Ok, so here's chapter two. Please don't judge quite yet as I know these first couple of chapters might be a little dodgy. It actually surprised me how hard it is to write this. I have finished chapter three as well but whether it is uploaded today or not depends on how happy I am with it. Please review and message me with any questions you might have, though most questions will be answered in future chapters, so I might not be able to give you many 'Spoilers'.

This chapter contains alcoholic references.


In the morning Rose was in the shower nursing a bad hangover when she heard a knock at the door. It sounded like someone was banging a bass drum right beside her head. "Alright, alright," she grumbled, slipping on a dressing gown and walking to the door. She opened it to reveal Jack, who looked at her pityingly.

"Nice night?" he tried to hold back his smirk.

"Yeah, I really shouldn't have had that bottle of rum," she groaned.

"You drank a whole bottle?!" he asked incredulously.

"No, don't be stupid, that would kill me. No, I just had what was left in the bottle".

"And how much was that?"

"Only a couple of inches," she yawned, rubbing her eyes.

"Are you sure that's all you had?"

"Ok, maybe I cracked open a bottle of wine afterwards. Seriously, what do you expect when you tell me I get a chance to see the Doctor again then say if I fail he'll die?"

"I was telling you the truth and I didn't think you resorted to alcohol anyway".

"Like you can talk Jack," she glared at him, attempting to smack him on the arm but missing, "I don't usually, anyway, it's awful stuff most of it, and the stuff that was here is mum's for when she comes to stay over".

"Are you prepared to leave them here? Your family?"

"If I'm going to live forever then it wouldn't be fair anyway," she shrugged, trying to sound dismissive.

"But that's your choice Rose; you can stay and live a normal life or come back and live a life with the Doctor, for as long as you both shall live".

"You make it sound like I'm marrying him," she frowned at him.

"Well you never know, one day, after a couple of thousand years he might work up the courage to ask you".

"Oh ha-ha Jack, you do realise he never even told me he loved me, right?"

"I'm aware of that. I am also aware that he really wanted to and was about to say so, now come on Rose, go and get dressed then we can head to the pods".

"Pods?" Rose asked, picking up an outfit from her neatly folded pill on the lounge.

"Yeah, well you didn't think I'd travel without a ship, that's dangerous," he shook his head at her like it was obvious.

"I get ya," she sighed, moving to the bedroom to change, "Feel free to put some music on or something while you wait".

Jack moved over to the remote and turned on the music player. Brittany Spears, 'Toxic' rang out and Jack chuckled,"Very fitting," he chuckled and nodded to the music. Rose was finished in what seemed like a matter of seconds. Jack looked up as she approached, "That was quick".

"I'm sorry if this song brings back good memories," Rose joked defensively.

"Nice outfit. Too bad the old man already has your heart Rosie, you look fantastic".

"Don't call him an old man," she said, whacking him in the back of the head.

"Come on Rose, he's over nine hundred years old, and have you seen what he used to look like? Trust me, he's an old man".

"Well you can't deny he's the best looking old man you've ever met," she looked at him matter-of-factly.

"Oh yes, of course," said Jack moving towards the door, "Don't bring too much stuff unless you really need it, I'll have the stuff beamed into the room that will soon become yours again in the TARDIS".

"You're fantastic Jack," she said, hugging him and planting a kiss on his cheek. "I've got all the stuff I need. By the way, how could you beam stuff into the TARDIS?"

"Oh I have secrets Rose, but you'll just have to wait until they are revealed".

"So will you know me the first time I meet you?"

"Oh yes, that was the other thing I meant to say, yes I will, isn't that great?!"

"Yeah great," she chuckled, grinning "You'll have to do some acting".

"I am a superb actor actually. Ah, here they are," he pointed to two identical space crafts that looked like small rockets, "Yours will connect to the underside of mine when I take off, then I can just drop you off at your destination".

"Ok, and where is my destination or when is my destination I should ask".

"Well, if I get it right you will arrive in the room you went off to on platform one when you were upset".

"Ah that little observation deck," Rose nodded, "But why aren't I going back to the very start?"

"I couldn't go back that far, sorry. It's very hard to do this reliving-your-own-timeline thing and it uses a lot of power, but more than that I can't say, sorry. Secrets".

She rolled her eyes. "So will I be able to talk you before I meet you? Do you have like a phone or something?"

"Oh you'll hear me. I'm going to be watching over you the whole time and if you do anything that I believe is rash then you'll hear me speak to you, but it will be in your mind so don't go replying to me out loud".

"So I won't be hearing from you much." She cocked an eyebrow at him, "What you think is rash is everyone else's suicide".

He laughed, "Enough teasing, now get in the pod, Miss Tyler".

