Something There [Rose, AD]

[The Doctor]

Humming as he walked down the street he smiled over at Rose as their hands swung back and forth with each step. The Doctor was taking her out on a date. A sort of typical date but it was the afternoon so he figured that tea would just have to do and Jack had recommended to him a nice new little coffee shop in town. Looking over at the blond he notified her, "Your gonna love this, promise."

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Pulling her down the street he continued on humming until he reached a quaint little shop. Smiling, he opened the door and lead Rose inside and settled down at a quite little table. "Isn't this nice? Just you and me just like old times? What shall I get you? I think, I want to get banana coffee if they have it or maybe a banana mocha because chocolate is soo good with bananas."[/color] Pausing he smiled at Rose. "Wait don't tell me, your gonna do the mocha as well cos you love chocolate. Am I right or am I right? Ooooh and we need scones and proper clotted cream and strawberries and petit fours!"[/color]

Nodding, he pulled out his thickly framed glasses and gazed over the menus on the table and mused for a moment before frowning. "No petit fours! What sort of tea shop is this?"[/color] Sighing he looked rather disappointed. It had been ages since he had petit fours. But soon he put a smile on for Rose as she looked fantastic as usual. [/blockquote]

[Rose Tyler]

Rose smiled back at the Doctor over their hands as they walked, unable to stop that little skip of her heart as she looked at his cheerful expression. It was so good to see him happy for once. He'd been so down lately, what with the Tardis, and everything going on. Come to think of it, she'd not been her usual self either. But it was hard to be unhappy when things were going your way, and easy to forget her troubles as she walked hand in hand with the man she loved.

She'd had to laugh when he suggested a date, although not cruelly. She couldn't think of anything nicer, really. But they didn't have much luck with this kind of thing, after all. Last time they'd gone out together, she'd ended up storming off in tears. And the time before that...well, they never had much luck. Trouble seemed to find the Doctor anywhere he went. But surely, even he couldn't attract too much mayhem in a small shop in Cardiff.

She stifled a little gasp as he opened the door. It was a gorgeous little shop, abandoned except for her and the Doctor, as far as she could see from the doorway anyway. She followed him to an old little table and sat across from him. "It's gorgeous" she said, picking up a menu as she watched him do the same, and hiding a smile as he set off on a rant about coffee and scones. "Suprise, suprise, your right." she laughed, then reached out to place a hand over his, as he complained about the lack of petit fours. "I'm sure you'll survive" she smiled, patting his hand.

[futuredoctor]

Business was going strong. Maybe putting up a coffee shop business wasn't a bad decision after all. With no customers to serve, the Doctor relaxed at the stockroom with his fedora on his face and hummed with the soft playing music inside his shop. Upon hearing the doors of his little shop swing open, the Doctor instantly stood up and he said, "So much for some R&R."

The Doctor armed himself with that 'thick' menu that contained the list of all known types of coffee served throughout the galaxy and with a smile on his face, the Doctor entered the premises of his shop once more. His smile faded away though when he saw his Tenth incarnation inside the shop. Although it might have been nice for Rose to have stumbled on his shop, his tenth self had to ruin it all by making a ruckus out of having no petit fours.

The Doctor took a deep breath to calm himself down and then took two slices of apple grass chocolate cake from New Earth. He proceeded to the table and placed the slices of cake in the middle of the two. "This ones on the house. Apple Grass Chocolate Cake from New New York."

"This one's rather an incomplete one created by my helper as she didn't know how to make the other five thousand and ninety three coffees I listed down on this one," the Doctor then placed the thick menu on the table and took out a paper and pen. With a rather posh voice, the Doctor inquired of them, "What would you like to order then? And no petit fours for the one with stickity-uppity hair."

[The Doctor]

Grinning wildly at Rose who sat across the table from him, the Doctor causality noted, "Of course I'm right, I'm right 99.9 percent of the time because I'm the Doctor."

[/color] Of course their where moments when he was wrong but he was getting pretty good at taking a wild educated guess. Well to be fair he was always fairly good at taking wild guesses because he was eccentric and unpredictable.

In more than one way he was glad Jack recommended this place. It was a nice cozy little place where the duo could get some peace and quite. Perhaps they needed that because lately with all the fuss about his TARDIS being stuck seemed to lead to trouble. He got quite a lot of reading done and read though all the Torchwood files trying to see why everything was the way it was as he could see the bigger picture. Not the fluxes but if he could connect the dots to the fluxes all would make much more sense and then perhaps the Doctor could mend the TARDIS with his connected dots.

