Two Broken Hearts Makes One Whole Heart:
Mending Hearts
Chapter 1
Perfect Song/The Christmas invasion
By: Izzy
The TARDIS finally stopped shaking about. Rhee figured that they had arrived at Rose's place. The Doctor walked to the doors and opened them. "Here we are then," he said as he leaned out the door. "London. Earth. The Solar System. We did it." He got out and she followed him but stayed in the doorway using the TARDIS for support. She was feeling worse than before. She needed sleep but she also needed to make sure the Doctor was OK. "Jackie. Mickey. Rose! Blimey! No, no, no, no, hold on." He moved to between Jackie and Rose. "Wait there. I've got something to say. There was something I had to tell you, something important. What was it? No, hold on, hold on. Hold on, shush, shush, shush, shush. Oh, I know! Merry Christmas!" He faints before anyone can catch him. Rhee knew she wasn't that far behind him.
"Who is this?" Mickey asked. "Where's the Doctor?"
"That's him, right in front of you." Rhee said trying not to faint. "That's the Doctor."
"What do you mean, that's the Doctor? Doctor who?" Jackie asked as Rose just looked on in shock, but then she noticed that Rhee was weaving as she stepped out of the TARDIS.
"Rhee, are you OK?" Rose asked. "You don't look so good." Rhee was pale and staggering.
"The Doctor is more important," Rhee said as she staggered to them and nearly collapsed on Jackie. "But with as much pain as I'm in I may need a bit of help getting in."
"I got ya," Jackie said as she supported Rhee on her shoulder. Mickey and Rose grabbed the Doctor.
"Thanks," Rhee said. "I'll try not to faint on the way." They started to walk to the apartment. "Oh, and if I pass out and then wake up in a hospital, I will not be happy."
"Don't worry we won't take you," Rose shouted from behind Jackie and Rhee. They got inside with limited damage to Rhee or the Doctor. Rhee did as she promised she was awake until Jackie helped Rhee to Rose's bed. Mickey changed the Doctor in to pajamas while Rose changed Rhee into some of her pajamas. As Rose changed Rhee, Rose noticed that Rhee was hot. So she took her temperature it was 38 degrees Celsius. She knew she had promised Rhee, that Rose wouldn't take Rhee to the hospital but this was a fever and Rose didn't know any of Rhee's allergies. But now that Rose thought on it nor would any hospital around here. Rhee was from America, and another dimension. No one but Rhee knew. Rose sighed. She went to check on the Doctor.
"Here we go." Jackie said as she entered the room behind Rose. "Tina the cleaner's got this lodger, a medical student, and she was fast asleep, so I just took it. Though I still say we should take them to hospital."
"We can't." Rose said. "They'd lock him up. They'd dissect him. One bottle of his blood could change the future of the human race. And I promised her I wouldn't." Jackie went to say something but was stopped by Rose. "No! Shush!" Rose listened to both sides of his chest and heard a heartbeat on both sides. She sighed again. "Both working."
"What do you mean, both?" Jackie asked in shock.
"Well, he's got two hearts." Rose said as she tried to leave the room.
"Oh, don't be stupid." Jackie said still not believing what her daughter was saying.
"He has." Rose said. She prayed her mom would drop it.
"Anything else he's got two of?" Jackie asked.
"Leave him alone." Rose said.
"Wait," Jackie said as she followed Rose to check on Rhee. "Does Rhiannon have two hearts too?"
"No," Rose said. She checked on Rhee's temperature again this time it was 35.2. Rose couldn't believe it. She was just short of Hypothermia. "She's human just from another dimension."
"Another dimension?" Jackie said unable to believe it.
"Yeah," Rose replied. She sighed again feeling helpless. If she couldn't help her friends, what good was she? She knew that wasn't what they would want her to think. She sighed again. Rhee would tell her to stop beating herself up for the things she can't control.
"How can he go changing his face?" Jackie asked. "Is that a different face or is he a different person?"
"How should I know?" Rose shouted at Jackie making her flinch. "Sorry. I just feel so helpless. I can't do anything to help them."
Rhee woke up to a gentle nudging in her mind. She knew it was the TARDIS. She sat up slowly trying not to cause herself farther pain. Her head was still very foggy, she couldn't even remember what came next and she always remembered. She sighed and rubbed her face. Jackie came in with a Thermometer to check Rhee's temperature. "You're awake." Jackie said. "How are you feeling Rhiannon."
