Chapter 2
Rose
"You're mad, Doctor. You can't. You told her it was sealed!" Mickey said, still staring at the Doctor in disbelief.
"Of course I can," the Doctor said irritably, "I'm the doctor, I can do whatever I want."
"But you said that you could never-"
"Rule 1…." The doctor interrupted, before pointing at Amy to finish his sentence.
"The doctor lies." Amy said, crossing her arms in front of her chest.
"But… why would you lie to her?" Mickey asked, looking from the Doctor to Amy with a confused expression on his face.
"I was ripping her family apart," The doctor said sombrely, "I couldn't let that happen…" Mickey's expression quickly turned into that of understanding. "And besides, that parallel world has already been opened so many times that the 'skin' of it has become very fragile in some places, which means if I can just get the coordinates right, we should land in Rose Tyler's front garden.
"Bloody hell, Mum you never told me it was this rough!" Natasha exclaimed as the TARDIS began to spin out of control, throwing its occupants all over the place. Amy had just managed to grab the thirteen year olds hand to stop her going head over heels over the railing.
"I didn't think you needed to know!" Martha said, hooking her arm around the railing so she would go flying, "And watch your language, Natasha."
"Doctor!" Amy said in frustration, hanging onto the railing for dear life. "What have you done now?"
"Travel to a parallel world…" he stated, "It gets a little bit rough as we go through the time vortex, it's not supposed to happen, see." The doctor said, miraculously managing to stay on his feet as he flicked the controls and switches on the console.
"How long is this supposed to last?" Rory asked, from the ground where he had been tossed when the TARDIS had started to go haywire.
"About ten to twenty seconds." Martha said as a few sparks flew from the top, "Happened a few times when I was with him, we never went to a parallel world though, so it might last longer."
"Use the stabilisers! The blue ones that River showed you back at the Byzantium." Amy yelled, also hanging onto the railing.
"Oh…" he said, his face screwing up as if he was trying to decide something but couldn't for some reason, "Fine, but you know I hate it when River knows more stuff about the TARDIS than me."
"Who's River?" Mickey asked, "Another companion?"
"I'll explain everything once I've collected Rose, Donna and Jack." The doctor said, flicking the stabilisers and the TARDIS stopped spinning and spitting out sparks.
"Blimey," Natasha said, letting go of the railing which she had been hugging close to her chest for the past thirty seconds, "First trip in the TARDIS and it almost kills me, not at all like I dreamed you know, Doctor."
"You dreamed about me?" The doctor asked, looking very flattered.
"Well what do you think a five year old does with the stories her parents tell her of a mysterious doctor with a blue box that's bigger on the inside than the outside?" Natasha shrugged.
"Fair point…" the Doctor said as the TARDIS began to materialise, The doctor ran around the console and down towards the door "Now, if all has gone to plan Rose Tyler should be opening the door around…"
"Doctor!" A pretty blonde girl yelled, throwing open the doors to the TARDIS and running inside, stopping up short when she saw that it had changed.
"Now." The doctor finished looking at Rose, "Hello, Rose Tyler."
"Oh my god, you've changed your face again." Rose said, looking the Doctor up and down.
"Well done!" The Doctor said, smiling and clapping his hands, "Much quicker to catch on than your old boyfriend Mickey the idiot." He said, gesturing behind him.
"Mickey's here?" Rose said, her eyes widening in surprise.
"Yes, yes of course. Go and say hello." The doctor said, stepping aside to reveal the family of three standing side by side.
"Mickey!" Rose said joyfully, running towards him and embracing him tightly, "I've missed you so much! It's been what, eighteen years since I last saw you?"
"About that." Mickey said, picking Rose up and swinging her around. He put her down on the ground and looked at her for a second, "You haven't aged a day."
Rose smiled genuinely at him before turning to Martha. "Martha! I haven't seen you in about that long either!" The two women embraced each other like old friends. Amy and Rory could only watch on with jealousy and confusion.
"And who's this?" Rose said, looking down at Natasha.
"Rose, this is Martha and My daughter, Natasha." Mickey said, putting an arm around Natasha's shoulders.
"Wait… you're married?" Rose said, looking from Mickey to Martha in disbelief, "Oh my god that's amazing!" she proceeded to hug the two of them again. "How long?"
