Ahem. A huge thankyou to any previous readers who have come back to read this revamp, especially to Dead Composer for their review which prompted me to make this very necessary overhaul (I am good with descriptions, but unfoortunately not so good with dialouge!). Being honest, I don't know how much I'm gonna update, what with homework, coursework, tidying, etc... *looks at mountain of paper on table which mum has been quite rightly going on at me to tidy since September... gulp* anywho, I hope to update considerable more frequently than *sees date last updated* NEARLY FOUR YEARS? *grovels at readers feet* Yes definitely more often than that, hopefully pretty frequently if we can manage to find this really good text to speech software CD which has been lost, otherwise not as much, but still more than once every 2 months (not optimistic, I know, but I don't want to promise anything I can't keep and leave people hanging like I have done). Anyway, here's the new and improved version of Prolouge 1

Prologue 1

"It's glowing!"

Rose could feel the key around her neck heat up as the light pulsed from it in time with the groaning and wheezing song the TARDIS's engine sang as it materialized.

"He's back! Mickey! He's come back!"

"What!" Mickey ran over to where Rose cupped the key in her hands

"The Doctor! The TARDIS! He's here!" she exclaimed

"But where? I can't hear a thing." He asked.

"No! You're right! Neither can I! He's out there somewhere! And he can't know what's happened! He's outside!" Rose began to panic.

"Rose, jus' calm down-"

"NO! He's out there and he'll be attacked by what ever comes across him first!"

"Rose. He's the Doctor. He can deal with it!" Mickey tried to argue, placing his hand on Rose's shoulders to try and reassure her.

"But he doesn't know! Bullets can't stop them, doors can't stop them, they won't die if their heads get chopped off or you rip off their legs or a whole house falls on their heads they still won't stop! He's gonna-"

Mickey turned Rose to face him.

"ROSE! He'll be OK. You're on guard patrol next. You can't get off that. No matter what happens, remember?"

"But- " Rose knew the Doctor had battled innumerable enemies and alien foes, but this danger could overwhelm him as soon as he stepped outside the TARDIS door. His ignorance of the nature of the foe would mean that even if he was not attacked immediately, death was almost certainly assured without help from the survivors.

"Rose" He levelled his face with "No matter what happens. I'll get 'm to let me out with a search party to Pete's house. That's the only place we know that he'd go to. If we can't find him there…"

"I know." Mickey's offer put himself and so many others at risk. Rose couldn't ask any more of him, despite the voice inside her head and heart screaming not to let anyone rest until the Doctor was found.

"Then get to the outside walls with the rest of your shift while I ask the Council to let me out."

She couldn't raise her hopes at his chances of success… "Mickey, how'd you know they'll let you out with a search party? The next food raid is in a week and a half. The council wouldn't let a search party out even for that circus band, and they'd at least twenty people missing nearby. How're you gonna convince them to let seven patrolables cross half of London for him?" Their leaders would refuse to jeopardise the safety of the compound and the people in it.

"Rose, 'e's the Doctor. 'e stopped the Cybermen. If anyone could figure out how to stop the zombies it's him. We need him." Mickey's argument was certainly sound. The Doctor was probably humanity's last hope most days of the week and on some occasions twice before breakfast! But it wasn't just mankind that needed the Doctor: Rose needed him. And Mickey was right, there was no way Rose could go herself.

"'Mmm..." Rose agreed, watching Mickey walk out the grey concrete room " An' Mickey…"

"Yeah?" he said, turning round

"Look after y'self, right."

"Yeah." He grinned.

Prologue 2 is also coming up, however I've deleted chapter 1, which I'm currently working on... hopefully to upload soon!