On with Number 24... :)
The Doctor and Jake still sat in their hiding place (some rather uncomfortable bushes that were not pleasant on naked skin...) and waited for their friends who seemed to take their time.
"If Joey went to the chip shop again, I'm going to kill him..." Jake said furiously. "Seriously, how can he keep his figure? He even eats more than you!" He stared at the Doctor's skinny form and groaned. "That's sooo unfair!"
"Shut up, you nearly sound like Jackie..." Both men shuddered at the thought. "Try to reach them again. I think the humanoid plant... things... are coming closer."
Jake sighed and activated his headset again. "Where the hell are you, you idiots?! We have a Code Red here! Code Re-" He caught the Doctor's look and groaned. "Alright, alright! Code Mauve... We have a Code Mauve here!"
He listened his friend's answer and gritted his teeth. "No need to lie, Joey... I can hear you chewing. Now move your ass here! And where is Tanya, anyway? I can't reach her." The Doctor thought it was amazing how many different expressions Jake was able to make in a matter of mere seconds. He even beat Rose to it and that meant something. "Conference? Now?! What the hell is she thinking? She was supposed to be on standby." Now a look of disgust appeared on his face. "You gotta be kidding me... Mr Tyler assigned her?!"
The Doctor swallowed. There was only one woman, Jake spoke like that about:
Patience stick-in-her-ass Redford... the most feared woman in all of Torchwood (save for Jackie Tyler, of course). She did every little thing strictly according to protocol... and that was not a good thing when you were working with unknown aliens. Some unexpected behaviour and she was as helpless as a fish on land. That's why she did paper work most of the time... can't really fire her for accuracy, after all... But why did Pete send her here?
It suddenly dawned the Doctor. "The car..." he groaned and Jake shot him a questioning look. "I scratched his Lamborghini when Rose and I lived in the mansion for a few days. He told me afterwards, he would punish me for it when I least expected him to... Suppose, this is it."
"But... what did I ever do to him?!" Jake whined.
"No matter... we have to stick together now!" The Doctor grinned at him and his friend glared back.
The human Time Lord sighed and looked down at Chuck, who he hold tightly to his chest. "At least you are still with me, right Chucky?"
'Chucky' never wished more than before, he had a mouth to speak. That bipedal skinny pink thing was starting to get on his nerves... Did he never shut up?
"Well, as long as we have time, I might as well tell you how I have been into a similar situation... Though, the bush I sat in then made me itch for days... Especially on the-"
The palm tree screamed inwardly.
Two hours later, they finally solved the 'misunderstanding'... though only after the aliens nearly declared war upon them because Patience told them to line up, which only happened on their planet just before an execution.
The Doctor saved her from getting her head cut off, much to Jake's dismay ("You could have at least, let them cut that ugly bun off her head...") and Rose calmed the angry aliens down. She came to the greenhouse, since she thought it would be nice to save her stupid fiancé's sexy bum ("I'm not stupid, Rose! But... I sure have a nice ass!" His grin vanished, when Jake slapped his behind. "Jake!").
Jake drew the blanket closer around his body and looked appreciatively at Rose. "You sure have a way with aliens..."
"I had a lot of practise and they are nothing against him..." she said, pointing at the Doctor.
"Oi, I'm not that bad! Chuck, tell them!" He hold the plant into Rose's face and she rolled her eyes.
Jake laughed. "You sure that nothing went wrong with his head after this biological metathingy?"
Rose opened her mouth, surely to say something rather unflattering, but the Doctor interrupted her. "Biological Meta-Crisis. And no, everything went well, thank you very much!" He stalked off, Chuck tucked under his arm and nose high in the air.
Rose blinked and looked at Jake. "He is right... the Doctor has always been completely mad."
She grinned when she heard a "I heard that!" in the distance.
Yep, no change there...