Survive? Him survive without petit fours? Impossible, he was just getting in the mood to have them with a proper tea-- well coffee. Chocolate banana coffee just like they had on Anagonia, Brilliant stuff mind. He looked at Rose not believing what she just said and then down to the hand that she patted. "Oh I dunno Rosie, I was really looking forward to them."[/color]

Then he looked down at the apple grass cake from New New York (technically speaking it was New New New New New New New New New New New New New New New York as it was the fifteenth rendition of New York but the guy was just trying to keep things simple). The Doctor smiled remembering taking Rose to New New York and how she snogged him-- while she was Cassandra but still technically Rose was in their so he counted it as one. Wait did the waiter just say New New York in New Earth? He blinked and looked up at him and felt a little light headed and dizzy. He fell from his chair backwards and landed gracefully on his bum. (It really wasn't so graceful as it hurt like the Dickens but it looked somewhat graceful)."Oh and point of information, it's technically New New New New New New New New New New New New New New New York!"[/color]

"What? WHAT? WHAT?!"[/color] he stammered, "You again?! You can't play the New Earth card--- cheeky bastard."[/color] he noted as he helped himself from the ground and back into his chair. They didn't get along that much was a given. Five was his Doctor not this crazy cake donating bloke. "Yes, one mocha with all the pretty rainbow sprinkles and one mocha with banana with sprinkles as well... and some scones and strawberries and clotted creme and --- OI be nice, you were me once."[/color] [/blockquote]

[Rose Tyler]

Rose rolled her eyes, but smiled at the Doctors comment. ”Just because you’re smart, you don’t have to be cocky.” she said. Smart was a bit of an understatement. There was certainly no one else she knew smarter than the Doctor. Granted, her social group hadn’t always been the brightest bunch, but recently that had changed. They didn’t let just anyone into Torchwood, and travelling with the Doctor had introduced her to all kinds of, well, people wasn’t always the right word. But still, none of them quite matched up. The blonde had no idea if it was a time lord thing, or due to his age, or just him. Maybe all three.

But even so, she saw it as part of her job to bring him down a notch or two when she saw fit. Someone had to, or he’d get far too big a head. “Besides, it’s more luck than anything that gets you out of most of the situations you land in.” she added with a smile.

A waiter came up to them, with two slices of cake on the house. She turned to thank him, a smile on her lips that froze as she saw who it was. The Doctor. Well, the alternate, future Doctor. Her mind flipped as she remembered his warnings, and tried to formulate a decent plan to get the two of them out of their quick smart before her Doctor clicked in on the situation. As she heard a muffled gasp and a thump, she realised it might be too late. She turned to find the Doctor on the floor and sighed. His next words made her realise it wasn’t the first time they’d met. Well, the world was still turning as far as she knew, so the consequences couldn’t have been that dramatic.

“You two aren’t going to bicker like children all day are you?” she asked, frowning first at the Doctor on the floor, and then a little less so at the one with the menu. She knew her Doctor better, and had no problem at all with telling him off. The other might take a bit more time yet.

[futuredoctor]

"Ooooh. That's not good," the Doctor commented as his former self fell off his chair. He was about to help him up, albeit in a rather 'strong handed manner, but suddenly stopped and raised his brows out of annoyance that the dolt had to rub in the rather obvious and lengthy name of New New York, "And speaking of technicality, it's much more acceptable and has been made the standard that your so-called New New New New New New New New New New New New New New New York be simply called New New York. Not everybody wants to be an overachieving-I mean underachieving, dolt like you do."

"Oh ho ho!" Of all the insults the skinny idiot could throw at him, the Doctor retorted, "At least your 'idol' didn't call me a skinny idiot ranting about everything that happens to be in front of him! Noisy dolt."

"Yes-I mean no," the Doctor said after adjusting his fedora a bit. He then cleared his throat and said, "As long as he behaves and keeps to himself. Something I know to be impossible at times."

"Yes, what a fiasco that was. Still...never mind that," the Doctor muttered as he looked away and wrote down what his former incarnation ordered. The Doctor looked at Rose and he said, "What would you like? I'd recommend a simply Vanilla Frappuccino that would taste quite well with the cake. I'd throw in strawberry waffles if the two of you would like to taste them. It's apparently a customer favorite."

