New Fic! Mother-in-Law nightmare Part 1
Title: Mother-In-Law Nightmare
Rating: G or K
Summary: Some things are better left unknown.
Characters: Rose, The Doctor (Ten) and Jackie!
Dedicated to my sister who put the idea into my head and smeggys_world , my excellent beta who helped me find all those little things that needed fixing.
Rose was wandering around the library of the TARDIS, thinking, just thinking, as one thing kept niggling at the back of her head. ‘What does the Doctor have against my mum?’ The lights in the room brightened, as if the TARDIS was encouraging her to find the Doctor and talk to him. Not that he was hard to locate - she found the Doctor in the console room, tinkering with the TARDIS as usual.
“Rose! Ah, hello, I’m just setting a course for London, that alright?” He glanced up at her grinning. “Only as a visit of course!” he added seeing her look of shock, and then went back to work setting the controls. Rose sighed in relief, her attention going back to her previous thoughts. ‘I wonder. If he has a new body, maybe that means he can put up with my mother. It is logical. Hmm, I’ll see how he reacts.’
“So will you come have dinner at mums with me when we get there?” Rose asked casually but softly. The Doctor wasn't really listening to Rose, his attention more on the TARDIS controls.
“Yea sure, whatever you want, Rose,” he commented “Hang on! What? Dinner! No!” He jumped up as he realised what she actually asked.
“Oh, come on, Doctor. It’s only dinner!” Rose whined, following the Doctor as he raced around the controls, flicking switches, turning knobs and pulling levers. The Doctor in return stopped what he was doing, turned to Rose and waved his hands around in wild protest.
“No, no, no, no, no! Just because I am slightly younger, slightly better looking, and slightly different does not mean that I am capable of putting up with your mother!”
“Why not, Doctor?” Rose stamped her foot resembling a somewhat two year old. “It’s not as if she’s ever done anything to you.”
A silence followed.
“Well…um actually.” He looked around awkwardly trying to avoid her stare.
“Or should I be saying with you!” Rose said suspiciously, on the inside she was boiling with rage.
“Rose! That’s just… disturbing. How could you say that? NO! How could you even think that I would ever initiate any intimate activities with your mother?” The Doctor grimaced with revulsion and shock. Rose grinned like a Cheshire cat
“Well knowing my mother…” she trailed off but then posed the big question. “What did she do anyway?” Her grin grew impossibly wider. The Doctor turned away from Rose, tucking his hands in his new defensive stance.
“Nothing I wish to discuss ever,” he muttered so softly that Rose only just heard and she pouted.
“Fine, but if you don’t tell me what she did, you have to come to dinner with me!” Rose looked smugly at him. The Doctor turned back around, manic grin plastered on his face.
“Well let’s get hopping then!” he exclaimed bouncing out of the TARDIS, not waiting up for Rose. She quickly followed after him and muttered to herself. “Geez, it must have been really bad.”
She ran as fast as she could, catching up to the Doctor who was striding down the road trying to get away from her. As she approached him she felt even more frustrated.
“I just don’t get it. You’ve battled Daleks, Cybermen, and the Master multiple times... as well as the-” The Doctor spun to face her utterly confused.
“How do you know about them?”
“I dunno really, I just know all this stuff that I didn't before I came to save you. But that’s not important!” The Doctor nodded, and muttered “Bad Wolf” so quietly Rose didn’t hear him. She stopped and looked him in the eye and everything ceased to move.
“So why is dinner with my mother scarier than any of those?” She questioned him tilting her head slightly and staring right into those brown orbs.
“Well for one, Rose, that was fighting and defeating, and this,” pointing to her apartment, “is dining, and two, you might not be aware of it, but your mother is worse than all of them put together.” At this Rose just scoffed.
“You are such scaredy cat!” He looked at her plainly bewildered.
“She is!” How on Earth could she not believe him?
“You’re just afraid you’ll be copping another slap!” Rose smirked look at him become even more uncomfortable.
“No, I just, she’s, never mind,” he looked down at the ground defeated.
“Come on, it won’t be that bad!” Rose said somewhat encouragingly. “Knowing her, she’ll absolutely love this new you!” As she started walking ahead of him up the first flight of stairs.
The Doctor trudged behind and whispered, “That’s what I’m afraid of,” before catching up to Rose.