Hi hi! Looking for a fic that's only a chapter long. Rose, Mickey, and Shareen are at a pub celebrating something and the Doctor is eventually coaxed to join them eventually. He gets drunk and tries to fight Mickey, then dances with Rose. They have to take him home to the TARDIS and as they're stumbling along he's singing "Shes Like the Wind" quietly to himself.
Hiya! I believe this is I Drank a Little Drink, by lostwolf. ~pyf
Summary: Post Father’s Day, things are changing between the Doctor and Rose. A kiss affirms their understanding.
The Pink and yellow sky turned more to bronze as the sun sank low into the horizon. Rose lay next to the Doctor, head pillowed on the leather clad arm loosely wrapped around her propped up by the soft spongey amber grass covered ground. A new planet to her.
To the Doctor, it appeared like an old friend. Not like the TARDIS but a quiet wind-swept land, almost spiritual if that was possible. And maybe that’s why he brought her here. After her father died, visiting her mum, and leaving her uncertain about so many things.
Like the choices she’d made in her life. Nothing quite like watching reapers almost destroy your planet or watching your father die to reassess where you fit in the universe. Or with the Doctor. The man…alien who you might just have fallen in love with. Might? No. Definitely, in a soul searing love way. Scary and weirdly right at the same time.
“Almost there,” his Northern bur rumbled next to her. A comfort after losing him. She curled closer, her head on his shoulder.
“So many stars,” she gushed as the bronze turned to purple turned to night dotted with masses of stars the likes of which left her awed.
“Opposite side of the galaxy so everything’s a bit turned around from this angle…from your perspective.” Lecture mode commenced but with his typical slight quip. “See that pink cluster to the left?” His index finger, long, slightly callused pointed to her left.
“That’s Hades’ Fall.”
“Doctor, are you making stuff up? That’s not exactly one of the Greek constellations.” She rolled her head to meet the sparkle in his blue eyes.
“Not in your era but later, humans get better at seeing the stars. Romantic too. This scientist who discovers it, Dr. Tesla Mejia had thing for the Persephone myth.”
“All right, can’t blame her for that.” Like the tick of a clock, Rose suddenly felt her life align. She took a chance. “What girl wouldn’t find the dark lord of the underworld sweeping her off for an adventure romantic? All those lost souls who needed help and a whole new world to see,” she mused.
“Maybe,” He nodded. “Or he stole her away from the light, her mother and life, in a selfish act that endangered the whole world and made her…” He swallowed hard. “sad and lonely, wondering if she’s ever getting home.”
Rose captured his attention, an intensity shimmering in the air between them.
“Or he taught her how to live. There in his world where the living turned into something else, a different morality took hold and she saw what living really meant. He showed her that the universe is a balancing act. We all walk that fine line but it’s so worth it. Just for one moment like this.”
The sky lighted with a dozen blue comments streaking by them converging on the constellation Hade’s Fall.
“Why Hade’s Fall?” she asked, turned on her side, fingers tracing the ridges and folds of his leather coat.
“Persephone,” his deep voice shivered up her spine.
“But she didn’t fall. She went away with him and became his queen. And Don’t for a minute think she didn’t know what she was doing with those Pomegranate seeds. Maybe she was pretty good at finding a loop hole.”
“Clever goddess.” He stilled her hand, the weight of his palm comforting.
“So why fall?”
“Because he did.” The words slammed into her already tight chest. Doubts fled. For an alien who used words so well, sometimes he couldn’t seem to say what he meant. Except, he did just then. Maybe not the human way. But his way.
Leaning into him, their faces so close, the kiss happened leisurely. A bounce of her nose against his. Relaxed, she angled her head, lips brushing against his. No hesitation, exploration as she laid butterfly kisses on the corner of his mouth.
He remained still but didn’t object almost waiting. Rose took her time. Not a passionate shag or die. This was Persephone wooing her Hades, comforting him with a promise life blossomed all around him.
