Chapter 1: The Flower (Part 2)

X On the TARDIS X


"What are you doing?" He said and then turned around looking unamused. At least he didn't look angry.

"I followed you. I've always wanted to see the TARDIS first hand and might I say, she is beautiful."

"Yeah she is." He said and gazed fondly at the console. "Wait, how do you know she is a she, and that she is a TARDIS?"

He briskly walked up to me and I sunk slightly in my seat.

"A good guess?" I said.

"No, you know something, and you're not telling me. Spit it out or I shove you into a black hole."

"Woah now, no need to get so defensive. But like I said, I don't think you'll believe me even if I tell you."

"Try me." I sighed, he wasn't going to give up and I really rather not fly off into a black hole.

"You are the star of a TV show I like to watch in my universe."

"What?"

"You are the star of a TV show I like to watch in my universe." I repeated. The Doctor walked up and grabbed my shoulders.

"Look me in the eye and say that to me one more time." I looked up, and mustered up all the innocence and honestly that I could and stared him down. My blue eyes staring him in his slightly paler blue ones.

"You are the star of a TV show I like to watch in my universe." The Doctor quickly let go of me. He backed up to the console and stood there, thinking.

I sighed. It was going to come out eventually so I may as well get it over with.

"That's just not possible." He muttered to himself. I decided to let things sit before I said anything.

Moments passed and I was feeling tense. I wasn't sure if he believed me, but he needed too. I needed him to know.

"I'm alone here." I said, taking him out of his thoughts.

"I mean, I'm alone in the same sense you are but my family, there are someplace that I may never get back to." I heard the Doctor sigh and he sat down next to me.

"How much do you know about me?" He asked.

"A lot."

"You know where I'm from?"

"Yep."

"Tell me." He asked like this was a test.

"Gallifrey." I answered.

"You know what happened to Gallifrey."

"The Time War.

"Against who?"

"The Daleks."

"Who won."

"Well," I started, unsure of how to answer.

"I wouldn't call it winning, but Doctor, you win." The Doctor looked away from me.

"And what am I?"

"The Doctor, a great Time Lord." I paused. "Doctor?"

"Yes?"

"I was wondering, if it's not to much trouble, but could I stick around for a while? I have no where to go and-"

"Sure." He said.

"Really?" I said completely bewildered. This Doctor was supposed to be the angry post war Doctor that was friendly to people but wasn't as trusting.

"Yeah." He turned around and smiled. I jumped up off the chair and ran to him and pulled him in a hug. I loved the hug but noticed the Doctor tense and I pulled away.

"Sorry, I've always wanted to do that." The Doctor just chucked lightly.

"So if I'm in a TV series then you can tell me what happens?"

"I could, but I don't think thats very wise. Things have to happen the way they are supposed to and if I interfere by telling you, some things might change for the worse. But you Doctor, usually manage quite well on your own." I beamed at him.

The Doctor thought about it for a moment but nodded in agreement.

"But I will always try to save a life." I said firmly.

"Oh, I like you." The Doctor said.

"Ha, I like you too!" I replied using the laugh that I acquired from listening to 10.

"Now, where should be head to?"

"I think we need to pay Miss Rose Tyler a visit." I said.

"Is that right? If you say so and the Doctor threw a lever and sent the TARDIS flying. Once it was on the ground we hoped out and into the alleyway.

"Plastic Mickey and Rose are having some lunch, we should crash the party."

"Agreed." He smiled. I was liking this Doctor more and more. I almost hoped I could stay with him for a long while.

The Doctor and I approached a cafe and entered. The Doctor ran to the back and flashed him physic paper.

"Management, I need an apron." Then he looked at me. "Two, if you don't mind." The waitress hurriedly grabbed to and handed then to us.

"A bottle of champagne too, if you don't mind." I said.

"Now, one rule, we don't drink on the job." The Doctor said.

"It's not for me." I said as I grabbed the bottle and walked up to Mickey and Rose.

"Your champagne." I said, neither of them paid me much attention.

"We didn't order any champagne." Mickey said, I looked back at the Doctor and he waved me over.

"Your Turn." The Doctor took the bottle and walked to the couple.

"Where's the Doctor?"

The doctor went to the opposite side of the table and offered them the champagne.

"Ma'am. Your champagne."

"It's not ours... Mickey, what is it? What's wrong?" Rose said, waving him off.

