The Doctors Daughter
By sazzy
Summary :
What if the Doctor had a daughter along his travels?
Disclaimers - borrowed, not owned. Have sent them back, but may borrow them some other time.
An: The pen is mightier than the sword. But is the keyboard mightier than the pen.
AN: Ok so the first chapter is Rose, with my character added. But I promise it's just for this chapter. Or maybe this one and another in the future. I just using the story to introduce my character. Hope you enjoy it. Took me a wile to write.
Oh yeah - really ,really, really, really, really need a beta. Interested - get in contact.
A small, pale skinned girl sat perched on the railing of the TARDIS. Her appearance reflected that of a human girl, age around 12 maybe 13. Blonde hair flows down past her shoulders. A pair of dark brown eyes appear from under her fringe. At this moment in time, they are transfixed on the Doctor, her father, tinkering about with the controls. She watched as the centre piece of the TARDIS flashed away with it's characteristic eerie green glow.
"Your going to love Earth," he said with enthusiasm. His focus not straying from what he was doing.
Chloe moved from off the railing, and took a few paces towards her father. He was lying on his back, against the grating on the floor, looking up at a panel, situated under the main controls.
"A planet populated by Apes. Oh, I can't wait for the intellectual conversations I'm going to have." Her sarcastic tone made the Doctor grin.
"You'll see," he said, returning back to his work. "Can you hand me my sonic screw driver?" Chloe picked up the small object. She glanced at it for a moment. Her father seemed the only one in existence with one. Most people she met who had anything 'sonic', usually had something a bit more sophisticated then a 'sonic screwdriver.' But hey, this was her father, he wasn't exactly into the trends.
She kneeled down to pass it to him.
"Ta."
The familiar whizzing sound and a blue light flicked from under the panel indicated the 'sonic screw driver' was busily at work.
"All done." He jumped up and smiled in success. He gave the TARDIS controls a pat and it sprang into life. The floor juddered underneath them, as the green column in the middle rose and fell in it's characteristic way.
"Woopty doo." responding to her fathers last comment. Now maybe we can get out of this stupid rift."
The Doctor sighed at the girl who stood in front of him. She was at that age, the age when sarcasm, and insults were all that seemed to come from her mouth. He wished they could just skip 60-69 age. 70 was always a nice age. They seemed to calm down a lot by then.
"I'm picking something strange up," he glanced at the control screen. Chloe raised an eyebrow, turning round to look at the display screen herself.
She stood next to the Doctor, who was leaning on the panel. The reflection of the screen made his face have a strange blue tint.
"Where there's the Doctor, there's always trouble," she stated.
"Namely you."
Chloe gave him a scowl.
"Sorry." His characteristic grin beamed at her.
She kept the scowl up, deciding to punish him for a
bit longer. The Doctor got down on a knee, clasping his hands
together and begged.
"Oh please forgive me," he mocked. "I
could not live if I knew I had offended you and had not been
forgive."
"Ptfff, Parents!" She turned, heading back over to the railing around the TARDIS and perched on it once again. Her arms resting on either side of her, making sure she didn't fall.
"Hmm," The Doctor said. Chloe watched the lines on his forehead became more distinct. Followed by the look of uncertainty that spread across his face.
He suddenly gasped and turned round, his face alive with excitement. His teethy grin becoming a feature on his face.
"AUTONS! The Nestene Consciousness is hiding on earth," The Doctor philosophised.
Chloe stared at the floor, her mind thinking hard. Her eyes traced the lines of the grating, as her mind set to work. A grin appeared at the edge of her lips. She moved just her eyes, to look at him. Her head still tilted to the floor. "I bet it wants all the smoke and oil, all the toxins and dioxins. It's feeding off them."
"Clever girl," The Doctor said to his daughter. "Must be using it after the war. Destroyed all its food stock. We just have to find out where it's hiding."
"That'll be easy enough for you. You're the Doctor."
Chloe grinned at her fathers smile.
"Where?" She asked.
"Earth. Antarctica. 1231," he frowned. "Scratch that. Earth. London. 2005." He then quickly added, "Have you been playing with the controls again." He turned his head to look at her.
Chloe raised both her eyebrows, gave him a smile he would be proud of and quickly scooted off the railings. Deciding it best to get out of his way for a bit, she made a run for it.
"CHLOE!" the words chasing after her.
She ran off down a corridor. Then another. Finally stopping when she thought she'd lost him. She panted a bit and stopped to catch her breath. She grinned at her success. Turning around, she was shocked to find the Doctor standing behind her. His arms where crossed and he had a slight frown on his face. But she could tell he was smiling inside.
"Don't think you can hide from me. I built this thing. I know every hideaway, every corridor, every nook and cranny." He leaned forward to be centimetres from her face. She could feel his breath on her skin he was so close. She could see right into his mysterious eyes.
"You can never hide form me." He stood, patted her shoulders and grinned. His whole stance changing, as if the words he just spoke had never been uttered.
"Now go get your jacket."
Chloe rolled her eyes and went to the control room. She grabbed her jacket, which was resting on a railing.
"Right," he said, standing by the door. "You
know the rules. No running off. No changing history, unless I say so.
No drawing attention to yourself. You will be by side at all times.
An absolutely NO brining pets back to the TARDIS. I never did find
where that dog you got from Barcelona, got to. Now hold my hand."
Chloe sighed. He was rather protective of her. But he had his
reasons.
The TARDIS door's swung open, as if they where being opened to the greatest thing in the universe.
"Welcome to Earth." Then the outside revealed a department store. There was rusty bits of metal and litter.
"We'll this looks…" she pattered her hands against her side searching for the word. "…FANASTIC!"
"Give them a chance. They haven't even discovered
the freget yet. Still need a few thousand years before they're
civilisation starts to take on its potential ."
Chloe raised a
curious eyebrow. The planet sure looked, rather lacking, for a 'lack'
of a better word.
"Now to find us some plastic." He waved his screw driver about, playing close attention to it. Moments later his grin grew and he looked at the department store ahead.
"They're in there," The Doctor said. He pulled
Chloe's hand to make her follow. He raised the sonic screw driver
to a door near the back. The door swung open, with a large clank as
it hit the walls inside. "This way." A narrow corridor stretched
out ahead. A few doors placed randomly along the walls. The place
seemed damp and uninviting and even spooky to the young time lord.
'Great,' Chloe thought.
"They're around here somewhere. I
can sense them," the Doctor said. Chloe listened hard. She could
hear something. She turned quickly, giving a hard blow to the Auton
behind her.
