You're my home - TenToo/Rose - Adult
Title: You're my home
Author: naty_seixas
Beta: mrssnape13
Pairing: TenToo/Rose
Rating: Adult
Genre: Schmoop
Notes: Written for schmoop_bingo. Prompt: Karaoke.
Word Count: 3,254
Disclaimer: I don't own Doctor Who.
Summary: People define home as the place where you live with your family; Rose defines home as any place the Doctor is.
The first thing Rose does when they arrive from Norway is to be alone with the Doctor in her room. They’d traveled non-stop since they were left on Bad Wolf Bay without a get-away. Both of them are tired, dirty and stinking, but she doesn't care. She closes the door behind her, pulls him against her body and kisses him until they're breathless.
He tries to stop her, but Rose doesn't let him. She bats his hand away and grabs his face. Rose can feel his tensed body, but she doesn't care. She keeps kissing him, her hands running over his chest, the nape of his neck and his arms. He sighs against her lips and relaxes; she takes advantage of it and slides her hands inside his shirt. He squeezes her body while his tongue probes deeply into her mouth. She moans and buries her nails into the skin on his back. She feels hot and alive for the first time in years. She wants him and she will get him, whatever it takes. She needs to know he's with her.
He pushes her until she falls back onto the bed and he follows her. He takes off their clothes in a matter of seconds; she shudders in pleasure when she finally feels his bare and warm skin hovering over her own body.
He kisses her hard; the way his hands are gripping her hips will leave bruises in the morning, but she doesn't care. He gives her one last kiss before he slides down her body and Rose only feels him. He makes her shake and moan, exactly the way it used to be when they were together traveling across the universe. He’s spent so many hours exploring her body and testing what works and what doesn’t that it would be shameful if he didn't know his way around. He knows every spot of pleasure on it because he’s mapped her body out with his hands and tongue.
She muffles a scream with the back of her hand when he strokes the spot that makes her curl her toes in pleasure if it's touched in the right way. She remembers the first time he did it. The Doctor had used just his fingers, making her come so hard that she had bitten his shoulder. Rose had never bit anyone in bed before.
“You're so damp, Rose,” he says while sliding two slippery fingers up over her clit, massaging it. She groans and trembles, making the Doctor laugh softly. “I think you're ready for me,” he tells her, his fingers sliding until he's inside of her again.
She wants to scream “Yes,” but she can't find her own voice, so she just nods. He grips her thighs when she spreads her legs in front of him. With a firm stroke, he's inside her and Rose can just think “finally.” Every time he thrusts into her, she can feel the head of his cock stroking her very sensitive spot, making her clench hard around him. She feels her orgasm building, the increase of warmth and the shudders that go through her body. Pulling him closer with her legs around his waist, she comes with a shout. She feels every muscle inside her body relaxing in such a delicious way that she drops off seconds after he comes inside her.
-
He's still asleep on her bed when she goes to the bathroom. She looks in the mirror and sees a lot of bruises across her skin. Rose can see the shape of his fingers on her hips, the mark of his teeth on her shoulder. The Doctor roughed her up a little and she didn't even feel it at the time. Now, she feels sore and the tiredness is winning her over.
The woman staring at the mirror doesn't look like the girl she used to be. She can see the exhaustion in the dark circles under her eyes, her flushed cheeks making a weird contrast with her pale frame. She looks like a mess. Well, very fitting because she feels like a mess.
She shakes her head and tries not to think about her weird situation. About the man who left her and the man who chose her. She prepares a bath and closes her eyes when she gets in. The water is hot and makes her muscles sing in relief, but it's not enough. Her eyes fill with tears and she starts to cry. She just stops when she feels a hand caressing her scalp and the Doctor's gloomy expression staring at her. She cries harder when his arms encircle her chest, pushing her up and pulling her into his embrace. When she finally has her tears under control, he gets a towel and dries her body gently. She can see his expression darkening when he notices the bruises over her skin, but before she can say anything he sweeps her off her feet and brings her into the bedroom.
They don't say anything, just lie side by side with his arms around her waist and his fingers caressing the bruised skin there. She thinks it's his way of saying he's sorry for the way he’s treated her. She doesn't know if it's for this him or the other one who left.