"I need to find out how much you know, so where is he?"

"Doesn't anybody want this champagne?" The Doctor said in a slightly louder voice.

Mickey, exasperated, raised his eyes to the waiter for the first time.

"Look, we didn't order i—" He stopped seeing the waiter is the Doctor.

"Ah. Gotcha." Mickey said and began to get move to try and get out of his chair. The Doctor shook the bottle.

"Don't mind me. I'm just toasting the happy couple. On the house!" The cork popped out and hit Mickey squarely on the forehead. His forehead then absorbed the cork and he spat it out of his mouth. Rose, stood up finally realizing this wasn't the real Mickey, and was an Auton.

"Anyway." The Auton said and turned his hands into clubs and smashed the table. I quickly ran over to Rose and pulled her out of the way. In the meantime the Doctor grabbed the Auton's head and pulled it off.

"Don't think that's gonna stop me."

A couple of people in the cafe began to scream and the Doctor grinned while I ran and pulled the fire alarm.

"Everyone out! Out now!" I yelled. Everyone rushed out and the Auton began smashing everything in its path.

"Get out! Get out! Get out!" Rose added, pushing people out. I grabbed Rose's hand and went in the direction the Doctor left and headed out the back door, and locked it behind us. The Auton was catching up quickly behind us. Rose runs ahead trying to find an escape and starts shaking on some locked gates. I wanted to much to pull out my sonic to see if it worked but though against it. Plus, we were standing right beside the TARDIS.

"Open the gate! Use that tube thing, come on!" Rose yelled back at the Doctor.

"What, this? This is a sonic screwdriver." He said pulling it out.

"Use it!"

"Nah. Tell ya what, let's go in here." He said and I followed right behind him. The Doctor approached the TARDIS, unlocked it. Rose looked behind her, scared. The Auton began making dents in the door.

"We can't hide inside a wooden box!" Rose yelled.

"Yes we can." I said in a tune.

Rose ran to the gates and shook them. "It's gonna get us! Doctor!" She said, but turned around and finally ran into the TARDIS. The Doctor and I stood at the console watching her amusedly. Rose had closed the door behind her, took a few steps in, took in the design of the TARDIS, than ran straight back out and she slowly walked around the box noting that it was in fact larger on the inside. She ran back inside when the Auton busted through the door.

"It's gonna follow us!" She said and closed the TARDIS's door.

"The assembled hoards of Genghis Khan couldn't get through that door, and believe me, they've tried. Now, shut up a minute."

Rose was shaking like a leaf so I walked to her and placed a hand on her shoulder. Rose began to look around overwhelmed by how large it was. I looked at the Doctor and saw that he was wiring up Plastic Mickey's head.

"You see, the arm is too simple, but the head's perfect." The Doctor commented. Rose was still distracted by the vastness of the TARDIS.

"I can use it to trace the signal back to the original source." The Doctor said and spun around now facing Rose.

"Where do you want to start?"

"Um... the inside's bigger than the outside?" She said and I smiled ear to ear. I've always wanted to hear someone say it in person.

"Yes."

"It's alien."

"Yup."

"Are you alien?"

"Yes."

"Are you?" She asked me. The Doctor turned to me as well with a questionable brow raised.

"Nope, just a boring human." I said, shrugging my shoulders.

"Is that alright?" He asked Rose.

"Yeah."

"It's called the TARDIS, this thing." He placed a hand on the console. I quickly cut him off.

"T-A-R-D-I-S, that's Time And Relative Dimension In Space." Taking the words right out of his mouth. The Doctor looked at me slightly frowning.

"What? You always get to explain, I just wanted to have a go." Rose sobbed a bit taking away my attention from the Doctor.

"That's okay. Culture shock. Happens to the best of us." He said.

"Did they kill him? Mickey? Did they kill Mickey? Is he dead?"

"Oh... didn't think of that." The Doctor brushed of the question/

"He's my boyfriend. You pulled off his head - they copied him and you didn't even think? And now you're just going to let him melt?!"

"Melt?" He asked and turned around in time to see that Mickey's head was in fact melting and was making a nasty bubbling noise.

"Oh, no no no no no NO!" The Doctor ran back to the console and began pressing buttons and pulling levers.

"What're you doing?!" She asked still disturbed from the melting head of her boyfriend.