"As you command Captain, and thanks Jack," she smiled at him when he offered her a hand to get into the pod, "It means a lot".

"Rose, I'd do this even if it didn't help the universe; to see you both happy again would be worth it". Jack went over to his own pod and started it up. Almost immediately after, Rose's started up as well. Jack flew into the air and did a loop back to pick up Rose on the bottom of his pod. Rose heard a thump and soon she was soaring through the air and up into space beneath Jack's pod.

'I'm sorry if this gets a little bumpy,' said Jacks voice in her head.

'It's ok,' she replied, 'I'm used to the TARDIS'.

When the time vortex was spinning around them Rose noticed how beautiful it really was. She hadn't really seen much of the actual thing she she'd been travelling in the TARDIS.

'Careful Rosie, you'll go mad looking at that thing too long. Oh wait…'

'Oh shut up you! I am not mad!' she responded as angrily as she could in her head.

'We're approaching platform one Rosie. Good luck, and remember if you need help I'll always be watching'.

'Thanks again, Jack'.

Rose felt as though she'd been having a very vivid dream, lifting her head to see the destruction of Earth in front of her.

"Oh this is too weird," she said aloud. She also noticed the pod had disappeared around her, no doubt one of Jack's tricks. At that moment, the Doctor walked in and she had to stop herself from hugging him. It had been a while since she'd seen this Doctor and he was just as she remembered him, all leather and ears.

He came and sat down right beside her, "Hi. So, what d'you think then?"

Rose struggled to find her voice, "Great yeah," she forced out, "I'm fine".

He looked at her expectantly and she had to think of what she could have said next, "They're just so alien aren't they, the aliens?"

"Good thing I didn't take you to the Deep South." he joked.

"Where are you from?" she asked, knowing what he was going to say.

"All over the place," he said dismissively.

Rose was about to protest but she heard a voice in her head, 'Don't push it Rosie,' said Jack warningly and she rolled her eyes.

"So why can I hear English, when they speak, it's English, all English?"

"The TARDIS translates it all for you. When you speak to them you're really speaking their language. The TARDIS gets inside your brain see".

'Ha no kidding,' she thought to herself, and she was pretty sure she heard Jack chuckle, "So it's inside my brain?"

"Well, in a good way".

"Well, as long as she doesn't start actually turning me into an alien I see no harm in it".

"That's good then," he beamed.

"So what kind of alien are you?" she asked, feeling better about the calmness of the situation this time.

"I'm a timelord," he said almost instantly, shocking Rose.

"They sound impressive," she smiled softly at him, trying to keep him from bubbling over like last time.

"Yeah," he said walking down the steps to look out the window, "Yeah they were".

"What planet did you're species come from originally?" she knew she was reaching her limits asking such personal questions.

"Does it matter?" he asked, and she could feel that tension building up again.

"No, I suppose not. You don't have to tell me anything you don't want to tell me".

"Thank you for not insisting," he said smiling at her.

"Well, I can't exactly argue with the designated driver...besides it's your business, not mine".

"No service?" he asked, noticing her holding her phone up in the air.

"You think?" she asked sarcastically, looking down at her old phone fondly.

"I tell you what, with a little bit of jiggery-pokery". He took her phone and pulled the back off it.

"Is that a technical term, jiggery-pokery?"

"Yeah I came first in jiggery-pokery, what about you?"

"Nah, failed hullabaloo," she repeated the same joke as last time.

'Rose that was seriously lame,' Jack whinged.

'Shut up,' she growled and he fell silent.

He handed her the phone back. "There you go".

She took it and called her mum's number, "Mum," she answered a little more emotionally then she should have.

The Doctor listened to the conversation. Rose had been a great deal more relaxed in that room then she had been the whole time on platform one. It struck him as odd, but he pushed the thought aside. Here was an innocent girl who had no idea of the horrors of his past. She would accept him and be kind to him instead of pushing him away. He feared the day that the truth would come out, because he was certain that she'd want to go home and he would be alone again,

"Think that's amazing you ought to see the bill," he joked.

"Thank you Doctor, you really are amazing".

He grinned at her and she was about to speak before the platform shuddered. "That's not supposed to happen," he said a little too enthusiastically, getting up and moving out of the room leaving her to follow him.

A voice rang over the intercom and explained something about gravity pockets. "Gravity pockets?" Rose asked, after the voice had finished speaking.

"Yeah, space turbulence, but that wasn't a gravity pocket. I know gravity pockets and they don't feel like that, what do you think Jabe? The engines have picked up, is that dodgy or what?"

"It's the sound of metal in makes no sense to me," the tree shrugged.

"Where's the engine room?"

"I don't know, but the maintenance duct is right behind our guest suite, I could show you and your wife," Jabe smiled at Rose who blushed.

