"
Jackie
Tyler watched as her daughter and her soon to be husband danced
together to the music. They'd been invited to a party that same
evening and once they'd finally gotten the twins to bed they'd
all set off (with the exception of Lynn) to the pub down the road. It
was only a last minute thing they hadn't realised it was on, but
Jackie had been encouraged to go with the intention that it would
take her mind off what had been happening over the last few days.
She smiled to herself as Rose kept dropping sweet little kisses
to the Doctors lips sometimes throwing him off completely. She
remembered when she and Pete were like that at Roses age, of course
the Doctor wasn't the same age as Rose but what did age matter? And
alright maybe she didn't like the idea of Rose going off and almost
getting herself killed every day. But so long as she was happy she'd
accept it, because at the end of the day she hadn't seen Rose
happier.
"Tears of rain run down my window Payne, I'm on my own again good evening sorrow. Sit and dream of how things might have been but as I close my eyes I get the strangest feeling"
She'd always known that they hadn't meant to come back a year later but she couldn't help but think sometimes if it had been on purpose. Of course she rarely had these doubts and they got fewer and few as time went by.
"Knock
knock who's there?, could this be love that's calling. The door
is always open wide.
Knock knock who's there? Now as the night
is falling take off your coat and come inside."
"Climb the
stairs and then I say a prayer for someone who can share my
situation.
But instead as I lay down my head, I have to leave it
all to my imagination."
Then
Rose would come back, and the Doctor had entered their lives all of a
sudden. And although Jackie didn't like Rose going off with someone
that she'd never met. And she certainly didn't like the idea of
Rose being killed at any moment.
"Knock
knock who's there, could this be love that's calling. The door is
always open wide.
They'd
fallen for each other; Jackie knew that always had done especially
when she saw them on the balcony at Christmas.
That was when she
really realised that her daughter had fallen for a nine hundred year
old alien.
Ah well… life was never perfect unless you were in a
Utopia.
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"Camping! Oh no, no, no, no camping Rose is for people with kids, and a house with doors and carpets. Not a newly wedded couple who live in a blue box" the Doctor said from under the console. Rose had just come back from her mothers (after an hour of fussing about their second wedding!) with news of how they were invited to go camping in Scotland with the rest of the family the next day.
"Oh come on Doctor, it's only two nights" Rose said getting under the console with him and doing her puppy dog eyes she knew he couldn't resist.
"Rose…"
"Please" she said batting her eye lids
"But we'll
have to share a tent with your mother, and she snores!" the Doctor
protested.
"My mothers snoring is no worse than yours and we'll
have our own tent" Rose said deciding now would be a good time to
play a smouldering temptress and began to kiss his neck to get what
she wanted. "We'll all be alone in a dark tent" she said
kissing his neck whilst her hand wandered else where.
"Rose
really… "
"With just each other to use as warmth if it's
cold at night" she whispered in his ear her hand reaching his waist
and slipping into the top of his trousers.
"Stop it, Rose…"
"Stop what"
"What
ever it is exactly that you're doing" he replied as he hand went
a little further north than he'd have liked if she expected any
rationality from him.
"So what do you say to camp?"
"Maybe"
he said trying to gain control of himself.
"Was that a yes?"
"Oh bloody hell woman!" he said making her laugh before he
pulled her into a kiss…
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Lynn
had gotten insurance on their other car for the Doctor to drive up to
Scotland. It had taken quite a lot of persuasion but Rose had finally
managed to get him to agree to drive it. And now they were lost.
They'd managed to get from London to Newcastle without much problem
but now they were nearing the border of England there was a little
bit more traffic. The Doctor had decided to take a little detour and
they were somewhere in the middle of the country side, with no
civilisation to be seen what so ever.
"Lord of Time you said,
no need for a map at all you said. I know the way off by heart you
said…." Rose moaned crossing her arms over her chest in
annoyance.
"I say a lot of things"
"Yeah
you do… so do I and I knew we should have brought a map!"
"What
is it with women and maps"
"What is it with men and not
having maps or wanting to ask directions"
"I managed in
Paris"
"You got lost on the Metro if I remember correctly…
or at least from what you told me"
"Yes after you sent me out
to get some Croissants"
"Oh so it's my fault you can't
find your way round"
"Nope it's your fault you
wanted…"
"Turn there!" Rose shouted at the top of her
voice after seeing a sign post to something.
