Disclaimer: I do not own Doctor Who.
A/N: Welcome to the My Life series. I love having Rose as the Time Lord and the Doctor as the companion. Rose is not Rose yet, so to speak. She's in an earlier regeneration which has a description in the story. This is the only chapter that is going to be a complete episode just because I usually have really short prologues and I needed to break that streak. That being said, this should be updated once a week, if not more.
Enjoy!
John stifled a yawn as he rose from his bed for the day. He sighed and began another normal, uneventful day. To say today was uneventful was an overstatement. He hopped on bus 11 like every other day. Walking in to the hospital and greeted the other workers who either ignored him or snapped at him. The day passed with a variety of different patients. When he was finally leaving work his phone rang.
"John!" The voice over the phone said.
"Evan." John said back.
"Listen, could you please pick up a dress for Stephanie? I'll pay you back tomorrow and I really need it." Evan pleaded. John pinched the bridge of his nose.
"Why does Stephanie need a dress?" He asked.
"Some dance she's having at her school. Please, John. I don't fancy being killed by my little sister." Evan replied.
"I don't even know what would look good." John argued.
"Just pick something pink and short, she'll love it." Evan said. Before John could respond he spoke again. "Thanks so much, I knew I could count on you." With that, Evan hung up. John sighed and continued to the nearest clothes store. He walked in and made his way to the girl's section. After a few minutes of looking he pulled out a short, dark pink dress that had a strap on one side with sparkles.
"Very Stephanie." John muttered. He proceeded to the check out. He waited a few minutes but nobody came. "Hello?" He called out. "Anybody here?" He called again. Once again he was met with no reply. He began searching the store. He was about to give up when he saw a movement out of the corner of his eye. He turned to see a mannequin standing there. Another mannequin was standing behind him. He backed away from them going further into the store. He saw more movement and turned to it. A group of mannequins were standing before him. "Very funny, you can stop now." John said. The mannequins began moving toward him. John was slowly backing away. "Stop." He tried again. He continued to back away until his back hit a wall. The closest mannequin raised its hand. John squeezed his eyes shut, unsure what to expect. A small hand slipped into his.
"Run." A woman's voice said. The hand tugged him away from the mannequins towards the service elevator. The woman threw herself and John into the elevator. She pulled out a small, metal tube. She pressed a button and pointed it at the panel in the elevator. A small buzzing emitted while sparks flew from the panel and the door closed. A mannequin reached in at them, stopping the door from fully closing. The woman pulled at the arm until it popped off, closing the elevator. She tossed the arm to him. "Get rid of it, it won't come in handy." She grinned at her pun. John got his first real look at the woman. She was attractive with jet black hair that goes just past her shoulders and steely blue eyes. She wore black jeans that clung to her like a second skin with a black leather jacket strewn over a blue blouse that matches her eyes. Her soldier appearance was complete with the large, black combat boots tied tightly to her feet.
"Who are you?" John asked her. She looked to him for a moment but didn't speak. "Who were they, were they students?" Her brow furrowed.
"Students? Why would they be students?" She questioned. John shrugged.
"I don't know. There were a lot of them and to get that many people to do the same thing, just sounds like students." John suggested. The woman smiled at him.
"Good boy!" She praised. "But no, they weren't students."
"What were they?" John asked again.
"Living, plastic creatures." The woman replied in all seriousness. John gaped at her until the service elevator binged. She grabbed his hand and pulled him out. "Lucky for us, I've got this." She held up a small controller-like device.
"What's that?" He looked at it.
"It will save us, or you." She pulled him out the nearest door. "Here you are, get going." She turned and ran back into the door. John stared for a minute before shaking it off as a weird occurrence and turning to leave. His head swung back when he heard the door open. The woman's head was peeking out. "I'm Bad Wolf by the way. What's your name?"
"I'm John, John Tyler." He said back to her. She gave him a smile with her tongue peeking out through her teeth.
