I awoke with a singular pain behind my eyes and a bright light drifting between the two repeatedly.

"Still with us then?", my familiar blonde companion asked as she pulled the light away from my eyes.

"What is going on?", I asked taking in my surroundings.

We were in the med bay and I was lying on a rolling exam table.

She began counting off on her fingers, "Well you ran off this morning. Ignored me for hours. Then broke into my room, when it was very clearly not wanted. Then proceeded to black out in what I can assume was a drunken haze, you know, no big deal".

"Well that's not true", I started to say rubbing the back of my neck with my hand.

"Um, kind of is", she said looking down as she picked at her cuticle.

"I didn't run off or ignore you, I was giving you your space. I broke into your room, which happens to be on my TARDIS by the way, because I thought something was wrong and I was worried. And I was drunk but it was hardly my fault", I pouted, my lip protruding slightly forward.

"Right, and who's fault was it then?", she asked still playing with her cuticle.

"Let's just say it wasn't anyone's fault", I quickly spouted and tried to ignore the pain behind my eyes, "The point is, why am I in the med bay?"

"You blacked out", she said as if it were a normal sentence she said every day.

Like, 'here's your sonic' or 'what's for dinner'.

"And?", I asked.

"You blacked out. What did you think I was going to do? Leave you on the off chance you weren't dying?", she said finally turning her eyes to meet mine.

There was hurt and loss in those big, brown pudding eyes, which only served to confuse me more.

Why is she sad?, I thought, Why do you think Mr. Thick? Maybe she's, I don't know, upset that you and her shagged last night!

"Oh, well, you are pretty upset with me", I said offering a small smirk.

She rolled her eyes and shook her head.

"I can't believe you. You just up and think that because I'm cross I would just no longer care. That is a new low even for you Doctor. You may think lowly of us humans, or apes or what ever the bloody hell your damn Timelord complex see us as, but don't you dare make stupid accusations about what we are and are not willing to lose our pride over", she said as she realized her voice was rising.

I dared not to interrupt her to correct her on the many things she had gotten horribly wrong.

She took a couple shaky breaths to calm herself before continuing, "You are more important than my pride, and that may not be important to you, but it is to me".

I racked my brain trying to find a way to make this all better and found it empty.

"Rose it's not that I thought you wouldn't care. It's more of a situation where I hoped you that wouldn't. I am not worth your time. And I don't see humans as anything other than just that, humans. However, there are humans that go far beyond the normal scope, such as yourself. Those are the ones I take note of and admire. You are one of the ones who doesn't give a hoot, and always tries to see the best in everyone, even me. You are immensely important to me and I am truly grateful for you. And I am just sorry that I put you in a situation like this where you swallowed your pride to help me even though my selfish decisions caused this predicament. Which, by the way, I believe I have very much over stepped some very important boundaries and for that I apologize. My desires have overcome me and I have taken advantage of you in the worst possible way", I said and hung my head.

"Doctor what are you talking about?", she asked warily.

"Last night. I didn't realize it, but if I had I would have stopped. You didn't really want any of well, 'that', and I am so so sorry that I pushed it upon you", I said with self loath.

"Doctor, you are the one who didn't want any of this! I literally threw myself at you and you were gracious enough to not to turn me down. I don't blame you for running off, and don't say that wasn't what you did. I pushed this not you. I pushed you, and if you wanted me to leave after everything that has happened I wouldn't blame you at all. I feel like I don't deserve this any more, to be with you any more", she said with wet eyes and shaky, shallow breathing.

"Rose I would love you to stay with me, but only if you want to. I don't want you to stay because I asked you too. And Rose," I said then paused, her words sinking in, "I am fine with everything that happened last night. I am just worried that you aren't. But, tell me if I am wrong, but I am getting the feeling you are too. So my question is: Are you? Are you okay with everything that happened between us last night?".

"I enjoyed it, if that's what you mean. And yes, I was okay with it", she said not meeting my eyes.

"Oh Rose", I laughed which caused the pain in my head to triplicate, "We are such fools. I want to be with you and you want to be with me, right?"

She gave me a small smile with a touch of tongue between her teeth, "Right".

"Then that's what we will do", I said with the largest smile I could muster.

"What will we do?", she asked.

I slipped my hand into hers, "Hold on and never let go".