"Why?"
"I
need to Loo" she said making the Doctor laugh as he turned the car
into the small lay by with what looked like some toilets.
"You
alright?" he asked looking at her more closely now he didn't have
to concentrate on not crashing the car.
"Yeah I'm fine…
need the Loo considering someone didn't stop at the services last"
"Naww you love me really" the Doctor said laughing slightly
as she slapped him gently on the arm before placing a kiss to his
lips.
"Don't I just" Rose said getting out the car and
looking at the clear blue sky above them before closing the door to
the car and making her way to the toilets.
He smiled to himself watching her go off into the toilets that looked more like an outhouse than anything else. He couldn't quite believe what he was doing here; this last six months had been one of the best of his life. Partly because he was happy, but the other was because he felt that he wasn't alone any more.
Yes he would have to watch her age, and get frailer as the years went by. And he knew that it would be painful for him when she finally did die which hopefully would be in her old age rather than youth. And he knew that when it did happen it would be painful for him, but he hoped that he'd get through that. And if they were to every have children then he'd have them to look after, they'd look after him until he finally went and he saw Rose again.
But that was all part of life, he
realised that in Paris when he found out she loved him. He realised
that death was part of life and if you didn't accept the fact that
you will die one day then you could never really live properly. The
car door opening and closing and the brush of two familiar lips to
his hand brought him out of his thoughts.
"Hello" she said
grinning at him "I managed to ask directions to the motor way from
this woman in there. She wrote it down encase I forgot"
"Great"
he said smiling at her before starting up the car and driving off in
the direction they were meant to be in.
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Of
course by the time they'd managed to get their self to the camp
site it was nearly dark, partly because it was nearing 9 o'clock
and so another hour and the sun would be setting. So once the Doctor
had managed to get out all of the camping things out the car he
started to put up the tent, he insisted that Rose go and spend time
with her relatives whilst he did so. She protested at first but she
gave in after a few minutes when the Doctor reassured her nothing was
going to go wrong with it.
How wrong he was.
First he
couldn't find the instructions, so he spent the first fifteen
minutes trying to find the instructions that appeared to be
absolutely no where.
He had to improvise and work out which poles
went where, which as many tents proved to be, a lot harder than
anticipated.
Then
one of the poles went missing and he realised it had rolled down hill
and into what looked like a boating lake. Which fortunately for him
wasn't as deep as it looked and he found it easily, however a loud
noise sounded from inside the forest opposite the lake making him
jump and he fell head first into it. Leaving him wet and cold much to
Rose's amusement, in fact all she could do was laugh as he trooped
back up the tent soaking wet.
Once Rose's relatives helped them
get the tent up which he was pleased to say was within five minutes
of dark. So when it came to sitting round the little barbeque that
was being used for heat as a summer wind blew through the skies, the
Doctor found that he was very relieved and tired at the same time.
Laughter rang out over the small fire waking the Doctor a little from
his position against Rose's knees.
"You
know" Lynn said placing a barbequed Banana in the Doctors hand. "I
remember doing this holiday when Rose was nine and…"
"We
really don't have to hear this story again" Rose protested
knowing exactly where this was going.
"Oh no go on…" Jackie
said
"Everyone
knows it Mum!" Rose exclaimed
"I don't" the Doctor said
looking up at her "What did Rose do when she was nine?"
"Well
we all used to come up here every single summer… or every year
anyway until Rose was about twelve. But one year we were putting up
the tents and Rose was dancing round the barbeque we'd set up in
her own little room. Then she met this boy… what was his name
again?"
"Robert" Jackie said already laughing
"Mum!"
Rose said hiding her head in her hands before the story went on.
