Due to popular demand (and the fact that I think this could go somewhere) here is chapter 2 to 'between a closed door'.
They had sat there together for several minutes. Not saying a word. What was there to say? The phrase ran through both the Doctor and Rose's mind relentlessly. The Doctor was content with holding Rose tenderly, listening to her calming breaths. Rose was content with being held by the one person in the universe who could understand. Finally after what felt like an age, the Doctor gently released Rose from his grip and stood up slowly.
"Do you want to stay?" The Doctor whispered softly, stretching his hand out to her. Rose looked up at the Doctor as she took his hand. She looked into his brown eyes, and saw they where reddened with tears. He had been crying as he'd held her.
They headed back slowly to the console room down the winding corridors of the TARDIS. Waiting impatiently, leaning herself against one of the coral-like roof supports was Jacky. "Where the hell have you been? Wandering off. Bet you weren't going to say goodbye and all. I don't want a replay of the last time that-" Jacky blurted, letting rip as they walked in. But she had stopped when she'd seen Rose's face, the Doctor's face as well.
"Oh Rose, what is it sweetheart?" Jacky said moving to put her arm around Rose's tear-damped shoulder. Rose said nothing and held her mum tight.
The Doctor walked up to the consol and began to make adjustments.
"Are we staying?" the Doctor repeated calmly. 'Are we staying', not 'are you staying', 'are we staying'. Rose smiled weakly at the thought. The Doctor was willing to stay on Earth, in the 21st Century if it was going to make her happy.
"No." Rose whispered letting go of her mum as she did so. There was too much pain there. Too much that would remind her of everything she'd rather forget, for now.
"Then we'll be off…?" the Doctor said flicking several switches absentmindedly as he looked up at her.
"Yeah."
Jacky attempted to protest against their sudden and abrupt departure. Rose again, through attempted stifled tears, told her mum she'd be back in 10 seconds. Jacky didn't believe it for one second, and now Rose didn't believe it herself. The Doctor saw Jacky out of the TARDIS and seconds after closing the door, they dematerialised into the Time Vortex.
"Where shall we go?" the Doctor asked sitting down next to Rose on the odd seat that was next to the console.
"What was your planet called?" Rose asked softly touching the Doctor's arm.
The Doctor's face hardened, as if he was trying to remember. Rose suddenly wished she hadn't asked,
"I'm sorry-" Rose began but the Doctor stopped her.
"Gallifrey." The Doctor said in no more than a whisper.
"Then let's go there."
"We can't. And even if we could, we can't."
"Why?" Rose asked, she thought the TARDIS could go anywhere. Then again, she'd learnt the hard way that this wasn't always true. Before Rose could think of Mickey again the Doctor broke the silence.
"Well, how would it look if we were to turn up say, a year before the time war changed anything and said 'oh, this is nice, shame the Daleks are going to destroy it in a year.'?" The Doctor had a distinctive tone of knowing and regret in his voice.
"You told me you couldn't have saved your family, didn't you, when I tried to save my dad. Bet you thought I was greedy, wanting more than I have, when you had nothing, well, nothing and the TARDIS." Rose said standing up, hoping that the Doctor would want to be alone.
"That was our first date."
"We had chips."
Thoughts of all they had been through flashed through the Doctor's mind. The end of the world, ghosts, Daleks, werewolves, Jacky.
"Wait." The Doctor said as Rose disappeared into the depths of the TARDIS. Rose froze and turned to look at him,
"What?"
The Doctor walked over in only a few strides and took Rose's hand.
"My Rose. I wanna show you something." He lead her by the hand over to the consol and after setting a quick course they went spinning off into the depths of the Time Vortex and towards another time and place.