There has been a very, very similar story just been published - I am not following it and if they turn out to be the same, I am not the one responsible. I sincerely hope the other story will take a different direction.
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After the shock of Emily being missing for a year, they had to get used to her coming and going with her new 'friend' The Doctor, whom Jackie had taken a dislike to for putting her and Rose through hell for the past year and not only that, the day he had brought her back almost turned into the start of world war three and both Rose and Jackie had been rescued by Mickey into the relative safety of his nearby flat as the police commissioner turned into a green bog monster.
Every time Emily came back though, she would go on about where they had been and how many times they had escaped and every time she went away again Jackie couldn't bear to watch her leave so it had been up to Rose to walk her sister back to the blue wooden police box.
"How can you live like this Emm?" Rose asked her one day.
"How can I stop Rose? You wouldn't believe half of it. Do you want to come in and see?"
Emily got her key out and opened the Tardis door, the Doctor standing at the console turning various knobs and pulling levers.
"We'll be ready to go in ten minutes," he told Emily as he fished around and brought what he called his sonic screwdriver out of his leather jacket pocket. "So, did your boyfriend put that message online then?" he asked Rose. "The one saying that whole incident about weapons of mass destruction was a hoax?"
"Yeah, I think so, nothing's happened since has it?"
Emily looked at the Doctor. She had asked him loads of times if her family would be safe while they were away and he had assured her they were and he'd asked if she wanted to bring her younger sister with them but she had refused. The Doctor was still sure he'd met Rose and Jackie somewhere before but he never let on to Emily about it.
"Right, we'll be off, say goodbye to your sister then," the Doctor grinned.
"Come on Rose, I'm not gonna go missing for another year, am I Doctor?"
"Nope, don't think so and how many times have I said I was sorry about that?"
Emily followed Rose outside, giving her a hug. "I shouldn't say this Rose and you have to promise not to tell mum."
"Tell her what? What sort of things have you been getting into? Mickey was right, you've been time travelling, haven't you?"
"Yeah and I have to tell you Rose, I can't stop now but we just came back from 1987. I saw dad Rose, I swear I did and I almost saved him that day he was knocked down and killed."
"Don't say that Emily, you were there when it happened."
"I was only two Rose, I barely remember the fuss and the police and ambulance coming along. Don't get all sad on me but I had a few hours with him, before it happened."
"You're right, we can't tell mum, she'd be devastated. You've no idea what it was like for us, you going missing."
"I'm sorry Rose, really I am. I'll try not to stay away too long. See ya little sis."
Rose watched her step back into the Tardis, then it faded from view but her mother was standing behind her.
"How can she just go like that Rose?"
"I don't know Mum, she just does. Come on, I'll make ya a cuppa, then why don't we get those old photos out again?"
Emily kept coming home every few weeks, with piles of washing for her mother to do but it never got any easier and Rose found herself feeling a little jealous. She had left the market and got a job in the newly rebuilt department store her sister had worked in and Mickey was trying his best to get her to be his girlfriend again, going to meet her on Saturday lunchtimes until it got to November and it was too cold to sit outside.
On her day off though, at the end of November, Rose got a phone call.
"I'm in Cardiff Rose, can you come over? I need my passport."
"What you need that for?"
"I just wanted to see ya and give you a day out."
As Rose was sat on the train to Cardiff Central, thinking some day out it was, Emily, the Doctor and a passenger called Jack Harkness they had picked up were doing some vital repairs on the Tardis. Rose arrived and followed her sister's instructions to make her way down to the bay, where the Tardis would be parked in front of the Millennium Centre. Seeing it in front of her, she wondered if they were watching her arrival. She knocked on the door and waited and was surprised when a tall handsome stranger answered it.
"Hello there, you must be Rose."
"Stop it," the Doctor's voice called from inside.
"I was just saying hello. I'm Captain Jack Harkness and it's a pleasure to finally meet you, Emily talks about you all the time."
Emily pushed past him and greeted her.