"Reviving the signal, it's fading! Wait I've got it…" He said and looked at the screen. "No No No No No No NO!" The TARDIS began to shake as the engines moved. "Almost there! Almost there! Here we go!" The engines stopped and the Doctor ran out the door.

"You can't go out there, it's not safe!"

"Dont worry." I said. "We aren't there anymore, we moved." She looked at me trying to figure out if I was really stupid or just insane. I pushed her out the front door.

"I lost the signal, I got so close." The Doctor said frustrated.

"We've moved! Just like you said." Rose looked at me. "Does it fly?" Just as I was about to answer the Doctor interrupted.

"Disappears there, reappears here, you wouldn't understand." He looked at me and smirked knowing that I wanted to explain things to Rose.

"But if we're somewhere else, what about that headless thing? It's still on the loose."

"It melted with the head, are you going to witter on all night?"

"I'll have to tell his mother…" She said solemnly. The Doctor just looked at her confused. Rose looked taken aback that the Doctor looked so unconcerned.

"Mickey! I'll have to tell his mother he's dead, and you just went and forgot him, again!" The Doctor just rolled his eyes at her.

"You were right, you ARE alien." Rose spoke harshly.

"Now Rose-" I began but she started to walk away.

"Look, if I did forget some kid called Mickey—"

"Yeah, he's not a kid."

"It's because I'm trying to save the life of every stupid ape blundering on top of this planet, alright?"

"Alright!" She shouted back. Though something else was bothering her. "If you are an alien, then how comes you sound like you're from the North?"

"Lots of planets have a North." He said and looked away.

"I'm glad you dont have my accent." I said, the Doctor stood up and walked over to me.

"American, why not?"

"No Canadian, and because I think your accent is pretty sexy." I said and winked at him. 'Especially Matt Smiths.' I thought to myself. The Doctor quickly looked away, obviously trying to ignore my comment.

"Canadian, now I haven't met a lot of those." He muttered to himself.

"Well then I have to teach you our ways." I said in a sulty voice. This Doctor was more skittish when it came to innuendo. It truly was a lot of fun teasing him. Rose decided to get things back on track.

"What's a police public call box?"

"It's a telephone box from the 1950s." He patted the TARDIS fondly and I grinned at the gesture.

"It's a disguise."I said. Rose smiled and just shook her head disbelievingly.

"Okay. And 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!"

"Any way of stopping it?" She asked. The Doctor grinned and pulled out a tube with blue liquid in it

"Anti-plastic!" I shouted happily.

"Anti-plastic…" Rose rolled off her tongue.

"Anti-plastic! But first I've got to find it. How can you hide something that big in a city this small?"

"Hold on... hide what?"

"The transmitter. The Consciousness is controlling every single piece of plastic so it needs a transmitter to boost the signal."

"What's it look like?"

"Like a transmitter. Round and massive, slap bang in the middle of London." The Doctor paced around trying to figure out where it might be. "A huge circular metal structure... like a dish…" He leaned on a railing on the bridge and faced Rose. I stood in front of him, already noting that the transmitter was behind him.

"...like a wheel. Close to where we're standing. Must be COMPLETELY invisible." He muttered.

I nudged Rose and shifted my gaze to the London Eye. She smiled. I nudged to stand beside the Doctor and I walked to the TARDIS and leaned against it.

"What?" He said, looking between the pair of us. I waved a hand at Rose, motioning for her to tell him. Rose caught the Doctors eye and she nodded towards the Eye. The Doctor turned looked at the Eye, turned around and looked at Rose. He obviously didn't get what she was trying to show him.

"What?" He asked. Rose and I both shook our head and Rose looked at the Eye again. The Doctor looked again, still not making the connection.

"What is it? What?" He said, now frustrated. Rose just continued staring at the London Eye and the Doctor turned once more, and then it clicked.

"Oh... fantastic!" He grinned and ran off, while grabbing Rose's hand. I heaved myself off the the TARDIS and chased after them. I foresee a lot of running in my future. The three of us stopped underneath the Eye.

"Think of 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 said.

"Butt implants." I added and me giggled at each other.

"Still, we've found the transmitter. The Consciousness must be somewhere underneath." I nonchalantly walked over to the manhole which I knew was the entrance. I pulled Rose over with me and pointed it to her. The Doctor watched me as a gestured for her to tell him/

"What about down here?" The Doctor ran over to us and eyed me.

"Looks good to me." Rose headed down the stairs first, and just as I was about to head down, the Doctor grabbed one of my hands.

