I groaned and slammed my hand on my alarm clock at 7 in the morning. If there was one sound that annoyed me the most it would be the beeping sound of my clock. I slowly stood up and made my way to the bathroom.
After showering I got dressed in black skinny jeans, an oversized sweater, and a pair of black converse. I put my dyed dark red hair into a pony tail before leaving for work. I ran around the store with Rose, my best friend and coworker, before eating lunch with her and her boyfriend, Micky. Once our lunch break was over, we went back to the store to work for a few more hours.
"This is a customer announcement. The store will be closing in five minutes. Thank you."
Rose and I were just about to leave when the man at the door stopped us by putting a bag of money in our faces. I groaned before grabbing it and Rose and I went to the lift to go down into the basement.
"Wilson?" I called out before walking toward his office, "Wilson, Rose and I have the lottery money."
"Wilson." Rose said, knocking on his door. "You there?"
I tried opening the door, "Look, we can't hang about, they're closing the shop."
When no one replied Rose spoke, "Wilson!"
"You go see if he's anywhere upstairs, alright?"
Rose nodded before going back upstairs. I heard a noise behind me and I started walking down the hallway, "Wilson, it's Zoey. Hello! Wilson?"
I stopped at the two red doors where I heard the sound come from. I walked into the dark room and turned on the lights. I didn't see anyone. Just mannequins and boxes.
"Wilson?" I walked farther into the long room, "Wilson!"
I tried opening another door, but turned when the door out of the room and back into the hallway closed. I ran over and tried to open it, but it was locked.
"Is that someone mucking about?" I asked when I heard more noises. "Who is it?"
I heard another noise and turned around and watched as the mannequin moved towards me.
"Ha ha ha. Very funny." I said as more started walking. "Who's idea was this? Is it Derek's? Is it? Derek, is this you?"
Behind me, more started coming towards me and I back toward the wall.
"Knock it off!" I yelled, kicking the mannequin and it fell backwards.
They raised their hand, pretty sure I was going to die right there, then I felt someone grab my hand. I looked over, expecting to see Rose. But it was a man.
"Run."
We ran through a set of blue doors into another hallway, and I looked behind me to see the mannequins following us. We kept running until we got into the lift. Before the door closed behind us, a mannequin stuck his hand between the doors. The man grabbed the arm and pulled it off before the doors closed.
"You pulled its arm off." I said.
"Yep," He said, throwing it to me and I caught it, "Plastic."
"What were those things?" I asked, they obviously couldn't have been people.
"You wouldn't belive me if I told you." He replied.
"Try me." I replied, crossing my arms.
He turned to look at me and smirked, "They're Autons."
"And what are Autons?"
"Those things." He answered.
"Oh, thank you for elaborating." I said sarcastically.
We got out of the lift and he moved me aside, "Mind your eyes."
He pulled out a thingy and pointed it at the buttons for the lift and turned it on. It sparked before he walked down the hallway.
"Who are you then? And what are Autons?" I questioned, following him.
"They're made of plastic. Living plastic creatures, and they're being controlled by a relay device on the roof. Which would be a great big problem if I didn't have this," The man said, pulling out a bomb, "So.. I'm gonna go upstairs and blow them up, and I might well die in the process. But don't worry about me, no. You go home, go on."
He led me outside, "Go have your lovely beans on toast. Don't tell anyone about this, 'cause if you do, you'll get them killed."
He closed the door, "I don't like beans on toast."
Then the door opened again, "I'm the Doctor, by the way. What's your name?"
"Zoey." I answered.
"Nice to meet you, Zoey. Run for your life."
I started walking and I saw Rose, in teh allyway.
"There you are! I couldn't find you, I was worried! And who was that man?" Rose exclaimed. "Why do you have an arm?"
"Here's a better idea. Run." I grabbed her hand and we ran down the street, away from the shop.
"What's going on!? Why are we running?" Rose questioned.
When we were across the street, I stopped and watched the building.
"What happened?" Rose asked.
Then the roof exploded.
"That happened." I answered, pointing to the roof, "Let's go."
We started running again towards her house. When we got there, Jackie was freaking out. I set the plastic arm on the chair before sitting on the couch with Rose. Jackie had the telly on the BBC news.
"I know. It's on the telly. It's everywhere." Jackie said on the phone, coming into the living room with tea for us, "They're lucky to be alive. Honestly it's aged them. Skin like an old bible. Walking in now, you'd think I was Rose's daughter."
