Hiya, guys, gals, and non-binary pals! I know, merry Christmas, happy Kwanzaa, Boxing day, probably a couple more holidays. I wish that the rest of the year won't suck for all of us.
And happy New year's!
"Her name was River Song. They were together for a while and they were very happy. And then she died, a long time ago, in a library."
"Are you sure he's going to be all right?"
"He's the Doctor. He's very brave and he's very silly and I think, for a time, he's going to be very sad. But I promise, in the end, he'll be all right. I'll make sure of it. Bye!"
Doctor who 10x0 The return of Doctor mysterio
Leticia walked through the hallway back to the control room. Hopefully, since the TARDIS had mentioned, when she was turned human briefly, that the comment about companions being strays, wouldn't hinder her into not helping the young 19 year old. Her light stringed notebook shaped backpack lightly hitting her back, straining against the new items inside.
Then again, she was hostile to Clara in her first series. On the other hand, she was fine with letting her open the TARDIS doors with a snap of her fingers. And piloting the TARDIS.
She pulled out her cream lid from her mouth, and returned it to her wallet, wiping it on the edge of it on one of her long sleeves. Somehow she found a spray deodorant that smelled like Lilies, which helped immensely. Being stuck in a box wasn't a new thing for her, but sharing one for a whole night, with people she had known from the TV, that was scary.
During her search for the vinegar, she had thought more about the first series. How relatively low key it was compared to the rest of the New series to follow. That man was going to Gallfrey someday, and leave it all behind because he had fallen madly in love with Clara Oswald. Toxially so, that they had to be separated for their own good.
He was going to find himself in a timey wimey relationship with River Song. Well he did met her before she died, at the Library, in his eighth face. And probably a couple more faces before, if the games count in her timeline. And the audios. She smiled at the thought that Six was going to fancy the great River!
He gained a family with the Ponds, manipulated them, lost their child, made Amy shoot her child, only to lose them in a way that would be impossible to save them via the TARDIS.
He found a best friend in Donna Noble, only to kill the person she became, letting her live her life as it was before warping into the TARDIS.
He compared Martha Jones to a woman he put on a pedestal, and knew the whole time that she fancied him, never stopping it. She was one of the lucky ones.
He got himself too attached to Rose Tyler, fell for her, died for her, changed his body to match her, disregarded her choices, both of them changed near the end. Almost as bad as Twelve and Clara.
He embodied the term Coward, when he left Jack on his own, without a goodbye.
How long was she going to stay in this universe, without ending up like them? Especially if she ended up staying throughout Ten's run. That incarnation is horrible at keeping a companion for more than one year. The unluckier ones barely an hour.
Her hand itched for her tiny phone, something comforting to hold on to, but she grabbed the other phone, with a cracked screen, out of her pocket. She had found it out of the blue, near the old white concrete bridge that was located near the entrance of her colonia, all those months ago. Odd for a phone from Mexico, the settings were in English, there was no SIM card nor an sd card.
It wasn't entirely strange, for a city in Mexico that isn't Mexico City, there's a lot of people who are practicing English. She used to tutor a bit when she was at school, of course she had to repeat her words, for her benefit as well as theirs.
But something about that cracked phone... Something she was forgetting.
She stopped near the end of the hallway, right where the control room, and probably the Doctor, was. 'Stop overthinking things!' She heard her mother's voice ringing in her head. Sure, it might have been about walking to the nearest payphone to recharge her SIM card, but she was also right in this case.
She could only move forward from here. Keep calm, stay strong, and hold on.
"Hello again." She stopped right at the entrance, where Nine was currently folding his arms and staring at her. She couldn't suppress a shiver, and a grin. "I figured you got lost finding the loo."
"Nah, found it interesting there wasn't a tub or a showerhead in the bathroom, but bigger on the inside blue box, that really shouldn't be the most surprising thing." Well that definitely sounded like she hadn't talked to a English person that she hadn't had to devolved into Spangish. Fecking fantastic. Leticia walked into the control room. Still majestic, in its organic coral. "How's Mr. Piggy?"
