I don't own Doctor Who
Yes I know my other stories are slacking, but I've been thinking about this one for a long time, and I love Sofia Tyler.
Rose Tyler woke up in her overly pink bedroom to the beeping of her alarm clock. She got up and reluctantly prepared for work. Oh her way out the door, Rose's sister, Sofia, chucked her a muffin, and shouted a promise to meet for lunch. Sofia was 13 years old, had light brown hair, no make-up (she hates the stuff), brown eyes, and is about the same height as Rose. Today she was wearing a black t-shirt with white capital lettering that reads, "Shut up and let me practice my people skills."
The first half of Rose's day passed by in a blur. The two sisters met up for lunch. Rose could never figure out if Sofia had permission to meet her, or if for the last two years she had very successfully snuck out of school every day. Rose figured that she would never know.
The second half of Rose's day passed as unremarkably the first, right up until the security guard stopped hr egress by handing her the lottery money. Rose sighed and headed down to the basement.
"Wilson!" Rose called for the chief electrician, after he refused to answer the door. "Wilson, I've got the lottery money. Wilson!"
Out of the corner of her eye, Rose noticed something, or someone moving.
"Is that you Derek?" Rose started to panic as the mannequins started to move towards her. "Very funny! I get the joke!"
Rose was now surrounded, and starting to panic when a hand grabbed her.
"Run" the owner of the hand shouts. And so they do, right into the elevator. The man in the leather jacket, and maroon jumper pulled one of the mannequin's arms off.
"You pulled its arm off!" Rose states the obvious.
"Yup" the leather clad man says cheerfully.
"What's up with the students?"
"Why are they students?"
"I don' know, they just are."
"You said it."
"That many people dressing up and acting stupid; it has to be students."
"Very good, they're not students."
"What are they? Where's Wilson?"
"Who's Wilson?"
"Chief electrician"
"Wilson's dead"
"Is that supposed to be some kind of joke? It's sick! Who are you? What's going on?"
"Don't worry I'm going to blow up their transmitter with this." Leather jacket holds up a bomb. "I'll probably die, but don't worry about me. Forget about me, go home and have your beans on toast." He disappears through a door before reappearing. "I'm the Doctor, what's your name?"
"Rose"
"Nice to meet you Rose, now, RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!"
It takes her a moment, but Rose complies. She only stops once she's hit the other side of the street. Rose turns around just in time to see the top floor of her now ex-job go up in flames.
Upon arriving home, Rose sees that the news is on. It says that all of central London is closed down. She also sees that Sofia is sitting on the couch holding two mugs, one for each of them.
"You're watching the news?" Rose finds this the weirdest thing to happen all day. "You never watch the news."
"My school called and said that it would be closed tomorrow, and if I wanted to know why, I would have to watch the news." Sofia explains. "I also got you some chips in ice cream."[1] She indicates towards the two bowls of chips and ice cream.
"You're the best!"
"Pity"
"You're impossible"
"I try"
"You're very trying"
"Thank you"
Mickey chose that moment to burst in.
"What is Rose drinking? Hot Chocolate?" he exclaims.
"With frozen Cool Whip" Sofia informs.
"No, no, that's too weak. She needs a strong drink. I'm taking your sister down to the pub."
"Don't dis my hot chocolate! If there's a match on, you can go yourself."
"But,"
"Mickey," Rose interrupts, "Just go and see your football."
"You sure?"
"Very" the sisters say in unison.
"On your way, would you chuck this arm?" Rose asks of Mickey.
"No!" Sofia protests, "I want the arm!"
"Why?"
"Well now I can find out!"
The next morning Rose wakes up to her alarm clock.
"You don't have to get up, but if you stay up, I'm ready to make breakfast. I was thinking blueberry pancakes, with a side of bacon and toast." Her sister calls.
Rose was out of bed at "make breakfast", unlike their mother, Sophie is a fabulous cook. Rose wrinkles her nose at the memory.
"Do you want any help with breakfast?" Rose calls, all ready knowing the answer.
"Hell no!" Sofia shouts in "mock" horror.
Rose chuckles; as far as cooking ability is concerned, Rose is just like Jackie.
