Disclaimer: As much as I'd love to own David Tennant and Billie Piper or the whole 'Doctor Who' title, I don't. They belong to a very smug BBC and Russell T Davies. I don't own any of it, not even the DVDs. Damn.
Chapter 1 –Free as the Wind Blows
"Love you too Mum. And yes we'll be careful. We'll be back soon, okay?"
"Okay, Love. I'll see you soon." Jackie Tyler then turned to the Doctor and pointed a harsh finger. "You had better bring her back in time for Christmas. And I want you both back in one piece, you hear me?"
Rose's eyes rolled as she turned and headed into the Tardis, the Doctor just in front. She closed the door behind her, and turned around only to find the Doctor with a manic grin spread wide across his face, arms outstretched.
"Free! Free at last! No more boredom, not more sleeping on the sofa, no more of your mother's dreadful cooking, and above all else, definitely no Eastenders!! I'm free!!
Rose just laughed at him, the grin on his face contagious as he ran towards the console and began to prod at a series of buttons.
"We were only there a week!"
"Really? So much for a holiday. Next time I think I might just meet you at the end of it. Now, where'd you wanna go? We could, I dunno, we could finally go to Barcelona, or we could go to that Pleasure Planet we visited ages ago, what was it called? LumLum, LumFum, something like that. That'd be nice. But I think we should give that one where they're obsessed with This is Your Life a miss; I don't think I'm up to it today." There was a pause as the Doctor headed around to the other side of the consol. "Or maybe, just maybe…we could just, do this!"
The Doctor's hand came down hard on a nice big lever near the centre of the console, that looked like it was just aching to be pulled, and he bounded round in front of Rose.
"Where are we going?" she asked, and then laughed out loud at the look of glee on his face.
"No idea. That nice big button over there, and that lever I just happened to pull, take us to a nice little spot in the Universe. Only thing is, I've no idea where! It's all one big adventure!
The Doctor ran towards the door as the Tardis landed, looked back, and saw that Rose had cottoned onto the idea, her happiness showing through.
So he opened the door and stepped out.
"Ooh, we're somewhere in the Juxacon galaxy. That green sky over there's a dead giveaway. 'Course sunset's a different matter altogether. It's the same on all these planets; they all come from the same asteroid belt and orbit round the same sun. The sky turns purple with pink pokadots, and the suns a pale blue.
"It sounds beautiful. Could we watch it tonight? We could have chips, too", she added, trying to swing him round.
"I think I could handle a little sky watching for one night."
They headed towards the nearest corner, rounding it only to discover they were deep in the slums of the city. Everything was grey and long-forgotten, the place almost deserted. The only real sign of life was a deformed man sitting in a pile of rags at the street's edge. The Doctor suddenly spotted a slight hole in the wall up the street a little way and started towards it.
"Doctor?"
"I've been looking for one of these for ages. They took out the one I used to go to, and I haven't been bothered to find another."
"What is it?"
"It's an ATM Rose, an Automatic Teller Machine."
"That's a teller machine? It's just a hole in the wall."
"It's the basic model! Besides, there are a few major differences between this beauty and an Earth machine.
Instead of a card, you just scan part of your body, in my case, a fingerprint. Then the transaction links straight with my account I set up a long, long, time ago. However, if you don't happen to have fingers, other parts of the anatomy can be scanned. Oh, inner ear scans are quite popular nowadays of course, but it used to always be –"
The Doctor's voice cut abruptly off as he was hit over the head with a metal bat and he fell straight to the ground, the wound already gushing blood down one side of his face. Stars exploded in front of his eyes and Rose's shrieks in his right ear seemed impossibly loud as she too tried to throw off the attacker.
Forcing himself upwards onto his hands and knees, the Doctor pushed forwards towards the assailant, who had managed to finally get on top of Rose and push her into the wall. Hard.
The Doctor felt anger rise up in him at this unwarranted attack, especially at its assault on Rose. He lunged at the man-like being, pushing it into the ground.
But the attacker was strong and the Doctor weakened, and the Doctor felt himself being forced into the ground and a steel-capped boot in his ribs before a device not unlike his sonic was pushed to his forehead.
And then…nothing.
Rose had managed to pull herself up, only in time to witness the Doctor falling into unconsciousness. She pulled herself to her feet and ran at the attacker in blind panic, but he simply pushed her out of the way and carted the Doctor off towards a high-tech van she only now noticed at the opposite end of the street and dumped him inside. She ran towards the van, but her attempts to catch it were futile, and as it sped off she felt her gut wrench violently for the Doctor.
A/N: This is my first fanfic so I'd love any comments and advice you can give me. The purple button below is just aching to be pushed. Anything and everything you can give me would be great, I'll be happy just to know that someone is reading this. :)