Last Time: She sighed and then fell into a blissful, nightmare-less sleep.
She woke up to the sight of stars and for a second she thought she was back in her Tardis, but then her memories came back and she groaned. She turned to the nightstand and looked at the clock that kept ticking through her absence. It read 3:47 a.m. She sighed, "I could get a few more hours sleep." She muttered to herself. She turned on her side and closed her eyes, immediately falling back to sleep.
The Doctor was sleeping soundly in his bed when a scream made its way to his ear. He was standing and making his way towards the door before his brain knew what was happening. His brain had only processed that the scream was Rose's scream. The scream she made when she was in danger. But she wasn't in danger, she was across the hall. Merely a few steps away from his door. So he crossed the few steps and pulled open the door. He saw the Professor sitting up with wide eyes. She was sweating and pale. He went and sat at the edge of her bed. "Hey, what's wrong?" He asked groggy from sleep.
"Nothing. Nothing." She said, taking a deep breath. "Um, sorry to wake you." She closed her eyes and pinched the bridge of her nose.
"Are you ok?" He asked, skeptical.
"Yah, I'm fine." She whispered. She turned to look at him. He gave her a disbelieving look. "I'm fine." He raised an eyebrow. "Really, I'm fine." She said barely above a whisper.
"Why did you scream?" He asked. She didn't respond, and she put her head in her hands. "Nightmare?" He asked. She nodded. He scooted closer, "What happened?"
"It was nothing." She whispered.
"I don't believe you," He stated. "So what happened?"
She sighed, and looked at him, "It was a memory." She said, calmly. "It was after John died, I went a little insane, for a few years. I shut everyone out. I cut off my emotions. And I left Earth, and I went to a planet in the Terra Galaxy, and of course like you I'm a danger magnet. So, after a few weeks of living there, I brought trouble. And that trouble destroyed a whole village because it wanted my head on a stick. And you know what I did," She said, looking at him with that eerily calm expression. "I laughed." She said scoffing. "I took my Tardis and boarded their ship. And then I planted a bomb, ran like hell, and watched it blow up." She said, turning away. "And I laughed. I watched from my Tardis and laughed as their ship crashed and burned to the ground." She said, her voice cracking. "In my dream, I was screaming at myself to stop, to not do it. But I never listen to myself," She said, laughing a little. She took another deep breath. "I'm talking too much, sorry," She said, looking at him with a fake smile.
"No, it's fine." He said. "Don't do that." He said, his eyebrows going together in mild annoyance.
"Do what?" She said, the smile still pasted there.
"Smile like that." He said, using his hand to smooth out the fake smile. "That's not your smile. I don't like it when you fake a smile. It's not you," He said, pouting.
"Really and what is me, Doctor?" She said, with a smirk.
"I don't know anymore. I don't know if you're Rose or the Professor. Sometimes when you think no one's looking at you I see a bit of my Rose. But then you put on that mask and I don't know." He said, putting his hand on hers.
"I'm still Rose, but I put on the Professor for show." She said, looking down.
"Why? Why can't you just be Rose?" He asked.
She looked at her blue ring, "Because when I'm Rose, I'm vulnerable and small and scared. And a lot of people out there who want my head on a platter, so I can't afford being vulnerable. But when I'm the Professor I'm not vulnerable." She said fiddling with the band. "Do you care if I'm Rose and the Professor?" She asked, not meeting his eyes.
"No, I don't. I don't care if you call yourself the Professor, because either way you're still my Rose." He said, dropping an arm around her shoulder. She couldn't help but notice that he wasn't wearing a shirt. Her nightmare had distracted her from that, but with him so close she couldn't help but notice.
The Professor gave the Doctor a tongue in teeth smile, "Oh so I'm yours, now?" She said, giving a small smirk.
The Doctor blushed but he didn't move, "Well, since I found out who you really are, I've wanted to tell you something." He said, looking down.
"And what's that?" She asked, giving him another smile.
"I wanted to say what I never said on that beach in Norway," He said, finally looking up. Her heart skipped a beat, He didn't mean… She thought. "Professor Rose Tyler," He said, smirking a bit at the improvised name, "I-"
"Doctor!" River screamed into the room. "You've got to come see-" She saw the closeness between the two. "Am I interrupting something?"
"Oh, no," The Professor said quickly, getting up. "What were you saying?" She asked.
Both the Doctor and the Professor cursed River simultaneously, but they shoved the thought of strangling her down and went to go see what was wrong.
Oh River, must you ruin this perfect moment. Of course she has to! It's a perfect moment! I'm sorry I had to put that interruption in there. The Master will reappear in the next chapter, so hope you enjoyed and please review. :)