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I need to get back into writing mode. Will this help? Dunno. It's worth a shot, though. Maybe. :D
Give me a word or phrase and I'll try to write a few lines about what the Doctor and/or Rose think about it or how they interact with it.
ETA: Responding to prompts in the comments.
Give me a word or phrase and I'll try to write a few lines about what the Doctor and/or Rose think about it or how they interact with it.
ETA: Responding to prompts in the comments.
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A quick glance at the Doctor and his pleased look told her that he thought it was on the level of the Crown Jewels. Not that she expected to get anything fancy from him, or anything at all really. When he disappeared and reappeared on Boxing Day with a present under his arm, at first she thought it might be something for her Mum as thanks for Christmas dinner. And the whole taking care of him thing. In this new body he seemed to actually like her Mum, which would take some getting used to. But he'd quickly handed it to her with an enormous grin, and a little bounce. (Another thing to get used to.)
The ceramic pink elephant sat in the box, staring back at her.
"It's..." Rose really had no idea what to say, except for the obvious. The problem was that really pleased look on the Doctor's face.
"You like it?" More bouncing.
Rose pulled it out of the box and it only seemed to get uglier in better light.
"It's...thank you! You really didn't need to do this, you know. I didn't get you anything. I might have to run out to a shop to, um, repay you for this."
"Nah, don't need anything. Only thing I want, you already said you'd do, and so that bit's settled. So you really like it? I thought it was perfect since you're sort of a good luck charm, not that I believe in that sort of thing. Ooh," he said, scratching his chin. "Sorta makes you sound like a rabbit's foot hanging from my keychain, doesn't it? You are most definitely not a rabbit's foot. But it's pink," the Doctor finished, as if that explained everything.
"It is that. I'm a lucky charm?"
"Well...seems like things have gone very right since the basement of Henrik's."
"Except for when they went wrong, yeah? Like...being in a new body?"
"Oh, that." He waved his hand. "Wasn't thinking about end-of-the-universe stuff. Just... Doesn't matter. Lucky charm, that's you," he said with another grin.
It was quite possible that the Doctor was now even weirder. But still very sweet.
Rose glanced up at her mother strolling into the lounge of the flat. "Whatcha got there?" she asked. "Oh, what an adorable elephant!"
The Doctor blinked at her Mum and then turned to Rose with a horrified expression. "It's ugly, isn't it?"
Rose couldn't help laughing. Some things hadn't changed.
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"We've been here before," Rose said, peering out onto the sun-drenched rocks, shading her eyes with her hand.
Right. So not quite the usual enthusiasm. "Seems like it, doesn't it? One thing this universe does is rocks. Billions upon billions upon billions."
The Doctor took off in a forward sort of direction and Rose quickly caught his stride.
"Doctor, I'm serious. We've been here."
Granted one stone quarry looked like another, but it wasn't that bad, was it? And it was still alien, which normally seemed to knock her proverbial socks off.
"Just think, when the universe cobbled itself together, it came up with rocks. Things heating and cooling and aligning themselves just so, so it's all here. And alien. Not like your rubbish Earth rocks. Oh, no. Might look like it, but it's not. Loads of places look like this, but they're not."
"We. Have. Been. Here." Rose said with a look and tone that made him feel five years old.
"No. We. Haven't." he retorted, matching her tone.
Rose rolled her eyes and strode out ahead of him. Well, if she was going to be like that about it. Such a little thing to get worked up over.
"HA!" Rose suddenly called out. She bent to the ground, then straighted and turned back to him, a gleam in her eyes.
In her hand was a kitchen towel. One he instantly recognized as being from the TARDIS.
"Right. You mean that picnic," he said. "Of course we were here for that picnic. The other picnics we weren't here."
"I never said anything about picnics, but you've got me there - other picnics were most definitely not here," she said with a smirk.
"Don't know why we decided to have a picnic in the middle of a quarry anyway," the Doctor muttered.
"Have I ever told you," she asked, stuffing the towel into his jacket pocket and then linking her arm through his, "that you're kinda cute when you're wrong?"
His lips quirked. "Good thing we've got this purple sun around so you can find lost TARDIS towels."