Either way, she’s already forgiven them. She just doesn't know it yet.
-
The Doctor is with her for three months when they travel for the first time. He takes her to Paris and shows her his favorite tourist attractions. He looks relieved that the city looks the same.
“It'd be a shame if it didn't. Can you imagine Paris without the Eiffel Tower?” he asks with a doubtful look, making her laugh.
He takes her to visit The Louvre, buys her a really expensive dinner in the restaurant on the Eiffel Tower and makes her walk through the Parc de Sceaux. They have so much fun that they just keep traveling.
They go to Rome, Athens, Venice and Budapest. They eat strange food that doesn't even exist in her original universe, according to the Doctor. After Istanbul, they decide they’ve had enough of Europe and go across the sea.
He takes her to Lima, Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro. They dance, they laugh and they run so much that Rose can't believe her own luck. Surprisingly, they don't get in trouble once and she thinks how weird it is, but a blessing at the same time. God knows how much she needs a break from her own reality and she's so happy she's doing it with the Doctor.
Anyway, they keep going up the map he draws in his head. He shows her the paradisiacal beaches of Belize City, Acapulco and Virgin Gorda. Rose is satisfied when she finally gets the tan she’s needed so badly, even if the Doctor teases her about being all pink and yellow.
She goes to Disney World after he promises to take her to Harry Potter's park. She takes a lot of silly photos and eats an unhealthy amount of candy and pumpkin pie. They also go to San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego. New York is where the most embarrassing situation happens between them. They go to a karaoke bar and get drunk. Well, Rose gets drunk and the Doctor laughs at her. After a lot of tequila, she goes to the stage to sing “Marry You” because she can't get the song out of her mind. When she finishes it, everyone cheers, but the Doctor just stares. When she gets off the stage and goes to him, he kisses her. People around them just applaud louder.
When they finally manage to get out of the bar, they take a cab to go to their hotel. They don't stop kissing or touching each other until they arrive at their room. After the Doctor closes the door, he pushes her against it and lifts up her dress. He shags her with their clothes on, with an urgency she’s never felt from him before. When he lets her go, she gets nauseous and throws up on his shoes. She tries to tell him how sorry she is, but he shushes her and takes her to the bathroom. He helps her to have a shower and puts her to bed.
The next day, when she wakes up Rose looks at the bedside table and sees two zeppelin tickets to London and a note saying Home.
She smiles and closes her eyes again.
-
Between their travels, her work and the growing baby TARDIS in the backyard, the time flies.
In the beginning it feels so much like that Christmas the Doctor regenerated. He's adapting to his new life, new body and new world. He shows her he’s still the same Doctor she knew. He always helps to save people from danger. He can babble a lot; his brain still works like the one he had when he was a Time Lord. He loves tea, bananas, cakes and Rose the same way he always did. He’s still an incorrigible flirt, which makes Rose a little jealous, even if she knows he wouldn’t do anything. He uses the same type of clothes: pinstripe suit and trainers. He doesn’t buy a trench coat, though. He says he’ll get the original one when the TARDIS is ready.
He’s also changed a lot. He tries to tell her important things. He says he loves her. He likes weddings, teddy bears and gossips magazines. The Doctor swears those new quirks are Donna’s fault, which makes Rose laugh hard every time she catches him reading People or Modern Bride. He gets angry and impatient easily. They fight like they used to do before he regenerated at the Satellite Five. They shag a lot. They used to have sex before, but nothing like this. It’s needy, frantic and messy. Still the best sex Rose have ever had.
But Rose is different too. She isn’t the same girl he used to travel with. She’s grown up. She’s seen a lot of things and she’s made decisions she isn’t exactly proud of. It was different traveling between dimensions; she didn’t have the Doctor to rescue her from her own stupidity. She was forced to take charge and do the job. She became a woman when she chose to go back to the Doctor.
The Doctor can be a little different from who he used to be, but so is Rose. They fit.
-
The TARDIS is ready two years after the Doctor arrives. They start to travel when Rose resigns from Torchwood and sorts out her life on Earth. Their family isn’t exactly thrilled by it, but they understand they have to go. Rose can see the disappointment in her mother’s eyes when she announces they’ll be traversing time and space again. Jackie had thought things would be different now the Doctor was human, but she’d forgot that even if he was a man, he was still the Doctor. Traveling and trouble are part of who he is.