"I've been phoning your mobile. You could've been dead!" I looked over and saw Micky. "It's on the news and everything. I can't belive that your shop went up."
"I'm fine. Don't make a fuss. Zoey was the one who told me to run. She was th one who could've been killed." Rose replied as Micky hugged her.
"What happened?" Micky asked.
"I don't know. Ask Zoey."
He looked over at me.
"I don't know." I shrugged.
"What caused it?"
"Terrorists?" I answered. "I don't know. I was outside."
The Jackie came back in and looked at Rose, "It's Debbie on the end, she knows a man on The Mirror. 500 quid for an interview."
"Oh, that's brilliant. Give it here." Rose replied.
Once Rose got the phone she hung up and set it down on the coffee table.
"Well, you two got to find some way of making money. Your jobs' kaput, and I'm not bailing you out." Jackie stated.
The phone rang again and Jackie picked it up, "Beth. They're alive. I've told them, sue for compensation. They were within seconds of death."
I sighed and stood up, "Well, I'm beat. Rose, I'll be on the floor. And someone please get rid of the plastic arm."
The next morning I woke up when Rose's clock went of at 7:30.
"No point of getting up. You two have no job to go to." Jackie yelled.
I got up quickly to go back to my flat to change clothes before going back to Rose's. I was sitting next to Rose when I heard the cat flap.
"Mum, I told you to nail that cat flap down. We're gonna get strays." Rose said from the table as I walked toward the flap.
"I did it weeks back!" Jackie replied from her bedroom.
On the ground, I picked up the nails that kept the flap down. The cat flap moved again and I jumped. I opened up the door to see the Doctor.
"What are you doing here?" He asked me.
"It's my friend's house. I spent the night." I answered.
"Well, what did you do that for?" The Doctor replied.
"'Cause I felt like it. I would be at my job right now, but you blew it up."
"Must've got the wrong signal." He said, taking out his thingy, "You're not plastic, are you?"
He knocked my head, "No, bonehead. Bye, then."
I grabbed his arm and pulled him in, "You, inside, right now."
"Who is it?" Jackie asked.
I stood in Jackie's doorway, "It's about last night. He's part of the inquiry. Give us ten minutes."
"They deserve compensation." Jackie says to the Doctor.
"Ha. We're talking millions." He replied.
"That's the man from the ally. The one you were talking to." Rose whispered.
"Yep. And he's gonna give us answers."
"Um, I'm in my dressing gown." I heard Jackie say to the Doctor.
"Yes, you are."
"There's a strange man in my bedroom." Jackie continued.
"Yes, there is."
"Well, anything could happen." Jackie finished.
"No." The Doctor said before walking toward us.
I covered my mouth with my hand so I wouldn't laugh.
"Don't mind the mess. Do you want a coffee?" Rose asked.
"Might as well, thanks. Just milk." The Doctor answered.
"We should go to the police, the three of us." Rose said. "It said on the news they found a body."
I was sitting on the couch and watched as the Doctor picked up a magazine, "Oh, that won't last. He's gay and she's an alien." He then picked up a book and flipped through the pages, "Sad ending." The Doctor then looked in the mirror, "Ah, could've been worse. Look at the ears."
"Anyway, if we are going to go to the police, we want to know what we're saying. I want you to explain everything."
The Doctor picked up a deck of cards and started playing with them before they flew all over the place, "Maybe not."
I heard something move behind the couch and he sat next to me, "What's that, then? Have you got a cat?"
"No." I answered before the plastic arm from last night flew from behind the couch and started choking the Doctor.
"We did have, but there's these strays, they come in off the estate." Rose said.
I was trying to pry the thing off of him, but it wasn't working.
"I told Mickey to chuck that out." Rose said, coming in with three mugs.
"Rose, he's not faking it." I told her.
"Yeah right. Anyway, I don't even know your name." Rose replied.
The Doctor and I got it away from his neck and it grabbed my face. We all tried to get it off me, breaking the coffee table in the process. Then he got out his thingy and got it away from my face and it stopped moving.
"It's all right. I stopped it." He tossed it to me, "There you go, you see? Armless."
"Do you think?" I asked before hitting him with it.
"Ow." He grabbed the arm before leaving.
"Hold on a minute, you can't just go swanning off." I told him as Rose and I followed him down the stairs.
"Yes, I can. Here I am, this is me, swanning off- see ya." He replied.
"That arm was moving. It tried to kill Zoey." Rose said.
