A Time Lord And Lady
The Doctor led her into one of the TARDIS'S many kitchens. In order to get to said kitchen they had to travel down at least four corridors.
Jackie asked incredulously "exactly how big is the TARDIS?" She added "and how does such space fit into a nineteen fifties police call box?"
The Doctor replied "alien technology that's how. I'm not human Jackie. I may talk act, look and walk like a human. But I assure you I am not."
He added "and to answer your first question, the TARDIS is boundless. I don't even think there is an actual end to where the TARDIS leads."
He explained as he filled the kettle before switching it on and taking out two mugs from the cupboard above his head.
"The TARDIS, she is as old as I am if not older. The TADRIS, she had been my one constant and true companion. You may just see her as a highly genius computer system. But I assure you she is so much more then that. I at times believe her to be alive in some sense."
He continued "for example. If you do something on board to piss off the TARDIS, she'll retaliate as if she were human."
He chuckled "I remember in my previous incarnation. I and Rose got into an argument; I can't honestly remember what it had been over. But it went on for days and I mean days. Jack was ready to throw us out of the nearest air lock."
He went on "in the end the TARDIS and Jack got so sick of it, they schemed against me and Rose.
The TARDIS she controls everything on this ship, including the hot water, used to make a cup tea with, and to take a shower.
In short the TARDIS would cut the water off entirely when I and Rose would tempt to either make a cup of tea or take a shower."
Jackie couldn't help but giggle, she could just about imagine such an event occurring. She asked "but what about Jack?"
The Doctor placed a tea bag in each mug and some milk just as the kettle clicked off. He told her "Jack he had none of the problems that me and Rose had to deal with.
He after all was in on it with the TARDIS. Meaning he had unlimited water supply to do with whatever he liked."
He finished "after two days of not being able to take a shower or make a cup of tea. I threatened to dismantle my own ship. I also threatened to throw Jack out of an air lock, without mercy."
He laughed "I think the TARDIS and Jack finally cracked. In the TARDIS'S case when Rose and I came in from a mission covered in alien sewage, and left trails of alien shit all the way up the corridors.
The TARDIS smelted offensive for days afterwards. The TARDIS, I guess did not appreciate smelling the way she had, even if she couldn't smell it."
He poured the water into both mugs and asked Jackie if she took sugar in her tea. At her nod he added the sugar to both mugs and stirred and removed the tea bags, before walking over to the table where Jackie was sitting, and placed a mug in front of her.
Jackie sipped her tea before asking "and what made Jack crack in the end?" The Doctor smirked behind his mug.
"Why of course the offensive stench. What else? The TARDIS could not smell it, but the floors were covered in it."
He grinned "but naturally Jack on the other hand could smell it, he could smell it every where either I or Rose went."
The Doctor chuckled "whilst those two were suffering in their own ways, like any fifty first century ex- time agent, and of course a highly sophisticated alien computer is able to."
He finished with a fond smile "but whilst they were doing that, I and Rose were re-bonding. Our friendship was growing and becoming even more solid and unbreakable."
He took a gulp of his tea and eyed, he supposed his mother in law, over the rim of his mug. Jackie shifted uncomfortably as the Doctor eyed her over the rim of his mug.
She cleared her throat and asked "answer me this at least" she took a deep breath "do you love my daughter, I mean truly love her?"
The Doctor replied without any hesitation "with both of my hearts and soul completely. I would allow the entire universe to implode if it meant she would always be by my side, and unharmed."
He finished off his tea in one last large gulp and added "she is my every thing. I gave up my life once to save her, and I'd do it again and again, if I had to, no matter what of consequences to my self."
Jackie was stunned, at the magnitude of his love for her daughter. It was boundless she realised.
She also realised he meant what he had said. He after all had already died once for her daughter, his new face and body were testament to that.
She asked him the second thing she wanted to desperately know "do you intend to marry my daughter, and have children with her?"
The Doctor sighed. While he was still not overly keen on being domestic, he did not find it as bothersome as his previous incarnation had.
He told her "My people are all dead, meaning I would be unable to marry her the Gallifreyan way. But I don't see why not in the human sense."
He nodded "so yes I would be willing, and having children with Rose that would be fantastic, a little girl with her smile and laugh. A little boy with my features and teeth." He chuckled at that last comment he made.
He suddenly sobered "look I realise how hard this must be for you. You're her mother; you gave her life, a human life.
Now that life has been altered drastically, altered in ways you can't begin to grasp, and that terrifies you, hence the anger and verbal lashing out, lashing out at nearest person, that person being me."
Jackie sighed "I can't help it, she is my only child. Rose's father was killed when she was just a baby. He and I never had the chance to have anymore children."
She covered her face with her hands "She like your self is now going to go on living for many hundreds of years to come, whilst I'll be left behind here to age and writher away to nothing, whilst she is still youthful and full of life."
The Doctor sighed when he saw the tears in Jackie's eyes, Rose's eyes. The Doctor nor had Jackie realised Rose, Jack and Mickey had been standing outside the kitchen and had heard everything.
Rose was shocked at what she heard. Her heart went out to her mum. She realised her mum had not meant what she had said, she had said it out of anger, but above all, out of fear, fear of being alone, and left behind to age and die.
Jack and Mickey exchanged looks with each other, whilst Rose sighed and opened the door to the kitchen and walked in.
Jackie jumped whilst the Doctor, he had realised his mate was there before she even opened the kitchen door. He could sense his mate any where, especially within the confinements of the TARDIS.
Rose noticed her mum had tears in her eyes and looked guilty, more so then Rose had ever seen before in her mum.
She bent over and wrapped her arms around her mum, as both she and her mum cried into each others arms. Seeking comfort in the only way a mother and her child could.
The Doctor smiled sadly and quietly left the kitchen, giving Rose and her mum some space to sort things out between them selves alone.
The Doctor shook his head when he saw both Jack and Mickey were standing out side the door. He shook his head and rolled his eyes.
He sighed "alright you two lets leave them alone and give them sometime to themselves to sort things out."
He turned to Mickey and grinned "ah, so you decided to join us after all. Good. You can have the room next door to Jack's. I'm sure Jack will show you to your room, and give you the guided tour."
Mickey nodded, and when his back was turned to both of Jack and the Doctor, the Doctor winked and smirked at Jack knowingly, who returned it with a grin.