not dating
A quick not quite Rose/Doctor drabble for doyle_sb4.
rated mild. BBC, etc, no profit.
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Her puckered lips meet gently empty air.
"Mickey waited," the Doctor mutters when she stares, but they both know this isn't about Mickey.
"Am I ugly or something?"
"It's not you, Rose. It's me."
Rose, who dated several commitment-phobics in the years before she met Mickey, looks doubtful.
"Really. I'm not human, remember?" the Doctor says. "Com'on, let's visit the dodos." But Rose grabs his arm before he reaches the TARDIS' controls.
"If you don't want," Rose swallows, suddenly awkward, "me, then why am I here?"
"I got lonely," he says, and leaps out of her grip with a grin.