The Doctors hand tightened round hers and he pulled her away down another corridor, away from the advancing group of plastic. They ducked round a corner, as the Autons went past. The Doctor peered out, watching as the Autons headed away from them. He gently pulled Chloe out and down the corridor, away from the Autons. They turned onto another corridor, but this one has a distinct difference from the other. A man lied on the floor of it. The Doctor released Chloe's hand and walked forward before crouching down beside the man.
"Dead, I'm sorry" he uttered quietly. A silence spread through the hallway as if a sign of respect. This was quickly broken by the Autons appearing at the end of the corridor.
"Come on, lets head to the roof," the Doctor spoke, and once again grasped Chloe's hand. The Autons made the ascent rather hard. They had to turn down the wrong corridor a few times, in a hope to loose them.
They then found themselves in a small room situated off of the corridor. Hidden from the Autons.
"Did you hear that?" Chloe said, in a low whisper. She tried to make her breathing quieter, as if scared it would give them away.
"What, the Auton's?"
"No, I think I heard a voice." The Doctor frowned
at Chloe, not sure what she was going on about.
"There it is
again," Chloe said. He pulls her hand and she runs again, the noise
getting louder. They come to a stop somewhere. Then she sees the
girl. He grabs the girls hand with his free one.
"Run." Her father shouts to the girl. An Autons
arm went crashing into the wall as they fled. The three of them ran
down the hallway, the darkness would give most people the chills, but
Chloe just lapped it up. Chloe felt the exhilaration run through her
body. This is what she did for fun.
They then found themselves
backed up against a wall, with the sound of the plastic people coming
closer. The door opens into a lift and they jumped inside, narrowly
avoiding the Autons, apart from a plastic arm. Her father grabbed it
and it snapped. He smiled in success and chucked it to Chloe.
"You pulled his arm off." The girl spoke. Chloe could see she was obviously frightened. Human's! Scared by a plastic arm.
"Yup," her father replied. His arms where folded as he watched Chloe examine the arm.
"It's only plastic." Chloe said and chucked it to the quivering girl.
"Oh, very clever, nice trick, who are they then, students? Is this a student thing or what?"
The Doctor looked puzzled. He looked at Chloe as if he thought he had missed something. Chloe shrugged her shoulders.
"Why would they be students?"
"I don't know!"
'Strange girl,' was all Chloe could think. 'Makes a suggestion then doesn't back it up.'
"We'll you said it, why students?" The Doctor asked, intrigued by why she had said it.
"Cos.." Rose looked at the two other people in the lift as if they where mad.
"To get that many people, all dressed up and being stupid, they've got to be students."
The Doctor smiled. Chloe saw he liked her. She rolled her eyes. "That makes sense. Well Done." The Doctor replied.
"Thank you," the girl replied, not sure what else she should say. She was still huddled at the back of the lift holding the lifeless plastic arm.
"They're not students." Chloe added.
There was a ping indicating the lift had stopped. The doors slid open and the Doctor took Chloe's hand. They walked outside, followed by the girl.
"Hold on, mind your eyes…" Chloe thought the warning was more to the girl, then to her. She instinctively looked away as soon as a door and the 'sonic screw driver' appeared.
"Who are they?"
The door opened and the Doctor pulled Chloe along. She hated the way he did that sometimes, as if she couldn't see he was moving. It was getting rather annoying and she felt like pulling his arm off.
"They're made of plastic, living plastic creatures, and they're being controlled by a relay device on the roof, which would be a great problem if! I didn't have this-" He produced a banished bomb with explosive strapped to it, with a display.
"So me and Chloe here, are gonna go upstairs and blow it up and we might die in the process but don't you worry about us, no! You go home, go on, go and have your beans on toast." Chloe giggled at her fathers jokes. The Doctor then proceeded to pushing Rose, gently, out of a fire door.
The Doctor began to speak ,"Don't tell anyone…"
"…anyone…" Chloe added to confirm what her father said.
"..about this, cos if you do, you'll get them killed."
Her father slammed the door and smiled at his daughter. He then opened it again, revealing the girl still stood there, almost in shock.
"I'm the Doctor, by the way, and this is Chloe. What's you name?"
"Rose"
"Nice to meet you, Rose"
He waved the bomb about.
"Run for your life." He slams the door shut again and the grabs Chloe's arm.
"Right, now where we're we." He looked down at the bomb in his hand. "Blowing the Autons to Sliveens." (not smithereens)
They ran down a corridor, and headed back down into
the depths of the department store.
"We have about 2 minutes to
get out of here once I set it. Better hope the Autons don't get
hold of this though."
"If they do?" Chloe asked.
"We'll they'll destroy it, and then they'll go out into the world spreading evil, killing and doing anything to bring the human existence to an end. Even your regular Cola bottle, could end up being your executor."
He spoke as if this was normal.
"Never did like hydrocarbons," Chloe said as she leant against a wall, arms folded, waiting for her father to finish.
"Right, two minutes and counting." He grabbed Chloe's hand for what seemed like the hundredth time. They fled from the bomb up some stairs and out the same door they had entered. The TARDIS stood undisturbed and unnoticed, in the spot they had left it. They casually strolled into the box and Chloe slung off her jacket, onto the floor.
"Uh, hang it up young lady." Chloe rolled her eyes and slung it over the railing.
"So now what?"
"We have to find the Nestene Consciousness. It's still out there. Those where just it's puppets. Might take a while, though, controls are on the frits again." He said the last line with a look of threat to Chloe.
Chloe rolled her eyes and wondered over to one of the control screens, she tuned it in.
"Guess I can check out their entertainment." Chloe tuned it onto a channel. The screen showed a some sort of crude animation. Nothing like what she had been use to.
Many hour later The Doctor had managed to fix the consol. The TARDIS had tracked a signal to a block of flats, where Chloe and The Doctor now stood. They walked up the cold concrete steps. The Doctor kept a close eye on the sonic screw driver, as it flashed to indicate where to go. As they closed in on the signal the sonic screwdriver flashed more and more, until they reached a single door. The Doctor knelt down to the cat flap and the sonic screw driver sprang into action.
"I don't think we're going to fit through there."
"I'm only taking a peak," The Doctor said. "Stupid things been nailed shut."
"Probably to stop Time Lords peaking through it." Her father stood up, as a noise sounded from inside the flat. The door sprung open to reveal the same girl they had met last night. That Rose girl.
"What's she doing here?" Chloe asked her father.
"Dunno, what are you doing here?"
"I live here."
"Well what do you do that for?" The Doctor replied.
"Because I do. And I'm only at home 'cos someone blew up my job."
