AN: Hey, I have been in the world of FF for a while now and finally decided to write my first original fan fiction so please be nice. I read a lot of fan fictions and finally decided to start my own.
Just a few warning about this story, this is going to be a Doctor/OC story. I don't really like Rose so she might not be the same as she was in the show.
Every episode is going to be split into 2 chapters mainly to help me when I edit before posting. If I miss anything spelling or grammar wise please let me know as its not my strong point so I will probably make many mistakes and I don't have a beta.
I was inspired to do this fan fiction after reading LizzeXX's Doctor Who series (All of her stories are really good so if you haven't read them do they are so worth it). So I would like to give her a special thanks for giving me the inspiration to finally pluck up the courage and write my own.
This is book 1 of the Night Light Chronicles called The Star in the Sky.
If you want visuals of the outfits you can find them on my Tumblr or Polyvore which can be accessed from my profile.
The Actress I see my OC looking like is Kristin Kreuk
~*0*~ is a scene break
~{8}~ and writing in Italics is a flashback/memory for full memories, but smaller one line memories will be just written in Italics
Disclaimer: I do not own Doctor Who. I only know Astra Nyx and her back story. The Transcripts are for the episodes are from chakoteya.net(slash)doctorwho then selecting New Who Episodes.
Rose (Part 1)
In a flat a young girl called Astra Nyx was awake and had just finished pulling out some blueberry muffin from the oven when her alarm sounded, at 7.00 letting her know it was time for her to go and get ready for work. Leaving the muffins on a cooling tray she went to her bedroom to decide what to wear.
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In another flat a couple of streets away a younger blonde girl called Rose Tyler woke up in her bright pink room to the sound of her alarm at 7.30. She gets up and rushes into the bathroom to get ready for work.
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Astra dresses in a black and white stripy jumper, a pair of blue faded boot-cut jeans and some brown ankle boots. On the way to the door she checks her wavy brown hair, mascara and eye-liner one last time in the mirror near the door. Putting on a touch of lip balm and tucking her locket under her jumper before she grabs her keys she putting the box of muffins in her bag as she leaves her flat, locking the door behind her.
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Rose, rushes through getting ready dressing in a pink track suit jacket, baggy jeans and trainers. Putting on all her make up and running a brush through her hair making sure she looks presentable before quickly rushing through the flat giving her mother a quick peck on the cheek before rushing out the door slamming it behind her as she calls a quick "Bye!" behind her, not hearing her mothers answering "See you later" as she rushes down the stairs and out the building.
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Astra calmly walks into Henricks Department Store saying a quiet "Hello" to the security guard at the door as she pulls a muffin out of the box in her bag and offers it to him with a smile, he takes a bite and says "Gorgeous as always Az" she smiles waving off the compliment as she walks towards the offices to store her handbag before heading to the cash registers and getting to work.
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Rose takes the bus to Central London and gets off outside the department store. Rushing past the guard completely ignoring him as she runs late into the shop apologising to the manager as she passes as she notices him looking at her with a raised eye brow before he shakes his head. She goes into the office to grab a cup of coffee and drop her bag off.
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As the morning passes, Astra is working the register, talking and helping to direct the customers to where they want to go before heading out for a quick lunch. Finishing her home-made pasta quickly she tidies up before going straight over to the staff organising the window displays and helping them to set them up.
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Rose moves and organises piles shirts and jeans around in the ladies wear section before heading out to meet her boyfriend for a pasty lunch in Trafalgar Square losing track of time as they mess about before realising and rushing off to work, late again. Avoiding her boss as she picks up the sales tags and starting to hook them onto the hangers in the sale section.
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At about 5 to 6 when the announcement system clicks on and a gentle female voice was heard through out the shop "This is a customer announcement. The store will be closing in five minutes. Thank you"
Rose and some of the other girls head for the main doors. The guard shakes a clear plastic bag containing several lottery tickets in front of Rose "Oi!" Rose reluctantly takes the bag and runs back to the staff lift.
