Title: Rose Who?

Rating: K

Summary: AU. What if Rose didn't exist and Martha was the Doctor's companion throughout the first two seasons? How would she interact with the Doctor, and how would he interact with her? NOT a Doctor/Martha fic!

Disclaimer: I don't own Doctor Who or Martha Jones.

Author's Note: First of all, would any Doctor/Martha shippers or people who like Martha a lot PLEASE TURN AWAY NOW! The idea of this fic is to show that even if Rose never existed, the Doctor still wouldn't have any interest in Martha (they are friends, though). I'll be writing little snippets from each episode, using as much as Martha's personality from Series 3 as possible.

Okay, so Martha is still a medical student, only now she's going out with Tom Milligan. I don't know how she was attacked by the Autons, she just was, okay?

Rose Who?

Skepticism

Presuming Martha had the brilliant idea of Googling the Doctor, meeting Clive, then taking her now plasticised boyfriend out for dinner only to be rescued by the Doctor, here's what happened next.

Martha stood inside the Doctor's machine, looking around in wonder.

"It's bigger on the inside!" she exclaimed. "But how?"

"How do you think?" asked the Doctor. Martha was clueless for a moment, but then she just threw out an idea that, although crazy sounding, seemed the only logical explanation.

"This is gonna sound completely bonkers," she said, "but is this by any chance extraterrestrial?"

"Yep," said the Doctor simply.

"Then how did you get it?" asked Martha.

"I'm … an alien," confessed the Doctor. Martha frowned.

"You look pretty human to me," she said. The Doctor rolled his eyes.

"I am!" he insisted. "Here – feel my pulse." Martha walked up to the Doctor and pressed her fingers against his neck. His pulse was racing.

"We've just been running from my headless boyfriend, no doubt my pulse is a bit erratic too," she reasoned.

"Or it's because I've got 2 hearts," said the Doctor. "And under normal circumstances I'd be happy to sit down and have a chat about it, but right now I've got a Consciousness to find." He turned back to the TARDIS console, and gasped. The plastic head of Martha's boyfriend was melting right in front of him.

"Oh no no no no no!" he exclaimed.

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Presuming Martha had the brains and guts to save the Doctor from the Nestene Consciousness, here's what happened next.

Martha stood on the pavement, watching as the last traces of the blue box the Doctor called the TARDIS vanished into thin air. Beside her, Tom was clutching her leg. She turned to leave, only to suddenly hear the grinding sound of the TARDIS engine as it came back. The Doctor popped his head out.

"By the way – did I mention it also travels in time?"

"Yeah right," said Martha. "I can believe you have an alien spaceship, but if you expect me to believe it's a time machine…" The Doctor groaned and went back inside the TARDIS. If he was going to break the laws of time for this companion, she'd better be worth it…

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So what do you think?

P.S. I Googled "doctor blue box" today. If you haven't already, please do, and go to the second result.