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A Christmas Tangle AU: "Christmas Invasion".
Chapter One: The Wonder of Christmas
Jackie moved slowly about her tiny flat finishing the Christmas decorating. She placed a few wrapped packages under the small white plastic tree. Her hand clutched a bright red box, sitting heavily onto the cream colored sofa, she let a soft sad sigh escape. She traced over the tag with a deep pink lacquered fingertip.
"To: Rose. Love: Mum xxx… ooo…"
Jackie gave another shudder exhalation, she blinked a couple of times holding back tears, her gaze drawn as usual out the window scanning the overcast London sky, a vain hope that she'd see a glimpse of the Doctor's blue box.
A block down, at the local garage, Mickey Smith stood elbow deep diligently repairing a mini-coupe's engine. His blue jumpsuit showed smeared stains of grease and grim, reflecting the long hours of toil the young man had already work on the vehicle.
He and his fellow compatriots, filled those long hours with music, which blared ear thumping Christmas music at that moment. Mickey's ears perked however as a barely but distinct high pitched whine could be heard over the rendition of 'Wishing You a Merry Christmas.' "Hey Stevo, turn that down."
Startled by the black man's vehement order, the man next to the radio, twisted the knob to half.
Mickey knew in an instant, what and who that high wheezing grinding noise came from, the Doctor's time-space ship. He raced out of the garage, without a word to his employer and mate's, towards the ship's usual landing spot on the Powell Estate.
At the same time, Jackie also heard the familiar sound of the TARDIS arriving. Elatedly she dashed out, just remembering to grab her keys to the flat as she ran out the door. The bleach blonde woman excused herself as she pushed past neighbors. Jackie scarcely kept her balance, as she bolted down the steps faster than was prudent. Reaching the bottom without injury, Jackie burst thru the doors, running like a mad woman with her head swiveling searching the sky, rooftops and across the street to the dust bins where the blue ship normally would be parked when Rose visited. She spotted Mickey sprinting towards her from the opposite direction. "Mickey, it's Rose! It has to be. That bloody ship is the only thing that makes that god awful racket."
"Yeah, I know." Mickey gave Jackie a brief hug in relief that he hadn't been the only one to hear the TARDIS. Over the past four months there had been occasion when he thought he'd heard the blue police box. He'd gone searching but would end up finding nothing. Mickey never mentioned it to Jackie he hadn't wanted her to give him looks of pity or ones that she'd thought he'd lost his marbles.
As they looked around; passersbys stared bit before moving on. The TARDIS' engines were so loud at that point Mickey half expected the ship land right on top of them.
"I can hear it but where is it the blasted thing." Jackie complained with a touch of worry coloring her tone.
Mickey shrugged. "I don't know."
Just as they turned, right above Jackie and Rose's apartment building, the TARDIS appeared spinning wildly out of control. The blue box bounced off of three different buildings before she crashed into the dustbins. Jackie and Mickey had ducked as the ship flew over them. The ship seemed to groan in relief to be stationary.
Jackie and Mickey rushed over only to stop short as the door flew open and a young honey blonde haired woman came careening out.
"Yes. Fantastic... Fabulous... Fantabulous that's it. I got it right the first time. London Christmas two thousand six." The petite young woman whirled around taking in the surrounding landscape not only the buildings and humans but the residual time energy on everything. Out of the corner of her eye; Rose spotted Mickey and her Mum standing with matching expression of puzzlement.
"Mickey! Mum!" Rose shrieked and sprinted towards the pair. She tackled Mickey first giving him a quick bus on the cheek. The honey blonde quickly moved on to her mother before the Time-Lord equivalent of morning sickness could overwhelm her.
The black man's face held startelement which morphed into confused delight as he watched Jackie getting the same excerbruent treatment from the stranger. He figured the petite woman to be another stray The Doctor picked up. Not that his ex, Rose Tyler, could be considered a vagabond.
"Oh. I have so much to tell you. Oh... Oh... Oh... Now what was it. Oh yes Happy Christmas. Wait... Wait no that's not right." The honey blonde paced absentmindedly tugging, with her right hand, the waistband of the blue jeans as they slipped off her slender hips as left index finger tapped away at her left temple reminiscent of Winne-the-Pooh.
A loud bang from the TARDIS startled the two humans, the strange woman continued to walk in a oval shape pattern. The Doctor burst out of the time-space ship precisely at the moment the honey blonde exclaimed. "I got it. Congratulations, I'm pregnant. " She giggled, before her eyes rolled back and her body started wilting to the ground.
"Bloody fantastic. " The Doctor cried, sprinting past Mickey and Jackie, he caught Rose before she landed. He lifted his newly regenerated companion bridal style, mentally checking to see if any harm had come to either the time - tots or their mum. An angry huff and the feeling of impending doom alerted the Time Lord that he had some explaining to do.
To be continued...