A/N: Hey guys. Sorry for the long wait, I picked the worst time to start this fic. Honestly, two days after I posted the first chapter, I was really sick for a week, missing most of the school week, and when I came back, I had a week to start and finish assignments and study for tests that would all be held in the next two weeks, so have really had no time.
I also should just point out that I cannot guarantee the consistency of these updates, I'm terrible at them – anyone who's read my other fics (although you probably haven't, but either way, just look up Mai Lynn Bennet. I should warn you, their pretty much all Starship fanfics, no DW) will know how terrible I am at it. School will be over soon for me, so I can dedicate more time to writing.
Ok, so heres how these chapters are going to work. The only episodes I'm going to transcribe all of, are ones that I think Emma being there would change dramatically, or they're just episodes I think either should be in there or I just want to put in. I might cut some episodes all together – like "Love and Monsters" I cut out, because it didn't show a lot of the Doctor, not really enough for Emma to make a big enough change. Its not that I don't like the episode, its just not necessary for it to be in here.
I should explain how these chapters are gonna work. I'm not gonna go through every single episode, because some of them would be rather pointless, as it would pretty much just be a transcribe of the episode – because Emma being there won't really change too much. There are some episodes however that are necessary, or ones that would change a lot due to her prescenes, or ones that are important to this stories storyline and – you get my drift. Either way, I'm not doing "Love and Monsters", theres too little Doctor involvement to really write a full chapter about properly, so I'm skipping to "Fear Her".
Also, hopefully, if all goes according to plan, the original storyline of the show shouldn't change too much yet. If it works out like I want it to, then there will be some dramatic changes to the story line eventually, but I'm not going to say when or where because, well, spoilers and all.
Also, massive thank you to first reviewer MissGuardianAngel, it mean so much to me
OK, on with the story, here you go – Chapter Two
Three days. It was almost hard to believe that I had been travelling with the Doctor and Rose Tyler in the flippin' TARDIS for three days. Considering, this time last week I didn't even think these two were real, let alone that I would be travelling with them.
I'd already gotten lost twice, despite the TARDIS moving doors so I could find things easier. In fact, I think the only places I knew how to get to were the kitchen and the main console room, considering they were the only two places I had to needed to be able to get to. I had tried exploring the many corridors the day before, but that had ended badly, with me accidently opening the door to the opening of the sheer-drop waterslide into the pool. Something else I had no idea about – the Doctor having a slide.
Well at least I knew he hadn't been lying when about pool being in the library.
I woke up at what my TARDIS-provided clock told me was 5:00 in the morning – way too early for me to even considering getting up. I hadn't slept well the past two nights, I kept getting this nagging feeling something wasn't right, and for some reason it never let me sleep past 5am.
Seems legit.
Sighing, I sat up and got out of bed, knowing the next time I slept would either be from someone drugging me, knocking me unconscious, or not til the tonight. I made my way to the ensuite bathroom and had a long hot shower, before getting dressed and making my way through the maze of corridors to the kitchen.
Pulling down my new mug that the TARDIS had provided for me on my first day I made myself a cup of tea and plonked myself down at the table, quietly sipping my tea and staring out into the distance.
What I didn't expect was for the door to open five minutes later and for Rose to walk in, looking dressed and ready to go – well, except for the slightly bleary eyes as she pulled her mug out and poured herself a cup of tea, before sitting down opposite me.
"You're up early." She said, nodding in my direction and taking a sip of tea, "You always up this early?"
I nodded and sighed, "Haven't slept well."
"Yeah, it takes a while to get used to." I'm assuming she meant the constant noise of the TARDIS, so I nodded, knowing she wouldn't understand if I tried to tell her. I mean, I asked to come, how could I explain the slight feeling of uneasiness I got from being here?
Taking another sip of tea, I swallowed and said, "You're up earlier than normal." I noted.
She nodded, "Doctor must've set my alarm – he does that when he has plans."
I raised my eyebrows, "You mean he doesn't tell you?"
"Trust me; him waking you up early is the least of your worries. Word of warning – if you ever come across a big steel door with a massive deadlock on it – don't open it." She warned me, her face deadly serious. Then she started laughing, "Either way, you should sort out some breakfast, because the Doctor expects us to be up by eight so we can have an 'early start', and I want to show you something."
I raised an eyebrow, but got up and walked over to the fridge, leftovers from last nights' pasta still sitting in the china container I had cooked them in last night.