The Doctor frowned behind Leticia's back. Humans, especially those who have been grieving need some sort of sign, that the world could move on to something better, so could her.
"He's resting, that's what he needed the most."
"Oh, okay." Leticia circled back to sit on the jumpseat. She felt at ease sitting, her leg was a bit sore after having fallen. She checked earlier, no cuts or misplaced bone, just a pain. "So, given I apparently diffused a harmful shooting of a harmless creature, care to fill me in how that ended up happening?"
Should the Doctor explain? He could always let her sleep in one of the rooms, a simple suggestive command would do it. Then again, he had no idea as to how many days this issue would be resolved. For all he knew, she could wake up and wander off into the Eye of Harmony. Call it pragmatic idealism, but she at least deserves one chance to prove herself. "We're heading to London, 2006. That's the place where you appeared from. We're not going back to the exact place. It'll be somewhere quieter. Sorta." He hoped that the people had finished their celebrating, but, given that he was only traveling about 27 or so minutes ahead, that seemed unlikely.
She tensed up. Leticia Lopez was going to meet Rose Tyler. It wasn't that she was the worst companion ever, Adam had the top spot for that, and probably Tamsin. Maybe that funny actual robot too. She liked Rose, in the first series, when she was starting out, and was called out on her actions a lot more often. Series two on the other hand...
It's a mixed bag when it came to the pink and yellow girl from Peckham.
"Did you came from the same year?"
"No. 2016. November 25th."
Nine tilted his head in a way that seemed like he was doing a Sherlock. "Ahh, one of those years."
"Yeah, yeah. Really crummy. Some months were bad, the others were just there. I came from Mexico. Well, I moved there. It's a complicated thing."
"Even more complicated when it's in a different dimension."
"Part of that, yea-" Leticia Lopez frowned, and looked at his eyebrows intently. For Nine apparently having a thick head, he's caught on to a lot of things quickly. "How?"
"'Out of the light, in the middle of the air.' Tears in the fabric of the universe tends to do that." He tapped his nose. "I should know, I fixed a couple."
"And, you're not-" She stopped herself. She may have certain feelings for the Doctor, especially Nine. But she knew what he was capable of. He brought down the good prime minister with a repeating meme, he committed genocide over and over. He would disregard his best friend's feelings and block her mind of anything that had to do with him. He would almost do the same for one of his soulmates. And that was just the stuff she had watched on the show. She wasn't going to give him any ideas. Over thinking may be her thing, but her grandfather had comforted her the best he could, and that included keeping a paranoid mind. It wasn't like the Doctor knew everything. "But you didn't see it! So how?"
"When you were tending to our mutual friend, I scanned you as a warm up. Found quite a bit of those extra bits indicating a extradimentional traveler."
"Oh." There goes tip toeing through the tulips. "I," She took the opportunity to clean the sweat of her mouth. "And you never asked my permission?"
Nine started to look uncomfortable. "It wouldn't 'ave harmed you!"
"It's still good manners!" She blinked her eyes rapidly, feeling her eyes starting to water. Her grandfather was starting to be more righter that she thought. She pulled out a piece of toilet paper to dab the edge of her eyes. That wasn't helping. "Next time, ask me, if you're going to do something that has to do with me, personally. I don't have a lot in this universe, at least give me some honesty."
The Doctor clasped his hands and looked at her, deliberately not trying to look at her eyes. "Where I'm heading, it won't be safe, and it won't be quiet. So, you can still stay behind, if you want."
Leticia shook her head. She may be grieving, for a lot of things, but she wanted to go do something productive, even if it will result her in staying in another box for a night. "I'm done being the girl that waits in the castle for a knight in shinning armor. If it's alright with you?"
The Doctor nodded in agreement. "No wandering off, and if I'm not around, you need to stick by Rose."