“So where are we going?” Rose asks when they’re finally inside the ship. This new TARDIS looks a lot like the old one; even her shape is a blue police box.
“Further than we have gone before,” he says with his manic smile and presses the button that makes the TARDIS materialize.
He shows her this universe’s version of the places he showed her before. He shows her places she’s never seen or heard about before. They go to New Earth, Raxacoricofallapatorius, Woman Wept, Costa del Centauri VI and Laylora. He takes her to meet Shakespeare and Agatha Christie. They never go to Justicia, 50’s London or Krop Tor.
-
They come back to London for chips. He takes her to the same chippy they went to on their first date so many years ago.
“I’m taking you every place I wished you were with me,” he tells her over the chips.
She just smiles and captures his lips with hers.
She lived a life without him; she knows how heartbroken she was because of it. She doesn’t want to think about the pain the Doctor went through when he lost her. Rose hates to remember there’s another version of the Doctor. Someone who is traveling without her. She wonders if he misses her like her Doctor confessed he did. He said he used to be so miserable the first year she was gone; how it broke his hearts to know she was trapped in another world and probably just as sad as he was. She wishes he could move on now he knows she’s with another him, living a life he wouldn't have. It’s the first time after so many years she can say honestly she’s happy. Rose wants the Time Lord Doctor to be happy too.
-
Rose is surprised when she opens the TARDIS door and sees the familiar rocky, barren planet with giant flying creatures. She remembers coming to this planet in the other universe; it's the same place she promised him forever. She swallows and looks at him. He just smiles and takes her hand in his, pulling her body against him and embracing her waist.
“At this time eight years ago, I rescued a blond girl,” he starts. “Except, in the end, she saved me from myself,” he whispers in her ear. She bites her bottom lip and looks at him. He kisses her hand and her forehead before speaking again.
“How long are you gonna stay with me?” he asks in a throaty voice.
“Forever,” she says with the same certainty she had years ago. He smiles and holds her in his arms for a long time.
“I love you,” she says against his ear.
“Quite right, too,” he replies in a soft voice. Rose slaps his arm before letting him go.
“Here,” he holds up a ring. “Give me your hand”.
Rose's eyes widen in surprise. She doesn't know what to say when she sees the ring.
“What?”
“Hold out your hand,” he repeats in a deep voice.
She blinks and shakes her head, but does what he asks. He slides the ring onto her finger. She looks at it like it's foreign to her. He's asking her to be his wife. He puts another ring in her hand and holds out his own. She slides it onto his finger and kisses his knuckle. He catches her face in his hands and kisses her enthusiastically.
“So, where are we going, my dear wife?” he asks her when they're already inside the TARDIS.
“Surprise me, my lovely husband” she says with a huge smile. “Just don't give me a heart attack, alright?”
He sticks his tongue out at her and starts the familiar dance around the console.
-
They're in late 1980s London, when a fire starts in the house where the Doctor is investigating echoes of cracks in the fabric of time and space. The Doctor grabs Rose's hand and run to the stairs. She only stops when she hears a baby cry.
“Doctor, there's a baby over there!”
She hears him curse, before he turns his back to the place they came from.
“Stay here, I'll get it!”
The three minutes it takes him to get back to her are the longest of Rose’s life.
“Come on! Let's go!” The Doctor yells at her, coming from the last room of the floor. She starts to run when she sees the Doctor running behind her with the baby in his arms. They're out of the house before it collapses.
“Go inside the TARDIS with the baby! I'll see if there's someone else around here,” he says, handing the crying baby to Rose and running toward the other side of the house.
“Shush, little girl!” Rose says when she notices the pink blanket covering the tiny body of the baby. “We'll take care of you, okay? Just stop crying,” Rose says, walking toward the TARDIS while rocking the girl. Surprisingly, the baby stops crying.
Rose puts the little girl onto the bed when she gets into their room. She opens the pink blanket and laughs when she sees the red hair covering her little face.
“Hello there, little one!” Rose says, cheerfully. Through the years, she’s become very accepting of children, mostly because of her little brother and his cute face.
