Escaping reality
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"Hello, and welcome to simulation six, I will be your guide to the desired TV show you wish to experience"
We're in the future the year 3120 and our technology has advanced astronomically in the last 1107 years that have passed since the year 2013.
Now call me old fashioned but I liked the old TV show 'Doctor Who' and I have been doing research of how to escape reality and enter into another, this however should be impossible but if you look at that word all I can see is 'im-possible' so it has to be possible somehow, I have been testing theory after theory and hopefully I have found a solution to my dream.
Oh that s right I haven t introduced myself yet, sorry I seem to be getting quite rude as time has gone on but my name is Alexandra Van Allen, I'm a lady of the Van Allen line and I hate it, to many rules to many expectations and I didn't ask to be born into this family in fact I would like to dream that I could run as fast and as far as I could from my life and that was how I found 'Doctor Who', the mad man with a box that doesn t stop running.
"What show would you like to experience Lady Alexandra?" I cringe at the title put before my name but continue as I would normally,
"Hello, I would like to experience the Television show 'Doctor Who'" I say as polite as I could muster, I had to in order to not gain suspicion from my guards, yeah I had tried to run quite a few times and my father had sent them to bring me back, now I have my own personal shadows. 'Yay.'
"Which year would you like to experience-" I knew the year off by heart so I cut her off.
"2005" my voice was short and sharp I wanted to escape soon.
The woman nods and leads me to the usual room, because I spent most of my free time here which admittedly wasn't as much as I would like.
There was the machine I was continuously laying upon, the Animus (A/N yeah I know Assassin's creed, but the thing is I couldn't think of anything so for my sake I do not own it).
So laying down in the machine I put the helmet on and pull on the finger clip keeping my excitement and fear that they would find out at bay as my plan started.
The signal that it was going to start soon came up 'customize look' so I picked something totally unrecognisable, long crimson red hair, pale skin, I kept my eye's as I was fond of them, they were a deep chocolate brown with golden embers burning inside and a slim form.
I had selected my look and the simulation was to begin, my plan started.
As I felt myself leave my body I turned quickly and saw myself hooked up to the machine and saw the purple wire, lunging forward I grab it and yank it from the machine sending sparks flying and suddenly my physical body disappeared in a blinding flash of light and then I was engulfed in darkness.
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"Alex, come on wake up, you've had your nap now come on, I wanna see Mickey!" a voice said, wait Mickey?
Slowly I open my eye's to see Rose, Rose Tyler, in front of me...
It worked, I'm free...
"Alexandra Maryanne Flame get the hell up." she huffs and turns so playing along I get up and stretch.
"Alright calm down Rosie," I roll my eyes and stand up, Jackie Tyler comes in,
"Hey sweetheart awake now?" I could picture her as my aunt.
"Yeah, it was a nice nap, Aunt Jackie." I test, she doesn't seem fazed by it, 'guess that's what she is to me then, which make's Rose my cousin?' I hug her and Rose drags me out of the door and down the steps.
*Time skip*
"Uhg, I think I'm gonna die from all that sweetness, guys cut it out, we got to get back to work Rose" Mickey pulls away and mock glares at me, I have learnt that he considers me a sister.
He kisses Rose and gives me hug before we head back to work. Stacking clothes on displays had to be the most boring thing I have ever done, so I find Rose and we talk as there is nothing else to do. Someone says over the intercom that the shop will be closing in 5 minutes and we head for the door.
"OI" the security guard, Tom, says holding out a bag of lotto money, I look at Rose and grab the bag as we run for the elevator.
"Come on, Come on, don't be so slow I could run down the stairs in the time this thing takes" I say as me and Rose stand in the elevator finally we reach the bottom and I remember what happens next, a violent shudder runs down my spine as I think of the dead body down here.
"WILSON!, Wilson we've got the lottery money, Wilson, are you there?" Rose says as she tries to open the door, it was locked.
"We can t hang about, they're closing the shop, Wilson?" she tries
"Rose come on your not gonna get an answer just leave the money at the door." I say, she drops it at the door and we hear a noise,
"Hello? Wilson?" I know it's not him but play along, Rose drags me to the double doors and looks inside. She leads me into a store room for manikins and suddenly applause burst out from nowhere, the door closes with a slam and I jump knowing that it all starts now, Rose runs over to it and tries to open it, it doesn't budge, we walk again and I turn as she walks passed the one at the start of the row and look at it as its head turns, what were their names again?
I spent a while going on in my thoughts that I didn t notice that we had moved until my back hit the wall.
The manikin in front of us raises its hand and I grab Roses, closing my eyes 'What the hell are their names?' I know it isn't the best thought at the time and to be honest I just didn't want to think of what would happen if the doctor didn t come in time...
A hand grabs mine and I look to my left to see the doctor, an exact replica of Christopher Eccleston, 'well in this universe i guess Chris looked like The Doctor...'
"Run!" and that was exactly what I did, I held onto his hand and pulled Rose into a run behind me, I heard the pipe burst as the manikin thing chopped it, oh I remember their names now,
"Auton's! That s their name, I can t believe I forgot, god how stupid can I be," I say aloud unaware that I had drawn The Doctor's attention with that statement.
He pulled us into the elevator and grabbed the Auton s arm pulling, I let go of Roses arm and help to pull it off,
"You pulled his arm off..." Rose said sounding disbelieving, I roll my eyes
"Yes Rosie, we did." Please by all means note the heavy sarcasm.
"Yup, Plastic," he said as he chucked it at Rose but was looking at me for some reason, in the show he always looked at the doors waiting...
"Very clever nice trick, who're they then students? Is this a student thing or what?" Rose asked seeming to ignore me
"Why would they be students?" myself and the doctor ask, he glanced at me again as if to say 'why don t you think they're students?'
"I dunno?" she says, I roll my eyes, 'my god my cousin is weird.'
"Well you said it why students?" he asked again, in this regeneration he seemed to like to push humans to use their brain.
"'Cause, to get that many people dressed up and being silly they gotta be students..." well it was logical I suppose...
"That makes sense well done, they're not students" I join in on the last bit cheerfully as he states it bluntly creating a stark contrast. 'Hmm, Tony Stark.'
"Whoever they are when Wilson finds them, he's gonna phone the police" Rose said like it was going to solve everything, I roll my eyes at her again... I seem to do that a lot lately.
"Who s Wilson?" he asks sounding genuinely curious
"Chief electrician..." Rose says, The Doctor opens his mouth to respond but I get there faster,
"He's dead isn't he?" I ask in a quiet whisper even though I know the answer, he looks at me solemnly,
"Yes" suddenly the elevator stops with a ding and the doors open the doctor going out quickly,
"That s not funny, that s just sick." she says as she bounds over to us, The Doctor grabs her arm and stops her and pushes her slightly to the side
"Hold on mind your eyes" he turns and flashes the buttons with the sonic, I had to keep in a squeal when I saw it, instantly when her turned it on the controls spark and I blink rapidly.
