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The Doctor went to his bedroom, changed for bed in his en suite bathroom and got into bed and lay down. Within a few minutes he was asleep, it was the first time that he had slept since he had taken Rose home. As soon as he was asleep his nightmares began to plague him. First it was the Time War, he saw the Daleks attacking the Cruciform, then he saw Gallifrey burn after he pressed the button. This was a normal night for the Doctor, which was why he hardly ever slept since he had regenerated into this form. Tonight however was different, he found himself in Van Stattan's museum, watching as the Dalek killed Rose over and over again. He woke suddenly and sat up, rubbed his face with his hand and got out of bed and dressed. He left his bedroom intent on going to the control room, however his feet led him to Rose's bedroom door. He paused with his hand on the door, he was debating with himself, trying to decide if he should enter her room or not. In the end he decided that he should go in, just to reassure himself that she was alright.
He opened the door and entered the dark room, he could see Rose's sleeping form in her bed, he walked over and looked down on her. He smiled when he saw the position that she had gotten herself into, she was curled up in a ball and her hair was the only thing that told him that it was Rose that was in the bed, as she had pulled the covers up over her head. He stood there for a while, just to prove to himself that she was still alive and he was about to leave when her hand shot out from under her covers and grabbed his arm and he turned "What's wrong?" she asked, when she recieved no reply, she said "Doctor?"
"Nothing" answered the Doctor, knowing full well that Rose could see right through him.
"There's something wrong Doctor, I know there is." she said softly, "Tell me" she moved over on her bed to let him sit down on the edge and when he did, Rose took his hand and he began to speak.
"It was the Time War, the destruction of Gallifrey"
"What's Gallifrey?"Rose asked wondering if that was the name of the Doctor's home planet.
"That was my home planet. In my nightmares I see it burn... but tonight it was different. I saw the Time War as usual and then it changed, I dreamt that that Dalek in Van Stattan's museum had killed you and I saw it in my mind over and over again, I woke up and I had to come here to reassure myself that you really were alive."
Rose squeezed his hand and said "I'm still here. I'm alright, Doctor. It didn't hurt me, you know it didn't" she moved their hands from her lap where they had been and placed his over her heart. "See" Rose removed their hands and the Doctor got off the bed and headed to the door
"I'll be in the control room, you just get some sleep, Rose and I'll see you when you wake up." he opened the door and left the room. He closed the door behind him and walked through the corridors of the Tardis until he reached the control room.
Once there, the Doctor began to work on the Tardis, fixing circuits that didn't need fixing, everything that he did was to keep himself from sleeping, because he knew that if he went back to sleep he would fall back into the nightmares about Rose, only instead of just dreaming that the Dalek had killed her, he'd dream that that shop window dummy had killed her before he took her hand, that she had died at the end of the world when the sun filter had been lowered, that she was turned into a walking corpse as a host for the Gelth, or that she had been killed when Rickey the idiot had blown up Downing Street.
Meanwhile...
Rose Tyler was confused, the Doctor had just told her that he had dreamt that she had been killed by that Dalek today, what exactly did that mean? Did the Doctor have feelings for her, like the ones that she had for him? or did he just worry about her safety cause he'd promised her mum? She didn't know. She fell asleep again with all these questions running around her head and she found a restless sleep.