"Hope you got an open return?"
"Why?"
You could stay?"
"No, I should get back, I have work tomorrow. Whatcha been up to then?"
Over lunch, Jack telling his famous jokes and Rose finding him quite charming, their mood was about to be soured as the Doctor recognised an old enemy on the front page of the paper. Poor Rose was roped into visiting the Town Hall to meet the new Mayor of the city, otherwise known as Margaret Slitheen, whom they had encountered when the Doctor and Emily had been trapped in Downing Street, Rose and Jackie begging the Doctor not to get Emily killed.
They finally got the mayor into the Tardis, the Doctor insisting they were taking her back to her home planet and she had challenged the other occupants to look her in the eye.
"Come on Emily, let's get out of here," Rose insisted.
"Go on you two, it's going to be a while before I finish with this," Jack insisted, indicating to where he was wiring in what he described as a pan-dimensional surfboard.
They walked around for a while, Rose saying she should be getting back to the railway station when suddenly, people began to run and scream as the ground beneath them started to shake. They looked up to see what seemed like lightning coming from where the Tardis was parked.
"Go Rose, go back home, go catch your train," Emily urged her.
"And leave you? What do you take me for?"
They ran hand in hand towards the Tardis, dodging the cracks now appearing beneath their feet. The Doctor, who had been out with Margaret, was close behind them.
"What's going on?" Rose asked.
"Oh, just little old me," Margaret declared as Jack tried to get things under control.
Suddenly, she uncovered her arm, revealing what was now a large claw and grabbed Rose, the claw almost piercing her neck.
"Let her go," the Doctor simply said, looking at Rose then at the console.
After enticing Margaret to look at him, a bright light now coming from a hatch that had opened, Jack got Rose away and was holding onto her, Rose not objecting after the shock.
"She's an egg," Rose declared as they all gathered around where Margaret had been standing moments ago. "What are you gonna do with her?"
"Oh, just take her back home and pop her in the hatchery, maybe she'll be raised properly this time?"
"Is that what you do? Save people?"
"Yep," the Doctor replied smugly. "We should get you home, you've missed the train."
"You happen to know the train times from Cardiff to London do you?" Rose laughed.
"As it happens, yes I do. We can drop you off home, unless you want to come with us?"
Rose shook her head, looking at her sister. "After what I've just be through? No thanks. Nice to have met you Jack."
"You too Rose but haven't we met before?"
"Some chat-up line that is," Rose laughed.
The Doctor managed to land Rose in the courtyard outside the flats and said goodbye.
"Any time you want to join us, feel free."
"Yeah, right, haven't you got enough with one Tyler?"
The Doctor looked at her and was about to say he had the strangest feeling he had the wrong one. Maybe he had somehow found himself in an alternate timeline?
Rose thought nothing more about the earthquake, there was very little about it on the news the following evening and a few weeks went by before they saw anything of Emily again.
It was Rose's day off and she and her mother were talking in the kitchen when Rose suddenly got up.
"What's wrong with you?" her mother asked as she grabbed her jacket and ran out of the front door.
Rose was running in the direction of a familiar sound and found her sister sitting on a wall beside the now familiar blue box.
"I heard it all the way in the flats," Rose managed as she was out of breath. "Is he still inside then?"
"No, he's gone."
"What? How do ya mean he's gone?"
Emily quickly explained what had happened after they had dropped Rose off.
"So you left him and Jack with those Dalek things?"
"I'm not proud of it Rose, he tricked me, he wanted me to come back but I have to find a way to help him."
"How ya gonna do that?" Rose asked, sitting beside her.
"Remember that woman, Margaret? She looked into the heart of the Tardis and got her wish. If I can get it open, I can tell the ship to take me back to him."
"He meant for you to be safe Emm, why risk going back?"
"He'd do the same for me, or anyone, I have to try."
"Well come and see mum first."
Rose's phone rang.
"Mum, meet me and Emily at the café."
All was going well until Emily brought up the subject of her father.