"My head is a bit foggy still," Rhee said but in reality her head was foggier than it was when she woke up on the TARDIS. "But I'll be fine." Rhee moved to get off the bed. She did feel better than when she stepped out of the TARDIS. "By the way Jackie, you can call me Rhee."
"Thanks," Jackie said as she helped Rhee up. "Are you sure you'll be fine to walk?"
"I've been through child birth," Rhee laughed. "I think I can handle being a little off balance." She followed Jackie out of the room. "Got anything to eat? I'm famished."
"Yeah," Jackie said with a smile. She fixed Rhee a peanut butter sandwich. "Here." She handed Rhee the sandwich and Rhee made short work of the sandwich.
"Thanks," Rhee said. "Where's the Doctor?"
"In my room," Jackie said. Rhee stumbled into Jackie's room.
"Hey," Rhee said to the Doctor's sleeping form. She sat in the chair beside the bed. "You know, I was trying to find the right song for us. You know that perfect song to describe our relationship. But I haven't found it yet. I've got a few candidates but nothing is set in stone." She grabbed his hand and held it. "I will sing you the candidates and you can tell me what you think once you're better." Pain shot through her body. She started to cry. "I'm glad you're not awake you'd be freaking out. And don't give me that 'Time Lords do not freak out' 'cause my dear, you do." She laughed. Just then Mickey and Rose burst through the door.
"Get off the phone." Rhee could hear Rose shout at Jackie. Rhee got up to see what was going on.
"It's only Bev. She says hello." Jackie said. Rose grabbed the phone.
"Bev? Yeah. Look, it'll have to wait." Rose said then hung the phone up. "Right, it's not safe. We've got to get out. Where can we go?"
"My mate Stan, he'll put us up." Mickey offered.
"That's only two streets away." Rose said. "What about Mo? Still living at Peak District?"
"I don't know." Jackie said confused. And frankly so was Rhee.
"Well, we'll go to cousin Mo's then." Rose said.
"No, it's Christmas Eve!" Jackie shouted. "We're not going anywhere! What're you babbling about?"
"Plus the Doctor is still in no condition to travel," Rhee said.
"Mum. Where'd you get that tree?" Rose asked. Rhee looked to the tree and a memory was sparked. That tree was bad news. But she couldn't remember why. "That's a new tree. Where'd you get it?"
"I thought it was you." Jackie said.
"How can it be me?" Rose asked.
"GET AWAY FROM THE TREE!" Rhee shouted as loud as she could. Which was pretty loud. Jackie gave her a strange look and opened her mouth to say something as the tree came to life playing 'Jingle Bells'.
"Get out! Go, go! Get out!" Mickey said. He picked up as chair and Rhee smacked it out of his hands.
"That's not gonna slow it down come on!" she said as she grabbed him and pulled him to the room with the Doctor in it. Rose and Jackie follow. Mickey and Jackie move the wardrobe in front of the door. They lean against.
"Doctor, wake up!" Rose shouted. Rhee grabbed the Sonic from his leather jacket and put it in his hand.
"I'm going to get killed by a Christmas tree!" Jackie whined as the tree burst into the room.
"Help me." Rhee whispered into his ear. He shot up aiming the Sonic at the tree and it exploded,
"Remote control." he said. "But who's controlling it?" He grabbed the robe and walked outside.
"That's them. What are they?" Mickey asked as he come up from behind the Doctor. Jackie followed Mickey and Rose was shortly behind Jackie. Rhee hung back a bit so the Doctor couldn't see that she was in a lot of pain.
"Shush!" Rose said to Mickey. The Doctor pointed the Sonic at the Santa and they teleported.
"They've just gone." Mickey said. "What kind of rubbish were they? I mean, no offense, but they're not much cop if a sonic screwdriver's going to scare them off."
"Pilot fish." the Doctor said.
"What?" Rose asked.
"They were just pilot fish." Rhee said still standing in the door way to Jackie's apartment. The Doctor doubled over in pain.
"What's wrong?" Rose asked in a panic.
"You woke me up too soon." the Doctor said. "I'm still regenerating. I'm bursting with energy." He exhaled regeneration energy. "You see? The pilot fish could smell it a million miles away. So they eliminate the defense, that's you lot, and they carry me off. They could run their batteries on me for a couple of ow!"
"Oh! Oh! Oh!" Jackie said breathing like she was in labor. The Doctor fell to the ground.
"My head! I'm having a neuron implosion. I need-" he started but was interrupted by Jackie and pain.
"What do you need?" Jackie asked in a panic. And Rhee thought her sister panicked too much.
"I need-" he tried again.
"Say it. Tell me, tell me, tell me."
