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Chapter 21, of an end=
The sun was shining, the sea was sparkling, and the seagulls were cawing happily to each other as they circled around in the sky. And Rose was the happiest that she had ever been, with the sun beating down on her face and the wind blowing in her hair and Dave next to her as they stood at the rail of the cruise ship and gazed out at the calm blue sea, the surface of which was occasionally broken by a fish marked as prey by some other underwater animal.
Rose smiled as the little Pekinese dog owned by the elderly couple two doors down ran along the deck towards a group of children who all had ice creams in their hands. Well, Rover certainly had his priorities right no matter what the number of weird places he had found to 'do his businesses'. She became aware that Dave had started speaking to her again and she pulled herself out of her musings to listen in.
"… Back to our room to change, it's almost time for lunch and I have a surprise for you."
"Sure, let's go." Rose told her boyfriend with a smile.
They got back to their room with 20 minuites left until lunch was due to be served and the two hurriedly got dressed into what they had jokingly termed their 'eating best'. Rose pulled and adjusted her necklace and earrings just as Dave called her name, "Rose? Close your eyes." And she just knew that he was smiling that perfect smile of his.
"If this is another one of your practical jokes I swear…" she abruptly stopped when she wrenched open her eyes and saw the elder man kneeling on one knee with a ring in his hands.
"You can probably guess what I'm going to say," He grinned, "so what's your answer?"
"It's a bloody yes of course!" Rose replied ecstatically. He slid the ring onto her finger then pulled her into a deep slow kiss.
They never made it to lunch.
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Late that night as the two of them lay in bed together after yet another round of love-making, she took a moment to reflect on everything that had lead up to this moment. A girl with blonde hair and pink hoody was pulled along by a northerner with big ears and a leather jacket and abandoned her just moments before the shop where she worked went up in flames.
The daft old northerner she had come to love changed into a younger man who liked jelly babies and wearing 3D glasses. She remembered the hurt look that came onto Mickey's face every time that he'd been forgotten about by this new man and how he had left never to return after the Doctor had bodily dragged him from the parallel world just hours before his gran was due to fall down the stairs.
She recalled in perfect detail how the northerner refused to let Jack check up on his old friend and go to his dad's grave yet let her go to hers. She saw the anguished look on his face as he tried to deal with the fact that he had just been almost raped by someone who he had thought was his friend.
Rose remembered so many things and as Dave snored quietly beside her she knew she had made the right choice.
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