A/N: Sequel to Need. Set a few weeks later directly after the episode Dalek. Rose/Nine with Adam on the ship. Written for Lillibet on Teaspoon because she most emphatically didn't think it should end there. Angst, Hurt/Comfort, barest smidgeon of romance. And yes, HM is coming along, chapter's almost done now.
The boy is brilliant and stupid all at the same time and despite the danger of this combination and because he will deny Rose nothing he has let him come along, but he will not let the child get any ideas into his head that Rose is someone he will share, for he will not. He almost lost her today, through his own idiocy, through the idiocy of other people, to a Dalek of all things and he will not lose her to something lesser, something unworthy of fighting, this unknown and unwanted person he has allowed upon his ship.
To Be Continued in Frustration: http://amberfocus.livejournal.com/38009.h