"Rose?" 'Are you kidding me? I'm only 19 for a few more weeks! Come on!' "Is it the name of the blue box?" She reminded herself of that face, from one of her favorite fictional characters, to not have one of those knowing smiles on her own face that happened almost everytime she tried for a big lie. "Sounds better on a more pink and red color."
"No," He smiled in amusement. "It's called the TARDIS, that's stands for Time and Relative Dimensions in Space."
"Of course it does." Leticia looked up at the ceiling. "It's a box of amazing. Also, bit of a coincidence that it all managed to make an actual word, unlike NASA or other second thing?"
"Alright, time to show you the wonders that this universe has to offer!" He frowned, his mind coming back to an pressing issues. "As soon as We figure out why would someone fake a crash in the middle of London." The Doctor strided to the control panel. He allowed a frown to pass, he was sure he was missing something.
"Yipee." She shifted her shoulder to feel the bottle against her back, to reassure herself. She pulled out her tiny phone to check on the saved transcripts for almost all the episodes she had from the new series. Her being a hoarder was paying off pretty well.
"What're you two chimps going on about?" Jackie Tyler asked of the two recently reunited pair, Mickey Smith and Rose Tyler. "What's going on? What's this Doctor done now?"
Mickey laughed in a way that almost seemed like a chortle. "He's vamoosed!"
"He's not!" Rose protested, holding out the TARDIS key the Doctor had given her earlier. "Because he gave me this!" Mickey shrugged and made a disparaging noise. "He's not my boyfriend, Mickey. He's better than that, he's much more important than you-" She stopped mid sentence, seeing the key starting to glow a bright gold. Some part of her thought that it was going to start melting, like Mickey's plastic head all those hours ago. Had it only been hours for her?
And then she heard it. That amazing sound that she heard when she said no on traveling with the Doctor, after saving London from the alien plastic. She wondered what would of happened if she stayed, without hearing of him again. She brushed the thought aside. "I said so."
She quickly moved to her mother. "Mum! Mum! Go inside!" Her mother was looking at the spot the TARDIS was. "Mum, don't just stand there, just go inside! Mum, go. Oh blimey." She frowned at the slowly appearing blue box, and moved back with her mother.
As it fully appeared, Mickey pointed at Rose, then at the TARDIS, self satisfaction evident in his body language.
"How you do that then?" Jackie asked, in awe.
Rose internally debated on whether to go inside or not, it only took a few seconds to take that chance. She went to the blue box and opened the doors and went inside, walking up the metal grates. She was starting to get used to the bigger on the inside aspect of the TARDIS, but it was still amazing in how it looked. The Doctor was busy checking the monitor for something. A girl sitting on the jumpstart who looked like she belonged in a cemetery.
She stopped in her tracks.
There was a pale, dark haired sorta bob-styled girl, dressed in all black, seated on the jumpstart, holding a small mobile, looking at it intently.
No wonder he went off wandering. "Who's she?"
Leticia looked up to see Rose Tyler frowning at her, the Doctor looking at Rose,, and right through the doorway, Jackie Tyler and Mickey Smith looking inside.
' Oh Fecking crap.' "Hiya..." She slightly waved with her hand.
"She was lost and I found her, when I went and had a look. The whole crash landing's a fake. It felt too perfect, I mean hitting Big Ben!"
"'S nice. It is." Rose said, glancing back to Leticia. "Cause my Mum's here."
Leticia stood up to see Mickey and Jackie, walking up the TARDIS grate floor, to Nine. "Nice to meet you two." She said hesitantly. She may of had practice talking in English, talking back to her TV and her tablets had helped greatly, but she still felt self conscious that someone was going to make a sharp remark about how odd she sounded that Leti was inevitably going to take to heart. She side eyed Rose, remembering the 'Gay' comment.
"Oh that's just what I need." The Doctor said, turning to Rose. "Dont you dare make this domestic!"
Leticia frowned at how it looked, the body language between Nine and Rose, like they already were a couple. The whole thing felt so 90s Disney.
"Too late, I think." Rose moved back to face her mother, and Mickey.
"I second that motion." Leticia agreed with Rose, moving closer to the cluster of people.