"Should I make extra in case that Doctor shows up, wolfie?" Sofia inquires.
"How many times do I have to tell you?" Rose is exasperated, "I hate that nickname!"
"Doesn't matter, 'cause I ain't gona stop!"
"Ain't isn't a word!"
"It's in the dictionary!"
"Why do you know?"
"I looked it up!"
"Is that the cat flap?"
"I'm cooking breakfast, you check it out."
"FINE!" Rose rushes out of her room, pauses to smell the pancakes, and checks out the cat flap. She is shocked to the "Doctor" from last night.
"Hello!" he exclaims, in the exact same clothes, "You're not plastic?" He knocks on Rose's scull, "Nope, just a bone head. Bye now"
"You're coming with me!" Rose pulls him inside.
"Who is it?" Sofia calls from the kitchen.
"It's the man who blew up my job!"
"It's just as well I made extra pancakes then."
"What smells so good?" the man in question, questions.
"My sister made breakfast, and apparently she's not going to let you leave until you've eaten with us." Rose explains.
"No"
"Doctor!" the girl carrying a large pile of blueberry pancakes to a table already set for breakfast says, "You are joining us for breakfast while we grill you for information. We are having blueberry pancakes, with bacon and toast. If you want more fruit, we have bananas."
"Bananas!"
"You can't have any bananas unless you eat breakfast, 'sides I made extra toast, bacon, and pancakes."
"Why?"
"Intuition," Rose explains, "Don't ask, she does it all the time."
"So what are you planning on grilling me about?" the Doctor resigned to his fate.
"Well Rose will want to grill you about the living plastic that attacked her last night." Sofia starts.
"But you want to grill me about…"
"Can you help me blow up my school?"
"What?"
"You blew up her job!"
"So?"
"Hold on, Rose left her mug in the living room last night." Sofia gets up and heads into the living room, where she promptly gets attacked by the arm. She manages to hold the arm in front of herself, barely. "A little, HELP!"
"Sophie!" Rose exclaims as she and the Doctor rush over to Sofia's aid. The Doctor sonics the arm and it finally goes dead.
"I blocked the signal." He announces, "It's dead now; armless."
"You think?" Rose whacks him with the arm.
"Ow" the Doctor goes to leave,
"Oy! You can't go swanning off!"
"Yes, I can. This is me, swanning off!"
"That thing tried to kill my sister!"
"10 out of 10 for Observation"
"Even if we're going with the living plastic thing, which I don't even believe. You need to tell me more."
"No"
"If you don't tell me then I'll talk. You said if I tell people, they'll die. Your chose, you tell me, or I'll talk."
"Is that supposed to sound threatening?"
"Sort of, yeah"
"Didn't work, sides didn't you already tell your sister."
"That's different. Who are you? Doctor what?"
"Just the Doctor"
"Is that supposed to sound impressive?"
"Sort of, yeah"
"You're full of it"
"Sort of, yeah"
"What do those plastic things want with me and my sister?"
"Nothing, you two just got in the way."
"They were after you?"
"Yes"
"So the world revolves around you?"
"Sort of, yeah"
"Oy, So what do those things want with earth? Are they trying to take over Brittan shops?"
"No, it's not a price war. They're trying to take over your world and destroy the human race."
"Is there anyone to help you?"
"Who? You humans just sit around eating your chips and watching your telly, all the while there's a war going on."
"Who are you, really?"
"You know what we were saying about the world revolving?" He takes Rose's hand. "When they first tell you as a child you can't quite believe it because everything seems to be standing still. Well I can feel it. We're rotating around at 1,000 miles per hour. And hurtling around the sun at 70,000 mile per hour. We're just clinging to the surface of this tiny little planet, and if we let go…" He releases Rose's hand. "That's who I am, now go home and forget me, Rose Tyler."
He walks off towards a little blue box. Rose turns to leave, but hears an odd sound, so she turns around. When she does, the blue box, and the Doctor is gone. Rose rushes back to her flat.
"He's gone" Rose says upon returning.
"Right, after you do the dishes, you can use my laptop to look him up." Sofia responds.
"Why do I have to do the dishes?"
