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Chapter 5 - Plan C
The Doctor walked into the bedroom running his hand through his hair. Rose lay in the bed, propped up on the pillows with Sam nursing. The lights were turned down.
"Boy, you feel full of different emotions. Crazy night, huh?" Rose asked him quietly.
He smiled as he looked at her. "My life has turned into a soap opera. And it was nothing like I ever saw on Eastenders."
Rose pointed forcefully at him. "See! I knew you liked that show!"
"I only watch it to have something to talk about with Jackie. I don't even watch it regularly. It's hardly worth mentioning." He defended himself.
The damage was already done. Rose laughed quietly. "Right. Oh, I won't say anything to the guys. Don't worry about it."
He smiled and shook his head. "Would you mind terribly if I went to take a shower?"
"Need to be alone? Organize your thoughts?" Rose helped.
He nodded his head. "Yeah. Is that strange? I just need to think."
Rose looked down at Sam. "It's fine. I'm honestly surprised you don't do that more often. I've not asked you in a while, but how are you doing? Being here? Like this?"
He put his hands on his hips and sighed. "I'm okay. You don't have to worry about me, Rose."
Rose looked up at him, "But, I do. It's my job."
He laughed quietly as he leaned into the bed and kissed her quickly. "Don't wait up on me. I'll be out in a while and lie down with you. I just need to clear my head. We'll engage my brilliant Plan B another time this week. Alright?"
She smiled up at him. "It's completely fine. Take all the time you need."
"Are you alright? You were so sore earlier today, but you seem….." He asked her.
She looked down at Sam and shook her head. "I feel fine."
He walked over to the closet as he rubbed his neck. His phone rang again causing his bracelet to light up in the dim bedroom. He pulled his phone out of his pocket and looked at it.
"Dad, again?" Rose asked.
"Yeah." He replied as he rubbed his beard and considered whether to answer or not.
"Maybe just send him a message. That way he knows you are getting the call, but don't want to answer it. Tell him we're still on our date." Rose reasoned.
"That is a good idea. That will buy me some more time." He sighed as he sent Pete a text.
"Why do you need some more time? What's going on?" Rose asked him as she saw him lay his phone on the shelf in the closet. He pulled out his pajama bottoms and shook his head.
He turned to walk to the bathroom to take his shower. "Time Lord needing solitude. Excuse me, beloved."
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It was the middle of the night. The Doctor lay in the bed, propped up on a few pillows. He was wearing his glasses and texting Pete to get the full story of the events of that night.
Rose woke up. She could feel his surprise and frustration as he read the texts and sent some back. She reached out her arm and rubbed his bare chest. It caused him to jump.
"Jesus, you are jumpy. What's going on?" Rose asked him.
"I'm sorry, did I wake you?" He asked her as pulled her hand up to his mouth and kissed it.
"No. My legs are killing me. I really overdid it today." Rose told him.
He took off his glasses and laid them on the shelf next to the bed with his phone. He turned and rolled Rose on her back. He looked her up and down.
Rose smiled at him. "How can you even see me in the dark like this?"
"I can see you just fine, my dear. Don't worry about that. You are sore everywhere. All of that tension you've been carrying around. Are you sure you dissolved that PTSD?"
"Of course I did. If I put it in my head, I know that you would just go get it out again. It's gone." Rose told him.
He nodded his head. "Alright. I can tell how sore your legs are."
Rose shook her head as she closed her eyes. "I don't know what I was thinking. Running after lying in the bed for months. I should have started slow."
"No, I should have started slow. I took you down to the planet tonight and walked you all over the place. I shouldn't have done that. I knew you were already sore."
"I'll just take something and get back to sleep-" Rose started.
He was already out of the bed, "Hang on. Plan C!" He told her quietly. He stopped at the end of the crib and looked in on Sam, then stepped out of the room. He returned in a just a few seconds with a bottle in his hand.
"What is that?" Rose asked him.
"Some oil. It's going to make you feel better." He told her as he opened it and sat it on the shelf next to the bed.
Rose laid her head back on the pillow. "I don't know if anything will make me feel better. I hurt everywhere. My legs, my back. My damn shoulders. I think my head is the only thing that doesn't hurt."
He climbed back into the bed next to her and pulled the duvet off of her. "You are still wearing your clothes from when we went down to the planet?" he smiled.
"I fell asleep nursing Sam." She defended herself.
He laughed quietly at her. "Let me help you get all of this off." He told her as she rose up and he took off her shirt and bra.
"I'm not sure what you have on your mind, but I'm not up for what normally happens after this." Rose teased him.
He smiled at her. "That would be Plan A. I won't lie. That's always Plan A. At least with me. Plan B is something else that we'll do another night. This is Plan C, and I think it's just what you need."
He had taken off her skirt and knickers. He told her to roll over on her stomach.