The Doctor looked puzzled. He raised his sonic screw driver, expecting to see it broken or something.
"I must have got the wrong signal. You're not plastic, are you?" The Doctor tapped Rose on the head.
He turned to look at Chloe with a grin.
"Nope, bonehead!" He turned back to Rose.
"Bye then. Come on Chloe." They began to walk off Rose grabbed each of there arms and pulled them inside the flat.
"You two, inside, now!"
Rose shut the door and Chloe turned around to look at Rose. She raised an eyebrow contemplating what had just happened. She wondered what Rose was up to. Humans where rather strange creatures. Maybe her dad would let her keep one when they left. There again, after what happened to her last pets, she thought she better not ask.
Rose began to shout to someone in the flat.
"It's about last night, he's part of the inquiry, give us ten minutes."
"Who's the kid then?" The strange lady asked.
Chloe was about to tell her that she wasn't a kid. We'll at least compared to there standards but Rose spoke first.
"Uhh, his daughter."
"Couldn't find a babysitter." The Doctor added. Chloe frowned.
The lady seemed to just accept it.
"She deserves compensation," the lady said.
"Oh, we're talking millions." The Doctor replied with a grin on his face. Chloe loved the look on the woman's face at the Doctors reply. Chloe followed Rose down the hallway into the living room. But she turned back before reaching her destination, noticing her father wasn't following.
"There's a strange man in my bedroom," she heard from the hallway.
"Yes there is." Her fathers voice could be heard. She frowned moving slightly faster.
"Anything could happen." The lady said again.
"No." The Doctor appeared and walked up to Chloe, taking her by the arm to the living room, in search of Rose.
"Don't mind the mess, coffee?"
"Might as well, thanks, just milk."
"Chloe would you like a drink."
Chloe through for a minute, then decided it best not to try any of their strange foods.
"I'm fine, thanks."
Rose went into the kitchen and began to talk.
"We should go to the police. Seriously."
In the living room The Doctor completely ignored Rose
and picked up. Chloe folded her arms and watched as her father
flicked through the pages of 'Heat' magazine. "Huh!" He took
a few paces towards her and tilted the magazine in Chloe's
direction, to show her the picture. He quickly flicked through
it.
"That won't last. He's gay and she's an alien."
Chloe giggled as she glanced at the page. The Doctor closed it and
threw it down, replacing it for a book. In the kitchen Rose carried
on talking.
"Cos it said on the news, they found a body. I suppose that's Wilson. I didn't really know him, but all the same."
The Doctor flicked through the pages of the book, then passed it to Chloe while saying "Aah, sad ending."
"Don't spoil it," Chloe retorted, before flicking through the book, the same way her father did. She placed it back onto the table. Her father was now looking at an envelope.
"Rose Tyler," he read. Chloe rolled her eyes as if to say 'duhh' His attention then turned to a mirror. He turned back to Chloe and shrugged.
"Could have been worse. Look at the ears." He
said tugging on his ears. Chloe giggled.
"At least you don't
have two heads." The Doctor shrugged again. He moved his hand to
pick up a packet of cards.
"Pick a card," he offered the backs of the cards to Chloe, who obliged and took a cared. She looked at it then replaced it in the pack.
"Luck be a lady…"he uttered, only for the cards to fly everywhere. "Or maybe not." Chloe just smiled with a shake of her head.
Rose's voice was still drifting into the living room. The pair not taking any notice of her, "He was nice though, he was a nice bloke. We owe it to him. If we are gonna tell the police though. I want to know what I'm saying I want you to explain everything." Rose spoke from the kitchen, totally oblivious to Chloe and the Doctors antics.
The Doctor and Chloe frowned at each other at the exact same moment. They both heard a noise.
"Who's that then…?" The Doctor said looking behind the settee.
"Maybe she's got a cat." Chloe shrugged.
"Have you got a cat?" The Doctor asked.
"No, we did have a cat, but that was years back. Now we just get strays, they come in off the estate."
Then Chloe saw something in the corner of her eye. It leaped for her, but Chloe ducked. The plastic arm went lunging into the Doctor. It grabbed at his throat. Chloe looked around for something to beat it up with. The first thing at hand was a…coaster. She frowned looking at it, then charged at the plastic arm. The Doctor fell on the floor and Chloe jumped after him and the plastic arm. She hit the plastic arm with the coaster a few times. Rose came in with the coffee, catching the end of the battle.
"I told Mickey to chuck that out. You're all the same, give a man a plastic hand and off he goes. I thought your daughter would have more sense then to play games at her age, though."
Chloe frowned, still hitting the plastic arm with the coaster.
"Anyway, I don't even know your name, Doctor what is it?
The plastic arm realised it's grip and Chloe batted it away with the coaster. Unfortunately it hit the girl and started attacking her.
'I'm so gonna be punished for that,' she thought. The Doctor stood and grabbed the arm that was now tightly locked on her face. The Doctor produced his sonic screw driver. He tapped it against his hand, and it hit the right note causing the arm to stop it's attempt at suffocating Rose.
"'S all right. I've stopped it."
"With
my help," Chloe said with a frown, her arms folding in front of
her.
The Doctor gave her an apologetic smile, before throwing the arm to Rose and carrying on with what he was saying.
"There you go, see? Harmless."
"D'you think?" Rose asked, before hitting him with the arm. Chloe raised an eyebrow at this,. She'd never get away with attacking her father with a plastic arm.
"Come on Chloe, we'd better go," the Doctor said, taking the plastic arm back from Rose. They left the stunned girl in the living room. As they headed back to the TARDIS, they where quickly caught up by the girl.
"Hold on a minute, you can't just go swanning off-"
"I thought we got ride of you," Chloe announced with a smile.
"And yes, we can. Here we are, this is us, swanning off, see ya." The Doctor hooked Chloe's arm, around his and pulled her along.
"But that arm was moving it tried to kill me."
"She really is a Sherlock Homes, isn't she," Chloe said turning round.
"Ten out of ten for observation," The Doctor added.
"I'd say a 3 out of 10 for her earlier actions," Chloe said, referring to when she had completely ignored them when fighting the arm.
"You can't just walk away! That's not fair, you've got to tell me what's going on-"
"No we don't," The Doctor said turning round. Chloe stopped, causing her father to as well.
"Even if we did, you wouldn't believe us." And with that they left, Chloe hoped the girl wouldn't follow. It was too dangerous for humans. Their little brains could never understand what was going on. Completely pointless her even trying to contemplate the scale of what was going on.