"Dad wouldn't have given up," Emily declared, sitting back on her chair.
"Well we'll never know, will we?" Jackie asked.
"Well he wouldn't. I went back and I met him, I told Rose, didn't I Rose?"
Rose nodded. "She told me Mum, we have to help her get back."
"Emily, lord knows I hated that Doctor but he sent you home to me. You'll have to settle down like the rest of us."
"I can't Mum, if you'd seen the things I had."
Jackie got up. "Stop it Emily," she cried, running out of the café.
"Rose, can you call Mickey and ask him to bring his car and a chain? I have an idea."
As Mickey was putting his foot on the accelerator of his black mini, Rose and Emily were encouraging him to give it more effort, resulting in the chain snapping. Rose put her arm around her sister.
"I can't give up Rose, he and Jack may be already dead."
"I understand Emm, really I do."
Mickey got out of his car to join them just as a massive recovery truck came around the corner, Jackie at the wheel.
"Mickey, you've got until six o'clock so get movin'."
"Where did you get that from Mum?" Rose asked, amazed at seeing her mother handle such a vehicle since she had only just passed her driving test and had been convinced she had worn her short skirt in order to do so.
"Rodrigo, he owed me a favour and never mind what it was. Now get moving. Emily, you're right, your dad would never have given up."
After Mickey hitched the strong cables and chains to the console panel, he climbed into the cab and put his foot down. Rose and Jackie were standing at the side of the cables, Jackie shouting for Mickey to give it some more revs.
"I'm just gonna check on Emily," Rose shouted.
Going inside, Emily was willing the console to open.
"He must be something then, that Doctor."
"Yeah, he is Rose, you wouldn't understand. You'd best leave 'cos when that panel opens, the Tardis will take me back to him."
"I hope it's worth it Emm."
Suddenly, something gave and the panel opened, Emily gazing into it as Rose stood by and stared, not daring to move. Finding the courage, she ran for the door, getting out just in time.
"Rose, she's still in there, get her out," her mother shouted at her.
Rose ran back as did Mickey but the door slammed in her face. Try as she might, kicking and banging on the door, the force of the Tardis taking off flung them both back, Mickey just catching Rose. She ran to her mother who was in tears.
"What's gonna happen to her Rose?"
"I don't know Mum, we just have to trust she gets back in time to save him and he brings her back."
"I hope you're right, come on Rose, I'll leave my car here and go take this thing back," Mickey pointed to the recovery truck blocking the road, its lights still flashing.
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It was Christmas Eve day, Rose and Jackie had finished their shopping, not knowing if Emily was alive or not or where she was, there had been no word from her since that time she had got the console panel open. Jackie was just wrapping presents, paper and tape still on the coffee table. Suddenly, she heard the front door being opened and seeing the back of Rose, she grabbed her keys and ran after her, running down the stairs.
Mickey was just coming from the other end of the courtyard.
"I can hear it Mickey," Rose called out to him.
"Yeah, I heard it too."
"Tell me it's her Rose," her mother begged, looking up into the sky.
Suddenly, there was a loud noise and a glimpse of something blue then before they knew it, the Tardis was spinning out of control, hit a wall, just missed a postal van and landed in a corner by a trash can. Rose stared in disbelief, she remembered that spot, it was the one she had held a short conversation with a man last New Years Eve. Jackie had grabbed her arm by this time.
"Where is she? Where's Emily?"
Rose let go and ventured forward towards the door.
"Rose, don't go in there," Jackie called after her.
She didn't have to as the door opened and they saw two hands clutching the door, then two arms dressed in a leather jacket that seemed to hang off the wearer. Rose stood back as a head popped around the corner and it was not the Doctor they had met before. The man came staggering out, looking around.
He lurched forward and putting his arms around Rose and Mickey, leaned on them. Jackie stood to one side, not quite believing what had just taken place.
"Who are you then and where is my daughter?" Jackie managed to say.