0oooOOooo0
Half an hour later, Rose was dragging me down corridor after corridor; leading me to this supposed "something" she wanted to show me. We reached a tall light silver door, and Rose stopped in front of it, with me almost bumping into her when she stopped.
She turned to me and smiled, "I found this door last night, on the way to my room. Didn't recognise it, and the TARDIS gave me no immediate warning signs, so I thought I'd check it out. And," she paused for effect, "I found this."
Opening the door, Rose ushered me inside, the biggest grin on her face. I didn't even realize what was in the room until the door had shut and I was standing in the center.
"Oh. My. God."
The room was long, rectangular and dark, with long LED lights around the edges. One side of the room had a large screen built into the wall, with a large control panel jutting out from the wall covered in buttons and levers and keyboards, some of which lit up, some didn't. Near the opposite wall, not three feet from where I was standing was a large circular table with small circular lights embedded into the surface. If someone was to read my description of the room I was standing in, they would have no idea what I was describing, but I knew it straight away. I'd spent hours poring over all the news reports and press releases, wondering if I should even try trying to save enough money to buy one.
"That's," I ran over to the large circular surface, "this is Apples new holographic display system. I read all about these." I turned back to Rose, "You have no idea how much I wanted one of these."
Rose just smiled, "Well go on, have a try. The TARDIS should have imported all your previous stuff onto here." I nodded and felt my face break out into a large grin, and I spun around and ran to the other side of the room and began inputting information into the control panel.
0oooOOooo0
When the Doctor found us an hour later, a holographic image of Hogwarts floating above the surface of the projector with Rose and I standing around it, Rose pointing out bits I'd missed or need to change, me fixing them on the tablet in my arms. I was just redesigning the Astronomy Tower when I heard the Doctor say,
"I see you found your room."
I flicked my head around and smiled, "Rose showed it to me. How did the TARDIS know?"
"I told her too." He said like it was the most obvious thing in the world, "Seeing all that work you put into those projections, I figured it would be a waste not to let you finish them and- oof!"
He was cut off as I rammed into him, my small frame clinging to his as I cried 'Thank you thank you thank you thank you!' over and over again. I could feel him awkwardly patting my hair as Rose snickered softly behind me.
After about 30 seconds of an awkward attempt at a bear hug by a 15 year old, I relinquished my not-so-tight hold of the Doctor and stepped back, "You know that's the most effort anyone's gone too to do something for me." I told him sincerely.
He raised an eyebrow, "Really? Not even your parents?"
I shook my head, "Mum was the only one who wanted me. I think Dad let her keep me so it didn't ruin his reputation. Besides, ever since Mum died, the most I've ever gotten from Dad was a sniff of disdain when I got top marks in my whole grade in Physics."
Rose bit her lip and moved forward to sling an arm around my shoulders and laughed a bit awkwardly, before changing the topic, "Where are we going today Doctor?"
He grinned, "Surprise today. Figured something in the future for Emma's first trip, past for second. You can choose what moment in the past, but right now the futures a surprise." He then turned and walked out, trainers squeaking slightly as he pivoted, Rose following him. I stood staring after them, a bit confused. As far as I can remember, the trip after Krop Tor was with Elton and the Abzorbaloff and Moaning Myrtle. But then again, the year that took place wasn't really mentioned in the story as far as I could remember.
Shrugging it off, I followed the two out the door and towards the console room, my feet absentmindedly beginning to skip as I went. I was ready for whatever the world could throw at me.
Or so I thought.
0oooOOooo0
The moment the TARDIS materialized for the first time facing a wall, making the Doctor have to walk back in and turn us around. Rose laughed as he walked back in, and I bit my lip in feigned confusion. I had yet to decide whether or not they should know how much I know, and what I could be a part of and what I couldn't – and here they were, throwing me in just before the one day I had always wanted to change, but knew I couldn't.
Thanks for that
Stepping out of the TARDIS confirmed my suspicions. Turning around, I watched the train wiz past behind the two large gates with the TARDIS parked right in between them. As I watched, Rose walked over to look at a Shayne Ward poster on a wall nearby.
"So, near future." She stated, before turning to the Doctor to check, "Yeah?"
He nodded, "I don't know what it was like for Emma – but I thought for her first trip it should be something new for all of us."
"What," I flicked my head back around to where the other two were standing, "not somewhere you know is safe?"