"Just relax. This might make you go to sleep, but I'll not stop until I know you are feeling better. I can tell." He told her as he started to massage her neck and shoulders with the warm oil. As he worked his hands down her nude back, Rose groaned.
"This is amazing. I didn't know you knew how to do this." Rose told him.
He could feel her begin to relax as he worked her muscles in his hands. "Is it too warm?"
"No. It's perfect." Rose told him.
He continued to massage her shoulders and back.
"How are they getting along at Torchwood without you?" Rose asked him.
He gritted his teeth. "Oh I'm sure they are very happy to be without me at the moment."
He put more oil in his hands and massaged her arms, one at a time. She was like putty in his hands. He could feel the tension and soreness leaving her body.
"This is amazing." She moaned quietly.
He smiled as he put more oil in his hands and massaged her back and her bum. Working both cheeks as if he was kneading bread.
'I'm so relaxed I can't even speak anymore. This is so incredibility hot.' She told him in his head.
'This should help. I really shouldn't have taken you down tonight. I was just anxious to be alone with you.' He told her.
He put more oil in his hands and rubbed her leg, paying close attention to the muscles he could feel were in the most pain.
'How's that?' he asked her.
'They don't hurt anymore. This is the best. Where did you learn to do this?'
He put more oil in his hands and massaged her other leg. 'Massages have been around for an extremely long time. Even in ancient Egypt. But, it was a Chinese doctor who used it for medical purposes first on Earth.'
'I wonder where he learned it from?' Rose teased.
'It honestly wasn't me. I learned it from him.' He told her as he rubbed both of her feet.
Rose's eyes rolled back in her head. 'I never imagined I'd be this relaxed in my life.'
When he finished, he sat back on his knees. 'Alright. Do you want me to finish the front of your body? Or what?'
'Might as well do it proper.' Rose told him as she rolled over. He leaned up and kissed her quickly.
'Feeling better? You seem to be.' He smiled at her.
She smiled at him. 'This is the best. I'd take this any day. You might regret ever showing me that you know how to do this.'
He shook his head as he continued to massage her, 'Anytime my dear. Just ask me. I love running my hands all over your nude body. I've decided, this is the way I'll memorize it. Every curve. Every beautiful part.'
She smiled at his words as she watched him work. 'This might be my favorite thing.'
He oiled up his hands again as he began to rub her chest. 'Really? Even more than my little trick I use?'
'Okay, you're going to have to be more clear. There are so many now.' She teased him.
'The hours long love making trick.' He smiled at her.
'Well, that has it's time and place. You've not even mentioned that for a really long time.' Rose teased him.
He shook his head as he rubbed more oil on her arms and massaged them. 'I really don't plan to do that for a very long time.'
'Really? Why?' Rose asked him.
He bit his lip as he sat up and looked at her seriously. 'I hurt myself last time.'
Rose was surprised. 'You didn't tell me that! You shielded me from it and everything. Wait. We weren't joined then, were we?'
He shook his head. 'I don't think we were. When we rode the Bullet, right?'
She smiled, 'Yes. Is that when it happened?'
He rubbed her hips and worked his way to her legs. 'Yeah. I wasn't going to say anything, but I suppose you have wondered why. Just something I don't want to do until the memory of how bad it hurt is gone.'
Rose was still in disbelief over this revelation. 'How were you even walking around? You shagged me several times a day back then!'
He smiled at the memory as he massaged her leg. 'Oh, I did! I'd do it again, and I'm sure we'll get back to that soon.'
'It didn't hurt you?' Rose asked.
He stopped and sat back on his knees. He sighed. 'Rose. There are things. Things I shouldn't do, but I'm honestly a child and just do them anyway. I'm sure you have noticed it. I can just tell my body to forget about the pain, so I can enjoy myself, or I can sometimes just send it away.'
'You used some of your regeneration energy to repair that damage. That was after you were shot! How many years did you use up so you could shag again?'
He dropped his head, 'Busted by my clever wife. Rose, it was worth every damn day. I pulled my groin muscle! Do you have any idea how bad that hurts?'
Rose narrowed her eyes at him. 'How many years?'
'Think about this, Rose. We aren't sure about this life span thing for you, or me. This probably isn't that big of a deal.'
She sat up in the bed and pointed at him forcefully. 'Damn it! You're going to answer my damn question!'
He smiled, bit his lip as he looked in her eyes. 'I love how proper cross you are right now.'
'You're really going to like it after I punch your ass out and make you sleep on the sofa!' Rose told him.
He laughed quietly. Rose pushed him backwards in the bed as she climbed on top of him. He looked up at her nude, shinny body.
'I thought we had discussed this before. This is not the best for integrating me.' He teased her. He could feel her annoyance grow.
She sat on his waist as she thought. Then she suddenly dove down and bit his chest. He jumped, 'What the hell, woman?' he asked her in surprise.
