Untitled - TARDIS Big Bang

"That's the Janislowskis," Rose said. "Dad hired them on as caretakers since he and Mum travel so much.
They were going to get deported otherwise."
The Doctor raised his eyebrows. "Oleg used to work for Cybus Industries," Pete explained slowly. "He
was a plant foreman, not a mad scientist, but during the war some people had trouble telling the
difference. It was just supposed to be a few months, until things calmed down, but...well..." He made a
vague gesture, as if to encompass all the strange ups and down since then.
"What he means is, he can't bear to go without Lena's desserts and they're more than happy to get paid
to live here," Jackie said, gathering together Tony and the diaper bags. He was sliding into nap mode,
lolling grumpily against her shoulder, and she paused to smooth down a cowlick, which made him
gurgle.
"There's nothing wrong with a fine appreciation of dessert," Pete said with a put-upon sniff that made
both Rose and Jackie laugh at him. The Doctor just smiled, broad and deep, though Rose couldn't tell if it
was the teasing or the baby or the thought of pierogis that brought it on. Maybe all of it, or maybe it
was something else entirely. He was like that sometimes.
"Peter!" Oleg boomed as soon as they started climbing out of the car. "It is good to see you! It is good to
see the stars again!"
"Well, I can't take the credit for that," Pete said. "Oleg, I'd like you to meet the Doctor—he'll be staying
with us for a bit. Doctor, this is Oleg...Lena..."
The introductions went around, handshakes and hugs—Lena even gave Rose a wet kiss on the cheek.
"So if it was not Peter who brought the stars back, surely it was you," she said.
"Well, I had a lot of help from my friends," Rose said, nodding at the Doctor. Lena hauled him down to
her level to kiss him, too, and the look on his face was sheer alarm. "Oh, don't, Lena, you'll make him
blush."
"I cannot help it!" she said. "We were so afraid, it was like Cybermen all over again, and now you save
us..."
"It's, er, all in a day's work, " the Doctor said. And over Lena's head, at Rose: "Besides, I never blush."
"So what's this, then?" Rose said, reaching up to pinch at his cheeks. He stuck his tongue out at her,
which she took to mean he conceded her the point.
Jackie immediately headed up to the nursery with Tony, and Oleg took Pete off by the arm, saying
something about the garden, and Lena disappeared back into the kitchen. That left Rose and the Doctor
standing in the foyer, and the Doctor was starting to look a bit lost again. "You want to wash up?" Rose
asked, in case he was thinking gloomy thoughts about that first Cyberman assault.
"Oh! Yeah, that would be..." He sniffed the back of his own hand and grimaced. "Yeah, definitely. I hate
the smell of Dalek in the morning."
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