So back at it again as the Doctor and Rose finally begin to settle in for the domestic. Well, sorta. Well, not really.

Let me know the guesses for where this story is going and hope you are enjoying it!

The First Week

"Come with me, you two have some paperwork to fill out!" Ida announced as she came out of an office, motioning for the Doctor and Rose to follow her.

The Doctor shrugged at Rose and he clasped onto her hand and pulled her along with him, thankful that something was finally happening. After they had exited the spaceship, they were told to wait in a plain room with only chairs in it, but that had been more than six hours ago and they hadn't even received any food to eat.

"Hello, have a seat please," A pleasant looking woman said as they walked into the office, looking so much like a typical room from the twenty first century that Rose wasn't sure it was all real. "I'm Elaine and I will help you two get used to this new land, as I heard that you are from somewhere far away and lost all your identification. So, I'll ask you a few questions, okay?"

"Go ahead, thank you so much for helping us," Rose said, glad that the Doctor still had his physic paper with him.

"Well, you are Rose Tyler…and you are called the Doctor? What is your real name then?" Elaine questioned, her eyes scrutinizing the Doctor.

The Doctor, thinking just as Rose was, pulled out his physic paper, hoping that it had all of the information that she needed.

"Ah, I see. John Smith it is then. Wow, you sure do have a long list of qualifications behind your name. Now, where do you two plan on living? I assume you will be in the same city?" Elaine asked, pulling out a computer and rapidly typing on it, totally different now that she had seen his physic paper.

It went on like that for what felt like days, Elaine asking every single possible questions, some a bit strange, like how often she cut her hair, but they both flew through them, eventually earning the proper identification. For the first time since she met the Doctor, Rose had an identity somewhere other than Earth of her time, and so did he, even had a fake name and all of that, it made it so much more real that this was permanent for both of them now.

…

"Oh, you two are finally done! Zach told me to wait for you," Danny exclaimed when they walked out of the office with everything they needed for their new life. "We have some exciting news about our mission to tell you."

Following Danny as he excitedly led them to the floating restaurant, all the rave now apparently, the Doctor and Rose were relieved to see that Ida and Zach were also there waiting for them at a table, looking as if they had been seated for quite a while by the amount of empty glasses in front of them.

"Well, the board heard out story of what happened and decided that we needed some compensation, to keep our mouth shut basically. But, that means that each of us gets a considerable amount of money," Zach quickly explained, pushing the strange squares that supposedly held their currency towards both of them. "And they said that we can go back to London in one week because there isn't much at this city besides what you've already seen."

"There's a London here?" Rose asked excitedly, not caring about the money much, but more excited about the idea that something would be similar to what she knew.

"Of course, it was recently reconstructed and it is rather popular at the moment, plus that is where Ida works and she told me about what you talked about with her," Zach said, wondering just exactly how far away Rose and the Doctor were from.

Deciding to get up with the Doctor and get their food off of the conveyer belt as it was done here, thankfully it looked about the same as Earth food of the past, and Rose was very much confused. "What did you talk to Ida about?"

"We'll talk about it later, but first you need to try this corn, it's superb," The Doctor suggested, grabbing the strange blue corn and handing it to her with a smirk at her shocked face due to the bright color.

"Wait, how much money did we get?" Rose asked before they got back to the table, assuming it was a lot by how excited everyone had seemed about it.

"Oh, it's quite a significant amount, but it won't last forever but it'll be more than enough for a time, I'm sure you'll catch on to the currency quite soon. It'll be enough for us to get everything we need until we can get money coming in. I mean, I could hack into the system with my sonic, but I already know you wouldn't be okay with that as a long term solution."

…

"That's nice of whoever the board is to get us a free hotel room until we get to the infamous London," Rose said, yawning as she followed the Doctor down the long hallway to their room, surprised by how typical the hotel looked despite the fact that it was in the future.