"I need-"
"Painkillers?"
"I need-"
"Do you need aspirin?"
"I need-"
"Codeine? Paracetamol? Oh, I don't know, Pepto-Bismol?"
"I need-"
"Liquid paraffin. Vitamin C? Vitamin D? Vitamin E?"
"I need-"
"Is it food? Something simple. Bowl of soup. A nice bowl of soup? Soup and a sandwich? Soup and a little ham sandwich?"
"I need you to shut up." he said a little harsher than he meant, but she did always push his buttons.
"Oh, he hasn't changed that much, has he?" she said.
"We haven't got much time." he explained as he tried to stand but fell back to the ground on the other side of the walk. "If there's pilot fish, then." He got distracted by a something in his pocket. He pulled out the apple. "Why 's there an apple in my dressing gown?"
"Oh, that's Howard. Sorry." she said.
"He keeps apples in his dressing gown?" he asked.
"He gets hungry." she said.
"What, he gets hungry in his sleep?" he asked.
"Sometimes." she said.
"Argh! Brain collapsing." He said as he held his head. "The pilot fish. The pilot fish mean that something, something, something is coming." He passed out again. Rhee was in too much pain to think clearly but she knew that if her head was clear she would know what he needed. So she tried to remember as she moved out of the way of Rose and Mickey putting the Doctor back in bed.
"I wish I could think," Rhee said to his sleeping form after Mickey and Rose left. She couldn't remember anything beyond who she was, who he was and who they were but events were all fuzzy in her head.
"Here, Rhee." Rose said as she offered Rhee some tea.
"Thanks," Rhee said as she took the tea. She sipped on the tea slowly. Rose left the room.
Rhee was asleep holding the Doctor, when the sonic boom shattered all the windows. She woke up and cursed the sonic boom. Rose came in panicked. "Mickey, we're going to carry him." she said. "Mum, get your stuff, and get some food. We're going."
"Where to?" Mickey asked.
"The TARDIS. It's the only safe place on Earth." Rose said. Rhee nodded still foggy headed.
"What're we going to do in there?" Jackie asked.
"Hide." Rhee said. Rose nodded.
"Is that it?" Jackie asked.
"Mum, look in the sky." Rose said trying to get the Doctor ready to move. "There's a great, big, alien invasion and I don't know what to do, all right? I've traveled with him, and I've seen all that stuff, but when I'm stuck at home, I'm useless. Now, all we can do is run and hide, and I'm sorry. Now, move." Rose lifted the Doctor with Mickey and Rhee followed in case they needed help with him. Rhee opened the door for them.
"No chance you could fly this thing?" Mickey asked Rhee as they walked inside.
"Maybe if my head wasn't so foggy.," Rhee said a bit upset at not being able to think well.
"Well, you did it before." Mickey stressed.
"Everything I think about it my head hurts worse," Rhee said angrily. "If I think about it too much I might make my head explode."
"Ah, better not, then." Mickey said as he cringed.
"Probably not." Rose said. "If we made her if the Doctor wakes he might kill us for it." Mickey cringed again at the thought of a mad Time Lord.
"So, what do we do? Just sit here?" he asked.
"That's all we can do," Rhee said.
"As good as it gets," Rose said.
"Right, here we go. Nice cup of tea." Jackie said. She pulled out a thermos and pored a cup for Mickey.
"Mmm, the solution to everything." Rose said sarcastically.
"Nah, only Britain's solution for everything." Rhee said annoyed. She had faith in the Doctor waking up but she felt powerless against the aliens, and she hated that feeling. So she was annoyed with herself.
"Now, both of you stop your moaning." Jackie said. "I'll get the rest of the food." She dashed off to get the bags she had left in the apartment.
"Tea." Mickey said feeling just as helpless as Rhee and Rose. "Like we're having a picnic while the world comes to an end. Like Rhiannon said very British." Rhee rolled her eyes. Rose moved to the jump seat and sat down. Rhee knelt down by the Doctor and Mickey moved to the monitor. "How does this thing work? If it picks up TV, maybe we could see what's going on out there. Maybe we've surrendered. What do you do to it?"
"I don't know. It sort of tunes itself." Rose said as she got up and pressed buttons.
"Don't mess with things unless you know what you're doing," Rhee said. But it was too late the TARDIS sent out a distress signal. She sighed.
"Maybe it's a distress signal." Mickey suggested.
"A fat lot of good that's going to do." Rose said.
"Told you not to touch," Rhee said never looking away from the Doctor.
"Are you two going to be a misery all the time?" Mickey asked.