"What's happened to you?" Jackie asked the poor girl, looking her over. The malnourished girl met her stare, but not directly, frowning as she did so. She had seen her fair of Goths and emos, given her job as a flat hairdresser, with Veronica and Jason Dean appearing every so often. Not really much of a talkative sort. But that American girl, with that look in her eyes, those harsh bags under them. She doesn't even wear makeup to hide them! "What's he done to you?"
"Nothing." Leticia shook her head, trying her best not to look into her eyes. "He hasn't done anything, except helping me! I don't have anywhere else to go."
"Where are your parents? You're a bit young-"
"I'm nearly 20!" She felt her palms starting to sweat, her heart starting to pound. Leticia looked away from Jackie and went back to her seat. Who was she kidding? Trying to help, better she take up Nine's offer of staying on board while she still had a chance.
"You see what I mean?" Nine questioned, probably to Rose, Leticia wasn't looking. "Domestic. And she was just starting to come out of her shell."
"Was she in the crash?" Rose looked down at the girl, who was her age. It was clear that the girl doesn't respond well talking to people, sounding all quiet.
"No, she just appeared, saving a pig from being killed."
"What?" Rose smiled in disbelief. Now that was amazing,!
Jackie looked around the room as her daughter, her own child, was talking with that man, and her eyes settled on the poor girl with no home. With one last look at Rose, she turned around for the exit.
"Mum?" Rose ran for the door, turning back to the Doctor. "I'll be a minute!"
When Rose slammed the door, Leticia looked up from the transcript. She changed the scene. Going in, she wasn't expecting to be a fly on the wall. But she had misremembered what it was like talking to people outside her family, without typing out in an IM. "That was odd."
Mickey Smith scoffed. "Yeah, you're telling me." He pointed a finger at the Doctor."Doctor, you ruined my life. I was a murder suspect because of you."
Both the Doctor and Leticia looked at the man. "Well, you're not in prison, are you?" She frowned at Nine's back. Sometime she wondered if Nine was rude to Mickey because he was already fancying Rose. Or just because he's rude to pudding brains in general.
"I bet you don't even remember my name!"
"It's Ricky, right?" The Doctor looked at the young man.
"Oh my goodness." She found the urge to face palm.
"It's Mickey."
"No, it's Ricky."
"I think I know my own name!"
"You think you know your own name. How stupid are you?"
"Oye!" Leticia waved her hands in front of them, almost forgetting she had her tiny phone in her hand. "It's Mickey, he's saying it's Mickey, at least respect that's his name, if you don't respect the man and leave it! Solo!"
Both of them looked at her. She averted looking them in the eyes and sat back down again, back to her phone. If she kept this up, she would get used to people in about 20 or 30 years from now.
And to think, he was going to go on to do the same thing to Me in his future. Yeah, her first name was pretty memorable. But she changed it. Even if it makes talking with her a bit of a challenge.
"Are you an alien?" Leti looked up to see Mickey standing only a few feet away.
Where is Rose? She glanced at Nine, but he seemed busy checking something on his monitor. Since he hadn't had the chance to do so before rescuing her and Piggy. "No... But I have been called that in grade school once or twice. In a different context."
"Yeah, no. I mean, a proper alien."
"You mean like the grey skinny body ones with the childlike eyes? Nah, just human. Human as can be. Thought, I guess you can call me an illegal universe immigrate. So, alien in a way." It was too bad Mickey hadn't said yes to traveling with the Doctor, he probably would have ended up like Rory.
Rose came running through the door, like a wolf was on her heels. "That was a real spaceship!" She reached the Doctor's side.
"Yup." Nine said, popping his 'p'. Leticia widen her eyes at that. A trait that carried over a regeneration, who have thunk it?
Rose glanced at Mickey, who seemed to be quite chummy with the girl." So it's all a pack of lies? What is it, then? Are they invading?"
Mickey and Leticia walked over to the pair, both itching to see the screen. "Funny way to invade, putting the world on red alert."
