Disclaimer: I do not own the rights to BBC's Doctor Who or Broadchurch, nor am I making any form of profit from this fanfiction.
Rating: MA (L,V,S)
AN: You have been warned about the rating, and what will occur within it's contented. Flames will be ignored due to this warning.
Story Note: The breach between parallel worlds are completely sealed off. There is no Doctor Duplicate in this fanfiction.
Pairings: Alec Hardy/Rose Tyler
Jackie Tyler/Pete Tyler
A
Place To Call
Home
Alec Hardy stepped out of the shower and wrapped the towel around his waist. He leaned over the counter and removed the fog from the mirror. He had brown hair, slightly toned skin, freckled cheeks, deep brown eyes and a scruffy beard and slightly broad frame. He reached up and gently touched the large tender scar that rested over his heart. He had a pacemaker put in after the Danny Latimer case was solved convicting his DS Ellie Miller's husband Joe with first degree murder. The only reason why Alec stayed was because of her. He had to do some major damage control after Joe's trial to clear up any nasty rumors about the kind woman. He sighed heavily and continued to get dressed for work.
Alec stopped in front of the mirror one last time and straighten his tie, grabbed his keys and badge. He walked out the front door, locked it and got into the car, and drove off to the Broadchurch Police Station.
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Ellie Miller quickly picked up her purse, Freddy's diaper bag. She grabbed the car keys off the table. She picked up her youngest son and place him on her hip. She turned and looked in the mirror next her. She had slightly short curly brown hair, fare skin, brown eyes and a womanly figure. Her son Freddy favored greatly.
"Tom hurry up or we'll be late for school!" called Ellie from the bottom of the stairs.
Tom ran down the stairs with backpack over his shoulder. He favored his father with short blonde hair, blue eyes and was tall and lean. The family quickly ran outside and piled into the car.
Ellie dropped Freddy off at the daycare center and dropped Tom off of the school. She looked at the lock and groaned. She was running late. She hated running late it threw off her entire day.
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"Miller you're late." said Alec from his office door.
Ellie sat her purse down on top of her desk. "I know. You wouldn't believe the morning I've had all ready," and walked into the small kitchen area followed by Alec. "I swear they need to open a coffee shop or something. This stuff is horrible." She said pouring herself a cup of coffee.
"How's Tom handling things since after the trial?" asked Alec in concern.
Ellie shook her head, "I don't know. He won't talk to me, and Freddy is too young understand any of it. Thank goodness for that." She took a sip of her coffee.
Alec squeezed his partner's shoulder slightly, and exited the kitchen era for his office. Ellie sighed heavily and braced herself for a long day in the office. She hoped that she didn't receive a phone call about Tom in school for fighting like she did that past Friday.
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The Tyler family got out of the car after a long car ride from London to Broadchurch. Rose closed the back door with a heavy sigh. She couldn't believe that her parents took her away from work just to come to small town on the beach. They knew how she felt about beaches. She couldn't stand to on one, not after saying goodbye to man she loved on Bad Wolf Bay in Norway. She only wanted to climb back into the car and return back to Torchwood in hope to get the dimension canon working again to get back to him. But when it failed over and over again her father Pete pulled the plug on the project.
Rose walked up onto the sidewalk and looked into a store window and her reflection showed in front of her. She had long blonde hair to her shoulders, slightly toned skin, bright brown eyes, full lips and womanly figure. Her mother favored greatly with same blonde hair, blue eyes and slightly larger bust area but with a curved womanly figure. Pete he had slightly bold head, light tone skin, brown eyes and had slightly lean figure.
"Well, come on let's check in at the hotel." said Jackie giving her daughter a gentle push forward to the hotel and bar.
Rose sighed heavily and followed her parents to the hotel. She stepped into a nice looking lobby while Pete checked them. She was grateful to at lest have her own room.
"Oh, come on sweetheart cheer up. Here's your key. Go get settled in and unpack. You're in room nine." said Jackie handing her the key.
Rose took the key and left the lobby to get settled into the room, while her parents did the same in there room. After she got through unpacking she called her mum on her cell phone and told her was going to walk around the town.