"Well she's not my wife".

"Partner?"

"We're just friends," Rose interrupted the conversation. She really didn't want to be called a prostitute again, "Anyway you two go check it out and I'll go mingle, alright?"

"Don't start a fight," the Doctor warned, teasingly.

Rose grinned and walked away. She had every intention of starting a fight with Cassandra, but she couldn't, not yet anyway.

She wandered through the guests; close to the face of Boe. 'Hello Rosie,' said a voice in her head.

She whipped around and stared at the head. "You've gotta be kidding me, right?"

'What did I say about talking out loud?' said the voice in her head and the face smiled.

'Sorry, but you're kidding me right? Is this the first time I met you? And 'this' is what you become?!'

'Yes Rose, but I can't talk to you long. When I talk to you here it compresses the past version of me that is helping you. You better go and talk to Cassandra, I'll be in your head the whole time, don't worry'.

'Thanks Jack,' she moved along to where Cassandra was watching the Earth burn.

'Did you see what I'm going to become? Seriously, I won't be able to do anything if I'm just a head'.

Rose chuckled, 'Well at least you don't have to worry about clothes, but it does surprise me that you became a head'.

'I need my body Rose!'

'Ha-ha I don't want to know now shut up while I talk to Michael Jackson over here'.

Jack fell silent and she walked over to stand beside Cassandra, "Soon the sun will blossom into a red giant and my home will die," said Cassandra dramatically. "That's where I used to live when I was a little boy down there. Mummy and daddy had a house built into the side of the Los Angeles crevasse. Ah, we'd have such fun".

"But you're not technically the last human are you?"

"There are others but they chose to 'mingle'. I am the last pure human. They call themselves new humans and proto humans and digi humans, but you know what I call them? Mongrels".

"Right, and you stayed behind".

"I kept myself pure".

"How many operations have you had?"

"Seven hundred and eight, but next week it's seven hundred and nine, I'm having my blood bleached. Is that why you wanted a word? You could be flatter, you've got a little bit of a chin poking out".

Rose laughed, "And you've got a bad attitude. I'd rather die than be like you a bitchy trampoline".

"Oh, well what do you know?"

"I was born on that planet and so was my mum and so was my dad. So that makes me officially the last human being in the room, Cassandra, because you're not human, your skin, lipstick and skin".

Rose walked away from her angrily. She had thought she might stay calm for the second time, but not with Cassandra. She provoked such a fury inside Rose that she couldn't help.

'She's gonna be determined to take over your body when she gets the chance, Rosie'.

'Well, so what I survived it didn't I? I might even be able to avoid it'.

'I don't think you can avoid it, Rosie. It is important you know, and this time you'll be able to tell what's happening'.

'Why is it so important?'

'Well…while Cassandra was inside your body she may have made out with the Doctor'.

'What?! My Doctor?!'

'Yes ok? He liked it. He thought it was you…uh, just watch when it comes to it, he liked it a LOT'.

'That's enough from you, now shut up Jack'.

'Just one more thing, don't leave this room unless you want to be stuck in that room with the sun disintegrating everything'.

'Ah, yeah probably best to avoid that, thanks Jack'.

Rose wandered around with the guess listening to their conversations about things she'd obviously never heard of. "The Earth is burning, come gather bid farewell to the cradle of civilisation, let us mourn her with a traditional ballad," said Cassandra dramatically.

Brittany Spears toxic sang from the duke box and Rose rolled her eyes, 'I thought you said this song brought back 'happy' memories?'

'Well, any memory is better than none'.

'Isn't that painful?'

'Not anymore it isn't. Now, where's the Doctor?'

'He's with Jabe trying to stop the ship from frying itself'.

'Right, and I'm guessing he'll have more time now that he doesn't have to rescue me'.

Just at that moment the Doctor returned with Jabe. "The metal machine confirms, the spiders have infiltrated the whole of platform one," said Jabe, but Rose wasn't really listening.

"Are you alright?" she asked the Doctor when he ran over to meet her.

"Yeah, fantastic," he grinned.

"How's that possible? Our private rooms are protected by a code warp," said Cassandra, "Moisturise me, Moisturise me".

The Doctor took the spider from Jabe's hand. "Summon the steward," ordered the blue alien whose name Rose couldn't even remember.

"I'm afraid the steward is dead," Jabe announced gravely, causing the aliens to gasp in horror.

"Who killed him?" asked the same blue alien.

"This whole event was sponsored by the face of Boe, he invited us," Cassandra accused automatically.

The face of Boe shock his head, 'Can you believe that vile piece of skin is trying to blame me?!'

Rose tried not to laugh out loud, 'Well you did sponsor it'.

'Yeah but she knows it wasn't me!'

