Author's Note: Yup, that's right, another series of drabbles from me! These are all for Doctor Who fandom. Right now, it's all New Who, and most will be of the Nine/Rose, Ten/Rose variety (friendship and romance). They're all (or mostly) for image prompts from the Doctor/Rose LJ community Time and Chips, and are all exactly one-hundred words. Unless stated otherwise, they are all standalone. Updating will be fairly sporadic, though I'll try to do it on odd days no more than four days apart.

If you would like a drabble to be longer (one-shot size), feel free to say so, but no guarantees.

Important: THESE ARE ALREADY WRITTEN. THEY ARE DRABBLES. THEY ARE 100 WORDS. PLEASE DON'T COMPLAIN ABOUT LENGTH. Thank you. I'm sorry, but this is a problem that arose constantly in my 13drabble series, and I'm quite sick of it.

There will likely be Doctor/Martha drabbles (and other pairings) interspersed throughout.

Comments and feedback are appreciated! Thank you!

Disclaimer: I do not own Doctor Who nor any of its respective characters, settings, etc. This applies to all current and upcoming chapters.

---

Title: New New Year
Character/Pairing: Ten, Rose; Ten/Rose
Prompt: January 2008: 1: A brightly colored Chinese building
Summary: She's amazed at the extents he goes to just to be clever.

---

New Beijing was a strange place to be. She had never been to Old Beijing, never read about it, but supposed it did not look at all like this.

“There’s smoke everywhere.” Rose tugged the collar of her shirt over her nose.

“Steampunk age,” the Doctor said. “Actually happens.”

She wove her fingers through his, pressed against him as they waded through the busy street. “And you like it here?”

“Not particularly.”

“Then why did we come?”

“Irony at its finest: New Beijing’s main export is flowers. And guess what?”

She coughed, unamused. “What?”

“It’s the year of the Rose.”