"Fourteen years." Martha said as Mickey kissed her on the cheek.
"Okay, alright, we'll have time for a reunion later." The doctor said, running back up the stairs towards the console and started typing.
"You can get me back for five minutes ago, right?" Rose asked the doctor, "It's not going to be a mistake like last time where you told me I'd been gone a day but I'd really been gone a year?"
"What? Oh Rose how can you still remember that?" The doctor said, hitting himself repeatedly in the forehead.
"First travel with the Doctor, how could I forget?" Rose smiled, her gaze drifting across from the doctor to see Amy and Rory standing there watching her. "And who are those two?"
"Amelia Pond and Rory Williams" The doctor said, not looking up from what he was doing.
"Nice to meet you then," Rose said as the two of them walked down the stairs, "Rose Tyler, old companion of the Doctor's."
"Amelia Pond," Amy said, taking Rose's hand and shaking it, "Just call me Amy though."
"Nice to meet you then, Amy." Rose smiled, turning her attention to Rory, "And you are?"
"Rory Williams, Amy's husband." Rory said, also taking Rose's hand.
"I'm taking it he doesn't talk about me much?" Rose said, jabbing her thumb at the doctor.
"Uh… well" Amy stammered, not knowing whether to tell Rose the truth or a lie. She settled for in between. "He's mentioned a 'Rose Tyler' once or twice, but no other details."
"I take it you haven't met Martha or Mickey before either then?" Rose said sitting down on Rory's seat.
"No, the only person we've met out of the doctor's many friends is River Song…" Amy trailed off, "And by the look on your face you don't know who the hell she is."
"You would be correct." Rose said with a little smile, "and I'm assuming that you haven't met Donna or Jack yet."
"You would be correct." Amy parroted back, sitting down on a step next to Natasha.
"Brilliant!" the doctor said, looking up, "Six pilots!"
A look of recognition dawned on Rose, Martha and Mickey's faces as they all jumped up eagerly. Amy looked at Rory with a puzzled expression on her face, while Natasha looked from her parents to Amy as if she was torn between wanting to sit down with Amy and wanting to help the doctor.
"Rose, you hold that lever down," The doctor said, guiding Rose's hands onto a lever, "Martha, keep that level. Mickey the idiot-"
"Would you stop calling me that!" Mickey exclaimed.
"Sorry, force of habit. Mickey, you turn that there back and forth… come on we'll need you two as well, not you Natasha, the TARDIS won't recognise someone under eighteen as a pilot." He said, beckoning to Rory and Amy who jumped up hesitantly.
"Doctor…" Amy said, "What's this all about?"
"The TARDIS is really meant to be flown with six pilots." Martha explained as The Doctor instructed her on what to do with her station, "We've done it once before about eighteen years ago when we brought down the Daleks when he was in his last incarnation, but that was when Donna and Jack were here."
"And my mum" Rose said glumly.
"Yes, where is Jackie?" The Doctor asked curiously, moving around the console so he was looking into Rose's face.
"She's dead, she died a few years ago. Heart attack." Rose said, waving it off, "I've been raising my brother Tony all by myself, my dad is never at home because of his work. But Tony'll be alright, he's at a mates place now."
"Oh Rose, I'm so sorry." The Doctor said, putting an arm around her shoulders as Martha patted her arm comfortingly.
"She was a great woman, Rose." Mickey said, emotion clouding his voice, "We'll all miss her."
"I know," Rose sniffed, hitching a smile onto her face and looking back at The Doctor," Okay Doctor, where to next?"
"We…" he said running back around to his station of controls, …"are going to pick up Mrs Donna Noble."
"Donna Noble?" Amy said, the name ringing a bell somewhere in the back of her brain, "Is that the one who you said couldn't remember you or she'd burn up?"
"Couldn't, past tense" the doctor said, "she can now. Something happened just before I regenerated into this form, but she started to remember and she didn't die. She eventually passed out and when she woke up she could remember me. Timey wimey stuff… you wouldn't understand."
Amy leaned across to Rose and Martha.
"Was he this batty when you travelled with him?" she whispered.
The two women looked at each other and said, simultaneously, "Always"
AN: Yay! Chapter 2 and we have Rose!
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