Lying on his bed the Doctor is staring at the ceiling. He can't sleep. He must be in bed for several hours now, at the very least, but sleep refuses to come.

Sarah Jane, it had been great to see her, but painful too. Feelings he had run from and hid very well, or so he thought, had come rushing back to the surface.

Feelings that once were all too similar to the ones Rose managed to stir in him now. He was going to need better hiding places!

And Rose had been acting so strange tonight. Even when he had gone to her room, long after Mickey went to bed. She was so tense and kept listening if she could hear Mickey moving around outside. She even shushed him when she thought she had heard a noise. She had shushed him!

Deciding sleep is not happening he gets up and makes for the control room. "Mickey" The Doctor utters in complete surprise. Mickey was standing at the control panel and had been just about to touch something. His hand shoots back to his side and his face flushes at the feeling of getting caught.

"Sorry" he manages. "I couldn't sleep, all these weird noises." Mickey offers as an explanation.

"What weird noises?" The Doctor's face worried. He doesn't hear any strange noises, there wouldn't be anything wrong with the TARDIS would there?

"No, no, not like that." Mickey hurries to explain. "Well actually, I wouldn't know, would I? I just meant, noises I'm not used to."

"Oh" The Doctor seems strangely at a loss for words.

"You couldn't sleep either? Mickey questions.

"Oh uhm, Timelord. Don't need a lot of sleep. Besides, this slinky won't run on it's own! Well it would, but, it wouldn't start. On it's own, that is." The Doctor seemed to be rambling. He had not planned on interaction with anyone just now. And he sure didn't want to share his resent thoughts with Mickey. Suddenly he was all too aware that Mickey and Rose had dated but he couldn't figure out why that bothered him.

After a long and straining silence in which the Doctor had preoccupied himself with the slinky while trying to think of something to say to Mickey, he finally managed: "So was there anyplace specific you wanted to go?"

"Somewhere sunny?"

The Doctor eyed Mickey for a moment, clearly unimpressed with the lack of creativity, but he proceeded to set coordinates none the less.