The freckled girl looks at Rose for a moment before she starts to cry again. She puts a hand on her forehead to shush the baby, but the high temperature scares Rose.
“Oh my God, you're burning up!” Rose looks over the blanket to see if there's any kind of identification, but she only finds a little handkerchief with Amelia Jessica Pond written in a beautiful calligraphy.
“Okay, Amelia. Let's wait for the Doctor. He'll know what to do,” she says, hopeful.
Closing her eyes and taking the baby into her arms, Rose hopes everything will end up okay for little Amelia.
-
Rose opens the door of their apartment and giggles from the sight in front of her. The Doctor is sleeping on the couch with Amy in his arms, who is drooling over his shirt in the most adorable way.
Surprisingly, they ended up adopting Amelia after her parents got killed by the mysterious creature which lived inside her house. She was sick for weeks and Rose took care of her. Two weeks after Amy was out of the hospital, Peter helped them to forge the papers that said the Doctor and Rose were her adoptive parents.
Two years later, she's now Mummy and the Doctor is Daddy and they couldn't be happier. Rose remembers how thrilled her mother was when they decided to keep Amy. She can't believe she has her own family now. Wife and mother were two roles Rose never expected to play when she chose the Doctor over anything else in her life.
She tiptoes toward the couch and kisses her daughter's forehead and her husband's lips before slipping into the kitchen.
Ten years back, she would never have expected this to be her life, but now she can't think of anything better. Looking at the cakes and bananas over the balcony, she thinks about the man who gave her up to let her get something better; something he couldn't ever offer to her. He was just too grand to become a husband and a father.
Rose inhales and sends her best wishes to the Time Lord living across the void. She can just hope that he'll always find someone and never be alone. She’s never met someone who deserves be loved more than the Doctor.
She hopes someday she'll talk to him again and tell him how much she's grateful for what he did, even if she didn't understand at the beginning. She remembers when she asked if her Doctor thought it was possible to see the other him again. He looked at her with a conflicted face, before he answered in his know-it-all voice:
“If something can be remembered, it can come back. Maybe the other me will appear to you someday. Maybe not. But nothing is never finished, not for good and not if it's us.”
Rose decided to believe in him. She always did anyway.
Author: naty_seixas
Beta: mrssnape13
Pairing: TenToo/Rose
Rating: Adult
Genre: Schmoop
Notes: Written for schmoop_bingo. Prompt: Karaoke.
Word Count: 3,254
Disclaimer: I don't own Doctor Who.
Summary: People define home as the place where you live with your family; Rose defines home as any place the Doctor is.
The first thing Rose does when they arrive from Norway is to be alone with the Doctor in her room. They’d traveled non-stop since they were left on Bad Wolf Bay without a get-away. Both of them are tired, dirty and stinking, but she doesn't care. She closes the door behind her, pulls him against her body and kisses him until they're breathless.
He tries to stop her, but Rose doesn't let him. She bats his hand away and grabs his face. Rose can feel his tensed body, but she doesn't care. She keeps kissing him, her hands running over his chest, the nape of his neck and his arms. He sighs against her lips and relaxes; she takes advantage of it and slides her hands inside his shirt. He squeezes her body while his tongue probes deeply into her mouth. She moans and buries her nails into the skin on his back. She feels hot and alive for the first time in years. She wants him and she will get him, whatever it takes. She needs to know he's with her.
He pushes her until she falls back onto the bed and he follows her. He takes off their clothes in a matter of seconds; she shudders in pleasure when she finally feels his bare and warm skin hovering over her own body.
He kisses her hard; the way his hands are gripping her hips will leave bruises in the morning, but she doesn't care. He gives her one last kiss before he slides down her body and Rose only feels him. He makes her shake and moan, exactly the way it used to be when they were together traveling across the universe. He’s spent so many hours exploring her body and testing what works and what doesn’t that it would be shameful if he didn't know his way around. He knows every spot of pleasure on it because he’s mapped her body out with his hands and tongue.
She muffles a scream with the back of her hand when he strokes the spot that makes her curl her toes in pleasure if it's touched in the right way. She remembers the first time he did it. The Doctor had used just his fingers, making her come so hard that she had bitten his shoulder. Rose had never bit anyone in bed before.