Astra steps inside just as the doors close, on her way to take a cup of coffee down for the electrician along with some of her muffins from this morning, having just come from the office where she was filing the sales reports. They both stand in semi awkward silence as they travel down to the basement.
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"Wilson? Wilson, I've got the lottery money. Wilson, are you there?" Rose shouts as they exit the lift into the basement, Astra stays quiet and looks around alert getting a really bad feeling, something was wrong.
Walking down to a grey heavy duty door with a large danger of electric shock sign that marked the office of H P Wilson, CEO. Rose knocked on the door loudly shouting through it "I can't hang about 'cos they're closing the shop. Wilson! Oh, come on."
There is a clattering noise of falling hangers further down the corridor and they both start walking down the hall trying to keep quiet which is then rendered unnecessary as Rose shouts "Hello? Hello, Wilson, it's Rose. Hello? Wilson?"
She opens the door to a store room and Astra turns on the lights. There are boxes of clothes, and dressed dummies lining the side. Rose continues shouting "Wilson? Wilson!" As she explores, Astra looking around feeling as if she being watched when the door slams shut behind her. Rose runs back but it won't open as Astra keeps looking around seeing if she can spot anything out of place.
"You're kidding me." Rose mutters to herself as she keeps trying to get the door open when more noises sound behind her looking back to see Astra looking towards the section of dressed, window dummies.
"Is that someone mucking about? Who is it?" she shouts as a male shop dummy turns to watch them walk past, then it gets up and approaches them from behind "Yeah, you got me. Very funny" she continues a little quieter starting to think that something might not be quite right.
A second one starts moving behind it, then a third "Right, I've got the joke. Who's idea was this? Is it Derek's? Is it? Derek, is this you?" More shop dummies start moving as Astra turns round, seeing the dummies she grabs Rose by the wrist and drags her away down the storage area.
Backing away down the hall as quick as they can Astra tipping over boxes as she goes trying to stop them or at least slow them down while at the same time trying not to get separated from Rose.
Finally the dummies have them trapped against the wall leaning back against some pipes, the lead dummy raises its arm ready to strike down on them, When a hand grabs Astra's.
Looking up she sees a man in black jeans, a dark red T-shirt and a leather jacket he simply says "Run" as he uses the hand he has a hold of to drag her through the crowd of dummies. He drags them out of the way just as the lead shop dummie slams its arm down and splits the pipe which lets out a gust of steam into the dummies face. The dummie steps back a bit before seeming to catch its balance and then starting to chase after them.
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The dummies follow them down the corridor and into a service lift. The lead dummie puts its arm through the closing doors making a grab at Astra, who had pushed Rose through before her, just missing her hair. The Doctor grabs the arm and after several harsh tugs manages to pulls it off, and the doors close.
The Doctor turns to Astra making sure that they are OK now that they are relatively safe, checking her over to see if the arm had managed to get her. While he had his hand on her shoulder neither could quite shake the feeling that the other was familiar somehow, but neither could quite put there finger on where.
"Thanks" she said quietly and his lips lifted on there own violation into a small sincere smile.
"You pulled his arm off" Rose announced suddenly pulling their attention to her after having almost forgotten she was there.
Rolling his eyes the Doctor turned to face the doors crossing his arms as he answered "Yep. Plastic" twisting around to toss the arm to her.
"Very clever. Nice trick! Who were they then, students? Is this a student thing or what?" Rose demanded.
"Why would they be students?" the Doctor answered furrowing his eye brows in confusion.
"I don't know" Rose said getting defensive for no real reason.
"Well, you said it. Why students?" he asks genuinely curious finally turning towards her as he tried to understand.
"'Cos to get that many people dressed up and being silly, they got to be students" Rose said thinking this was a plausible excuse.
Turning to face the front so she wouldn't see him rolling his eyes "That makes sense. Well done" he answers sarcastically.
"Thanks" answers Rose as his tone went right over her head and believing him to be complimenting her.