The Doctor shrugged, "I had a passing fancy. Only it didn't pass. It stopped."
I rolled my eyes and internally sighed as we began walking down a street, "So where are we then?" I asked, pretending I didn't already know.
He pointed up at the large white banner hanging across the street which proclaimed loudly to the world, 'LONDON 2012', "30th Olympia."
"No way!" Rose cried, linking her arm through his, a delighted smile gracing her face, "Why didn't I think of this? That's great!"
"I remember the 2012 Games back home." I said, turning slowly on the spot to gaze around, "There was a giant Voldemort and Red Queen along with what appeared to be a very bored Queen."
The Doctor grinned, "Only seems like yesterday a few naked Greek blokes were tossing a discus about... wrestling each other in the sand with crowds stood about, begging... no, wait a minute... that was Club Med." He laughed and nudged Rose who gave him a bemused smile, "Just in time for the opening doo dah - ceremony... tonight, I thought you both would like that. Last one they had in London was dynamite. Wembley, 1948. I loved it so much, I went back and watched it all over again. Fella carrying the torch..." The Doctor's voice faded out as Rose nudged my arm and pointed towards the flyer taped to the lamp post.
I glanced back over at the Doctor who was still rambling on about someone with 'legs like pipe-cleaners' or something, not paying the least amount of attention to what Rose was looking at. "Doctor" I called, trying to get his attention.
He didn't hear and kept on going on about tea parties or something now, so Rose tried, "Doctor?"
When he didn't respond this time, instead beginning to talk about edible ball-bearings (I had wondered if he would make it to that train of thought) Rose called, "Doctor, you really should look."
He turns around and finally notices what Rose and I were looking at and, still talking about edible ball bearings as he walked over, before saying, "What's taking them, do you think?" He turned to glance up and down the street, "Snatching children from a thoroughly ordinary street like this." He looked back at the poster, "Why's it so cold? Is something reducing the temperature?"
"So definitely not safe then." I muttered, and began walking across to the other side of the road.
"It says they all went missing this week." Rose said, still staring at the poster, "Why would a person do something like this?"
The Doctor glanced at her, considering, "What makes you think it's a person?"
A door opened further down the road and we watched as a woman dumps a rubbish bag on the pavement outside her house before hurrying back inside, all the while casting furtive looks around at the street, and at us.
I turn back to look at the Doctor and Rose who were watching the door close behind the scared woman, "Well, whatever it is, it's got the whole street scared to death."
Rose bit her lip, before turning to face where the Doctor had been standing a moment ago, "Doctor what -" but he was already half way up the street, coat flying behind him. Rose and I exchange glances before sprinting off after him.
As Rose and I hurry along the road, a car juddered to a halt as the engine stopped. I pull Rose to a stop beside me and we watch as the council worker approaches the car, "There you go. Fifth today. Not natural, is it?"
The man in the car tried again to restart his car before replying, "I dunno what happened, I had it serviced less than a month ago!"
"Nah, don't even try and explain it mate. All the cars are doing it. And do you know what? It's bonkers. Bonkers." The council worker says as the man got out of the car, "Come on then pal. I'll help you shift it." The two men move to start pushing the car down the street, "Quicker you're on the way, happier you'll be."
I glance at Rose and smirk, "Do you want a hand?" I asked politely.
"Nah, we're all right love." The council worker says, straining against the weight of the car. Trust a man to always try and make themselves look good in front of women.
Rose grins, "No you're not." She walks over to the car, motioning for me to follow, "We're tougher than we look, honest."
Together, all four of us push the car about four feet up the road, before the engine suddenly starts again, causing the two men to almost fall over.
"Does this happen a lot?" I ask, wiping my hands on my jeans as the man drives off.
"Been doing it all week." The council worker says disgruntled, brushing his hands off with a sigh.
I watch as the information clicks in Rose's head as she asks, "Since those children started going missing?"
He shrugs, "Yeah, I s'pose so."
0oooOOooo0
"Every car cuts out. The council are going nuts!" Then council worker, who had introduced himself as Kel exclaimed as we walked down the street in the direction we had seen the Doctor go, "I mean, they've given this street the works. Renamed it... I've been tarmacking every pot hole," He gestures proudly at the road beneath our feet, "Look at that. Beauty, init? Yep! And all that is because that Olympic Torch comes right by the end of this close." He points to the end of the street, "Just down there. Everything's got to be perfect, ain't it?" He sighs, "Only it ain't."