But there was no hope. Humans are just to curious. They can't just let things rest. You could leave an old fashioned police box standing on the corner of a road, and they wouldn't batter and eye. But as soon as a bit of plastic attacks them, they want answer. Chloe had seen much stranger things in her 64 years of life. Walking plastic barely scratched the surface.
"All right then. I'll go to the police!" The words called after Chloe and the Doctor. "I'll go to the police! I'll tell everyone! And you said, if I do that, I'll get people killed, so! Your choice. Tell me, or start talking ." The Doctor paused in his tracks. Chloe looked at him. He had a confused look on his face, causing Chloe to smirk. He turned round to Rose.
"Is that suppose to sound tough?" A laugh busted through Chloe's lips, as the Doctor spoke.
"…Sort of." The girl stood there, looking like she wasn't sure what she was doing.
"Doesn't work," The Doctor said before smiling back at the girl. A grin followed on Rose's lips, Chloe was still fighting off the giggles, that rippled through her body.
"Who are you?" The girl asked, just trying anything to get answers. Chloe thought this rather strange. Had they not told her who they where.
"Told you, I'm the Doctor,"
"And I'm Chloe."
"Yeah but doctor what?"
"Just the Doctor." The right side of his mouth forming into a smile.
" 'The Doctor' "
"Hello!" Her father gave Rose a quick wave.
"Is that supposed to sound impressive?"
"…Sort of."
Chloe decided to add her own comment, " If you thinks that strange, if I was a boy I was going to be called The"
"The?" Rose asked rather puzzled.
"Yep." Chloe smiled brightly, rather pleased she wasn't a boy.
"Come on then, you can tell me. I've seen enough. Are you the police?"
The Doctor gave Chloe a glance. His eyes looking deep into her. He knew how she felt, when she was in pain.
"No, we're just passing through. A long way from home."
Chloe glanced at the floor. 'Home,' just a word to her now. Her thoughts where broken when Rose spoke again.
"But what have I done? How come those plastic things keep coming after me?" Chloe shook her head.
"Like you're the centre of attention. They're not after you, you just got in the way, an accident, you just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time." Chloe was feeling pain at the moment, and often took it out on other people.
"It tried to kill me!" Rose said, trying to argue her point. Chloe went to take a step closer, about to tell Rose that she should get over it, she was alive wasn't she, what did it matter. If it was after her, she would have been dead a long time ago. The Doctor stepped in front of Chloe, putting himself between Rose and her.
"It was after us, not you. Last night, in the shop. We where there first. You blundered in, almost ruined the whole thing!"
"Exactly," Chloe muttered, the Doctor giving her a threatening stare, making Chloe go silent. He then continued.
"This morning- we were tracking it down. It was tracking us down." He pointed to Chloe to show who he meant by 'us." And if it weren't for the matter you where at the wrong place at the wrong time, you'd never have met us, you'd just carried on with your little life. Thought some pipe had blown at work. Accepted whatever stupid theory the police decided to release. The only reason it tracked you down was because you met us."
"So, so what your saying is…the entire world revolves around you?"
"Yeah, world, universe…" Chloe started to say in an upbeat town, rather smugly. The Doctor gave her another glare. Once again she went silent.
"Sometimes, yeah," he added to Chloe's words.
"You two are full of it."
"Sometimes, yeah."
"Speak for yourself," Chloe said to her father.
"But all this plastic stuff. Who else knows about it?"
"No one," the Doctor looked to Chloe, who was trying her hardest to keep her mouth shut.
"You humans, you watch your telly and eat your chips and go to bed. And all the time right underneath you… there's a war going on."
"I knew we should have gone somewhere else." Chloe stated folding her arms. The whole thing had been a rather bore. Except for the bit where they where chased by plastic, that had been amusing, but now it was all getting rather, dull!
She placed her hands in her pockets and followed along behind the Doctor and Rose who where chatting. She kicked a stone, that skidded along the path then stopped. Once she reached it, she kicked it again. The Doctor looked round and gave her a warning look.
'Great! So I can't even kick a stone without getting into trouble.' She hurried along to catch them up a bit, catching up on the conversation.
"So that's radio controlled," Rose said, nodding towards the arm that was know in the Doctors left hand.
"Thought control." He then looked at Rose, with a bit of concern in his voice he spoke, "You all right?"
"Yeah," the girl spoke. " So who's controlling it, then?"
"Long story," the Doctor said.
"Very long story," Chloe added.
"They want to overthrow the human race. And destroy you. D'you believe me?" Chloe smirked. 'Like she's going to believe that.'
The Doctor was looking at Rose, deep into her eyes, peoples eyes always spoke the truth.
"No!" Chloe grinned because in her mind she knew she was right.
"But your still listening," her father added. Chloe frowned at a spot on the floor, her father always seemed out do her. Even if he hadn't heard her thought.
"Really though Doctor. Tell me. Who are you?" Chloe looked up, looking at her father. Her eyes almost sad. She saw a man who was very alone. Someone who was barely even noticed. A smile was on his lips though, and Chloe couldn't help but smile to. He took Chloe's hand, wrapping his fingers around hers.
"D'you know what I'm saying? About the Earth revolving." Her father paused and looked down at her, then back to Rose.
"It's like when you're a kid, the first time they tell you that the world is turning. And you just can't believe it, 'cos everything looks like it's standing still."
He took a step closer to Rose. His fingers till wrapped around Chloe's.
"I can fell it." His grip tightened round Chloe's, and Chloe did the same. She'd never been told a planet was spinning, she could feel it from the moment she was born.
Her father took hold of Rose's hand. The 3 connected in some way.
"The turn of the Earth…" The Doctor spoke.
"The ground beneath you feet is spinning a thousand miles an hour," Chloe added.
"The entire planet hurtling round the sun at sixty seven thousand miles and hour, and I can feel it," Chloe looked at her father, she could feel it too. When she was younger she'd been scared, but as she grew older, she marvelled at it. The sensation, of falling through space.
"We're clinging to the edge of this planet," Chloe spoke, her father nodded and spoke
"Clinging to the skin of this tiny little world, and if we let," both of his hands opening to release Chloe's and Rose's. He took a step back tugging at Chloe's shoulder. "That's who I am. Who we are. Now forget us, Rose Tyler. Go home." He turned given Chloe the slightest of glances over his shoulder, telling her it was time to go. Chloe looked back at Rose. She was stood there, it total shock. Her face trying to understand what just happened. Chloe glanced down at the floor and pottered up to the TARDIS, opening the door.
Chloe walked in and shut the door behind her. She turned and walked up the ramp, to the control panel.
Her father was busily working away at the controls.
"Dad?"
