I know right? What happened to the other 13th Doctor and Alice story? You may be asking. You may also be asking WHY THE HELL HAVEN'T YOU UPDATED IT. To which I will answer the variants of excuses. Or you may not give a crap, which is cool too. The only explanation for this is I was Tumblring and the plot bunny bit. It didn't fit into the story I already had going to for your reading pleasure I give you and Alternate Universe version of my other story.

Disclaimer: I do not own Doctor Who or the Killjoys. They would be the property of BBC and My Chemical Romance respectively. Enjoy!


Alice held tightly to the console as the TARDIS hurtled through space, watching the Doctor dance around the controls as if the turbulence was nothing. By now Alice was used to this sort of behaviour from him, and assumed that it came from over a thousand years of TARDIS flying experience. Still, she found it slightly annoying that he could prance around like it was smooth sailing while she had to cling unceremoniously to whatever was closest. The Doctor moved towards her and reached over her shoulder grinning at her as he flicked a switch in front of her. Immediately, the TARDIS began to slow and Alice allowed her grip on the console to loosen as the TARDIS rumbled to a halt.

"Alright?" he asked, still standing behind her.

Straightening up, Alice turned around and poked her tongue out at him. "Well, where are we then?" she asked, raising a hand to move her dark hair out of her face.

"Wherever we need to be."

At this, Alice rolled her eyes. In the months she had known the Doctor she had noticed that where he said he was taking her, and where they actually ended up, were often very different places. And it never seemed to matter where or when they ended up, there was always some sort of crisis or mystery that only the Doctor could solve. Eventually Alice had worked out that while the Doctor knew how to fly the TARDIS, he had very little idea of how to control the TARDIS and the time machine just did her own thing. Which always guaranteed an adventure.

"Alright then, smartguy," she said, shoving him playfully. "Where is it we need to be?"

Winking at her, the Doctor moved off to her right towards the scanner. Alice followed, curious as to what she would see. She had learned from experience that when the Doctor didn't know where they were, it was best to make sure that the surrounding area wasn't swampland before stepping out of the TARDIS.

"California 2019," he said thoughtfully. Alice still had not learned how to read the squiggly lines that told the Doctor where they were. But she supposed it was a Time Lord thing. "Oh no, we can't go out there," he said, slightly disappointed.

"What? Why not?" Alice asked, pulling the scanner towards her and twisting one of the knobs so that the screen was split between the Doctor's squiggly lines and whatever was going on outside the TARDIS. All she saw was desert. A barren wasteland. Alice had never been to California but she hardly thought it was supposed to look like that. Especially so soon into her future.

"The fires of 2012," he recounted sadly. Alice sharply turned to face him. 2012? That couldn't be right. He had picked her up in 2012.

"What are you talking about?"

"Nuclear war, Alice," the Doctor explained. The look on his face was dark, like he was angry with himself. "It burned up the o-zone layer, making earth completely uninhabitable. There's nothing to protect you from the sun now. Not to mention radio-active fallout poisoning whatever is left. Especially here..." he trailed off, re-examining his squiggly lines.

Alice was silent. Who knew how long it had been since she'd left that her world had ended? Everything and everyone she'd ever known gone. The girl felt tears prick in her eyes and forced herself not to let them fall. "I'd be 28 now..."

"No," he said. Too sharply. "You'd be dead now." He said it with such certainty that Alice stepped back. His face had darkened even more, and his hand that gripped the scanner was white, he was holding so tight. "If I took you home, you'd be dead."

Reaching out a hand, Alice touched the console to steady herself. Dead? Well, in the back of her mind she had assumed that the end of the world would mean her death. But to have it layed out so blatantly before her had her mind spinning. Why pick her up at all then? Why come to 2012 just to pick up a stray human and let her world die? Why not stop it? She was about to voice these questions when something caught her eye on the scanner. Whatever camera the TARDIS has – Alice had yet to find it – had been swivelling and caught sight of something before swivelling back around. Stepping forward, Alice wrenched the scanner out of the Doctor's hand and fiddle with the knobs until the picture filled the entire screen.

"Alice, what - ?"

"Shhh," she said, waving a hand impatiently at him as she waited for the camera to swivel back around. Her fingers drummed against the side of the scanner and her jaw tightened anxiously. Already her tears were forgotten because the TARDIS had spotted something that after that revelation, Alice really needed. Hope.

"There it is!" she said loudly, making the Doctor jump. Frowning he pulled the scanner towards him and adjusted the scanner so the camera would stay still and zoom in.

"Alice, it's just a building," he said cautiously, not wanting her to get her hopes up. So far everything the scanner had given him had looked bleak for the human race. Granted he couldn't tell now that Alice was trying to view nothing but video.

"No," she growled, twisting a knob so the camera turned to the right slightly before continuing to zoom in. "God, Doctor for a genius you really are dense." As the camera zoomed in, Alice pointed triumphantly at the image of a little girl standing in front of what appeared to be a mailbox.

"Oh my... impossible," the Doctor said, running a hand through his red hair before adjusting the scanner once more to get a better look at the readings. "I... it seems there is some sort of O-Zone layer left over this part of the world," he said, clearly confused. "But barely, and the radiation levels are..." he trailed off as he turned to look at Alice but found her gone, the TARDIS door hanging open. "Alice!"

There were still people. It was all Alice could think about. The Doctor had been wrong. The world had only slightly ended. Her feet kicked up dust as she ran hard towards the little girl. She didn't know why, but she had to talk to her. Maybe she just wanted to make sure she was real.

"Alice!" she heard the Doctor call. He sounded close. Slowing her pace, she turned around to see he had caught up with her. Christ that man could run. "Alice, we can't stay here it's dangerous."

