Rose awoke
listening to the gentle rhythm of the Doctors hearts beats. She found
that they'd stayed virtually in the same position all night once
they'd finally fallen asleep after their midnight activities.
She
was surprisingly warm and comfortable on the little air bed that
they'd slept on. She normally found that when she'd gone camping
she'd wake up cold and uncomfortable.
Of course she did have her husbands (or husband to be according to her mother) body lying next to her shielding her from the early morning cold. She'd woken up quite happily like this everyday for the last six months. She hadn't even imagined marrying the Doctor, not so soon anyway especially after his protestations on doing domestic. Yet somehow she thought he'd mellowed slightly in that respect and had let himself be loved in the way he should be. She knew he sometimes found it hard and their argument the other day was proof of that.
She looked at him smiling at him, knowing that it was normally him that woke up before her. However she thought she'd managed to tire him somewhat, especially after that nightmare he'd had. She knew that he has nightmares quite frequently, yet apparently he didn't have them as often now. She thought it might be because he'd learnt to accept what had happened with what happened to his planet.
Of course it'd still upset him, and that wouldn't ever change however he still hadn't ever come for comfort to her about it. "Oh well" she thought to herself knowing that he would do just that one day she just didn't know when that would be. Of course she wouldn't though, how can anyone see the future? That was one thing she still couldn't understand especially after she'd seen her Gran in the toilet the day she'd died. And then she'd seen the Doctor a few days afterwards, standing in what looked like a forest or near one anyway. And what looked like completely unsure of what to do. She hadn't ever seen him like that before, not really anyway. But then she hadn't really seen him, not properly anyway. He had always kept his feelings to himself, especially in his last form.
She looked at his peaceful face smiling at him. His eyes flickered slightly and he turned in his sleep, burrowing his face deeper into the warmth of the pillow. It wasn't often she got to see him so peaceful like this. Normally he was bounding round the console at full speed as they soared through Time and Space.
A
hand flew onto her making her jump slightly as the Doctors hand found
her own and held it tightly. As if her were making sure that she was
definitely here, and the dream what ever it was, wasn't true what
so ever.
She looked at him and saw large chocolate orbs looking
at her blinking in the light as his dreams from night drifted away.
"Good Morning" Rose said kissing him softly.
"Very" he replied looking down at her and kissing her head.
"Doctor?"
"Yes"
"What are we going to do today?"
"Well..." the Doctor said smiling cheekily "I thought we could go up a mountain" Roses response was lost as she threw her pillow at him and he roared with laughter.
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"What the blooming heck do you mean you can't find the milk!" Jackie shouted into the phone as she sat in the car. They'd decided to go and have a family day out, minus the Doctor and Rose who she had last seen throwing pillows at each other in their tent, probably just early morning silliness or something that the Doctor had decided to do without Roses permission or the other way round. She remembered there was something about hills, and walking boots mentioned as more pillows came over their heads in shouts of laughter. And then something about a picnic had been mentioned which later she had packed for them still not knowing what exactly where they were going.
"Well like I say it's not in the fridge" Howard replied on the other end of the phone.
"It's Milk Howard… it's not that difficult to find" Jackie said rolling her eyes listening to her on/off boyfriend on the other end of the phone.
"You said that it was between the Yoghurt and Cheese…"
"No I said it was on the shelf opposite the Yoghurt and Cheese in the middle of the door" Jackie replied laughing slightly.
"Oh yeah…" Howard's reply came. "So it is"
"Good now… the reception…"
"What?! I can't hear you!" Howard shouted down the phone.
"I said the reception…." Jackie cut off still laughing at the supposedly missing Milk incident. She turned to Lynn who smiled at her knowing just what she was about to say.
"Men eh?" Lynn said before Jackie could say anything else sending the sisters into fits of laughter.
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A large hall covered in paintings of some sort of religious icons however they were different to the ones that you saw in churches. These were drawings of people and some strange symbol that probably only made sense to the people who had drawn them thousands of years before. Bright colours contrasting in the light of the dark making the whole room looks bigger than it actually was. A couple of soft furnishings lay across the floor in various different places, seating arrangements having being made for elder residents of the Scottish stately home.
Large
windows positioned three quarter of the way up the wall, a golden
frame spiralling round and round as it went up and up right the way
to the ceiling.
Massive wooden beams ran across holding up the
ceiling, so old they'd been there for centuries before.
A fire sat
crackling beneath a chimney; smokes swirled up and up as it went up
the blackened shoot entering the perfect summer's day sky as an
eagle flew across it.
Its golden feathers shining in the sunlight
as it soared through the clear sky, looking for its prey in the
mountains below. A man in a brown suit was walking up and up the
mountain shouting back to the blonde haired not overly all
enthusiastic about trekking up this mountain.
"Come on Rose, we're nearly there!" he shouted to her.
"Nearly there my arse!" came the response from the woman carrying what looked like some sort of heavy rucksack.
"Oh there's no need to be like that. Look at the view" he said stopping still for a minute looking round at where they were.
