Disclaimer: Do i look like i own Doctor Who? Oh right, this is sort of anonymous , well let me put it this way If i OWNED DW we'd be keeping David Tennant (or switching back a regeneration and back to Christopher Eccelston - because he was just lovely too) and Billie Piper would be in a contract for the next decade (she wouldn't even have to be in all the episodes- i can understand she wants to broaden her horizons and she has her own show now- so just most of them)...

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Posted: 20th of February 2009 (just so i can keep track...I'm still trying to work out whether I'll have posted 2 chapters in one day instead of just one a day)


"Smile" Rose commanded trying to get a good angle of his face, honestly he could at least humour her for the first couple of days. She'd just left half her family behind and here he was hiding behind a huge pair of sunglasses. "You look ridiculous by the way" she added snidely. "What'd you put them on for anyway?"

The Doctor raised an eyebrow and continued looking out to sea, "I think I look smart, don't you think I look smart? Quite dashing really. Not to mention mysterious, don't you think I look mysterious Rose?"

Rose pursed her lips, stopped recording and lowered the video camera "You look like a twit on a rock" she sighed and rolled her eyes "not to mention like a Paris Hilton wanna be" she muttered quietly to herself. "Could you at least say something interesting, mum's not gonna care about the time you lost your shoes and that really big wave knocked you over" she grinned "though I'll admit that was quite funny and if I'd caught it on camera...well it'd be another story. So, go on then show us what you've got!" She started recording again, zooming in on his face.

The Doctor frowned at her – though the sunglasses kind of ruined the effect -"I'm not a toy Rose, you can't just wind me up and watch me go"

"I wish" Rose muttered, and stopped recording since she was going to have a lot of editing to do anyway, especially since he'd gone on and on about how the cliffs had formed funny and that was why he'd been distracted when the wave had hit. Her suggestion of weighing himself down with rocks in his pockets had been met with quite a negative response "But that's dangerous Rose. Do you want me to drown?" her response had been that at least he hadn't lost his bathers this time, again met with a negative response. He glared for a full five minutes, and then got changed.

She gave another weary sigh "Fine, be that way. I'll do it all by myself, just like always...you'd probably just ruin it anyway" she sniffed moving away from where he was perched. She swung the camera around to face her, and tilted the LCD screen so she could see herself and pressed the red button. "Right um, Hi Mum" she waved at the camera excitedly "It's day three since we um...last saw each other, the Doctor's being a prat – so yeah same old same old..." she grinned and sung the camera around in time to record the Doctor poking out his tongue at her. "we decided to have a beach day. Of course since I got the camera out he's refused to perform like a good little monkey, and refuses to move from 'his rock'"

The Doctor leaned forward, "Make me" he dared flicking up his sunglasses to appraise her, he scoffed "nobody makes me do anything I don't want to do" he smiled smugly crossing his arms over his chest.

Rose giggled darkly. That was it. First he gives her the camera as a present, then tires of being filmed after only a couple of hours, now he's dragged her to a beach and refuses to move off a bloody rock! Oh she was not going to spend her day coaxing him down! She wasn't here to baby-sit! She stomped back into the TARDIS, she'd worn a new white shirt and her jeans...but this was the beach, and since they never really had any time off from the running and the screaming- it was time to enjoy herself. "Oh come on Rose don't give up!" the Doctor called after her "this is fun." She ignored him, "Bloody overconfident time lord", she muttered to herself.

Rose strode out of the TARDIS clad in her bathers and her board-shorts, a bag over her arm, with a stand and her camera clasped tightly in her hands. She paused in front of the Doctor and smiled up at him. Then placed the stand down while she shrugged her beach-towel onto her shoulders more. The Doctor frowned, she looked a little too happy. "Hi" she smirked up at him.

"Rose" he said warningly "whatever your planning, it won't work"

Rose's eyes opened wide and she looked innocently back into his suspicious eyes "Why Doctor I would never" she claimed placing a hand over her heart "ever do anything against you!"

There was a pause "Never say never ever" they said at the same time, their voices blending into a perfect pitch. Matching grins appeared on their faces, and Rose could feel the Doctor let his guard down a bit. He thought she was just psyching him out. Good. Maybe she'd get some time to herself.

