Right, so... Hello Whovians! I thought you could all use some more suffering life so here is some Eleven/Rose that will hopefully end up turning angsty, but it probably won't be for quite awhile. No idea how long this will be (literally no planning was put into this; I just started typing it up one night) and the chapter breaks might be a bit...weird. I've always been a bit rubbish with chapters, but I think this will end up being too long for a one shot. So, without farther ado, let's get to the fic!

I could even help Rose Tyler with her homework-

He broke off to a stuttering halt. Why had he not thought of that before? In the hundred years he had spent traveling alone, when he could have her again.
But he had thought of it. Well, not specifically helping her with her homework, but just to see her again, back before they met. Back before the running. Back before he learned how to live again.
He knew he shouldn't go back. She wouldn't recognise him, not with this face. It could just be a small visit, but he knew that wouldn't work. Once he saw her again, he knew that he wouldn't be able to tear himself away. He would drag her off to the TARDIS and give her the forever she promised, timelines be damned. The Time Lord victorious.

No. Not again. He couldn't do that, especially considering how badly it had ended last time. He couldn't let what happened to Adelle happen to Rose. Maybe one visit wouldn't hurt...

"Change of plans, Dorium! We'll be taking a little detour, shouldn't take too long, so don't worry but you'll have to stay in here when I'm gone," the Doctor said as he lept around the TARDIS console, flipping and pulling switches in a seemingly random order.

"Doctor, whatever you're doing, are you sure it's a good id-" Dorium was cut off short when the TARDIS gave a large jolt, send his box rolling.

"Damnit, man, help me!" Dorium cried as the door on the box slammed shut.

"Sorry, bit busy. But don't worry, you'll be fine here. It'll just take a tick," the Doctor called as the TARDIS came to halt. It then let out a moan while the cloysterbells rung ominously.

"There there, old girl. It's just one trip, I promise I won't mess up to badly. Besides, it's Rose! You claimed her the moment she walked through your doors, shouldn't you be happy?" the Doctor said, patting the console fondly. The TARDIS let out another groan and he just rolled his eyes.

"Oh, what do you know," this earned him a electric shock through the hand that was still resting on the console.

"Alright, alright, I'm sorry! But I'm still going to find her," he muttered. This time, the TARDIS let out an almost sympathetic noise, and he smiled fondly.

"That's my girl. Now be a dear and watch Dorium while I'm gone," he called while walking towards the door.

"I don't need a ship to watch over me!" Dorium yelled indigently, still laying lopsided on the floor. The Doctor ignored him, instead taking a deep breath before he pushed open the TARDIS doors and stepped out to the Powell Estate.

Rose Tyler sat in her bedroom, staring blankly down at the assignment sitting unfinished. I was a cold autumn day, and she had just begun year ten, and already the work load was barring down on her. She fidgeted with her papers once more before deciding that she couldn't avoid her homework anymore. She would just have to do it.

It wasn't laziness that was keeping her from working; she just didn't understand the work. No matter how many times she got her math teacher to explain, she couldn't comprehend it. She was beginning to accept that she was nothing more than an idiot.

Right as her pencil almost touched the paper to make a pointless attempt at an algebra problem that looked like nothing more than Greek to her, there was a knock at the door. Glad for the interruption, she quickly got up to answer it.

She pulled open the door to reveal a funny looking man dressed like a professor, even though he couldn't be past his twenties.

"Hello! I'm John Smith, your new tutor. You must be Rose Tyler," the man, John Smith, broke into the biggest, yet saddest grin she had ever seen and offered his hand while showing her some paper that stated he was, indeed John Smith, 'certified tutor'. She stared at him for moment before slowly taking his hand. She could have sworn she felt him jump when she did so.

"Hello , it's, uh, nice to meet. Sorry, but, I didn't arrange to get a tutor," she said slowly, taking her hand back and stepping back a bit, still making sure not to open the door enough to let the man slip past. Part of her knew she shouldn't have even opened the door in the first place; her mum didn't like her doing that when she wasn't at home, but something about the strange man had seemed... familiar. She felt drawn to him like an old friend.

"Please, call me John. And I'm surprised your mother hadn't told you about me!" he then muttered something that she caught as 'knowing you, you would have kicked up a fight anyway', but that couldn't have been right. "Here, this is our agreement," he handed her a piece of paper that she read over.

'Mr. John Smith will tutor Ms. Rose Tyler twice a week for six weeks, or until heard grades improve for a payment of five pounds every session and I, Jackie Tyler agree to these terms.'

Well, it certainly looked like her mum's handwriting, and their was no mistaking her lopsided signature. It was strange that something so official would be drawn up just for her to be tutored, but when she questioned it, she felt something in her mind telling her to trust him. Strangely, it was a mixture of her own instinct and something else; something telling her almost in song to believe John that was accompanied with a warm presence. She glanced dubiously up at John before slowly handing the paper back to him. She searched his eyes for any trace of a lie, but he only saw kindness, and something else that she couldn't quite identify.

"Alright, John, come on in."

Right, so, crazy short and I'm sorry for that. I don't really know whether or not all the chapters will be like that or not, but I'm kinda expecting it to be pretty long. I currently don't have a beta so any mistakes are my own so feel free to point them out and I'll fix them.

Til next time,

Silver