A/N: Just to finish...
Disclaimer: Not mine.
"Good morning! Well done for making it out of bed." exclaimed the Doctor, encouragingly,as Rose stumbled into the kitchen. "I've made some breakfast. But don't get used to it. This is purely a one off."
"Great," enthused Rose, walking with some difficulty over to the table.
The Doctor stared at her.
"What are you doing?"
"I'm sitting down," said Rose, somewhat tetchily.
"No, I mean, why are you walking all…" he did a brief imitation, "Like a duck?"
"I think the question ought to be why aren't you?" demanded Rose, "We were both riding for the same amount of time."
"I suspect I'm just fitter than you," said the Doctor airily. "Don't worry, you'll feel better soon. Well, hopefully soon. Sometimes it can take a few days. Some people say it's actually worse the second day and they give up on walking altogether… Anyway," he continued quickly, noticing the dark look she shot him, "Breakfast! You always feel particularly hungry after a day's riding."
"So." he said, as he watched her wolf down her breakfast with alarming speed.
"So." said Rose. She studied him for a few minutes, then frowned, "What the hell have you done to your hair?"
The Doctor ran his hand through his hair, self-consciously.
"Well, I'm experimenting. Tried to style it so it looked like I'd been wearing a riding hat for a few hours."
Rose snorted, but turned it into a cough when he looked hurt.
"Not my favourite look," she said, kindly. "You know what, you should try backcombing it."
"You think?" asked the Doctor thoughtfully, "We'll see. I suppose it's such a shock to have so much hair I never know what to do with it." He froze, "God, I sound like a woman..." He shuddered. "Anyway, let's do something manly. Well, I'll do something manly, you can do something feminine. Or, if you want, you can do the manly thing, too. Just… don't be more manly than me. Because then I might be left to do the feminine thing…"
Rose stared at him, completely bewildered.
"Are you having an identity crisis?" she asked, considerately.
"No, no, I'm fine," insisted the Doctor, "Just talking too much. I really ought to stop, shouldn't I? Anyway. How do you feel about uncovering an alien plot for world domination? Fancy it?"
"Yeah, sounds great." said Rose, "But…"
"But what?" asked the Doctor, frowning.
"But can it wait until I can walk again?"
Ah. Pure randomness. Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed it! I'm off horse riding now… Sadly without the Doctor.
I would really love a review, cos I'm not too sure about this one…