"Why'd you have her tell me?

"Uhm, to make her feel special? Don't tell her I said that. She is actually a very special girl."

The Doctor looked at me curiously but decided not to pursue it, at least not right now. They ran down the stars to the manhole and the Doctor took the lid of and a red light and smoke poured out of it. The Doctor ventured down first, then Rose, then myself. I was in a dressed but I was quite glad I always wore tight underneath.

The Doctor opened the door to another chamber and they headed go down some steps. The Doctor stopped and pointed down to a huge, orange, wobbling mass in the middle of the chamber.

"The Nestene Consciousness, that's it, inside the vat. A living, plastic creature."

"Well, then. Tip in your anti-plastic and let's go." Rose said and clapped her hands once.

"No!" I yelled, then quickly stepped back. Rose looked at me curiously.

"I'm not here to kill it. I've got to give it a chance." He said almost as if he was defending me. The Doctor went a few steps closer and leaned over the railing and addressed the Consciousness.

"I seek audience with the Nestene Consciousness under peaceful contract. According to convention 15 of the Shadow Proclamation." The Consciousness blubbered around a bit.

"Thank you. That I might have permission to approach." Meanwhile I had already located Mickey and called Rose over. She ran when she saw him. The Doctor saw him, and just rolled his eyes.

"Oh, my God! Mickey! It's okay! It's alright!" She squatted down next to him.

"That thing down there, the liquid, Rose - it can talk!"

"You're stinking! Doctor, they kept him alive!"

"Yeah, that was always a possibility. Keep him alive to maintain the copy."

"You knew that and you never said?"

"Can we keep the domestics outside, thank you?" I helped Rose as she struggled to get Mickey to his feet then let then hug each other. I looked over them and saw the Doctor approach the Consciousness.

"Am I addressing the Consciousness? Thank you. If I might observe, you infiltrated this civilization by means of warped, shunt technology. So, may I suggest, with the greatest respect, that you shunt off?" The plastic moved in a negative manner.

"Oh don't give me that, it's an invasion! Plain and simple! Don't talk about constitutional rights!" The plastic moved violently in disapproval.

"I - am - talking! 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." I watched at Two Autons came up from behind him.

"Doctor!" Both Rose and I yelled at the same Autons grabbed him. One of them taking the anti-plastic out of his jacket pocket.

"That was just insurance! I wasn't going to USE it." Though the plastic moves angrily. "I was not attacking you. I'm here to help. I'm not your enemy. I swear, I'm not... what do you mean?" The doors above him opened to reveal the TARDIS. I shook nervously, not sure if I should interfere or not.

"Oh, oh no - honestly, no! Yes, that's my ship." The plastic roared in a reply.

"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!"

"What's it doing?!" Rose said worriedly.

"It's the TARDIS! The Nestene has identified its superior technology - it's terrified! It's going to the final base. It's starting the invasion! Get out, Rose! Just leg it! Now!" The Doctor yelled then looked at me I nodded at him, knowing what he would want me to do. I grabbed Rose's hand but she yanked it away and dialled her moms number into her phone.

"Mum?!Where are you, mum?Go home! Just go home, right now!Mum?! Mum!" She yelled not the phone.

"It's the activation signal! It's transmitting!" He watched at the Nestene shifted around.

"The end of the world…" Rose said.

"Not today." I told her. I looked over to the Doctor who was still being held hostage.

"Get out, Rose! Just get out! Run! Azalea, take her out!" He yelled back at us. I nodded but knew that I couldn't do that. I will face the wrath of the Time Lord at another time. I lightly tried to pull her away, but part of the ceiling fell in, covering the stairs.

"The stairs have gone!" Micke yelled. I led them to the TARDIS trying to get them in.

"I haven't got the key!" She said and looked at me.

I sighed. "I don't have on either." But I hope to have one someday.

"We're gonna die!" Mickey shouted. Mickey and Rose cowered at the door of the TARDIS. While I stood up, trying to think of what to do next. Rose was supposed to jump up at any point now, but she hasn't made a move to do so. But then I noticed that Rose was watching the Doctor struggle to get to the anti-plastic. I watched her face changed to something more like determination and she stood up.

"Just leave him!" Mickey cried, and I whacked him over the head.

"Never." I said eyeing him.

I watched as Rose moved quickly over and picked up and axe.