"Yes." Rose and Rhee said at the same time in the same tone.
"You should look at it from my point of view, stuck in here with Jackie's cooking," Mickey teased.
"Where is she?" Rose asked worry thick in her voice. Rhee pointed to the door still without taking her eyes off the Doctor. "I'd better give her a hand. It might start raining missiles out there."
"Tell her anything from a tin, that's fine." Mickey said.
"Why don't you tell her yourself?" Rose said roughly.
"I'm not that brave." he laughed.
"Oh, I don't know." she smirked at him as she opened the door to step outside. She screamed.
"Rose?" he asked as he followed her dropping the thermos in the process.
"Get off! Get off me!" Rose shouted. "The door! Close the door!" She looked at him. But the door slam on their own. Rhee stayed knelt beside the Doctor as the tea dripped down on to the under belly of the TARDIS.
"I love you," she said. "I don't think I tell you that anywhere near often enough." She sighed. "You make me feel so amazing and I take you for granted." She sighed heavier this time. "I think all us humans take you for granted. I just hope that I'm helpful."
"You're always helpful," he said as he opened his eyes. "I don't feel like you take me for granted." He cupped her face in his hands. "You don't look like you feel good."
"I don't," she said honestly. "My head is cloudy to the point I have having trouble remembering. It even hurts, so does my body." She laughed lightly. "Probably sympathy for you."
"I doubt it," he said worry plastered on his face.
"Well we're expected outside," she smiled at him. "Our jeopardy friendly friend is in jeopardy." She laughed lightly again, and moved so he could stand up even offered him a hand up. He didn't take it but he did stand shortly after her moving. He smiled brightly at her before turning around to face the dangers outside the TARDIS doors. He opened the doors.
"Did you miss me?" he said. She moved behind him so that she can see what's going on and help if he needs it. Even though she knew that in her current state getting the door was about the only job she could handle. The leader of the aliens cracked his whip at the Doctor, but the Doctor caught it and yanked it out of the Leader's hand. She tried to remember the name of these aliens, but her foggy mind was making it hard to remember anything. "You could have someone's eye out with that." The Doctor fully stepped out of the TARDIS, she followed him and closed the door behind her.
"How dare!" the Leader shouted. Another alien tried to hit the Doctor with a staff and the Doctor ripped the staff out of the alien's hands and the Doctor broke it over his knee.
"You just can't get the staff." he said and she laughed at the blatant pun. "Now, you, just wait. I'm busy." The Leader made a face at the Doctor, who ignored it and turned back to his friends. "Mickey, hello! And Harriet Jones MP for Flydale North. Blimey, it's like This Is Your Life." He turned to Rose. "Tea! That's all I needed, a good cup of tea! Superheated infusion of free radicals and tannin. Just the thing for healing the synapses. Now, first thing's first. Rhee already told me but I want to know and be honest, how do I look?" He would never tell Rose this but she had become like a little sister to him, so her opinion mattered to him.
"Er, different." Rose said.
"Good different or bad different?" he asked trying to hide the worry in his voice.
"Just different." Rose said.
"Am I ginger?" he asked hitting himself mentally for not asking sooner.
"No, you're just sort of brown." she said gesturing at her own hair.
"I wanted to be ginger." he whined and Rhee found it cute. "I've never been ginger." He spun around and smiled at Rhee. "Never gave up on me, Rhee."
"I knew ya'd pull through," Rhee said in a more southern American accent than usual.
"But you, Rose Tyler, fat lot of good you were." he said spinning around to look at Rose again. "You gave up on me. Oh, that's rude." He paused for a moment and looked lost in thought. "That's the sort of man I am now, am I? Rude. Rude and not ginger."
"Always been a bit rude," Rhee said still a bit southern than normal
"I'm sorry." Harriet said. "Who is this?"
"I'm the Doctor." he said.
"He's the Doctor." Rhee and Rose said.
"But what happened to my Doctor?" Harriet asked. "Or is it a title that's just passed on?" Rhee shook her head.
"I'm him." he said. "I'm literally him. Same man, new face. Well, new everything."
"But you can't be." Harriet said.
"Harriet Jones, we were trapped in Downing Street and the one thing that scared you wasn't the aliens, it wasn't the war, it was the thought of your mother being on her own." he said.
"Oh, my God." she gasped.
"When 'd she tell ya that?" Rhee asked still sounding a bit southern.
"Did you win the election?" he asked not hearing Rhee.
"Landslide majority." Harriet smiled.
"If I might interrupt." the Leader said annoyed.