The Doctor heaves a sigh resigning himself to explaining it to the stupid human "They're not students"
Rose interrupt before he can finish "Whoever they are, when Wilson finds them, he's going to call the police"
"Who's Wilson?" turning to Astra for an answer, both annoyed at Rose for cutting him off but genuinely curious.
"Chief electrician" Astra answers him.
"Wilson's dead" he states ignoring Rose as he turns to face the doors again, noticing Astra closing her eyes and bowing her head out of the corner of his eye, he reaches out and squeezes her hand gently not knowing why but knowing that he cant stand to see her getting upset and not try to comfort her in some way.
"Hold on. Mind your eyes" he warns, more to Astra than Rose.
Still holding Astra's hand he pulls her out of the lift before sonicing the lift buttons until they spark before running down the hall to the fire exit, Astra has no choice but to follow as he drags her down the hall with his hand still in hers leaving Rose to hurry to catch up trailing behind them.
Rose says "I've had enough of this now. Who are you, then? Who's that lot down there? I said, who are they?" trying to get answers from the man only to be ignored.
"Are they Robots, like remote control on a grander scale than just mini cars?"
He seems mildly impressed with her deduction and logic to reward her with an honest answer "They're made of plastic. Living plastic creatures called Autons. They're being controlled by a relay device in the roof, which would be a great big problem if I didn't have this." telling her she was right for the most part before holding up a small bomb that they didn't notice him carrying "So, I'm going to go up there and blow them up, and I might well die in the process, but don't worry about me. No, you go home. Go on. Go and have your lovely beans on toast. Don't tell anyone about this, because if you do, you'll get them killed" the Doctor finishes.
After shoving Rose out the fire exit he lets go of Astra's hand seeming to finally realise he still had hold of it. Ignoring the sense of loss that came with letting go before he shuts the door behind him, only for a moment before opening it again.
"I'm the Doctor, by the way. whats your name?" he asks looking at Astra seeming to ignore Rose.
"Rose" Rose answers anyway earning a dismissively look from the Doctor before he turns back to Astra.
"Astra. Astra Nyx" she says softy with a small smile, he looks shocked for a moment before seeming to shake it off and puts on a smile before saying "Nice to meet you, Astra. Run for your life!".
Astra and Rose makes their way to the main road, glancing around nervously at all the dummies in the shop windows. They run across the road, Rose nearly becoming a hood ornament for a black cab, Ignoring the taxi drivers "Watch it Lady!" they run up the street that would lead off onto their different streets before looking back over their shoulder at the shop.
They share a look and just turn around to walk off to their respective places when...
Kaboom!
A huge fireball explodes on the roof of the shop taking out the upper floor of Hendrik's.
Rose runs off straight away past an out of date police telephone box which Astra notices and stares at it for a moment feeling, the niggling feeling of familiarity in the back of her mind, before she shakes her it off, turns around and headed home.
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Back at the Tyler flat Jackie is on the telephone talking to one of her friends as Rose is sat slumped on the settee staring at the TV watching the news about her job being blown up.
"I know. It's on the telly" Jackie says into the phone as she walks in with a cup of tea handing it to Rose before walking back out again "It's everywhere. She's lucky to be alive. Honestly, it's aged her. Skin like an old bible. Walking in now you'd think I was her daughter. Oh, and here's himself" Jackie continues to gossip over the phone as Mickey runs in.
"I've been phoning your mobile. You could've been dead. It's on the news and everything. I can't believe that your shop went up!" Mickey rushes over to her sounding genuinely worried.
"I'm all right, honestly, I'm fine! Don't make a fuss" Rose waves him off.
"Well, what happened?" he questions wanting to make sure for himself she is OK
"I don't know!" she shrugs
"What was it though? What caused it?" Mickey continues relentlessly, wanting to know what happened so he could determine for himself that she was as fine as she claimed.
"I wasn't in the shop. I was outside with that Astra girl. I didn't see anything" Rose shrugs him off again not noticing the slight concern that enters his eyes at the mention of Astra being there too.