"Hmm?" He looked up at her, waiting for the question.
"Could she…you know, feel the Earth spinning, like you do?"
"I don't know, would be strange if she did. I was just a way of getting her to stop asking who I am. Made her shut up though, didn't it?"
Chloe nodded with a grin.
"So?" Chloe asked.
"Sooo… we find the Nestene Consciousness, do a little bit of negotiating, maybe a small battle, all done and the apes of Earth will never know anything had happened."
"Great!" Chloe exclaimed.
"Hmm, I think I've picked up a signal, lets check it out." He punched some of the controls, and one again the TARDIS sprang into life. Chloe headed to the other side of the controls, helping direct the TARDIS to it location. She pulled on a leaver and the TARDIS came to a stop.
They walked down the ramp together and the doors
opened to another alley.
"This way," The Doctor announced.
Chloe followed him, looping her arm through his as they walked down
the alley. After a while they stopped at a door, it was blue with the
number 45 on it. The Doctor knocked on the door, and a woman, with
dark brown hair opened it slightly.
"Yeah, what do you want?"
"I was just wondering if you had seen anything unusual going on lately." The Doctor grinned at the woman, hands in his pockets, as he swung on his heals waiting for a reply.
"Like what?" The woman asked.
"Ptff," he blew out air before saying, " I dunno, walking computer monitors, walking action figure toys, you know, that sort of thing." The woman looked at him as if he was mad. She was just about to shut the door when the Doctor announced, "I'm from the health and safety inspectors, some of the plastic being produced can cause nasty, uh, rashes. Yes, rashes. Large boils, full of pus, horrible things," Chloe coughed indicating he could stop, the woman looked scared enough." Yes, umm, well we need to check for this plastic."
The woman looked at him, still unsure whether to let him in. "Oh, and I brought my daughter, couldn't find a babysitter, there useless round here aren't they?" The woman saw Chloe, deciding he was alright if he had kid.
"Come in." She opened the door, allowing them both to come in.
"Would you like anything to drink?" The woman asked.
"No where fine, just need to inspect your plastic."
The woman nodded. "My son has some of those plastic action figures, would you like to check those?"
"Yes, that would be a good idea." The woman nodded and headed off. The Doctor then pulled out his sonic screw driver and followed the signal.
"This way." He headed back into the hallway then into the dinning room, on the floor laid a school bag, his sonic screw driver flashing more and more.
"In there." He held out his sonic screw driver, ready for anything as Chloe opened the bag. They both braced themselves. Chloe tipped up the bag and a plastic lunch box fell out. The Doctor frowned. "Seems pretty lifeless to me," the Doctor inspected it a bit more. He took out a pair of tongs and used them to pick the lunchbox up with the handle.
"What ya think?" Chloe shrugged, didn't seem dangerous at all.
"See what's inside." The Doctor carefully opened it. His sonic screwdriver pointed directly at if, just in case anything strange out. Chloe caught a whiff of something rather astonished. She pinched her nose so she didn't have to smell it.
"What is that?" she asked.
The Doctor opened it more and more, until they could see inside. What seemed to be rotting fruit
Chloe gasped at the smell. The sight wasn't to pleasant either. It was worse then the smell Sliveens gave off. "Yuck! What's he doing in there, a science project?"
The Doctor quickly shut the lid.
"Looks like a false alarm. The rotting fruit obviously attracted my sonic screw driver."
"We'll they same human boys are from mars," Chloe said with a giggle.
"Yea, and there lunches are from Kelopa it seems," The Doctor added.
A boy entered room and gasped slightly at the sight of to strangers attacking his lunch box. He had floppy brown curls for hair and two large blue eyes. He was no more then 8.
"This yours?" the Doctor asked.
The boy gave a very tentative nod.
"You know, your not suppose to feed your lunchbox. Doesn't have any way of digesting it. You should really eat this stuff yourself. And maybe clean it out some time."
The boy nodded again, he still looked pretty shocked.
"Good lad." The Doctor walked over and ruffled the boys hair.
"So is that it, just a lunchbox."
"Yeah," the Doctor said to his daughter.
"So now what?"
"We try again," he raised his screw driver to show here what he meant. His grin wide as usual and ready for action. Chloe copied it ready for action.
"Lets go!" She took a few steps towards the exit of the room. The woman came in at that exact moment.
The Doctor quickly shut the lid of the lunchbox and walked over to Chloe's side.
"There doesn't seem to be any problems here, we'll be off now." The Doctor headed down the corridor with Chloe in pursuit.
"Wait a minute, you haven't checked these." The woman was holding up two action figures. One had a missing leg. It almost looked as if it was frowning, from the abuse it had probably taken.
"No worries, I know the brand, they're fine. We'll be off now. Bye!" The Doctor waved and opened the door. Chloe stepped out in front of him.
The boy stood behind his mum, clinging to her leg..
"You been a good boy now. Remember what I said."
Then he pulled the door shut.
"Right, lets go."
"Wait a minute. Why can't I use the sonic screw driver. I never get a go." The Doctor took a few paces back to were she was standing.
"Can I trust you with it."
"What's there to trust me with. It's only a sonic screw driver."
"That's the sort of attitude that will make me not want to trust you."
"BUT! But what I'm saying is, it's not like a sonic weapon or something, it's not going to kill me."
"How do you know? This…" he waved the sonic screw driver in front of her " …is a very delicate object. You abuse it, and you'll be very sorry."
"Whatever." She grabbed it out of his hand and ran off following the signal. The Doctor sighed and followed.
"Wait up," he called.
Chloe tracked the signal to some sort of building. People sat inside eating.
"It's a restaurant," The Doctor explained.
"I know what it is," Chloe stated. Although she
hadn't, she wasn't to happy about her father underestimating her.
Thinking she didn't know what a restaurant was.
She pressed her
hands up against the window and The Doctor came to stand next to her.
His hands resting in his jacket pockets.
He then took a hand out of his pocketed and removed the sonic screw driver from her hand. She frowned in protest, but he didn't even give her time to make eye contact with him.
"Look!" he pointed to where the girl they had
seen earlier was. She was sitting with a boy.
"Not her again."
"No, not her, the boy. The sonic screw drivers going frantic. Fantastic! He's a plastic head. Ha ha ha!" He laughed, almost jumping up and down on the spot from excitement. Chloe just grinned.
"Come on." Hw yanked at her hand and she followed
him round the back of the restaurant. They snuck in the door to the
kitchen and quickly walked through it. No one seemed to notice, all
to busy making the food. Chloe pinched a strawberry as they walked
past a bowl of them. Her father went for something a bit more classy.