“You're so damp, Rose,” he says while sliding two slippery fingers up over her clit, massaging it. She groans and trembles, making the Doctor laugh softly. “I think you're ready for me,” he tells her, his fingers sliding until he's inside of her again.
She wants to scream “Yes,” but she can't find her own voice, so she just nods. He grips her thighs when she spreads her legs in front of him. With a firm stroke, he's inside her and Rose can just think “finally.” Every time he thrusts into her, she can feel the head of his cock stroking her very sensitive spot, making her clench hard around him. She feels her orgasm building, the increase of warmth and the shudders that go through her body. Pulling him closer with her legs around his waist, she comes with a shout. She feels every muscle inside her body relaxing in such a delicious way that she drops off seconds after he comes inside her.
-
He's still asleep on her bed when she goes to the bathroom. She looks in the mirror and sees a lot of bruises across her skin. Rose can see the shape of his fingers on her hips, the mark of his teeth on her shoulder. The Doctor roughed her up a little and she didn't even feel it at the time. Now, she feels sore and the tiredness is winning her over.
The woman staring at the mirror doesn't look like the girl she used to be. She can see the exhaustion in the dark circles under her eyes, her flushed cheeks making a weird contrast with her pale frame. She looks like a mess. Well, very fitting because she feels like a mess.
She shakes her head and tries not to think about her weird situation. About the man who left her and the man who chose her. She prepares a bath and closes her eyes when she gets in. The water is hot and makes her muscles sing in relief, but it's not enough. Her eyes fill with tears and she starts to cry. She just stops when she feels a hand caressing her scalp and the Doctor's gloomy expression staring at her. She cries harder when his arms encircle her chest, pushing her up and pulling her into his embrace. When she finally has her tears under control, he gets a towel and dries her body gently. She can see his expression darkening when he notices the bruises over her skin, but before she can say anything he sweeps her off her feet and brings her into the bedroom.
They don't say anything, just lie side by side with his arms around her waist and his fingers caressing the bruised skin there. She thinks it's his way of saying he's sorry for the way he’s treated her. She doesn't know if it's for this him or the other one who left.
Either way, she’s already forgiven them. She just doesn't know it yet.
-
The Doctor is with her for three months when they travel for the first time. He takes her to Paris and shows her his favorite tourist attractions. He looks relieved that the city looks the same.
“It'd be a shame if it didn't. Can you imagine Paris without the Eiffel Tower?” he asks with a doubtful look, making her laugh.
He takes her to visit The Louvre, buys her a really expensive dinner in the restaurant on the Eiffel Tower and makes her walk through the Parc de Sceaux. They have so much fun that they just keep traveling.
They go to Rome, Athens, Venice and Budapest. They eat strange food that doesn't even exist in her original universe, according to the Doctor. After Istanbul, they decide they’ve had enough of Europe and go across the sea.
He takes her to Lima, Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro. They dance, they laugh and they run so much that Rose can't believe her own luck. Surprisingly, they don't get in trouble once and she thinks how weird it is, but a blessing at the same time. God knows how much she needs a break from her own reality and she's so happy she's doing it with the Doctor.
Anyway, they keep going up the map he draws in his head. He shows her the paradisiacal beaches of Belize City, Acapulco and Virgin Gorda. Rose is satisfied when she finally gets the tan she’s needed so badly, even if the Doctor teases her about being all pink and yellow.
She goes to Disney World after he promises to take her to Harry Potter's park. She takes a lot of silly photos and eats an unhealthy amount of candy and pumpkin pie. They also go to San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego. New York is where the most embarrassing situation happens between them. They go to a karaoke bar and get drunk. Well, Rose gets drunk and the Doctor laughs at her. After a lot of tequila, she goes to the stage to sing “Marry You” because she can't get the song out of her mind. When she finishes it, everyone cheers, but the Doctor just stares. When she gets off the stage and goes to him, he kisses her. People around them just applaud louder.
When they finally manage to get out of the bar, they take a cab to go to their hotel. They don't stop kissing or touching each other until they arrive at their room. After the Doctor closes the door, he pushes her against it and lifts up her dress. He shags her with their clothes on, with an urgency she’s never felt from him before. When he lets her go, she gets nauseous and throws up on his shoes. She tries to tell him how sorry she is, but he shushes her and takes her to the bathroom. He helps her to have a shower and puts her to bed.