"It's Debbie on the end. She knows a man on the Mirror. Five hundred quid for an interview" Jackie says enthusiastically trying to get her daughter's spirits up.
"Oh that's brilliant! Give it here" Rose says tired of her mothers behaviour. Rose takes the phone from Jackie and ends the call before slamming the phone down on top of the magazine on the coffee table ignoring the disapproving look her mother is giving her for her rudeness.
"Well, you've got to find some way of making money. Your job's kaput and I'm not bailing you out" Jackie says before the telephone rings again and walks out of the room to answers it.
"Bev! She's alive. I've told her, sue for compensation. She was within seconds of death" they hear Jackie saying on the phone before she is out of earshot.
Mickey notices the cup in Rose's hand "What're you drinking, tea? Nah, nah, that's no good, that's no good. You're in shock. You need something stronger" Mickey says grabbing the cup off her and putting it on the coffee table.
"I'm all right" she says looking up at him shaking her head.
"Now, come on, you deserve a proper drink. We're going down the pub, you and me. My treat. How about it?" Mickey says seeing that he wasn't going to get any more out of her tonight.
"Is there a match on?" She says smiling up at him.
"No, I'm just thinking about you, babe" Mickey answers mock offended.
"There's a match on, ain't there" Rose says full out grinning now.
"That's not the point, but we could catch the last five minutes" Mickey shrugs looking hopeful.
"Go on, then. I'm fine, really. Go. Get rid of that" Rose says pointing to the Auton arm on the chair.
Mickey gives Rose a quick kiss before Mickey picks up the arm and heads for the door, turning back towards her to wave the arm at her and saying in a high pitched voice "Bye, bye"
"Bye" Rose laughs as Mickey pretends to be strangled by the arm, then leaves.
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Mickey throws the arm into a rubbish bin, looking around over hearing a couple are having a blazing row before he pulls out his phone and calls Astra.
"Hey, you alright I heard you where near the shop when it exploded" Mickey asks the minute she answers.
"I'm fine Mickey, just calming myself down with a good cup of tea and making some cookies for tomorrow" she answers in a soft calm voice that reassures him that she really is alright, knowing that she can't lie to save her life.
They talk for a while before hanging up, Mickey heads off to the pub to watch the footie with some friends.
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The next morning Rose's alarm goes off at 7:30 as usual. Smacking her hand down on the buttons to turn it off she sits up looking around wondering what to do with herself.
"There's no point in getting up, sweetheart" Jackie calls as she walks from her bedroom to the kitchen and putting the kettle on "You've got no job to go to"
Realising she was right Rose flops back down in bed, pulls the duvet up over her head and goes back to sleep for a bit.
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Astra wakes up at her usual time of 6 o'clock, getting changed into her blue, chequered shirt, black jeans and black ankle cowboy boots. Putting on her make up and doing her hair before she heads to the kitchen deciding she'll make some cookies to take round when she stops off at Rose's to make sure she is OK after last night, before heading out to do her grocery shopping.
After eating a quick breakfast of croissants, jam and a glass of orange juice she sets to work getting out all of her ingredients ready to start baking.
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At about 10 o'clock that day Rose was sat at the dinner table with her mother talking about where she can start looking for jobs.
Jackie tries to help saying "There's Finch's. You could try them. They've always got jobs"
"Oh, great. The butchers" Rose answers not really listening to her.
"Well, it might do you good. That shop was giving you airs and graces. And I'm not joking about compensation. You've had genuine shock and trauma. Arianna got two thousand quid off the council just because the old man behind the desk said she looked Greek!" Jackie says walking out of the kitchen before going to get dressed. "I know she is Greek, but that's not the point. It was a valid claim" she calls back over her shoulder.
There was a knock on the door and Rose goes to answer it to see Astra stood there wearing a grey pea coat over her shirt and jeans carrying a box of cookies in her hands.
"I just wanted to see if you where alright" she says to the surprise look on Roses face.
Rose steps aside and lets her in, Astra handing her the box of cookies on the way past.