"I've had enough of this now!" Rose says as she jumps at the sparks. The Doctor walks off, leaving her to herself but I follow quickly dragging Rose knowing all she would do is wait until he was a certain distance.
"Who are you, then? Who's that lot down there? I said, who are they? Are you a part of this Alex?" she asks I could answer those questions all at once and I would laugh at her face if I could but we had to stick to the story line, but the answers would be, 'The Doctor, living plastic namely Auton s, no really they are, and no I'm not involved in a prank this is all real... moving on.'
"They're made of plastic. Living plastic creatures, they're being controlled by a relay device in the roof, which would be a great big problem if I didn't have this."
he pulls out a devise that I know for a fact is actually an explosive.
"So!" he says as he opens the fire exit shoving Rose through and myself stepping passed him and out the door in a calm disposition, "I'm going to go up there and blow them up, and I might well die in the process. But don't worry about me, no. Go home, go on! Go and have your lovely beans on toast." he says almost snidely. I scoff
"I don t like beans on toast, it's disgusting." (Not actually true I find it nice on occasion.) this causes him to snort as he goes to close the door, he pauses and says
"Don't tell anyone about this, because if you do, you'll get them killed." I sigh at the over dramaticness of that statement and Rose seems to pale a bit as he shuts the door. Rose turns away looking slightly bemused while I wait for what I knew would happen. It opened again.
"I'm the Doctor, by the way, what's your names?" he asks
"This is Rose, I'm Alexandra." I say with a smile,
"Nice to meet you, Alexandra, Rose. Run for your life." I laugh as he says this and at how cheerful he seems about blowing things up even though he doesn't like guns he shuts the door again.
We turn around and Rose looking slightly confused and myself grinning at what had just happened run 'I just met the doctor *fan girl squeal*'.
Outside, nobody knows what is going on all clueless and it's amazing how things that can be so life changing don't really affect the world around the people or person that said life changing event happened to. Rose is distracted as she pulls me across the street and nearly gets us run over by a taxi.
"Watch it!" he shouts I want to make a rude gesture but know it's not the man s fault and smile apologetically.
Rose proceeds to drag us as far away from the building as possible, we look back just in time to see the top floor blow up, I was an amazing sight but also terrifying at the same time, the colours looking wonderful in the contrast to the dark sky, and terrifying that we could still be in that building dead if The Doctor hadn t come to the rescue. We run down the street and something caught my eye, a police box, to be exact, the TARDIS.
We get home and are bombarded by aunt Jackie fussing over us and I can't help but wave her off as I get a glass of bourbon, Mickey is right you shouldn't drink tea after an experience like that...
News 24 is on the television as I sit in a seat just over from Rose knowing Mickey would want to sit there. Rose sat there on sofa, watching it with a slightly blank expression.
I ignore the reporter on the screen and look at the fire they're trying to put out at the top of the building we used to work in.
The dummy's arm is lying on a chair and I look over at it with wary eye's knowing it would attack Rose tomorrow. Aunt Jackie walks in holding a phone to her ear, as she tells to one of her friends on the phone about the explosion,
"I know, it's on the telly! It's everywhere! They're lucky to be alive!" she hands Rose a mug of tea "Honestly, it's aged them. Skin like a pair of old bibles. Walking in now you'd think I was HER daughter and HER niece! Oh and here's himself..." she says as she walks out into the kitchen, Mickey appears in the doorway looking slightly panicked and I can't help but think it's sweet,
"I've been phoning your mobiles, you both could've been dead! It's on the news and everything! I can't believe that your shop went up!" He hugs Rose then turns and does the same to me
"We're alright, honestly, We're fine! Don't make a fuss." Rose says taking a sip of her tea.
"Well, what happened?" he looked at us expectantly and I had to stop myself from showing that I knew and that I wanted to talk about it, I also stop myself from saying 'Spoilers.' and then curse my knowledge of this show... 'How does River manage it all the time? But then again it's bound to get easier with time.' I think.
"I don't know!" Rose says in an exasperated voice, he turns to me, So I hold my hand up.
"Don't look at me why would I know anything." my tone defensive
"What was it though, what caused it?" Mickey pushes, didn't we say we didn t know? I know I'm lying through my teeth but still...
"We weren't in the shop, we was outside, we didn't see anything Mickey..." I say with a tone to match Roses
Aunt Jackie walks in covering the speaker of the phone as she talks to us, "It's Debbie on the other end, she knows a man from the Mirror - five hundred quid for an interview!" I think of how the reporters would twist our words and feel disgust, the same in any time, anything for a story.
"Oh that's brilliant! Give it here!" she says motioning for the phone and I grin at her knowing what she is planning and I couldn't agree more with her, She takes the phone and hangs it up, I personally would have said a few choice words before I did that but it got the job done I suppose.
"Well, you've gotta find some way of making money. Your jobs kaput and I'm not bailing you out." Aunt Jackie says, I pout, 'there goes my free month', I sigh knowing she was right we couldn't rely on her for money it wasn't fair to her, the phone rings again and She lunges for it answering it,
"Beth! They're alive!" 'Oh god dramatic even in real life,' she leaves the room again to talk more hearing the last of the conversation "I tell ya, sue for compensation! They were within seconds of death..."
"What're you drinking? Tea? No, no no, that's no good, that's no good. You're in shock, you need something stronger." he says as he looks at Rose's drink and then goes to look at mine,
"I know the rules Mickey I want to dull the shock and sleep not be up on tea. I'm on Bourbon." I say it with slight humour, knowing that this wouldn't affect me because in 3120 the alcohol is a lot stronger,
"Why?" she asks, as though offended, 'what's wrong with tea?'.
"You deserve a proper drink, you, me and maybe the hob goblin over there, we're going down the pub, my treat. How about it?" Hob goblin? yeah right he shouldn't talk about himself
"Don t talk about yourself Mickey, if anyone is a hob goblin it's you." I say nudging him, "Besides im gonna pass."
"Is there a match on?" she asks smiling, Busted, I pull out my phone and look at the scores,
"I'm just thinking about you, babe!" I snigger at that knowing from the start,
"There's a match on, aint there." she states still smiling, her face gaining a bit of colour,
"Well, that's not the point. We could catch the last five minutes." he says finally giving up,
"Don t worry Micky Man united, is winning 2-0 doubt Liverpool is gonna win now, I mean unless there is a miracle." I say with a smirk, he glares at me and turns back to Rose,
"Go on then. I'm fine, really. Go. Get rid of that..." she says smiling as she points to the Auton arm, 'what's the point it only ends up behind the sofa again' I think,
Mickey points to his lips. Rose gives him a kiss. I gag at this in a playful manner he pushes her back onto the chair and they laugh as I mime throwing up, then he hugs me. He gets up to go and Rose puts a leg out to trip him up. Mickey picks up the arm and waves with it.
