Forever Loved (Tenrose Fanfiction)

7: We Just Know

The Doctor's POV

When I wake I'm in the TARDIS console room, sat in the chair that I usually spare for Rose. But then I realise that my head is in her lap and she is sat next to me, head bent forward: she is asleep. Suddenly I remember her comment about us being together, the sadness I felt, the song she sang to me...

Just close your eyes...

As I sit up and rub my eyes, I reach out to touch her face as gently as I can, but it's all right--she doesn't stir. Something makes me want to whisper those words back at her, to make her as happy as she made me. But then her eyes flicker open and she smiles at me.

Now I know what I have to do.

She's speaking, but I cut her off with a soft hushing noise.

I whisper three words to her, smile to myself as her eyes slowly close again. Carefully I lift her off the chair and tuck her up in her very own warm bed, leaving her to sleep peacefully.

Today I don't know where I want to go. Yesterday's events are still lingering in my mind, and I think maybe a day in space might be good. I can fly around some of her favourite planets and we can talk, work things out.

Things, between us.

She loves me. I love her.

What does that make us?

And another unanswered question: is this love? Is this really what it feels like? Of course I've loved before, but my mind has always stopped me going anywhere further than just letting those thoughts enter my brain. Now I am slowly, slowly, slowly taking down the fences, letting myself love carefully, and I am liking what I feel.

I really love her.

So much.

Maybe she's loved me from the start like I loved her. Maybe it's always been like that, all along. Maybe it's just one of those things, where we don't even need to say it to each other because we just know. We just know what's going on in each other's mind, we just know that they love us too. And no words need to be said, because as long as we have each other it doesn't matter.

Just as long as we are lying there together, silently, carefully, we just know that there are no words we need to say. None at all.

The silence isn't a disadvantage. It's just a way of letting us be at peace with one another, a way of allowing us into each other's mind, a way of us knowing that we never need to say any words ever again.

As long as she's mine, none of that matters anymore.

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A/N sooo sorry that that took a little longer than it should have :/ it was my first week back at school so I've obviously been loaded with homework and revision and all that, but hopefully I'll be back into it by next week and I'll be able to update regularly! Hope you liked it! Ily <4