'Don't worry she'll get hers'.

'She better'.

The Doctor was looking at Rose and she suddenly stopped smiling, trying to act concerned, 'Does he think I'm insane now?'

'No, he knows that I…the face of Boe can speak in people's heads, he probably thinks I'm talking to you, which technically he's right'.

"Easy way to find out, someone brought the little pet on board, let's send him back to master," said the Doctor dropping his eyes from Rose and placing the spider on the floor.

It walked straight over to Cassandra whose eyes flickered to the right. 'That spider was clever, it knew her straight away'.

'Yeah, but she told it to go to them instead'. The spider made its way over to the adherence of the repeated meme.

"The adherence of the repeated meme," spat Cassandra in disgust.

Rose raised her eyebrows at her and walked over to the hooded creatures, the Doctor caught her drift and walked over to them as well, That's all very well and obvious, but if you stop and think about it, a repeated meme is just an idea, and that's all they are, an idea".

Rose loved it when he got all dramatic; ripping the arm one of the memes and pulling on one of the cords. The whole group of hooded figures fell to the ground in heaps of material. "Remote control droids, a nice little cover for the real trouble maker, go on Jimbo," he said, nudging the spider "Go home".

The spider headed straight back to Cassandra who glared at him. "I bet you were the school squat and never got kissed," she spat at him.

'Ha-ha funny' said Jack in Rose's head.

'How's that funny?'

'Well, she takes over your body later and kisses him doesn't she?'

'Yeah, but that's the new Doctor'.

'Still the same person'.

'Yeah, but he looks different'.

'Are you saying you don't like the look of this one?'

'No, but have you seen the new one's hair'?!'

'I can't disagree with that'.

"Rose? Rose?!" called a voice beside her. When she came back to her senses she was standing in the TARDIS beside the console.

"What?" she asked, totally confused.

"Are you alright?" asked the Doctor thinking she was just responding to him.

"Yeah I'm fine".

"I know it was a bit hard back there, but people die that's just what happens".

'Um Jack, what just happened? Did…did someone die?'

'I'm so sorry Rose there was a skip in the timeline'.

'What do you mean a skip?'

'Well there was a glitch and the past version of you took over for a while'.

'So I was unconscious so the other version of me took over, and I would have been all annoying and whiney again?'

'He doesn't find you annoying, but yes you missed the rest of your time on platform one'.

'So Jabe…'

'She died, I'm sorry'

'I really wanted to save her this time'.

'I know, but there's nothing we can do about it now'.

"I'm so sorry about Jabe," Rose blurted out.

"I know you are. So am I, she was…special".

"She was nice".

"Yeah well, no time to dwell on things, I think I better take you back".

"What, forever?"

"No, well only if you want to stay there".

"No, I want to come with you".

"Then let's just go and visit London then".

The TARDIS materialised in the street, "Incredible".

"You think it'll last forever, the people, the cars, the concrete, but it won't. One day it's all gone, even the sky," he paused, "My planets gone, it's dead. It burnt like the Earth, just rocks and dust, before it's time".

Rose looked up at him sadly, "I'm so sorry," she said giving him a hug.

He was surprised to feel her arms around him but hugged her back. "What happened to it?" she asked resting her head against his chest.

"There was a war and we lost," his blue eyes were piercing.

"A war with who?"

The Doctor just stared ahead. "What about your people?" she continued quickly, not wanting to dwell on the Daleks.

"I'm a timelord; I'm the last of the timelords. They're all gone and I'm the only survivor, left travelling on my own because there's no one else".

"There's me," she said smiling up at him hopefully.

"You've seen how dangerous it is. Are you really sure you want to come with me?"

"I'm sure." she nodded, trailing off suddenly, "Can you smell chips?"

"Yeah," he laughed at her, "Yeah".

"I want chips".

"Me too," he said grinning.

"Alright then, before you get me back in that box, chips it is and you can pay".

He shook his head. "No money".

"What sort of date are you?" she said shaking her head "Come then tightwad. Chips are on me. We've only got five billion years til the shops close".

He chuckled and she heard Jack complain in her head 'Seriously? Again with the lame jokes'.

'Shut up you He loves them'.

'You don't know that'.

'Well he laughed'.

'He was being polite'.

'Listen, if you're not happy you can always stop watching'.

'I actually can't, you're stuck with me'.

'What about when I meet you?'

'You'll still hear me; but I'll talk through the past versions body as well'.

'This is so confusing'.

'Well,pretty much any time you meet me I'll know you. Now stop talking to me and enjoy your date'.

'Cheers'.


So there's the first proper episode. There will most like be more skips in future episodes, but I'm still writing them so we'll see. I'm quite enjoying writing the next chapters so I'll get them to you soon. Thanks guys! :)