After closing the door Rose asks "Would you like a brew?" for politeness sake before leaving Astra in the sitting room on her way.
"Tea, Please. Milk and two sugars" she calls as Rose heads to the kitchen to put the kettle on putting the box of cookies on the table.
The cat flap on the door rattles slightly making both Rose and Astra look over to it.
"Mum, you're such a liar. I told you to nail that cat flap down. We're going to get strays" Rose calls to her mum annoyed heading back over to the door.
"I did it weeks back!" Jackie claimed not knowing what she was on about far to used to the way her daughter spoke to her.
"No, you thought about it" Rose answers back distractedly seeing the screws for the cat flap on the floor. Then the flap rattles slightly as Astra walks up behind her. Rose pushes it slightly with her fingers before pushing it open only to see the Doctor looking through it from out side.
Rose stands up quickly and flings open the door not getting chance to say a word as the Doctor says "What're you doing here?"
"I live here" Rose answers the abrupt question slightly shocked.
"Well, what do you do that for?" the Doctor asks routing around for something on his jacket sending a small smile at Astra who was stood behind Rose.
"Because I do. I'm only at home because someone blew up my job" Rose answers defensively.
"I must have got the wrong signal. You're not plastic, are you?" the Doctor raps his knuckles against her forehead "No, bonehead. Bye, then"
Before he could pull away Rose grabs him by the lapel of his leather jacket and pulls him inside the flat "You. Inside. Right now" she demanded.
"Who is it?" Jackie calls from her bedroom having just come out of the shower.
Jackie, who is sat at her dressing table in her bedroom, moisturising looks over to the door as Rose pokes her head round the door.
"It's about last night. He's part of the inquiry. Give us ten minutes" Rose says heading toward the kitchen and leaving Jackie's bedroom door open.
"She deserves compensation" Jackie calls perking up as the Doctor passes into view.
The Doctor leans against the door frame "Oh, we're talking millions" the Doctor says playing along.
Jackie looks him up and down before putting on what was supposed to be a sexy voice "I'm in my dressing gown"
"Yes, you are" the Doctor nods his head not realising what she was implying.
"There's a strange man in my bedroom" she continues thinking he's interested.
"Yes, there is" he replies again.
"Well, anything could happen" Jackie says full of implications.
Only to be shot down by the Doctors immediate "Er... No"
Heading off to the sitting room as Astra walks behind him snickering at him slightly before heading into the kitchen to see if there is anything she can do to help.
"Don't mind the mess. Do you want a brew?" Rose asks as she goes into the kitchen to re boil the kettle.
"Might as well, thanks. Tea just milk"
"We should go to the police. Seriously. All of us"
The Doctor looks at the copy of Heat on the coffee table, flipping through the pages stopping on a picture of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes commenting to himself "That won't last, he's gay and she's an alien" before closing the magazine and putting it back down on the table.
"I'm not blaming you, even if it was just some sort of joke that went wrong" Rose continues to talk as the Doctor picks up a paperback book and flips all the page quickly before tossing it back down.
"Hmm. Sad ending" continues to comment to himself not listening to Rose as she rambles on in the kitchen.
"They said on the news they'd found a body" Rose continues.
"Rose Tyler" he reads off a letter he just picked up putting it down again he catches a glimpse of himself in the mirror and behaves as if he's is just seeing himself for the first time. "Ah, could've been worse. Look at the ears" he says tugging on his ears a bit.
"All the same, he was nice. Nice bloke" Rose still goes on not realising she was being ignored.
The Doctor picks up a pack of cards and starts to shuffle them.
"Luck be a lady" he sings slightly as he shuffles the cards between his hands.
"Anyway, if we are going to go to the police, I want to know what I'm saying" Rose says as Astra enters the sitting room having being waved off by Rose on her offer of help, carrying her box of cookies.
The pack of cards goes flying as the Doctor jerks slightly in surprise at her sudden entrance.. Looking a bit sheepishly at her while she just smiles at him and says "would you like a cookie?"