An old woman walks towards us, "It takes 'em when they're playing." She says.
Rose and I exchange glances before she says, "What takes them?"
"Danny, Jane, Dale – snatched them in the blink of an eye!" The old lady exclaimed.
I open my mouth to say something back when out of the Doctor came into view, walking backwards from a tall, menancing man who looks ready to beat him up.
"I'm – I'm a police officer!" He proclaimed, "I've got a badge - and- and a police car... you don't have to get- I can- I can prove it! Just hold on-"
The man glared at him before accusing, "We've had plenty of coppers poking around here, and you don't look - or sound - like any of them."
The Doctor moved to stand inbetween Rose and I and began motioning to the both of us, "See look! I've got colleagues! Lewis," He points to Rose, "and Bates…" Rose nodded at the man, making an almost mock serious face.
"Well they look less like coppers than you do! She looks no older than 15." He accused, pointing at me.
"Training. New recruit." The Doctor said, nodding his head at Rose, still fishing around in his pocket.
"And her?" The man asked, who still looked ready to beat the Doctor up at any second.
"Oh." The Doctor stoped searching his pockets to stare at me for a few seconds before saying, "Ah – Bring Your Daughter To Work Day." He then proceeded to brandish the psychic paper in front of his face, "Voila!"
"What are you going to do?" A dark skinned woman had joined the group, her arms crossed across her stomach.
"The police have knocked on every door." the old woman said, "No clues, no leads. Nothing!"
"Look, kids run off sometimes, all right?" The man said, "That's what they do-"
The old woman rolled her eyes and turned to the man, making it obvious she'd had this conversation before, "I saw it with my own eyes! Dale Hixon in your garden, playing with your Tommy, and then...!" She mimed something disappearing, "Right in front of me, like he was never there! There's no need to look any further than this street. It's right here amongst us."
"Why don't we -" the Doctor started before another of the ladies cut in,
"Why don't we start with him?" She pointed accusingly at Kelm "There's been all sorts like him in this street, day and night-"
"Fixing things up for the Olympics!" Kel cut in indignantly.
"Yeah, and taking an awful long time about it." The man who had threatened the Doctor interjected.
The Doctor tried again, "I'm of the opinion that all we've gotta do is just -"
He was cut off again by Kel exclaiming indignantly, "You don't- what you just said, that's slander! "
"I don't care what it is." The lady said shrugging.
"I think we need to just -"
"I want an apology off -"
"SHUT IT!" I yelled, sick of the incessant arguing and effectively shutting the locals up, "Alright everybody, we're going to put fingers on lips, be quiet and listen to the Doctor." I glanced around at the group, "Got it?"
Slowly the circle of people placed a finger on their lips, and the Doctor began talking, "In the last six days, three of your children have been stolen. Snatched out of thin air, right?"
The old lady gestured to take her finger off her lips and the Doctor nodded, "Look around you... this was a safe street 'til it came. It's not a person. I'll say it if no one else will." She looks around at the group, "Maybe you're coppers - maybe you're not. I don't care who you are. Can you please help us?" She asked, genuine desperation in her voice.
The sound of a door closing pulled my attention away from the distraught old lady as the door to a house across from where we were standing closed.
0oooOOooo0
It was the scribble monster incident that made me laugh.
I had been on the opposite side of the street when we'd first heard the sound of something crashing inside a garage, the sound getting louder.
Rose slowly approached the noise, "Is that you pussy-cat?" She asked, "You trapped?"
Hearing her voice, I turned and began walking across the street, "Rose, what is it?"
She glanced back at me, "There's something in there, crashing about." She leant closer to the door, before jumping back quickly as the crashing sounds got louder. As I watched, she considered the door, and I could hear her muttering under her breath, "Not gonna open it, not gonna open it. Not gonna open it..."
And then slowly, very tentatively, she opens it.
Out from the darkness of the garage bursts the one monster I had wanted to see during this adventure – the scribble monster. From across the road I heard the Doctor yelling, "STAY STILL!" and the sound of the sonic screwdriver, but I didn't see when the ball shrunk down and landed in Roses hands or when the Doctor ran over to Rose to help her up – due to the fact I was doubled over with laughter.
But I did miss the reunion hug. Damn.
"Oi!" I heard Rose call from across the street, "What you laughing at?"
Sobering up immediately, I straightened, "Oh you know I can't tell you that." I smirked, "Spoilers."