"10 out of 10 for observation."
"You can't just walk away. That's not fair." Rose continued. "You've got to tell me what's going on."
"No, I don't." The Doctor replied.
"All right, then. I'll go to the police. I'll tell everyone. You said if I did that, I'd get people killed." I said.
"What?" Rose questioned and I shushed her.
"So, your choice. Tell us, or I start talking."
"Is that supposed to sound tough?" He asked.
"Sort of." I responded.
"Doesn't work."
"Didn't think it would." I mumbled. "Who are you?"
"I told you, The Doctor." He answered.
"Yeah, but Doctor what?" Rose questioned.
"Just 'The Doctor'." The Doctor replied.
"The Doctor?"
"Hello!" He exclaimed.
"Is that supposed to sound impressive?" I asked.
"Sort of." He answered.
"Doesn't work." I replied and he smiled down at me.
"Are you the police?" Rose asked him.
"No! I was just... passing through." The Doctor answered. "I'm along way from home."
"But what have I done wrong? How come the Autons keep coming after me?" I questioned him.
"Oh, suddenly the entire world revolves around you? You were just an accident. You got in the way, that's all."
"It tried to kill me." I argued.
"It was after me, not you. Last night, in the shop, I was there, you blundered in, almost ruined the whole thing." He said. "This morning I was tracking it down, it was tracking me down. The only reason it fixed on you is 'cause you've met me."
"So what you're saying is, the entire world revolves around you?" I asked.
"Sort of, yeah." He replied.
"You're full of it." I smiled.
"Sort of, yeah."
"But the plastic stuff, who else knows about it?" Rose questioned.
"No one."
"What, you're on your own?" I asked.
"Well, who else is there? I mean, you lot, all you do is eat chips, go to bed, and watch telly. When all the time, underneath you, there's a war going on." He said.
"How did you kill the living plastic?" Rose asked.
"The thing controlling it projects life into the arm. I cut off the signal - dead." The Doctor answered.
"So that's radio control?"
"Thought control." He corrected.
"So who's controlling it, then?" I asked.
"Long story." The Doctor answered.
"But what's it all for? I mean, shop window dummies, what's that about? Is someone trying to take over Britain's shops?" I questioned.
The three of us laughed, "No. It's not a price war. They want to overthrow the human race and destroy you. Do you two belive me?"
"Yes." I answered while Rose answered, "No."
"But you're still listening." The Doctor told Rose.
"But, really, though, Doctor. Tell me. Who are you?" I asked when Rose and I stopped and he kept walking.
He stopped and faced us, "Do you know, like we were saying, about the Earth revolving?" He walked toward us, "It's like when you're a kid. The first time they tell you that the world's turning, and you just can't quite believe it 'cause everything looks like it's standing still. I can feel it." He grabbed my hand, "The turn of the Earth. The ground beneath our feet is spinning at 1,000 miles an hour, and the entire planet is hurtling 'round the sun at 67,000 miles an hour. And I can feel it. We're falling through space, the three of us. Clinging to the skin of this tiny little world, and if we let go..." He then dropped my hand, "That's who I am. Now, forget me, Zoey and Rose." He grabbed the arm, "Go home."
"Come on." Rose said after a moment of silence, grabbing my arm and we started to walk away.
I kept watching as the Doctor walked toward a blue police box. We walked farther, but I stopped when I heard this weird sound.
"Zoey!"
I ran back to where he walked away, and saw that the police box was gone. I sighed.
"Hey, I'm going to Mickey's. Wanna come?" Rose asked.
I shook my head,
"Okay, I'll come by later." Rose said, patting my arm before walking in the direction of Micky's apartment.
A week later, Rose said she was going to go talk to this guy about the Doctor before coming to get me and we were going to go out to eat. I decided to take a shower before going. Once I was done, I dressed in jeans and a blue jumper. I went out to Mickey's yellow car and got in the back.
"Hey, where we going?" I asked.
"P-pizza." Mickey answered.
"Um, okay."
That was so not Micky. His skin was shiny and he had a creepy smile on his face. He looked like a life-size black Ken doll.
"Do you think I should try the hospital?" Rose asked after we sat down.
I made sure I was sitting away from Mickey.
"Suki said they had jobs going in the canteen." Rose continued. "Is that it, then? Dishing out chips. I could do A-levels. I don't know. It's all Jimmy Stone's faut. I only left school because of him- look were he ended up. What do you think?"
"I hated him. He was a stuck up." I replied.
