Chapter 1

Branches whipped at her face as she half ran half stumbled through the thick undergrowth of the jungle, hand in hand with the Doctor, the sound of an angry mob a little closer than she would've liked.

"How much farther?" she gasped out almost ready to drop from exhaustion having ran, what she assumed to be about a kilometer of very rough up-hill terrain.

"Not much farther" he said cheerfully as he risked a quick glance back to give her one of his big grins, "just over that hill!" he said, pointing just ahead of them.

Rose looked in the direction he pointed, and noted something that seemed to resemble a small, rocky cliff face more than a hill. "Please tell me you don't mean that!" she said, desperately hoping she was looking in the wrong spot. The Doctor glanced at her over his shoulder, then to the cliff face, then back to her again, seeming slightly awkward. "Doctor?" she asked in exasperation. "You told me not to tell you!" he replied defensively. Rose let out a very audible groan.

The climb hadn't taken long, soon the Doctor had hauled himself over the crest of the cliff and reached down to offer Rose his hand to help her over the edge. She took his offer without hesitation, not trusting her now rubbery arms to pull her the final distance to level ground.

Once Rose was pulled up and over the ledge she released the Doctors hand and flopped onto her back panting. The climb hadn't taken long, but it had taken a lot out of her.

The Doctor gave Rose a lopsided smile "tired?" he asked. Rose, to out of breath to do much else shot him a murderous glare. But the Doctors smile only seemed to widen as he turned away to watch the ground below for the mob. Once Rose had caught her breath she sat up and took in their surroundings. They were sitting in a sea of ice-green grass that seemed to rippled in the warm breeze, and if not for the small blue box she could see in the distance, would have seemed to go on forever, completely uninterrupted.

"Hate to interrupt your sight seeing" Rose started when the Doctors voice sounded in her ear having been so absorbed in the view that she hadn't noticed the Doctor come up behind her . "but encase you've forgotten there seems to be a very angry mob, holding a variety of very nasty looking blunt objects…" he paused to glance over his shoulder with some concern, the sound of rocks falling and yelling now becoming audible "who seem to be very talented climbers, heading in our general direction."

"Isn't there always?" Rose said, smiling with her tongue sticking in between her teeth.

She was rewarded with smile in return from the Doctor, but as he opened his mouth to reply an arrow shot past, so close to his head that it had chopped off a lock of his chaotic brown hair in its wake, before hitting the ground a few feet away. He stared at the bits of hair floating in front of his face in shock, his mouth still hanging open, then regarded the arrow, still shaking from the impact with the ground, in horror, jaw snapping shut. He stayed that way for a second, before he yelled "Allons-y!" in a slightly higher pitch than normal, grabbed Rose's wrist, and took off at a pace that made her struggle to stay on her feet.

As they reached the TARDIS Rose could hear the angry yells of the mob quickly closing in on them. It hadn't taken them long to scale the cliff once they realized their targets were on top.

Rose refused to look over her shoulder to asses their pursuers' distance, and instead chose to watch the Doctor frantically search his pockets for his TARDIS key. She could now hear arrows hitting the ground just behind her.

"Doctor!" Rose exclaimed. "I know! I know!" he replied as he shoved his arm, up to his elbow, into a pocket that should have only been able to fit up to his wrist, a look of concentration on his face.

"Aha!" his face lit up as he drew out a small silver key, shoved it into the lock and thrust the door open. He turned, a grin that made him look slightly mad planted on his face, and reached out to usher Rose inside.

Just as she took a step towards the TARDIS doors the Doctor noticed something over her shoulder that caused his expression to change from gleeful to horrified. And before she had the chance to turn and see what he was looking at he had jumped forward, grabbed her shoulders from behind, and all but threw her into the TARDIS.

If she had been paying attention she would have noticed a sharp pain in her forearms where she skinned them on the floor grating. But the only thing that seemed to register in her thoughts as she fell into the TARDIS, was the cry of pain emanating from behind her.

The moment she landed Rose snapped her head around to see the Doctor, standing where she had been only moments before, staggering forward a look of pain and shock on his face, and a large black dart protruding from his neck.

First chapter done! And I have no clue how many more to go XD. This was my first uploaded fanfic, so reviews and constructive criticism would be welcomed warmly ;) !