"The next time you decide it'd be nice to have a walk up the hill, we're taking the TARDIS!!" Rose exclaimed looking straight at him certainly not in the best of moods as she sat down on the grass.
"And what are you doing?" the Doctor asked slightly amused by his wife's sudden decision to sit down.
"I'm having a picnic" she replied getting the stuff out of the rucksack. "We have Sandwiches, oh cakes! I really love my mother right at this very moment"
"Oh no Missy. We've got to get to the top yet" the Doctor replied picking up the Sandwich she had just gotten out and placing it carefully back in the bag.
"I can't physically go any further" she said lying down on the blanket looking up at the sky.
"Well there's a big fat lie; we've been all over the place walked across beaches and landscapes all over the universe. Steep hills, cobbled pathways, streets filled of green hairy monsters, we even had to wade through water once because that Cleoratrops was after us. Mind you they have nice eyes, very blue, big and blue eyes. They watch your every move can be quite intimidating really if you get on the wrong side of it……."
"Banana?" Rose asked looking at him holding one up laughing as his eyes lit up the moment he saw it, it didn't take a moments hesitation for him to sit down beside her tucking into their lunch.
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"Rose!" Jackie cheered smiling as she saw her daughter walking up towards the small café they were currently occupying.
"Hello Mum" Rose said grinning at her sitting down on one of the spare chairs vacant round the side of the table.
"Did you manage to get up that mountain then" Jackie asked looking at her daughters red complexion obvious from the hot weather and climb she'd just done. The Doctor however looked exactly the same, which was surprising considering he was dressed in his usual brown suit. Jackie couldn't imagine going up a mountain in a long shirt and tie, she found shirts to be stuffy enough in the winter let alone the in the hot summer months. To be entirely honest she wasn't quite sure how he managed that one.
"Well we got near to the Summit" the Doctor replied taking a drink from the cup offered to him by Lynn. "Thanks"
"Summit?" Jackie questioned looking slightly confused.
"Summit yes… oh never mind" The Doctor said laughing slightly "We got a long way up put it that way"
"Well until someone found the Bananas" Rose said grinning at her "Then it was blathering all the way back about how he likes certain…"
"Rose Marion Tyler they do not need to know that" the Doctor interrupted quickly not wanting their conversation of underwear to come up again in front of her mother. He'd probably wind up wearing his tea rather than drinking it, and then he'd have massive burns in himself and he really didn't think it'd be a good idea to have Rose playing nurse maid whilst her mother was around despite what they might have gotten up to in the middle of the night.
"Know what?" Jackie asked looking at the two of them a slight smirk on her face.
"Oh just how he…"
"I nothing!" the Doctor exclaimed loudly putting his tea on top of someone's fork sending it flying into his foot. "Ow!"
"Well that was a bit daft wasn't it!" Jackie said laughing slightly. "I mean it's a fork not that harmful unless you throw it at sixty miles an hour"
"Mum!" Rose said getting up off her seat helping the stunned Doctor out his seat to try and get this particular sharp fork out of his foot. "He can do strange things"
"Yes and I think this is one of the many strange things he's done… I mean I know he's an alien an' all but really forks in your feet is probably…."
"He's an alien!?" Lynn shouted looking at Jackie slightly shocked at Jackie's sudden confirmation of true events yet was slightly amused thinking that this wasn't true until she looked at the face Rose was currently giving her mother. "Oh my God…"
"Shhhh Lynn!" Jackie retorted "The Twin's hear you"
"The twins… Jackie you've just told me that apparently my niece is marrying an alien"
"Right Lynn look I'll explain later but right now I think his injured foot is slightly more important than having to discuss this" Rose said looking in her Aunts eye and cursing to herself at her Mothers lack of intelligence.
"See you in a minute then!" Jackie called after them, biting her lip as she looked back at her sister who obviously now wanted answers.
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"Oh hold still will you, I'll never get this thing out if you keep moving your foot every time I get within two centimetres of it" Rose said looking at the Doctor who was completely unaware of her talking right at this very moment as he was talking in his usual banter, and so because of that disregarding whatever it is she was trying to do.
"I am never ever taking a cup of Tea from your Mum again! It's destined to end in disaster that is. Never before have I seen such a cup of tea that can hurt your foot like that. I mean seriously I don't think the fork was even going that fast it just happened to go straight through my shoe and into my foot. Which I can tell you right now bloody well hurts.…"
"Doctor shut up" Rose said laughing at his banter as she edged her hand nearer the fork again. "I would say let's go to hospital but considering you have two hearts and blood that can change the entire of Earths history I don't think it's such a good idea"
"No probably isn't if you don't want me locked away and tested for the rest of my life" he replied looking away out the car window where he was perched on the back seat with his leg hoisted up on the seat with a few bags and books that Rose had managed to find in the boot in a attempt to get a better look at where the fork was.
"What's up with you?" Rose asked looking up at him positive that she caught a slight change of attitude to what he'd been like before.
"Nothing" he replied quickly not looking at her instead keeping his eyes straight on the horizon of the sky.