"I cooked, and it's your turn."
"Why can't I look him up first?"
"I wouldn't have any guaranty that you would clean the dishes afterwards."
Rose grumbles a bit more, but finally concedes to do the dishes first. After what felt like hours later, according to Sophie it was only half an hour, Rose finished the dishes and jumped onto her sister's laptop. Sophie had won the laptop about a year and a half ago in a contest.
Later that day Rose and Sofia were in a taxi heading towards Clive's house.
"I'm going to stay here in case he tries to kill you." Sophie comments upon their arrival.
"He's safe; he's got a wife and kids." Rose pleads.
"Who told you that? He did!"
"You've spent too much time with Mickey."
"It's not my fault I was stuck alone with him, for an entire year!"
"...I'm going to see Clive now."
As Rose was off talking to Clive about the Doctor, the taxi driver was completely dead to the world because he was reading a car magazine... Meanwhile Sofia was scooping out the moving garbage can. She warily went to check it out. As she opened the lid her hands became stuck. Sofia tried pull away, but couldn't.
"Why are you opening your lid?" she addressed the garbage can.
It gave no answer, duh.
"Are you trying to eat me? That would be so c..." the rest of her sentence was cut off as the garbage can did indeed eat her. It had the rudeness to burp afterwards. First cutting off sentences, then burping in public, how rude!
"He's a complete nuttier" Rose announces as she plops down into the taxi next to her "sister". "Let's get pizza."
"P-p-p-pizza" Sophie says.
"Or maybe Chinese?" Rose remembers that Sofia really likes the dumplings.
"P-p-p-pizza"
A confused Rose tells the taxi driver where to take them. Sophie would always take Chinese over pizza. Come to think of it, to Rose, Sophie looked a bit ood too.
At the pizza place Rose was talking about where she might find a new job, but Sofia kept asking about the Doctor.
"Would you like some champagne?" a waiter asks "Sophie".
"We didn't order any." She answers.
"Your champagne" he says to Rose this time.
"She's too young." Rose looks up at the seemingly idiotic waiter. He turns out to be the Doctor.
"Gotcha" Sofia announces.
Her "hands" turn into killer flat things and "Sofia" starts smashing tables. Rose hits the fire alarm and orders everybody to get out. The Doctor decapitates "Sophie" by pulling her head off. Unfortunately the body kept smashing.
The Doctor took the head outside with Rose following behind. He led the way into a small box.
"We can't hide in a wooden box!" Rose exclaims.
"Just get in!" the Doctor orders.
"But?!"
Rose finally seeing no other option, runs into the little blue box, and back out again, a few times.
"Where do you want to start?" the Doctor asks.
"The inside is bigger than the outside. Is it alien?"
"Yes"
"Are you alien?"
"Yes, is that okay?"
"Yeah"
"This is my ship, it's called the TARDIS, T-A-R-D-I-S, Time And Relative Dimension In Space."
Rose lets out a sob.
"Sall, right. Culture shock happens to the best of us."
"Is she alive?"
"Who?"
"Sofia"
"I didn't think about that."
"That's my sister, and you didn't even think about if she was alive! Now you're going to let her melt too?!"
"Melt!"
Rose gestures towards the melting head.
"No!" the Doctor shrieks as he loses the signal. "I was so close."
He heads out the door.
"It's dangerous out there!" Rose exclaims as he goes outside. She follows him out. "We've moved! Does it fly?"
"Disappears and reappears, you wouldn't understand."
"You should have tried my sister," Rose mutters under her breath. Aloud, she says, "I'll have to tell her school, and Mickey."
"What?"
"I'll have to tell them that my sister is dead, and you've gone and forgotten her again!"
"If I've forgotten about some ape, it's because I'm trying to save every single stupid ape on this planet! ALL RIGHT?"
"ALL RIGHT?!"
"Yes it is all right!"
"If you're an alien, why do you sound like you're from the North?"
"Lots of planets have a North."
"What's a 'Police Call Box'?"
"It's a disguise. They had loads of these in the fifties. I landed there on day and it got stuck."
"What does the plastic have against humans?"