"I'm gonna go for a swim" she told him "hope nothing tries to eat me, since they'll be no-one to save me if you're gonna stay on this rock" she tossed the last bit over her shoulder as she picked up the stand and continued on her way down to the beach. They always had to do things the hard way.

She set down her towel and bag and got to work setting up the camera stand and getting the angle of the camera just right. She was feeling very pleased with herself once she had it perfect and reached into her bag to get her own sunnies out – at least her's weren't over-sized. Turning the camera on she smiled, "Right mum, I've left him...to his stupid rock and now I'm going to test him" she looked away from the camera with a glance over her shoulder "how long can he stay away?" she scoffed "not to mention in the one spot! We've been here about an hour and he hasn't moved" she bit her lip and looked down at the bag in her lap "....and I brought a picnic" she grinned happily waving a banana and cheese sandwich at the camera triumphantly.

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She'd left him! Abandoned him to his fate. He glared, the cheek! Well he'd show her, he'd just sit right here. Alone. While she had fun in the sun. If something decided to eat her, well it just wasn't his problem. He watched closely as she unpacked and set up, maybe she wouldn't even go in the water – she'd probably just been teasing him. Anyway it was perfectly safe, that's why he'd pick this spot. A nice ease into going to beaches again, without the unfortunateness of asking the question who gets left behind today? He'd seen the look on her face when he'd suggested going to the beach, and it had made him determined to make sure she had a good time. Now look at him. Trapped. Why did she have to be so stubborn? Why couldn't she just admit, "Why yes Doctor your right, no-one can make you do anything you don't want to", then there was Rose and that blasted camera. He wasn't here as the entertainment, and he certainly hadn't had much to say to Jackie while she was here - what was he supposed to say now? Sorry that your only daughter prefers me?

He wiggled around on the rock, it was hard...well not surprisingly hard for a rock but still, Rose got to sit on the nice warm sand on her towel and where was he? On a cold hard rock! He put a hand to his cheek, his face felt hot. He was getting burned! He grimaced and where was the sunscreen? Not on this stupid rock that was for sure! He looked down at the beach, Rose had sunscreen and a hat. Why didn't he have a hat? He tried to turn away from the sun as he remembered the time he taken Rose to the eastern desert on Muydren because she'd been going on and on about the sand castle competitions she'd seen on the telly. He'd stepped outside the TARDIS wearing quite a dapper hat if he did say so himself and she'd taken one look at him and burst into laughter – she'd actually been unable to hold herself up and had sunk to the ground holding both hands over her mouth, as if to physically hold in her giggles. He sniffed indignantly and scoffed quietly to himself – Hat? He didn't need a hat! He pouted as he thought about later that day of Rose laughing so hard she was crying, and was forced to look away to calm down once he'd taken off the apparently hilarious article of clothing...she'd mumbled something about 'hat hair'but he didn't get 'hat hair' he'd tried to tell Rose as she'd shut her eyes and tried to breathe. He hadn't worn a hat since – she'd mentally scarred him from wearing hats!

He sighed sadly, and now she had trapped him on a rock with only himself for company. It was all a bit depressing really. Oh if his enemies could see him now....when had he gone all human? He placed a hand on either side of his chest- Nope still two. It was still him, always good to be sure he thought as he relaxed back onto his elbows. Wonder what Rose is doing?

He glanced over and sat up sharply, quickly getting to his feet and straightening up to his full height he peered down at the beach – Rose was going in the water! But it was safe, he was sure it was safe, this wasn't earth (he'd wanted the beach to himself, well alone but with Rose) so there was no-one around (something about a large mine field circling the planet from a much earlier war or something, no-one here now). At least he couldn't see anyone. There were some rumours that the aquatic life here had been allowed to thrive with some monstrous results...at least he thought they were rumours. Oh, which century were they in? Blast he remembered something about some tourist attacks. He should warn her, maybe yell something out - "Rose I'm getting sunburned" could work or "I've locked us out of the TARDIS" would get a bigger reaction...maybe not a good reaction. It'd be less of a hassle if he just went down there. He dusted off his hands, she was getting awfully close to the water.

