A/N Thanks for the reviews I got for the last chapter in all honesty I didn't think anyone would really review or follow my story (Just shows how little confidence I have) anyway I just wanted to say thanks and I hope you like this part. As always if you would like to comment please feel free, just no flames please.

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Chapter Two: New Beginnings.

Rose let the Doctor drag her by the hand still trying to believe that it had worked, that she and the TARDIS were re-writing history, her history, and this time she was determined to do it right, not to get stuck, to avoid those arguments started over petty things, and to save the life's of others that she couldn't the first time round.

Rose started to pay attention as she heard the Doctor trying to pull the arm of the mannequin.

"You pulled his arm off." Remembering that was what she said that to him the first time round as well.

"Yep. Plastic."

"Ok then, so what do they want?"

"What you're not going to argue that it couldn't possibly be true because it was moving on its own or anything?" The Doctor asked slightly confused

"Nope. I saw it move on its own, how could it do that if it's not alive?" Rose asked pausing a beat before she remembered why she down there in the first place, "What happened to Wilson?" She asked before the Doctor could answer her first question.

"Who's Wilson?"

"Chief electrician."

"Wilson's dead." The Doctor replied

As the lift reached the ground floor Rose tried to remember everything that had happened that day and what was going to happen.

"Did they kill him? Why" She asked knowing the answers already but trying to act as though this was new to her and she was a little shocked.

"Yes they killed him. Now mind your eyes" The doctor said as he pulled out his sonic screwdriver and started to tamper with the controls.

"Who are you then? And what are they exactly? I mean you clearly know what's going on"

"They're made of plastic. Living plastic creatures. They're being controlled by a relay device in the roof, which would be a great big problem if I didn't have this." He said pulling out a small bomb from his pockets, "So, I'm going to go up there and blow them up, and I might well die in the process, but don't worry about me. No, you go home. Go on. Go and have your lovely beans on toast. Don't tell anyone about this, because if you do, you'll get them killed."

And with that he closed the door. Rose waited for a moment knowing he was about to open the door again, and he didn't fail to follow the pattern as the door opened again.

"I'm the Doctor, by the way. What's your name?"

"Rose, Rose Tyler."

"Nice to meet you, Rose Tyler. Run for your life!"

And with that he slammed the door shut again and Rose took of down the street with the arm safely in her grip. She turned around once she was what she figured was a safe distance from Hendrik's just in time to see the shop explode and go up in flames.

~~DW~~

Back home Rose watched the news while listening to her mother talk to her friends about trying to claim for compensation and how the experience had aged her. She wasn't going to argue that point travelling with the Doctor had aged her but in good way, made her see that no matter where you were from or species or gender everyone had the same rights. Until you did something unforgivable like killing millions of people at which point all bets were off. She learnt to see the best and expect it but not to be crushed when someone followed the selfish instincts first or the murderous ones depending on who it was.

"I've been phoning your mobile. You could've been dead. It's on the news and everything. I can't believe your shop went up!"

Rose looked fondly up at Mickey knowing she had to call it off with him and smiled thinking about how he was going to grow up into a man that stood on the front lines and did what he could to help instead of cowering in a corner waiting for everything to get better.

"I'm all right honestly, don't make fuss I wasn't near the shop when it went up."

Just then her mother decided to join in. "It's Debbie on the end. She knows a man on the Mirror. Five hundred quid for an interview." Jackie said looking at Rose with a look that clearly said 'you'd better say yes'.

"Oh great! Pass the phone here!" Rose exclaimed with fake excitement.

Just as Jackie passed the phone over Rose hung up knowing she'd pissed her mother off again.

"Well, you've got to make money somehow. Your job's kaput and I'm not bailing you out."

And with that the phone started ringing again. "Bev! She alive. I've told her, sue for compensation. She was within seconds of death."

As Jackie left the room Mickey noticed what Rose was drinking.

"Tea? You're drinking tea? Nah, nah, that's no good, that's no good. You're in shock. You need something stronger, come on let's go down the pub. My treat."