"Good point!" The Doctor looked at Mickey in a way that reminded Leti of that old saying, 'stopped clock is right twice a day'. " So, what're they up to?"
Leticia looked at the footage of the parked Sleedeen spaceship, the famous Big Ben slightly smoking from the hit, probably taken from a really high definition webcam with no delay that just so happened to aim near the Thames. Or a parked drone. Were they invented at this point in time?
"Also, funny thing, despite it zooming around, hitting Big Ben, it managed to land pretty well. No water damage, or any broken stuff, far as I can tell." Leticia pointed at the screen.
"Also good point!" The Doctor moved away from the control panel and crouched down to the grates. "Give me a hand, won't you?"
Leticia obliged and helped the Doctor moved the grate off to the side. The Doctor carefully went inside the patch of the open grate and started to move around so that he was lying down, his shoes touching the end of the grates. Leti glanced back at Mickey, who was on the opposite side of her. She thought back to her numbers, her safety numbers, and that gave her the strength to pull out her second, cracked phone.
"How about a lightin' hand?" She tried her best at a Texan accent.
"As long as you don't make that accent again, I'll accept it." The Doctor said before wrapping the sonic screwdriver with his lips.
Leticia turned on her flashlight app, trying not to grin with her teeth showing. "I won't make the accent, in front of you again."
Nine nodded in agreement, while he worked on patching in the radar for the Green giant spaceship and possibly the local channels.
"So what are you doing down there?" Mickey looked at the Doctor.
"Ricky." The Doctor's voice was muffled with the sonic, and possibly also collecting metal stained spit in his mouth.
"Mickey."
The Doctor pulled out his sonic from his lips and jerked his head so he was facing the little thorn at his side. "Ricky. If I was to tell you what I was doing to the controls of my frankly magnificent time ship, would you even begin to understand?"
"I suppose not."
"Shut it then." The Doctor grinned happily, put the sonic back in his mouth and went back to his work.
Leticia watched as Mickey moved away, sharing a look with him. "Rude." She moved to her knees, to angle the light in a way to not directly hit his eyes.
"Talkative." He said through his sonic occupied mouth.
Leticia frowned, checking out her music app. "A huge fan of talking. Just haven't talked to a person in my first language in a long while." The song that played was one she had paused on.
'Hey, that's far out so you heard him too!
Switch on the TV
We may pick them up on channel two.'
The Doctor chuckled.
"What?" Her voice a whisper, not wanting to interrupt Mickey and Rose time.
"I heard that song," He pulled out the sonic, wiping part of it on his sweater. " 'bout a half hour ago, in those estates that are right outside the door."
Leticia's smile soften, remembering why she recorded the song. "I got it the day I found he died. Bowie." She clarified. "One of the first major deaths of the year. Really liked him, and most of his movies. The songs weren't half bad either."
The Doctor moved on to sonicking. "He died in the first month here as well."
'Look out your window I can see his light
If we can sparkle, he may land tonight
Don't tell your poppa or he'll get us locked up in fright.'
Leticia shifted herself, so that she was sitting Indian-style on the grates. "It's nice to know that 2016 is a crap year here too. Some things don't change in between universes."
"It's a fine year! Not all death and misery."
Leticia looked back at the few good moments she had in the year. "Fair enough. Everyone has a pile of good things and bad things. But, a certain future leader might make this year look like roses and sunshine."
'There's a Starman waiting in the sky
He'd like to come and meet us
But he thinks he'd blow our minds
There's a Starman waiting in the sky
He's told us not to blow it
'Cause he knows it's all worth while'
"2006, not 2016. Time travel, different set of rules."
"So long away." She blinked, trying not to remember to much of what happened in 2006. "I should be ten this year. What month is this?"
"March 5th, 2006."
"Love a five. It's a good number. Right, around that time, I was in the middle of watching season 5 of Smallville, live. My first fandom."
He grinned at that. "You were Nine?"
'You were too', she wanted to say. "Grew up a bit faster."
"Superhero geek."