He took a bottle of champagne and they walked out into the dinning
area.
"Stay here," The Doctor said, before walking over to
where they where. Chloe sighed, folding her arms and resting her back
against the wall. She watched as her father spoke to them. Neither
seemed to look up at him.
"Excuse me, you champagne." He held out the bottle he had taken from the kitchen.
"Humans, not exactly the brightest of beast, are they," Chloe mumbled.
"Madam, you champagne," Rose didn't even glance up at him.
"That's not ours." She turned her attention back to the boy.
"Mickey, what is it, what's wrong?"
"I need to find out how much he knows, so where is he?"
"Right next to you, idiot. Plastic obviously doesn't make a great brain. Doesn't even tell people his right name," Chloe mumbled again.
"Doesn't anyone want this champagne?" Her father asked again, this time Mickey looked up. He began to speak, "Look, we did not order-" As he saw the Doctors face, he grinned.
"Ah, gotcha," he announced.
"Nope, we've got you," Chloe declared, darting next to her father. Her father had already sprang into action and began to open the champagne.
"Don't mind me, I'm just toasting the happy
couple." The top popped off into the boys head. His forehead bent,
absorbing the blow, like plastic in a mould. Chloe put a hand in
front of her mouth, trying to stifle a giggle.
"Nice shot!"
Chloe declared. The Doctor turned his head and smiled. Rose looked
horrified, and when the boy spat out the cork, she looked as if she
was going to keel over.
"Anyway," the boy said. But Rose
wasn't ready to carry on any conversation. She had backed away to
where Chloe and the Doctor where standing. Mickey raised his arms to
show flat like, chisel hands. He stood up then, 'thud' , he
snapped the table in to.
"You gonna have to pay for that," Chloe said before her father lunged forward, grabbing Mickey in a headlock. The Doctor held Mickey's head lower, just high enough for Chloe to turn off and give it a power kick to the head. His head tumbled to the floor, and the Doctor quickly retrieved it.
"Don't think that's going to stop me," the head declared.
"Was worth a try," Chloe sighed. She ducked as the headless body swung its arms frantically, trying to hit something. Rose punched the fire alarm and people began to run out off the restaurant. Screams where heard all around.
Chloe called to Rose for her to follow. She lead them all out through the kitchen and round the back, they headed out a different door, then they had come through. It had been closer and the headless plastic Mickey was still following. They shut the door behind them, slowing it down.. The Doctor had already activated something and the TARDIS stood there, waiting for them, in what seemed to be a small yard.
Rose ran to a gate.
"Open the gate, use that - tube thing, come on!"
Chloe frowned. The girl was even thicker than she had thought. Chloe shoved her hands in her pocket and walked up to the TARDIS.
"Naah, tell you what, lets go in here." Chloe walked in followed by her father.
A few words could be heard from outside.
"You can't just hide in a wooden box! He's
going to get us!" Chloe stood crossed arms waiting for the girl.
She glanced at her watch waiting.
"DOCTOR!" That was the last
thing the girl said before running into the box.
Rose's eyes didn't seem to see the two other
people inside. She just seemed stunned. He eyes where wide,
frightened almost. Then she ran back outside.
Chloe frowned at
her father.
"Just wait." Chloe shrugged and waited.
A moment or so later the girl appeared again inside the TARDIS.
"It's gonna follow us!"
"The assembled hordes of Genghis Khan couldn't get through that door." The Doctor turned to the consol.
"And believe us, they've tried. Now please refrain from any type of noise while we work."
Chloe turned to her father and was passed the head he had pulled off.
"Put it on the consol." Chloe nodded at the
commands and walked to the other side of the middle structure of the
TARDIS. She placed it on the consol then wondered back round.
"Good!"
Chloe turned to speak to Rose as the Doctor worked.
"The arm was too simple, but the head's
perfect."
"Absolutely," her father added.
"Now we can trace the signal back to its source. Instead of running round London following small leads, that may turn out to be a small boys lunch!"
The Doctor finished his work and turned round to face Rose too. He was better at explaining all the rest.
"Where'd you like to start?" he asked the shocked girl. Chloe stayed quiet, as the two exchanged in conversation.
"Um. The inside's bigger than the outside."
"Yes."
"It's alien."
"Yes."
"Are you two alien?"
"Yes. Is that alright?"
"Yeah." the girl shrugged.
"Hmm, strange,"
Chloe stated. "I thought they didn't know aliens exist." She
glanced at her father for answers.
"Very few do, but one more won't matter. They'll think she's mad if she tells them."
The Doctor grinned at his daughter, he was rather impressed with himself. We'll he was usually impressed with himself.
"Any," he said turning back to rose. "It's called a TARDIS."
"Time And Relative Dimension In Time." Chloe said.
At that Rose almost looked like she was going to cry.
"Culture shock," the Doctor told Chloe.
Chloe nodded.
"Did they kill him? Mickey? Did they kill Mickey? Is he dead?"
Chloe frowned.
"Didn't think of that." The Doctor noted.
"He's my boyfriend, and you pulled of his head, and they copied him, and you didn't even think?"
Chloe shook her head. What was there to think
of?
"And now you're going to let him melt." At that both
Chloe and the Doctor turned around to see the oozing of a melted
head.
"No no no no no," both Chloe and the Doctor exclaimed at the same time.
"I am, so not cleaning that up." Chloe added, gently pocking the goo.
Chloe then dashed about helping her father work the TARDIS. At some points they ran past each other. Running round the tower, pulling leavers, pressing switches, doing anything that would work.
"…What are you doing?"
"Shush!" Chloe said. As they continued to work.
"We're following the signal…it's failing, wait a minute, good girl Chloe, you've got it." He then pulled a panel off.
"Oh no you don't, no no no no no NO! Chloe stay with it! Almost there, almost there."
They then ran for the door, hoping they had got it.
"Did we do it?" Chloe asked as they stepped out the door.
"You can't go out there, it's not safe." The
words followed them and where cut off as the girl stepped
outside.
"So close," Chloe sighed.
"Lost the signal."
"We've moved. Does it…fly," Rose asked. Chloe was slightly annoyed she wasn't more bothered that they had lost the signal. Stupid apes.
"It disappears and reappears," Chloe said, her voice slightly sarcastic as if Rose should know that.
"You wouldn't understand," The Doctor
added.
"But what about the body, is it still out there, where we
were?"
"Nah, melted with the head. And now stop the witter and lets get on. We don't have all night." The Doctor then took a few steps encouraging her to move.