"Nah I'm good thanks, and never underestimate the value of a good cup of tea." Rose said leaving the room and going into her bedroom planning on getting some sleep knowing it was going to be a while before she slept again. And with a smile to herself she started getting ready for bed deciding that maybe having forewarning wasn't such a bad thing. And with that last thought went to sleep.

~~DW~~

Rose got up early eagerly awaiting the arrival of the Doctor while her mum was talking about her trying to get a job at Finch's the butchers and suing for compensation all the while not noticing that Rose was getting more and more excited. Jackie left to go a get changed and ready for the day when Rose heard the cat flap being pushed open slightly. She walked towards the door and pulled it open just as the Doctor was jumping up.

"What are you doing here?" The Doctor asked

"I live here."

"What'd you do that for?"

"Because I do. I'm only home because someone who didn't tell me him name went and blow up my job last night." Knowing the Doctor get a little kick out of it when people went around asking him 'Doctor, Doctor Who'

"I must have got the wrong signal. You're not plastic are you?" He asked as he tapped her on the head, "No, bonehead. And I did tell you who I am. Bye now."

He started to turn around as once again Rose grabbed him and pulled him inside while the Doctor gave her a look trying to figure out who exactly she was and what she was doing.

Jackie was inside her room putting her makeup on when Rose stuck her head around the door.

"Mum, it's about last night. He's part of the inquiry. Give us about 10 minutes, ok?"

Jackie turned around to answer Rose but saw the Doctor instead as he walked past her door to the living room.

"She deserves compensation."

The Doctor stopped to reply, "Oh, we're talking millions." He replied slightly sarcastically.

"I'm in my dressing gown." Jackie said flirtatiously.

"Yes, you are." The Doctor replied not knowing what was going on.

"There's a strange man in my bedroom." Jackie continued.

"Yes, there is."

"Well, anything could happen."

"No." Said the Doctor finally cottoning on.

Rose made her way to the kitchen to start making drinks for them knowing that she might as well keep to the timeline as close as possible as not to make the Doctor suspect something was wrong with her, even if he didn't know her yet.

"Don't mind the mess. Do you want a coffee?" Knowing that this Doctor preferred coffee over tea.

"Might as well, just milk thanks."

While Rose as making the coffee the Doctor start to flick through the magazines and books that had been left about the room. Rose came back into the room and saw that the Doctor was wrestling with the plastic arm she had brought home the night before, knowing what was going on she jumped towards the Doctor and started to try and pull the arm from his neck. Just as she started to pull the arm turned around and started to try and suffocate her instead, the Doctor pulled out his sonic screwdriver just in time and pointed it at the arm trying to shut it down and help Rose.

"Alright that's stopped it. Bye then." And with that walked out again.

Rose followed the Doctor outside peppering him with questions just as she did last time even if she knew the answers because she knew the Doctor just loved to show off and it would seem weird if she didn't.

"Who are you?"

"I told you, I'm The Doctor"

"Is that supposed to sound impressive?"

"Sort of, yeah."

"Come on then. You can tell me, I've seen enough. Start from the beginning, if it's this living plastic stuff how do we kill it?" Not just thinking about the living plastic but about all of the adventures for them yet to come as himself and his regenerated version.

"The thing controlling it projects life into the arm. I cut off the signal, dead."

"So that's like radio control then, right?"

"Thought control actually, you alright?"

"Yeah I'm great, so who's controlling it then?"

"Something that wants to overthrow the human race and destroy you. Do you believe me?"

"Yes." Rose answered simply causing the doctor to look at her once more trying to figure her out and failing.

"Ok then, this is me" He said pointing towards the TARDIS "Go home Rose Tyler, go home and forget all about me." And with that the Doctor stepped in the TARDIS and left Rose standing on the street corner counting the moments until she was home.

~~DW~~

Rose was walking towards the Pizza restaurant where she was meeting up with Mickey remembering that it wasn't Mickey but a plastic copy of him. When she arrived she sat down and drifted into her own little word as the copy tried to get her to talk about the Doctor and what he was planning. Which now she thought about it should of seemed a bit off in the first besides the weird way he was speaking the real Mickey never asked this many question of her, how did she not notice the first time? She looked up as the copy grabbed her hand.