"What? Oh, here we are then, London. Earth. The Solar System. We did it. Jackie. Mickey. Rose was it? Blimey! No, no, no, no, hold on. Wait there. I've got something to say. There was something I had to tell you, something important. What was it? No, hold on, hold on. Hold on, shush, shush, shush, shush. Oh, I know! Merry Christmas!"
With that, Rose just managed to stop him bumping his head on the ground and Emily made an appearance.
"Emm, who is this man?" Jackie asked her, joining Rose and Mickey, Rose staring at the stranger but staring more as his t-shirt had ridden up and he was showing his belly.
Mickey had noticed – trust Rose to spot something like that and it wasn't him.
"Emm, where is he, where's the Doctor?" Rose asked her as they stood around.
"That's him."
"Don't be daft," her mother told her. "How can it be him?"
"It's him Mum, so he says, I don't know, he just burst into what looked like flames and there he was."
"How could he do that? Did he pull some sort of trick?" Mickey wanted to know.
Rose had managed to tear her eyes away from the man's bare middle.
"Well we can't leave him lying here, let's get him upstairs."
"Yeah, we should and if anyone asks he's got drunk and we're taking him home," Jackie declared as Rose and Mickey decided who was lifting what part of the prone figure on the ground.
Rose was doing her best to stop the stranger's t-shirt falling back into place, getting her a scowl from Mickey and her sister, Jackie had not noticed.
As they carried the stranger between them, Emily locking the Tardis door, Rose had the strangest feeling she had met the man before but brushed it off – how could she have? According to what Emily had said, he was like the proverbial phoenix rising from the ashes. They managed to get the man upstairs and into the single bed, Jackie had long since got rid of the bunks and had ruled that if Emily ever did come back, they would just have to swap rooms and buy another single bed.
"I'll get him changed," Mickey declared, seeing disappointment on Rose's face.
"Into what?" Emily asked.
Jackie went into the kitchen and produced a pair of pyjamas from the clean laundry basket.
"Since when has Mickey been staying over Rose? Is that why there's only a single bed?" Emily asked, eyeing Mickey.
"Not, it's not, they belong to Howard, he comes and stays with mum sometimes."
"What have I been missing then?" Emily smiled as Mickey grabbed them and went off, closing the bedroom door behind him so Rose wouldn't peek again at the stranger's chest or anything else but he decided he would leave the man's shorts on.
"Where's mum sneaked off to?" Rose asked as Mickey opened the door and the still strange man lay in Rose's bed.
They were just debating what to do when the front door opened and Jackie stood with a stethoscope in her hands.
"Tina's got a medical student staying with her, Martha or something like that but she was asleep."
"Give it here Mum," Emily insisted.
"Why, what's wrong with him? You don't know where is heart is?"
Rose giggled out in the hallway as her sister examined one side then the other of the man's chest.
"He's got two," Emily sighed. "They're both working."
"Don't be so daft Emm, how can he have two?" Rose and Jackie almost said together.
"He just has, he's not human Mum."
Jackie stared at the younger man. "So, it's really him?"
"Has to be, there was only me and him in there, unless something grabbed him and replaced him with this one."
Jackie was still eyeing him.
"Leave him Mum, there's nothing we can do for him, he'll have to come out of it himself."
"You're just gonna let him die?" Rose asked, stepping forward.
"What else can I do Rose? His home planet has gone and we can't take him to hospital, they'll tear him apart to see what makes him tick. I need a cuppa, you can take this back to Tina Mum."
Jackie snapped out of her gaze. "Anything else he's got two of?"
"Mum, leave it."
"Well he's only got one belly button, ask Rose, she was staring at it when he was laid on the ground," Mickey grinned.
Rose dug him in his ribs with her elbow.
"Shut up Mickey. Make yourself useful and get a damp facecloth and some towels."
"What for?" Mickey asked.
Rose watched her sister and mother disappear and assumed they'd gone into the kitchen.
"Someone's gotta look after him, Emm ain't gonna do it. I swear I've seen him before though."
