Rose woke up, except this time she wasn't in the TARDIS like she normally was when she woke in the morning, but in her own bed back at her mothers flat.

She got up and out her bed pulling on her dressing gown as she did so before making her way to the door. But as she turned the door handle something made her stop, something distracted her and made her look down at the left hand. On her finger there was a gold ring with a solitaire diamond on it.

Why had she got a ring on her finger, it wasn't her who was getting married. was it? She and didn't know.

"Oh thank goodness your up finally" cried her mother before she ran and threw her arms around her "I thought I'd have to come and wake you, come on we've only got two hours before we have to be at the church"

Rose found herself wound around on the spot and pout into the bathroom before the door was closed firmly in her face…….

Finding herself at what appeared to be a church, she looked around at the full church before her; she was standing just at the top of the church aisle, near the open doors waiting for a car to pull up.

Seeing the car pull up and the people getting out, she noticed that they were wearing a red bridesmaids dress. Then she realised twirling round looking at herself, she was the one wearing the wedding dress, she was the one getting married.

The door to the church opened and she found herself walking down the aisle, towards a man. In a black suit, he was smiling at her as she walked down.

And soon she found herself saying the word "I do" to the man that she loved…..

"Rose" a voice to her left came.

"Rose" Keisha said clicking her fingers in front of her friend to get her attention.

"Huh" Rose said switching back on and finding herself standing in the church at the wedding rehearsal all of a sudden.

"I said we've got to practice" Shareen continued.

"Oh right sorry" Rose said "Where do you want me"

"Right there" Shareen replied moving her to the side of herself.

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Rose was walking down the street, carrying quite a few bags full of make up and hair products for the next day.

Keisha had to go into work for a bit and Shareen was doing something else, so Rose and the Doctor had been summoned to go and get these.

The Doctor was at this minuet back at the TARDIS, when they suddenly realised he didn't have a black jacket with him, so he'd gone trailing off to find one in the TARDIS wardrobe. Rose having still needed to get some more accessories, agreed to meet him back at the TARDIS in an hour.

She looked over to where a church was across the road, it was a church that she recognised and had been to quite a lot as she was growing up. But she hadn't been the last few years, she'd been travelling instead.

Rose crossed the road and bought a bunch of Rose's from a near by florist before entering the church. Somewhere at the back of the church she managed to find the grave she'd been looking for and knelt down on the grass beside it.

In Loving Memory of

Peter Alan Tyler.

1954-1987

"I'm sorry Dad" Rose said tracing the letters with her finger. "I bet you've been wondering why I haven't been" Rose said but then she realised that he would know remembering the trip to 1987. "Oh you already know that. Well you know the Doctor, you've met him, and he looks a bit different now though probably wouldn't recognise him" Rose said looking down at the flowers she'd placed on her grave. She saw the letters and remains of flowers that her mother had been putting on for years.

"I miss you" she said "I miss you so much, both of you. You and Mum" Rose said. "Sometimes I think while on earth am I travelling round the universe, why aren't I here with Mum, in a dead end job and in a stable relationship with Mickey, and it makes me feel so guilty. But then I see the Doctor, and he's jumping round the TARDIS console in that energetic way and all that guilt goes away because I know that you only want what makes me happy. And he makes me so happy, happier than I've ever been in my entire life and I don't think I could ever come back and live here, live a normal life anymore. Because he's shown me what's out there, what can be achieved if you just set you're mind to it" Rose said "And I love it, it's my life now, he's my life now" Rose carried on "And I love him more than anything else in the world"

She sat in silence for a few minuets, just thinking about what she'd just said. She did love him, and she would for the rest of her life.

But a relationship, would it work between them, they were the best of friends and she didn't want that to be ruined by a few months of passion. She couldn't lose him, he meant far too much to her for that to happen.

Then something happened, the wind picked up and she felt it blowing back her hair. She saw something flowing towards her and land on the ground next to her.

She picked it up and smiled at what she saw, it was a picture of herself and the Doctor at Christmas two years ago. They had been through so much that day, yet they still looked so happy.

"Follow your heart" she didn't know where the voice had come from. She didn't even know how it had gotten to her. But from the things she'd seen these last couple of years she'd believed it was her father somehow getting a message to her, through the power of love.

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The Doctor looked up when the door to the wardrobe opened; he saw her come in and her face turn into a wide smile when she set her eyes on him.

He loved that smile she gave him whenever she walked in the door; it was a smile that always as much as he hated to admit it, made his hearts melt.

It wasn't that he wouldn't admit it, because at some point he was sure he would do. He would admit to her how he felt, but right now he wasn't quite sure how he felt.

