Another domestic scene that the Doctor would deny that it was domestic.

While the Doctor was busy tinkering with the TARDIS console, ignoring the TARDIS's annoyance Rose thought she might explore the ship a bit and rediscover her favourite rooms again. It was about an hour into her exploration that the TARDIS showed her a room she hadn't seen before.

Walking in to the room she gasped as she took in the full view. Red grass stretching as far as the eye can see, and a forest of silver leafed trees taking up half the room. Walking further into the room, she gasped again as a gentle breeze blew thru and the silver leaves made a lovely melody.

Rose found a blanket spread out under the nearest tree and taking the hint she laid down on the blanket and let the melody of the trees lull her to sleep.

It was a few hours later after the TARDIS shocked him for the seventh time that he realised he hadn't heard from Rose. Getting a little worried as he knew that someone could easily get lost in his massive ship he decided he better go find her. The TARDIS lead him to a door he hasn't stepped into since before the war, hesitantly he reached out his hand and grasped the handle.

Opening the door he gasped as memories tried to crowd around in his mind but he pushed them away ruthlessly. Once he had settled his mind he took a small step into the room and stopped suddenly as he felt another presence with him. It was then that he saw Rose lying on a blanket and sleeping peacefully under one of the trees from his home world.

Rose felt a presence standing over her and slowly opened her to grin up at the ninth Doctor. She patted the space beside her, asking the Doctor silently if he would like to sit down. The Doctor took another look around before lowering himself onto the blanket then lying back till he was lying next to Rose and looking up through the leafy canopy.

Knowing the emotions that are probably running around the Doctors mind she grasped his hand to let him know that she's there. After lying there for awhile she ventured a question. "Would you tell me what your planet was like?"

The Doctor startled at the question as the pain threatened to consume him, it was her hand in his that pulled him back from that dark place. He could feel her disappointment as time continued to move and he stayed silent. What was interesting was that he wanted to tell her, he wanted someone to know about his planet.

Just when Rose was about to let him off the hook with her question, he surprised her when he started speaking. In slow halting tones he told her of the red grass and the silver trees just like the field they were lying in. He told her of the noise the leaves made in the wind, he told her of the citadel of Time Lords and the untempered sanctum. He told her the history of the Time Lords and how they were cursed, that their females would never be able to carry a child to term without endangering her life. He told her about the looms and how they devised a way to loom children rather than making them.

That lead him into his life and how he came out of the loom at five years old, just as all other Time Lords did. But from the moment he came out, he felt like he was different to the others. He told her about the three years that he lived with his parents, how his parents marriage had been arranged, how his mother loved him just like she had carried him to term but his father was a hard task master.

He explained at the age of eight they are taken to the untempered sanctum to determine what chapter they would be placed in. He took her through his life at the Time Lord academy and told her about his only friend Koshi, he even told her his nickname, Theta Sigma. Rose grinned quietly at that, he hardly ever tells anyone about growing up on Gallifrey let alone the name he used.

Once he started talking it all came out and it seemed he couldn't stop talking, telling her things that he had never told anyone else. He told her how stuffy he thought the Time Lords were, how even though all they needed was two different TNA, they were still old fashioned and insisted the two were married.

He explained to her his reaction when he was told that his marriage had been arranged for him and felt her chest moved in laughter. How the urge to run was so bad that the day before his marriage he came across the TARDIS and had the sudden urge to jump in and take off, so he did. He assumed that the marriage took place without him and they used the TNA that they had stored in one of their vaults to loom his children.

He did visit them when he had the chance but that he wasn't a very good father cause his children was just like the other Time Lords but then he went back once and his granddaughter was placed in his arms. The moment he held her he knew that she was just like him, just as curious. He stayed longer on Gallifrey then, watching her grow up into the bright young lady she was.

It was when he heard that her marriage had already been arranged before she had even finished at the Time Lord academy that he took her and ran.

It was then that the Time Lords started to shun him and how angry Susan was with her pearents that he decided to take her to his favourite planet, Earth. He wound down as he explained how Susan was immediately captivated with Earth and convinced him to stay there for a few months as she went to high school there.

As he stopped talking he realised how much he had actually revealed to her, more than what he's ever told anyone else. Looking down he realised that Rose was asleep and that somehow she had managed to wrap herself around him without him realising it. It was in that moment that he felt his hearts stutter, then speed up and he realised that he might already be falling.

He moved his eyes away from staring at her in sleep and stared back at the leafy canopy as he finally let the song of the trees lull him to sleep.

He gasped awake a few hours later from a strange dream about a beach and a pinstriped pretty boy. Rose Tyler was facing him with tears running down her face and all he wanted to do was wrap her in his arms and protect her from the utter heartbreak he saw in her eyes. It was as he pulled himself back from that dream that he realised that his fingers had settled on her temple and it wasn't his dream but hers.

Rose knew the Doctor had been in her mind and seen her dream, she was assured that Bad Wolf had ensured he couldn't see anything important but dreams have a way of leaking through anyway. The Doctor snatched his hand back as he felt Rose waking up.

He went to get up but Rose grabbed his hand to stop him. "I don't mind you in my mind, anything I don't want you to see I could just lock away."

The Doctor stared at her in shock. Usually humans, not use to telepathy, would shy away from that sort of level of trust but he should've known that Rose would be different. "You do realise that the more we initiate contact a slight bond would develop? Humans though aren't typically telepathic so you may be able to receive a little but you wouldn't be able to send anything, I'd have to initiate contact," the Doctor explained.

Rose grinned at him with her tongue touched smile, little did the Doctor know but she could do all that and more. "I understand Doctor but if it helps you at all then I don't mind," Rose assured him.

The Doctor was running again, Rose knew that. After sharing what his life was like growing up he kept them running. That was alright with Rose as between adventures they were getting closer than in the last time line. They snuggled on the coach more, he read her stories and when they needed comfort from each other they connected their minds and neither suffered from nightmares.

It was after one particularly harrowing adventure that she approached the Doctor. "Doctor," Rose waited until he looked at her. "Could we go home?"

The Doctor couldn't hide his disappointment as his hearts dropped, he thought she was enjoying their adventures but maybe the last one was a bit much for her. "S-sure," the Doctor stuttered, clearing his throat before continuing. "If you want."

Rose saw the hearts broken look in his eyes and realised her mistake. She rushed forward and hugged him even though this him wasn't much of a hugger. "Oh, no Doctor," Rose assured him. "Not to stay, I just want to go for a visit."

The Doctors eyes cleared and he beamed at her. "Off course, Rose Tyler," the Doctor exclaimed, he started to put in the co-ordinates before stopping suddenly and turning to her. "Tell ya what, why don't I show you how to drive the old girl.

Rose beamed at him as his show of trust. It's not many people that he trusted with his TARDIS. Rose rushed over and following his instructions, helped him to pilot his ship to the Powell Estates.

I wanted Rose to learn how to fly the TARDIS, cause of later series and it shows the trust that the Doctor shows her that he allows her to help pilot his beloved ship.