"Buh Bye!" he says in a high pitched badly faked voice,
"Bye!" she says as she waves at him, I wave as well, Mickey pretends to strangle himself with the arm and leaves, I smile tensely at his actions knowing it would actually do that soon. Rose shakes her head fondly and turns her attention back to the news. I get up with my drink and head to my room,
"Night, Rose" I call over my shoulder as I walk in and close the door to my room
I lay on my bed going over what had happened over the course of one day and must have fallen asleep because the next thing I know an alarm clock I going off, I sit up and look at the alarm, 7:30, right work, well it would be if I had a job any more, I hear aunt Jackie shouting to us,
"There's no point in getting up, sweethearts. You've got no job to go to."
I get up and head to the shower to wake up knowing I wouldn't get back to sleep now.
Once out I put on a black sleeveless top, flared black jeans, a black and brown body warmer then grab my grey check flat cap, then blow dry my hair, placing my cap on after I'm finished.
I go into the living room Rose is having breakfast, her aunt Jackie is talking to her.
"There's Finches... you could try them. They've always got jobs." I cringe, butchers, I couldn't chop up another living thing even if it was dead already, sure I like to eat meat but give it to me to chop and I won t touch it.
"Oh, great. The butchers, and you know that Alex won t work there...morning Alex" Rose answers and smiles at me.
"Morning Rose, aunt Jackie" I say in reply,
"Well it might do you good! That shop was giving you girls airs and graces. And I'm not joking about getting compensation - you've both had genuine shock and trauma! Arianna got two thousand quid off the council just because the old man behind the desk said she looked Greek!" I look at her about to say that she was- "I know she IS Greek, but that's not the point - it's a valid claim." Wow I could claim shock and trauma and get money for it, you learn something new every day...
I hear a rattling and know that Rose hears it to and we both stand up.
"Mum, you're such a liar, we told you to nail that cat flap down. We're going to get strays!" she says exasperated that the cat flap wasn't nailed down, it was I know it was, I also know it's the Doctor...
"I did it weeks back!"
"No, you thought about it!" she says in a snippy tone, I nudge her with my elbow, she looks over and I shake my head at her,
When we get to the door it looks like the screws have fallen out onto the floor. The cat flap moved violently, Rose leaps backwards I laugh at her as I push the flap back, then comes back again and I poke the cat flap open again this time holding it open. The Doctor's face is right outside it I laugh at him and get up. Rose opens the door to him and I grin.
"What're you doing here?" he asks confused looking at the both of us,
"Waiting for the circus..." I say with sarcasm the smile slipping off my face as I act mad,
"We live here." Rose says looking at him with a bemused expression, I roll my eye's 'spoil sport'.
"Well, what do you do that for?" The Doctor asks, god he's so dense, I mean does he really want to be forced into an early 10?
"Because we do! And we're only at home because someone blew up our job." Rose says her voice slowly becoming pissed off, The Doctor gets out his sonic screwdriver, squeal, I wish I had a sonic.
"Must've got the wrong signal. You're not plastic, are you?" he asks, do we look like plastic, because I sure as hell haven't had surgery, he knocks us on the forehead and I flinch because I had alcohol last night. "No, bonehead. Bye, then!"
He makes to go, but Rose pulls him back inside, I give him an apologetic look as he is forced into the hallway and pushed against me as it is so cramped.
"You, inside. Right now." she sure is commanding isn't she... She shuts the door. Aunt Jackie being nosy decides to ask
"Who is it?" to us as we walk past Rose pokes her head into aunt Jackie's bedroom.
"It's about last night, he's part of the inquiry. Give us 10 minutes." I shout over Roses shoulder.
"They deserves compensation." she says as The Doctor walks passed, he pauses
"Huh, we're talking millions." he says going along with the charade, I walk into the front room imagining the scene I was missing and snort, should have stayed, I sigh and sit on the sofa, putting my feet up, Rose going into the kitchen as The Doctor came in,
"Don't mind the mess. Do you want a coffee?" she asks from the kitchen
"Might as well, thanks! Just milk." he says as going over to the coffee table and picks up the magazine, Rose goes into the kitchen and starts making coffee.
"We should go to the police. Seriously. All three of us." I shake my head at the idea drawing The Doctors attention for a split second,
"That won't last, he's gay and she's an alien." he says aloud and I couldn't help but giggle at that statement, he grins at me.
"I'm not blaming you, even if it was just some sort of joke that went wrong." I roll my eyes as she completely carries on with her one track thought, The Doctor picks up a book and flicks through it.
"Sad ending." he says as he puts it down,
"I know I was expecting more from it..." I say, he looks at me again with a thoughtful frown,
"They said on the news they'd found a body." Rose said from the kitchen, that would be Wilsons body sweetie, Oh my god River Song moment, The Doctor picks up an envelope and reads it.
"Rose Tyler." he reads aloud then looks at me, "are you a Tyler as well?" I shook my head,
"Nah, I'm Alexandra, Maryanne Flame." I say in a distracted voice as I think on what was to come yet. He looks in the mirror at his reflection,
"Ahh, could've been worse!" He pulls his ears out slightly "Look at me' ears."
"I always thought that they suited you..." I say as I look at him with interest,
"All the same, he was nice. Nice bloke." Rose said from the kitchen, I wouldn't really know, what with me being there for not even a day before it got blown up... The Doctor shuffles a pack of cards, and looks almost giddy,
"Luck be a lady!" he says as he goes to do it again,
"Well anyway if we are going to go to the police, I want to know what I'm saying." she says in a confident voice, I grimace again at the mention of police, what with me having guards around for a while I may as well have been under arrest... The Doctor shuffles the cards again and manages to make them all go flying, I laugh at his face as he looks slightly shocked,
"I want you to explain everything." Rose continues not at all bothered by my laughter
"Maybe not." he says clearly talking about the cards as he ignores Rose, suddenly there was a shuffling behind the sofa where I was sitting, 'oh shit' The Doctor looks over
"What's that then? You got a cat?" he asks both of us, I shake my head and stand up nervously standing by the kitchen door, The Doctor leans behind the sofa and the dummy's arm leaps out and grabs him by the neck. I jump at this and quickly run over to help him, Rose come strolling in with the coffee
"We did have, but there's these strays, they come in off the estate..." Behind her, I try to stop The Doctor being strangled viciously by the hand while he tries vainly to fight it off.
She does not quite seem to register that the Doctor is being harassed by a rubber hand.
