Travel Diary: Day Five

Dear Diary,

Sometimes the universe just decides to take all your hopes and dreams, crumple then up in to a little ball, drop them on the ground, and stomp on them.

In case you can't tell, I'm a bit upset. The Doctor and my plans to visit Barcelona today were put on hold. At least, I hope they're just postponed.

See, we were all set to go, when my phone went off. It was Mickey. He was convinced that there was something alien going on in a school. We spent all of yesterday undercover. The Doctor was a physic teacher and I was a lunch lady. I was miserable, and the Doctor seemed to be enjoying it. If I didn't love him so much I would hate him for making me wear a hairnet while he got to play super teacher.

Then he ran into one of his former traveling companions, Sarah Jane Smith. At first we didn't exactly hit off (can you blame me?) but she turned out to be all right. At the end of our encounter with the Krillitane, which the Doctor defeated, we even asked her to tag along. She refused saying that she has her chance and now her place was on Earth.

Unfortunately, Mickey asked to come along. Apparently the Doctor had invited him once before and he had turned him down. So the Doctor of course said yes and I had no choice but to agree. I couldn't very well say no without Mickey thinking I was mad at him, and I couldn't tell him that he couldn't come because I wanted the Doctor to myself without embarrassing myself. So now I'm stuck with my ex-boyfriend.

"So, who's gonna' show me to my room?" Mickey asked grinning at Rose. She glanced away uncomfortably. The Doctor noticed her apparent fascination with the grating.

"Aw come on Rickey, You're a big boy. I think you can find your own way." He said attempting to capture his standoffishness that his previous regeneration had mastered, even though he found Mickey ten times less annoying now for some reason, "Go down the hall past the Loo, and the AV room, and the music room. Turn left at the first hallway, and pass the banana room. My room is next, then the master bath, then Rose's room. There'll be a hallway on your right that leads to, well don't go down that. Pass the ballroom, the picture room and then the nothing room. Go up the flight of stairs and the first door on the right is an empty bedroom, all yours. There's a guest bathroom across the hall."

"How come my room's so far away?" Mickey asked with a frown.

"'Cause it just is. Now go on." He shoed him away. After he left the Doctor turned to Rise and took her hand. "What's wrong?" Rose looked up at him.

"What? Nothing! Having Mickey with us, it's…it's great; great." She said unconvincingly.

"Rose, we've been traveling together for nearly a year now, I think I know your lying voice."

"It's just, it's supposed to be us. Just us. The Doctor and Rose, traveling through time and space and kicking butt. No one else."

"Is that how it's supposed to be? So what about Adam and Jack? Hmm? What were they is not 'someone else'? A pet?" He almost sounded angry.

"This is different."

"Why? Because I've regenerated? Because I've got big hair instead of big ears? Because with your boyfriend here with pretty boy across space and time?" Now he was mad. Rose pulled her hand away from his, but he reached out grabbed her wrist holding her there.

"He's not my boyfriend!" She snapped returning his anger. The Doctor froze, confused.

"But…" He stuttered out, for once lost for words.

"He dumped me the last time we stopped in Cardiff."

"Why? I mean…why?"

"Why? Lots of reasons. I was gone for a year during which he was a suspect for my murder. Whenever we we're together all I can talk about is where we've been and where we're going next and it annoyed the hell outta' him. I think the real reason was that every time he's asked me to stay with him, I've chosen you and always will."

"If you two aren't together anymore why would he ask to come along?"

"I don't know. Maybe he just wanted to see what keeps me here." The Doctor let go over her wrist and took her hand again he also reached for the other. She let him and he pulled her closer to him.

"Rose, I didn't know about you and Mickey." He told her, his voice but a whisper.

"It's not your fault that I didn't say. I just didn't think you would care."

"If I had known I would have understood your actions and your feelings better and I wouldn't have snapped at you. I'm sorry for that. I know that your relationship with Mickey is none of my business, even though I feel partially responsible, but I wish that you would tell me anyway. Tell me how you're feeling." Rose nodded wishing that she tell him how she felt about him.

"Right now I'm feeling tired." She said, "I'm going to turn in." The Doctor nodded. "Night." Rose whispered.

She leaned in and pressed a quick, light, good night kiss to his unsuspecting lips. The Doctor was so startled by this kiss, given so casually and thoughtlessly after the thing that had separated him and Rose, that he was frozen in shock until a good ten seconds after she had left. It was only then that he managed,

"Good night Rose."

So, I did managed to get a kiss in today, but I skipped yesterday due to Krillitane and Sarah Jane. With Mickey here, I'm a bit worried about how my plan will progress. Wish me luck. Now I really need it.

Love,
Rose