playfully and I grinned back

"I wouldn't dream of it sweetie"