"I'll have to tell his mother," Rose said, motionless. Chloe and the Doctor exchanged a confused glance.
"Mickey! I'll have to tell his mother he's dead, and you just went and forgot him again. You were right. You two are alien."
"Listen, if I did forget some kid called Mickey."
"He's not a kid."
"Yes he is!" Chloe added.
"And you can talk," Rose barked.
"You two stop it. Now I'm busy trying to save the world. I don't care who's a kid. Now lets get moving." The Doctors anger took off and Chloe put her hands up in surrender.
"All, right," both Chloe and Rose said.
"yes it is, now…"The Doctor began
"If you're alien, how come you sound like you're from the north?"
Chloe looked stunned at Rose. 'I think I'd have more fun talking to that tree over there. Go on, just go over there and start talking, it would make more sense.' Chloe's mind began to wonder but was brought back by her fathers words.
"Lots of planets have a north."
"What's a 'police public call box'?"
"It's like a telephone box, from the 1950's, it's a disguise." Chloe folded her arms waiting for the conversation to end. It was rather boring. Her father had to dumb down everything, for the ape. She was still wondering whether to go and chat with the tree.
"Okay. And, this living plastic…What's it got against us."
Chloe sighed. She wanted to run. 'So, so, so, so, so stupid!'
"Nothing!" the Doctor said.
"It loves you. You've got such a good planet, lots of smoke and oil,"
"plenty of toxins and dioxins in the air." Chloe added.
"Exactly what the Nestene Consciousness needs. Its food stock was destroyed in the war, all it's protein planets rotted. So. Earth. Dinner." The Doctor grinned at his own intelligence.
"Any way of stopping it?"
Chloe rolled her eyes. She was becoming almost immune to the stupid question. She would be worried if the girl ask anything with even the smallest bit of intelligence in it.
"Antiplastic!" Her father took out a bottle of blue liquid. Chloe grinned. She had made it herself for a science project once. Nasty stuff if you got it on your hands. Made the turn orange. Correction, made them turn into oranges.
"Antiplastic?"
"Antiplastic!" the Doctor was getting excited. "But first of all, I've got to find it. How can you hide something that big in the city this small?"
Chloe glanced around, looking for it. 'It must be here somewhere' she thought.
"Hold on, hide what?" the girl asked.
"The transmitter." The Doctor began "The Consciousness is controlling every single piece of plastic. So It needs a transmitter to boost its signal."
"And what does that look like?"
"Like a transmitter!" Chloe stated. "Round."
"And massive." The Doctor said. "Somewhere slap-bang in the middle of London. But where is it."
The Doctor looked at Chloe for help. She just shrugged. She didn't have a clue where it was.
"It's a huge, metal circular structure, like a
disk,"
"Like a BIG wheel," Chloe said. Rose was almost
amused by the way they added things to each others sentences. Almost
like a double act.
"Radial, close to where we're standing, it must be completely invisible…"The Doctor sighed.
Rose started giggling,. This time, not because she thought they way they spoke was funny. Her eyes where glancing over there shoulders.
The Doctor and Chloe looked at each other, confused. They both turned round. They turned back to look at each other, both confused still then looked at Rose.
"What?" they asked in unison.
Rose giggled again. And once again they did exactly the same thing. Looked at each other. Then behind them then back to each other., then back to Rose.
"What is it what?"
"What."
They asked before performing the same routine by now bother where seriously confused.
But then they looked at each other after the 3rd look.
"Oh!" they stated together before taking another look. The London eye stood tall in the night sky. It glowed blue, engulfing the sky. They turned back to Rose.
"Fantastic!" the Doctor stated.
He grabbed Chloe's hands and then Rose's before taking off across the bridge at a fast pace. Buses past, unaware of what was going on. They where just about to fight an almighty force, and they where on there way home from work. Or going out clubbing.
"All that plastic on your world," The Doctor said. "Every artificial thing, waiting to come alive."
"Really?" Chloe asked. "All of it, that's going to leave a rather large mess. You humans need to cut back on making the stuff. Or find a better way."
"Yeah, think of it all, the shop window dummies, the phones, the wire, the cables."
"The breast implants." Rose added.
"Still, we've found the transmitter."
"At last," Chloe said with relief.
"Must be down there." He pointed downwards and they headed off together.
They found themselves in a dark underground room. They clanked down the metal staircase. It was dark with an orange glow to it. The walls seemed greasy, the floor seemed greasy, everything was greasy. Nothing hi-tech about this place. Just old, rusty, greasy.
They looked down at the orange glowing vat. It gurgled and moved.
"That's it!" Chloe exclaimed. She felt her hearts begin to beat faster.
"The Nestene Consciousness. A living plastic." The Doctors voice was almost a whisper.
"Well then, tip in your 'Antiplastic' and let's go," Rose said before turning to leave.
"We're not here to kill it. We have to give it a chance." Chloe nodded. It was only trying to survive. Ok, so destroyed a whole planet wasn't exactly the best way, but it was only doing what it had been taught to do. Like any living thing. It was taught to survive.
Chloe followed her father down more steps. They came close to the vat and her father began to speak.
"I seek audience with the Nestene Consciousness under the peaceful contract, according to convention fifteen of the shadow proclamation."
'Ah the shadow proclamation,' Chloe thought. She had learnt it off by heart, or hearts on her case, when she was 46. She loved 29, 'no Alien is too let there pets make such a mess on any planet they visit. This includes, Filop, Jackles, herdfly or Serges, all 4 of which use the toilet everyone once a minute.' Her mind then wondered back to what they where here for.
The Nestene Consciousness began to speak.
"I am the Nestene Consciousness and I am at your presence, and allow you to speak, under convention fifteen of the shadow proclamation."
"Thank you. Might I ask for me and my daughter have permission to approach."
"Oh my God!" Chloe heard Rose say in the background. Chloe and The Doctor totally ignored her. "Mickey!" Chloe heard.
She heard something about him being alive and the Doctor replied half heartedly about that he thought they would kill him alive.
"What is it with humans, always domestic," he whispered to Chloe. He then turned his attention back to the vat.
"If I might observe. You infiltrated this civilisation..."
'If you can call it that.' Chloe thought.
"…by means of warp-shunt technology. So may I suggest, with the greatest respect, that you…" He thought for a moment, then added, "…shunt off."
The Consciousness bubbled with anger.
"Don't
think he's too happy dad!"
"Don't give me that!" The Doctor replied to the consciousness. "This is an invasion, plain and simple, don't talk about constitutional rights."
The consciousness moved with even more anger.
"I - am - Talking!" The Doctor shouted.
