Created for the @doctorroseficmarathon
Prompt: One bed - Find on AO3
Goodnight, Sleep Tight
Rose and the Doctor share a single bed for the night, and it’s not quite as romantic as Rose imagined.
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Extract:
'Rose,' he whispered.
'What now?' she moaned.
'This isn't comfortable.'
'Then find somethin' you like,' she told him.
'Ah … ugh,' he said, violently readjusting until he ended up taking up about two-thirds of the space in a kind of starfish shape with one long leg hanging over the side. 'Okay, there we go.'
Now partially squashed into the wall, Rose was no longer comfortable. 'Doctor, you're takin' up most of the bed …'
He didn't reply. She looked at him and immediately realised that, inexplicably, he was suddenly deeply asleep, as though someone had just switched him off at the mains.
'Doctor?' she tried.
Nothing.
'Bloody hell, that's weird,' Rose muttered but decided to make the best out of things by rolling over a little bit, trying to get some semblance of comfort while simultaneously being crushed into the wall. She eventually managed to twist into a painless position and decided that however uncomfortable this was, she should just try to enjoy it.
She closed her eyes, and still feeling the thrumming of his hearts, she drifted off …
What felt like half a second later, she woke up, startled by something she couldn't figure out for a few moments before she realised the Doctor was twitching and had inadvertently kicked her. In fact, his legs seemed to be constantly moving under the cover, so she lifted it up to see he appeared to be running in his sleep like a very long-legged dog with no destination.
'Oh my god,' she breathed.
'Nurgh, nurgh!' he emitted.
'Shuuush,' she tried. 'Shuuush.'
'Marg nurgh.'
'Rock-a-bye-Time Lord on the treetop …' she whispered in a singsong tone.
Whether by sheer coincidence or her genuine dulcet tones, he thankfully stopped moving and shut up, and the room sank back into blissful silence.
For what felt like the twentieth time, she closed her eyes, sinking into a comfortable sleep, and …
'Qe'yashi'chera-o ici'vivi-n…' he drawled.
She groaned loudly. Now he was sleeptalking in gallifreyan.
'N-lorumo'didilio'heesh'klopa'remira,' he muttered next.
She deliberately coughed loudly to try and shake him out of it.
'Egeazy!!!' he suddenly shrieked, startling Rose. Her heart fluttering, she panted for a few moments to regain her composure before elbowing him in the side.
















