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“Doctor.” Rose tugged on the pinstriped coat sleeve, trying hard to get his attention, but the Doctor was still trying to sonic the controls behind her in the narrow corridor, babbling away at rapid fire. “Doctor.” Her heart was pounding as she saw the figures growing closer in the window at the other end.
“I subrouted the security protocols. If I bypass the secondary security matrixes, then I can reroute the power from the lights to reboot the opening mechanism.” He gave an excited squirm, which only resulted in squeezing Rose tighter between his tie and the door. Lopjarians were a small species, only reaching her elbows and as wide as her thigh, making all their passageways and doors barely wider than her body. So there’d been no room for her to squeeze around him when the door slammed shut blocking their escape.
Normally, this position would have her mind running down all kinds of impossible tangents that she really shouldn’t harbor for her best friend who was dead gorgeous, but also over nine hundred and an alien. The guards growing closer, waving their small but very pointy and shocking, literally, stun spears efficiently quelled those thoughts. “Doctor....” He was tapping the sonic on her shoulder, apparently oblivious that it was time to just sonic explode the controls. She didn’t even think he was aware of the impeding arrest.
“No, that would set off the sensor alarms. We can’t let them know we’re breaking into their supply bay. Maybe if I reverse the polarity of the magnets controlling the lock...” his voice trailed off, as he moved the sonic. Great. He was oblivious, and he was ignoring her. Rose tugged his sleeve again, the only thing she could reach besides his hips and tie. He shook her off, buzzing through sonic settings, as he mumbled under his breath. The guards were already a quarter of the way to them. So, Rose did the only thing she could think of to get any bloke’s attention, alien or not.
Grabbing his tie, pulling her head back from his shoulder, Rose yanked the Doctor down and kissed him hard. She was too panicked to remember to take a mental snapshot of the feeling of his lips, but she nearly crowed in victory when she released him with a wet pop and he stared down at her looking just shy of shell shock. “Now that I’ve got your attention: guards, pointy stun spears, about thirty seconds away.”
“Huh... what...” he blinked once, then like she’d electrocuted him, he literally squeaked as he looked back over his shoulder. “Rose! Why didn’t you say something?!” The sonic whirred as the control pad exploded, and they ran hand in hand across the supply bay where the TARDIS had been mistakenly stored away.