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As it turned out, there was very little media as everyone descended from the zeppelin. Rose was very pleased at this, because it meant she didn't have to smile and pose all the time. Jackie, albeit, was a little disappointed; she quite liked the glamorous life she led. Mickey honestly didn't care. Just as they were climbing into the black limousine that had been sent to pick them up, a reporter from Gossip Television ran around and snapped several pictures of Rose and the Doctor holding hands.
"That'll be tomorrows headline!" Jackie remarked with a small smile.
Only the Doctor heard Rose's quiet, sarcastic "yay". He smiled at her.
It only took about half an hour in the car to the mansion, and Jackie kept everyone occupied with chatter, Roxy sitting on her lap. Mickey was on his phone discussing something with Jake, while the Doctor simply had his arm around Rose, who was sitting quietly. The second they pulled up Pete ran up to greet them and swept Rose into a huge hug.
"I'm so happy you came back Rose!" he told her, extremely relieved. It had been difficult to bond with Rose at first, seeing he had rejected her when she first visited the universe. He had been nice to her, and had showered her with gifts, expensive clothes, cars and so on. He gave her the same things he would have given his daughter. It had been clear that Rose barely cared for these gifts, she was still mourning. However, after a while their relationship had become very special, and Rose had finally stopped calling him Pete and had called him dad instead. Seeing Rose so determined to leave this universe had made Pete very unhappy, although he completely understood Rose's reasons for going. To see her back home, with the love of her life and radiating happiness thrilled Pete. He kissed her on the cheek and then went over to happily shake the Doctor's hand. "It's good to see you again Doctor" he said. "Thank you for coming back with her and keeping her safe".
The Doctor grinned at Pete. "You're welcome he said. I`m just happy she found me ".
***DW***
It was established that the Doctor would not have his own room, he would share with Rose. The Doctor avoided Jackie's eyes at this; he did not want to get slapped. However, if he would have looked up, he would have realised that Jackie was actually smiling. Rose led him up some stairs, turned left, turned right, went up more stairs, crossed a long room, opened a door, turned right several times and finally turned left again and came to a simple, nondescript door. The Doctor was marvelling at Pete's mansion, it reminded him of the TARDIS slightly; it seemed bigger on the inside, not to mention that it was confusing to find your way around the place.
Rose, as it turned out, did not just have a simple bedroom, but a whole apartment to herself, consisting of a small living room, a modern kitchen, a large bathroom, several closets and a bedroom.
"Pete had it made right after the Cybermen attacked. Thought of it as a guest suite, but then he gave it to me, figuring I would want the space."
"Why didn't you just move into a flat?"
"Mum wouldn't let me. She wanted me there to be able to comfort me, and she…."
Rose trailed of, wondering whether she should tell the Doctor this.
"What?" he asked softly, his brown eyes searching hers. He trailed a finger absentmindedly across her chin.
"She was wondering whether I would hurt myself" Rose admitted quietly.
The Doctor almost grabbed her shoulders. "Did you?" he asked, and his tone came out sounding almost harsh. But Rose shook her head. "No, no of course not."
The Doctor nodded and noticed he was still gripping her shoulders. "Sorry" he said softly, and took her hand. Rose nodded understandingly. "It's okay. My reaction to you having done anything stupid would have been the same".
The Doctor plonked himself down on Rose's bed and held his arms out invitingly. She sat down on his lap without hesitation. He was about to ask her a question, when there was a knock on the door. "Come in!" Rose called and Jackie came in with Pete, who was carrying Tony. Rose immediately sprang up with a shout of glee and engulfed Tony in a huge hug, tickling him. He giggled, and burrowed his head in her neck. "I missed you, little guy" she whispered to her brother happily.
Tony finally let go of Rose and turned his wide eyes on the Doctor. Rose smiled. "Tony, remember the Doctor I told you about?"
"The one that chases aliens and saves the world?" Tony asked. Rose nodded, a smile on her face.
Tony turned his wide, brown eyes on the Doctor. "This is the Doctor" Rose told the small boy.
The Doctor grinned. "Hello there!"
Tony smiled shyly, the Doctor's grin was infectious. "Hi" he said, not quite looking at the Doctor's face. "Is it true you really met a werewolf once?" he asked suddenly, interested.
The Doctor's face broke out in an even wider smile. "Yup!" he said. "The werewolf was after the queen you see. Your sister was terribly brave."
Rose rolled her eyes, but smiled softly as she watched Tony edge away from her and towards the Doctor, until, eventually, he was sitting on his lap, with the Doctor telling him all about their adventure with Queen Victoria.
Jackie and Pete were also watching the scene, extremely happy. They were all one big happy family now.
Eventually Rose stood up, not wanting to disturb the Doctor and Tony and walked over to her parents. "I should call my team at Torchwood" she told Pete. "And I should go back to work soon as well and-"
"Oh no, you don't!" Jackie immediately interrupted her. Seeing her daughter was about to protest, she hastily added: "You've been at Torchwood day and night for what? Almost two years now? You've had to pass through so many universes, save so many people, witness so much death and destruction and you need a break!"
Pete nodded. "London can live without you for another few days. First you need some proper rest. I know that you don't need as much as you did before, seeing what the huon energy did to your body, but you are going to go and sleep for at least one night, not your usual 5 hours. You just saved the universe, and you need rest. Not to mention you need to recover from that entire trauma."
"Not to mention you have the Doctor now" Jackie supplied, pointing to him and Tony and rolling her eyes. The Doctor was currently explaining his sonic screwdriver to Tony, and showing him his psychic paper. She sighed. "That's going to be on Tony's Christmas wish list" she muttered. "Anyway" she said, turning back to Rose. "You two should spend some time together. Outside the bedroom" she told Rose pointedly. Rose blushed slightly. "Not to mention he needs new clothes, and you might finally want to decorate this place a bit" she told Rose, pointing to the walls. Rose had left them mostly bare; she had been in no mood to decorate when she was so unhappy. But now she had the Doctor, and could finally do something. She smiled at the idea of painting the walls with the Doctor.
"Got it?" Jackie asked. Rose nodded, still smiling slightly.
"Good. Now I reckon you two should come down for breakfast, you barely ate anything on the way here". With that she plucked Tony off the Doctor's lap ("But mummy, he was telling me why the TARDIS is bigger on the inside!" came the loud protest) and went down to ask the cook prepare a light lunch.
Rose grinned at the Doctor. "Come on!" First domestic activity of the day: Breakfast with my family!" The Doctor grinned, surprised that this did not scare him as much as it should have, and took Rose's hand".
"Let's go." He agreed.
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