The Doctor and Rose were stood by the console talking, whilst Amy slept soundly in her TARDIS-made bedroom. She was experiencing what The Doctor could only describe as time jet-lag, and the TARDIS had tried to set her on regular night cycles so she wouldn't get too tired during their adventures.

The Doctor and Rose both didn't need as much sleep, so Rose spent the time getting to know this new doctor better. His previous self was happy-go-lucky and energetic, but that was nothing compared to this one. When he wasn't bouncing off the walls he was singing or dancing, or sonicing about like he hadn't a care in the universe, and then the next minute he'd be dark and brooding.

Rose often warned him about his anger, the anger that she really wasn't expecting to come from him. He looked very soft, and bouncy and gentle and he was but his mood could change in an instant. She had to protect Amy when The Doctor got angry at her on their first adventure for keeping secrets from him, it was a side to him she hadn't seen before, and it worried her. She didn't want him to get too over-emotional during sticky situations and ruin it, like he nearly did with the daleks. But then again, she nearly lost it then too. She had given up everything defeating them, her whole family gone because of them, but of course they always survived.

That was day to day life for Rose though, The Doctor and the monsters, seems you cannot have one without the other. But she was okay with that, she signed the normal part of her life away when she stepped inside a bigger-on-the-inside phone box with a northern bloke in a leather jacket. Never in her wildest dreams would she have imagined that she would be where she was now; hardly human, and dating a fellow alien and not just any alien at that, the last of the time lords. That really was something.

Rose and The Doctor sat in the jump seat together, listening to the soft hum of the TARDIS, when he asked her "So what do you think of Amy?"

"I think she's great, fiery, ginger, and caring. She's a perfect person to be travelling through time with."

The Doctor smiled, "Yeah she is isn't she? But she's hiding something"

Rose nodded "Yeah, something back home. She did ask us to get her back for the next day, and I sure as hell bet it isn't for just 'stuff' like she said"

"Yeah, still- a few more adventures won't hurt, and then we'll take her home, to do what she has to do."

Rose smiled. "I like this version of you. I liked both the others, but I really like this one."

The Doctor smiled, and ran his fingers through his hair, "It's the bowtie isn't it?" he said smugly.

Rose just laughed and pulled at his bowtie, "Yeah somehow doctor I don't think it's the bowtie."

"Oi, bowties are cool." He said

"If you say so," Rose said in a sing-song voice

"Oh shut it you,"

"Make me" Rose challenged. She saw a spark light up in his eyes that she hadn't yet seen of him, and she didn't know what it meant. But it seemed like she was going to find out.

"I might just have to do that," he said quietly, bringing his face closer to hers.

"How?" Rose whispered. She had to catch her words slightly in the back of her throat, but hoped he didn't hear her voice break slightly.

He had heard it of course, and it drove him wild. He just grinned at her and then leaned in and kissed her soundly. He felt Rose smile under his lips and then felt her hands go up to his hair. She had been dying to play with it since she watched it sprout of out of his head in a fit of golden dust and it felt amazing. She didn't know what shampoo the TARDIS was giving him but it definitely worked. His hair was like pure silk between her fingers, soft and natural and just perfect.

"Doctor, we've got about… 45 minutes until Amy gets up," Rose said in-between kisses, glancing at her watch.

"Well we'll just have to make use of the time we've got then," he said, kissing her hard before she could say anything else, and Rose did not protest.

Just a short filler, the next chapter will be set just after The time of angels/flesh and stone when The Doctor and Rose find out Amy's secret so look out for that. I go back to school Tuesday so if I get a chance to maybe write it up tomorrow I will. Ml ml