He knew that he cared for her, and that maybe if that was what she wanted they could be more.

But it was a big step to take one minuet they would have been the best of friends, and the next something a lot more than that.

But he didn't want to do that if it was going to ruin everything between them, he just couldn't let that happen.

"So did you get everything?" the Doctor asked.

"Yeah just about" Rose replied sitting down on the chair. "Did you find suit?"

"Yeah" the Doctor returning the smile to her "So what time are we having dinner?"
"About-" Rose said looking down at her watch "An hour"
"Oh god Rose you're right. How long were you out for?" he said looking down at his watch.

"Longer than expected, I-" Rose replied smiling to herself "got a little distracted" she said "I better have a shower. We're meeting them at the hall"

"Okay" he replied smiling at her as he watched her go.

Some people say that fate draw two people together and sometimes he wondered why on earth he'd ever gone to earth; after all he was still grieving over Gallifrey at the time. And part of him always would be, but when ever he saw the look on Roses face whenever they stepped out onto a new planet, he knew that he wouldn't want it any other way, and he certainly wouldn't change any of it. He wouldn't change any of it because ever since Rose had managed to get herself in the way that day. Ever since she'd saved his life, he hadn't felt happier and he wouldn't do anything to neglect that relationship.

Maybe it was fate it depends on whether you believe in that.

Or maybe it was a power a lot stronger than fate itself; maybe, just maybe it was the power of love.

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Rose looked up at where some couples all decided to dance, to some slow moving music.

Keisha and her boyfriend mark seemed to have cleared off a while ago, Adam and Shareen were busy fixing something that had gone wrong at the last minuet.

And the Doctor, well she hadn't seen him in- well she didn't really know how long.

They'd had their dinner and then shared a couple of dances together but then he'd disappeared somewhere.

Getting up wondering where he's gotten to and wondering out onto the cool London evenings breeze.

She saw him in the distance standing looking out at the Themes, watching as the boats went past sometimes glancing up into the sky.

She crossed the road, and went over to him placing her hand on his shoulder making him jump at the touch.

"You alright?" she asked.

"Yeah I'm fine it's just-" he said looking at her

"What? Oh is this getting all too much for you?"

"No, no it's not that" the Doctor said "I just needed some air; it's quite stuffy in there isn't it"

"Yeah" Rose replied "What you thinking about?"

"You see that star just there" the Doctor said pointing to a bright star to their left.

"Yeah"

"That's the beginning of Gallifrey's solar system" the Doctor said "We can't see Gallifrey though" the Doctor "She's too far away"

"It's beautiful" Rose said taking his hands. "What made you come out here?"

"Oh it was just such a beautiful night" the Doctor said "And like I said I needed some air"

"Right" Rose said looking up at him and seeing something on his face that she hadn't seen on him before, as if he was remembering something from long ago, something that only he would remember.

"It reminds you of them doesn't it?" Rose said quietly. "All this" she said indicating to the party that was going on over the road.

"Hmm sometimes" the Doctor said "All this reminds me of things that I will never experience again on my own planet. Gallifrey didn't exactly have weddings not like the ones you have. But we did have a ceremony, and we would celebrate for nights on end the moment school finished and the children came back. We'd party into the night" the Doctor said "And then in the middle of that the couple would get married"

"Sounds fun"

"Oh it was. You'd love it, I just wish that-" the Doctor said but broke off. "Well that's not going to happen"

"I'm sorry" Rose said plunging the two into silence.

"Do you want a walk? There's a nice park not far away from here" Rose said after a few minuets. "And a nice lake which I know looks beautiful in the moon light"

"Yeah" the Doctor said smiling at her. "That'd be nice" he replied.

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The Doctor woke up to a cold breeze on top of his face; he sat up from his bed on the floor and crossed to close the window.

He turned back to creep back into his bed, but found no sleeping blonde lying there like he expected.

Wondering where she could have gotten to at three in the morning, he wandered quietly downstairs pulling on the blue dressing gown he'd "borrowed" form Howard that Christmas.

He found her sitting on the sofa, cup of tea in one hand and a book in the other.

"You okay?" he asked breaking the silence of the room, and making her look up.

"Yeah" Rose said

"Bit early for you isn't it" the Doctor said sitting down on the sofa next to Rose.

"Yeah I couldn't sleep" Rose replied looking at him "Stomach ache"

"You should have said" the Doctor said "I'd have gotten you something for it; it'll have saved you getting up"

"Oh it's alright; I've had some paracetamol I'll be okay" Rose replied.

"You sure" the Doctor asked.

