Later that night Rose lay awake staring at her ceiling. She was still a bit concerned that she couldn't quite get access to the Bad Wolf but the Doctor had assured her that it would return soon. She only hoped he was right. As much as she hated the Bad Wolf for making the Doctor regenerate, she did need the power sometimes.
She sat up gingerly, cocking her head to one side and listening to the sound of the Doctor tinkering in the console room. After the Doctor had moved the black cloud thing to a safer place he'd escorted Rose to her room (despite the fact that she could walk perfectly fine now) and left her to rest, going off to 'fix' things in the TARDIS.
She knew that they really ought to talk about the feelings that they were both finding hard to suppress, but somehow it would've made it seem more real. They both knew that these feelings shouldn't even exist.
Rose sat up and swung her legs out of bed, deciding that they'd better sort out the cloud thing, Joshua and Jacob before they worried too much about the domestics. She wandered towards the console room and stood in the doorway for a moment watching the Doctor tinker.
"What is that cloud?" Rose asked quietly, walking slowly up the ramp. The Doctor looked up and took the Sonic Screwdriver out of his mouth, pocketing it and standing up.
"The last remnants of Balor, lord of the Cynrog," the Doctor replied, leaning on the console.
"I thought we got rid of him?" Rose frowned in confusion.
The Doctor smiled slightly, the question not quite registering with his brain. Rose looked so cute when she was confused.
"We did, but part of him was still floating round in the ether," the Doctor finally managed to say.
"So, he tried to come back then?" Rose too leant on the console, subconsciously mimicking the Doctor's position.
"Yup," the Doctor nodded. "And Joshua and Jacob's boss? That's Peyne's sister in disguise."
"Ah," Rose grinned, tongue between her teeth. "Family business."
"Yup," the Doctor said again. "So we've got to destroy the cloud, find the 'boss'-"
"-and save the day once again by sending her on her merry way," Rose finished.
The Doctor chuckled nodding. Rose giggled too, glancing at the console. The air between them was suddenly awkward. The Doctor scratched his neck with one hand, a clear sign he was under stress.
"So…ummm…" Rose began. "Why were Joshua and Jacob trying to do when they made us fight?"
"Energy," the Doctor said his voice higher than usual. "To make a body from pure energy, pure hatred energy from the two most powerful entities in the universe, of course what they didn't bargain on getting is the opposite."
"The opposite?" Rose's throat suddenly went dry. She knew exactly what the Doctor was on about.
"Well… the Bad Wolf and Oncoming Storm love each other," the Doctor said in a strained voice. "You can't make two people who love each other, hate each other that easily. So they have pure love energy, which would probably kill Balor anyway, but let's not take the risk."
Rose turned pink and was surprised to see the Doctor doing the same. They looked at each other for a moment before Rose spoke again.
"What have you been doing, while I've been trying to sleep?" She asked in a small voice.
"Just… fixing things," the Doctor shrugged rubbing the console with one hand.
Rose nodded. Obviously it was going to take more than small talk to sort these things out.
"Rose, listen…" the Doctor began but he never finished his sentence. Rose grabbed him and pulled him in for another kiss deciding that she didn't care about universal rules.
The TARDIS console suddenly started beeping and the Doctor cursed the interruption.
"Rose," he tried, but couldn't quite separate himself from her.
"What?" She managed to ask.
"That alarm means… that the TARDIS… has found Joshua and Jacob…" the Doctor managed to say between kisses.
"You've got… a Time machine… can they not wait?" Rose refused to let the Doctor go.
"Not really," the Doctor said and they finally managed to part.
"Fine," Rose huffed.
The Doctor just about managed to remember how to fly the TARDIS, though his brain was especially slow after that encounter. He landed the TARDIS and stepped out, before stepping right back in. Rose looked at him worriedly.
"What's wrong?" Rose asked.
"The boss is a little annoyed," the Doctor said, glancing down at his burnt hands. "And she breathes fire."
"But Cynrogs don't breathe fire!" Rose protested finding it a little unfair that the Cynrog weren't playing by the normal rules.
"Yeah, well, they do when they design themselves new bodies," the Doctor grimaced.