TenRose FanFic: A Compilation

Tangled

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Rose and the Doctor were spending the night at her mum's while the TARDIS was recharging. Jackie didn't know they were home yet or the Doctor would be sleeping on the couch. That is, until he mother was asleep when Rose would shoo him into her room to sleep and she would take the couch. Jackie instead was out with some friends, probably at the usual bar flirting with the regulars. Meanwhile, Rose and the Doctor were in her room watching a bit of television. At such a late hour, nothing good was really on.

The Doctor was sitting cross-legged on the bed with Rose in front of him on the floor. There was a gossip news program on, currently talking about the divorce between Brittney Spears and K-Fed. Rose wasn't paying attention to it and the Doctor didn't care to even ask who this K-Fed was. He was too busy trying to listen to Rose while still figuring out how to braid her hair. Rose leaned against the mattress with her head almost in his lap.

"I feel bad for Cassandra, really. She wasn't awful, I suppose. A little selfish, but she wasn't anything like the Slitheen, I suppose," Rose said, flipping through the channels.

"Mhm," the Doctor said, tossing the same piece of hair over another for the third time in a row. He really didn't know what he was doing, but he liked playing with her hair.

"I mean, sure she did try to kill everyone on that ship when the sun roasted the planet, but at the hospital she actually felt bad for those people. I mean, she was in my head. I could hear everything that was going on. She was genuinely upset that they were such lonely people," Rose went on.

The Doctor bit his lip and added a third strand and twisted the "braid" a few times. He tried his best to keep listening to Rose as she talked about Cassandra and her somewhat depressing end, but he really was focused on this braid. How girls could do this, he wasn't sure. Deciding to start over, he combed out the tuft of hair. Rose paused for a second and closed her eyes. She missed having someone to play with her hair.

When she started again, so had the Doctor. He twisted a few pieces and flipped them over each other and added strands and twisted the pieces again. He repeated this process over and over, hoping to get somewhere with it. Even with all the hope in the world, it was looking like a big tangled mess. The Doctor continued to braid and didn't notice when Rose had gone quiet and had leaned her head back against his knee. He kept messing for a few more minutes before noticing the silence.

"Rose?" the Doctor called. She didn't answer.

Dropping the hair in his hands, he got off the bed and kneeled next to her. She was asleep, just as he suspected. Her mouth was slightly open as her head dropped. The Doctor smirked. He always thought Rose was adorable when she fell asleep. Occasionally, she and the Doctor would take naps on the TARDIS. Rose always fell asleep first since the Doctor really didn't sleep much. He would occasionally sneak a picture of her and she always hated it, but he kept them anyways. Easy payback for when she caught pictures of him doing something like making a funny face in the mirror while shaving or dancing alone in his room.

He scooped her up and laid her in the bed. After turning off the television and the lights, the Doctor climbed in next to her and pulled her closer. Naturally, she rolled over and nuzzled her head into his chest. They became tangled in each other's arms with their legs even entwining. The Doctor stayed up for just a couple more minutes before allowing himself to slip away. Sure, Jackie would raise hell in the morning for finding them like this, but in all reality, neither of them really cared.