"Babe, sugar, babe, sugar, sweetheart. You can tell me anything. Tell me what the Doctor is planning, and I can help you, Rose. Because that's all I really want to do, sweetheart, babe, babe, sugar, sweetheart."

"Your champagne."

"We didn't order any champagne. Now tell me where the Doctor is." The copy demanded as he squeezed her hand tighter.

"Well I could tell you…but then again you don't seem yourself Mickey. In fact you seem just a little bit plastic, if you know what I mean." Rose couldn't help replying hoping beyond hope that the nesting consciousness didn't hurt the real one.

The Doctor looked at Rose sharply again as he was once more perplexed about her and her reactions. What had made her say that? Did she know she was sitting across the table from a plastic copy of who he guessed was her boyfriend? And if so why didn't she do something before now? But instead of asking these questions he settled on saying,

"Doesn't anyone want this champagne?"

"Look we didn't order any." The copy said as he looked up and spotted the Doctor "Ah gotcha."

The Doctor started to shake the bottle vigorously as he quipped, "Oh don't mind me just toasting the happy couple. On the house!" And he popped the cork.

The cork shot right across the table and into the copy's forehead. The copy rolled the cork around in its mouth spat it out and started towards the Doctor throwing the table out of its way. The Doctor grab the copies head and gave it a tug as the rest of the customers screamed and Rose made her way towards the fire alarm.

"Don't think that's going to stop me." The copy's head said from the Doctors hands just as the fire alarms went off and Rose started shouting for everyone to make their way out quickly. Rose and the Doctor took off in the opposite directions through the kitchens towards the back alley and the TARDIS.

The Doctor sonic the door open and motioned for Rose to go through first, when they were both on the other side he sonic it shut again and started towards the TARDIS noticing that Rose was following him in what he assumed was blind faith that he was going to help her.

"Well come on in then" The Doctor said as she stood outside the TARDIS "And don't worry the assembled hoards of Genghis Khan couldn't get through that door, and believe me, they've tried. Now shut up a minute."

The Doctor made his way towards the console and started to attach the plastic head to bits of wire and the computer screen.

"You see, the arm was too simple, but the head's perfect. I can use it to trace the signal back to the original source. Right. Where do you want to start?" Turning back to face Rose who was barely standing inside.

"It's bigger on the inside." Rose said knowing that the Doctor loved it when people said that for the first time.

"Yep."

"Well, I'm going to take a shot in the dark and guess it isn't from Woolworths," Rose smiled at him her tongue poking out through her teeth "and guess that it's alien."

"Yep. You know you're taking this very well, most people run around her to check." The Doctor remarked watching her lightly finger one of the columns as though this was just an average day for her.

"Well I guess I'm good at adapting. So that would make you an alien too then?"

"Yeah, is that a problem?" He asked slightly worried that it might be for some reason.

"No…You do realise that the head is melting right?"

"What? Oh no, no, no, no, no!" The Doctor cried as the turned around to find that the head as indeed melting on the console, running forward he started hitting buttons and flicking levers starting the TARDIS up.

"It's fading, the signals fading. Wait a minute, I've got it. No, no, no, no, no, no, no! Almost there, Almost there. Come on girl, here we go!"

The TARDIS stops with a thud and the Doctor pushed past Rose and opened the doors to check if he was where he needed to be. Just to see he was on the north bank of the Thames opposite the London Eye.

"I lost the signal, I got so close." Whether he was talking to himself or Rose neither were that sure.

"We've moved, does it fly then?"

"No it disappears there and reappears here. You wouldn't understand."

"Go on try me. Just cause I'm a blonde shop assistant for an estate doesn't mean I'm thick."

The Doctor gave Rose an appraising look. "Maybe later if we've got time."

"I'll hold you to that." Rose paused for a beat then remember that she probably should of asked about Mickey already "Did they kill him? Did they kill Mickey when they made a copy?"

"What, oh the kid? Maybe I'm not too sure I've got to find where the signal came from then I can deal with that, alright?"