"That's it" Lynn said smiling "Well this boy Robert came
over, so she and him went off for a few hours to collect some rocks
by the lake. Then over the next week we couldn't go anywhere with
one with out the other"
"Completely inseparable" Jackie
added and carried on the rest of story for her "Then on the last
day we were about to go back home when Robert came up with a daisy
chain necklace for her. And announced that he loved her, and Rose was
so gutted that she had to leave him she cried for the next week"
"And
Mum…" Lynn started but cut off before gaining the nerve as her
husband took her hand and gave it a squeeze. "She'd tell her
stories as she sat round here with us all and that was one of them
making us all laugh especially Rose when she was older"
"Well
we'll have to tell them again" Jackie said "Tell all of her
little stories sitting round the camp fire…"
"Except we
can't" Rose said looking straight at her mother "We're all
sitting here like nothing has happened… it was her funeral a mere
three days ago yet here we are all sitting round a camp fire chatting
about something that's in the past"
"It was just a idea
Rose. We could tell them…"
"No we can't, don't you see
Mum… she's dead. And she's not coming back and we're never
going to hear them again!" Rose said getting up and running into
her and the Doctors tent letting go of some of the grief she still
had locked up inside her as she laid down on the single air bed at
the side of the tent.
"I think she just cracked" Lynn said
after a minute.
"Maybe I should go talk to her" Jackie said getting up off her chair.
"No
I'll go" the Doctor said getting up off the ground.
"Thanks
Doctor" Jackie said looking at him and smiling slightly as he went
into the near by tent.
He looked in the sleeping compartment of
the tent suddenly feeling the closeness of the tent making it seem
stuffy and cramped. Of course he didn't care about that just at
this moment; it was the blonde currently sobbing into her pillow that
he was worried about. He knelt down next to her on the ground where
he had yet to put the other airbed after swearing to Jackie that
they'd have separate rooms. "Rose?" he said gently trying to
coax her over to him so he could hug her. "Rose?" he said again
stroking her hair gently hoping it would give her some comfort.
"I'm
sorry Doctor" she said after a few minutes moving over to him and
hugging his stomach tightly
"It's alright sweetheart you
don't have to apologise" he said hugging her "You can cry as
much as you like"
They stayed like that for a good twenty
minutes, and although Rose's tears had subsided after a while he
found she was still clinging to him. It was only when he heard her
breathing heavier that he realised she'd fallen asleep. And it was
then that he moved over to the get his own sleeping things from the
other side of the tent.
"Rose ok Doctor?" Jackie's voice
came through the silent tent.
"Yeah she's asleep. I think her
emotions just got the better of her then. She hasn't really let
them lose all that much" The Doctor replied getting the airbed pump
out of the bag.
"Well the others have gone off for a walk and
well I think I'm gonna hit the sack" Jackie said smiling at him.
"Alright" the Doctor replied smiling back at her.
"Night
Doctor" Jackie said exiting the tent before wandering off into
hers.
The Doctor smiled to himself thinking that was one of the
only conversations he'd managed to have with Jackie Tyler. Rose
would be proud if she were awake he
thought to himself as he started to pump up the bed.
He soon
found himself making his bed and lying down next to Rose before
falling asleep himself next to her.
Rose
awoke to the feeling of movement next to her, her eyes felt sticky
and her face clammy from all the crying earlier. She guessed it was
hours after she'd fallen asleep because the Doctor was lying on his
own airbed. Well actually he was moving around a lot as if he was
having a bad dream.
"No…" she heard him say quietly before
turning onto his side again.
"Doctor" she said softly rubbing
his arm feeling him attempting to move
over again. "Doctor?" she said again and felt his hand find hers
pulling her into a hug.
"You ok?" she whispered hugging him
tightly
"Yeah just a bad dream" he replied his voice slightly
deeper than what it normally was.
"What about?"
"I…
well I lost you" he said hesitating slightly and gripping onto her.
She
looked at him and knew that he wanted to see that she was safe.
Wanted to feel that she was really with him and this wasn't just a
dream. So she did what she knew she could. She kissed him, making her
way over his cheek and onto his neck.
She smiled to herself when
she heard the soft groan coming from him and the stirring response
beneath her.
"I'm not going anywhere" she said in his ear
as she began to undo his pyjama top, continuing her reassurance as
she did so….
AN: As with this story I apologise for the time taken to update.
Let me know what you think with a review. Constructive criticism gladly received or I'll never learn.
I'll
update next when I can but things are getting busy at the moment.
Hope you like it.
Beres