"I want you to explain everything" Rose goes on now being ignored by the both of them as the Doctor enjoys his cookie.
"Very nice, did you make these?" looking directly into her eyes, having not been able to stop thinking about her from the previous night, at her shy nod he smiles and says "their delicious" earning a quiet "Thank you" from her as her smile grows.
They her a scuffle and they both turn to look at the couch where the noise came from "whats that, then? You got a cat?" the Doctor calls over to Rose.
"No" Rose answers the seemingly random question.
The Doctor bend over the couch slightly to look down the back of it Astra not far behind him when the Auton arm comes flying from behind the back of the couch and latches on to the Doctors neck. Astra cries out in shock before rushing to try and pull the arm off him as he struggle to breath through it's grip.
"We did have, but now they're just strays. They come in off the estate" Rose says coming in from the kitchen with two mugs of coffee taking no notice of the Doctor being straggled as Astra tries to get the arm off him.
"I told Mickey to chuck that out. You're all the same. Give a man a plastic hand. Anyway, I don't even know your name. Doctor, what was it?" She says not even noticing the fact that he is turning red from lack of oxygen.
The Doctor and Astra manage to throw the arm off only for it to stop in mid air catching Roses attention before it grabs Astra's face instead throwing her backwards into the wall knocking a few ornaments of the mantle. The Doctor pulls at it repeatedly before pulling to hard knocking both he and Astra down on top of the coffee table smashing it, Astra on top of him as they continue to try and wrestle the arm off her. The Doctor finally gets it off her by jabbing it with his sonic screwdriver, then jabs the device into its palm. The fingers stop flexing.
"It's all right, I've stopped it. There you go, you see? Armless" tossing the arm to Rose who was stood there not knowing what to do as he turned back to check on Astra.
"I'm fine" she tells him trying to get her breath back, he nods at her as he gets up turning to help her to stand up off the remains of the coffee table.
"Do you think?" Roses says loudly coming out of her shock and hitting him with it.
"Ow!" the Doctor says more out of shock than anything else as he frowns over at Rose before getting up grabbing the arm and heading for the door.
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Running down several flights of stairs Astra not far behind him Rose hurries to catch up to them shouting after him." Hold on a minute. You can't just go swanning off"
"Yes I can. Here I am. This is me, swanning off. See you" he says jogging down the stairs Astra keeping up with him as Rose struggles.
"But that arm was moving. It tried to kill us" she exclaimed, making Astra shoot her an incredulous look at the inclusion of herself in that comment.
"Ten out of ten for observation" the Doctor said sarcastically as he continued down the stairs.
"You can't just walk away. That's not fair. You've got to tell me whats going on" Rose demanded.
"No, I don't" the Doctor said in a smug tone reaching the door and letting Astra through before heading out himself.
"All right, then. I'll go to the police. I'll tell everyone. You said, if I did that, I'd get people killed. So, your choice. Tell me, or I'll start talking" Rose said trying to black mail him into telling.
The Doctor wasn't buying it though raising his eyebrow at her he scoffed "Is that supposed to sound tough?"
Looking unsure after his reaction she said "Sort of" in an unsure voice.
"Doesn't work" the Doctor said going back to ignoring her.
"Who are you?" Rose questions changing the topic.
"Told you. The Doctor" the Doctor says exasperated.
"Yeah, but Doctor what?" Rose continues to try and get answers from him.
"Just the Doctor" he says starting to speed as he gets closer to his escape.
"The Doctor" Rose says like she doesn't believe him.
"Hello!" the Doctor says waving mock cheerfully at her getting a bit annoyed at all her questions.
"Is that supposed to sound impressive?" Rose scoffs in disbelief.
"Sort of"
"Come on, then. You can tell me. I've seen enough. Are you the police?" she says in a whining voice.
"No, I was just passing through. I'm a long way from home" is all the Doctor answers.
"But what have I done wrong? How comes those plastic things keep coming after me?" this earns her raised eye brows from both the Doctor and Astra.