What changed, were the little recurring rituals they developed in their 'new' little world. There had been no daily routine on the TARDIS, since they spent more nights in prison cells, hotel rooms and other 'roosts' (that cave in the Stone Age, the most uncomfortable of them all) than in their own respective bedrooms.
Thinking back to these times now, the Doctor wondered how they were able to repress their feelings for such a long time. He knew, he didn't make it easy for Rose since he always reminded her of her mortality and additionally had been a much bigger flirt in his tenth regeneration than ever before... But he still had to compliment his Time Lord-self... he had to have an amazing amount of self control...
Of course, now the couple worked for Torchwood, which made a normal life with a usual daily routine impossible but they still managed to eat every evening together (be it at home, work or in a dark tunnel, where they hid from some hostile aliens) and once a week they did one of the most domestic things in existence: they played board games.
The Doctor fell in love with classic games like Monopoly, ludo, Risk or Trivial Pursuit (they were both terrible at this, since much more things were different in this universe than they thought).
Today, they decided to play because although they made fun of Jake's and the Doctor's mission, it had been a close call again.
So, instead of post-danger sex, it was supposed to be post-danger playing today.
When the Doctor came into the living room, he suddenly wasn't that sure about this any more...
"Wh-Where are your clothes? I thought, we wanted to play?"
That little pink tongue poked out through Rose's teeth. "Oh, we will... but Number 24 says naked 'playing'. Not what playing, but I think board games count. And who knows... we could play something else, later on..."
For the second time that day, the Doctor got his clothes ripped off his body, though this time by his overly enthusiastic fiancée and not angry aliens who wanted his head.
Amazing improvement, that... the Doctor thought when he got the best board game for foreplay: Scrabble.
Sounded harmless, but when a madly in love couple like them played it, naked and with the prospect of hot, wild animal sex afterwards... then you can expect the words, they chose, to be anything else than prudish.
Soon, the board was covered with words like 'handcuffs', 'screwing', 'bristols' and 'Timelordshaft'.
"Oi, that's cheating! And... I never saw your Time Lord body naked, anyway. How should I know that Time Lords even have one of those..."
"Rose... I wasn't unconscious for the whole time after my regeneration. I still recall a light breeze on the lower part of my body and an appreciative squeal... And someone did get me in that pyjama..."
Rose blushed furiously and lay 'rosepetals' on the board, making him grin. Rules were unimportant at this time of the game, especially when she used a word that brought such nice memories up again...
On their very first night in their apartment, the Doctor surprised Rose with a bed full of rose petals. At first, she laughed at him since he obviously copied a scene of the film they watched two days ago, and he wasn't anything like the charming lead actor, he posed as. The Doctor even had a rose in his mouth and lay half naked on their bed... And that was what really cracked her up.
But her laughter soon stopped when he began to use the petals to stimulate her body... neither of them would ever forget that night.
Rose grinned at him. "Thinking the game is exciting, huh?"
"Every second with you is exciting, Rose," he answered, wiggling his eyebrows and laying the word 'bedroom' on the board.
Rose grinned, nodded and stood up to go to their room, swaying her hips with every step.
The Doctor grinned, waved to the with binoculars armed Mrs Thunderstone and went to follow Rose... but not without grabbing a few yellow roses from the kitchen table...
Later, they lay exhausted on their bed, surrounded by petals, and enjoyed the afterglow. The pleasant silence was suddenly interrupted by the ringing of Rose's cell phone.
"Jake?... Are you drunk?" Rose looked at the Doctor and grinned. "Why I called the Doctor 'Bambi'? Ah, you made a bet with our co-workers? Well..." She suddenly got that devilish glint in her eyes and the Doctor swallowed. He shot her a pleading look, which only widened her grin. "Isn't it obvious? He has the most adoring deer eyes! Too cute!" Rose even squealed like a little girl and the human Time Lord already feared the next day...
And really... the Oncoming Storm, Bringer of Darkness and Destroyer of Worlds was henceforth known as: deer-eyed Bambi.
What a degradation...
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