Rose gave a bashful little smile at that, glancing down at the ground beneath his feet. "If the things we do together with you as you are half as brilliant... Well, you'll need saving, won't you?" she teased, her eyes bright. He was just as mad as his predecessor, and she found she didn't mind it, either. "I mean, honestly. Trying to reason with an enemy with a weapon in your pocket. What were you thinking?"
Of course traveling the whole of time and space had appealed to her. For a simple shopgirl from London, how could it not? She'd never been further than Paris, and that was simply for school. The very first time he'd taken her anywhere, it had been to the year five billion. Pretty impressive, she had to say. But the truth was, she found the man himself intriguing. Her meeting with Clive had definitely implanted him in her head. A mystery, definitely. A brilliant mystery. But in person, he was so much more. Risking himself for a ragtag little planet with no idea they'd even been in danger half the time. And she had to admit, from the very beginning, Rose had wanted to get beneath that top layer and find out more about the man underneath.
And this tenth Doctor? It was a pretty good start. Not half as brittle as the one Rose knew already. Only half as angst-filled. And a tiny flicker of hope that she'd had something to do with that ran through her.
"It was normal for me," she reminded him. "It's exactly what you would have done. Why wouldn't I?" Rocking back on her heels, she looked back up at him, her eyes twinkling. "Where do we go? You don't have to give me details, I know you're not allowed, just... Is it somewhere fabulous? Do we meet anyone amazing? Like Charles Dickens, let me tell you, that's a story for the grandkids. Anyone like that?"