0oooOOooo0
"Bring him back." I threatened Chloe – or the Isolus inside her.
"No." The little girl replied stubbornly, still staring at the paper in Rose's hands.
"Bring him back now." Rose told her sternly, trying desperately to hold in her anger.
"No." Chloe repeats in the same tone.
Rose turned away for a second, head in her hands. Placing a hand on her arm I said calmly, "Rose – the new concrete." The information clicked instantly in her head. The craft was small, in the street and it took in heat.
Suddenly we were running out of the room, down the stairs and out the door, onto the street where Kel had just finished filling a pot hole. Ignoring everyone around her, Rose grabbed a pick axe from inside the council van, before bringing it down on the freshly laid tarmac.
Kel was outraged at Roses actions, and considering Rose was too busy smashing the ground to bother with reassuring him, I did.
And by reassuring I mean telling him to shut the hell up and let us save the world.
0oooOOooo0
We saved the day. My first adventure and we saved the world – and my being here didn't cause the universe to implode or change anything drasticly.
The Doctor's back, eating cake with Rose, watching the fireworks. As I edged closer, their conversation became clearer.
"Go on- give us a clue – which events to we do well in?" Rose elbowed him lightly.
"Weeelll, I will tell you this – Papua New Guinea surprises everyone in the shot put." The Doctor replied, with a mouth still full of cake.
"Really?" Rose asked incredulously, "You're joking, aren't you?" She laughed, "Doctor, are you serious or are you joking?"
"Wait and see!" The Doctor replied cheekily as fireworks exploded above. I watched as the pair began walking slowly down the street, hand in hand, still not far enough away so I didn't hear the next two sentences.
"You know what – they keep on trying to split us up, but they never ever will." Rose said with finality.
The Doctor looked at her, coming to halt, "Never say never ever."
0oooOOooo0
I snuck back inside the TARDIS, smiling sadly at the conversation I had just overheard.
'Never say never ever.' That line almost killed me. It was plastered over all the fan-art I had all over my walls back in my Dads house. I wondered absentmindedly when I stopped thinking of it as home. Probably when I realized I more than likely wasn't coming back. Not for a long time either way.
I knew what was happening next. I knew and I hated it. I knew and I couldn't do anything about it. But the thing was – I was almost certain that if I went, I would do something to change it. To keep Rose here. But, I knew I couldn't. Rose had to leave, he had to lose her. I couldn't risk changing the timelines so dramatically.
Sighing, I made my way to the kitchen for a cup of tea and a block of chocolate. I needed my comfort food during times like this, and I got the feeling I was gonna need a lot more of it.
When Rose and the Doctor walked back into the kitchen, Rose sat down in the chair beside me and sighed happily while the Doctor poured two more cups of tea before placing one of them in front of her and taking a sip out of the other.
There was a comfortable silence for about five minutes before Rose said, "So – scribble monster, huh?"
"Weirdest alien so far?" The Doctor asked smirking.
"Nah," Rose said, leaning forward slightly, "I reckon the nano-genes were the weirdest."
"But they weren't even bad." I reasoned, looking at her confused.
"Yeah, but come on – a kid with a gas mask face turning other people into gas mask zombies while looking for its mummy? Doesn't get any weirder than that."
I raised an eyebrow, "You sure it wasn't the bitchy trampoline?"
She laughed, "She was pretty bad, but I think it was more scary then weird having your own mind almost compressed into nothingness."
I blinked and nodded. I had forgotten that her mind would have almost been squashed. That's a sentence I never thought I'd say.
Sitting back, I listened to the conversation that ensued, about scribble monsters and Opening Ceremonies and tiny spaceships, a nice, normal conversation over the dinner table when Rose said, "Doctor, I think its time we go see my mother."
A/N: Ok, I should just clarify a couple of things.
The holographic projector: If you're trying to visualize it, imagine those big circular tables with floating holograms above them that you see in movies like Star Wars and stuff. Or if you've seen Bones, just visualize Angela's holographic projector, but a big massive circular one.
Any possible spelling/grammar errors: I don't have a beta and am really terrible at grammar, so please excuse any terrible punctuation errors.
Ok, just a heads up for the coming chapters. Army of Ghosts/Doomsday will just be one chapter (I think) for reasons you'll see later, so hopefully, if all goes to plan, I might be able to have the Christmas special out for Christmas! I hope.
Thanks for reading guys
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