"Nothing, the Nesitine Conscience, that's what's animating the plastic, loves you. Your planet's full of oil and smoke and toxins and dioxins, to the Nesitine Conscience, Earth equals dinner. Where is it? How do you hide something so large in a city this small?"
"Hide what?"
"The transmitter"
"What does it look like?"
"Like a transmitter [2], big, round, dish shaped."
Rose looks around and spots the London Eye. She nods towards it.
"Must be completely invisible." The Doctor goes on. Rose nods again. "What?" She tries again. "What?" Rose mentally rolls her eyes. "Oh!" It finally sinks in for him. "Fantastic!"
They race over to the Eye.
"The Conscience must be somewhere underneath." The Doctor states.
"How about over here?" Rose is near some downward headed stairs.
"Fantastic"
The go down, both spot the Conscience, but Rose also spots a very alive looking Sofia.
"Rose!" she greets.
"Sofia!" Rose greets back.
"Rose, guess what."
"I'm not getting stuck with it."
"I was swallowed by a trashcan! How awesome is that?"
"Most people don't want to be eaten by trashcans."
"What's wrong with most people?"
The Doctor was vaguely paying attention to the siblings as he was addressing the Conscience. He made a mental note, not to invite the clearly crazy younger sister. That's when the Nesitine detected his anti-plastic and had a couple of mannequins subdue him.
"You're completely crazy..." Rose trails off.
"What's happening" Sophie asks for her.
"It's the Conscience, it's recognized my ship a superior technology, it's terrified, and starting the attack." The Doctor explains.
"Rose give me your phone. Thank you. Mickey, where are you? ... Stay there. ... Bye. Here's your phone back, Rose."
"Get out of here!"
"The stairs are gone!" Rose shouts. She leads her sister over to the TARDIS. "I haven't got the key!" Rose desperately tries to get in. Sophie on the other hand, has her right hand on the TARDIS and is looking at it with a strange look.
The mannequins start to go to kill the Doctor. While Sofia is seemingly transfixed by the TARDIS, Rose is swinging on a chain to the Doctor's rescue.
"Get in!" Rose pulls Sophie inside the doors.
"Any passing comments?" the Doctor asks her.
"She's amazing." Sophie says with awe.
"Thank you, she?"
"On Earth it's customary to refer ships as 'shes', I kind of thought it would transfer over..."
"Well the TARDIS is a she, she is alive."
"That's incredible." Sophie smiles, "Mind you, her outside is smaller than the inside."[3]
"That's a new one."
They landed and the sisters slowly made their way out.
"Nesitine Conscience, easy" the Doctor snaps his fingers.
Rose snorts, "You were useless in there, without me you'd be dead."
"Yes, thank you. Well I'll be off now, unless you want to come with me?"
"Can I come too?" Sophie inquires.
"No"
"Why"
"A, you're too young" Sophie snorts. "2, you're crazy."
"You have some nerve calling me crazy!"
"Definitely not invited then. Rose your offer is still up, this can go anywhere in the universe free of charge."
"I can't" Rose is a bit reluctant, "I can't leave my sister alone, someone has to take care of her."
"Okay" The Doctor leaves, and the sisters turn to do the same. Then they hear the TARDIS come back. "Did I mention, it also travels in time?"
"Go, Rose" Sofia encourages. "In case he's a bad driver, Mickey can take care of me again."
"Are you sure?" Rose is unsure herself.
"Just don't be a year or longer, yeah?" And to the Doctor she says, "You better not hurt her!"
"Why not?" he asks.
"Because," Rose answers for her sister, "The last and so far only guy that tried to hurt me ended up with his balls on Sofia's dinner plate. I'm not joking."
"She's not" Sofia adds cheerfully, "They pretty tasted good too."
"Another good reason not to bring you along then." The Doctor shutters a little. "Coming Rose?"
"Good-bye Sophie" Rose hugs her sister before running off into the blue box.
After they leave, Sofia sighs and says to herself, "Why do I get the feeling it's going to be a long time before I see them again..."
[1] Like that's not more gross then Fish Fingers and Custard
[2] No shit Sherlock
[3] Sorry Victorian Clara