I am sooooo sorry that this took so long! it was crazy with spring break and then my birthday (finally 15 yay!) and then going back to school. then my sister was using my computer and hiding it in her room. but enough with the excuses! this Chapter is fairly short because I wanted to give you guys something to hold you up until I can get the bigger chapter finished. anyway, thank you to everyone who followed, favorited and reviewed! you guys are the best! i really hope you guys are liking this so far but if something bothers you or you have an idea for something that could happen i would love to hear about it. :) this chapter was so fun to write though, i just love awkward Clara! okay enough of me talking, on with the show!
Chapter 3.
The bar was dark and smelled of old beer and peanuts but no one seemed to mind. It was full of laughter and very loud music that made talking tend to be shouting. The old leather booth that Jack had claimed for the group was now full of happy teachers and other school advisors. It was crowded but everyone was so busy talking and drinking that no one seemed to notice the cramped space they had decided to seat themselves at. Everyone except for John, that is, he was sitting next to Rose and his mind can't seem to get over the cramped space. Their legs pressed against each other and each time she reached for her drink her arm would brush against his, how can he survive this!?
Each second that he as to sit beside Rose Tyler and listen to her make perfect jokes and tell wonderful stories about her childhood is another second that could end in his death. Do all people feel this way? Probably not but it's not like John can ask. His best friend is basically a teenager who turns everything you say into an innuendo so telling him that John is about to explode just from sitting beside a girl is a bad idea. Suddenly he was snapped away from his thoughts as Jack hit him in the back of the head-since he is sitting on the other side of John. What bad luck, being squished between the girl of your dreams and Jack Harkness.
"John!" Jack said after hitting John upside the head. John glared at Jack and rubbed the back of his head where Jack had hit him.
"What?"
"Rose asked you a question and you were being your normal Rude-and-not-Ginger self and ignoring her" Jack explained with mock disappointment.
"Oh" John pulled on his ear nervously "What was the question?"
"I asked if you were okay" Rose explained with a worried expression on her beautiful face. He hates that she looks so worried; he just wants her to smile forever. He wants that heart stopping smile, with that tantalizing tongue poking out, to be on her face always. The only problem with that wish is that he would never have a beating heart again; at least he would die having the last thing he saw be Rose Tyler's smile. "You haven't touched your drink or said a word all night" Rose continued.
"I'm fantastic!" he grins at her and his eyes sparkle with joy when she smiled back. He can tell that she doesn't completely believe him but she's letting it go. He wishes she would press him on it, get him to blurt out how he feels when she's around but he quickly deletes that thought; he doesn't want her to hate him or run away. Because there is no way someone as beautiful and young as Rose Tyler could like the crazy physics professor who hasn't even talked to a girl-other than students and friends-for over a year.
"Well, it's your turn Mr. Smith" Rose replies before bringing her beer bottle to her lips.
"Turn?" John asks-still watching her lips as she sips her beer. It had been a good few hours at the bar and he had yet to stop watching her lips for more than a few minutes-being talked to was making his mission impossible.
"You haven't been listening to anything we've been saying have you!?" Amy scoffed. "Bloody spaceman" she muttered.
"We've been telling stories, and since Amy just called you spaceman I wanna know why" Rose replied.
"Oh, um…" John pulled on his ear nervously as everyone stopped talking to listen. "When I first started working at Gallifrey, Jack introduced me to the previous VP"
"River started working after you?" Rose asked.
"No, Donna Noble was the temporary VP" John added "She was working when I started but only for a few months before she went back to her travels"
"Travels?" Rose asked.
"Ya, she traveled all over the world. She always said she was looking for something but she never knew what it was till she found a guy named Lee McAvoy" Rose grinned at this and Amy made some joke about how every one of them is secretly looking for 'the one'.
"No, Amelia, we are all looking for someone who can-"
"Jack" John warned "Not in front of Rory" Amy and Rose burst into giggles as Rory frowned.
"Why not in front of me?" Rory pouted.
"You're the youngest, still a child inside" Clara pointed out with a soft smile. "Not like anyone is old enough to hear most of what Jack says anyways"
Through her laughter Amy managed to spit out"You'd have to be, like, 900 years old or something!"