"Yes, sorry." the Doctor said. "Hello, big fellow." He smiled at the Leader.
"Who exactly are you?" the Leader asked rudely.
"Well, that's the question-" the Doctor started.
"I demand to know who you are!" the Leader yelled.
"I don't know!" the Doctor yelled back mocking the Leader. "See, there's the thing." He continued in his normal voice. "I'm the Doctor, but beyond that, I just don't know. I literally do not know who I am. It's all untested." He moved toward the Leader. "Am I funny? Am I sarcastic? Sexy?" The Doctor looked at Rhee and winked at her. "Right old misery? Life and soul? Right handed? Left handed? A gambler? A fighter? A coward? A traitor? A liar? A nervous wreck? I mean, judging by the evidence, I've certainly got a gob." He paused as he came to some steppes and saw a large red button. "And how am I going to react when I see this, a great big threatening button." He jumped up the stairs and examined the button. Everyone followed him so they could see him. "A great big threatening button which must not be pressed under any circumstances, am I right?"
"Let me guess. It's some sort of control matrix, hmm?" he said as he bends down to the base of the devise. "Hold on, what's feeding it?" He pops open a door at the base. "And what 've we got here? Blood?" He put his finger in the substance in the pillar. Then brought the finger to his mouth and licked it. All the humans, except Rhee, cringed at him licking the unknown substance. "Yeah, definitely blood. Human blood. A Positive, with just a dash of iron." He made a face that made Rhee laughed lightly. "Ah, but that means blood control." His face lit up and he smiled. "Blood control! Oh, I haven't seen blood control for years. You're controlling all the A Positives. Which leaves us with a great big stinking problem. Because I really don't know who I am. I don't know when to stop. So if I see a great big threatening button which should never, ever, ever be pressed, then I just want to do this." He smacks the button really hard.
"No!" Harriet and Rose shouted.
"You killed them!" the other human man shouted.
"What do you think, big fellow?" the Doctor asked smiling at the Leader. "Are they dead?"
"We allow them to live." the Leader said.
"Allow?" the Doctor laughed. "You've no choice. I mean, that's all blood control is. A cheap bit of voodoo. Scares the pants off you, but that's as far as it goes. It's like hypnosis." As he spoke he walked around to the platform on the other side. "You can hypnotize someone to walk like a chicken or sing like Elvis. You can't hypnotize them to death. Survival instinct's too strong."
"Blood control was just one form of conquest." the Leader said. "I can summon the armada and take this world by force."
"Well, yeah, you could, yeah, you could do that, of course you could." the Doctor said stammering a bit which Rhee thought was very cute. "But why? Look at these people. These human beings. Consider their potential. From the day they arrive on the planet and blinking step into the sun, there is more to see than can ever be seen. More to do than-" He paused for a moment. "No, hold on. Sorry, that's The Lion King. But the point still stands. Leave them alone!"
"Or what?" the Leader said.
"Or-" the Doctor started and ran up to a alien that stood near the TARDIS. Everyone followed him. "I challenge you." All the aliens started to laugh. "Oh, that struck a chord. Am I right that the sanctified rules of combat still apply?"
"You stand as this world's champion." the Leader stated.
"Thank you. I've no idea who I am, but you just summed me up." the Doctor said as he threw the robe at Rhee, who smiled at him in encouragement. "So, you accept my challenge? Or are you just a cranak pel casacree salvak?"
"For the planet?" the Leader said as his face twisted into very angry look.
"For the planet." the Doctor agreed. The Doctor and Leader clashed swords and danced around. Rhee cursed at herself in all three languages she knew, English, French and Japanese, all because she couldn't remember what happened next. And every time she tried her head would hurt badly so she gave up and just let things happen, trusting the Doctor to be victorious.
"Look out!" Rose shouted as the Leader came close to hitting the Doctor in the back.
"Oh, yeah, that helps." he said sarcastically. "Wouldn't have thought of that otherwise, thanks." The Leader had the upper hand for awhile but the Doctor being as clever as he is hit a button leading to outside. "Bit of fresh air?" As they fought the Doctor ended up backed against the edge of the ship. Rose went to help but the Doctor put up a hand. "Stay back! Invalidate the challenge and he wins the planet." She backed away. But looked at Rhee who was standing not too far away and wondered why she was so calm. Suddenly the Doctor is knocked back and the Leader takes the Doctor's hand. The hand and the sword fall to the ground below. "You cut my hand off." The Doctor sounds amazed. He looks at Rhee. She didn't seem surprised or worried, but she gives him a look of encouragement and nods. He gets the message, she has faith in him.
