I doze off again, but not before I feel Rose's hand sneak up from behind my head to hold the Doctor's hand above my head.
I wake up, still snuggled in Rose and The Doctor's arms. I realize I awoke to the sound of someone singing very, very softly. I smile as I listen to The Doctor sing in what sounds like Gallifreyan. The notes are comforting and his voice delicately slides from one note to the next with ease, hardly ever breathing. I look up to see Rose's eyes are open. I slowly slide my hand to her hip where the slightest bit of skin is showing. As soon as I touch her a wave of love smacks me, taking my breath away. It's hot and fuzzy and suffocating and amazing and all directed at the Doctor. I grin as I snuggle into her arms and the Doctor continues to sing to us. Relief also fills me, because I know that no matter how sad Rose may be about Mickey, she'll always have The Doctor to make her feel loved again.
"Wolfe? Wolfe?" I wake to the gentle tapping of someone on my shoulder. I roll over, acutely aware of the fact Rose and The Doctor are no longer here.
"Wolfe?"
"Yes?" I murmur opening my eyes.
"Time to wake up." Grins The Doctor.
"I'm sleepy." I mumble, rolling back over
"Oh no you don't" The Doctor tugs me back, and pulls me into sitting position. I slump onto his shoulder, and close my eyes again.
"Come on." He says, offering me a cup of tea.
I take it and sip it, as it is very hot.
The taste is bitter, but not unlikeably so. I take another sip.
I can feel myself waking up very quickly now.
"What's in this?" I ask
"Two sugars. It's just a nice cup of English breakfast. I find a nice cuppa always helps me after I regenerate." He explains and I smile, taking a bigger sip.
"How's Rose?" I ask
"Better." He answers, "How are you?"
"Good. Still sore." I say, flexing my shoulder blades slightly as if to emphasize my point.
"I meant after losing Mickey and all." Elaborates the Doctor. I turn to look at him, and his deep brown eyes are melting with sympathy.
"Yes. Mickey was a good friend and he will be missed," I start, "But I can keep going with him in my memory. I just can't without you and Rose. I know you keep telling me to stop trying to save Rose when I see a vision of her death, but I can't help it. When you were going to die, to save us on the Zeppelin, I didn't think I just jumped."
"I know. Just try to stay safer. Timelords have a limited number of regenerations, and you're half human so we don't know how that works. You may have more you may have less."
"I know but I would give up my life for you two in a heartbeat." I say, firmly, trying to get him to understand me.
"I know." He hugs me closer "I would do the same for you both."
I let the silence hang there, still sipping my tea.
"Doctor! Doctor!" Rose appears in the doorway. "Oh good Sleeping Beauty is up!" grins Rose
"How long was I out?" I ask
"Two ish days." Rose grins as she comes over, sitting on the end of the bed.
"Two days?" I demand, shocked
"You needed to heal. I am surprised you were able to wake up and function the first time but after that…you just needed to give your cells time to figure out what's going on." The Doctor soothes.
"Did you go travelling without me?" I ask, worried
"No." laughs Rose "I've just finished packing some other stuff, such as the other Harry Potter Novels. Mum's disappointed. I think she kinda hoped I'd stick around after I broke down in her arms, but I need to go travel. It's what Mickey wanted us to do."
She smiles at me, her eyes wavering
"Alright then, when do we leave?" I ask
"We were hoping after breakfast." Grins the Doctor
"Where are we going?" I ask as I get up
"Rose's pick!" Grins The Doctor, taking the empty teacup from my hand
"Breakfast!" yells Jackie from a different room.
We rush in to find the table full of food.
"Thank you Jackie!" I grin, sitting down
"Well it's not often I get to see my daughter, now is it? Might as well spoil all of you!" Smiles Jackie as Rose and the Doctor sit down too.
We dig into the delicious mix of breakfast foods
"So Rose, where do you want to go?" The Doctor asks as Jackie turns on the radio.
"I don't know." Grins Rose, eyes bright with all of the possibilities.
We continue eating as we try to give Rose ideas.
"Barcelona?"
"No." she says, thoughtfully
"Back to New Earth?"
She shudders "No."
Suddenly, with a laugh The Doctor gets up and cranks up the radio. I don't recognize the song but it's very upbeat.
Suddenly the Doctor starts dancing, and singing along.
Rose bursts out laughing.
He grabs her hands and tugs her up to dance with him during a guitar solo.
"You can burn my house, steal my car, drink my liquor, from an old fruit jar, do anything that you want to do, but uh-uh, honey lay off of my shoes, and don't you, step on my blue suede shoes!" He sings along with the voice on the radio. He and Rose swing around the kitchen, twirling her this way and that ash she laughs, singing along slightly "Well, you can do anything, But stay off of my blue suede shoes, Ah, get!"
