Take Me Away

Chapter One

Unaware if she was waking or falling, Rose opened her eyes. Though, into the real world, or into a dream?

As she rose from the bed in which she had been sleeping, she glanced around the room for the telltale signs of a dream. Nope – no dancing elephants, no wild parties or pashing boys.

She was almost disappointed. Till she glanced upon the sleeping figure of Captain Jack, and the Doctor's still figure. And her next thought was that she wouldn't miss a moment of them for the world.

The Doctor glanced around his chair, and grinned insanely to see she was awake.

"Thought you'd never wake up! You humans sleep your lives away you know? In that time you've just been sleeping, we could have visited the moons of Equadie and come back!"

Rose rolled her eyes. The days always started like this.

"Oh, no I didn't know! Why don't you tell us some more about the lovely moons and compare them to the mundane lives of humans?"

"Hey… who's mundane?" Jack muttered from his place on the small couch across the room. "Keep it down would you? Some of us are trying to sleep."

Completely ignoring him, the Doctor continued.

"Nah, not much of an interesting place, Equadie. Though the people there do bare a remarkable resemblance to mushrooms."

"Mushroom people are on Alpha 5 of the Tatrehedraqu System Doc. Equadie is the one with the man eating Kantilla." Jack murmured. The never ceasing battle between the men amazed Rose, even though Jack had told her in confidence that he knew he had no chance against the 900 year old Time lord. He just liked stirring the Doctor up.

"Ah. So it is."

Giving up on the chance that he was going to get anymore sleep, Jack threw off the blanket covering him and headed towards the bathroom.
"Don't use up all the shampoo!" Rose called after him, unsure if he heard as the door automatically locked behind him.

She shook her head and glanced back at the Doctor.

"So, where are we going today?"

He grinned. That was never a good sign. But then again he was always grinning, but they were also always in trouble. So she just did what she always did, smile and nod, humour the crazy person.

"Ahhh Rose. Where to start?"