Rose rolled her eyes again but with a grin this time. She squeezed his arm as they walked in the yellow sunlight.
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Pineapple cheesecake?
Jackie drunk?
Bonus points for all three in the same scenario...
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The girl studied him and asked, "Are you Jackie's boyfriend?"
The Doctor stared at her, uncontrolled horrible images popping into his head. "Just...just go back to watching whatever this is." He glanced at the TV. "Aladdin." He moved to another chair, now closer to a younger child who seemed to like to pick his nose. It was an improvement.
It really wasn't his fault. Okay, maybe a bit, but it was only partly his fault.
Banished to the kids' room.
Sure he had called one of Jackie's friends an idiot, and maybe some other things, but that was only after she went on and on and on and on about the importance of some silly celebrity and how Rose really should get liposuction. Jackie, having had one too many wine spritzers started agreeing with the friend. They were insane.
So things had escalated when the discussion had continued about Rose being "chunky," and Rose seemed to shrug it off which made it worse in his mind because if she wasn't going to defend herself, it was up to him to call out the sheer lunacy of the lot of them and...
And Jackie had shoved him into the kids' room.
Why had he come along to this party in the first place? He was too nice, was what. Yeah, that was the reason. That and not because he didn't feel like kicking around the TARDIS if Rose wasn't there.
The door opened and Rose poked her head in. She gave him a smile and he attempted to scowl back at her. He probably failed.
She came through the door, one hand with a plate, and sat down next to him in the oversized chair that was probably meant for one. Not that he was complaining.
"Brought a nail file for the prisoner," she said, nodding at the plate.
"Okay, what is that?"
"I think it's supposed to be pineapple cheesecake," Rose said with a smirk. She picked up one of the two forks sitting on the plate and took a bite. "Hmm."
He did the same and chewed. "Are you sure it's pineapple cheesecake? What is this?"
Suddenly the kids were no longer watching the movie, but watching them. Or rather, watching the possible cheesecake with puppy-dog eyes.
"Ooh, want some?" the Doctor asked.
Heads nodded.
"Here's what you do. Let's all pretend we're mice. Can we do that?"
The kids tried to wiggle their noses and squeaked loudly.
"Brilliant! Although, we're going to be quiet mice. Now go out there, but don't let anyone see you. And you're mice, remember? Mice love to eat. And there are gobs of good things to eat out there, but make sure you poke at everything. Mice like to, um, poke. Get those fingers in stuff! Especially you," he said, looking at the boy close to him. "Got it? Go on, then!"
The children scurried out of the room, squeaking softly.
"You just staged a revolution, you know," Rose said with a chuckle.
The Doctor waved his fork. "Aladdin is the opiate of the mices! And cheesecake has set them free!"
"You ready to go?"
"Rose Tyler, that is probably the best thing you have ever said to me."
She snickered and pushed herself up. "Mum can get her own taxi home. I've had my fill of 'let's improve Rose's life' for one night." She started to set the plate on an end table.
"Ooh, take that with, will you?"
"You really liked this stuff?"
"No, but I've got to see what it is. It's gonna be a very long night in the TARDIS lab."
"Need a hand?"
"Always."
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Silence greeted her in the empty room.
Well, that was disappointing. It wasn't like the Doctor had to always be in the console room, ready to fly off at a moment's notice, but it was sure nice. Rose hopped up on the platform and poked at the monitor.
"Where is he, then? Off cleaning something?" Rose laughed at the thought, and she imagined the TARDIS laughed too, but the monitor didn't change from those rotating circles.
"Hmm. Maybe he's in the shower? You could tell me. Not that I need to look or anything. Unless you wanted to show me that, of course. You could keep stuff blurry, if you want. Or not. Whatever." She tapped the monitor and she got the distinct feeling the TARDIS was still laughing.
The TARDIS door jolted open and the Doctor burst inside, bouncing up the ramp.
"Don't tell him I was trying to see the shower," Rose said in a low voice. She wasn't sure just how much the TARDIS and the Doctor actually "talked," but better to be safe.
"Rose! You're here! Brilliant! Good morning, by the way. And what a beautiful morning it is! The birds are singing, the sun is shining...well, one of those, really. It's a bit grey today. But still!"
