a/n: This is absolutely the first thing I've ever written and finished. It's sort of a drabble, but almost twice as long. It was originally intended as a scene towards the end of Part Human, but was cut because it interrupted the flow too much, and I thought it worked better as a stand alone.

Disclaimer: I don't own Doctor Who. No matter how much I'd like to. Doctor Who already owns me, though. Well, as least that's what everyone I know tells me... all the time.

"But you wouldn't have liked him. Nobody liked him. I didn't even like him."

"What, he had no companions? No one to travel with?"

"Weell, yes, he did have companions."

"And those companions, did any of them happen to be young, attractive females?"

"Now Rose, youth is relative, and beauty is in the eye of the beholder."

"But they were female, weren't they?"

He ignored this. "Oh, but Rose, he was arrogant…"

She cocked an eyebrow at him.

"Insulting…"

"Because 'stupid ape' is just so complimentary."

"Rude…"

"Unlike anyone I know."

"He had a superiority complex…"

"'Superior Time Lord physiology…'" she quoted.

"An enormous ego…"

"'A genius, me.'"

He laughed in spite of himself.

"He had terrible fashion sense."

"Well, I'll give you that one. That coat was truly hideous. Although …" she said, looking at his trainers appraisingly.

"Oi!" he said indignantly, and she laughed.

The Doctor looked at her adoringly. "He would have loved you, though."

"Really? Why?"

"Because he was the Doctor, and you are Rose. Law of nature."