"I told Mickey to chuck that out..." she says putting the tray down on the table,
"Honestly, give a man a plastic hand, I'm not surprised your joining in Alex... anyway, I don't even know your name, Doctor... what was it?" I roll my eyes
"ROSE, this isn t a joke will you help for crist sake!" I shout losing my patience, The Doctor throws the hand off and it flies across the room attaching itself to my face. I grunt and the Doctor leaps up and tries to pull it off. The Doctor, myself and Rose who is now helping, crash onto the coffee table myself landing on a few of the broken shards and having hot coffee spilt onto it I let out a muffled scream. The Doctor pushes Rose back onto the sofa and gets out his sonic screwdriver, disabling the hand. He helps me up and takes a quick look at the cuts.
"It's alright, I've stopped it. There you go, you see?" He says as he tosses it to Rose "'Armless." despite myself I find myself laughing at his pathetic attempt of a joke, only to stop and wheeze from the pain of the cut.
"Do you think?" Rose asks as she uses it to whack him on the shoulder.
"Ow!" The Doctor cries as he grabs his arm, I bite my lip to stop from laughing at him knowing it would cause pain. He seems to realise that he has the arm and gets up going straight for the door, I get up carefully, muttering
"One track mind..."
The Doctor is running down the stairs, Rose hot on his tail and me slightly behind her clutching my side.
"Hold on a minute, you can't just go swanning off." Rose says following him down the stairs,
"Yes I can. Here I am, this is me, swanning off. See ya!" I snort at him and his childish behaviour, wincing slightly.
"That arm was moving, it tried to kill Alex!" she carried on completely ignoring any attempt he made to get away
"Ten out of ten for observation Rose." I say from behind her nicking The Doctor's line, he looks back but quickly turns ahead again.
"You can't just walk away, that's not fair! You've got to tell us what's going on." Rose exclaims still right on his tail,
"No I don't." was his simple response, they reach the bottom of the stairs, go through the doors.
"Alright then. We'll go to the police. We'll tell everyone. You said, if we did that, we'd get people killed. So, your choice. Tell us, or we'll start talking." I roll my eyes
"Rose I'm not going anywhere near the police for starters and like hell am I going to get anyone killed...OW!" I say as I grip my side to tight,
"Is that supposed to sound tough?" he asked Rose as he turns around
"Sort of." she sounded unsure
"Doesn't work." he said shortly, he continued walking
"Who are you?" she asks with slight desperation in her voice,
"I told you! The Doctor." he said, 'yeah sorry mate Rose aint gonna buy that...'
"Yeah. But Doctor what?" she asks again, I sigh
"Just the Doctor, Rosie." I say drawing their attention again.
"The Doctor." she asks looking at him sceptically
"Hello!" he says with a wave, I snort at his sarcastic response to his name,
"Is that supposed to sound impressive?" she asks her tone slightly scathing, I wince
"Sort of." he says mimicking her earlier words,
"Come on. You can tell us. We've seen enough. Are you the police?" I bit my lip as she asked him that, yeah right...
"No. I was just passing through. I'm a long way from home." he says, passing through yeah right, then I register his other words 'I'm a long way from home.' yeah you are aren't you... Gallifrey.
"But what have we done wrong? How comes those plastic things keep coming after us?" Rose asked, my god she's inquisitive...
"Oh! Suddenly the entire world revolves around you two! You were just an accident, you got in the way, that's all." he says slightly annoyed if his tone is anything to go by,
"Yeah an accident... I've been told that I was an accident from birth, what makes this any different, right?" I had whispered that last bit to myself but I didn't count on time lord hearing
"It tried to kill her!" Rose said again... putting up a mask to hide my hurt I say
"Hey her has a name you know," I can tell by the way he glanced back at me that he wasn't convinced at all...
"It was after me, not you two! Last night, in the shop, I was there, you two blundered it. Almost ruined the whole thing. This morning, I was tracking it down, it was tracking me down... the only reason it fixed on you two is that you met me." he said his voice slightly raised,
"So, what you're saying is, the entire world revolves around you." I laugh outright at that even through the pain I know the truth of that statement, 'the earth is still spinning because he saves it all the time...'
"Sort of, yeah." his boyish self says
"You're full of it!" Rose says with amusement
"Sort of, yeah." he repeats
"But, all this living plastic - who else knows about it?" I ask cautiously knowing I was treading thin ice,
"No one." he passes it off dismissively but I can hear the sad undertone, feel the aura of pain,
"What, you're on your own?" I wince at that statement, oh Rose you don t know when to stop do you?
"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!" I couldn't argue with that knowing most of that was true for this century. Rose takes the arm off him.
"Okay, start from the beginning." she demands "If you're gonna go with this living plastic, and I don't even believe that, but if we do... how did you kill it?" she asks, ah we're getting to the good part now,
"The thing controlling it projects life into the arm. I cut off the signal, dead." he explains shortly
"So that's radio control?" she asks unsure,
"Thought control." I say correcting her, drawing The Doctor's attention once more, concern comes across his face,
"Are you alright?" he asks, I shrug
"I'm fine, I've had worse than this, just a sting really." I say
"Yeah. So, who's controlling it, then?" Rose says knowing I had indeed had worse wounds, which must have been carried over to this dimension.
"Long story." he says completely disregarding her,
"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 laugh again,
"No honey" They laugh.
"I know." she says laughing slightly
"It's not a price war." we all laugh again as he says this, "They want to overthrow the human race and destroy you. Do you believe me?"
"yes" I say instantly drawing a look of surprise in the same instant as Rose says
"No."
"But you're still listening." he says to her knowing he had caught her out. She stops. The Doctor walks on.
"Really though, Doctor. Tell us - who are you?" the doctor pulls to a stop as Rose says this
"Do you know like we were saying? About the Earth revolving?" he walks back to us, "It's like when you were a kid. The first time they tell you the world's turning and you just can't quite believe it because everything looks like its standing still. I can feel it." I thought he was going to take Roses hand but he surprised me by taking mine, I gasp as I feel exactly what he seems to describe,
"The turn of the Earth. The ground beneath our feet is spinning at a thousand miles an hour, and the entire planet is hurtling around the sun at sixty-seven thousand miles an hour, and I can feel it. We're falling through space, you and me. Clinging to the skin of this tiny little world, and if we let go..." he explains
he drops my hand and I feel slightly dizzy at this experience, I hadn't noticed he had taken Roses hand as well.
"That's who I am. Now, forget me, Alexandra Flame, Rose Tyler." he took the arm from Rose and waved it in her face, "Go home." He walks away. Rose watches his retreating back and then starts to walk herself, I however stay and watch. The Doctor steps into a police box and then that beautiful noise is heard. Rose hears the sound of the TARDIS departing, she runs back to me as fast as she can only to see the police box is gone, she looks at me then at the sky, shielding her eyes from the sun, looks around us, then walks away again, I follow and she stops,
"Do you really believe him Alex?"
"Sure, I mean it makes sense, how else would you pull off a solid plastic arm or how would you explain what we felt when he touched our hands..." I trail off remembering the feeling, she nods and we continue Rose leading us to Mickey's flat.