Rose laughed. "You're in a great mood! What's the occasion?"
"The occasion, Rose Tyler, is I've made a discovery! Centuries of visiting this planet and I've never heard about these! Almost makes me want to branch out from the UK more often. Well, not really. Almost, though. Fancy Chile? Ooh, let's go to Chile! It's so skinny! Kindred spirit and all!" He was actually bouncing now.
"Doctor, the discovery?"
"Oh, right right! Have a look at this!"
He pulled a brightly-colored bag from his pocket that said Brach's Circus Peanuts. Soft and Chewy. Inside were a couple of orange-colored blobs.
"It's candy? You discovered candy?"
"Not just any candy, this is banana flavored. BRILLIANT! But the best part is they're not shaped like bananas but peanuts! And they're orange! These things make absolutely no sense whatsoever!" He grinned. "Try one!"
Rose peered into the bag. "Um...there are only a couple left. Doctor, did you eat this whole bag?"
"Now what a ridiculous thing to say. First of all, I'd hardly eat the bag. Blech. And speaking in a less literal sense, you yourself said there were a couple left and so obviously I haven't eaten all of it. Here, have the rest. I bought ten more, although I'm beginning to think that's not nearly enough." The Doctor suddenly grabbed Rose's arms. "The kitchen! I've got to make space in the kitchen! Ooh, we can have a Circus Peanut cupboard!"
Rose stared at him, realizing her new mission in life was going to be keeping the Doctor away from Circus Peanuts.
"Might be lots of hard work. Might even need a shower after it," he said with a smirk and a raised eyebrow.
Rose felt her cheeks flush. He wasn't talking about... Did the TARDIS rat her out?
But before she could decide how to interpret it, he flashed a giant grin and raced off towards the kitchen. "We'll call it the CPC for short!" he called out behind him.
Rose glared at the console. "You are SO helping me hide the peanuts."
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"Extra cheesecake, Jackie? Aren't you having any?"
"Nah. It's all yours," she said with a smile.
Panic set in. Why was it all his? Was she finally getting her revenge on the bloke who kept taking her daughter away? He didn't feel like he'd been poisoned, but he began to really really wish he'd gone shopping with Rose after all.
He stared at the third piece. "Um, it's not that I don't appreciate this... Well...that is to say... It doesn't have rat poison in it, does it?"
"Ooh, you are the odd one, aren't you? Don't know how you come up with half the things you do."
Okay, so he wasn't being poisoned. A bit of relief.
"Besides," she continued, "Rose would kill me if there was."
The Doctor twitched.
Jackie smirked. "Oh, you are way too easy to wind up, you know that?"
There might have to be some retaliation for that in the future. "All right, so I'm not being done away with for the honor of your daughter or some other notion. What is up with all the cheesecake?"
"The truth of the matter is I've seen you in next to nothing..."
"You've done what now??"
"Those jim-jams! My god, you're high-strung now, aren't you? Anyway, I've seen you in them and I don't know how you can even stand up straight."
"Why couldn't I stand up straight?"
"Just look how skinny you are! You're practically bones! And I figured it must be because you were sick since you weren't that skinny before."
"Ah. Well, I hate to burst your bubble, but what you see is what you get. No fattening me up to my, um, former glory. But on the upside, you've gotta love the hair now. So much of it!"
Jackie looked slightly disappointed. "You're sure it won't help?"
"Very sure. But it's not like it's a problem for me."
"Great. Now I've got two cheesecakes, three gallons of ice cream, not to mention all the other stuff, and for nothing."
He gave her a smile. Oh she was completely mad, but a touching sort of mad. "You know, I could be wrong. I just might be able to pack on the weight after all!"
"Really? I'll get you some biscuits." Jackie hurried out of the room.
There was no way eating all that food would make him put on any weight, but at least it'd be tasty.
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The Doctor held it out to her after plucking it from a tree. He smiled and told her the Latin name for it, along with a ramble about the oddities of Latin on a different planet.
But he was handing it to her, just like he'd been handing her everything else in the universe. Each day something new to show her or experience with her, all with his excited smile - grin - laugh. He could go anywhere and do anything, and he chose to give her the universe every day.
Of course, it was just an orange.