Jack scoffed "Please, I'm hilarious!"
"Sure thing, Captain" Rose saluted with a drunken giggle.
"Clara's the youngest!" Rory protested. Jack leaned across the table and yanked Rory closer by the collar. Rory looked a bit terrified and John frowned. Was Jack going to kiss Rory? No….right? Amy raised an eyebrow in challenge at the men but Jack only smirked at Rory. Jack leaned closer and whispered something in the blonde's ear before settling back beside John. Rory was frozen for a few moments before slowly sinking back into his seat and cuddling closer to his ginger girlfriend.
"Still think you're old enough to handle Jack?" Amy asked suppressing a giggle-as were the rest of them, other than Clara who looked worried. Rory slowly shook his head and Amy giggled along with Rose.
"Jack, you should be censored!" Rory announced-finally breaking through his fog.
"In many cultures he would be" John said "Like on the home world of the Slitheen"
"The what?" Rose laughed.
"He's always like this when he drinks" Jack sighed.
"Like what?"
"Nothing!" Jack interrupted John before the tipsy man could speak "No more talking, okay Doc?"
"Don't call me that" the Doctor ground out.
"Like what?" Rose asked again.
"He-uh" Amy mumbled. They all love to embarrass the Doctor but they also don't want to ruin the already messy chance he has with Rose. When dealing with complex problems always go with the fun answer is Jack's reasoning and Amy loves to agree with Jack. "He creates his own imaginary world" The ginger giggled as Rose got a confused look on her face. Jack buried his face in his hands and Rory laughed along with Amy and Clara.
"The Slitheen were a family of Raxacoricofallapatorian criminals." The Doctor explained without even stumbling over the overly complex word in his drunken state.
"Raxa-what?" Rose giggled "Doctor, you've lost your mind"
"Have not!" he grinned goofily "My sweet Wolf, I have seen them and so have you. We saved the world from them and Jack helped to!"
"Aw, I'm part of his drunken fantasies" Jack said happily "Guess we're even"
"Ruined the moment" Amy rolled her eyes with a smile.
"Did he call me his Wolf?" Rose asked raising her eyebrow curiously.
"He calls me the girl who waited" Amy shrugged "Never got a clear answer for why"
"I'm the last centurion" Rory grinned "Imagine me in Roman soldier wear"
"I already have" Amy smirked and leaned closer to her fiancé with a flirtatious glint in her eyes. Rory blushed and brushed his nose against hers.
"You two are adorable" Rose commented sweetly.
"Aren't they" Jack grinned cheekily "Can't wait till they take me up on my offer, we could all be adorable together"
"Jack" Rory warned. The Doctor seemed to be off in his own world, watching the table and staring into space, so the group decided it would be okay just to leave him out of the conversation for now.
"I'm his impossible girl" Clara said softly "I think he believes me to be a figment of his imagination"
"Maybe he just thinks you're impossibly cute" Rose said with a smile.
"Oh" Clara blushed a deep pink and spun her hair around her finger nervously. "Thank you…"
"You are so adorably awkward" Rose giggled along with Amy.
"Um…Thank you?" Clara said turning an even deeper pink.
"It's a good thing, Honey" Jack said smiling at the small brunette.
"What does he call you, Jack?" Rose asked.
"The one other time I was in his drunken daze, he called me the Face of Boe"
"Cool" Rose giggled "Sounds like a god or something"
"Maybe I am a god" Jack grinned.
"The god of innuendo!" Rory laughed along with everyone at the table, including Jack.
"We should get pizza" the Doctor announced as the laughing died down.
"A pizza?" Amy asked "We're all drunk!"
"We can take the TARDIS, she drives herself" John pushed Jack out of the booth and then stepped over him and stumbled a few feet to the door.
"Wait up, Doc!" Jack laughed and chased after the drunken teacher, the rest of the group paying the waitress and following the guys. Jack managed to convince John to get into a cab as they waited for the others. The group did fit in the cab but barely, Amy sitting on Rory and Clara sitting on Jack.
