Really? [Oh, Rose. That just sounds kind of fascinating.] Why?

Is there? You can leave some of it to me if you're having to sacrifice sleep for it. You're just going to wear your body down and then you'll be able to do even less.

[Crap. She really should have picked something more boring.] To see why the pick the people they do? [Well now it kind of sounds interesting to her.] Might be able to do somethin' 'bout the comin's and goin's then.

[Add another project to a list that's already too long.]

S'not like doin' dishes and cleanin' the bathrooms. More like...I don't want to miss anythin', y'know? [That part is honest at least. And then some teasing.] But if you like, I can talk to Cinna 'bout you takin' over some of my shifts.

[Sorry Rose.] What made you think to call older races immature ones? Not that I disagree - it's a lot of the time the oldest people who get the most... childish about things. Live too long, get too settled.

[What momentary 'oh' he experiences is immediately replaced with a mix of mild horror and distaste.] No, no, that's quite alright. You have fun. I don't think that's a good idea. Drive him mental in a few hours. And he's so polite. It doesn't make sense. How can anyone be that polite?

Actually meant to call the human races the immature ones. Y'know everywhere we go you tell 'em that we've got potential.

[Oh good. That was exactly the reaction she was hoping for, distract him from the whole sleep issue.] Got a point. [And a teasing grin] Just figgerin' out not everybody's rude?

Well yeah, 'course I do. You lot are amazing! When you feel like it. Go out into the great big universe and do wonderful things and live! Brilliant!

[Hurt face. Playfully hurt, Rose.] I can be polite! Usually there's just not enough time for it or... I forgot to. Anyway, all the time? C'mon.

But a bit rash sometimes, yeah? Bit immature.

[Oh Doctor. She just grins] Actually you can be very polite and thoughtful sometimes.

A little, but you're young. It's allowed. And honestly rashness is better than pompousness or indifference. Far more fun.

[Entirely mollified.] Thank you. Very kind of you.

Mmmm yeah can't stand indifference. Pompousness is amusin' sometimes. Tiresome after a bit though, yeah.

[Oh good. She likes when that happens.] Saint Rose, 'member. Part of my very long, impressive title.

See, I couldn't agree more with both or either of those statements.

Long, very impressive. Ought to see what we can do about finding you new activities to be brilliant at so you can keep adding to it.

Good team, you and me.

Addin' that to my resolutions. Still got to get 'round to finger paintin' a wall in the flat. We can add artist to my title then.

Might ought to just wait until one of us gets hit with whatever blasted tiny-ray they like to use here again - and that's a when, not an if - since that's when most of our artistic talents seem to emerge anyway. Unless you've been hiding skills from me.

Nope. Sorry. M'pretty sure you're right. Could be a fun way to entertain you or me next time we end up tiny anyhow.

[That'll go on her and mine list of things to do. If she's ever little when he's big, she's also going to use him as a jungle gym and ride on his shoulders.]

And probably less annoying than shooting everyone we know with koolaid.

[...We have to do that now. God their list is getting big.]

Bound to be. 'Least we'd just be annoyin' people in our flat. Ought to buy the paint now so we'll have it when we're ready to try it.

[Yes! I'm going to type up what I remember, send it to you and let you add what you remember and then I'll make it a post in her journal so that we'll have it at hand to work through.]

You think all the people in our flat'll want to finger-paint?

[She thinks about it a moment.] He might. Has he ever fingerpainted before? [Or you know, you, Doctor, in your ninth regeneration, did you fingerpaint because someone thinks you ought to--he ought to and she's betting that tiny!her can convince him to do so.]

He didn't really get much of a chance to do any fingerpainting. Woke up, you know I saw what I looked like in that regeneration for the first time when I was in your flat that first time. So really, you'd know if he'd ever fingerpainted before just as well as I do.

[Her tone of voice is absolutely surprised. She'd had no idea that regeneration was that new.] I didn't--Definitely got to get him to fingerpaint. I'll ask after m'tiny. [Even gruff war vetern Doctor can't say no to tiny!Rose, right?]

[Well, he apparently knocked about a bit in the TARDIS for a while before actually going out and facing the world, but he wouldn't have done any fingerpainting there either, so. The Doctor's just casually chosen to leave that part off, what with probably being a sort of personal thing still to at least one of him.] I want to watch you try. [Grinning. Although he knows that neither one of them can say no to tiny!Rose. They can barely say no to adult!Rose as it is.]

[She sort of figured based on the photographs she saw on the internet. However, it says a lot that he didn't actually ever look in a mirror before then and that bothers her. Well, not bothers so much as makes her ache and resolve to make sure he knows how important he is to her and that he gets more hugs in that regeneration. They both need so much reassurance but in very different ways.] You can take me to ask him.

[And then a quiet pause. When she speaks again her voice is kind of...ragged at the edges. She's trying not to be upset about it because she knows he's right.]

He's going to get his own flat. Maybe down the hall from ours. [She's not going to cry over this. She is not. She still has both of them. She'll get to see both of them every single day.]

[Well Rose is clearly upset about this but he's personally having a hard time seeing it as a total negative. Clearly having the both of them nearly on top of each other all the time isn't working out, and he's always been someone who liked having his own space -- and really if he's not going to be more than a little ways away it'll probably be better for all of them, ultimately. And on a more selfish note, he'll get his room back.

But again, Rose is clearly not as okay with the idea.] That's probably a good idea. Spread us all out a bit. Let Donna and Amy and Rory and Sexy all visit him without having to come here all the time to do it.

I know. He said sorta the same thing. And he's going to give me the extra key. [Her voice is very, very quiet when she speaks again.] He could go back. Like I did before.

[She doesn't want to lose either of her Doctors and irrationally, she somehow believes the closer they are to her, the less likely they are to be taken. She knows it's ridiculous.]

M'bein' daft. I know.

He might. [Because just blatantly lying to her particularly when she already knows the truth is just a bad idea.] But from what I've seen people tend to stay here for longer than that. If they're here for more than a day, or a weekend, they tend to stay for whatever amounts as good here. [Okay maybe not the most comforting but hopefully helpful.] I've been here over a full year now and it doesn't look like that's changing at all anytime soon.

He could be here a long time. [That's selfish. She knows it but she doesn't have to be selfless talking to this Doctor. He's well aware of how very selfish she can be. She appreciates that he doesn't lie to her. She'd always rather be told the truth, even when it's difficult to hear.]

It'd better not. If you do, you're going to find me. I'm goin' to look for you. Remember?

[He's quite selfish in wanting her to stay here as well, though that's possibly mitigated a bit by her wanting to stay as well. As for himself, he's almost equal parts content to stay with her, annoyed at being effectively caged, and terrified of leaving.]

You'd better. I'll clearly not know how to find you; that apparently only works for short distances. Any sort of long, universe-crossing expanse and you're the only one of any use.