"Fine no need to get snarky. I was just asking a question...How come you sound like you're from the North then?"

"Lots of planets have a North."

Rose smiled as she remember the first time he had said that and how she couldn't believe she was back with him.

"What's a police public call box then?"

"It's a telephone box from the 1950s. It's a disguise."

"Cool I like it, very...retro. So this living plastic what's it got against us?"

"Nothing. It loves you. You've got such a good planet. Lots of smoke and oil, plenty of toxins and dioxins in the air, perfect. Just what the Nestene Consciousness needs. It's food stock was destroyed in the war, all its protein plants rotted, so Earth, dinner! "

"How do we stop it?"

The Doctor pulled the bottle of anti-plastic out from his pocket and showed it to Rose with a grin on his face.

"What's that then, anti-plastic?" Rose asked raising one eyebrow in a manner that said 'really?'

"Yep, anti-plastic. One bottle of this and goodbye Nestene Consciousness. But I've got to find it. How can you hide a transmitter that big in London?"

Rose remembering what happened last time just looked over his shoulder at the London Eye and started to count the seconds to see how long it actually took him to see something so very clear that even she saw it the first time round before he managed it, and he was supposed to be the genius!

"It's huge and round and slap bang in the middle of London. A huge circular metal structure like a dish, like a wheel. Close to where we're standing. Must be completely invisible. What? What?" The Doctor asked as he turned to face Rose looking slightly amused and staring across the bank at something. Rose on the other hand couldn't believe how long it was taking the Doctor to figure it out, he basically describe the London Eye and looked at it while trying to guess what she was looking at and still the penny hadn't dropped, she wondered how much longer it would of taken him if she wasn't there to help.

"What? What is it? What?" The Doctor asked again as he looked over his shoulder again, then back at Rose who raised an eyebrow and nodded towards the London Eye. He looked around once more and finally saw it.

"Oh. Fantastic!"

The Doctor and Rose took off at a run across Westminster Bridge "Think about it, plastic all over the world, every artificial thing waiting to come alive. The shop window dummies, the phones, the wires, the cables."

"The breast implants." Rose muttered under her breath.

"Still we've found the transmitter. The Consciousness must be somewhere underneath."

"What like down here?" Rose asked pointing towards the man hole she knew they needed.

"Looks good to me, let's go." and the Doctor grabbed her hand and ran towards the man hole. The Doctor soniced the cover off and started climbing down the ladder into a brick built area with lots of chains hanging from the walls. They went through another door to a multi-levelled chamber were they saw the Nestene Consciousness inside a huge vat.

"Well I'm gonna guess and go with that you're going to talk to the Consciousness first before you tip in the anti-plastic?" Rose whispered to the Doctor.

"Yes. I have to, if there's a way to end this peacefully I'll take that option any day. You ok with that?" The Doctor asked because he couldn't quite figure her out, who would offer a peaceful option to a creature she just found out wanted to killed the entire planet. Not many of his companions understood that.

"Yes, it's always better to try and find a peaceful way out if possible, otherwise what makes us better than our enemies who don't?"

The Doctor turned away from Rose and turned his thoughts to the matter at hand. He walked over to the catwalk over seeing the vat as Rose made her way to Mickey who was cowering in a corner.

"I seek an audience with the Nestene Consciousness under peaceful contract according to convention 15 of the Shadow Proclamation."

Rose looked up sharply as she heard the Consciousness reply to the Doctor not with noises that she had heard last time but with actual words.

"Thank you do I have permission to approach?"

Rose stopped paying attention at this point and noticed that once again Mickey was clinging to her waist like a child, at this moment she really noticed the difference between the newer Mickey and this Mickey.

"Mickey, Mickey come on pay attention go over there and wait for me and the Doctor to come and grab you, ok? Mickey did you hear me?"

She pushed Mickey away and waited for the Consciousness to make the next move.

"Am I addressing the Consciousness? Thank you. If I might observe, you infiltrated this civilisation by means of warp shunt technology, So, may I suggest, with the greatest respect that you shunt off?"

