Title: Doctor Pan
Rating: K+ (may up to T later)
Summary: Very AU. Substitutes the Doctor and Rose into the roles of Peter Pan and Wendy, based on the 2003 film. Of course I'm adding, deleting and changing other characters too.
Disclaimer: I don't own Doctor Who or Peter Pan. I'm also using qute a bit of the dialogue from the film, which I don't own either. I don't own a lot of things.
Author's Note: Okay, this is a really weird idea, but I really want to try to pull it off.
Doctor Pan
The night on which the extraordinary adventuresof this girl may be said to have begun was the night she heard a peculiar whooshing sound coming from outside. But there was nothing there, not a bird or a leaf.So she forgot about it,for what troubles a grown-up will never trouble a child.
9 years later
The Tyler family wasn't perfect. Jackie Tyler worked at home as a hairdresser. Her husband had died about 19 years beforehand, and since then she'd been working hard to make ends meet. She was a strong woman, doing whatever she could to support her daughter Rose. Rose lived a simple life. She had a job in a shop, and a steady boyfriend called Mickey. But secretly she wanted more. Sometimes she lay awake at night and stared at the stars, wondering what it would be like to travel amongst them. She imagined a life of adventure and excitement. One day she was having a Sunday roast with her mother, her boyfriend Mickey and her Grandma Beatrice, who was visiting her.
"Hey Rose, tell us a story," said Mickey. Rose jumped at the chance.
"I'll tell you of the Gelth, possessing the bodies of the dead," she began. "The Cybermen, their uniformity and callous making them the perfect assassins."
"Heavens!" exclaimed Beatrice.
"The Daleks!" cried Rose.
"Daleks?" questioned Beatrice.
"The Daleks, who can take your life with one painful shot," finished Rose.
"My my, educated you are in these matters," muttered Beatrice.
"Not quite Gran," said Rose. "I don't even have my A levels! But I do know a thing or two about aliens. My unfulfilled ambition is to write a great novel in three parts about my adventures."
"What adventures?" asked Beatrice.
"I'm yet to have them, but they will be perfectly thrilling," explained Rose.
"But Rose, to be a novelist is a very tough job," said Beatrice. "Unless you can be he next J.K. Rowling, you won't get paid enough and you won't be highly thought of." Rose sighed.
"Honestly, is it all about what other people think with you?" she asked her gran. "Don't you have any goals of your own, not based on the opinions of others?"
"Rose, don't talk to your gran like that," said Jackie.
"I'll talk to her however I want!" cried Rose. "I aim to do more with my life than to get married have breed up some idiot's brats!"
"Um, Rose, should I go now?" asked Mickey awkwardly.
"No, I didn't mean that!" exclaimed Rose, who proceeded to put her head in her hands. "I just … want to do something spontaneous. Adventurous. I can't do that if I'm going to be trapped here and surrounded by people who don't believe in me." Rose got up and grabbed her keys.
"I'm going to Shireen's," she said. "I don't know when I'll be back." And with that she ran out the door.
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It was many hours later when Rose returned. There was a note on the fridge from her mother.
GONE TO THE PUB WITH BETH. WILL BE BACK AROUND ELEVEN. LOVE, MUM.
Rose crumpled up the note and threw it in the bin. She then went to her bedroom, changed into her pyjamas and went to bed.
Rose woke up. She thought she'd heard a sound coming from her window. Suddenly what looked like a shadow flew into her room. It darted all around the room. She heard a buzzing noise, and turned back to the window. There was a man there, aiming a metal tube-like item at the shadow. Instantly it disappeared.
"Wh-what was that?" Rose asked the man.
"Just a Trefgatrosh," the man said. "It's made up of a substance not unlike the tingling feeling you get when your foot falls asleep. It's harmless, but bloody annoying. Never mind, it's gone now." Rose looked at the man.
"What is your name?" he asked her.
"Rose Marion Tyler," Rose answered. "What's yours?"
"The Doctor," the man replied. Rose cocked her head to one side.
"Where do you live?" she asked.
"The past, the present and the future," The Doctor said. Rose frowned.
"Is that what they put on your letters?" she asked.
"Don't get any letters," the Doctor said.
"What, no bills, no Christmas cards, no nothing?" she inquired.
"Nope," the Doctor said happily.
"How old are you Doctor?" asked Rose.
"Much older than I look," the Doctor said bluntly.
"Don't you know?" asked Rose.
"Where I live, it's quite hard to keep track of time," the Doctor explained. "There's no day, no night, no tea time, no bed time. I live in my TARDIS, which stands for Time And Relative Dimensions In Space. It can travel anywhere in the universe, to any time. It's parked just outside."
"Really?" said Rose. "Oh Doctor, how perfectly wonderful your life must be!"
"Come away with me," said the Doctor. "Come with me on the TARDIS."
"Oh," said Rose. "But what about my mum? And my boyfriend Mickey?"
"There are dinosaurs," the Doctor said.
"Dinosaurs!" Rose repeated.
"Historical figures," the Doctor tempted.
"Historical figures!" Rose exclaimed.
"Aliens," the Doctor said.
"Aliens!" cried Rose.
At the pub, Beth was introducing Jackie to her friend Joan.
"Joan, may I introduce my friend …" she began, struggling to stay sober.
"Jackie," prompted Jackie.
"Jackie," repeated Beth.
"Pleased to meet you Jackie," said Joan.
"Thank you Joan," said Jackie. Just then, Jackie got a sudden shiver. Something was telling her to go home, that something was wrong. Without giving an explanation, she picked up her heels and ran out of the pub.
"Forget them Rose, forget them all," whispered the Doctor into her ear. "Come with me where you'll never, never have to worry about domesticity again." Rose looked up at the Doctor.
"Never is an awfully long time," she said. The Doctor smiled, and Rose responded with one of her own. She took his hand and stepped out onto the ledge.
It would be delightful to report that Jackie reached the bedroom in time. But then there would be no story.
"Right Rose Tyler, where do you want to go?" asked the Doctor.
"I really don't care," said Rose truthfully. "Just being here's incredible enough."
"Okay, let's see where the TARDIS wants to go," said the Doctor. He pushed a few buttons, and then they were off.
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What do you think so far? Is it an interesting idea?
I got vaccinated today. Afterwards I felt relly dizzy, and I passed out. My doctor said the best cure was to take it easy and read lots of good reviews (hint hint).