"Yeah, but he was cute."
"So, where did you meet this Doctor?" Mickey asked.
"I'm sorry. Was I talking about me for a second?" Rose replied.
"'Cause I reckon it all started back at the shop. Am I right? Was he something to do with that?" Mickey questioned.
"No." I answered.
"Come on." Mickey insisted.
"Sort of." Rose said.
"What was he doing there?" Mickey asked.
"I'm not going on about him, Mickey. Really, I'm not. 'Cause I know it sounds a bit daft, but... I don't think he's safe." Rose answered. "He's dangerous."
"But you can trust me, sweetheart. Babe, babe, sugar, babe, sugar. You can tell me anything. Tell me about the Doctor and what he's planning, and I can help you, Rose... 'cause that's all I really want to do, sweetheart. Babe, babe, sugar, sweetheart."
That really was not Mickey.
"What are you doing that for?" Rose asked him.
"Your champagne." I looked up and saw the Doctor holding out a bottle of champagne for us.
He winked at me before looking back at the fake Mickey.
"We didn't order any champagne." Mickey said, "Where's the Doctor?"
"Madam, your champagne." The Doctor said.
"It's not ours." She told him, "Mickey, what is it? What's wrong?"
"I need to find out how much you know, so where is he?"
I stood up and tried to back away before Mickey gripped my wrist.
"Doesn't anybody want this champagne?" The Doctor asked.
"Look, we didn't order it." Mickey said, finally looking up at the Doctor. "Ah, gotcha."
The Doctor started shaking the bottle, "Don't mind me, just toasting the happy couple. On the house."
The cork flew off the bottle and into Mickey's forehead, he then spit the cork out of his mouth.
"Anyway." Mickey let me go and his hand became flat and he smashed the table.
Everyone was still in their seats, watching the Doctor and Mickey, until the Doctor took off Mickey's head. Then when people started freaking out, I pushed the fire alarm, "Everybody out! Out, now!"
Rose, the Doctor, and I ran in the opposite direction of the customers, following the Doctor through the restaurant, headless Mickey following close behind us. We went out the back door, and The Doctor locked it with his blue thingy. Rose and I ran to the gate and pulled on the chains.
"Open the gate! Use that tube thing, come on." Rose said.
I backed away from the gate when I noticed the police box.
"Sonic screwdriver." The Doctor corrected her.
"Use it!"
"Nah, tell you what, let's go in here." The Doctor said, stepping inside the box.
Slowly, I followed him.
"It's smaller on the outside." I commented and he smiled.
It wasn't long before Rose ran inside. She looked around before going back out again. While the Doctor used his screwdriver on Mickey's head, I walked around the machine in the middle of the room to sit down on the chair.
"It's gonna follow us," She said, running back in.
"The assembled hordes of Genghis Khan couldn't get through that door, and believe me, they've tried. Now shut up a minute." The Doctor replied. "You see, the arm was too simple, but a head's perfect. I can use it to trace the signal back to the original source." Once he was done hooking wires to the head, he looked at Rose before me, "Where do you want to start?"
"Um, the inside's bigger on the outside?" Rose replied and the Doctor turned to her.
"Yes."
"It's alien." Rose said.
"Yeah."
"Are you alien?" She asked.
"Yes. Is that alright?"
"Fine wiht me." I answered.
"It's called the TARDIS, this thing. T-A-R-D-I-S. That's time and relative dimension in space." The Doctor said.
Rose then let out a sob and covered her mouth.
"Oh, Rose." I said, walking over to her and putting my arm around her shoulder.
"That's okay. Culture shock." The Doctor said. "Happens to the best of us."
"That's not is." I replied.
"Then why is she crying?" He whispered.
"Mickey." I whispered back.
"Did they kill him?" Rose questioned. "Did they kill Mickey? Is he dead?"
"Oh. I didn't think of that." The Doctor replied.
I rolled my eyes, "Obviously."
"He's my boyfriend. You pulled his head off- they copied him, and you didn't even think? And now you're just gonna let him melt?" Rose questioned.
I watched as the head behind the Doctor started melting.
"Melt? Oh, no, no, no, no!" The Doctor exclaimed before running around the machine, pulling levers and pushing buttons.
"What are you doing?" I asked.
"Following the signal. It's fading. Wait a minute. I've got it. No, no, no, no, no, no, no! Oh, no. Almost there, almost there. Here we go!"
Once the TARDIS stopped moving, the Doctor ran past us and ran outside.
