A/N: So here I am at 4:38am. –Yawn-

I've just woken up, and something in my brain is forbidding me to return to sleep. So I decided that I would make a start on a new chapter!!

Thank you to all of you past reviewers, it really made me smile. (:

So, where are we along the series two time line then?? I do believe it's 'Fear her'. Well, on with the fillers!!

Rose stood and watched impatiently as the Doctor and Trish were engaged in a conversation.

Rose was thinking silently.

'There are so many things that he hasn't told me, and yet here I am, trusting him with my life.' Rose frowned at this thought.

'No. I trust him because I love him. I know a lot about him, but there is just some that he would prefer not to tell me. I'm not going to nag him rotten about it, am I? After all, it's his decision.'

Rose raised her head as the Doctor let out an explosion of chuckles.

She trusted him.

'But he forgot to mention that he was once a father?'

Rose remembered the huge pang of jealously and disbelief washing over her as she had heard the words slip from his mouth.

But it was stupid and rather self-centred of her to believe that he had never had a family in 900 years. And who knows? It might have been one of those things, like maybe he had adopted them from somewhere?

Rose rolled her eyes at herself. Sighing, she looked up to the sky. A firework exploded in the shape of a pink sparkling heart, and she felt a hand enclose around her hand.

"Let's stay and watch the fireworks for a while. They are serving hot dogs!!" The Doctor had chirped like a hyperactive 5 year old. Rose smiled, and let herself be dragged away into the crowd of observers.

• •

"Come on Rose, let's take a walk." The Doctor had suggested as casually as possible.

"Oh, Ok." She took his hand and they walked down the street.

"You can start questioning me now."

Rose stopped suddenly, and the Doctor turned to her.

"I don't want to question you. It is your life, and I know I can't be in all of it. You don't have to tell me anything." Rose said as firmly as possible.

The Doctor nodded solemnly, looking downbeat.

"I'm sorry." He whispered.

Rose blinked.

"For what?"

"For leaving so much in my life uncovered. You must have felt trapped out. And that's not what I want you to feel. Because you are the biggest part of my life, and you deserve to know everything."

The Doctor's glance wandered from the ground to Rose. He couldn't tell her that she was his world, could he? It might make her feel even more blocked out.

'But it's true Rose Tyler. You are my sun, my moon and all of my stars. My everything.' He thought, and grinned.

Rose smiled softly and tightened the grip of their hands.

"Ok, but only if you want too. I don't want to pressurise you."

The Doctor nodded again, this time happily, and began to explain.

• •

The Doctor leaped around the console, Rose grinning at him. She no longer felt a stranger to him. His words echoed in her head.

'The biggest part of my life.'

She beamed silently, as the Doctor rambled on at 95 mph.

"So I said… Rose? Are you listening?"

Rose snapped out of her daydream, and shot him an innocent smile.

"Of course."

The Doctor rolled his eyes playfully at her.

"Alright, what did I just say?"

Rose withdrew slightly.

"You said 'Rose? Are you listening?"

The Doctor chuckled.

"Before that."

"I haven't the foggiest." Rose admitted shamelessly.

"Thought not." The Doctor grinned.

Rose's grin suddenly faded.

"Doctor…"

The Doctor glanced up. From her expression, he knew that it wasn't going to be something that they could laugh about.

"When Chloe took you…"

The Doctor nodded, urging her to go on.

She looked up at the Doctor.

"Where you… Afraid?"

The Doctor frowned slightly at her pleading look. He nodded slowly, looking at the pannel before him.

Rose smiled weakly.

"I was too."

The Doctor glanced up at her from the other side of the console.

"When you where no where to be seen, I was screaming inside my head. I was worried. Worried that you wouldn't make it back. Worried that… That I might never see you again."

The Doctor felt a sudden pang of sorrow.

"I'm sorry for worrying you, Rose. That's the last thing I'd want you to do."

"I knew that, so I decided that I'd stand up with you. Forever."

The Doctor smiled at her comment, and grasped her in a warm hug.

"You, Rose Tyler, are absolutely amazing!"

He held her closer.

"Thank you." He breathed other her shoulder.

Rose smiled, and rested her head on his shoulder.

• •

"C'mon, let's go home." Rose smiled.

The Doctor froze.

"Home?"

"Yes; home. Where we eat and sleep?"

The Doctor smiled softly.

"You mean the TARDIS."

"Yes; where else did you think?"

The Doctor's grin broadened.

"Never mind. Yes, let's go… Home."

He offered her his arm, and she took it happily.

"Home is where the heart is, after all."

• •

"Doctor; can we stop off at Mums? I have a tonne of washing to do."

The Doctor rolled his eyes.

"Do we have too?"

Rose shot him a fake 'Tyler' look, before laughing softly.

"Yes, Doctor, we do."

The Doctor grimaced.

"Fine, but we're not staying long. My digestive system is still in the midst of breaking down the last Sheppard pie."

Rose hit his arm playfully.

"Oi. My Mum, remember?"

The Doctor slumped on the jump seat, puffing air into his cheeks like a moaning 3 year old.

"Oh, come on, Doctor. Imagine what she could cook for you if she didn't like you?"

The Doctor winced.

"Quite right. Though her change of heart towards me was quite startling. Did you have a talk with her?"

"Nope. But she does think you're cute."

The Doctor looked stunned.

"No!"

"Yup."

The Doctor looked scared.

"You'll protect her from me, wont you? Please?"

Rose laughed at his expression.

"You're a big wuss. But I love you anyway." She placed a kiss on his cheek, before walking in the direction of her room.

The Doctor watched her go with a soppy smile on his face.

Yes, one day soon, he would tell her exactly how much she meant to him, when he was less of a coward.

Until then he would just have to make sure she was always smiling, because her smile made everything seem much more beautiful, and lit up his hearts.

Good lord! It took me an hour to write that?! My brain must be slow (:

Thank you for reading!

Please review. It makes me smile ('',)

(Insert witty Doctor who goodbye.)