The Doctor set the TARDIS into flight. They had just spent an hour at Jackie's having a cup of tea as a very grudging 'thank you'. Rose was now sat in a chair cross-legged staring into space. Jack was wandering around aimlessly, not sure what to do.
"You'll like this place. We've been there before." The Doctor said after a minute. "But you might want to wrap up warm."
Rose frowned slightly.
"How warm?" She asked.
"Coat, scarf, gloves. Possibly hat warm." The Doctor grinned. Rose went to fetch her stuff and Jack wandered over to the Doctor.
"Where exactly are we going?" He asked.
"Have you heard of the planet Bindoux?" The Doctor asked.
"Yeah…" Jack replied not meeting the Doctor's gaze.
"Oh, what did you do?" The Doctor looked at Jack in disbelief. He couldn't go anywhere without Jack having been there and insulted someone first.
"Well… you know those two executioners I ended up in bed with? Well they… err… they live on Bindoux." Jack replied smiling sheepishly.
"Well, luckily for you, we're going there after all life has left." The Doctor said pulling some levers on the control panel.
Rose came back wrapped up in all her gear and the TARDIS shuddered to a stop.
"Are you not putting anything else on?" Asked Rose. The Doctor was only wearing his leather jacket over his white shirt.
"Nah, I don't feel the cold unlike you apes." The Doctor grinned.
"Hey. I resent that." Said Jack. "I'm an ape and I don't feel the cold!"
Rose couldn't help laughing at Jack. The Doctor rolled his eyes and went and opened the doors of the TARDIS.
"Oh. This planet." Said Rose smiling as she remembered the last time they'd been here. Waves a hundred foot high were frozen in weird and wonderful shapes.
The last time they'd been here was before she'd finally broken up with Mickey.
"Wow. This is a lot different to how I remember it." Jack muttered running his hand over the transparent ice.
The Doctor shut the TARDIS and offered his hand to Rose.
"Shall we?" He asked. Rose took his hand. "I thought we deserved a break."
Jack looked at the pair as they began to walk between the waves and decided to wait by the TARDIS until they came back. He wasn't sure he wanted to be around when they got all mushy.
The pair walked a little way from the TARDIS and stopped under a large wave.
"So…" began Rose. "Are you going to talk now?"
"It wasn't that I wouldn't before. I just… find it hard sometimes." The Doctor replied. "You have to remember that I haven't travelled with someone for a very long time."
"I know. I'm sorry. But you know it's not that hard to say it." Rose watched him. His bright, intense blue eyes full of pain.
"It is when you've been through as much as me. I mean… there's no one who's the same as me. No one else who can see across the whole of time and space." The Doctor sighed.
"You've still got me." Rose said frowning. "And I did. I still can, just not in the same way."
"You what?" The Doctor said slightly confused.
"The time vortex. When it was running through my head I could see everything and now… well it's not quite the same but I can see inside your head. The whole of time and space but you're only thinking about one thing. Every five minutes the same conversation in your head. The complications of your actions if you carried out what your hearts long you too." Rose whispered.
The Doctor stared.
"Wow." He couldn't quite meet Rose's gaze.
"You could just say it you know. Tell me what you want to say… what I want to hear." Rose edged closer. "I already know what it is. But until you say it out loud you won't admit it to yourself."
The Doctor looked up.
"Will you stay off my back if I do?" Asked the Doctor grinning.
"Of course." Rose said, though they both knew that her pestering nature would still be there the next day.
"You, Rose Tyler, are one amazing person. I'm so glad I met you. You are best friend in the whole universe and that's saying something coming from me- ow."- Rose punched him gently. "-And I…I love you."
Rose smiled.
"I love you too." She leaned forward and kissed him. It was different from a normal kiss, much deeper, stretching from their lips all the way to their minds. Knowing exactly what the other was thinking and feeling; this was what it felt like to be soul-mates.
"Umm, guys?" Jack came stumbling through the forest of waves.
The pair broke their kiss rather reluctantly.
"What?" Asked the Doctor slightly annoyed.
"We might have a problem." Jack pointed to several blue creatures distorted by the ice, searching for something.
"Where did they come from?" The Doctor shot Jack a dirty look.
"Don't look at me like that. I don't know where they came from. You said there would be nobody here." Jack whispered as the creatures got closer.
"Well, we were supposed to be taking a break but I guess the only place Jack's not going to get into trouble is the TARDIS." The Doctor thought better of this when he said it. "Do you know what, lets just run shall we?"
The Doctor grabbed Rose's gloved hand and the pair ran back to the TARDIS with Jack just behind.
Once they'd slammed the TARDIS doors behind them and set the ship in flight Rose wandered over to the Doctor.
"I know about the love heart sweet by the way; and I remember the kiss to save me from the time vortex." Rose whispered.
"I know." The Doctor smiled.
Rose knew that no matter what happened or where they went, they would be fine as long as they were together.