Rose Tyler leaned against the doorway to the Console Room, watching as The Doctor worked on the Console from the space under the grating. The trip to outside of the Universe to the Planetoid known as House had taken a lot out of the TARDIS, so he was doing some much needed maintenance. Especially after what happened with the Time Machine when the heart of her had been pulled out and put into a human body.

And worst of all they all found there were no other Time Lords alive, yet there were dozens of Time Lord Messenger boxes all calling out for help. It very much angered The Doctor, which Rose felt quite a lot. Even Jenny felt it, and he took his anger out on the two patchwork people who lived on the Planetoid with an Ood and human called Idris.

At some point The Doctor tricked Amy and Rory into going back to the TARDIS. He had attempted to get Rose and Jenny to go with them but they refused, so he, Rose and Jenny went on to investigate the weird human, only to find out that's where the TARDIS had been dumped into.

A human body with rather big breasts, reminding Rose too much of Madame de Pompadour. She wasn't jealous like she was with Reinette, just very curious. Especially when Idris kept confusing herself, blurting out things that were yet to happen or even calling them odd names. The Doctor was her 'Thief' because he had stolen her. Rose was her 'Wolf'…obviously. And Jenny was her 'Fair Lady'. There were references to other people as well, like the 'Omnipotent' one, the 'Timeless' one and the 'Mothery' one.

When House stole the TARDIS in a bid to get to the proper Universe, it was a race against time to build themselves a TARDIS console. Especially as the TARDIS' human body was failing. Once the Console was built, The Doctor, Rose, Jenny and Idris chased after House. With the help of Rory and Amy they managed to lower the Shields and they landed in a white walled Console Room.

But House was surprised and did his best in attempting to kill everyone. Even going as far as deleting the white walled Console Room. Luckily they were all teleported into the current console room when that happened, yet House was still determined to kill them all. Because a human body couldn't hold what was basically the TARDIS, Idris had collapsed and was dying.

What she had whispered to Rory just confused him, something about a Songstress in a jungle. But what she said to Rose really freaked her out. The TARDIS/Idris couldn't wait to see the Cub, telling her not to be scared to tell The Doctor. Finally Idris died and became part of the TARDIS, eradicating House until there was nothing left of him.

Now, for the dozenth time, Rose reached out with her mind to check if the TARDIS was still there and found her happily humming away. The blonde nodded with a smile. It had been a harrowing ordeal for all of them.

Walking further into the Console Room, Rose approached the Time Lord, various emotions coming from him. He was obviously still greatly upset over the whole incident with House. "Doctor?" She called, crouching down by the opening in the floor. "How's things?" She asked.

The Doctor popped his head up, brown hair all messy. "Almost done." He replied, grinning slightly. "Just got a few more repairs to do."

Rose nodded and looked at him trying to sense what he was thinking, except he'd boarded everything up. "And what about you?" Rose asked. "How are you?"

The grin slipped off his face and he disappeared back into the hole. "I'm alright, Rose," she heard him reply. "I'm always alright."

Rose groaned and shook her head, those three words she hated the most when uttered by The Doctor. They always meant he wasn't alright at all, especially when it came to mentioning other Time Lords and his planet. Their latest adventure just knocked him for six.

"Are you sure about that?" She asked.

"Where are Jenny and The Ponds?" The Doctor was heard to counter-ask.

Beyond frustrated, Rose stood up, walked over to the jumpseat and sat down. She managed to keep her cool for the moment. "Amy and Rory are in their room and Jenny's exploring the TARDIS." She answered the Doctor's question. "Now will you answer my question?" She requested.

"What question is that?" The Doctor replied as he crawled out of the hole and put the grating back.

A grim smile appeared on Rose's face. One way or another she was gonna find a way to get it out of him.

"Rose?" The Doctor worried when he sensed her anger. He couldn't quite understand why.

Rose smiled her Rose Tyler smile and the sense of anger dwindled away. "Can you teach me how to teleport?" She asked instead, noticing The Doctor furrowing his brow. "I'm telekinetic, yeah. Yet I still have no idea how to do it. Jaime can do it, even Jenny."

The Doctor smiled with a nod, followed by rubbing the back of his neck. "Yeah, okay. We'll probably should use the HSP."

But Rose shook her head. "Jaime has it and she's not here." She told the Time Lord.

"Ahh," The Doctor muttered thoughtfully, tugging at his ear. "I suppose it's back to basics then. Come on." He took Rose's hand and they exited out of the console room.

As they walked along the corridor towards the training room, Rose looked at The Doctor and asked; "When do you think they'll be back?" The question was about Jaime, J.D and Alexia, who were currently somewhere in Space and Time.

"I've no idea. They could have gone anywhere." The Doctor replied. "Although…" He trailed off, looking thoughtful as new memories cropped up.

"Yeah?" Rose prompted him.

