Chapter Two
It was another boring day at Rose's office. She was sitting on a chair at her desk, staring at her computer screen. It was almost lunchtime and she was waiting for the Doctor to come and pick her up. All of the people in the cubicles around her, were busy typing away on the keyboards or making telephone calls. Rose on the other hand decided to turn off her computer and she just laid her head on the desk, thinking about the Doctor.
The minutes ticked by, no one noticing that she wasn't working. She was almost falling asleep when a crashing noise caught her attention and Rose lifted her head off her desk, looking over at the source of the noise.
She gave a giggle. The Doctor had appeared out of the lift and had crashed into a trolley containing files and books; he had then stubbed his toe on a large pot plant and was complaining noisily.
"Who are you?" a man with blonde spiky hair asked the Doctor.
"It's alright Mark" Rose said, coming over towards them "He's my partner."
Mark rolled his eyes and wandered off back to his desk.
Rose smiled at the Doctor and kissed his lips briefly "Hello, you're here early."
The Doctor grinned back "I got bored waiting around at the college, thought I'd surprise you by coming early."
Rose hugged him before a stout looking, yet smartly dressed, man came over to them.
"Oi! Miss Tyler, it is not lunchtime yet. You will get back to work immediately!"
"Hey, excuse me, don't talk to her like that" the Doctor defended her.
The man frowned "And what gives you the right to tell me what to do?"
"I'm John, Rose's partner, and I don't like you speaking to her in that manner!"
"I'm her boss; I can talk to my employees any way I want. Lunch isn't for another ten minutes, so back to work" he ordered to Rose.
The Doctor wanted to punch the man's lights out, but Rose held him back "Its okay honey, don't worry just stay here for one second. Sorry Mr. Phillips, I just have to do something a second."
Without another word, Rose strode back to her desk picked up her bag from the floor by her desk, she put in her bag the few pictures of herself and the Doctor that she had stuck on the cubicle walls, picked up a few pens and quickly threw them in too. She slung the bag over her shoulder and returned back to the Doctor who was grinning at her widely, having seen what she had done.
"Mr. Phillips" Rose said confidently "I quit, I only have one other word to say to you. Bye!" she grabbed the Doctor's hand and the two of them ran down the stairs, Rose and the Doctor laughing the entire way.
They stopped as they came out of the building and rounded a corner.
The Doctor gazed at Rose in amazement "I can't believe you just did that!"
"He had it coming, was about time I quit, he was a horrible boss."
"Too right, I won't have you working for someone like that."
Rose smiled at his protectiveness "Come on, let's go for lunch."
...
"You what?!" Rose exclaimed loudly.
The cafe went silent as they heard Rose shout. Rose blushed crimson, but quickly forgot the embarrassment as the café's chatter began again.
The Doctor was chuckling "You're pleased then?"
"Pleased? Oh I'm more than pleased, I'm ecstatic! Aww Doctor I'm so proud of you" she reached across and gave him a tight hug.
"So what does this mean?" Rose wondered.
"Well as the head of the department I have to do quite a bit more work, but it means I get a very, very nice pay rise. And I'm talking twice the amount the both of us earn put together!"
Rose's eyes widened "Are you serious? Wow!"
The Doctor grinned "So…Rose Tyler, now that you've given up your job you can be a lady of leisure. I now earn more than enough to support the both of us."
Rose's smile became even bigger "That's … oh that's brilliant!" she gave a laugh. "So I don't have to get another job?"
"Nope" the Doctor replied after taking a last sip of his tea "That is if you don't want to."
Rose grinned and took his hand "You're such an amazing man, d'ya know that Doctor?"
"You say it often enough" the Doctor said with a cheeky smirk.
Rose chuckled "Come on let's go home."
The two of them headed back home, with intertwined hands, Rose almost skipping with excitement.
...
"Doctor, can I talk to you a minute?" Rose asked that night in bed.
"Of course" the Doctor replied shifting closer to Rose "Is something wrong?"
"I just wanted to ask you about the summer?"
"What about it?"
"You don't have to work, do you?"
The Doctor lightly shook his head "Nope. No students to teach, so I have all of July and August off … why what are you planning?"
Rose giggled and looked in his eyes, raising her eyebrows "What makes you think I'm planning anything?"
"Because you have that look in your eyes, I know you Rose Tyler" he tapped her nose softly with his index finger, causing Rose to chuckle.
"So come on, what is it?" he grinned at her.
"I'm not saying a word" Rose said teasingly and turned on her side, facing away from the Doctor.
"Ooo you aren't getting away from it that easily!" he started to tickle Rose and she screeched with laughter. Trying to wriggle herself away from his grasp.
"Doctor!" Rose said through her tears of laughter "Stop it!" she laughed again "You are so going to regret this y'know."
"Oh yeah?" he said, smirk on his face and he tickled her harder.
Rose, remarkably, managed to free herself; she grabbed her pillow and started hitting the Doctor with it.
"This means war!" he said with a huge wicked grin, grabbed his pillow and the two of them began a massive pillow fight. The laughter and the screams of shock as the pillows hit one another echoed throughout the room. Rose got out of bed, in her silk dusky pink short nightie, and started to run away from the Doctor who had got out of bed also, and began chasing her around the room. Rose could not stop laughing and the Doctor was determined to catch her.
Eventually, after a number of close attempts, the Doctor grasped Rose by her waist.
"Gotcha" he beamed at her. Rose beamed back too, both of them hugging tightly.
The Doctor put the pillows back in the right place on the bed, but before he knew what was happening, Rose tackled him when he wasn't looking, forcing himself to collapse onto the bed, Rose almost on top of him. Now it was her turn for the tickle attack.
"Oi, Rose Tyler, cut it out right this minute!" he said through his tears of laughter.
"Try stopping me" Rose giggled and tickled him more, ending up straddling his waist to keep him from fighting her off. The two of them were laughing hysterically.
Within a minute or so, the Doctor stopped struggling and was gazing up at Rose with a smile on his face. Rose had immediately noticed this and had stopped tickling him, now looking down at him.
Their eyes never breaking contact.
Rose leant down slightly and their lips crashed into eachother. Their desperation and longing for eachother finally getting the better of both of them. The Doctor moving till he was more or less on top of Rose now.
"Doctor..?" Rose began, whilst he continued to kiss her neck "Are you sure you want to..."
The Doctor looked at her with all the love that he could "More than anything in this world."
Rose needed no further reassurance and that night, Rose and the Doctor's physical side of their relationship was at last awoken.