Rose knocked on the door, a moment later Mickey lets us in.
"Yahey, there's my woman!" he slaps her ass "Kit off!" he commands mockingly
"Ew, Micky, don't want to see nor hear that" I say as he hugs me "you got a first aid kit?" I ask
"Yeah under the sink, why what happened?" he asks
"I had a tumble on aunt Jackie's glass table." I say going to the kitchen to stich up my side.
"Shut up." Rose says as she gives him a kiss. Micky comes into the kitchen as I pull the needle and thread through my side,
"Yeah. Any excuse to get in the bedroom. jeez you want some help Lex?" he says when he sees my side, I shook my head
"Nah I'm fine"
"Don't read my emails!" he shouts to Rose
"Why, what are you hiding?" I say suggestively
"nothin' just having some fun" he says laughing. When I finish I go to check on Rose to she had found Clive s address and we were off, Mickey driving of course. Mickey and Rose and I are sitting in the car.
"You're not coming in! He's safe, he's got a wife and kids." Rose says to Micky as he had gone on about how this guy could be dangerous,
"Yeah but who told you that? He did. That's exactly what an Internet lunatic murderer would say." oh god he's right but I know Clive actually does have kids and a wife from the show, so I get out of the car,
Rose gets out of the car following my example, grinning. Mickey doesn't look too happy, and gives a man putting out his rubbish the evils. Rose knocks on the door of a house and it is answered by a boy of about 11.
"Uh, hello, I've come to see Clive? We've been emailing." Rose says the boy looks at us like we're crazy,
"Dad! It's some of your nutters!" the boy shouts, that s a bit rude isn't it? Clive appears from behind the door,
"Sorry. Hello. You must be Rose. I'm Clive. Obviously! And who's your friend?" he asks smiling,
"Hi I'm Alex" I say with a smile
"I better tell you now - my boyfriend's waiting in the car, just in case you're going to kill us!" she says jokingly to the man as he laughs
"No, good point. No murders." he says playing along, He waves to Mickey who nods, still distrustful.
"Who is it?" his wife asks going by the stairs
"Oh it's something to do with The Doctor! She's been reading the website. Please come through, I'm in the shed." he says to his wife and gestures us through, Clive's wife, comes down the stairs carrying a washing basket.
"She? She read a website about the Doctor? She's a she?" she asks surprised that a woman would read this 'ridiculous' website. She smiles ironically and shuts the door. Mickey looks suspicious.
Clive is showing Rose and me around the shed, which is a sort of shrine to the Doctor.
"A lot of this stuff's quite sensitive, I couldn't just send it to you. People might intercept it, if you know what I mean. If you dig deep enough - keep a lively mind - this Doctor keeps cropping up all over the place. Political diaries, conspiracy theories. Even ghost stories. No first name, no last name. Just 'The Doctor'. Always The Doctor. And the title seems to have been passed down from father to son, it appears to be an inheritance. That's your Doctor there, isn't it?" he asks as he takes a wild guess at why these men all look the same.
He points to a photo of the Doctor on a computer screen behind them.
"Yeah." Rose says
"I tracked it down to the Washington public archive last year. The online photo's enhanced, but if we look at the original..."
He shows us some photographs of the Doctor standing in a crowd at the time and place of the assassination of John F Kennedy.
"November the 22nd, 1963. The assassination of President Kennedy."
"Must be his father..." she says in disbelief, nope, the same man Rosie
"Going further back... April 1912." he says trying to prove her wrong he brings over a photo album, "This is a photo of the Daniels family, Southampton. And friend." The Doctor was standing next to them on the right of the photo, "This was taken the day before they were due to sail off for the New World. On the Titanic. And for some unknown reason, they cancelled the trip and survived. And..." he shows us a sketch of the doctor on a beach, "1883. Another Doctor. And look - the same lineage. He's identical. This one washed up on the coast of Sumatra on the very day Krakatoa exploded. The Doctor is a legend woven throughout history. When disaster comes, he's there. He has a storm in his wake. And he has one constant companion." he says looking at us ominously,
"Who's that?" Rose asks,
"Death." he says, I bite my tongue knowing that I would say something I would regret, 'No his constant companion is the TARDIS, death isn't his fault he tries to prevent it.' I thought in my mind.
"If the Doctor's back... if you've seen him, Rose, Alex... then one thing's for certain - we're all in danger." he says
"If he's singled you two out... if the Doctor's making house calls... then God help you." he continues, oh mickey is being kidnapped right about now...
"Who is he? Who do you think he is?" Rose asks curiously, I keep my mouth shut so as not to give anything away,
"I think he's the same man. I think he's immortal. I think he's an alien from another world." Clive says, pretty damn close but not entirely immortal.
We come back to the car, Rose talking before she even got in.
"Alright! He's a nutter! Off his head! COMPLETE online conspiracy freak. You win! Oof." she said as she sat down in the car, I sit silently in the back watching the plastic micky discreetly.
The person sitting at the wheel is obviously not Mickey, but Rose seems not to notice, yeah that s because she's an idiot sometimes...
"What're we going to do tonight? I fancy a pizza." she asks continuing obliviously
"Pizzaaa! P-p-p-pizza!" Creepy replica says, well may as well play along,
"yeah I want pizza as well" I say speaking for the first time in a while,
"...or a Chinese..." she says
"Pizza!" the replica says again as he drives off in a wobbly line. We get to the restaurant and grab some seats after we order. Rose, Mickey and I sit at a table for four in a restaurant.
"Do you think I should try the hospital? Suki said they had a few jobs going in the canteen. That's it then... dishing out chips... I could do A Levels..." I snort she looks at me "what's so funny?" she asks
"You go back to school, I think pigs will start flying soon then." 'Mickey' stares at us, grinning.
"Yeah. It's all Jimmy Stone's fault. I only left school because of him, and look where he ended up. What do you think?" she says looking at the replica, I roll my eyes, how stupid is she to not see that something is wrong with him,
"So, where did you meet this Doctor?" he asks blatantly ignoring her question,
"I'm sorry, wasn't I talking about me for a second?" she asks sarcastically
"Because, I reckon it started back at the shop, am I right? Is he something to do with that?" he asks looking at the both of us I feel slightly uncomfortable under his gaze,
"No" I say before Rose had a chance to open her mouth
"Come on." he says looking at the both of us still,
"Sort of." Rose says, I really wish I could face palm right now, she is bad a keeping secrets,
"What was he doing there?" plastic asks again,
"We're not going on about him, Mickey, we're not, because, we know it sounds daft but... we don't think he's safe. We think he's dangerous." Speak for yourself Rose I happen to think he is the safest person to be around- well excluding all the bad situations he seems to find himself in,
"But you can trust me sweetheart! Babe, sugar, darling, sugar." I shift away from him without drawing his attention, Rose looks confused as I glance in her direction,
"You can tell me anything. Tell me about the Doctor and what he's planning, and I can help you, Rose. Because that's all I really wanna do, sweetheart, babe, sugar, sweetheart." plastic says, god that is creeeepy...
