Asleep In Love

Three grinning faces stumble into some type of ballroom, and all of them freeze upon entering. The formerly boisterous trio is silent. The laughs are gone, grins wiped off faces faster than you can blink. The whole ballroom is shocked. One man stands up.

"What is the meaning of this! This is- this is disgusting! What if there had been children present?" The man seems truly shocked. The Doctor, Rose and Jack just stare at him questioningly.

"What?" The Doctor says, the way he drags out the 'wh' sound, he doesn't seem to notice Rose grinning to herself. Can't believe I fancy this bloke so much. Even the way he talks, oh music to my ears. She flushes a little pink just at the thought. Yet again The Doctor is too wrapped up in the situation to take notice, although a dashing lad by the name of Jack does.

"That man needs to leave at once!" The man declares, while gesturing towards Jack. At just the right moment, the woman they met before walks into the room.

"Sintenioso, these are our visitors. Their customs are much different from ours… do ignore their, familiarity, with one another. Yes?" Her tone is cautious, but Sintenioso sits back down. The music begins to play, and it's as though nothing even happened. The trio sit down at a table with their seats marked with their names. Jack clears his throat.

"Awkward." He grins at Rose and The Doctor. Rose grins right back at him, but The Doctor is too busy sneaking glances at Rose. She was wearing an off the shoulder dress that was black until about her waist, then switched to a light blue. It ended just below her knee.

"How about that dress? Where'd ya get it, Rose? Fits damn well." He winks at her, her cheeks turn a bright red. The Doctor throws Jack a warning look, before looking Rose up and down, quite obviously.

"Blimey… you do look beautiful." The words slip out of the pinstriped man's mouth before he can stop himself. Oh shit! Why'd I have to go off saying that? I mean it's true. The way it falls. My gorgeous girl…

"Oh stop it you two! I got it from the TARDIS. She seemed quite sure that I'd be wearing this tonight." Rose seemed to notice The Doctor's longing glances. So did Jack. Jack kicked The Doctor under the table.

"Owwww, now what did you do that for?" The Doctor complains.

"You were enjoying yourself a little too obviously there, Doctor." Jack grins as the other man takes his turn to blush deeply, while Rose just assumes they're talking about something different. The rest of dinner passes uneventfully.

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The group of three are inside of the slightly cramped room and are facing a dilemma. There are only two beds. Two, twin sized, beds.

"Me and Jack could share one… Though it would be quite cramped.." The Doctor casually suggests.

"This is the one time I would not want to sleep with you Doctor." Jack says flirtatiously. An idea pops into his head. "How about you two share a bed and I get my own. I am the biggest anyway." Jack grins. Rose rolls her eyes.

"Fine by me, but let's work this out soon, I'm knackered." Rose says, while yawning, trying to pretend she isn't excited just by the prospect of sleeping in the same bed as The Doctor. Sure, they had slept in the same bed a few times, but this bed was really small.

"Yeah me too." The Doctor says, masking his excitement with fake nonchalance.

Damn I'm good Is the only thought on Jack's mind as he strolls into the bathroom.

Rose turns her back to The Doctor and slips a t-shirt on over her dress, it falls just above her knees, and she slips the dress off underneath. She thens falls underneath the covers, and goes to sleep. Or at least, she pretends to.

The Doctor takes a moment to admire the sleeping human before taking off his clothes, except for his white undershirt, he then pulls on some sweatpants and after incorrectly deciding she was quite asleep, he pulls her up into his arms and falls asleep right next to the woman that he loves. He can't help but notice the scent of Roses coming from her hair. Rose Tyler falls asleep, safe and content.

Jack Harkness leaves the bathroom about ten minutes later to see his best friends all cuddled up, asleep, on a tiny bed. The trenchcoated man smiles, sadly.

If only you two could just realize.

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The Captain is the first to awake. He rises quickly, brushes his teeth, and quickly changes his clothes. Then he walks over to the sleeping forms of the other two people in the room. The Doctor's arm is wrapped snuggly around her waist, pulling her close to him. One of his legs is resting protectively on top of hers. Rose is pressed against his chest, and smiling, even though fast asleep.

Now this should be interesting Captain Jack already has a plan.

"GOOD MORNING LADIES" he yells, right next to the faces of the previously sleeping pair. They both shoot up, but are embarrassed to see how they'd drawn close to each other while sleeping.

"Oi! What in the hell was that for Jack." Rose growls angrily before flopping back onto her side and closing her eyes.

"Ooo grouchy this morning?"

"I'm not grouchy you just woke me up at 6:30 in the morning!" She mumbles and gestures to the clock.

"Yikes.. better leave you alone then."

"Yeah, you better." Rose falls back asleep within minutes. Jack looks over at The Doctor who is sitting up in the bed and still has his arm around Rose's shoulders.

"You have a lot of explaining to do. You told me you would ask her out, you promised!" Jack whispers, angrily.

"I can't Jack, she'd say no. She would, you know she would. Then I'd lose her." Pain laces the edges of the Doctor's voice. He stares down at the floor.

"Why would she say no? She loves you just as much as you love her!" The Doctor's eyes shoot up to meet Jack's. Could it be? Am I that lucky? Rose Tyler loves… me? The Doctor. The oncoming storm. That fits, The Bad Wolf and The Oncoming Storm. Surely Jack is just lying….

"What did you just say?" The Doctor rushes the words out.

"Oh son of a bitch I'm done. Yes, okay? She loves you. She'd always loved you, just like you've always loved her. You guys need to talk dammit! Every time I see you two you still aren't together and it's driving me insane. It hurts to see you hurting, to see her hurting. So just grow a pair and ask her out for the love of christ." Jack rants.

"Okay, I will… tonight."

Rose Tyler thought she would never stop smiling.

Ahh the perks of eavesdropping