The next day, when she wakes up Rose looks at the bedside table and sees two zeppelin tickets to London and a note saying Home.
She smiles and closes her eyes again.
-
Between their travels, her work and the growing baby TARDIS in the backyard, the time flies.
In the beginning it feels so much like that Christmas the Doctor regenerated. He's adapting to his new life, new body and new world. He shows her he’s still the same Doctor she knew. He always helps to save people from danger. He can babble a lot; his brain still works like the one he had when he was a Time Lord. He loves tea, bananas, cakes and Rose the same way he always did. He’s still an incorrigible flirt, which makes Rose a little jealous, even if she knows he wouldn’t do anything. He uses the same type of clothes: pinstripe suit and trainers. He doesn’t buy a trench coat, though. He says he’ll get the original one when the TARDIS is ready.
He’s also changed a lot. He tries to tell her important things. He says he loves her. He likes weddings, teddy bears and gossips magazines. The Doctor swears those new quirks are Donna’s fault, which makes Rose laugh hard every time she catches him reading People or Modern Bride. He gets angry and impatient easily. They fight like they used to do before he regenerated at the Satellite Five. They shag a lot. They used to have sex before, but nothing like this. It’s needy, frantic and messy. Still the best sex Rose have ever had.
But Rose is different too. She isn’t the same girl he used to travel with. She’s grown up. She’s seen a lot of things and she’s made decisions she isn’t exactly proud of. It was different traveling between dimensions; she didn’t have the Doctor to rescue her from her own stupidity. She was forced to take charge and do the job. She became a woman when she chose to go back to the Doctor.
The Doctor can be a little different from who he used to be, but so is Rose. They fit.
-
The TARDIS is ready two years after the Doctor arrives. They start to travel when Rose resigns from Torchwood and sorts out her life on Earth. Their family isn’t exactly thrilled by it, but they understand they have to go. Rose can see the disappointment in her mother’s eyes when she announces they’ll be traversing time and space again. Jackie had thought things would be different now the Doctor was human, but she’d forgot that even if he was a man, he was still the Doctor. Traveling and trouble are part of who he is.
“So where are we going?” Rose asks when they’re finally inside the ship. This new TARDIS looks a lot like the old one; even her shape is a blue police box.
“Further than we have gone before,” he says with his manic smile and presses the button that makes the TARDIS materialize.
He shows her this universe’s version of the places he showed her before. He shows her places she’s never seen or heard about before. They go to New Earth, Raxacoricofallapatorius, Woman Wept, Costa del Centauri VI and Laylora. He takes her to meet Shakespeare and Agatha Christie. They never go to Justicia, 50’s London or Krop Tor.
-
They come back to London for chips. He takes her to the same chippy they went to on their first date so many years ago.
“I’m taking you every place I wished you were with me,” he tells her over the chips.
She just smiles and captures his lips with hers.
She lived a life without him; she knows how heartbroken she was because of it. She doesn’t want to think about the pain the Doctor went through when he lost her. Rose hates to remember there’s another version of the Doctor. Someone who is traveling without her. She wonders if he misses her like her Doctor confessed he did. He said he used to be so miserable the first year she was gone; how it broke his hearts to know she was trapped in another world and probably just as sad as he was. She wishes he could move on now he knows she’s with another him, living a life he wouldn't have. It’s the first time after so many years she can say honestly she’s happy. Rose wants the Time Lord Doctor to be happy too.
-
Rose is surprised when she opens the TARDIS door and sees the familiar rocky, barren planet with giant flying creatures. She remembers coming to this planet in the other universe; it's the same place she promised him forever. She swallows and looks at him. He just smiles and takes her hand in his, pulling her body against him and embracing her waist.
“At this time eight years ago, I rescued a blond girl,” he starts. “Except, in the end, she saved me from myself,” he whispers in her ear. She bites her bottom lip and looks at him. He kisses her hand and her forehead before speaking again.
“How long are you gonna stay with me?” he asks in a throaty voice.
“Forever,” she says with the same certainty she had years ago. He smiles and holds her in his arms for a long time.
“I love you,” she says against his ear.
