1. How To Leave The Planet
"I'd run if I were you," said a dry voice behind her. Rose turned, and saw a woman in a green dress offering her hand. "Shall we be off?"
Rose glanced back at the approaching walking shop dummies. "Don't want to hang around here, that's for sure."
The stranger smiled. "Come on then."
They ran, hand in hand.
"Look, who are you?"
She smiled tightly. "I told you, I'm the Doctor."
"Yeah, but Doctor What?"
The smile stretched tighter. "Just the Doctor."
"Is that supposed to sound impressive?"
She appeared to consider it for a moment. "Yes."
It was weird, but Rose had seen a lot of weird stuff by now and she didn't inquire further.
"Oh, they just want to overthrow the human race and destroy you."
Rose stared, not sure if she was joking or not. She said such weird things, and smiled, and Rose couldn't for the life of her tell when the Doctor was being serious. "No."
"But you're still listening," the Doctor said, and smiled that eccentric smile. She walked a bit further down the pavement, but Rose was suddenly tired of the games.
"No, but really, Doctor," she said. "Tell me. Who are you?"
The Doctor stopped, and turned, and suddenly it was like she was having an out-of-body experience, because she could see herself, a teenager in a hoodie and a fashionably ripped t-shirt, standing in a sunlit lane, so normal and small, but a few inches away from her feet the ground opened into a bottomless chasm.
Then the moment was gone, and the Doctor smiled a different sort of smile, and said, "I'm an alien. D'you want to see my spaceship?"
They'd saved the day, and Rose was high on adrenaline. "You were useless in there, you'd be dead if it wasn't for me!"
"Yes," the Doctor said, simply. "I would. Although Mickey helped, a bit."
Rose glanced scornfully at her quivering boyfriend, who'd been overcome by the excitement. "That useless lump?"
The Doctor took a deep breath, and tucked her dark blond hair behind one ear. "I think perhaps... I owe you something."
"S'all right," Rose said cheerfully, and yet she found herself involuntarily taking a step forward.
"I thought perhaps... you might like to come with me?"
Yes, Rose thought, oh yes, yes. But... she pushed the thought away. "Is it always this dangerous?"
The gleeful smile. "Oh, yes."
"I can't," she said regretfully, giving in to the thought that's been badgering her, going on about responsibility and all that rot. "I've got to go and find my mum, and someone's got to look after the useless lump."
Mickey shot her a glare.
"But you can," said the Doctor, her gleeful grin widening. "You can do all that and come with me, too."
"What?"
The Doctor lent back against the blue wooden box that was so much more on the inside, and said, smugly, "Did I mention it can also travel in time?"
Rose swallowed, her heart full of hope. "Don't think you did, no," she said, treating the Doctor to a grin of her own.
"Don't go," pleaded Mickey.
Rose kissed him quite chastely on the cheek. "Thanks for nothing," she said, and runs through the open TARDIS door, hair streaming behind her. The Doctor grinned at Mickey, and shut the door. There was a sound like a dying hairdryer, and they are gone.
Mickey stood there for a while longer. It was one thing losing your girl to another bloke; but losing her to another girl was just... humiliating. He sighed, and began the long walk back to a perfectly boring life.
AN: Some of you may recognize this story. Or perhaps not, I don't exactly have a lot of fameness. Anyway, I'm still not done with the first bit, but I decided to post it anyway in the hope of guilt-tripping myself into completion. If anyone reviews and says they like it, I'll try to continue at maybe a chapter a week. I've already got about 6000 words written but they're mostly out of order, so...
Also, a warning. This is like my first T rated story ever. It is going to have some extremely mild femslash, but nothing over K, probably. I'm giving it the T rating because I want to be able to put in as much violence and language as I think is necessary. It's probably going to be a really mild T though. This is presuming anyone actually likes this story, which they probably won't.