"Ya! Sycorax!" the Leader shouted as the Doctor got up and smiled.
"And now I know what sort of man I am." the Doctor said smiling. "I'm lucky. Because quite by chance I'm still within the first fifteen hours of my regeneration cycle, which means I've got just enough residual cellular energy to do this." A new hand forms where the old one was.
"Witchcraft." the Leader said.
"Time Lord." the Doctor said with a cheeky smile on his face.
"Doctor!" Rose shouted as she threw him a sword. And he heard Rhee singing low. He didn't recolonize the song but he felt it's meaning. Her faith in him was unwavering and it gave him the strength to continue.
"Oh, so I'm still the Doctor, then?" he asked.
"No arguments from me!" Rose said.
"Want to know the best bit? This new hand?" he asked with a cheeky grin. "It's a fighting hand!" He finished the last part with a Texan accent. Rhee smiled as she continued to sing, the 'Hymn of Faith' from Final Fantasy X. He didn't know what she was singing however it felt right and came from the heart. He and Leader fought again and the Doctor swiftly disarmed the Leader. "I win." Rhee stopped singing. The Doctor pointed his sword to the Leader's throat in a threatening manner.
"Then kill me." the Leader said.
"I'll spare your life if you'll take this Champion's command." the Doctor said. "Leave this planet, and never return. What do you say?"
"Yes." the Leader said.
"Swear on the blood of your species." the Doctor commanded.
"I swear." the Leader said.
"There we are, then. Thanks for that. Cheers, big fellow." the Doctor said as he moved away back to his friends.
"Bravo!" Harriet said.
"That says it all. Bravo!" Rose said.
"Magnifique," Rhee said. The Doctor smiled at her.
"Ah, not bad for a man in his jim-jams." he said as Rhee helped him get his robe back on. "Very Arthur Dent. Now, there was a nice man. Hold on, what have I got in here? A satsuma. Ah, that friend of your mothers." He looked at Rose and smiled. "He does like his snacks doesn't he? But doesn't that just sum up Christmas? You go through all those presents and right at the end, tucked away at the bottom, there's always one stupid old satsuma. Who wants a satsuma?" Just as he finished saying that the Leader got back up and Rhee out of instinct grabbed the satsuma and threw it at the Leader's head. Hitting him square on the forehead knocking him off balance and off the ship. The Doctor turned around as the satsuma hit the Leader and was very impressed with her.
"Wow that was one hell of a throw." he said and she blushed.
"Well as I said before threatening the people I care about is the worst idea in the universe." she smiled at him as she grabbed his hand.
"I'd say it's a bad idea," he smirked. "Glad to have such a protector." He laughed as they walked back to the main room they first came too. "By the ancient rites of combat, I forbid you to scavenge here for the rest of time. And when go you back to the stars and tell others of this planet, when you tell them of it's riches, it's people, it's potential. When you talk of the Earth, then make sure that you tell them this." He looked over at Rhee and grinned before adding "It is defended." The aliens teleported them back down to the Earth along with the TARDIS.
"Where are we?" Rose asked.
"We're just off Bloxom Road." Mickey laughed. "We're just round the corner, we did it!"
"Wait a minute, wait a minute." the Doctor said. The ship took off leaving the Earth.
"Go on, my son! Oh, yeah!" Mickey shouted.
"Yeah! Don't come back!" Rose shouted.
"It is defended!" Mickey shouted as he hugged Rose.
"My Doctor." Harriet said.
"Prime Minister." the Doctor said as he hugged her.
"Absolutely the same man." she said. "Are there many more out there?"
"Oh, not just Sycorax." he smiled. "Hundreds of species. Thousands of them. And the human race is drawing attention to itself. Every day you're sending out probes and messages and signals. This planet's so noisy. You're getting noticed more and more. You'd better get used to it."
"Rose!" Jackie shouted as she ran around the corner.
"Mum!" Rose yelled and ran up to her mother.
"Oh, talking of trouble." he said.
"Oh, my God! You did it, Rose! Oh!" Jackie said.
"You did it too!" Rose said. "It was the tea. Fixed his head."
"That was all I needed, cup of tea." the Doctor said. Then Rhee felt dizzy and started to feel like she was going faint.
"I said so." Jackie said.
"Look at him." Rose said as she turned to look back at the Doctor she saw that Rhee looked faint. "Rhee, are you alright?"
"Don't mind me," Rhee said as she waved her hand in front of her face and shook her head.