As the Consciousness replied Rose noticed a pair of plastic dummies slowly making their way towards the Doctor.

"Oh, don't give me that. It's an invasion, plain and simple. Don't talk about constitutional rights. I am talking!" The doctor shouted at the Consciousness tried to interrupt, "This planet is just starting. These stupid little people have only just learnt how to walk, but they're capable of so much more. I'm asking you on their behalf. Please just go."

Rose watched as the dummies grabbed the Doctor and took the vial of anti-plastic from his pocket.

"I wasn't going to use it, it was just insurance. I'm not attacking you. I'm here to help. I'm not your enemy. I swear, I'm not. What do you mean?"

The door hiding the TARDIS opened and Rose knew she needed to act soon she pushed Mickey off her again and whispered in his ear "Go to blue box, ok. I'll be fine and I'll meet you there." And ran towards the chains grabbing an axe on the way.

"No. Oh, no honestly, no. Yes that's my ship. That's not true. I should know, I was there. I fought in the war. It wasn't my fault. I couldn't save your world! I couldn't save any of them! Rose! Rose get out! It's starting the final phase, it's starting the invasion. Just leg it out of here! It's activating the signal!"

But Rose had no intention of leaving her Doctor not then and most definitely not now. Rose armed with her axe started hitting away at the chain trying to get it free,

"I've still got no A-levels, no job, no future, and the man I love just left me in a parallel world because I let go. No more." and with a final swing the chain came lose. "But what I have got still is Jericho Street Junior School under 7s gymnastic team. I got the bronze."

And she grabbed the chain and swung along the side of the catwalk kicking the two dummies holding the Doctor, dropping the anti-plastic into the vat. She started swinging backwards as the Doctor shouted her name and grabbed her around the waist holding her still and pulling her into safety.

"Now we're in trouble." The Doctor grabbed Rose's hand as they ran towards the stairs to get the TARDIS as they got inside pulling Mickey along with them they heard the Consciousness scream. Once inside Rose phoned her mum to see if she was alright.

"Rose, did you see them?"

Rose noticed her mum didn't sound as scared as last time so she started to hope that maybe because she acted a little faster less people died.

"I was in town and the shop dummies came alive, everybody started screaming and running but then they just stopped. People are saying it was a student prank gone wrong."

Rose let a breathe she didn't even realise she was holding, smiled and hung up.

As the TARDIS stopped Mickey ran outside to hide behind the bins, Rose and the Doctor walked out calmly as though this was everyday stuff for them, which in all truth it was. Rose made her way towards Mickey who once again grabbed hold of her waist like a child.

"Fat lot of good you were." She said turning to face the Doctor.

"Nestene Consciousness? Easy."

"Yeah right! You'd be dead if it wasn't for me."

"Yes I would. Thank you. Right then, I'll be off, unless of course, er, I don't know maybe, you could come with me? This box isn't just a London hopper, you know. It can anywhere in the whole universe, free of charge."

Rose smiled her tongue just poking out, it took everything she had not to say yes and run full pelt at him and the TARDIS but there was a little tingle in the back of her mind letting her know it was important that the Doctor asked twice.

"Don't. He's an alien. He's a thing." Mickey added rudely.

"He can't come. What'd you think? You could stay here, fill your life with work and food and sleep, or you could go anywhere. The whole of space just waiting to be explored."

"Yeah...umm...I can't. I've...err...I've got to go and find my mum and somebody's got to look after this stupid lump, so..."

"Ok then. See you around." And with that he closed the doors and Rose started to panic as the TARDIS dematerialised hoping that he would come back for her again.

"Mickey, Mickey pay attention. I want to break up."

"But...but why? We're nice." Mickey asked confused.

"Mickey one day you're going to find someone that means the world to you and she won't ever want to let you go but that's not me. I don't want to hurt you anymore than I have to, I can't do this anymore, I'm sorry." Rose turned around as she heard the TARDIS materialising.

"By the way, did I mention it also travels in time?" The Doctor asked as he poked he head out the doors.

"Bye Mickey. I gonna gone a while." And she kissed him on the cheek and ran towards her future and the man she loves.