"What're you doing that for?" finally she picks up on his weirdness, A Waiter approaches the table.
"Your champagne." he says as he holds it out to mickey, I glance at him and keep my expression neutral but can't keep the relief out of my eyes or so I gather as he looks at me with slight understanding in his eyes,
"We didn't order any champagne." the plastic replica says dismissively, he grabs both mine and Roses hand, a little too tightly as I wince once more, "Where's the Doctor?" he asks us. The Waiter has simply moved to the other side of the table and holds the bottle out to Rose.
"Ma'am. Your champagne." he says again
"It's not ours... Mickey, what is it? What's wrong?" she dismisses him just as mickey did, and ding ding ding, she asks what's wrong with him, I glance at The Doctor to see he looked annoyed,
"I need to find out how much you know, so where is he?"
"Doesn't anybody want this champagne?" he asks in a frustrated tone,
"I will, Rose is being dense and can t see that this isn't mickey, and he's hurting my hand." I say, he looks at me slightly amused, Mickey, exasperated, raises his eyes to the waiter for the first time.
"Look, we didn't order i-" he seemed to finally notice that the waiter was The Doctor, "Ah. Gotcha." the plastic says as he lets go of my hand The Doctor starts shaking the bottle.
"Don't mind me. I'm just toasting the good friends. On the house!" he says as he aims the bottle at the living plastic, at its head and the cork pops out and hits him squarely on the forehead. His forehead absorbs the cork and he spits it out of his mouth, as he does I cringe. It is finally revealed to Rose that Mickey has in fact been replaced with an Auton.
"Anyway." plastic mickey says as he stands up his hands turn into clubs and he smashes the table in. Rose screams and runs out of the way, where as I calmly stand and walk over to The Doctor. He grabs the Auton's head and pulls it off.
"Don't think that's gonna stop me." the head says,
"Oh god that is creepy in so many ways" I say, The Doctor looks at me in disbelief as to why I'm not scared, panicking or running, I smile and wave at him "Hi" I say. A couple at a nearby table scream, but The Doctor grins, Rose smashes the fire alarm, and everyone runs.
"Everyone out! Out now!" she shouts to the remaining people in the restaurant, everyone runs for the exit. The Auton stays inside, blindly smashing tables with his club-hands.
"Get out! Get out! Get out!" she continues to says as the people run screaming. Rose, the Doctor and I run through the kitchen and out of a back exit. With the Auton in hot pursuit. The Doctor locks a metal door with his sonic screwdriver while Rose tries desperately to find an escape out of the yard they are in. She bangs desperately at some locked gates.
"Open the gate! Use that tube thing, come on!" she shouts in panic, I roll my eyes and lean on the TARDIS waiting for The Doctor to open it as I examine my nails in a bored manner.
"What, this? This is a sonic screwdriver." he says proudly as he looks over at me with growing puzzlement
"Use it!" she shouts in desperation,
"Nah. Tell ya what, let's go in here." he says as he unlocks the TARDIS, he walks in and I follow shortly after, and I gasp at the sheer beauty of her, I look at the console to see The Doctor looking at me waiting for me to say something,
"She's beautiful," I say catching him off guard, the Auton is beginning to make dents in the door from the other side. Rose runs to look at it.
"We can't hide inside a wooden box!" Rose shouts from outside running to the locked gates "It's gonna get us! Doctor! Alex!" She runs into the police box. Rose slams the door behind her, takes a few steps in, looks around, then runs straight back out again. I look at where she had stood in amusement, she walks once around the police box and arrives back at the front again. The Auton finally makes a hole in the door, so she runs back into the police box.
"It's gonna follow us!" her voice more than just a little panic and fear seeping into her tone
"The assembled hoards of Genghis Khan couldn't get through that door, and believe me, they've tried. Now, shut up a minute." ha that must have been a fun day,
"That must be a story and a half" I say humour clear in my voice at what I had imagined, Rose stands trembling near the door of the TARDIS, looking around at how huge it is compared with the outside. The Doctor is wiring up the head of the Auton.
"You see, the arm is too simple, but the head's perfect." he continued as if we could understand what he was babbling about, I did so I walked up to examine what he was doing, Rose still looks overwhelmed.
"I can use it to trace the signal back to the original source. Right." he turns to Rose and gives her his full attention,
"Where do you want to start?" he asks in a completely serious voice
"Um... the inside's bigger than the outside?" 'Um, thank you captain obvious', but then again, this is about a thousand years before I was born,
"Yes." he says
"It's alien." another ringer I suppose
"Yup." his voice just taking on a slight humour before the next question makes him totally serious
"Are you alien?" she asks, and now she's getting better at spotting things that shouldn t be right,
"Yes." he states as Rose just stares at him "Is that alright?" he asks, looking between both of us, I gave him a duh look
"Of course it is stupid..." I say with slight joy in my tone
"Yeah." Rose says quickly
"It's called the TARDIS, this thing. T-A-R-D-I-S, that's Time And Relative Dimension In Space." he says with childlike glee in his voice, he always did love it when someone new was in the TARDIS he liked to explain things, I was knocked from my thoughts as Rose let out a sob, oh right Mickey, I rush over to her and give her a hug "That's okay. Culture shock. Happens to the best of us." he says as if that was the reason for her crying,
"That s not it." I say
"Did they kill him? Mickey? Did they kill Mickey? Is he dead?" She asks him hysterically
"Oh... didn't think of that." he looked genuinely shocked that he hadn't thought about that, I roll my eyes, ouch dig your grave and lay in it much?
"He's my boyfriend, and her best friend. You pulled off his head - they copied him and you didn't even think? And now you're just going to let him melt?!" she shouts at him, melts? I look at the console to see The plastic Mickey's head melting, so that's what that smell was,
"Melt?" he asks as he turns around, just in time to see the plastic head melting with a bubbling noise, EW...
"Oh, no no no no no NO!" The Doctor shouts as he rushes back to the console, he starts running frantically around the console, pressing buttons and pulling levers.
"What're you doing?!" Rose ask confused and still slightly hysteric, seeing The Doctor busy I answer for him
He's reviving the signal, right now its fading!" I say drawing her attention to me
"Wait I've got it..." he says as he looks at the screen and then "No No No No No No NO!" he shouts, the TARDIS starts to jolst around and I grab onto a railing.
"Almost there! Almost there! Here we go!" he shouts as he continues to work around the console, The engines stop and the Doctor runs out The TARDIS doors without another word.