"Is it him, though?" Jackie asked. "Is it really the Doctor?" The Doctor moved to Rhee's side but knew if he asked if she was OK again she would be angry so he settled on holding her. "Oh, my God, it's the bleeding Prime Minister!" Jackie noticed the same thing Rose did Rhee wasn't good. "Are you sure you're alright, Rhee?"
"Yeah, I am." Rhee said, sounding like she was trying to convince herself.
"You left me." Jackie said to her daughter.
"I'm sorry." Rose said sincerely.
"I had all the food." Jackie said. Then there was an explosion, everyone looked up to see the ship explode.
"What is that? What's happening?" Rose asked. He let go of Rhee and moved to confront the Prime Minister.
"That was murder!" he shouted at Harriet.
"That was defense." she calmly said. "It's adapted from alien technology. A ship that fell to Earth ten years ago."
"But they were leaving." Rhee said as she came up from behind the Doctor and leaned on him.
"You said yourself," Harriet said as she looked him. "Doctor, they'd go back to the stars and tell others about the Earth. I'm sorry, Doctor, but you're not here all the time. You come and go. It happened today. Mister Llewellyn and the Major, they were murdered. They died right in front of me while you were sleeping. In which case we have to defend ourselves."
"Britain's Golden Age." he said bitterly.
"It comes with a price." she said.
"I gave them the wrong warning." he said angrily. "I should 've told them to run as fast as they can, run and hide because the monsters are coming. The human race."
"Those are the people I represent.' she said. "I did it on their behalf."
"Then I should have stopped you." he said.
"What does that make you, Doctor?" she said. "Another alien threat?"
"Don't challenge me," he said firmly. "Harriet Jones, because I'm a completely new man. I could bring down your Government with a single word."
"You're the most remarkable man I've ever met, but I don't think you're quite capable of that." she said.
"No, you're right. Not a single word, just six." he said bitterly.
"I don't think so." she said.
"Six words." he said.
"Stop it!" she said.
"Six." he said as he made sure Rhee was stable. After he was confident that she wasn't gonna fall down, he walked over the other man. And bent down to whisper in his ear. "Don't you think she looks tired?" The Doctor moved back to Rhee and scoped her up in his arms.
"I can walk," she said.
"I know but you don't look like you feel good," he said as he walked with her pressed against his chest. She gave in because she couldn't lie to him, she didn't feel good at all. She sighed wrapping her arms around his neck. "I'm taking you to the Med Bay." He walked over to the TARDIS and unlocked the door still holding on to Rhee. He walked in and shut the door with his foot, because he had seen Jackie, Rose, and Mickey leave to go back to their flat.
When they got into the Med Bay the Doctor laid Rhee down on the table. And ran every test he could think of and they all came back normal expect she was a little dehydrated. "It's says there's nothing wrong with you," the Doctor said worriedly. "You just need some water." Suddenly a glass of water appeared beside her. "She loves you. The TARDIS I mean."
"Yeah," Rhee smiled as she took the glass of water.
"Well, I need to go change," he said. "Drink all the water."
"I'll need to shower and change too," she said.
"Drink the water first," he said sternly as he walked off.
"Thanks," she said. She drank all of the water then went to her room. She showered and the TARDIS put out another outfit for her. The shirt was an off the shoulders made out of red satin, and a white skirt with peppermints all around it. She smiled knowing that the TARDIS had picked this out because it's Christmas. She dressed and added a pair of black flats. She decided to leave her hair down. As she brushed out her hair, after drying it, she thought about her relationship with the Doctor. She sighed as she finished brushing her hair. "I'm gonna do it!"
She got done and walked outside. The first thing she noticed was that he had moved the TARDIS in front of Rose's apartment. She smiled. Her head was still clouded after the shower, however her body and head didn't hurt. She walked up to the apartment and walked in, to see the Doctor sitting at the table along with Rose, Jackie, and Mickey. "You look great," Rose said smiling.
"Thank you," Rhee replied. "I can't take credit for the outfit, the TARDIS picked it out." She smiled warmly at them all. "Um, Jackie." She looked at Jackie, Jackie looked up to Rhee. "I would like to ask a favor of you."
"Anything Rhee," Jackie said looking confused. "But what can I help with?"
"I need a hair cut," Rhee said and everyone looked at her, in confusion.
"Why do you want your hair cut?" the Doctor asked worriedly.
"It is something I do," Rhee replied. "Whenever I decided on having a new boyfriend I cut my hair." The Doctor's eyes lit up to hear her call him her boyfriend.
"Wait," he said as he stood up and grabbed her hands, pulled them closer. "What do you mean?"
