A/N - Helloo! Not a native English speaker hence the grammar mistakes. Oh, I tried. Unbeta'ed.

Disclaimer - Not mine.

THE SLOW PATH

CHAPTER ONE

Rose Tyler has been standing in front of the broken mirror for quite a while now. Mickey was beginning to feel worried for his friend. It was an understatement that he did not give a shit about that alien git right now. The doctor could take care of himself just fine and now that he got that French courtesan with him, he was probably having a great time.

No words could describe his anger towards the doctor. How dare him swanning off just like that. First he left them with the clockwork droids and now this! The Doctor knew there wasn't going to be any way back to them when he left. Yet he still went and left him and Rose stranded on the spaceship.

Rose. Poor, poor Rose. Waiting for her Doctor for five and a half hours now.

When the Doctor first came and took Rose with him, Mickey was livid. But he could see that the first doctor, the daft old doctor was completely taken with Rose. It wasn't easy to accept it at first but after a while Mickey rooted for them to be together. Not that he's going to admit it out loud tho. He slowly began to accept the Doctor as a friend after the whole Christmas invasion thing, fully knowing that Rose wasn't coming back to him.

And then came Sarah Jane. The whole thing with Sarah Jane has been quite an eye opener for him and Rose but it was Rose who was affected most by it. Yes, he did think the Doctor as a friend who occasionally drop by (and steal his girlfriend) but to the Doctor, Mickey Smith was the tin dog. So it's safe to say that the introduction of Sarah Jane did not mean much to him. He listened to their conversation when Rose finally approached the Doctor and he knew Sarah Jane was listening to them too.

"No. Not to you," he said. He swore he heard Sarah Jane's heart broke all over again at that, probably wondering what the hell she ever did for the Doctor to left her just like that years ago.

And today Mickey realized that Sarah Jane probably did nothing wrong. It was the Doctor all along. He comes and goes as he pleases. But Mickey never thought the Doctor would do such thing to Rose. No, not her first Doctor. Hell, they even willing to die just to save one another!

He was really, really confused to be honest. The daft old alien and pinstriped pretty boy was literally the same person. Tell me Doctor, why did you do that? You killed yourself just to save the person you love and then leave her when the next pretty thing comes along?

Or maybe he was the wrong one here. Maybe the Doctor never loves Rose like he thought. And maybe despite being an alien, the Doctor is just another bloke. Hmmph. Wait until Jackie hears about this.

Shut up Mick. This is not the time to quote Draco Malfoy.

"BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM!"

A loud blast from inside the Tardis knocked both him and Rose down. He could feel blood trickling down his head.

Maybe Jackie's not going to hear about this.