'You are going to play football at some point on this ship and you are going to take your shirt off in front of the guys. I'm going to put so many love bites on your chest that they won't ever stop teasing you.' Rose told him.
He looked at her in disbelief. 'Really? That's your strategy?'
She smiled as she bit his chest again. He jumped under her. 'Hey! Okay! Four! Four years!'
She stopped and sat back on his waist. 'Four years. That's four years that I might have to live on without you.'
He pointed at her. 'Sweetheart, that's not how this works. We're joined. When one of us die, the other one will probably die within months. Or go mad. You remember, I explained this to you.'
Rose shook her head, 'I can't live without you.'
'I know. That's what being joined is, sweet-'
'No. I mean, I really can't. I've tried it, and I know I can't go back to that. Even when you were gone with Dad. It was terrible. I was so miserable.' Rose told him.
He rose up and put both of his hands on her cheeks. He spoke softly, "Sweetheart. You will never be without me. Please don't worry about that. You know I can't live without you, neither."
He wiped tears from Rose's eyes. She smiled painfully as she whispered, "I can't help it. I know I'm being stupid."
He shook his head. "Your feelings are never stupid. You went through so much, all because of me. I can't believe anyone would love someone so much to endure that."
They lay their foreheads together. Rose whispered, "I can't tell you how much I love you."
He was done talking. 'Let me try to show you how much I love you.' He told her as he kissed her. They held one another tightly as they forgot anyone in the universe existed but one another. He lay her back down on the bed.
'This is alright, right?' He asked her.
She smiled at him. 'Yes. Go on.'
He held his finger up in front of her and smiled, "There's something I have wanted, for months."
Rose looked at him questionability but soon discovered what he was on about. He kissed down her chest until he got between her legs. She spread them apart for him as he licked her opening. 'Better than any lollipop I've ever had.' He told her.
Her eyes had already rolled back in her head. She bent her knees only to have her leg remind her how sore it was. The Doctor felt it and massaged the hurt out of it as he continued to lick her girlie bits. She was so lost in the pleasure that she pulled a pillow over her face to scream in it. He ran his tongue inside of her and continued to suck in certain spots he knew that she enjoyed.
She bit the pillow in an attempt to stop herself from screaming. He could hear her muffled moans from the pillow. He smiled as he kissed back up her chest, cupping one of her breasts with his hand. He pulled the pillow from her face and smiled at her. 'Should we wait on this? I don't want you to wake up anyone.'
She looked at him seriously, 'Then stop doing that. You know what makes me shout.'
He rolled his eyes. 'So, let me get this straight. I have to be rotten at making love to you to keep from waking everyone up?'
Rose sighed, 'Ugh. No! Just don't do that. Or that other thing. Or that other thing you do.'
He smiled at her. 'To be clear. How about that other thing…?'
'NO! Not that either!' Rose told him.
He chuckled as he kissed her neck.
Rose pulled down the top of his pajama bottoms and pulled him inside of her. He smiled at her. "So, that's alright?"
She pointed at him forcefully. "You know how to do this without making me scream. Do not wake up the baby."
He laughed quietly at her. "Yes, ma'am. New father will take any Plan A treatment he can get." He told her as thrust slowly inside of her.
He leaned down to kiss her, "Rose. I love you. When I first met you, I had no idea how much you would end up meaning to me."
She smiled up at him. "Have you really loved me since the first time you saw me?"
He bit his lip and looked at her. "Not since, 'Run.' But probably since New New York. It really shocked me when you kissed me."
She looked surprised, "I didn't kiss you!"
He continued to thrust inside of her as he looked into her eyes and rubbed her cheeks with his thumbs. "Okay, I can't remember the exact moment. But, it's only because I knew I couldn't have you."
"And now you have all of me." She smiled at him.
"My other half. What is most precious to me in this entire universe." He whispered to her.
He leaned down to kiss her again. He sucked her bottom lip as she groaned. She held him tightly as she enjoyed the snog.
After a bit, he rolled over on his back and ran his hand through his hair. "Wooo! Now, I'm going to be sore." He exclaimed.
Sam started to cry from his crib.
Rose pointed at him. "That was your fault."
He smiled as he slipped back on his pajama bottoms and went to pick up Sam. He held him in his arms and said, "Daddy is sorry, Sam. Everything is fine. You can go back to sleep. Your mum just really makes me excited and I lose control."
He looked up and winked at Rose. She smiled at him.
Sam put his hand on The Doctor's chin. He moved him to his shoulder as he rubbed his back. "This will take a bit to get him back to sleep, Rose. I'll walk around with him. You get some rest."
He reached in the closet and put on his robe. Rose wished the lights had been brighter in their room so she could have seen how he had put it on while holding Sam. He walked out of the bedroom's door and into the ship's hallway.
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