Susan's Return

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The TARDIS whirrs into existence, and as soon as it materializes one Rose Tyler skips out onto the Earth, not knowing nor caring where or when they are. All that she cares about is that she is back with The Doctor and Captain Jack Harkness, on board the TARDIS, after spending a year in a parallel world without them. As the Doctor exits his wondrous ship, his thoughts draw back to Martha, a woman who parted ways with him and Jack just a week ago. While the Doctor thinks about her Jack wonders where they are and what trouble they'll get in while staying in 24th century Earth, approximately in India in the 24th century.

"So Doc, what's on the agenda today, the usual?" asks Jack in his cheeky tone.

"What's 'the usual' Jack?" the Doctor inquires, almost equally cheeky.

"Oh you know, finding aliens who're trying to harm the Earth, run like mad away from said aliens, then open up a can of whoop ass on said aliens and finally, foil the aliens plans with some unreasonably thing, like tea," states Jack in a dismissive tone.

"Oh right, how could I forget?" says the Doctor with a roll of his eyes. Rose just laughs at the fact that they're all together again, the team, laughing and poking fun like old times. "So!" exclaims the Doctor, "we should split up gang, and search for clu- oh my god, I'm Freddy!" the Doctor states mid-sentence, "Anyway," he presses on "Jack go that way, me'n Rose will see how we fare in this direction," he finalizes it by taking Rose's hand and hopping away leaving Jack standing there, shaking his head and walking in the opposite direction.

In a different section of India, a mother scolds her 103 year old son, "Elijah David Campbell so help me God, if you don't put that screwdriver down right now you're grounded for the next 10 years!" yelled a woman with red shoulder lengthed hair dressed in very modern brown casual 3-piece suit, but coupled it with a long, multi-colored scarf straight from the 60's.

"Jeez Mom I just wanted to look at it," stated the boy exasperatedly who, despite being 103, looked as if he were 12, because of the Galifreyan blood, as well as human, coursing through his veins.

"I don't care if you wanted to 'just look at it'," she says with a roll of her eyes, "It belonged to your Great-Grandfather, and you will get it if it's broken," she says as she places the long out-of-date sonic screwdriver back on the mantle, along with a key that had a faint glow just a minute before, as well as a faded picture of her at 15 with a dark brown bee-hive as well as leggings and a long, striped sweater, surrounded by her Grandfather and her old schoolteachers, Ian and Barbra, in front of their makeshift home, named by her the TARDIS .

In another completely different part of the country, a man with black and dark red robes, affixed with a cowl, held a whisky snifter and plotted, yet again, to rule Earth, thinking that his arch rival was no where near the 24th century.

"But Doctor," Rose whined, "we've walked for hours, can't we take a break?"

"Not until we find signs of life," the Doctor stated with a roll of his eyes at his companion's lack of endurance. His thoughts now drifted to his granddaughter, Susan. He left her in about this day two centuries ago, with the love of her life, one David Campbell. He remembers seeing her crying as the TARDIS left, but it was for her own good. 'She's dead now,' a biter voice inside his head pointed out, 'they're all dead, and it's all your fault.' His face got hard as he thought this making Rose worry.

"Doctor…are you okay?" Rose asked in a worried tone, slightly frightened that he decided that she was too much work and would take her back to the place that caused her such grief.

"Yeah, I'm fine," the Doctor stated, sounding detached.

"Well, as long as you're sure…" Rose trailed off.

"I am fine!" the Doctor stated forcefully, "I'm sorry Rose," he said after seeing her sad face, " it's just that I left someone here awhile back, and they're dead now," he explained.

"Oh," Rose said in an understanding tone.

"Well then, enough of that pity party!" the Doctor declared, "there's places to go, people to save, life to find!" and with that he ran off, leaving Rose to follow.

After Jack had wandered about for an hour he came upon a house with shutters and several stories. Deciding that this was a good place to start he went up and knocked on the door. The door swung open to reveal a boy with brown hair and blue eyes and about 12 years old. "Hey," Jack started, "is your mum about?" adopting a British accent.

"Yeah, hold on… MUM! THERE'S A CREEPY BRITISH GUY AT THE DOOR!" the boy yelled at the top of his lungs. A red headed woman then barreled down the stairs finally doing a flip off the last few steps then sticking the landing right in front of Jack, "Hello, I'm Susan, and this is my son Elijah" she told Jack, slightly out of breath.

"Captain Jack Harkness," Jack introduced while smiling flirtatiously, "I was wondering if you could tell me of any weird things going on?"

"Yes I can," said Susan with a smile, "but we'll need to walk and talk. You'll be okay by yourself Elijah?" she asked/

"Yeah Mom I'll be fine," said Elijah exasperatedly, "I'm not 4 ya know?"

"Yeah you're a far cry from for kid," she says, shaking her head, "we'll be back in a bit. Let's go," she said to Jack.

"So, what do you want to know?" Susan asked Jack as they walked down the dusty sidewalk.

"Well, first things first, why is there no one here?" inquired Jack. Susan looked beyond Jack's face with a horrified look, "because of that," she said pointing at a gruesome creature. It looked about 8 feet with a human face horribly contorted and fused with what looked like a futuristic species of vicious llama, its nose and mouth stretched out with several rows of sharp teeth and where the hands would have been on the human there was a hoof as well as a laserish looking object. Susan grabbed Jack's hand in one fluid motion and yelled one word, "RUN!" as the human-llama hybrid opened its mouth and let out a sort of baying combined with a roar.

A/N: If you have any questions about the story line feel free to ask, but the whole Galifrey thing will be -dramatic pause- explained later. LOL!!!