"Nice to meet you, John Tyler, run for your life." She held up the device and shook it before running back into the building. John took her advice and ran until he felt at a safe distance. He turned back towards the store in time to see the top story of the building explode. He stared at the building a moment until the sirens pulled him out of his reverie. He walked back to his flat and fell straight into a deep sleep. When he awoke the next morning, he called in sick. He didn't want to deal with everyone right after what happened with Bad Wolf. Who was she? Is she okay? What happened yesterday? Before he could even begin to try and answer his own questions he hears a knock at his door. He opened it to the smiling face of Evan.
"What?" John asked him.
"Come on Johnny, don't treat me like a kid." Evan walked past John into his flat. "Did you get the dress?" Evan asked hopefully. Shit.
"I had one but the store blew up before I could buy it." John said seriously.
"Are you kidding?" Evan asked.
"I'm serious." John looked at Evan and sat beside him on his couch.
"Well, I'm glad to see you're okay." Evan smiled. "I'll be dead by tonight, nice knowing you." Evan grumbled.
"Come on, she's not that bad." John tried.
"Stephanie is going to kill me." Evan said. John shook his head and was about to answer when another knock was at his door.
"Who could that be?" John muttered before opening the door. Bad Wolf was standing right in front of him.
"Oh hello John." She smiled cheerfully. "I tracked a signal back to here. I told you to get rid of the arm." She reminded him. "Get rid of it." She turned to walk away before John grabbed her arm. He pulled her into his flat and shut the door. John quickly led her to the living room where Evan was waiting.
"Where'd you get this one, Johnny?" Evan smirked. Bad Wolf glared at him.
"I didn't get her anywhere. She saved my life yesterday." John stated. Evan whistled.
"A beauty and a hero." Evan said. Bad Wolf stood up, clearly annoyed.
"John, if you don't mind I'll be leaving now." She looked John straight in the eyes. "Get rid of it." She turned and walked away.
"Wait!" John called. She was already out the door. "Give me a minute." He said over his shoulder to Evan before grabbing the plastic arm and following her out the door. "Who are you?" He asked when he caught up with her. She took the arm and pointed the metal tube at it. After a second of buzzing she stopped and handed it back.
"It doesn't matter, just forget about me." She shrugged him off and continued in front of him.
"Bad Wolf, that isn't even a name." John said more to himself than to her. "Who are you really?" John tried again.
"Bad Wolf." She answered simply.
"But what's your real name?" He tried.
"Just Bad Wolf." She said.
"Bad Wolf." John breathed.
She smiled brightly and waved, "Hello!"
"Is that supposed to sound impressive?" John snorted. Bad Wolf shrugged.
"Sort of." She said before walking off.
"But who is Bad Wolf?" John tried a new approach. She turned to him and sighed before walking back up to him.
"Do you know what they say about the Earth revolving? It's like when you're a kid." She took his hand in her own. "The first time they tell you that the world's turning and you just can't quite believe it because everything looks like it's standing still. I can feel it, the turn of the Earth." She looked at the ground with a silent intensity almost as if she's studying it. "The ground beneath our feet is spinning at a thousand miles an hour, and the entire planet is hurtling around the sun at sixty seven thousand miles an hour, and I can feel it. We're falling through space, you and me, clinging to the skin of this tiny, little world, and if we let go-" She dropped his hand in a rather dramatic manner. His arm fell limply to the side as he processed the information. "That's who I am. Now, forget me, John Tyler. Go home." He was staring at her as she walked away without looking back. He stood for a moment before turning to go back to his flat. He turned his head back when he heard a wheezing noise but nothing was there. He sighed and continued walking.
"What was that about?" Evan asked when John came back. John shrugged.
"It doesn't matter." John muttered. Evan smirked.
"I didn't know you had a girlfriend." Evan began. John cut him off.
"She is not my girlfriend." John said irritated. "She saved my life, that's it." Evan held up his hands in surrender.