"You can't go out there! It's not safe!" Rose yelled.
I walked out and Rose was behind me, we were at the bay.
"I lost the signal. I got so close." The Doctor said.
"We moved." Rose commented. "Does it fly?"
"Disappears there and reappears here. You wouldn't understand." The Doctor replied.
"If we're somewhere else, what about that headless thing? It's still on the loose." Rose said.
"Melted with the head. Are you gonna witter on all night?" The Doctor asked.
"I'll have to tell his mother."
The Doctor looked at her, confused.
"Mickey. I'll have to tell his mother he's dead, and you just went and forgot him, again. You were right. You are alien." Rose elaborated.
"Look, if I did forget a kid called Mickey..." The Doctor started.
"Yeah, he's not a kid." Rose interrupted.
"It's because I'm trying to save the life of every stupid ape blundering about on top of this planet, all right?" He finished.
"'All right'?"
"Yes, it is!"
"If you are an alien, how come you sound like you're from the north?" I asked.
"Lots of planets have a north." The Doctor replied.
"What's a... police public call box?" I questioned.
"It's a telephone box from the 1950s. It's a disguise." He smiled, patting the box.
I chuckled, "Okay. And what does the living plastic got against us?"
"Nothing. It loves you. You got such a good planet. Lot's of smoke and oil, plenty of toxins and dioxins in the air- perfect. Just what the Nestene Consciousness needs. Its food stock was destroyed in the war, all it protein planets rotted so... Earth, dinner." The Doctor answered, using wild hand motions.
"Any way of stopping it?" I questioned.
"Anti-plastic." He responded, taking out a tube of blue liquid. "But first, I've got to find it. How can you hide something that big in a city this small?"
"Hold on. Hide what?" Rose asked.
"The transmitter." The Doctor answered. "The Consciousness is controlling every single piece of plastic, so it needs a transmitter to boost the signal."
"What's it look like?" She asked.
"Like a transmitter." He answered.
"Care to elaborate?"
"Big, round and massive, somewhere slap-bang in the middle of London. A huge metal circular structure. Like a dish, like a wheel. Close to where we're standing. Must be completely invisible."
"Or completely obvious." I replied, looking at the Eye of London.
"Hmm?"
I walked up to him, turning him around to look at the eye.
"Oh. Fantastic." He smiled.
He took off running and we were behind him. When we were running next to him, he grabbed out hands. We ran across the bridge to the eye.
"Think of it. Plastic, all over the world. Every artificial thing waiting to come alive. The shop-window dummies, the phones, the wires, the cables." The Doctor said.
"The breast implants." Rose and I said together.
"Still, we've found the transmitter. The Consciousness must be somewhere underneath."
I watched as Rose ran over to the edge of the platform, "What about down here?!"
The Doctor and I ran over to see what she was looking at, "Looks good to me."
We ran down the steps and the Doctor turned the wheel to open the hatch. He climbed down the ladder first before Rose and I followed. It was dark, but was barely lit by a red light. The Doctor led us into a hot room, and he leaned on the rail, looking at the liquid below us.
"The Nestene Consciousness. That's it- inside the vat." He told us. "A living plastic creature."
"Well, then, tip in your anti-plastic, and let's go." Rose replied.
"I'm not here to kill it." The Doctor responded, "I've got to give it a chance."
He walked down another pair of steps and Rose and I were behind him.
"I seek audience with the Nestene Consciousness under peaceful contract, according to convention 15 of the Shadow Proclamation." The Doctor said.
The Consciousness mead rumbling noises in response, "Thank you. If I might have permission to approach."
"Oh, my god." I heard Rose say as she ran past the Doctor.
I looked over to where she was heading and saw Mickey. The Doctor and I soon followed.
"Mickey, it's me. It's okay. It's all right." Rose said, running to him.
"That thing down there. The liquid, Rose. It can talk." Mickey said.
"You're stinking." Rose commented before looking at the Doctor, "Doctor, they kept him alive."
"Yeah, that was always a possibility. Keep him alive to maintain the copy." He replied.
"You knew that, and you never said?" Rose questioned.
"Can we keep the domestics outside? Thanks." The Doctor replied before going down more stairs.
Rose and I stood up and watch the Doctor.
