A/N: Written for the TimePetals 100 Weekly Theme. This week's prompt was "Ten/Rose, behaving like children inside a sweet shop, bonus points for ball bearings" and was prompted by excusemewhileiwagmytaiol on Tumblr.
Practice
Each and every cupcake on the stack of silver tiers is impressed with two identical fingerprints. One for the Doctor to taste and one for him to offer Rose in lieu of the forks the harried-looking manager proffers and the Doctor dismisses with a request for edible ball-bearings.
An assistant produces them and he sprinkles them liberally over the first tray of cupcakes. The manager winces and Rose reminds herself to leave an extra-large tip on the credit stick.
"What's this one again?" He picks up a yellow-frosted cupcake, sniffs it, takes a bite. "Ooh, yes - banana, how could I forget! Do you like this one, Rose?" He smushes the cake to her lips, brows waggling, and Rose takes a bite; it leaves a buttercream-and-ball-bearing mustache behind mirrored on his own face.
"Perfect." She stands on tiptoe to kiss the yellow sugar off his upper lip. "Good practice."
He orders a dozen cupcakes to go. By the time the wedding rolls around, he says, they'll be old pros at this.