"I mean I want to be your girlfriend," she said. "And no this is not because you regenerated or because we about died." She smiled at him with love. "It's because I realized I have something to live for again. Someone who will protect me and I can protect." Everyone looked in awe of Rhee. "Did I say something funny?"
"Oh, no," Rose said with tears forming in her eyes. "It's just the way you said it sounded so beautiful,"
"You are truly an extraordinary woman," Jackie said with tears in her eyes as well. The Doctor looked at Rhee in shock, he couldn't believe that he had found her and that she loved him back. "Sure I will cut your hair. Sit here." Jackie pulled out a chair and patted the chair. "Rose please finish dinner."
"You don't have to cut your hair," he said almost pleading with her. "I like it, like this." He let go of her hands and put a hand in her hair.
"It's not for you," she said with a smile. "It's for me, a new beginning."
"OK, if this is really what you want," he said. He let her go and she nodded, she moved to sit in the chair.
"How short do you want it?" Jackie asked.
"Here," Rhee said showing Jackie that she wanted it cut to her jaw line.
"Sing to us as she's cutting your hair please," Rose said.
"Sure, something Christmasy?" Rhee asked as Jackie started to cut Rhee's hair.
"Please," Rose said. And Rhee started to sing 'Carol of the Bells'. Jackie finished Rhee's hair at the same time Rhee finished the song. Rhee dashed into the bathroom to see how it looked. She liked it, the way Jackie cut it made Rhee's hair frame her face.
"Thank you Jackie," Rhee said as she walked back into the living room. Rose finished the dinner, they were setting the table. "I hope you like it Doctor." She sounded unsure of herself. He walked over to her and smiled from the bottom of his heart.
"I love it," he said as he ran his fingers though her hair. He wasn't lying when he said he loved it because he did. The way it framed her face was beautiful. He was about to kiss her when-
"Dinner is ready," Jackie announced. "Here's our Christmas Crackers."
"What are Christmas Crackers?" Rhee asked as she sat in a chair the Doctor pulled out for her.
"You haven't heard of Christmas Crackers?" Rose asked.
"Heard of them but never seen them," Rhee said.
"Here, grab and pull," he said with a smile. She did as was asked of her and a red paper hat came out of the cracker. "Oh, that's yours." He put it on her head and she giggled. They ate as the new reported that Harriet was being considered unfit for office. The phone rang and Jackie answered it.
"It's Beth. She says go and look outside." Jackie said as she hung the phone up.
"Why?" Rose asked.
"I don't know, just go outside and look." Jackie said. "Come on, shift!" They rushed outside to see ash covering everything and the ship breaking up. It looked like meteors but as Rhee's head cleared she knew what it was.
"Oh, it's beautiful. What are they, meteors?" Rose asked.
"It's the spaceship breaking up in the atmosphere." the Doctor said.
"This isn't snow, it's ash." Rhee said solemnly. He gave her a look of confusion.
"Okay, not so beautiful." Rose said.
"This is a brand new planet Earth." he said excitedly. "No denying the existence of aliens now. Everyone saw it. Everything 's new."
"And what about you?" Rose asked. "What are you going to do next?"
"Well, back to the TARDIS." he said. "Same old life."
"Rhee going with you?" she asked. She knew the answer but had to ask anyway because Rhee needed to hear it. Rhee wasn't the most confident in herself.
"If she'll still have me," he said looking hopefully at Rhee.
"I just said that I wanted to be your girlfriend," Rhee said rolling her eyes. "Of course I want to come with you silly."
"Good," he said proudly.
"Well, I reckon you're mad, the pair of you." Jackie said teasingly. "It's like you go looking for trouble."
"Trouble's just the bits in-between." he proclaimed. "It's all waiting out there, Jackie, and it's brand new to me. All those planets, and creatures and horizons. I haven't seem them yet! Not with these eyes." He grabbed Rhee's hand and held her close. "And it is going to be fantastic." They smiled at each other. For some reason or another her head cleared up the more he touched her.
"God," Mickey said teasingly. "You two are so sweet you could give us cavities."
"I know," Rose said. "Try traveling with them."
"Oh, shut it!" Rhee said. "You haven't heard you and Mickey-sama. Now that's sweet." The Doctor laughed causing Rhee to turn back to him. "So, where're we going to go first?"
"Er, that way." he said pointing up. "No, hold on." He moved his hand a bit. "That way."
"That way?" she asked. He nodded. "Sounds good to me."
"Oh, and I can't wait to here your candidates for our perfect song," he said with a wink.