"Okay, okay, I believe you. I'm going to go get Stephanie her dress. I'll see you later though." Evan waved and left. John immediately went to his computer and searched online. He first searched for 'Bad Wolf'. After coming up short he tried 'Bad Wolf and living plastic'. Once again it failed. He tried to think back to something he might have noticed. The only thing he could think of that was strange was the blue box. It was there when she walked away but when he turned back it was gone. He tried 'Bad Wolf and blue box'. A page came up with a blurry picture of her saying, "Have you seen her?" Perfect. John called the number the man had on the website. They decided to meet up at his house. Evan wouldn't let John go without him since he thought this man was going to be a murderer. John heard the guy's theories but eventually decided the man was crazy for thinking she was an alien so he went back to Evan's car.
"He was a complete nutter." John commented when he got in the car. "I'm feeling a bit hungry. Let's go get some pizza before you go get the dress."
"Pizza." Evan responded simply. John raised his eyebrows.
"Yeah, pizza." John confirmed.
"Pizza." Evan said again before heading to the nearest restaurant. They were quickly shown to a seat where John continued on the conversation.
"Anyways, I'd rather just forget about her. I mean, I don't really know her. I guess I just thought it was interesting." John shrugged. "Have you told Stephanie you haven't got a dress yet?" John asked.
"How did you meet Bad Wolf?" Evan asked.
"I told you, she saved me. I'd rather not talk about this right now." John said. A waitress came behind John.
"Champagne?" She held up a bottle. John and Evan didn't look at her as they continued talking.
"That isn't ours." John said. "You should be worrying about that dress. Stephanie gives slaps from hell."
"Where did you last see her?" Evan questioned further. The waitress moved behind Evan now.
"Champagne?" She tried again. Evan and John waved her off while still not looking at her.
"It doesn't matter." John shrugged Evan off. Evan reached out and held his arm firmly.
"Doesn't anybody want this?" The waitress asked from her spot behind John. Finally they both looked up.
"Bad Wolf?" John asked.
"Don't mind me, just giving a toast." She smiled sweetly as she shook the bottle. She popped the cork which flew straight into Evan's forehead. His face distorted a moment before he spit the cork out. Evan stood up abruptly and tried to lunge for Bad Wolf. She dodged him and jumped on his back, pulling at his head. John watched in shock for a minute before jumping up and hitting the fire alarm.
"Everybody out!" John yelled. He looked over in time to see Bad Wolf carrying Evan's head and running toward him.
"Don't think that's going to stop me." The head said. The body was running around causing chaos.
"Come on, let's go!" Bad Wolf grabbed John's hand and pulled him out into the back. They ran down a small corridor before exiting into an alley. Bad Wolf quickly pulled out the metal tube and aimed it at the door they exited from. Evan was pounding on the door. John moved towards the gate blocking off the alley.
"It's locked." John looked to Bad Wolf. "Could you use your tube thingy?" John asked.
"Sonic screwdriver." She corrected.
"Well could you?" John asked. She shook her head.
"Let's try in here." She said as she walked into the blue box. John tried the locked gate a few more times but gave up before running back to the box. He ran inside only to gape and run back outside. He circled the box a few times before running back inside. "Give me a mo." Bad Wolf put the head on the console and hooked up some wires before turning back to John. "The door." She said. John turned and closed the door. "Now then, questions?" She asked cheerfully.
"It's bigger on the inside." John said in a daze.
"Yes." Bad Wolf nodded.
"It's alien?" He asked.
"Yeah." Bad Wolf dragged the word out.
"Are you alien?" He asked with only a slight hesitation.
"Yep." She said popping the 'p'. After a second of him staring at her she asked, "That alright?"
"Yeah, yeah." He cleared his throat. "That's great." He sounded like he was still in a daze as he examined the console.
"This is the TARDIS, T-A-R-D-I-S. It stands for time and relative dimensions in space. It's my ship." She said.
"Can't Evan get through the door?" He asked. She shook her head.
"The assembled hordes of Genghis Kong couldn't get through that door, and believe me they've tried." She stated. John looked around unsure of what to do.
"Um, Evan's melting." He commented.