Rose looked at him knowing he was lying straight away by the
look on his face, he was obviously still sulking about his foot and
Rose had to try and not laugh looking at him sulking like a nine year
old boy.
"Poor baby" Rose said abandoning his foot for a
minute and sliding over to his head kissing him gently.
"I am not a baby" he said looking at her laughing and looking slightly happier now she wasn't concentrating on his foot so much.
"'Course your not" Rose said smirking slightly kissing him again proving a useful distraction to reach her hand down to his foot. "You're my baby"
"Oh am I now?" he said raising his eyebrow at he, completely unaware that her hand was currently holding the fork gently.
"Well okay… you're my Time Lord" Rose replied at him grinning.
"And since when was I your Time Lord exactly?" the Doctor asked looking back at her rubbing his nose against hers.
"The day you met me…." Rose said kissing him gently as she pulled the fork out his foot.
"OW!!!!!!!" along with several curses some of which Rose didn't even understand came from man below her.
Once she'd managed to the Doctor back out the car without him blathering too much about how she shouldn't distract him with kisses when his foot was much more important, they'd joined on the back of a smallish tour group and started looking round some of the rooms inside the house. The tour guide was in her usual role of talking non-stop making Rose snigger when she saw the Doctor bursting to say something at the same time but obviously didn't want to seem rude by interrupting. Instead he decided that interrupting by whispering in Roses ear was much more effective and earned him several clips round the ear from his wife.
She watched him as he went
round looking at a window in the middle of the room, obviously
looking at the drawings that weren't unusual in these sorts of
places. She followed him slowly remembering their trip to France a
mere six months ago, straight after they'd been married. They'd
wound up having to pretend that Rose was pregnant the entire though
because of a incident where Rose had stolen the Doctors waist coat
and shoved it up her dress in order to get them a room for the next
few nights.
And she hadn't regretted it.
She'd gotten
them a four poster bed in a castle for however long, could do
whatever they wanted which they certainly took their time doing,
especially when the Doctor found that Roses corset got too much to
resist for him…..
"So what do you think that one looks like then?" The Doctor asked quietly looking at one of the windows.
"Like a stain glass window you get in loads of places like this… now shhhh I'm listening to the tour guide" Rose replied with her back to him as the short haired suited woman with a clip board began to speak again.
"No Rose I think we're onto something here…" he said back to her ignoring her last comment completely. "What do you see when you look at this glass window?"
"It's a picture on a glass window Doctor… not uncommon in these…"
"Rose!" the Doctor urged poking her shoulder attempting to get her attention. "since when did you decide not to pay attention when I said we were onto something"
"You didn't say we were onto something" Rose said turning round to face him "Did you?"
"Yes I did" he shook his head bringing her round the front of him to make it look like they were studying a plaque on the wall. "Now look up onto some of those pictures and tell me what you see" he said gently in her ear.
"I see a load of colours… and that's it just a load of colours" Rose replied closing her eyes against the feel of his heart beats, the steady rhythm now a familiar comfort to her as it had been before he'd even regenerated. "Doctor…."
"Rose concentrate on the blue…" he whispered in his ear a few minutes later. "What does the blue look like?"
"A load of…." Rose trailed off listening to the tour guide in the same room.
"There are stories, stories of wanderers that traveled through the stars. Myths, legends, fantasies even. Something that people don't necessarily believe, but there are people that do. They form groups, and worship these travelers… or one traveler in particular" the tour guide said smiling to herself as she walked round to one window. "This particular window has always been a favorite of the family here… they say that the flower in it represents more than just beauty but another power that's just as destructive"
"How do you mean destructive" a woman asked from somewhere in the middle of the crowd of tourists.
"Well beauty can make someone fall in love, drive someone mad… anything can happen with beauty"
"What did these travelers do, how did they get around?"
"They went around in a blue box… some of this people don't understand properly. I mean they are only stories told by someone from long ago"
"Doctor…" Rose said quietly feeling slightly sacred that they'd wound up in a room full of pictures showing things from their life. "What's going on"
"I don't know…" he said looking round at the stain glass windows. "But something… isn't right I can tell you that"
"Well how often do you walk into a room with a picture of your ship on a window…."
"Well considering I'm nine hundred and three years old and this has never happened before I'm guessing the chances are pretty low"
"What do we do?"
"Well…." The Doctor said looking round at
the windows and grinning at her finding the old spark of adventure
with them once again. He took her hand and grinned at her as he
walked quietly out the room letting the tour guide get on with her
work.
"We run!"
AN:
Right the next chapters next here, finally!
I don't know when I
last updated I can't remember.
Sorry about that but like I say
my life has been getting busier over the last couple of months. But I
haven't forgotten, it's all still going to get finished.
It's
just going to take longer than I originally planned I'm afraid.
Anyway hope you like it.
Please review and let me know what
you think, I have spent a lot of time on this chapter so it'd be
nice to get some.
Thanks,
Beres.
xxx
Ps, I have no idea where the fork in the Doctors foot came from… that really is a random thing to do.