"Yeah, I'm sure" Rose replied. "Any way, I couldn't sleep probably because every time I tried to do so, I just kept thinking"

"What about?" the Doctor asked.

"Oh about Shareen getting married and Keish she's in a serious relationship which looks like it may be heading in the same direction" Rose said

"Well good for her" the Doctor said smiling at her

"Yeah I know it is, but-" Rose started but didn't carry on her sentence.

"But what?" the Doctor asked.

"But what's the point of all this, their showing us how much they love each other, their about to show us all that tomorrow" Rose asked looking up at him. "What's the point in all the fuss"

"But there is a point though, people wouldn't have birthday party's if they didn't want people recognise it, you wouldn't have mothers day if you didn't want to celebrate the role of mothers. You wouldn't have weddings if you didn't want to show your family and friends just how much you love that person you're marrying" the Doctor said looking at Rose who was obviously in deep thought.

"But surely there's other ways to show someone just how much you love them. Marriage and weddings it's all very normal and domestic" Rose replied "What about the people who don't have a normal life, who don't do domestics, what about all those people who are with the people they love yet they can't tell them or their friends or their family" Rose asked.

"What you getting at?" the Doctor asked, knowing she hadn't been this up front about anything before. Whenever she'd asked things like this before she'd always changed the subject before he could acknowledge it.

"I mean what about those people who can't tell the person they love, that they do love them" Rose said "What do those people do?"

"I don't know" the Doctor replied after a minuet. "Mind you they'd show each other in another way"
"I suppose" Rose said both of them suddenly going deep into their thoughts. The Doctor looked over at Rose; she was wearing a look on her face that he saw the other night. Just as she was trying to work out whether to dance with Shareen on top of the bed.

"You know the other night, you started to dance" the Doctor said after moments of silence and deciding to mention it and break the silence that had been playing between them. "You and Shareen, you started dancing the other night, you know that little dance you did when ever you won those dance competitions at school"

"Oh I bet that was funny, haven't done those since year six" Rose replied looking up at him and smiling at him. "What else did I do?"

"Well you did at some point of the evening decide that it would be very funny to try eating peanut butter and orange's all in one go" the Doctor said feeling Rose snuggle up against him.

"Oh well I bet that was Shareens idea" Rose said yawning and laying her head on his shoulder. "I remember she always used to want to try that but wouldn't unless she was drunk"
"Yeah I think it was actually" the Doctor said smiling at her "It was very funny I can tell you"

"Hmm I bet it was, I don't really remember that" Rose said "Although it's coming back to me"

"What else do you remember?" the Doctor asked looking down at his companion and smiling at her.

"I remember playing truth or dare, but only just and I remember saying something"

"Really" the Doctor asked.

"Yeah but I can't remember what though, I know it was something to do with you" Rose replied trying to remember what it was.

She looked up at the Doctor; he looked down at her there was a look of contentment whilst he looked at her. A look of complete happiness whilst he was with her, but some where at the back of his eyes there was a look of confusion as if he was battling with himself as to whether he should tell her something. Or whether he should just let the moment pass and forget whatever it was she said, but something in his eyes told her that whatever she'd said meant a lot, not just to her but to him as well.

"What is it?" Rose asked

"You really want to know what you said?" the Doctor asked.

"Yes" Rose replied looking at him.

"You sure because it's not that important you know-"

"But it is" Rose interrupted "I can tell there's something I'm missing here and whatever it is I can tell it meant something to you" Rose replied

"Okay I'll tell you" the Doctor said giving in and deciding to just blurt the whole thing out. "Oh Rose, listen to me I'm not going to act all weird around you because I know you didn't mean it"

"Doctor get to the point you're rambling" Rose said laughing slightly but stopped when she saw how serious his face had turned.

"You said that you were in love with me" the Doctor said

"Oh-oh" Rose said remembering it all now he'd said that. "Oh God Doctor-"

"Shh" the Doctor said placing his finger on her lips "It's alright you were drunk. I know you didn't mean it"

"But-" Rose interrupted.

"No really it's okay" the Doctor said
"But I did mean it, I meant every word" Rose said looking him straight in the eye telling him she was deadly serious.

TBC………

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AN: Well there you go another chapter up. And I have managed to get it up within two weeks of the last one. Yey!!!

I will update as soon as I can.

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Preview of Chapter Nine:

"That would be handy" the Doctor said "Can you imagine if someone asked that, and they didn't even get an answer. That wouldn't be good, I know someone who did that actually long time ago though so they'll be dead now-" but he was interrupted by Rose placing a finger on his lips.

"Do you want my answer or not"