A/N: I found this written on a notebook and polished it a bit before posting. Must've been after I decided to rewatch the series. Not that you care about that. Anyway, I hope you like it! And I'll soon have Seeking the Doctor and my Supernatural re-write updated. My beta just needs to, well, beta it first.
Rose was hanging on to the rope, her hands stinging, burning. The Doctor had told her not to wander off, but really, what did he expect? Rose always wandered off. Now she realised it had been a mistake. She really wouldn't have wandered off, had it not been for that child. And she'd called for the Doctor, who hadn't listened to her. And now here she was.
Never in her life she'd imagined she would be hanging on to a balloon in the middle of the London Blitz in 1941. Not even when she'd started travelling with the Doctor. But then again, she hadn't imagined there were such aliens as the Slitheen either — or Raxacoricofallapatorians, since that was the name of their race — but they existed, and had tried to tear the Earth into a million pieces, to sell them later.
When she started sliding, the rope slipping out of her hands, she gripped it tighter and screamed for help. Though, really, during the London Blitz, the Union Jack all over her chest, it was more likely someone would try to kill her instead of saving her. But there was nothing else she could do. And there were more chances to be rescued if she screamed rather than if she stayed silent.
Then she fell. For a while, she could feel the wind, and herself falling, that strange feeling in her stomach, disturbing her, the wind rushing over her, her hands still stinging from the rope. She was scared, she couldn't move. No, wait. She literally couldn't move. She'd stopped falling, and was now surrounded by some blue light. Well, that explained the sudden stop. She heard a male voice telling her not to move. Not that she could. Rose was paralysed with fear. She started moving again, though it wasn't her, really. The blue light was moving her. And a man caught her before she could fall to the floor. That man had saved her. They exchanged a few words before the whole world went dark.