"I do remember seeing them on the TARDIS with my Fifth Incarnation, Tegan and Turlough. They'd landed in the Death Zone on Gallifrey."

Rose perked up when he mentioned his home planet. "Really? What were they doing there? And why exactly does your planet have something as ominous like a 'Death Zone'?" She asked, using air quotes.

"Oh, it was used long ago as a combat arena in Ancient Gallifreyan times." The Doctor answered and Rose noticed he didn't answer her first question.

If skirting the issue was an Olympic sport, The Doctor would win gold every time.

"Oddly enough they vanished, almost as if they hadn't been there at all. However, the next time I saw them though they had turned up on Lakertya with my Seventh Incarnation and Mel."

Rose raised her brows. "Right, so what is Lakertya like and where in the Universe is it?" She asked and the Doctor smiled at her.

"It's on the far side of the Milky Way and about ten star miles West. On the surface the planet is basically just inhospitable to life, but it's inhabitants, the Lakertyans, live in the mountains, sort of underground in a way." A grin appearing on his face he fully turned his attention to Rose. "As for the Lakertyans themselves, they're humanoid in appearance, but their skin colour looks almost day-glo."

Rose halted in her steps. "What?" She looked back at The Doctor, who was grinning in such a teasing way. "Day-glo? You can't be serious!" She exclaimed.

"Uh-uh," the Time Lord shook his head. "They really were like that. They were green or orange. Even their hair seemed to glow brightly." He noticed Rose looked completely fascinated in his discription of the Lakertyans, and that's the way he liked her best. When she would be fascinated by her surroundings or a new planet. And he missed that a lot when he lost her. He didn't want to lose her again.

They had reached the training room.

"Here we go!" He uttered and they walked inside. The room was still on the setting that was used last, which was a forest, making the Doctor wonder what exactly they'd been up to when they were training. "Can you change to a basic setting, thanks." The Doctor requested and the room changed within seconds.

Rose peered around the room, taking in the grey walls, then looked at the Plinths in the middle of the room. There were three of them and they all had a large vase on top of them. "So this is basic, yeah?" Rose questioned with a frown.

"Yep!" The Doctor replied, popping the 'p'. "This is how I helped Jaime train her powers."

Listening, the blonde nodded faintly. "And the vases? What are they for?" She questioned next.

"Well, I'm hardly going to let you teleport yourself until you've mastered it on an object first. You could end up anywhere in time and space." The Doctor told her.

Rose grinned away at this, knowing The Doctor cared very deeply for her. "Aww, how thoughtful!" She teased and The Doctor's face took on a hint of pink as he blushed, with a sheepish looking smile appearing shortly after.

"Right…" He muttered, feeling all hot and bothered. "Just focus your mind on one of the vases you want to use."

Still grinning, Rose turned her attention to the targets, moving to a spot marked on the floor. Then she held her hand out towards the middle target. "All you have to do is concentrate on where you want to send it," the Time Lord continued to instruct and Rose could feel that he was stood right behind her. "But don't just send it anywhere or you may never find it again…" He waffled on. "…learned that the hard way with Jaime. She accidentally teleported Donna into the Zero Gravity room."

Rose sighed and rolled her eyes. At this point she was tempted to teleport The Doctor away just so she could concentrate. "Doctor!" She warned.

"Huh? Oh, yes. Just…concentrate on the target."

Rose nodded her head. Oh, she'd concentrate alright. But first she needed to find a way to get him to air his feelings without scaring him too much.

Causing the vase to wobble dangerously with her telekinesis, Rose spoke to The Doctor. "So how are you really feeling?" She asked him and felt a bout of puzzled confusion from him.

He had his eyes narrowed as he looked at Rose from behind. "I already told you, Rose. I'm alright," he replied to her question and he didn't see her eyes glow gold. "I'm always alri…"

He didn't get to finish what he was saying because the vase on the left exploded into millions of tiny fragments, shocking him and causing him to take several steps back. The vase in the middle tumbled off its plinth and would have smashed to the floor if it hadn't been caught via telekinesis.

"Come off it, Doctor," Rose uttered, concentrating as she carefully hovered the vase back on its plinth. Her eyes were back to their usual dark browns. "I'm not one of your companions you can just fob off!" She told him. "I'm Rose," she looked back at him with a smile. THE smile. "Your forever."

The look on the Doctor's face was one of mistrust and scrutiny. He'd been ready to flee until she smiled at him. The one he could barely resist. "What? You intending to scare me into talking?" He questioned.

Rose sighed. "No, Doctor. I'm not trying to scare you. All I want is for you to talk. Tell me how you're feeling." She answered the Time Lord.

Grimacing, the Doctor rubbed the back of his neck while shifting awkwardly on his feet. "Honestly, Rose. There's no need for this. I'm fine…"

As Rose turned away from him he didn't notice her eyes glowing gold again and the vase on the right exploded, tiny pieces of China becoming dangerous pellets, pinging off the remaining vase and putting chips in it.

