Story Two (part one)

Title: Admissions

Setting: Jackie Tyler's flat, sometime between "Christmas Invasion" and "Rise of the Cybermen"

Characters: Rose Tyler, The 10th Doctor, Jackie Tyler, and Mickey Smith.

"Where's the Doctor run off to now?" Jackie asked setting two cups of tea down on the table in front of Rose. Rose smiled at her mum and gratefully accepted the cup.

"He's just tinkering under the console, making sure the TARDIS is running at optimum efficiency before we head out." Jackie sat down with a sigh.

"Sure he's not ditching you?" She said half kidding, half hoping.

"Why would you say that?" Rose asked immediately getting defensive.

"I was just kidding."

"No you weren't. You were praying for it to be true. Why? Why Mum? Why do you hate him so much?"

"I don't hate him. I just hate that he dragged you in to all that danger."

"He didn't drag me. I want to be with him."

"But you don't just want to be with him, you want to be with him."

"What are you implying?" Rose asked standing up as her voice rose in volume. Neither Jackie nor Rose heard the sounds of the door to the flat click open or saw the Doctor come in.

"I'm not implying anything," Jackie continued, "I'm merely making an observation."

"Out with it then." Rose commanded.

"You're falling for him!"

"'Falling' for him?"

"Yeah." Jackie confirmed with a nod.

"I'm not falling for him, Mum. I'm in love with him. I have been since se first took my hand and said 'run'"

"Does he even feel the same?" She asked her love struck daughter. Rose faltered.

"I don't know." She replied looking down at he painted pink toenails.

"Are you planning on telling him?" Jackie asked nervously, because she had just noticed something, and that something was the Doctor.

"I suppose so, eventually." Rose answered after a pause.

"Well, it's going to be a lot earlier than eventually."

"What do you mean?" She asked looking at her mom quizzically. Jackie didn't answer, she just pointed past her. Rose spun around quickly and found herself face to face with a very shocked Doctor.

There were a million emotions exploding in the Doctor's veins at that moment, but only one was blocking out the others, and that was confusion. There were also a thousand or so ideas as to what to do next, but only one of them actually made sense to him at all, and that was to get out.

"Doctor?" Rose questioned cautiously trying to assess the worsening situation. The Doctor slowly started backing away from her. "Wait, let me…" The door slammed behind the Doctor who began running down the street towards the TARDIS. "Explain." Rose finished lamely to thin air.

Two and a half minutes later and only a half a mile away the TARDIS reappeared next to the garage where Mickey worked. Mickey, upon hearing the familiar grinding sound of the TARDIS asked for a lunch break to visit with the Doctor and Rose.

He walked out and started heading for the TARDIS which was parked next to a building across the road. When he reached the familiar blue box he was startled to see the unfamiliar scene in front of him. The Doctor was sitting on the ground next to the TARDIS with his head in his hands as if he had a headache.

"Doctor?" Mickey asked uncertainly. The Doctor's head snapped up at the sound of Mickey's voice.

"Hey Mickey." He acknowledged with a sigh.

"What? No demeaning nickname?" Mickey asked sitting down next to him. "So what's up?"

"Trouble." The Doctor answered.

"What is it this time? Bogymen? Martians? Klingons? Zygons?"

"Hold on, how do you know what a Zygon is?"

"I didn't, just made up a random spacey name. But seriously, what's up?"

"Rose." The Doctor admitted figuring that if anyone could help it would be a former boyfriend of Rose, even if it was Mickey the Idiot.

"Rose is in trouble or Rose is the trouble?"

"It's a remarkable mixture of both and neither, but mostly the second one." He paused, "Then again, because I ran off it might be the first as well, so yeah, both." Mickey chuckled.

"Girl problems Doc?"

"She said that she loved me." Mickey stopped laughing.

"She told you that?"

"Well she sorta' yelled it at Jackie and didn't know I was standing right behind her. Then she turned, and I freaked out, and she got all scared." He sighed again.

"And what did you say?"

"Nothing. I ran."

"You just left!?" Mickey asked aghast, "She's probably crying her eyes out right now."

"You think she's crying?"

"Doctor you're like her life now and she's in love with you and you just ditched her without even saying goodbye."

"I didn't ditch her, I just need time to think."

"Think about what? Whether you love her or not?"

"No, it's not that."

"Do you love her?"

"Yes!" There was a pause as the Doctor realized what he had just admitted, shouted no less, to Mickey. "Yes," he repeated, "I do love her."

"Then what are you doing here?" Mickey asked, "You don't love me. Go on back and tell her."

"But I can't. It would never work out. I'm a 900-year-old time traveling alien and she's a twenty old shop girl from London. Not to mention how dangerous I am to be around. And what about a family? I couldn't give her a family of her own. She'd never be happy. It wouldn't work. It's impossible."

"Aw come on Doc. I've seen you do the impossible before."

"Yeah, but fighting aliens, saving the world, that's easy. Admitting my feelings and making attachments like that? That's what's hard. I'm so used to running and never looking back, but I can't do that to Rose. She deserves more."

"Then like I said, you're telling the wrong person."

"I can't believe I'm telling you this, but I'm scared. I'm scared I'll muck with up."

"You already have Mate."

"Thanks. That helps." The Doctor said sarcastically.

"But you can go and tell her everything you just told me and you can fix that."

"How will she forgive me?"

"She's loves you!" Mickey answered standing up and offering a hand down to the Doctor. He took it and grasped it firmly, a new kind of brotherly bond formed.

"Thank you." The Doctor said before turning to open the TARDIS door.

"Yeah, whatever. I'm going to go eat my lunch." Mickey said turning to leave but then he paused and turned back, "Oh and Doctor?"

"Yes?" The Doctor inquired poking his head back out of the TARDIS.

"Is there really an alien called a Zygon?" The Doctor just shook his head with a laugh and disappeared insides his phone box, which promptly disappeared itself.

Author Note: Ok, I was going to put this all as one story…but it was getting really long. So I split into 3rds. This is the first 2/3. The last 3rd still needs some editing to make the ending perfect. So…. for now you can enjoy this cliffhanger! Please review.