Jackie's daughter was an addict. It was almost a cliché that Rose's dad was dead, that she didn't care about her job, she found her life uninteresting, that she turned to drugs as an escape. That didn't make it any less painful for Jackie though.
Rose met a man who called himself the Doctor. He was the type to get off on that, that he was handing out the pills but making people worse. It was what he would consider a very clever joke.
He wore a leather jacket and smiled.
He was terrifying, and always on the run.
The little blue pills he gave her daughter, well he called them the tardis, didn't he? Jackie didn't know what it was supposed to mean. The only thing that she got out of Rose was that they made her see the stars.
The first time Rose disappeared with the Doctor, they left without a word and were gone for an entire year. Jackie had called the police and all. Proper investigation, she'd had no choice, even though she hated getting those idiots involved. She didn't want Rose getting caught with drugs and being locked away. What good would that do anyone?
But when the two came back, that's when she knew. She asked her daughter where she'd been, why hadn't she called. Travelling. That's the only answer she got.
No explanation, no elaboration. Travelling.
That madman with his boxes of drugs, he'd sit at her kitchen table sometimes, and smile from ear to ear. Fantastic, he'd say. Fantastic. Nothing fazed him. Jackie felt like murdering him, just to wipe that smile away, but she was scared. Scared of what he was capable of. Scared of that ugly weapon in his pocket.
So she'd just smile too, and make tea, and quietly urge Rose to stay, to leave him, though her words meant nothing to her daughter.
One day Rose came home with a different man. This guy called himself the Doctor as well, and he was almost worse. He tried to look respectable in a suit, as if that was fooling anyone. Jackie presumed the old one had finally been caught by the police, or killed in some gang fight. She hoped so anyway. Rose didn't seem too bothered about the change. Her daughter was just happy when she was getting her supply of tardis.
Well, it ended as suddenly as it started. There was a battle of sorts, police and gangs involved, and of course the Doctor and Rose were running around in that mess.
Eventually, the police managed to grab Rose, but the Doctor got away.
He never visited. He couldn't. The police kept an eye out for him, he was a wanted man. If he went near Rose Tyler again, he'd be locked away for the rest of his days.
Jackie got Rose back, but her daughter had changed. She'd seen the stars and knew what they were capable of. And as for the Doctor, he was probably off ruining another innocent life, destroying a family. They'd catch him one day. The Doctor couldn't run forever.