"Rose!" The Doctor warned, becoming angry. "Stop it."

The blonde sighed but didn't look back at him. "Okay, fair enough," she said. "I won't push you any further." Her attention returned to the middle target and once again held her hand out towards it. She needed to use her telekinesis to teleport it and not rely on Bad Wolf.

"There's no need or any reason to push, Rose. I don't need to be Psychologised. I'm a Time Lord." He expected her to answer back, but she didn't say anything. "Rose?"

Rose wasn't listening. She had her attention focused on her target. She was pretty sure she could see it flickering away.

"Rose? Rose!" He continued to call and tried to sense what she was feeling. The Doctor couldn't get anything from her as she had put up her shields. He couldn't tell whether she was angry or happy.

Rose could definitely see it flickering. All she had to do now was concentrate on where she put it.

Sighing and becoming frustrated, The Doctor began to pace, his hands going through his hair. "Okay, fine…I'm not okay," he admitted. "Far from it…"

Rose was still concentrating on teleporting her target, and not only was it flickering but it was wobbling slightly too. 'C'mon, c'mon!' The blonde thought, brow deeply furrowed and a grimace on her face. 'C'mon, you can do it, I know you can!' With even more concentration Rose took a step forward and growled under her breath. The vase suddenly disappeared, teleported to area's unknown. Rose grinned and was about to turn to The Doctor until she realised he was talking. She stopped and listened to him.

"…After the whole thing with the Time War and The Year That Never Was, I thought I'd still be the only one left. Until that Emergency Messaging System came to the door. Then I thought that maybe I wasn't alone after all and there was another Time Lord alive, other than The Master. And he was loopy, completely mad as a box of frogs…" The Doctor trailed off and shook his head. "…but not The Corsair. They were one of the good ones. They were a real party animal with a great sense of humour. You would have liked them, Rose…"

The blonde could feel The Doctor's turmoil as he continued pacing behind her.

"But no, it wasn't to be. All we found instead was a cannibalistic sentient Planetoid that liked to snack on TARDIS', and used Time Lord parts for his patchwork servants. They didn't deserve it. None of them did. And I certainly wouldn't wish that on my worst enemies." The Doctor finished what he was saying, stopped pacing and turned to Rose, expecting her to still have her back to him. Except she had turned to him, her eyes wide.

She'd listened to him talking and venting his whole feelings. "But Doctor, you're not really alone, or lonely," Rose told him. "Not anymore. You've got me and Jaime, J.D, Jenny and Alexia. Even Amy and Rory. We are your family." She took a couple of steps towards the Doctor, who was grinning at her words, yet was feeling quite astonished. "You're so soppy sometimes. Come here!" Rose kissed him deeply on the lips before pulling him in for a hug.

The Doctor hugged her back, feeling ecstatic that she cared about him so much. She always knew what to say to make him feel better. Then his eyes fell on the plinths and he immediately noticed something was wrong. "Uhh, Rose. Where's the middle target gone?" He asked.

Pulling away from the Time Lord, Rose glanced back at the target area with a smile. "I did it!" She told him, looking back at him and giving him the Rose Tyler grin. "I teleported it."

The Doctor narrowed his eyes, sensing she wasn't pulling his leg. "You really did it!" He said, grinning away until a worried expression appeared on his face. "Where did you teleport it too?"

That's when Rose grinned her widest grin. "I can show you if you want." She suggested and The Doctor nodded his head. So Rose moved closer to him, put her arms around him and concentrated on where she wanted to send herself and The Doctor.

At first they flickered, then they faded away as if they were dematerialising. They soon materialised in the Doctor's room, though considering Rose had only just learned to teleport, they hovered a foot or more off the bed until they suddenly fell on top of it, winding them both.

Quickly recovering, the Doctor scrambled to sit up, pushing aside Rose in the process, and looked around at his surroundings with wide eyes. "What? Rose!" He looked at the blonde, who was grinning. "You only just figured out how to teleport. What if you…"

Rose put a finger over his mouth to hush him. "I got us here, didn't I?" She questioned and he nodded his head. "And look…" She pointed to something behind him and he looked around to find a vase on the bedside cabinet. It was Rose's vase, the one she had teleported. He could tell it was the same one because it was chipped and damaged.

The Doctor made a happy sounding noise and turned his attention back to Rose. "You sent it to our room!" He said, a great big smile on his face. "Rose Tyler, you are amazing!" He uttered. Rose blushed at the compliment which made the Doctor scoot closer to her. "I love you, my Rose." He told her and quite happily kissed her. Rose went with it, kissing him back and putting her arms around his shoulders, then they both fell back into the bed continuing to kiss…and maybe a little bit more.