Rose surprised him by throwing her arms around him, but it was only a second before he wrapped his own arms around her, still clutching the orange.
"Thanks," she said softly.
There was a pause and then, "Note to self. Must get a Snow Orange Tree for the TARDIS."
She grinned.
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The Doctor looked up at her with a ready-made grin and...
AND.
And.
Um.
He looked back at the controls. Had that knob always been there? And that lever? Maybe the TARDIS was playing tricks on him, since for the life of him he couldn't remember what they were there for. Did they control the plaid bikini? VORTEX LOOP CONTROL!
He most definitely was thinking they might relate to the vortex loop control, and wasn't thinking about what Rose was wearing.
What Rose was wearing while standing right next to him.
"Can't wait for Hawaii!" Rose exclaimed with a squeeze of his arm.
Hawaii. Yes. The TARDIS could get them to Hawaii. Somehow. Maybe the round button would do it - it looked like it should be pressed. And so he did.
The TARDIS jerked violently, sending him crashing into Rose and they crumpled in a heap on the floor.
Rose laughed at the rough landing and the Doctor joined her, although mostly he was focused on the fact that his hands were touching very smooth, warm skin. He stayed like that as long as he felt he could get away with without it seeming like he was having a grope - NOT THAT HE WAS - and jumped up, pulling her up with him.
"Here we are, then!" the Doctor announced. "Hawaii!"
They both stared at the monitor that was currently showing them mounds of ice and snow.
"That's Hawaii?"
"Oh. All right, here's the thing. This is Hawaii, but apparently we've landed during the Fourth Ice Age."
Rose wrinkled her nose. "Well, guess I need to go layer up. We can build a snowman!" she said with a grin, racing away from him.
"But...but...!" The Doctor sighed. Probably was for the best. Although Jamaica would be a good place to go next. Loads of, um, history. And interesting plants. That sort of thing. Very educational.
But just to be safe, he'd program the flight ahead of time.
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alien puppies are acceptable
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The Doctor strode into the room and pointed at Rose. "Okay, you, stop playing with the Daleks!"
"As if I'm sending out some sort of Dalek signal saying, 'Come on down, boys! I'm in the mood to talk to an insane squid.'"
"Are you?"
"Oh ha ha. You'd think they'd want to avoid me, having tried to wipe them out of existence. Or at least I should be known by now as She Who Hangs Around the Oncoming Storm, and so showing up for a chat would be a generally bad idea."
"'Hangs around?' Not sure I like that."
"You don't like me hanging around?"
"How about 'She Who Cohabits with the Oncoming Storm'? Hmm, for some reason I'm picturing Jackie coming after with me with a shotgun with that one. 'She Who Constantly Wanders Off From the Oncoming Storm.' Ooh, lacks subtlety. 'She Who Shares a Joint Pet With the Oncoming Storm.'
"A pet? What, are you saying you want a dog? A real one?"
"On second thought, I don't know. We get a dog and the next thing you know it gets eaten by dinosaurs. And then there's all the crying over poor Skipper."
"Skipper? Really? Kinda lame."
"All right, then. You come up with a better name for our imaginary dead dog."
"EXTERMINATE."
The Doctor turned to the two Daleks wiggling their eyestalks at them. "Right! Sorry! Daleks! Where were we? Aside from the whole 'exterminate' thing?"
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"As if I'd say no after you've been acting like a 5-year-old being told he was going to Disneyland," Rose answered with a grin. "You don't always have to try to think up things I want to do, you know. We should do stuff you want to too."
"Such a chore taking you to places you might like," he said with a smirk.
She grinned at him. "Ooh, a girl always loves being told she's a chore. Anyway, I'm sure I'll find something to do. It's a party, after all."
"You're sure?"
"Doctor, I've just decided that we really need to do things you want to do more often. It's seriously okay to not have to entertain me all the time. Since you let it slip that you've always wanted to attend the decommissioning of the Large Heron Collider--"
"Hadron."
"Large Hadron Collider, then that's what I want to do next. No arguing!"
"All right, but if you're sure--?"
"And no more asking me about it either!"