"You can't go out there, it's not safe!" Rose shouts as I follow the doctor and she goes to follow me outside. we were opposite the London Eye
"I lost the signal, I got so close." He says as he looks around crosses his arms and pouts like a child, my mouth pulls up at the corners thinking how cute that made him look, Rose hops out of the TARDIS, looking confused again.
"We've moved! Does it fly?" she asks, I couldn't exactly explain that one...
"Disappears there, reappears here, you wouldn't understand." he says dismissively, 'huh this is what he must have felt like at the restaurant, really annoyed', I wanted to know.
"But if we're somewhere else, what about that headless thing? It's still on the loose." she says looking around, I had to give her points she was defiantly taking this better than some people would.
"It melted with the head, are you going to witter on all night?" he asks, his tone now biting, I sigh and squeeze Roses shoulder,
"We'll have to tell his mother..." Rose says thoughtfully, I nod because I know I can t say anything just yet... this sucks, The Doctor looks at her questioningly.
"Mickey! we'll have to tell his mother he's dead, and you just went and forgot him, again!" she shouts at him, I take a step away knowing what was coming, The Doctor rolls his eyes, unconcerned.
"You were right, you ARE alien." Rose says her voice chilled and cold like the night air, She turns to walk away.
"Look, if I did forget some kid called Mickey-" the doctor explodes causing me to take three steps back
"Yeah, he's not a kid." Rose Stop just stop, you are about to glimpse something you can t control,
"It's because I'm trying to save the life of every stupid ape blundering on top of this planet, alright?" I flinch as he shouts the last words
"Alright!" and now she ends it,
"Yes! It is!" he retorts
"Always gotta have the last word don t you Doctor?" I say my voice taking a slight edge at how he was treating Rose, Rose shakes her head disbelievingly.
"If you are an alien, then how comes you sound like you're from the North?" Rose ask, phew, tension is now dissolved, I relax my shoulders,
"Lots of planets have a North." he says still minerly frustrated about the conversation before, He folds his arms indignantly and looks away.
"What's a police public call box?" I ask knowing he loved to talk about the TARDIS,
"It's a telephone box from the 1950s." as he says this a fond grin makes its way onto his face, and he pats the side of the TARDIS... "It's a disguise."
Rose smiles at me and shakes her head at how I had made the argument go from shouting to him grinning like an idiot.
"Okay. And this living plastic, what's it got against us?" she asks, now more calm about the whole situation.
"Nothing, it loves you. You've got such a good planet. Lots 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 its protein plants rotted-" he says I interrupt stealing the rest of the line.
"so Earth... dinner!" I say with a smirk
"Any way of stopping it?" she asks looking between us, still grinning like an idiot, the Doctor produces a tube of blue liquid from his jacket.
"Anti-plastic!" he says, I still can believe it doesn't have a cooler name,
"Anti-plastic..." she sounds a little sceptic at the name,
"Anti-plastic! But first I've got to find it. How can you hide something that big in a city this small?" he asks after he finishes gesturing to the little test tube
"Hold on... hide what?" she asks, well at least she has sense to ask what she is going to look for
"The transmitter. The Consciousness is controlling every single piece of plastic so it needs a transmitter to boost the signal." I look at the London Eye behind him with a sly smirk
"What's it look like?" Rose once more,
"Like a transmitter. Round and massive, slap bang in the middle of London." he says as though it's obvious, well he shouldn't need to look for it, he paces around, agitated, looking around for a clue.
"A huge circular metal structure... like a dish..." he explains to us but I didn't need it I was looking at the transmitter right now, he stands facing Rose, his back to the railings of the bridge. Behind him, the London Eye looms 450 foot above us, but he doesn't register it. 'Dumbo.' i hear a Donna like voice say, and i couldn't help but agree.
"...like a wheel. Close to where we're standing. Must be COMPLETELY invisible." he continues, Rose looks at me and follows my gaze to the Eye behind him.
"What?" he asks still clueless, Rose nods towards the Eye. The Doctor turns around, then back to her, completely nonplussed.
"What?" he asked getting annoyed as he looked between Rose and then my smirking face, Rose shakes her head, looking at the Eye still. He turns around but still fails to make the connection.
"What is it? What?" and for the final time he asks the fail safe question, Rose simply carries on staring at it. The Doctor looks at me and follows both mine and Roses line of sight and turns around again and finally, it clicks, I laugh as he turns and grins,
"Oh... fantastic!" he says. He grins inanely and runs off. I grab Roses hand and drag her with me, as we catch up The Doctor grabs my hand and pulls myself and Rose who was still holding onto me away faster. Hand in hand, the Doctor and Rose run across London Bridge towards the Eye. We come to a halt at the foot of 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 breast implants..." Rose says
"OHHHH, that s a scary thought" I say with laughter
"Still, we've found the transmitter. The Consciousness must be somewhere underneath." The Doctor continues on,
I pull Rose and run off and finds the entrance to a manhole at the foot of the wall we are is looking over.
"What about down here?" she shouts to The Doctor, he runs to join us.
"Looks good to me." he says with a grin and we make our way down to the manhole, The Doctor takes the lid off it, and red light and smoke pours out. They both climb down the ladder underground I follow last, slipping a few bars before the ground, luckily The Doctor caught me around the waist, I hiss as I feel the stiches I put in rip, he seems to notice my pain and spins me around, looking me over, his eye's stop on my side and they seem to widen a bit, I glance down at the damage, my top had ridden up to show the wound and now it was pouring with blood, just great...
"are you alright?" he asks, I nod not trusting my voice, and we carry on, The Doctor keeping his arm around my waist to keep me up right, he opens the door to another chamber and we go down some steps. The Doctor points to a huge, orange, wobbling mass in the middle of the chamber.
"The Nestene Consciousness, that's it, inside the vat. A living, plastic creature." he says to us as we look at the vat of plain gloop,
"Well, then. Tip in your anti-plastic and let's go." she says sounding anxious,
"Rose, that thing is a living creature," I say sharply, she winces slightly at my tone of voice,
"I'm not here to kill it. I've got to give it a chance." he says as though slightly disappointed that she would say that, we go down some more steps. The Doctor leans over the railings and addresses the Consciousness.
"I seek audience with the Nestene Consciousness under peaceful contract. According to convention 15 of the Shadow Proclamation." his tone authorative, a shudder rips through my body, The Consciousness flobbles around a bit.
"Thank you. That I and my companion might have permission to approach." I look at him startled
Meanwhile, as Rose paces around in the background, she spots Mickey and runs to him. The Doctor rolls his eyes.
"Oh, my God! Mickey! It's okay! It's alright!" she says as she runs to him, She squats down next to him.
"That thing down there, the liquid, Rose - it can talk!" his voice is panicked and frightened,
"You're stinking! Doctor, Alex, they kept him alive!" she shouts to us
"Yeah, that was always a possibility. Keep him alive to maintain the copy." he says in a flippant tone
"You knew that and you never said?" her voice went from joy to pissed in about point three seconds,
"Can we keep the domestics outside, thank you?" ouch Doctor, 'how deep do you want that grave?' Rose helps Mickey to his feet. The Doctor and I approach the Consciousness.