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"...it was kind of like swimming in jelly...and about as unpleasant- believe me been there done that" Rose said speaking to the camera as she walked backwards into the sea. She had ditched the sunglasses and the hat (she didn't want to fight with the Doctor. Again) and had set the camera up to continue filming her as she took a dip. She paused seeing the Doctor sprinting towards her, she gave the camera a look "Oh, here comes trouble". The Doctor paused in front of her breathing hard, "let me guess" she said "Terrifying creature alert, The worlds coming to an end, Asteroids! Mud men, you want the sunscreen, you missed me, you lost a shoe, your sunnies are pinching your nose, your too hot, it's going to rain..." Rose continued listing everything she could think of on her fingers as the Doctor bounced impatiently on the spot.

"No, Rose listen I remembered something", Rose blew out a puff of air and rolled her eyes. "Oi! It's something important.."

"Always is" Rose muttered, putting her hands on her hips. Waiting.

"you see..." he continued hurriedly and stopped and looked down "Rose I've lost a shoe" he said staring at down at his feet.

Rose followed his glance and stared as he wiggled sock covered his toes, her eyes swept back up to meet his and she placed a hand on his arm, "It's okay, well find it"

The Doctor nodded, and glanced out to sea, "I look like a right nutter with only one shoe" he sighed.

Rose smiled, and bit her lip - she wasn't sure it was the missing shoe, "Just take the other one off" she suggested taking his hand ready to give him some balance while he got the shoe off.

"But Rose, no shoes...I'm not sure that's any better" he complained, taking it off anyway and looking down at it pitifully.

Rose took it off him "and your socks" she said holding out his shoe for him to put them into. Rose watched him make a face, "Oi, you look completely daft in a suit and socks on the beach...and if you'd take the sunglasses off" she raised her eyebrows "you might even get back to looking like your normally foxy self". The Doctor blinked at her, and took his socks off. He hesitated with the sunglasses but eventually relented, chucking everything onto Rose's towel.

Rose reached up, stroked his cheek and frowned, " You had the sunscreen down here, and you never offered me any", he explained as she checked over his sunburn.

She snorted, "Then you should have gotten off your rock then and gone into the TARDIS" she said pointedly. "Actually" she said looking at him thoughtfully "I'm surprised you came down here at all. You seemed pretty attached to that rock."

She raised an eyebrow, "Any reason besides the missing shoe for coming down here?"

The Doctor looked around the beach and tried to remember, "I lost the shoe... bbbeeecause I was in such a hurry to warn you about....possible sea creatures before you went in the water" he finished proudly. He grinned at her, "and now I have."

Rose grinned back at him and laughed "Thank you for the warning, I'll try to be careful." She started to move towards the water again, but the Doctor clung onto her hand and pulled her back. "We appear to be attached", she said glancing down at their hands, bemused.

"Quite" the Doctor agreed, giving her hand a little squeeze.

Rose sighed, "Your not going to let me in the water, are you?"

"Nope" the Doctor said popping the 'p'.

Rose put a hand up to her eyes to shield them from the sun so that she could see him better, "Well what do you want to do?"

"I wanna stay right here", he peered over at her stuff and sniffed "did you bring sandwiches?"

Rose rolled her eyes and smirked, "Right, of course. The Doctor's list of important things : Number one- Find..." She begun before being cut off by the Doctor as he dragged her towards the food and away from the sea.

"Rose, as she's probably wandered off" he finished pulling her down onto the towel.

Rose glared, "If they gave an award for most wanderer-off-er it wouldn't go to me!"

"Your quite right" The Doctor agreed arm deep in her bag "we'd tie."

Rose giggled, "Fine, I can live with that" she said, grabbing the bag from him and pulling out the food – a couple of banana and cheese sandwiches (his favorite...for the moment), a couple of strawberry jam ones for her, a banana (of course) and two pieces of chocolate cake. She also had a thermos full of tea and two cups. She'd known he'd come down eventually.

She looked over at him munching happily through a sandwich as she poured the tea, "It's always like this" she said softly smiling at him "I missed it".

