Disclaimer: DW is not mine. Never has been. Never will be.
Author's Notes: I hope I've got all my bits of canon right. Please let me know if I've got something wrong. Also, I shall say now that I am not English, I am Australian, which is about as far away as you can get, so if any Brit-picking needs to be done, please do it. And, yes, it is short.
Chapter 1 - Her First Day Of School
There was a convenient tree in the school car park, upon which Jack could lean and barely be seen, but could see straight through into the school yard. A hundred or so five and six-year-olds milled around, talking to friends, or, in the case of a few, standing anxiously by themselves.
A blonde ponytail caught Jack's eye. They young girl practically dragged her mother across the yard. "Rose, slow down!" her mother exclaimed, but Rose didn't pay any attention until she reached a circle of girls she obviously recognised. Jackie caught her breath and began speaking to one of the other mothers, while Rose and her friends babbled happily, grinning at each other and jumping up and down every now and then.
After a few minutes, one of them pointed over Rose's shoulder and Rose turned. Following her gaze, Jack saw a small, black boy clinging fearfully to the hand of an older woman, perhaps his grandmother. The other girls were giggling, presumably at some inside joke, but Rose shushed them sternly, one hand on her hip.
A little hesitantly, she approached the boy. Jack moved a little closer to the fence to hear Rose introduce her self. The boy's grandmother smiled down at her and gave her son a small nudge.
"Mickey Smith," he muttered softly, causing Jack to laugh to himself. So this was how they met.
As he leaned back against his tree, he saw Rose take Mickey's hand and lead him back to her group of friends. A couple of them looked a little subdued at Rose's befriending the object of their amusement, but they all seemed to make something of an effort to be nice to him.
Wrapping his coat around himself, Jack smiled. "That's my girl," he said to himself, and turned to leave before he was noticed.
This was the first time Rose Tyler made Jack Harkness proud.
A/N: It's been pointed out to be that Mickey is actually a few years older than Rose... just, take it to be AU, yeah?