“Quite right, too,” he replies in a soft voice. Rose slaps his arm before letting him go.
“Here,” he holds up a ring. “Give me your hand”.
Rose's eyes widen in surprise. She doesn't know what to say when she sees the ring.
“What?”
“Hold out your hand,” he repeats in a deep voice.
She blinks and shakes her head, but does what he asks. He slides the ring onto her finger. She looks at it like it's foreign to her. He's asking her to be his wife. He puts another ring in her hand and holds out his own. She slides it onto his finger and kisses his knuckle. He catches her face in his hands and kisses her enthusiastically.
“So, where are we going, my dear wife?” he asks her when they're already inside the TARDIS.
“Surprise me, my lovely husband” she says with a huge smile. “Just don't give me a heart attack, alright?”
He sticks his tongue out at her and starts the familiar dance around the console.
-
They're in late 1980s London, when a fire starts in the house where the Doctor is investigating echoes of cracks in the fabric of time and space. The Doctor grabs Rose's hand and run to the stairs. She only stops when she hears a baby cry.
“Doctor, there's a baby over there!”
She hears him curse, before he turns his back to the place they came from.
“Stay here, I'll get it!”
The three minutes it takes him to get back to her are the longest of Rose’s life.
“Come on! Let's go!” The Doctor yells at her, coming from the last room of the floor. She starts to run when she sees the Doctor running behind her with the baby in his arms. They're out of the house before it collapses.
“Go inside the TARDIS with the baby! I'll see if there's someone else around here,” he says, handing the crying baby to Rose and running toward the other side of the house.
“Shush, little girl!” Rose says when she notices the pink blanket covering the tiny body of the baby. “We'll take care of you, okay? Just stop crying,” Rose says, walking toward the TARDIS while rocking the girl. Surprisingly, the baby stops crying.
Rose puts the little girl onto the bed when she gets into their room. She opens the pink blanket and laughs when she sees the red hair covering her little face.
“Hello there, little one!” Rose says, cheerfully. Through the years, she’s become very accepting of children, mostly because of her little brother and his cute face.
The freckled girl looks at Rose for a moment before she starts to cry again. She puts a hand on her forehead to shush the baby, but the high temperature scares Rose.
“Oh my God, you're burning up!” Rose looks over the blanket to see if there's any kind of identification, but she only finds a little handkerchief with Amelia Jessica Pond written in a beautiful calligraphy.
“Okay, Amelia. Let's wait for the Doctor. He'll know what to do,” she says, hopeful.
Closing her eyes and taking the baby into her arms, Rose hopes everything will end up okay for little Amelia.
-
Rose opens the door of their apartment and giggles from the sight in front of her. The Doctor is sleeping on the couch with Amy in his arms, who is drooling over his shirt in the most adorable way.
Surprisingly, they ended up adopting Amelia after her parents got killed by the mysterious creature which lived inside her house. She was sick for weeks and Rose took care of her. Two weeks after Amy was out of the hospital, Peter helped them to forge the papers that said the Doctor and Rose were her adoptive parents.
Two years later, she's now Mummy and the Doctor is Daddy and they couldn't be happier. Rose remembers how thrilled her mother was when they decided to keep Amy. She can't believe she has her own family now. Wife and mother were two roles Rose never expected to play when she chose the Doctor over anything else in her life.
She tiptoes toward the couch and kisses her daughter's forehead and her husband's lips before slipping into the kitchen.
Ten years back, she would never have expected this to be her life, but now she can't think of anything better. Looking at the cakes and bananas over the balcony, she thinks about the man who gave her up to let her get something better; something he couldn't ever offer to her. He was just too grand to become a husband and a father.
Rose inhales and sends her best wishes to the Time Lord living across the void. She can just hope that he'll always find someone and never be alone. She’s never met someone who deserves be loved more than the Doctor.
She hopes someday she'll talk to him again and tell him how much she's grateful for what he did, even if she didn't understand at the beginning. She remembers when she asked if her Doctor thought it was possible to see the other him again. He looked at her with a conflicted face, before he answered in his know-it-all voice:
“If something can be remembered, it can come back. Maybe the other me will appear to you someday. Maybe not. But nothing is never finished, not for good and not if it's us.”
Rose decided to believe in him. She always did anyway.