"Me too" The Doctor agreed, his mouth full. Rose scrunched her nose up at the view of his half chewed sandwich, and started on her own.

Glancing at the camera she remembered...Oh Mum!...He'd distracted her! Honestly, if there wasn't a problem he'd create one! She reached for it with one hand and pulled it off the stand, turning it towards the Doctor – she let him give a cheeky grin before bringing it around to face her. "Sorry Mum" she apologised, "it's all his fault" she added ignoring the "Oi" in the background "As you've just witnessed he lost his shoe and was afraid I'd be eaten by sea monsters...I'd like to say tomorrow will be different, but it won't be" she giggled "At least the world's not ending today."

"Yeah" the Doctor mumbled through half chewed sandwich "You, Rose Tyler were wrong about that" Rose spun the camera back around to him and raised an eyebrow "and the asteroids, and the mud men!" He laughed and little bits of sandwich hit the towel in between them "I don't know where you come up with this stuff!"

Rose tilted her head and narrowed her eyes, she knew exactly where she 'came up with this stuff', and was just about to point out that she'd mentioned something else that hadn't happened and wouldn't he love to add that to her list of offences – when it happened. Rose tilted her face up and caught a few drops of rain on her forehead. Ah, perfect.

The Doctor's eyes widened as a few beads of water slide down his face. "Rose?" he said looking at her intently.

"Yes, Doctor" she replied trying to protect both her sandwich and her camera from the rain.

"Don't say anything else" he advised chucking everything into her bag and tipping out the cups of tea onto the sand, before throwing them in too. "We should go" he said picking up her bag and reaching down for her hand. "before..."

"the asteroids start to fall, the world suddenly ends and we're attacked by the mud men, though maybe not in that order" Rose finished, as she allowed him to help her up.

The Doctor glared at her, "What part of 'Don't say anything else' did you not understand?" he asked hurrying her back to the TARDIS. "This is what I get for travelling with someone so..so...Jeopardy Friendly!" He said, opening the doors and pushing her in ahead of him.

Rose laughed, "Oi, you can talk!" They stood dripping in the control room for a moment, breathing heavily. Rose tipped the camera up to her face "and that mum is generally how we end every adventure outside the TARDIS – running for our lives! I bet you thought I was joking!" she added raising her eyebrows and locking eyes with the Doctor "We never did find your shoe."

The Doctor glared at the camera over Rose's shoulder, "Do you see what I have to put up with Jackie? Eve-ry-da-y" he said sounding out the word slowly "you just watch she's not going to let this go...everytime we drop by someone we know "You should have seen the Doctor! Shoeless on the beach! It was wacky!"

Rose choked back a laugh but kept the camera on him all through his rant, once he'd finished waving his lone shoe about she held her breath, bit her lip and waited. He'd let it out and then they could calmly be on their way the important thing was not to laugh. She'd just count to ten.

She'd gotten to five when the Doctor peered down over her shoulder and tapped the camera "It's water-proof then" Rose's shoulders shook and she leant back against him covering her mouth with one hand.

The Doctor stared down at the hysterical woman leaning against him, puzzled. It was almost like she behaved this way on purpose. "What?" he asked the top of her head.

Rose couldn't answer, she couldn't look at the camera, she couldn't look at the Doctor, so she turned and buried her face in his chest. "It was wacky" she whispered hoarsely, clinging to him.

The Doctor's arms had automatically gone around her, so he hugged her tighter and took the camera out of her hands. Pointing it at himself he raised his eyebrows "Don't look at me. I've got no idea" he said before turning it off and slipping it into his pocket – he'd return it when she returned to her senses...or in a couple of weeks...maybe have a bit of a rest from the documentary life style. He sighed, it obviously wasn't good for Rose


Alright I'm a little in love with this chapter, I'll admit it. And no more trying to sell you guys on Freaks and Geeks, I'm sure that's annoying. So what DID YOU THINK? I think it's over, it's probably not over, but it might be over - thing is i LIKE having 3 stories and I don't wanna have 4 or 5 stories (I'm not a story machine)...so if i write more I'm just going to keep extending it - i feel very mused up right now (look a new word!). So review if you liked it or if you didn't then my advice to you is review.