Pushing the door open, Rose was surprised when she saw the Doctor dart inside, exclaiming that this room wasn't as amazing as he had been expecting, pouting like a kid as he plopped down onto the bed. Looking around, Rose couldn't help but agree with him because it was a rather small room and basically all it had was the single bed, not that Rose was complaining about that though, and a rather small bathroom.

"Oi, come on! You can at least pretend like you are enjoying this adventure for now and not whine like a pathetic puppy!" Rose exclaimed, feeling more energized all of the sudden and standing up on the bed to look down at the Doctor, feeling as if they both needed some cheering up after all that had happened, at least she did anyway.

"Really? All this room has is a bed and there isn't anything for us to do…" the Doctor complained, still moping as he took off his tie and jacket, realizing that he had no other clothes at all right now.

"So? We can have fun with just a bed," Rose said, not realizing what she had just said until she saw the Doctor's face blush bright red.

Shocked by Rose's words, the Doctor quickly shut his mouth that had been hanging open, knowing that Rose didn't mean that by the way her face was red as well.

Rose cocked her head to the side, smiling an adorable smile as she continued on with her sentence. "Come on, when I was little I would spend hours jumping on the bed!"

"Are you joking Rose? I'm over 900 years old, I'm not going to jump on the bed like a child."

"That hasn't stopped you any time before!" Rose exclaimed, letting out a giggle as she started jumping on the bed, surprised by how bouncy the bed was. Strangely, the bed bounced so much that she could touch the ceiling and Rose was rather glad she had thought to do this because she was very much amused by this immature act, especially how the material of the beds in the future Earth was very different from what she was used to.

After jumping for a few moments, Rose glanced down at the Doctor, surprised that he was not smiling at all, but instead looked rather upset still, despite her attempts to amuse him.

"Hey, what's going on in that big head of yours?" Rose asked as she plopped down next to him, not really expecting him to tell her anything at all.

"What are we going to do Rose? I don't know how to do this…domestic thing at all."

"It won't be that hard! Plus, you've got me and you know I won't let you mess up…too badly anyway," Rose said, poking the Doctor on the arm to no avail.

"But I've stuck you here with me…"

Rose wrapped her arms around him, resting her head against him as she wasn't sure what to do to lift his spirits, as everything he said was true. "I mean…if you don't want me around I can leave…I'm not saying I want to, it's just an option."

"Definitely not, I've already lost my TARDIS, I'm not going to lose you too," The Doctor exclaimed, finally starting to talk like his old self again as he turned towards her. "I was thinking, Ida said I could probably get a job where she works researching aliens…which is obviously in London. We could get a flat, or a house even, together and try to find trouble like always, I mean, if that is what you want. We have one more week here so we can get everything ready for that and figure the rest out as we go along…"

"Yeah, we'll figure it out, I know you will for sure," Rose said, smiling in spite of herself at how domestic the Doctor sounded when he said all of that, yawning in spite of herself. "Sorry, but I am rather tired. We have had quite a long day and I want to get some more clothes tomorrow, I am sick of wearing this pink jacket and jeans."

With that, Rose got up to take a shower, leaving the Doctor sitting on the bed fiddling with his sonic screwdriver, feeling strangely empty now that Rose wasn't at his side and that he wasn't able to rummage around the TARDIS ever again.

Breaking out of his thoughts, the Doctor was surprised to see Rose standing in front of him wearing only her towel, smirking at his shocked expression. "I really don't want to sleep in my jeans and I don't have anything else…so would it be too weird for me to ask if I could…you know…wear something of yours."

"Of course, resourceful you are Rose Tyler," The Doctor mumbled, avoiding her eyes as he removed his button up shirt and handed it to her, trying not to look at her in her towel.

In what felt like seconds later, Rose pranced back out of the bathroom, telling him he should really take a shower too and sleep too because she could tell that he was tired, despite how much he informed her that he had to sleep about half as much as her, she knew he hadn't really slept in about a week. The Doctor at first resisted, but then decided to take up her advice, thinking of how adorable Rose looked wearing just his shirt that was too big for her and showed so much of her long legs.

