A/N: So this is my next big story! I know Billie Piper dyed her hair while playing Rose, but in Father's Day, Young Rose was blonde, so I'm sticking to that. This story is rated T for safety when Jimmy Stone begins playing his role in Rose's life. Enjoy the first instalment of Tutor Who?
Chapter One:
Young Rose
"One last trip," the Doctor muttered walking around the console. "Just one last trip. Where to, Old Girl? You sexy, sexy thing? The Fifteenth Broken Moon of the Medusa Cascade? Naw, been there done that! No point in repeating old trips, huh? Oh, I know, the Lightning Skies of Cotter Palluni's World!"
The TARDIS sent the equivalent of an eyeroll to the Doctor telepathically.
"Don't want that either? Alright then, diamond Coral Reefs of Kataa Flo Ko!" the Doctor exclaimed happily, "I haven't been there since my ninth regeneration! Rose loved it there..." the Doctor trailed off before coughing and bringing himself back to the present. "Well, maybe not Kataa Flo Ko, couldn't wear my brand new stenson there, eh? I'd have to wear those scuba dive suits."
The TARDIS hummed in agreement and then in annoyance as the Doctor began flipping a switch that evacuated the waste tank on deck seven.
"How about Delphon? Hmm, might get complicated there, though, seeing as I have no eyebrows this time 'round. You see the people of Delphon use eyebrows to communicate..." the Doctor trailed off as he looked around the console room and saw no one else was with him.
"One last trip before I die, and I can't decide where to take my farewell tour."
The TARDIS hummed comfortingly as the Doctor collapsed onto the jumpseat and pulled his stetson over his head, "Stupid Lake Silencio, and the Silence- oh! Lake Silencio! I just got it! Silence will fall at Lake Silencio. It's almost like someone's out there writing this stuff."
The TARDIS laughed at this, but the Doctor had no idea what was so funny about what he had said.
"Why five oh two, though? Hmm, looks like my killer was supposed to be there at five but showed up a little too late. Well, at least River can be a little late to kill me. I'll take all the time I can get."
The Doctor chuckled at his own joke and said, "Always knew that woman would be the death of me. Turns out I was right." The Doctor sighed and straightened his stetson on his head before turning to the TARDIS and saying, "How about you choose, Old Girl? Surprise me! Anywhere in time and space, somewhere that will take my breath away."
The Time Rotor started pumping up and down, and the Doctor allowed himself one large smile before remembering that this would be the last planet he visited before dying.
The TARDIS sensing the Doctor's mood shuddered violently and the Doctor laughed as he was tossed to the floor.
"GERONIMO!" He yelled as he hopped up from the floor and began to fiddle with different levers on the TARDIS.
...
It was an ordinary day in London. Overcast skies and cool temperatures. Anyone on the streets had somewhere to be and were not stopping for idle chatter. No one had the time to notice the blue Police Box appear out of thin air, nor the very ruffled man with a stetson askew on his head step out.
"Let's see!" the Doctor exclaimed excitedly rubbing his hands together and taking in his surroundings. "London, by the looks of it, or else Epcot... I can never tell them apart," the Doctor spotted a newspaper and snatched it up. "Eighteenth of March, 1993! Blimey, why'd you bring me here?" the Doctor turned to the TARDIS and asked.
The TARDIS remained silent like most Blue Boxes that are bigger on the inside would, and the Doctor turned away from her and instead looked around some more.
"This looks familiar," he mused, "Guess I spend way to much time in London."
The Doctor turned and began walking towards a little playground. Maybe he could swing on the swings! Or the seesaw, or the monkey bars... What the hell, he was going to play at the park. No kids were out there on a bleak rainy day anyways.
That was until the Doctor heard a little sob coming from uptop the slide.
"Hello there," the Doctor greeted the child.
The girl sniffled and turned around. She had a round face and brown eyes. Her hair was a soft shade of blonde with bits of brown mixed in, "Who are you?" she asked. "Do I know you, or are you Stranger Danger?"
The Doctor laughed, "I'm the Doctor, not Stranger Danger."
The little girl relaxed a bit, "Good. Cos I'm supposed to call the coppers if someone says their Stranger Danger," the girl paused and said as an afterthought, "I wonder who Stranger Danger is. I've heard he's got candy in his car, though."
The Doctor chuckled and said, "I've met Stranger Danger, not a nice guy, I'll tell you that."
The girl smiled but another tear streaked down her cheek.
"Why are you crying?" the Doctor asked.
"Cos I ran away and now I've got nowhere to go," the girl admitted before crying some more. "Mum must be worried bout me, but I can't go back there."
"Why not?" the Doctor asked.
"Cos she'll kill me," the little girl replied earnestly. "She'll honest to god kill me. Then burry me alive."
"It'd be hard to burry you alive if your already dead," the Doctor pointed out.
"I s'pose so," the girl responded, "but she'd figure out a way to."
"Why would your mum want to kill you?" the Doctor asked softly.
"Cos... Cos I got a bad grade," the girl replied before bursting into tears. "The teachers say I'm gonna fail year two. Then I'm gonna have to do year two all over again, and Shareen and Keisha and Mickey and Jimmy will all go on to year three and I'm gonna be stuck in year two."
"I don't think you'll fail year two if you only got one bad grade, and I don't think your mum will kill you either," the Doctor said.
"You don't?" the girl asked.
"I don't," the Doctor affirmed. "Now how about you go back home."
The girl suddenly burst into tears again, "I dunno how to get back!" she wailed. "I'm lost! I'll never see my mum again!"
"Calm down," the Doctor soothed, "I'll get you home. I have the directional instinct of a homing pigeon! Just tell me what estate, I've been around the block a couple times, I know London like the back of my hand. Well, I take that back, my hand can change sometimes, long story, but I know London well!"
The girl goggled at the Doctor for a second before asking, "What was your name again?"
"I'm the Doctor," he answered, "And I don't think I happened to catch your name."
"How would you catch a name. Names can't be caught, your thinking of a ball," the little girl said.
"Well can you tell me your name then? Maybe we can write your name on a ball and then toss it to each other and then we can catch your name," the Doctor said. "Or a frisbee. I like catching frisbees as well."
"My name is Rose Marion Tyler," the girl said, "And I don't think the Doctor is a real name. Are you sure your not Stranger Danger?"
The Doctor gaped at Rose for a second before saying, "Rose Marion Tyler. I take it the Estate you live in is the Powell Estate?"
"How'd you know?" Rose asked. "Can you read minds? Jimmy says he can read minds, but he hasn't read mine properly yet. Keisha says it's a load of rubbish, mind reading."
"Well I'm John Smith, and I can read minds," the Doctor said.
"I thought you said your name was the Doctor," Rose said.
"Yeah, well I'm actually Doctor John Smith," the Doctor said. He couldn't risk a paradox by Rose already knowing him before he showed up at Henricks.
"Are you the type of Doctor that gives shots?" Rose asked.
"No, I'm the type of Doctor who helps little girls find their way back to their house. So c'mon, Rose Tyler, let's get you back to the Powell Estate."