"Oh, suddenly the entire world revolves around you. You weren't even attacked,. You where just there, that's all" the Doctor says in a snarky way.
"It tried to kill me" She exclaims forgetting Astra was even there.
"It didn't go anywhere near you" the Doctor scoffs "and besides it was after me, not you. Last night, in the shop, I was there, you blundered in, shouting your head off almost ruined the whole thing. This morning, I was tracking it down, it was tracking me down. The only reason it fixed on your place is 'cos you've both met me"
"So what you're saying is, the entire world revolves around you" Roses says patronisingly.
"Sort of, yeah" the Doctor says ignoring her tone.
"You're full of it" she snorts.
"Pot meet Kettle" Astra mumbles under her breath to herself as the Doctor scoffs.
"But, all this plastic stuff. Who else knows..." only to be interrupted by Astra.
"Never mind that, are people in danger from these Autons?" she asks looking directly at the Doctor.
"No, well yes but, I'm working on it" the Doctor says looking at her "I promise I'll stop them"
"What, you're on your own?" Rose says not wanting to be left out of the conversation and a little bit miffed that the Doctor would answer Astra's question but not hers.
"Well, who else is there? I mean, you lot, all you do is eat chips, go to bed, and watch telly, while all the time, underneath you, there's a war going on" the Doctor continues not even bothering to look at her.
Not liking being brushed off that easily Rose reaches across him and grabs the arm "Okay. Start from the beginning. I mean, if we're going to go with the living plastic, and I don't even believe that, but if we do, how did you kill it?"
"The thing controlling it projects life into the arm. I cut off the signal, dead" the Doctor says as if it should be obvious.
"So that's radio control?" Rose guesses.
"Thought control. Are you all right?" he asks Astra who was looking around worriedly at the small family walking along the opposite side of the street.
"Yeah. So, who's controlling it, then?" Rose interrupts Astra before she can answer but nods as the Doctor continues to look at her wanting her answer.
"Long story" the Doctor waves her off.
"Why shop window dummies though, whats that about?" Astra asks "I mean why would anyone want to take over shops?"
"I know believe me I know, but they want to overthrow the human race and so they control the thing that is the most popular and has lots of it in highly populated areas but is often overlooked, plastic and they will be able to catch you off guard and destroy you. Do you believe me?"
"No" Rose answers the same time Astra says "Yes"
They share look with each other before turning to the Doctor who is smiling at Astra, for some unknown reason is feeling very pleased that this human believes him
Rose stops as he carries on walking "Really, though, Doctor. Tell me, who are you?"
The Doctor looks back at her before deciding what to say "Do you know like we were saying about the Earth revolving? It's like when you were a kid. The first time they tell you the world's turning and you just can't quite believe it because everything looks like it's standing still. I can feel it. The turn of the Earth. The ground beneath our feet is spinning at a thousand miles an hour, and the entire planet is hurtling round the sun at sixty seven thousand miles an hour, and I can feel it. We're falling through space, you and me, clinging to the skin of this tiny little world, and if we let go. That's who I am. Now, forget me, Astra Nyx, Rose Tyler. Go home" he says in a very intense voice hoping this makes her leave him alone, taking the arm away from her without her noticing.
The Doctor walks off towards the blue police box with the arm. As Rose walks off towards another block of flats, Astra stands there watching the Doctor curious as to why he is going into the police box. Suddenly there is a rush of air and a strange noise coming from the place where the police box has just vanished. Rose turns and runs back to try and see what made the noise only to see nothing there. Not even acknowledging Astra she frowns before turning and walking away.
Astra stands there staring at the place the box vanished unable to understand why everything about that man and the box seemed so familiar. It felt like she's seen him in a dream, she just couldn't remember the dream and every time she felt like she was getting close to the answer it just seemed to slip away.
Shaking her head to get rid of those thoughts she turned and headed off to her own flat stopping at a news agents and grocery shop along the way she needed a new job after all.
AN: So there you go here's the first instalment of my Night Light Chronicles. Hope you like it I'll try to have the next part up as soon as possible. Sarah x