"Well, it's always been a part of me. And probably always will. It's a way to escape while feeling powerful. Feeling that hope. Always wanted to feel like that."
The Doctor grinned as he finished up his rewiring. "You're full of stories, aren't you?"
Leticia raised her eyebrows in amusement. Happy early Christmas for her! A real life talking living friend! " I guess I am. Hadn't really thought my life was worth a telling around the campfire."
"When you're me, almost everyone is worth telling a story around a campfire, probably even Rickey Rouse over there."
"Mickey Mouse!" Leticia widen her eyes as she realised what she corrected. "Which isn't his last name!"
" Got it!" The Doctor's sentence was punctuated by a swift move upwards. Leticia quickly turned off her phone to help the Doctor move the grate back. "Ha, ha!"
'He told me
Let the children lose it
Let the children use it
Let all the children boogie.'
"Give him a metal!" Leticia looked back to see Mickey and Rose standing next to each other, very closely, both looking flustered. "And maybe to you two." She tried looking but not really looking since she didn't want to thinking about them doing the tongue tango. Or probably the tongue two-step. Seeing hot rear ends were more than enough for her to handle, thank you very much.
She glanced back at Nine, but he didn't seemed to noticed that his TARDIS was a snog box for a minute, smiling more in relief than in sadness, and moved to his monitor.
"So," Leticia quickly turned off her music. "What did the great Magician do?"
"Doctor." He stressed.
"Doctor Magician." 'Its not as ridiculous as Doctor Disco.' "You're not Cher or Beyonce, there has to be at least a last name, so therefore Doctor Magician."
The Doctor raised his eyebrows but wisely did not banter further. "Anyway, patched in the radar, looped it back twelve hours so it followed the flight of that space ship, here we go." While Rose walked over to see the screen, Leticia motioned Mickey over to see it as well. Mickey just shrugged his shoulders in disagreement.
"Hold on." A flash of a hand and a shaky computer monitor caused Leticia to shift to the screen, where the Doctor probably tried the old 'hitting the monitor even thought it only see stuff' trick. "Come on!"
"Gonna break it like that."
"That's the spaceship." The Doctor pointed at the White dot that supposed to represent the spaceship. On the whole, the radar seemed a lot less flashy than Leti expected from a time ship like the TARDIS, even if it is a Type 42. All blues and white. Kinda like the same shade that she had thought up for that portal for her Doctor who fan fiction series. The Doctor explained that the spaceship basically went up and down, figuring out that the aliens had been there a good long while.
"Bigger question, how could they have shot a spaceship without anyone noticing?" Leticia looked to the Doctor's scrunched up forehead.
"2006, not 2016." The Doctor reiterated.
"Webcams are still a thing? People used them apart from naughty pay girls and funny animals!"
The Doctor shook his head. "Have to know where to look."
"People have cameras in their phones?"
"Most of London in this time period have smaller, less resolution, ones. Not the flashy touchscreens from your time."
"Hold on," Rose raised a hand for empathize. "You're from ten years in the future?"
"And then some." She waved a hand at the blonde, not directly meeting her eyes. "Hiya."
"But.. Doctor..." Rose looked at her man, well, sorta her man. "Doesnt that mean she time traveled by herself?"
"She had, but by accident." Pushing some buttons Leticia hadn't seen used in a while, the image on the screen changed to TV.
"Couldn't you get a better picture?" Goodness, she had seen better at her grandfather's old girlfriend apartment. And she had that old bulky for over 15 years.
"That takes some time." The Doctor pressed another button to change the channels, black and white static separating each channel. He managed to hit the news section in one go.
Mickey stretched his head in between The Doctor and Rose, both of them separating because of it. "How many channels do you get?"
"All the basic packages."
"It gets sports channels?"
"Yes, I get the football. Hold on, I know that lot!"
Leticia looked closer at the group in the video. She hadn't seen much American media concerning military, in a while, but, it looked a awful like the U.S ones.
"UNIT! United Nation Intelligence Taskforce, good people!"