He broke out in a grin. "Brilliant!" The Doctor bounced around the console, adjusting controls. "In operation for a hundred years, finally retiring after pulling the human race out of the dark ages, the greatest minds of the time gathering to pay tribute...and begin a week-long physics party! Have I said 'brilliant' yet?"
"Yup! You know, I think I might have to see if I can pick up some of the physics of it all."
The Doctor stopped racing around the console. "Really? Rose Tyler, I think I already have a new favorite day ever!"
Rose kept grinning. They definitely needed to have more Doctor-style outings.
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*does little jig at the thought of you writing*
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With that he knew. He knew. The sinking feeling in his stomach told him. Maybe he shouldn't have been surprised - Rose got distracted, she wandered off, and she apparently had a thing for skinny idiots. But he hadn't expected the beginning of the end so soon - the kind he'd seen with others - the kind where the people began to realize there was more to their life than him.
As much as he had not been impressed with Adam on his own merits, it really wasn't about him.
The Doctor tried pointing out Adam's flaws to her. That backfired. Then he tried to embarrass her out of it. That didn't work either.
What he didn't try was the truth. The truth was he didn't share, plain and simple. Many a person had been held at arm's length because he didn't share. But with Rose...
The realization hit him. He hadn't kept her at arm's length. He should have, but he hadn't. They'd been together such a short time, but he'd already screwed up. A lot.
So take Adam along and watch Rose pull away, or refuse Adam and have to admit a 19-year-old human meant more to him than she should. Damned if you do and damned if you don't. A crude sentiment, but it fit.
"On your own head," he said with a roll of his eyes, taking the coward's way.
He didn't feel the need to add he'd be watching out for that head.
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"Wow! That's...that's beautiful!"
She took the bracelet (or maybe it was an anklet?) from the box and held it up in the light. The beads on it were sort of iridescent, but nothing like she'd ever seen before. Sparkly but not flashy. Very pretty.
The Doctor got her a gift? Sure his gruff and crabby exterior didn't fool her for a second, but he still didn't seem the type to buy people presents. Well, there was only one way to find out.
Rose slipped the bracelet on and headed back to the console room.
"Oh, did you just throw the bag in the closet or something? 'Suppose I have seen your bedroom," the Doctor said when she walked in.
"Oi! Insulting, much? Oh, right. Forgot who you were for a second," Rose said with a smirk. "Hold on. When were you in my bedroom?"
"Got lost on the way to the loo."
"Hmm." It seemed like a plausible explanation. She hadn't really kept track of him in the crush of people piled into the flat to watch the spaceship in the Thames.
The Doctor went on, fiddling with something on the console. Rose leaned against the railing.
"So, is it a 'welcome to the TARDIS' gift or something?"
The Doctor looked up at her and blinked. "Not sure I'd call a key a gift. Practical, sure."
"Not that. This." She held out her arm, to which there was more blinking. "Found it in my room."
"Maybe it was left by someone."
"Someone in this room?"
"No."
"Okay, are there other people roaming around here I should be worried about?"
"Nope. Just us."
Rose frowned. "So...you didn't give this to me and no one else did either?"
A twinkle appeared in the Doctor's eyes, and he looked at the central column. "I think you've got yourself an admirer."
"You do realize that the secret admirer thing only works if there are more than two people around, yeah?"
"Oh, not me. The TARDIS."
"Your ship. Your ship gave me the bracelet. Right."
"It did!"
Rose pushed herself away from the railing. "I completely believe you," she said, and quickly gave him a hug before he could dodge out of the way. "Thanks."
Cautious hands pat at her back. "I really didn't do it."
"Whatever you say," she said with a smirk. "Better go unpack now. Something up to your standards."
He gave her a mock-serious look. "Inspection later, Rose Tyler."
Rose saluted him before walking away. Behind her she heard him talking to his ship. She couldn't make anything out except the word 'matchmaker.' Weird. He certainly was a nutter, but she just might have to try that hugging thing again.
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I mean, this one has kind of already been done, but you can never have enough tea, right?
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(Hahaha. There are probably going to be 100 prompts here by midnight, you know. :D)
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(As in: "I don't think that word means what think it means.")
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widespread is stretching it a bit
how long have i been on fire?
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Youtube.
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Thomas Edison