A dart of her tongue on the seam of his lips, she pressed her lips against his yielding to her. There…a slight sigh. Her hands slid up to his shoulders until she lay half on him, her tongue darting into his mouth, ever slowly, gently.
Massaging lips turned into a languid kiss, exploring each other’s mouth. A groan rumbled but in whose chest Rose couldn’t’ say. Like the sun setting, she eased the pressure, gently tugging his bottom lip as she parted from him.
In the starlight with comets glowing in the sky, she gazed down at her personal Hades, eyes glistening in the light. Yes, she loved him but the words seemed too important to be voiced. She curled back onto his shoulder, their legs entwined.
“Thank you for bringing me here.” Her voice hoarse form the emotions pounding in her veins, she memorized this moment. How his fingers traced through her hair.
“You want to visit it?” He asked, and oh how her toes curled when his breath tickled her ear.
She turned to him, noses bouncing.
“Together,” she affirmed as he kissed her, one more time, deeply in affirmation before helping her up, back to the TARDIS and their next adventure.
Are the links to the master lists not working properly? I'm clicking on the nine/rose ones and then it just takes me back to the same post again, not any stories listed or anything. Maybe it's on my end?
Eek! Apologies, and thanks for asking! I checked some of the Nine links just now, and those are working. Which are you having trouble with? If you’re talking about the sexy!times masterlist, the rec lists themselves have not been posted yet. I wanted to get the masterlists up first. ;)
I’m working on things for a bit now, trying to get more of our authors up on the author masterlist, hunt down some mistakes, and so on. If I find a problem, I’ll fix it, and if you can point me to the specific post(s) giving you trouble, I can help. :)
Hey! Not a fic question, but is there anyone out there who has seen by fanart of Nine and Rose cuddling or sleeping? I've seen one and a fic that it inspired (which I loved). But I was wondering if there was any more that existed. Thanks! ❤❤
Hi there! This isn’t something we do, but I’m going to post it so our followers can rec things for you. -cq
(Whaaaaat? I’m writing during the week??? Whaaaaaaaat!?!?!?!?)
(AO3)
Little Bit Desperate
“Doctor,” Rose says as she walks into the galley, one arm contorted into a slightly awkward position to attempt to reach a spot on her back. “My back itches, and I can’t reach. Help me out?”
The Doctor turns from the counter and frowns. “Can’t you reach it yourself? You’ve got two hands.”
Rolling her eyes, Rose sighs. “Can’t. Hurt my left arm when I fell on my shoulder yesterday, and my right arm’s never been able to reach this spot.”
The Doctor thunks his tea on the countertop and crosses his arms over his chest. “When’d you fall? How come you didn’t say anything, Rose? I could have fixed you right up.” He pauses, continuing after a moment. “Did someone hurt you?”
Rose sighs again, ignoring the Doctor and his off-topic questions, then turns to Jack, who sits at the table looking between her and the Doctor with a bemused smile on his face. “Jack?”
“Of course, I can.” Jack extends an arm and claws the air like a cat.
Rose giggles, and skips to his side, but before she reaches Jack’s hand, the Doctor cuts in front of her. “Never said I couldn’t scratch your back,” he says with a scowl, glaring at Jack’s offending hand.
“Blimey,” Rose says, secretly delighted that the Doctor had stepped in at the last second. Despite her love for Jack as her friend, she’ll always welcome the Doctor’s touch more than anyone’s. “I don’t really care who scratches my back, just as long as someone does it before I give up and find a strut in the console room.”
“Little bit desperate, Rose?” Jack asks, and she doesn’t even have to see his face to know he’s smirking like a git bursting with poorly contained innuendo.
But Rose doesn’t bother to answer, as the Doctor’s soothing touch has found the spot that has plagued her for the last twenty minutes and works expertly to soothe the offending irritation.
“Better, Rose?” he asks, patting her shoulder when he’s done.
Rose turns to smile at the Doctor. “Yep!” she says, then stands on her toes to kiss him on the cheek before she bounds out of the galley to return to her room.
As she heads down the corridor, the Doctor echoes her earlier word. “Blimey.”