"Am I addressing the Consciousness?" He asked. The thing moved and rumbled, "Thank you. If I might observe, you infiltrated this civilization by means of Warp Shunt technology. So, I may suggest, with the greatest respect, that you shunt off." Then a face appeared in the liquid and it sounded angry as it growled, "Oh, don't give me that. It's an invasion, plain and simple. Don't talk about constitutional right." It moved around and was screeching, "I am talking! This planet is just starting. These stupid little people have only learnt how to walk, but they're capable of so much more. I'm asking you, on their behalf, please, just go."
"Doctor! Look out!" I yelled when I saw the mannequins come up behind him.
One of them stepped back, holding the anti-plastic, "That was just insurance. I wasn't gonna use it." It growled and screeched more, "I was not attacking you. I'm here to help. I'm not your enemy. I swear, I'm not." It screeched and I heard something moving behind me, "What do you mean?"
Behind me was the TARDIS.
"Oh, oh, no. Honestly, no. Yes, that's my ship." The face looked even angrier, "That's not true. I should know. I was there! I fought in that war. It wasn't my fault." The Doctor looked sad and his voice was full of emotions, it brought tears to my eyes. "I couldn't save your world. I couldn't save any of them."
"What's it doing?" I asked when the face was moving.
"It's the TARDIS. The Nestene's identified its superior technology. It's terrified. It's going to the final phase. It's starting the invasion." He looked back at me, "You three need to get out. Just leg it- now!"
I saw Rose take out her phone, "Mum?"
I turned my focus to the Doctor, who was still struggling to get out of the grip of the mannequins. Then a bolt of electricity came from the Nestene and hit the ceiling, "It's the activation signal. It's transmitting."
"The end of the world."
Rose, Mickey, and I walked over to the TARDIS. Mickey was cowering in fear against the TARDIS door and Rose. I watched as the Doctor struggled, Rose next to me.
"Just leave him!" Mickey yelled.
I turned to Rose, "We have to help him."
"But how?" Rose asked me.
I looked around and saw an axe. I ran over and grabbed it. I chopped at the rope before grabbing the chain, "Rose! Remember Jericho Street Junior School? The gymnastics team?" She ran over and grabbed the chain, "I got bronze."
She jumped off the platform, clinging onto the chain and knocked the mannequin that was holding onto the Doctor. He flipped it over his shoulder and into the Nestene. Hitting the other one, it dropped the anti-plastic onto the creature as it fell."
I jumped down, next to the Doctor and grabbed Rose,
"Now we're in trouble." He told us with a smiled.
As the building started exploding, we ran up the metal steps and to Mickey and the TARDIS. Using the key to open up the door, the Doctor shove Mickey inside before we followed them. The Doctor started pressing buttons and pulling levers and we were out of there. Once we landed, Mickey staggered out the door, clearly freaked out.
"Fat lot of good you were." Rose said, running over to Mickey.
I sat outside the TARDIS, leaning against the door.
"Nestene Consciousness?" The Doctor snapped his fingers from beside me, "Easy."
"You were useless in there. You'd be dead if it weren't for us." Rose replied, motioning to me and her.
"Yes, I would." He looked down at me before looking back at Rose, "Thank you. Right, then. I'll be off... unless, uh, I don't know... you could come with me. This box isn't just a London hopper, you know. It goes anywhere in the universe, free of charge."
"Don't. He's an alien, he's a thing." Mickey argued.
"He's not invited. What do you think? You could stay here, fill you life with work and food and sleep, or you could go, uh... anywhere."
"Is it always this dangerous?" Rose asked.
He nodded, "Yeah."
Mickey wrapped his arms around Rose's waist, "Yeah, I can't. I've got to go find my mum, and someone's got to look after this stupid lump, so..."
"Okay." The Doctor then turned to me, "What about you?"
I bit my lip and looked at Rose.
"Zoey, you can go. You don't need me." She said.
I gave her a small smile before looking back at the Doctor, "Okay."
He helped me stand up and we turned to Rose, "See you around."
I went and sat on the chair by the console and the Doctor started working his magic. Once I was sure we were off the ground the Doctor hit his head, "I forgot to tell her something."
I felt the TARDIS land before standing up and the Doctor opened the door, "By the way, did I mention? It also travels in time."
A few moments later, Rose ran in with a big smile on her face. I ran up and hugged her.
"This is going to be so much fun." She told me.
"Oh, it's gonna be fantastic." The Doctor smiled from the console.
Rose and I sat in the chair and started talking. I winced slightly when my arm started burning.
"You okay?" Rose asked.
"Yeah. I'm fantastic." I smiled, rubbing the burning sensation.