"Am I addressing the Consciousness? Thank you. If I might observe, you infiltrated this civilization by means of warped, shunt technology. So, may I suggest, with the greatest respect, that you shunt off?" I couldn t help but giggle as he said this but it turns into a whimper, that I will deny I made later. The plastic globbers in what appears to be a negative manner.
"Oh don't give me that, it's an invasion! Plain and simple! Don't talk about constitutional rights!" he scoffs The plastic rears what would appear to be its head angrily.
"I - am - talking! This planet is just starting. These stupid little people have only just learnt how to walk, but they're capable of so much more. I'm asking you on their behalf - please, just go." I jump as he shouts at the consciousness, four Auton s approach the Doctor and I from behind.
"Doctor! Alex!" Rose shouts to us in warning, but it seemed to late, the Auton s grab him and the other two grabbed me and pulled me away one much to my bad luck grabbed me around the waist and I cry out in pain, The Doctor looks over quickly, I give him a weak smile to say I'm alright. One of them takes the anti-plastic out of his jacket pocket.
"That was just insurance! I wasn't going to USE it." he reasons with the consciousness, the plastic globbers angrily.
"I was not attacking you. I'm here to help. I'm not your enemy. I swear, I'm not... what do you mean?" he asks confused towards the end, doors above him open to reveal the TARDIS. Shit we're screwed
"Oh, oh no - honestly, no! Yes, that's my ship." he seems to converse. The plastic roars.
"That's not true. I should know, I was there. I fought in the war - it wasn't my fault! I couldn't save your world! I couldn't save any of them!" he cry s desperately
"What's it doing?!" Rose shouts panicked,
"It's the TARDIS! The Nestene has identified its superior technology - it's terrified! It's going to the final base. It's starting the invasion! Get out, Rose! Just leg it! Now! I'll save Alexandra!" he shouts, Rose dials a number on her mobile, aunt Jackie
"Mum?! Where are you, mum?" she shouts down the phone, "Go home! Just go home, right now!" she say the line must have went dead after a minute because Rose kept on shouting "Mum?! Mum!" I breathe deeply remembering she just hung up. The Consciousness sends out a signal.
"It's the activation signal! It's transmitting!" he shouts to us,
"The end of the world..." I think I hear her whisper. The Doctor and I is still being held hostage.
"Get out, Rose! Just get out! Run!" Part of the ceiling falls in. I flinch as I hear the crash,
"The stairs have gone!" she shouts to us, Rose and Mickey try desperately to get into the TARDIS.
"I haven't got the key!" she shouts panicking, I struggle to get free to help her but cause myself pain
"We're gonna die!" Mickey shouts in panic, he and Rose are still cowering at the door of the TARDIS. The Doctor struggles to get to the anti-plastic.
"Just leave them!" Mickey shouts, I turn to see Rose stood up,
"Nice to know I can count on you Mickey!" I shout annoyed. Rose runs to get an axe
"There's nothing you can do!" Mickey shouts, Rose picks up the axe and I see her muttering stuff as she brakes things with the axe, the chain comes loose and Rose grabs onto it. I suddenly felt a little light headed, Rose swings across the gap over the Consciousness. She kicks the Auton s holding the Doctor hostage into the Nestene, anti-plastic and all. The Consciousness starts to writhe and scream. Rose lands safely in the Doctor's arms at the other side of the gap, The Doctor then rushes over to me and rips the Auton s from either side of me before grinning,
"Now we're in trouble." he says grabbing mine and Roses hands and running to the TARDIS, the Consciousness starts to explode as Rose and the Doctor run off. The signal from the Eye is cut off.
Rose, the Doctor, me and Mickey all manage to reach the TARDIS. Rose grins at the Consciousness before she goes in and closes the door, as it starts to die. Just before the whole chamber goes up in flames, the TARDIS disappears, when I get in I sit down on one of the jump seats clutching my side as black spots enter my vision, I shake them away. The next time the TARDIS door opens we're in an ally way, Mickey runs backwards out of the TARDIS and falls over, looking terrified. He backs against a wall. Rose, however, steps out and rings aunt Jackie on her mobile, The Doctor helping me out, Rose laughs in relief to hear aunt Jackie's voice. Satisfied that aunt Jackie is alive, Rose hangs up on her, smiling to herself.
Rose runs over to Mickey.
"A fat lot of good you were!" she says still high on adrenaline, Mickey whimpers. The Doctor stands in the doorway of the TARDIS myself standing just before the door leaning on it slightly.
"Nestene Consciousness?" he says as he clicks his fingers "Easy."
"You were useless in there. You'd be dead if it wasn't for me." Rose says teasingly,
"Yes, I would. Thank you. Right then! I'll be off! Unless, uh... I don't know... you could come with me." the doctor said seriously, looking at Rose, Rose looks at him and puts her hands in her pockets.
"This box isn't just a London hopper, you know, it goes anywhere in the universe free of charge." he carries on trying to convince her, I bit my lip guess I wouldn't be going then...
"Don't! He's an alien! He's a thing!" Mickey shouts pointing at The Doctor
"He's NOT invited," he turns to me, with what looked like hope in his eyes, "You are though" My heart jumps as he says this, I could be with him on adventures, "What do you think? You could stay here and fill your life with work and food and sleep, or you could go, uh... anywhere." he says
"Yes" I say, I don't even hesitate, his eyes brighten at my answer as he turns to Rose,
"Is it always this dangerous?" she asks
The doctor nods "Yeah."
Mickey puts his arms around Rose's legs like a little child.
"Yeah, I can't... I've um... gotta go and find my mum and um... someone's gotta look after this stupid lump... I mean Alex is going." she pats Mickey on the head, "So..."
"Okay. See you around. Come on Alexandra" he says, I follow him in, Rose looks at us intensely, as if she still hasn't really made up her mind. The Doctor does not take his eyes off her, but closes the door.
"You re an idiot" I say as he walks around the console, he looks at me with curiosity and a little indignation, "You didn't tell her it could travel in time..." his eyes light up and he runs around with renewed vigour. Then runs to the door,
"By the way - did I mention, it also travels in time?" he says He grins and comes back in - leaving the door ajar.
She runs into the TARDIS with a broad smile on her face. The Doctor smiles back at her but then my vision begins to fade, the last thing I heard before darkness consumed me was The Doctors voice and a strong pair of arms wrapping around my waist and lifting me up...
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Okay this is the first chapter, also the longest I've ever written, now it's 03:09 so give me you review and I'll update when I can,
I went over this and found so many stupid mistakes and just wanted to correct them.
Shadow OUT!
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