TWO
The Doctor rapidly began pressing buttons as he persistently dived around the console and also flicked a few levers.
'Rose,' he called his friend and so she came from one of the many TARDIS doors and stood there with her arms folded, staring at the Doctor with a slight grin. 'The Quantum Stabaliser needs to be lifted up quickly but I'm over here working on the Vortex Wedge. Quick, lift it!'
'The what?' Rose approached the TARDIS console, wondering why it was shaking so much.
'The big blue one,' the Doctor shouted without meaning to as he began to get stressed. 'Talk about dumbing it down!'
Rose did as she was told and the Quantum Stabaliser was lifted violently and the TARDIS came to a sudden stop making both the Doctor and Rose fall to the floor of the magical blue machine and they both laughed in unison. The Doctor walked over to his blonde female companion and helped her up so to thank him she smiled at him.
'What just happened?' Rose said, sitting down on the TARDIS seat.
'There was a disturbance in the High Hoardes of Jaglaposian 3 which then interfered with the navigation system of the TARDIS, thus causing for us to fall through a rip in time.'
'Will this do?' Rose asked her friend a question and seemed dismissive of the Doctor's explanation.
'What for?'
'For the place you're taking me.'
The Doctor stared down at her boots, blue jeans and dark jacket with a few badges on.
'For the mighty Halls of Hypogrophia I think they may be a bit too bright.'
Rose didn't really know what he meant by that but she didn't really care and the Doctor opened the TARDIS doors and looked at Rose's jacket and though that it reminded him of someone else.
'That looks a little like Ace's jacket,' the Doctor stared back at her as she exited the machine and so she through it back in the TARDIS after taking it off, much to the Doctor's dismay.
'I don't know that is but I am not wearing something that's...'
She paused for a moment as she looked around and instead of seeing white gallery walls and exorbitant rare paintings like the Doctor promised her, she saw a stretch of green with a children's play park stuck on top of it and numerous blocks of flats in the distance.
'Hang on a minute, this is the Powell Estate,' Rose hissed like a viper, now standing beside the Doctor in her blue t-shirt.
'So it is,' the Doctor felt a little embarrassed. 'Obviously the navigation system has packed up completely. Most likely caused by the rip in time we fell through.'
'Or you're just getting terrible at flying the TARDIS,' Rose laughed and came up with an idea. 'Well seeing as we're at my homeplace, we may as well go speak to my mum.'
Jackie Tyler twisted the bathroom tap and the water stopped pouring into the white bath and then she heard a knock at the door.
Sighing, she walked over to it and opened it viciously, expecting to see the postman with another bill for her to pay but when she saw Rose and the Doctor standing there she hugged her daughter tight and the Doctor made a grimace.
'Oh I have missed you,' Jackie's voice spoke and she looked very pleased to see Rose standing there. 'What have you been up to?'
'Not much actually,' Rose lied to her mother as she walked inside the flat so she didn't have to spend ages explaining what she had been doing. 'Been out of adventure for a while.'
'Well here's an adventure for you,' Jackie said as she sat down in her living room armchair with a pink dressing gown on with fluffy slippers. 'I need some milk so you can go to the shop.'
Rose giggled and sat down opposite her and the Doctor sat beside her as a result. He noticed a celebrity gossip magazine on the transparent coffee table and so pulled a face but Jackie noticed him do this yet she didn't say anything.'
'Anything happened in the news?' Rose sat back in her seat, getting comfy.
'No,' Jackie exhaled loudly. 'Global warming on the rise, gas prices increasing, the usual. Although there were those disappearances in South Africa about a month ago.'
'Disappearances?' the Doctor became a lot more interested in the conversation.
'Yeah. Some British students vanished in some South African plain land. The area was called Pennhanth Plains or something like that.'
'Then off we go,' the Doctor smiled and ran out of the living room and out of the flats so Rose sighed, hugged her mum and followed after him.
The Doctor stepped inside the TARDIS but left one of the doors open for Rose and in stepped Rose, folding her arms after she shut the door and she could hear the machine dematerealising.
'We were meant to be going to some alien halls.'
'Yeah but Rose, disappearances in South Africa. I wouldn't miss this for the world.'