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Rose aimlessly walked around the town not looking at anything special. She stopped in her tracks when she found herself at the beach. She looked around at the salty water crashing on the shore. She slowly stepped her foot into the sand followed by another. She breathed in a deeply. She saw that there were no rocks on the shoreline on cliffs, and she knew it wasn't the same beach. She knew she had to move on, it had been almost five years now since she had seen her Doctor.
Meanwhile Alec Hardy stood on the beach his hair blowing in the salty wind. He watched the sun slowly set casting a shimmer of colors across the waving water. He normal ended his long days on the beach. It calmed down his nerves of the day.
The DI turned his head and he saw a blonde headed woman that he had never seen before. He figured she was a tourist who had came to see the place that Danny Latimer had murdered. He had grown tired of those that had the balls to come to the beach and gap at the horrible sight that had been a nightmare for him and the family of the murdered boy's family, and his DS that nearly distorted the town.
Rose sat down in the sand and drew her legs up to chest and rested her chin on her knees, and she let the tears fall down her cheeks. She didn't even trouble with wiping them away. She couldn't help but break down at the memory of the lost of her Doctor. She had buried herself into her work so she wouldn't let the pain consume her. But there was no work to distract her to keep her from the tears. She wrapped her arms tightly around her body trying to block the wind that had cooled off since the sun had nearly set.
Alec sighed heavily and shook his head. He walked up to the woman and removed his jacket. He placed it over her shoulders. "You should bring a jacket." He told her in a thick Scottish accent.
Rose looked up and gasped at the sight of the man that stood above her. She stumbled slightly as she stood up and faced the man. She covered her mouth and a sob left her mouth. The man looked exactly like the Doctor except he had a beard. She lifted her hand and touched the label of his black suit.
"How can you be here? The walls of the universe are closed." whispered Rose. "I've spent years trying to get back to you, and you've been here this entire time."
Alec's brow raised high covering it by his long bangs. "I don't know who you are talking to, or who you think I am Miss."
"Then if you're not the Doctor, then who in the hell are you?" snapped Rose.
"I'm DI Alec Hardy." he told her.
Rose held out her hand. "Well, hand it over. It want to see the ID. Come on." She said more forcefully snapping her fingers at him.
He pulled out his ID and handed it to the woman that stood in front of him. Rose held it up into the last remaining light of the sun and read the information. She looked at it and back at him. She slapped the flip cover into his hand. She placed her hands on his chest checking for two hearts, but she only found one beating on his left side of his body. She stepped back and nearly stumbled into the sand. Alec quickly grabbed her around waist trying to stop her from falling, but the plan worked better in his mind, causing both of them to fall into the sand, and he fell back into the sand.
Rose looked up from his chest, and she heard him groan slightly at the pull on his chest. She looked down at her hand that was resting over his heart. "I'm so sorry," and she got up and helped him to his feet.
Alec rubbed the tender area on his chest. "It's fine."
Rose's brow frowned slightly. "No you're not. You pulled a muscle, and it's my fault."
"I pulled no muscle Madame. I can tell you won't leave until you get the answer you seek. I've recovering from a surgery. I suggested you go to do what you planed. Go ahead to the place were Danny Latimer was found," and he turned to walk away.
"Hey, I didn't come here for that!" yelled Rose after the DI.
"Then go home, and leave this place." he told her as he walked way.
"I wish! You're a complete bastard!"
"I work hard it!"
Rose ran up to the Scotsman, "You're such a child." She narrowed her eyes and stormed passed him, "Have a good evening DI Hardy!"
Alec watched the woman leave the beach. He groaned. She had left with his coat, and he made his way to his small apartment. He'd get his coat in the morning. He would just have to find her in town.
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Rose nearly slammed the hotel room and flopped down on the large bed. She closed her eyes and let several tears fall down her cheeks. She should have known better. She knew that the parallel world had same people of the normal universe she was from. She didn't expect to run into the Doctor double. They could past for twins, but with differences. He was human with only one heart. He was human and not a Time Lord.
She grabbed her pillow and screamed into it. She got up from the bed and entered the bathroom in hope a bubble bath would help her relax from her encounter with the Doctor's double.
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