Ficlet: Day After

[unfeathered]

Title: Day After
Fandom: Doctor Who
Author: unfeathered
Characters: Rose, Jack/Ninth Doctor
Rating: PG
Word Count: 231
Spoilers: The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances
Disclaimer: Not mine
Summary: Rose wonders what happened last night.
Beta: Very much not beta'd, even by me. :-)
Author’s Note: lt_kitty requested the day after Lessons Learned for the Timestamp Meme. Follow-up to Lessons Learned and mad_jaks' Show and Tell.



"What on earth were you two doing last night?" Rose asks curiously at dinner. They're eating in, for what must be first time since Jack got on board – normally he's full of suggestions for where and when they can go for dinner. He said he was too tired to bother tonight.

The two men exchange glances. The Doctor's looks like a warning, and Jack's, though he's laughing a little, is more serious than usual. Rose feels she's being left out of something here and tries to cover by teasing them.

"He didn't spank you, did he?" she asks Jack, giggling. "He threatened to spank me once when I messed up!"

"Uh – no," Jack says, his lips twitching suspiciously. "No spanking."

"Well what, then? You're both – different today."

The Doctor stands up and starts to clear away the dishes from the main course. "We talked," he says, a little shortly, but at least he's answering the question, even if he's not looking at her. "We sorted some things out and we reached an understanding. Which is that Captain Jack is not going to go screwing up like that again."

Jack's eyes lift to Rose's face and the smile he gives her now is definitely rueful. Then he winks at her, and the mood shifts. "Maybe I ought to try screwing up again," he suggests with mock enthusiasm. "Might get me that spanking!"

Comments

[chatona.livejournal.com]

Right. If the Doctor calls that talking... *blushes*

Love that it shows in their interaction, though :D

[unfeathered]

Thank you. I think it would show, a bit, don't you? It's just that I honestly don't think Rose would actually conceive of the two of them doing... what they did. Which is good, 'cos I don't want her to know. She'd be hurt.

[chatona.livejournal.com]

No, I don't think Rose would realise what they were doing unless they told her or she walked in on them. I mean. 's not like a normal person would go and be all "oh, I'm travelling in a TARDIS with two gorgeous men and after one of them screwed up, they disappeared and afterwards behaved differently, they must have had hot D/s sex". Yeah.
Also? I do think it would show, yes. Definitely.

[unfeathered]

LOL. Exactly. :-)