"There're survivors!" she argued, gesturing in the direction of the girl and continuing towards her.

"Yes, I realise that," he said, frustrated. "But don't you understand what kind of people they would have to be to survive an environment like this?"

Alice turned away from him and quickened her pace. "I don't care," she lied. In fact she did care, and wasn't in the mood to die today. But she just wanted to know that there were survivors. Just wanted to talk to someone human. And it was just a little girl, how dangerous could she be.

"Alice." He was pleading with her now and the tone of his voice made her want to stop. But she was already so close. There was no point in turning back now.

"I just want to talk," she said firmly.

By now they were close enough for the girl to hear them and she spun around, curls flying as she did so. Alice immediately stopped in her tracks, for once heeding the Doctor's warnings from behind her. The girl's face was covered in dirt and dust, and her eyes... her eyes were so jaded. Alice watched as the little girl's hand reached slowly for what looked like a gun at her hip. She slowly stepped back, hands raised in surrender, her most pleasant, harmless smile on her face. To her surprise, the girl returned her smile and moved her hand away from her gun. Alice wouldn't have thought those eyes could smile like that. So joyfully.

"You're dressed funny," the girl said, stepping towards them and examining Alice's clothes. Alice didn't think so, just jeans, a tshirt and converse sneakers. But she supposed that compared to what the girl was wearing - a weather proof vest, and strong shoes along with a strange blouse and sturdy jeans - it was strange. The little girl giggled as she moved to the Doctor who was watching her suspiciously. His well cared for suit must have looked horribly out of place for her.

"Who are you?" the girl asked finally, still smiling but eyes cautious. "You haven't got guns, or proper clothes. You're different." This last was directed at the Doctor.

"I'm Alice and this is the Doctor," Alice said, gesturing to herself and her friend. The girl gave her a confused look.

"Alice is a funny name," she said. "I like it."

Alice really had no idea what to say to this, considering she would have thought 'the Doctor' was a much stranger name than Alice, and so she just smiled and lowered her hands hopefully. The little girl made no move to try and shoot her so Alice took this as a good sign.

"We really should leave," the Doctor muttered.

"I thought we were where we 'need to be'?" Alice countered under her breath. She saw the Doctor try and formulate an argument and smirked to herself as he pulled an unimpressed face and fell silent.

"What's your name then, cutie?" Alice asked, kneeling down so she was level with the girl.

The girl giggled and opened her mouth to reply but was interrupted by the sound of tires skidding in the dust. Her smile brightened as she looked past Alice and at whatever was behind her. Both Alice and the Doctor turned at the same time to see a car. The last thing Alice had been expecting was a car. But more importantly a car full of people. The driver – a man with bright, red hair, like he'd dyed it – stepped out, and pointed an odd looking gun at Alice and the Doctor, glaring at them suspiciously.

"Sunny, get in the car," he ordered, his eyes never leaving the two strangers.

Pushing past Alice with an audible sigh, the girl walked over to her father and tugged on his sleeve. "Daddy they need our help."

"No we don't," the Doctor said at the same time the other man said "No they don't."

"But Daddy," the girl said firmly, trying again to pull his gun arm down so it was no longer pointed at them. "They do."

"Sunshine," he growled warningly. "The sun is going down and there are Dracs on our tail. We don't have time for this so get in the goddamn car."

Alice blinked in surprise. She hadn't even noticed, but now that she thought about it, it had gotten considerably darker. And much, much colder. The distant sound of a motor drew closer and another car appeared. Judging by the man's face, the newcomer's were not friends. Instead of heading straight for them though, the car stopped, just outside the TARDIS and a group of masked men stepped out to examine the blue box.

"No not the TARDIS," the Doctor groaned as one of the men appeared to talk on a radio. Alice could already see where this was going. Any second now the TARDIS was going to be stolen – again – and they were going to end up stranded in this lifeless place. Or shot in the head. Either way, Alice was beginning to wish she had listened to the Doctor. Not that she would say that out loud.

"Daddy," Sunshine said, matching his dark tone. The man glanced down at her and held her gaze for a long while before swearing under his breath. "Fine. You two." His attention was now directed back at Alice and the Doctor. "Get in the car and be quick about it."

They hesitated. "You can get in the car, or I can leave you for the Dracs. Your choice."

Alice had no idea what Dracs were but she figured she wouldn't want them to get anywhere near her so she began moving towards the car. She looked back, realising the Doctor hadn't moved at all. "We'll save the TARDIS later," she promised. "Right now we need to just survive."

Grumbling, the Doctor begrudgingly agreed and moved towards the car while the red headed man barked orders at everyone.

"Sunny, on your uncles lap," he said, and the little girl, no longer glaring at her father, giggled with delight and climbed onto the lap of the man sitting in the front seat. "You," he waved his gun at Alice. "You can sit with Fun and you," now waving his gun at the Doctor. "You're next to Jet."

There was a lot of awkward clambering in the small space of the car, but eventually they all found their places. It turned out sitting with Fun, involved also sitting on his lap. He winked at her before digging a gun into her ribs. Alice wanted to mention that it was really unnecessary, but since they clearly didn't want to help them at all she decided to keep her mouth shut.

"I really hate guns," she heard the Doctor mutter as the man called Jet rested his gun on the Doctor's shoulder. No body seemed to take much notice, though Alice did see a small smirk play on Jet's lips.

As the engine roared to life and the car sped down the road, the force of the movement pushed Alice backwards, and her hands gripped Fun's knees to keep herself relatively upright. The lack of seatbelts was not very comforting. She saw Sunshine lean across to whisper in her father's ear as if the speed was nothing. She couldn't see the man's face but the tone of his voice worried her somewhat.

"The Doctor huh?" he asked. "You and I are gonna need to have a little chat."