"Man Clara, you're tiny!" Jack laughed Clara giggled sweetly and her cheeks became a light pink color that added to the innocent girl image Clara had. She wasn't tiny but she was shorter and younger than everyone else in the group and teacher at the school. She has big brown eyes and wavy brown hair, little skirts and tights, little sweaters and round cheeks with full lips; she's a very pretty girl and fairly small.
"Wolf!" the Doctor called "You're golden and…" he trailed off as the cab turned sharply and Jack's shoulder bumped his. "JAAAAACK!" he whined.
"Ya, Doc?" Jack said calmly.
"It's Doctor" he corrected "Why did you kiss me?" he chuckled "It was funny"
"Do you want me to kiss you?" Jack asked happily. Whenever the Doctor gets drunk he always comes up with crazy stories but this is one of the rare times where Jack is involved and he isn't going to stop smiling for awhile. And now that kissing is involved-something he has always wanted to do with the Doc-things can only get better.
"I didn't ask you to, you just did. You kissed Rose to, which I didn't like," John glared at Jack for a moment before his drunken happiness took back over "We were fighting and you were saying goodbye"
"Goodbyes are stupid, Doc, kissing is fun"
"You do like kissing" John laughed "You are a good kisser Jack" he mumbled as his eyes drifted closed.
"Maybe we can do it again" Jack smirked.
"Love to, Jack" John mumbled sleepily.
"I'll hold you to that, Johnny" Jack replied with a soft chuckle.
"I cannot wait for that" Rose grinned. The rest of the cab ride was short and filled with the smell of alcohol and laughter. When they finally got to Jack's place, they all helped to carry John inside and toss him on the couch.
Jack's flat is big. He has a kitchen that allows all of them to be busy in it without bumping too much, a bathroom with a tub for three, a bedroom that allows his huge bed and a wide window that looks over the city. His living room has a big couch that can fit most of them and a huge TV that is currently turned to Friends-because what else do you watch at 3am? John is napping on the couch as Rose runs her fingers through his hair absentmindedly. Clara went into Jack's room with Amy to change into something more comfortable while Jack and Rory decided on what pizza to order.
"Olives?" Jack asked.
"Of course" Rory agreed.
"We're back" Amy announced as her and Clara walked back into the living room in Jack's t-shirts-Amy in Jack's boxers (which made Rory a bit jealous…only a bit) and Clara in a pair of plaid pajama pants.
"Come watch friends with me!" Rose said happily. Clara plopped onto the couch beside Rose and snuggled against her side. "Cold?"
"Ya" Clara nodded. Rose smiled and put her arm around the small brunette. Clara made a happy noise just as Amy sat on the couch beside Clara and leaned her ginger head against her shoulder.
"Want a blanket?" Jack asked from the kitchen.
"Yes!" Clara called. Jack chuckled and went in search of a blanket-which he found in his closet. He draped the large blue blanket over the girls and they all smiled and thanked him while snuggling deeper into the blanket.
"Better?" Rory asked as he handed Jack the phone and dropped himself on the floor between Amy's legs. Amelia's hands went straight for the blonde's hair and ran her fingers through it. Rory made a pleased noise in the back of his throat and Jack chuckled.
"Is this the couch of love birds?" Jack asked "Cause I would like to join" he had hung up the phone and was now standing beside John.
"Love birds?" Clara mumbled from deep in the blankets.
"Amy and Rory look very love-y dove-y, and then we have Rose and Johnny" Jack grinned cheekily as Rose's eyes went wide.
"What? He's asleep" she said defensively.
"But you're fingers are running through his hair, just like Amy and Rory" Jack chuckled "I'm sure he wouldn't mind at all" Rose pulled her hand away slowly and tucked it under the blanket. Jack rolled his eyes and collapsed onto the couch with his head on Amy's thigh. "Friends?" Jack asked
"It's good, especially at 3am" Rose said "When's the pizza coming?"
"Twenty minutes" Jack said.
"To long" she groaned and her head fell back against the couch.
"But it'll be worth it" Jack sing song-ed.
"Better be" Amy replied in a drunken mumble.