They dance more during the next guitar solo, the Doctor doing an air guitar
"Yeah, well, it's one for the money, Two for the show, Three to get ready
Now go, go, go! But don't you, step on my blue suede shoes. Well, you can do anything but stay off of my blue suede shoes!"
The song ends and they're breathless with laughter
"And that's Elvis Presley, Blue Suede Shoes!" The Radio announces
When Rose catches her breath she gives The Doctor a light shove
"As I said, you're a big old Punk with a bit of Rockabillly thrown in!" she laughs "and I think I know where I want to go!"
After a very tearful goodbye, Rose, The Doctor and I pile into The Tardis.
"Well, Rose, you've kept it a secret! Where do you want to go?" Asks the Doctor
"Let's go see Elvis!" she grins
"Ah, excellent choice!" He crows, pressing a few buttons, before yanking down on a lever "America, here we come!"
With its familiar wheezing sound the Tardis dematerializes.
"So, we'll be there in about an hour. Not to far away." The Doctor says, "You might want to go get ready, think Elvis era." He winks
"You better work on your costumes as well, you know!" grins Rose. "Come on Wolfe, let's go get ready." She takes my and we hurry to her room.
"Come on, Tardis, give us something fun!" giggles Rose.
She opens her closet and it's covered in bright pastel dresses and jean jackets, fishnet stockings and matching heels.
"This is brilliant." I grin
"Wolfe, go to your closet and pick something out, then come back here!"
I turn and hurry to my room, opening my closet. I pull out a baby blue pastel dress and a dark jean jacket. I find a pair of matching baby blue heels and ribbon.
I rush back to Rose and find she's picked out the same outfit, but her dress, shoes and headband are bubble gum pink.
Giggling like mad, we zip each other's dresses on, and do each other's hair.
Rose curled my long hair and tugged it up in a high ponytail, tying it with the ribbon in a bow.
Then, we wrapped her hair around her head, adding a time period-esque bulge at the back, and secure it with bobbi pins and a headband.
Finally, after much help from Rose, I get my fishnet stockings on and little heels.
I giggle as she hands me a pair of blue sunglasses.
"You look brilliant." I say to her when she spins for me to see the whole look together.
"You too! Come on, let's go see what the Doctor has put together." She takes my hand and we hurry back to the console room, which is empty.
"I think we landed." I say, peering out the door. I giggle as I step outside, Rose following me. She brushes a strand of hair from her eyes as she walks out onto the street, looking around.
"I thought we'd be going for the Vegas era, you know, the white flares and the..." she growls seductively "chest hair."
I burst out laughing and The Doctor pokes his head round the Tardis door, his head gelled back, teddy-boy style.
"You are kidding, aren't you?" he asks and Rose turns around "You wanna see Elvis, you go in the late 50's! The time before burgers." He disappears back inside, still yelling "When they called him "the Pelvis" and he still had a waist." Rose laughs. "What's more, you see him in style!"
Rose and I look at the Tardis with interest as the distinct sound of an engine echoes from within it. Then the Doctor rides out of the Tardis on a blue late-50's moped, with a small, matching sidecar. Rose laughs in amusement as the Doctor stops, big sunglasses and a white helmet on his head.
The Doctor pulls an Elvis-style expression and voice "You goin' my way, dolls?" he asks and I giggle
Rose puts her pink sunglasses "Is there any other way to go, daddy-o?" she answers, with an American accent. She walks towards the moped "Straight from the fridge, man!" She continues
"Hey, you speak the lingo!" the Doctor gasps, delighted
He tosses her a pink version of his helmet, and he tosses me a small blue one. We catch them and put them on.
"Yeah well... me, mum, Cliff Richard movies every Bank Holiday Monday."
She helps me into the Moped sidecar before she sits behind The Doctor on the moped, wrapping her arms around his chest, as he pulls an "I knew it! " face.
"Ah, Cliff! I knew your mother'd be a Cliff fan." He sighs
We drive off down the street.
"Where we off to?" I ask the Doctor over the noise of the engine
"Ed Sullivan TV Studios, Elvis did 'Hound Dog' on one of the shows, there were loads of complaints. Bit of luck, we'll just catch it." He says, cheerily
"And that'll be TV studios in, what, New York?" Rose asks
"That's the one!" The Doctor answers
A red London bus drives past the end of the street, and the Doctor stops. I spot a red post box and Union flag bunting hanging from rooftop to rooftop. The Doctor looks bemused, and Rose laughs it off.
"Digging that New York vibe!" she teases
"Well... this could still be New York, I mean this looks very New York to me... sort of... Londony New York, mind…" The Doctor defends, weakly, amusement glowing in his face
"What are all the flags for?" I ask
"No idea." Shrugs Rose
"How about we park this thing and go find out, yeah?" the Doctor says, pulling the moped over.
"Let's" Giggles Rose
We climb out of the moped, leaving our helmets inside the side car.