"There's nothing you can do!" Mickey said and I whacked him again.

"Listen to her." I said to him.

"I've got no A Levels. No job...No future." I shook my head and smiled at her. How wrong she was. Rose then raised the axe and hacked at the chain on the wall, trying to release it. "But I tell you what I have got. Jericho Street Junior School under 7s gymnastic team."The chain came loose and Rose grabbed onto it. It really was something to watch her in action.

"I got the bronze!"

Rose swung across the gap over the Consciousness. She kicked the Autons holding the Doctor hostage into the Nestene, anti-plastic and all. The Consciousness began to writhe and scream. Rose lands safely in the Doctor's arms at the other side of the gap. I smiled, proud at what she accomplished and hoped that it was enough for the Doctor to take her as his companion.

"Now we're in trouble." He said, yet Consciousness began to explode as Rose and the Doctor ran off. The signal from the Eye was cut off.

Rose, the Doctor and Mickey all managed to reach the TARDIS, with me slowly trailing behind. Rose grinned at the Consciousness before she went inside, though I slightly frowned, it would have been nice if no one had to die. I walked in and closed the door, as it started to die. Just before the whole chamber went up in flames, the TARDIS disappeared.

Inside the TARDIS I sat on the pilot seat, slightly unhappy that it still had to turn out the way it did. Though, I was having a kick out of Mickey freaking out and cowering behind Rose, afraid of the TARDIS. The engines roared and took off, and second later came to a stop. Mickey quickly ran out of the TARDIS and fell over, looking terrified. He backed himself against a wall. Rose, though just stepped out and called her mom and I followed her out. Well she really only listened to Jackie knowing that she was alright then hung up the phone, then she ran over to Mickey

"A fat lot of good you were!" She said, Mickey whimpered at her and the Doctor stood in the doorway.

"Nestene Consciousness?" He said and clicked his fingers. "Easy."

"You were useless in there. You'd be dead if it wasn't for me." Rose said.

"Yes, I would. Thank you. Right then! I'll be off! Unless, uh... I don't know... you could come with me." I clapped my hands together happily, yes, she's in! Though Rose looked at him hands in her pockets.

"This box isn't just a London hopper, you know, it goes anywhere in the universe free of charge." I said, while walking to the TARDIS and patted it fondly. The Doctor just looked at me and smirked, agreeing.

"Don't! He's an alien! He's a thing!" Mickey shouted.

"He's NOT invited. What do you think? You could stay here and fill your life with work and food and sleep, or you could go, uh... anywhere."

"Is it always this dangerous?" Rose asked looking between the both of us. And we both nodded.

"Yeah." The Doctor replied. Mickey reached out and grabbed Rose's leg, looking like a little child.

"Yeah, I can't... I've um... gotta go and find my mum and um... someone's gotta look after this stupid lump…" She laughed lightly and patted Mickey's head. I frowned, he was holding her back. "So…"

"Okay. See you around." He said. Rose and the Doctor looked at each other intensely and I walked into the TARDIS first and the talk just stepped back and closed the door. He ran up to the console and began pulling levers.

"So where do you want to go?" He asked me, though with not as much enthusiasm as I had hoped.

"I dont know, I really miss that Rose Tyler girl, she was great." I said and smirked. The Doctor smiled and pulled a lever down. The engines stopped and he ran to the door and opened it quickly and popped his head out. Rose stopped and turned around suddenly.

"By the way - did I mention, it also travels in time?" The Doctor grinned.

"Thanks." Rose said to Mickey.

"Thanks for what?"

"Exactly." She kissed his cheek and runs into the TARDIS with a broad smile on her face. She closed the door behind her and ran up to the console. She saw me sitting on the pilot chair and sat down next to me.

"I dont get you." She said to me. I looked up at her curiously.

"And what don't you get?" I asked.

"How do you know so much? About him? About everything?" She asked.

"Well, I don't know everything. He does." I gestured to the Time Lord and he smirked back at me.

"But I know a lot about him and what's going to happen around him."

"But how?"

"I told you I wasn't from around here. I'm from a different universe where you guys are characters in a TV show that I loved to watch."

"You're jokin." Rose said and looked at the Doctor, who didn't make any motion of telling her that she was lying.

"No, I am very serious, and like I told you, you are going to have a fantastic year." I smiled at her and the engines of the TARDIS took off into space.


And there is part 2.

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