"What?" Bad Wolf turned to where the head was melting. "Oh no, no, no, no." She ran around the console franticly with a new speed. The TARDIS lurched forward a few times before stopping.
"What's it doing?" John asked.
"She brought us as close to the signal as she could before the head melted." Bad Wolf explained. She moved to the door.
"No, don't. The rest of it's still out there." John argued. He stopped when he walked out in a different location. "What happened? Did the TARDIS fly?"
"We disappeared there and reappeared here." Bad Wolf said simply.
"What about the rest of that thing." John gestured wildly to where the head of Evan was. "Won't it hurt other people?"
"No, it melted with the head." She replied.
"What am I going to tell Stephanie?" He looked upset.
"Stephanie?" Bad Wolf raised an eyebrow.
"His sister, they're all each other have. He takes care of her. She's going to be devastated." He moved his aim towards the ground.
"I don't know." Bad Wolf said. "He may be alive, I'm not sure though." She tried.
"Really?" John asked hopefully. She shrugged.
"It won't matter if we don't find the transmitter." She said.
"Well what does it look like?" He asked.
"Big, round, and somewhere near here." She replied. He looked over her shoulder at the London Eye.
"How can something that big hide in a city this small, it must be completely invisible." She commented. He nodded towards the London Eye. She turned to it and turned back. "What?" She asked. He nodded again. She looked towards it again. "What?" She asked. She did a quick double take. "Oh." It dawned on her. "Fantastic!" She cheered. They made their way towards the London Eye.
"So what does it want with us?" John questioned.
"To take destroy everybody and take your resources." She replied nonchalantly.
"Why does it hate us?" He asked.
"It doesn't, it loves you. You guys with your toxins and dioxins." She muttered.
"How do we stop it." He asked. Bad Wolf pulled out a vile of a blue substance.
"Anti-plastic." She said happily.
"Anti-plastic?" John nodded. "Okay so how does this work then, the invasion I mean?"
"Imagine it, everything plastic coming to life; wires, phones, cars-"
"Breast implants." John added. Bad Wolf flashed him a grin.
"It's going to be under the transmitter. We need a way down there." She said. John ran ahead of her and opened the top to a manhole. "That'll do." She smiled at him which he happily returned. "Let's go." They both climbed down the ladder as quickly as they could. Bad Wolf took one step in front of John. "I wish to address the Nestene Consciousness under peaceful contract according to convention 15 of the Shadow Proclamation." The large vat with the orange and yellow glow made a growling noise. "Thank you, might I have permission to approach?" The vat once again growled. Bad Wolf stepped forward. John looked up and saw Evan tied up.
"Evan, it's me! Evan!" John jumped up and ran to his friend. Evan pulled John towards him.
"That thing, it can talk. John, it can talk!" Evan was grabbing at John. He had a worried look on his face.
"I know, it's alright." He looked up to Bad Wolf. "They kept him alive." He exclaimed. She shot him a glance.
"It always was a possibility." She smiled slightly before turning her attention back to the vat. "Am I addressing the Consciousness?" The vat growled. "Great! If I might observe, you infiltrated this civilization by means of warp shunt technology. So, may I suggest, with the greatest respect, you shunt off?" John smiled at that. The vat formed an angry face and growled even louder. "Oh don't give me that, it's an invasion, plain and simple. Don't talk about constitutional rights." A louder growl came. "I am talking!" The Wolf yelled back. "This planet is just starting. These tiny little people have only just learned how to walk, but they are capable of so much more. I'm asking you on their behalf, please, just go." She finished softly. Evan pulled John back with him when two plastic mannequins grabbed onto Bad Wolf's arms. They held her as she fought. One of them reached into her jacket and pulled out the vial of anti-plastic. "I wasn't going to use it!" Bad Wolf cried. "It was just an assurance." The vat once again growled. "What do you mean?" She asked. Her voice was slightly strained. Bad Wolf turned her attention to the back of the room where a door slid open to reveal her TARDIS. "No, no, honestly, no." The vat growled again. "Yes that's my ship." The vat continued to growl. "That's not true. I was there, I fought in the war. I couldn't save your world, I couldn't save any of them!" Bad Wolf cried. Her voice sounded like a mix between anguish and anger. John wondered what could make somebody who seems so sure, seem so lost.