'Bad Nestene consciousness.'
"This planet is just starting. These stupid little people have only just learnt how tow walk, but they can achieve so much more. On their behalf, I'm asking you, please. Just go."
Chloe nodded and then felt something grip both her arms.
She turned to see a dummy holding her arms, The Doctor in the same position as her.
"Doctor, Chloe!" Came a shout from Rose above.
One of the dummies had slid a hand into The Doctor pocket. It then raised its arm, holding the bottle.
"I wasn't going to use it, that was just…insurance."
"You'd do the same," Chloe added.
"We were not attacking you, we where trying to help…I swear. I'm not your enemy, I'm not."
The Consciousness began to accuse them.
"What! That's not right." Chloe stated., "No way!"
"…What do you mean? No. Oh no. Honestly on." Chloe looked up at the opening doors, to see the blue doors of the TARDIS. It was now time to panic.
"Yes, that's my ship, it's mine." The Doctor began to argue, trying to make some sort of argument. Anything that might work.
The Nestene consciousness began to talk. Chloe felt her legs began to buckle underneath her. The words it spoke. The memories. She was back there. The memories Pain!
"That's not true! I should know. I was there, I fought in the war, it wasn't my fault.
She could here his words, almost being cried out from his lips.
"I couldn't save your world. I couldn't save any of them." Chloe shut her eyes as tears rolled down her face.
She opened to see the Consciousness in all it's furry. It was activating the signal. The plastic was waking up.
"What's it doing?" The voice cried from above. Rose stood near the railing looking over.
"It's the TADRIS. The Nestene identified it as superior technology, it's terrified, it's going to the final stage. The invasion is starting, right now - get out Rose, just leg it."
Chloe wondered if Rose was running. She wondered how far she would get.
Then she heard her voice.
"Mum..? Where are you? Go home mum, go home, right now, just go. Mum? Mum?"
"It's transmitting the signal," Chloe said, her voice loosing any sort of power, "It's waking up."
"The end of the world." Rose spoke. Almost a whisper but enough for Chloe to hear it.
"VICTORY!" The Consciousness spoke.
"Rose
run," The Doctor shouted.
"RUN!" Chloe added.
But she didn't she stepped forward. She looked brave, ready for anything. Mickey stood up "Rose, leave them, don't! There's nothing you can do."
But Rose wasn't listening. She could see the desperation in the eyes of the two below.
"I've got no job. No A-levels" She ran over to some metal chain hanging. "But I'll tell you what I have got. Jericho Street Junior School, under-7's gymnastic team."
She swung and axe at the metal chains.
'I'm dead!" Chloe thought at Rose's last words.
"I got the bronze," Rose said from above. At that she grabbed onto the metal and swung across to the platform where Chloe and the Doctor stood. Chloe saw out of the corner of her eye, her father lean forward sending the dummy into the vat. Another dummy went to grab him. The grip of the dummies hands, that where holding Chloe, tightened. She struggled leaning forward. Rose knocked the Dummy that was going to jump The Doctor into the vat. The Doctor ran to the one by Chloe, as Chloe focused her waiting into bending forward. Trying to copy her dad. It worked a bit, but it collapsed onto her. Rose swung back knocking it off her into the vat. As Rose landed near by. Chloe watched as the Nestene Consciousness gurgled. One of the dummies had been holding the Antiplastic and had fallen in. It almost screamed in pain.
"Big trouble." Chloe noted.
"Very!" her father added. " Lets get moving," he said, grabbing her hand, then Rose's. They headed up the stairs towards the TADRIS. Rose grabbed Mickey. The Doctor made his contribution by shoving Mickey inside the TARDIS.
The Doctor and Chloe whirred the TARDIS into action. Mickey laid there, a shivering wreck. When it came to a halt. He ran out. Chloe and the Doctor followed him and Rose out of the door. Chloe could have laughed at the look on Mickey's face.
Chloe and the Doctor stood on ever side of the door. Both had their arms folded, resting against the frame of the TARDIS.
"Well fat lot of good you where." Rose spoke to the boy. Chloe smiled. The girl had save them. She never thought that even remotely possible. But she had, and Chloe had to give her credit for that.
"Nestene Consciousness?" The Doctor grinned at Chloe.
"Easy!" Chloe added with a bright grin.
"Oh yeah!" Rose looked at them. "You two where useless in there, you'd be dead if it wasn't for me."
"Yes we would," the Doctor spoke calmly. His grin almost lighting up the dark alley. It was soft though, warm. The grin Chloe had always known.
Chloe saw a small smile exchanged between him and Rose.
"Right! We'll be off then Chloe. Unless…" He stopped for a moment. His eyes locked on his daughter. Chloe's lips rounded and the faint nod was given. Almost unnoticeable. He turned to Rose, looking at her eyes, the smile never leaving his lips.
"You could come with us Rose. This box isn't just a London Hopper, it can travel anywhere in the universe."
"Anywhere!" Chloe conformed. Rose smiled again. There they went again. Almost talking as one.
"Free of charge," The Doctor stated.
"Don't, they're alien things!" Chloe glared at the murmuring boy on the floor.
"He's not invited." In her mind, she thanked her Dad for saying that. Mickey in the TADRIS would be hell.
"What d'you think?"
Chloe looked at Rose. Chloe could she wanted to go. A couple of times she was going to go with them.
"You can stay here. Fill your life with work and food and sleep, or you could go…everywhere." Chloe spoke with such enthusiasm. Through the doors lay an adventure. Rose was mad if she didn't want to go.
"Is it always this dangerous?" Rose asked.
"Yeah," Chloe and the Doctor spoke at the same time. They said it as if it was brilliant that it was dangerous.
"…I can't. I've got to go and find my mum. And someone's got to look after this lump." She gestured to Mickey. Chloe shrugged and went inside the TARDIS, somewhat disappointed.
"Okay. See you around." Her fathers voice came from outside. He then stepped inside and walked over to the consol. Chloe followed slowly and began to press the buttons. A quietness filled the air, as the column rose and sank in a rhythmic pattern. The Doctor looked up. His eyes connecting with Chloe's again.
He pressed a button and ran back down to the doors. Chloe smiled and followed. She peered out to the same alley way where the Rose and Mickey still stood.
"By the way, did we mention? It also travels in time."
A smile spread across Rose's lips. Chloe knew her mind was made. Chloe followed her father inside again. They stood waiting. They knew, they just had to wait. And then the girl appeared running through the doors.
And the adventure begins.
AN: At last I have finished took forever. Hope you enjoyed it. Remember I need a beta. Someone please help me. R&R.