[The Doctor]

Cocky? The Doctor sat stilled and shocked over this comment. How dare she even assume-- but a little voice in his head reminded him that Rose was usually right about those sort of things. It wasn't smarts, it was simply Rose pointing out the obvious. Rose was his reality check. However, he was clever he knew it just as much as Rose did. She made him see the world in a different hue -- a rosy one. The Doctor opened his mouth about to counter her but decided to remain silent and not counter her statement.

"Well, I'm fairly clever."

[/color] he nonchalantly pointed out to the blond haired women across from him. The waiter came and the Doctor found himself speaking about other things. "Us? Bicker? Not in a million years..."[/color] he began to laugh it off. Of course they would. They didn't get along. In a way he felt sorry for Rose. Well there went our date. Ah well... nothing ever works out with me.[/color]

Glaring up at his alternative future self the Doctor sighted and breathed out a puff of air from his nose. "Can I take that back? Cos he is way more rude than me and definably not ginger."[/color] The Doctor pointed out as he leaned causally back in his wooden chair. Maybe they should just go yet he had a feeling that fate brought him into the tea shop and thus he would need to stay. "OI.... Rose....he's being mean!"[/color] the Doctor wined before adding, "Be nice, I'm younger and the cute one."[/color]

"Impossible? I am made of impossible. We are impossible. And I already told you, Rose is getting a mocha with extra rainbow sprinkles. No thank you to the strawberry waffles."[/color][/blockquote]

[Rose Tyler]

Rose grinned at the Doctor. Fairly clever was about a large an understatement as you could make. The man sitting across from her was far more than just fairly clever - there wasn't much in the whole universe that he didn't know. She didn't envy him for it either - she'd had a taste of insode his head during the incident on Satelite Five. So much information, so many change possibilities, flicking through her mind - it had physically hurt. She never wanted to have a mind like that, a mind like his. Not that she would tell him any of that. He needed someone to keep him grounded, with so many people around him telling him how brilliant he was. To many compliments weren't good for a person.

"You're being pretty rude yourself" she pointed out, leaning her elbow on the table and cradeling her chin. Brilliant date this had turned out to be. She should have known better than to get her hopes up. Things never went as planned when you were near the Doctor. He drew trouble like a magnet, and Rose was beginning to think that he'd passed a bit of that magnetism onto her. It certainly didn't help much with planning. She supposed they'd just have to try again, although thry'd just get disrupted once more. Look at their plans for Barcelona - still unfufilled. "You're both old enough to know how to be nice to one another" she said with a sigh. She was turning into their bloody mother - brilliant.

"Mocha, as he said, thanks" she told the older man. "Although I'm going to pass on the sprinkles."

[futuredoctor]

"She's right," the Doctor sighed as he wrote down her order. He then looked up and saw something that drained his face of all color. Walking to the door with a facial expression that clearly showed shock, the Doctor wondered why he saw Ood Sigma for a split second. That wasn't supposed to happen yet. Not till Christmas 2009 anyway. Maybe he was here to warn him. But about what exactly? Is something coming? The Ood may be able to see through time itself, but the Doctor knew that the Ood knew when to summon him. Or to be accurate, to summon his past self. The figure in front of him pointed to the direction of the Rift and disappeared in a ghostly manner.

"I'm going to work on that Mocha Coffee," the Doctor said as he walked towards his 'kitchen.', "Banana coffee for my good old self right?"

Taking out his sonic screwdriver, the Doctor used it to turn up the sound system and that same song both he and Rose danced to during their little encounter with Captain Jack back then. It was such a long time ago. He had indeed lived too long. Too long to know that he should drop his dislike for his past self. Too long to know that he should've learned from his experience as his Second and Third incarnation. Trouble was brewing. His instincts told him so. If he were to stop whatever the last Eternal cooked up, he better be ready.

Seeing the couple's orders are done, the Doctor placed the drinks on their table and he sighed, "I'm sorry about that. Must've ruined whatever fun you two were having. Deadlock the door on your way out. Enjoy. Have fun and make sure you don't break anything."

Leaving his little shop in the hands of his past, the Doctor walked in the empty streets of Cardiff wondering what the future might bring.