This story came to me about 3 months ago after reading an Alt!nine fic and I thought that I should write one, twist is Doomsday is not the cause, this is a different take on the Rise of Cybermen episode, so enjoy!!!

By the way I love both nine and ten so this story gives me them both to play with.

Disclaimer: ok is this really necessary, you know that I know, that I don't own this absolutely brilliant show. If I did would I be writing fan fiction, think about I, it's really quite straight forward!

Chapter 1: Stuck and discoveries

"So, a parallel world where—"Rose says quietly

"Oh, come on. You see it on films. Like an alternative to our world were everything's the same but a little bit different, like... I dunno - traffic lights are blue, Tony Blair never got elected..." Mickey said, thinking that she doesn't get it.

"And he's still alive..." says Rose distantly

She is gazing at The TARDIS right in front of them.

"A parallel world where he never died", the soft sad voice from Rose

Both the Doctor and Mickey turned to Rose questionably, who in turn was looking sadly ahead.

"Rose?" Mickey asked

Pointing straight ahead Rose looked over her shoulder to the both of them, unshed tears in her eyes.

"Look, there"

Following the direction that Rose was pointing in both the Doctor and Mickey let out a startled sound.

Straight ahead of them was that TARDIS, looking behind them they saw their TARDIS then looking again in front of them was another TARDIS.

Out side of the TARDIS unlocking the door was the Doctor, Rose's first Doctor.

"Doctor" whispered Rose, a sob catching in her throat. The Doctor quickly came to stand in front of Rose blocking her line of vision from his alternate nine self.

"Rose, he is not your Doctor, he is this universes Doctor. You don't know him, and he doesn't know you. Or maybe he does, maybe he has his own Rose" the Doctor tried to reason with Rose, praying that she wasn't going to go and see the other him.

"I know it's just…he's there" she shook her head, laughing nervously and in obvious sadness at seeing him alive. She turned sad eyes to the Doctor standing in front of her, meeting his concerned gaze she forced a watery smile "don't worry, I know he's not him" she turned away and walked into the TARDIS.

The Doctor sighed "oh Rose"

"She'll be fine, just a little hard seeing him alive and everything, don't worry mate she won't leave you for him or anything"

"What makes you think that I was thinking that" he asked Mickey angrily

"Because he was her first Doctor and she loves him, and I know that you know it, so don't try and deny it" he warned when the Doctor opened his mouth to protest "thing is Doctor, it was hard on Rose him leaving like that, she didn't get to say goodbye. And then you claimed to be him, she believed you, because you said that you're the Doctor and Rose trusts the Doctor. But you're her Doctor now, no matter how different, you're him and she could never leave you" he walked off towards the London streets.

The Doctor shouts over to him "and where do you think you are going?"

"Seeing if there is anything interesting here" he shouts back.

"Mickey this isn't your world, you can't just go sauntering off"

"I can, this is me sauntering off, bye, see you when the TARDIS is fixed, tell Rose to give me a ring" and with that he walks around the corner.

With a frustrated sigh he runs his hands through his hair and turns and walks into the TARDIS.

"Rose?" he calls as he walks through the door, he calls out child like "oh Rooooose?"

"Yeah?" she was sitting against the wall in the console room with her legs extended out in front of her. She looks behind him "where Mickey?"

"He went sauntering off, typical" he says to her with a smile

"Think he'll be ok" he could tell that she is just trying to dance around the subject that he most wanted to talk about.

"He'll be fine, can't do much damage" he sits down next to her and takes her hand in his "Now, you okay?"

She looks down at their clasped hands "yeah, course I'm okay, there is no reason why I shouldn't be" she rests her head on his shoulder and looks at the dead TARDIS, after a while she says sadly "can you fix her?"

He rubs his eyes wearily "Don't know if I can, she's outside of her universe and that's the energy that she feeds on, there is no other energy……" suddenly his whole face lights up and he starts grinning.

"But there is another type of energy that I can use, may mean cheating and breaking some really big rules, but it should work!"

He gets up suddenly bringing Rose up with him.

"Oof!" the startled reply comes from Rose. "Sorry, but I think I just missed a few pages, but what the hell are you going on about" she says confused as he runs down the corridors and towards the storage room.

"The TARDIS" he calls back gleefully

"The TARDIS?" she calls back confused

He turns back to her, and nods to confirm "The TARDIS!"

"Doctor the TARDIS is dead" now she is very confused, he is acting more insane than usual.

"But not his" he shouts excitedly

"His?" and then it hits her, exactly what the Doctor is intending to do.

She walks into the storage room and looks at him silently.

"Doctor" she says quietly

"We need to fix the TARDIS and this is the only immediate solution to the problem" he stands up and clasps her hands "you don't have to come with me, you can stay here, but he will have to come here also so either way..." he trails off

She smiles at him sadly and squeezes his hands "either way I have to face him" he nods "oh well could be worse, could be you" she laughed thinking of having two of this Doctor in the same room, nothing would get done. He playfully nudged her in the arm with his shoulder glad that her smile had returned.

Stepping out with all the necessary bits and pieces that they needed, hand in hand they waltzed over to the other TARDIS. Not wanting to be a nuisance, the Doctor slid his key in the lock and opened the door. Looking down at the disapproving face of Rose he gave her a confused look. She mouthed 'don't be rude'; he just grinned and flung the doors open.

They were met with the stormy expression of the Doctor's alternate ninth self.

tbc

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