…

The next morning, Rose was at first shocked as to where she was, as she felt a bare chest under her hand. Fully awake, Rose sat straight up, surprised that the Doctor was still asleep next to her, he really must have been very tired to sleep almost the whole night through, and Time Lord's still needed to rest sometimes too.

Getting up quietly so she wouldn't wake the Doctor, Rose glanced over at him, thinking how simply adorable he looked right now. Not only was he shirtless, he was only wearing his boxers, and Rose was hardly surprised when she saw that they were blue with pinstripes on them, just like his suit. In addition to all of that, the Doctor looked so relaxed while asleep, and so very much younger than usual because his eyes were closed, as for once she couldn't see all of the pain he had felt in his life when she looked at his eyes.

Rose reluctantly left the bed, chastising herself for thinking thoughts that would only hurt her in the future and went to the bathroom to get ready, surprised that the Doctor was up and at it when she came out only minutes later. "Rosie! What do you want to do today? Something exciting I hope?"

"Geez, someone's hyper today! Well, first of all we need to go shopping…I need clothes like right now," Rose explained as she looked down at the pink jacket she now hated, giggling at the Doctor's pathetic expression, he really hated shopping, especially since he knew Rose was going to make him buy clothes as well.

Although it took quite a bit of coaxing, the Doctor finally relented and allowed Rose to drag him to the only story in sight. He expected it to take only about an hour, but it was already early in the afternoon and Rose was still going strong, proclaiming that clothes were a necessity right now because she had lost absolutely everything.

"Do you really need these?" the Doctor asked, picking up a lacey bra that she had just added to her large pile.

"Doctor!" Rose screeched, tearing the lingerie away from him with a blush, deciding that she never wanted to take him shopping again as he had been complaining the entire time. "Go away, go buy boxers or something, you can't wear that suit all the time no matter what you say. In fact, no suit until we get to London and have it cleaned, at least you kept your freakishly long coat at the hotel."

Surprisingly, the Doctor took her orders without one word against them, and Rose was able to shop by herself the rest of the day, relieved that they had received money and that the Doctor didn't have to steal it with his sonic like he usually did.

Once they got back to the hotel to put their bags away, Rose became very curious as to what the Doctor had bought. "What did you buy anyway? I didn't actually expect you to do that…so attached to that suit of yours you are."

"Uhh…I'll have to make due I suppose and buy more suits when there is more selection," The Doctor murmured, bored out of his mind as Rose sat on the floor and went through his purchases, seeing that almost all he had bought was dress pants, sadly no jeans, and button up dress shirts with ties.

…

At the end of the fourth day stuck before they had to go start their new lives, the Doctor gave up hacking into the database to see Rose sitting on the floor, frantically scribbling something down. "What are you doing?"

"Oh, just writing down everything that we need to buy to survive and all of that…do you know how to cook? I suppose I could learn because I will get sick of eating out every single meal eventually…" Rose explained, showing the Doctor the impossibly long list filled with every appliance or quirky item that he would have never thought of himself."

The Doctor huffed out in annoyance, thankful that Rose had something to keep her mind on though. "I suppose I have learned a bit of cooking in my 900 years…though I am usually too impatient for it to really cook often."

"Well then, I guess I can hand the apron over to you," Rose joked, poking him with the eraser end of her pencil as she thought for a moment and added a few more items to the list.

"Rose Tyler, you will be the death of me," The Doctor gasped out, winking at Rose as he said the words, his hearts lightening when he heard her comforting giggle.

Rewarding him with one of her famous tongue in teeth smiles, Rose responded with no hesitation. "That is exactly what I am planning on buddy, and now you can't even get rid of me. We are all each of us has got now."

The Doctor half-heartedly smiled back at Rose, thinking of her words and how true they were. Although he hadn't meant to, he had trapped Rose here with him, whether she really wanted it or not, and now they would have to settle down…the hardest adventure they would have with one another was just beginning.

Sorry for the slow start, but every story needs context, especially when starting a new life together!

Thoughts?

Gabrielle