Leticia smiled, remembering OsGood and Kate Stewart. Maybe Kate was on active duty at this point!
"How do you know them?" Rose asked.
"'Caused he worked for them." Leticia glanced at the Doctor, while Rose looked at Mickey. "Oh yeah, don't think I sat on my backside for twelve months, Doctor! I read up on you! You look deep enough on the internet or in the history books, and there's his name, followed by a list of the dead."
Mickey would fit in well with the crowd Leticia was used to talking to on the forums.
"That's nice. Good boy, Ricky."
"If you know them, why don't you go and help?" Rose asked. The Doctor turned off the screen in response.
"They wouldn't recognize me. I've changed a lot since the old days. Besides, the world's on a knife-edge. There's aliens out there and fake aliens. We want to keep this alien out of the mix. I'm going undercover. And er, I'd better keep the TARDIS out of sight. Ricky, you've got a car. You can do some driving." While he talked, Nine moved some levers and a button, going around the panel full circle, patting Mickey on the back when he was done.
Leticia started to follow the Doctor, Rose flounsing behind her, while Mickey brought up the rear. "Where to?"
"The roads are clearing. Let's go and have a look at that spaceship."
As soon as they went out of the door, Leticia was blinded by a harsh light.
Leticia, the Doctor, and Rose were escorted out of the block of flats that represented the Powell Estate, confirming that Rose's flat was named Bucknall House. So Love and Monsters and the books were correct. Mickey ran for the garbage metal boxes as soon as he could. It felt a bit odd that he could hide in plain sight from an area crawling with soldiers, but some people get lucky breaks. She was a bit relieved that despite her changing certain things, like Mickey getting an opportunity to song Rose Tyler, things were coming back on track.
One of the escorting soldiers showed them to a black car, with a UNIT solider as the driver. Leticia said nothing as they went inside, her having taken the window seat, in order for Nine and Rose have a bit of a chat.
The young girl from America looked out the edge of the window, and took in Peckham, as they zoomed by. When she had the chance, she would always try to seat near the window, whether it be on a plane, in a beaten up bright blue van, or a London police car escorting them to the equivalent of the White House.
She looked out at the little stories that whizzed past, drunken woman making out with someone near a lit corner, loud music blaring while people shout about the aliens landing. She smiled, taking in all she could.
And to think, that alien white collar con family want to burn this world to the ground, when that oaf ascended to be the head of the biggest office of the island. No wonder that crack opened up on this episode. Maybe, just maybe, it opened because what was was happening there was being mirrored over on her universe with the certain infamous white collar con man in charge.
Or it was just a coincidence. Maybe. Her mind always wandered when she was stuck in a vehicle for so long.
She never thought she could experience something as simple as being a passenger in a car, even if it's a police car, ever again. Her mind flashed back to that time when she was young. Er. Her grandfather helping her to school, sitting on a tied on backseat on a bicycle, looking around the raining Windows, listening to radio Disney while waiting for less rain on a summer night. Trying to pretend she was falling down a rabbit hole while her grandfather drove around a spiral thing in order to get to one of those famous flea markets.
She blinked rapidly, doing her best to control her breathing. The young 19 year old glanced back at Nine and Rose, trying not to look at each other with love eyes. She couldn't break, not at one of most important stories of the era.
Rose, for the first three episodes, experienced what it was like to live among the stars. And she ended up in a future, where people confirmed that she hadn't been seen in over a year. And with that, she could never really connect with her home time. Not all that much. The later times she appeared, were few and far in between.
And because of that, she connected more with the Doctor, both being sorta then they started to fall for each other, mimicking each other. And resulting in the clustermess that was the RTD era.
In any case, this two parter was the most important stepping stone in terms of everything that happens to the Doctor's and Rose's relationship onwards.
And she had to figure out a way to make sure those two never end up as codependent as they would be during series two, assuming she survived. From being one half of a caretaker to being the Last of the Time Lord's and Bad Wolf's caretaker. Fecking fantastic.
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