Chapter Title: Let's Go To Bed
A/N: I am aware at how misleading this chapter title is, but it is merely the name of the song that this fic is based on, which is again by The Cure. Listen if you want. ;)
I didn't expect to get much Doctor/Rose out if this, but if that is where my muse takes me at 2.06am, so be it. :) The Doctor in question could be Nine or Ten, but NOT Eleven. Eleven/Rose = me no likey...but of course that's just my opinion! Enjoy! :)
Rose. It was amazing just how much relief she had given him from all of his emotional struggles, the memories that burned and tinged his mind, bringing fresh pain every day. Meeting her had been luck - she was the one to reignite the flame that he had been before the Time War. The fact that she had chosen to travel with him was almost inevitable after all that had happened, but he remembered how anxious he had been, how desperate he had been for her to stay with him. Then she had said 'forever'. And that was what had him falling in love.
Although she had pushed him for information about his past, telling her about it had got so much weight off of his shoulders he could have collapsed. She healed him, slowly and surely, although never completely. But that didn't matter, because it would have been impossible. And whatever happened, if she didn't talk about it, which she rarely did, he would start to forget about it, and they would laugh and share happiness and he could be the man he had been again. She was almost like some kind of anaesthetic to him.
That wasn't why he loved her, but it was at least part of the reason why they had become so close. He didn't know if she knew or understood completely, and that mattered a great deal to him, because he wanted her to know how much help she had been, and how appreciative he was of her being there. But in the end, that wasn't important - it was the friendship they shared, and how they had both woken each other up from the tired, dream-like lives they had had lived before they had met.
A/N: Just out of interest, has anyone read the book 'Hybrids' by David Thorpe? Because I've nearly finished it and it's bloody good! :)