The Doctor was reading in the library a few hours later when Jack found him. Rose had mentioned going to sleep as it had been a long day but Jack couldn't sleep, he needed to talk to the Doctor.
"Doctor," Jack questioned. When he had his attention. "Do you find Rose strange?"
The Doctor frowns at Jack. "How do ya mean?"
"It's just," Jack hesitated. "I really like her and from the moment I met her I felt a connection."
The Doctors eyes hardened and he felt jealousy rising. "What are you talking about?"
Jack grinned slightly when he realised what was going through the Doctors mind. "Not like that," he assures the Doctor. "More like siblings. Yet sometimes I get the feeling that she knows what's happening before it actually happens."
The Doctor had to agree. "I know what ya mean. She confuses me, her timeline is hard to read for one thing. That only happens when I'm close to someone, I always seem to get a feeling I've met her before but I'm sure I haven't. Plus I never get close to companions but she seems to bulldoze right through my defences like they weren't even there."
Jack notices how confused the Doctor looks. "Why not just ask her?"
The Doctor heaves out a sigh. "I would but for one, the TARDIS threatened to stick me in a time loop if I did and two I'm afraid of losing her. As much as I want to run from the feelings she creates in me I want to get closer even more."
"I know," Jack agrees. "There's something about her, everyone that mets her can see that. Why do think our enemy's target her, they can sense that about her. I'm sure she'll tell you in her own good time but I can tell you one thing now. I know with absolutely certainty that Rose loves you, very much and I know that you love her too."
Jack walked off knowing he had accomplished what he wanted, ensuring the Doctor never ran from Rose.
The Doctor was left alone, his book forgotten as he thought over Jacks words.
The next month they had many adventures together, Jack still continued to try and catch the Doctor and Rose while they found creative ways to avoid him and steal a few hours alone.
They were in the console room when Jack mentioned heading to Kyoto that's when Rose remembered that they'll be taken to the game station soon. Standing up suddenly, Jack and the Doctor looked up at her as she walked over to them. She reached out to the TARDIS asking for some privacy as she grabbed the Doctors hand and led him to their bedroom. The moment the door closed she shoved him against the door and snogged the life out of him.
A few very glorious hours later and even the Doctor was out of breathe and marvelling at how flexible Rose was. "Not that I'm complaining but what was that for?"
Rose just gave him her special tongue in teeth smile before starting all over again. A few more hours later Rose was almost asleep when she heard the three words she's been longing to hear.
"I love you." The Doctor can feel something's coming, he's not sure what but he felt he had to tell her just once. If he ends up regenerating his feelings are usually burnt out of him and he wants her to know in case he goes, how much she really means to him. If he was bonded to her it wouldn't be a problem but even their connection may not last through it.
It was as they were lying together in bed and trying to recover from their last round when the Doctor finally talked about the time war and the horrors he saw. This time even the TARDIS fell into a sad mood as he explained everything that was done and the things he was forced to do.
Rose held him through it all and soothed him when he cried and calmed him when he grew angry. She saw him through it all and by the end of his retelling he was exhausted, he had lived close to one thousand years in those few hours but what soothed him to sleep was his bond with Rose.
He felt her sadness as he felt sad and her anger at the other time lords when he relayed what they forced him to do and he felt her gentleness as she soothed his guilt for those atrocities. Rose watched over him as he slept and as she fell into sleep herself she kept contact with his temples a tried to send soothing thoughts to him.
It was all most two days before Jack saw them again and grinned to himself, he knew what they had been doing especially because they looked so tired. Jack again suggested Kyoto and the Doctor sent the TARDIS in flight. They both noticed however, that Rose lost her grin and started to look very worried.
I finally got the Doctor to open up about the time war, as hard as it was for him. I also wanted to explain why the Doctor isn't willing to confront Rose about what he's seen.