"What's it doing?" John called.
"It's terrified, it's going to the final stage and starting the invasion." She yelled to him. "John, take Evan and get out. Just get out now while you can." John stared at her in disbelief. Evan pulled on John's jacket.
"John, come on, let's go." Evan pulled John with more force causing him to stumble. John looked up to see an axe perched against the wall. He turned once more to Bad Wolf who was still struggling with the mannequins. He grabbed the axe and started hitting the chain.
"I've got the most boring routine in the world but you know what I haven't got, adventure. And you know what? I need some of that." He smiled manically before grabbing the chain he freed. He held on and he swung into the mannequins. They went flying into the vat with the anti-plastic. He swung back into Bad Wolf's arms. She gave him a small hug.
"Now we're in trouble." She grinned before running up the stairs to where Evan was. "Come on, in now." She pushed Evan and John into the TARDIS. John held onto one of the coral struts and prompted the terrified Evan to do the same. Bad Wolf ran around the console hitting random buttons. After a minute she stopped and pointed to the door. Evan bolted out the first chance he got while John followed slower. They were in an alley close to John's flat. Bad Wolf stopped at the entrance of the TARDIS. "Nestene Consciousness? Easy!" She snapped her fingers. John grinned.
"You'd be dead if it wasn't for me." He replied in a teasing manner. She sobered.
"Yes, I would, thank you." John smiled at her. Evan whimpered by him. "I should get going unless… I don't know, you could always come with me. She's more than a London hopper, anywhere in the universe." She said in a hopeful tone. John wanted to go with her so badly.
"Don't, she's a-a thing." Evan stated. She looked at him sternly.
"He's not invited." She said. "So what'd you say?" She asked hopefully. He rubbed the back of his neck, unsure. He really wants to go but he can't just leave his responsibilities.
"Yeah, I can't." He says quickly. He didn't miss the disappointment on her face. "Someone's got to take care of him." He pointed to Evan. "Besides, I don't think my mom would appreciate just up and leaving without warning." She gave a small smile.
"See you around." She said quietly before walking back into the TARDIS. As soon as she left he regretted it. He turned back towards the entrance of the alley.
"Come on." He said and grabbed Evan's arm, leading him out.
Bad Wolf was staring at the console. "I told you old girl." She said. The TARDIS hummed in her head. "Yeah, yeah. Let's go to some other planet for a change. You enjoy Earth far too much." The TARDIS hummed in amusement at her Thief and took them to another planet. "Where's this?" Bad Wolf asked. She skipped out of the TARDIS into the outskirts of a town. The town looked identical to a town you'd see in a Western film. She walked around for a little bit and ended up in the bar. She ordered a drink knowing it wouldn't help any. She really wished John would've come. She may not admit it but she was lonely. She sighed and made to get out of her seat. A small letter sat in front of her. It said, "You forgot to mention the most important bit, she also travels in time." Bad Wolf stared at the letter for a moment. She took off back to the TARDIS quick as she could. "Old girl, we forgot to mention you travel in time." She said excitedly. The TARDIS hummed with hope for her little Thief. She quickly materialized them on Earth only seconds after they left.
Bad Wolf popped her head out. "Did I mention, she also travels in time?" She smiled with her tongue in between her teeth and arched an eyebrow. John turned to Evan.
"I'll see you around; tell mom I'll be back soon." John smiled and ran into the TARDIS where Bad Wolf was grinning. He shut the door after him while Bad Wolf got them into the Time Vortex.
"Welcome aboard." Bad Wolf smiled.
A/N: Let me know what you thought! I tried to keep some of the lines in the episode but not all. This is the only chapter that will be this close to an episode. The other chapters will not be nearly as similar. I hope you liked this and more will come shortly! Thanks for reading!