Quotes from the episode; A Christmas Carol :) Anything not from that ep is mine however :)


-Chapter Three-

The Doctor swung open the TARDIS doors with a massive smile on his face. "Hello Ponds!" He shouted without looking.

Rose raised an eyebrow, slowly moving out from behind him. "Doctor...?" She started as she stepped out in front.

He blinked then his face fell. "Drat. Well, right time...wrong place..." He said, looking around.

Rose shivered and rubbed her arms. "Seriously? You tell me to go out on a dress and now were standing on top of a bare rooftop in the freezing cold." She half teased.

He gave her an apologetically guilty look. "Yes...sorry about that. Oh! I can fix the cold bit though!" He realized, and started shrugging off his jacket.

"Doctor, it's cold remember? I've got the same skin as you now, if I'm cold so are you." She reasoned as he shook his head, smirking.

"Nah, I've been in much colder with much less clothing. That plus I've had a considerable amount of time to build up a resistance. This is nothing." He said, and wrapped her up in his tweed jacket. He paused for a moment, and stepped back.

He wasn't exactly muscular in his current body, but his jacket still managed to make her look small again, like the nineteen year old girl he had once wrapped up in a bulky leather jacket. Not that Rose was in anyway small, or nineteen, but her covered up in his light tweed jacket gave him a warm feeling inside. A feeling he still wasn't used to, but one he definitely loved.

Rose raised an eyebrow at him again. "What? Does tweed not match with red satin?" She teased.

He smiled and moved closer, winding his arm through hers and intertwining their fingers to hold her hand. "On the contrary, Rose Tyler. You look beautiful. Especially in tweed. Although, that dress isn't made of satin."

She rolled her eyes but the smile and slight blush gave her away. "Close enough, anyway. So...any idea where we are then, mister fashion expert?"

He laughed and squeezed her hand as they started to make their way to what looked like a ladder. "You know, you're the first to call me that. The very first actually. But...we are...oh."

"Oh? I'm really starting to not like it when you say oh." Rose mumbled.

He smirked briefly and looked back to the sky. "That. That's a fish. A fish!" He said, moving away from Rose to sonic the floating fish.

An amazed smile broke out on Rose's face. "Is that really a fish swimming in the air?" She asked walking slowly up beside him.

He turned and saw that look on her face, the one he had loved ever since the very first time he had taken her somewhere with the TARDIS. He loved that look on her. Turning back to the fish he reached up to poke it before it swam out of his reach.

"Oh...gotta love new planets!" He said, that whimsical time returning to his voice.

Rose smiled wide, he was adorable when he was like this. Like two hundred years were lifted off his shoulders. She walked up and grabbed his arm. "They're amazing, Doctor. So where are we? Why would the TARDIS send us here if we need to find the Ponds?"

"Well...maybe we need to be here. Or...maybe the TARDIS agrees that we need some alone time as well as I do," he said smirking and turning her around to wrap his arms around her waist. "It's quite nice here, quiet streets, it's Christmas Eve, snow on the ground, stars...well not quite visible but it's still a very nice night out. And you're here. Just you and me. Nothing around to interfere..." He started, trailing off as he leaned his head down to softly capture her lips.

Suddenly they heard shouting coming from the chimney stack. The Doctor continued to hold onto her and kiss her, until they heard more shouting and Rose had to pull away and pause to listen.

"Doctor did you just hear what I heard?"

He kept his eyes closed. "Depends on what you heard, Rose," maybe if she hadn't heard what the angry man had yelled he could keep kissing her...

"A man said something about asking for a woman back and the angry one said something about keeping her. Then something about a ship with 4,000 life forms and how there wouldn't be 'if we wait a bit'. He sounded happy, laughing about that. Very not good, Doctor."

She was right. Of course she was. Well, kissing would have to wait then. Drat. "Oh...yes I suppose it isn't good. You missed the part I heard though. How it's a galaxy class ship. Rory and Amy are on one of those."

Rose's face fell. "Oh. Right, they are. Forgot about that."

They stood there for a moment. "We had to go down there."

"Quickest way in is that chimney," Rose added, pointing to their right. "Just like Santa."

The Doctor broke out in a wide grin. "Always wanted to do that."

Rose laughed and kissed his cheek. "Well get a move on, this dress isn't making it down there. Get in and open the door, yeah? It's a bit cold out here," she said running her hands down her sides and smirking.

The Doctor groaned. "Rose don't tease at a time like this."

"Hurry so you can help warm me up," teasing him never got old. Rose laughed as he bit his lip and she hurried forward to the ladder at the side of the roof. "See ya soon, Doctor."

He grinned and ran over to the chimney, hoping over the edge and sliding down before he could change his mind and use one of the many ways he was thinking of to keep her warm...


All of a sudden he was inside the house and somersaulting into a living room. "Ah! Yes, blimey, sorry! Christmas Eve on a roof top and had to get down here, saw a chimney and my whole brain just went, what the hell!"

He walked over to the children and smiled a bit softer. "Don't worry, fat fella will be doing the regular rounds later. I'm just scoping out the general...chimney-ness. Yes. Nice size, good traction...big tick!

"Fat fella?" The man holding the boy's shoulder asked.

"Father Christmas, Santa Clause, or as I've always known him...Jeff."

The little boy looked at the Doctor oddly. "There's no such person as Father Christmas."

"Oh yeah?" The Doctor asked, pulling out an old, tattered, photo in black and white. "Me and Father Christmas. 1952. That one in the back with the blonde...Albert Einstein. Oh the three of us together...hrrrrooom! Watch out! Rose was quite a kicker!"

"What should we watch out for? And who did I kick?" Rose asked, raising an eyebrow as she was escorted in the room by a tall, burly man.

"Rose! Oh um...watch out for science. We were all very smart, obviously. So much...science. And math, yeah lots of math. Right. Keep the faith, stay off the naughty list," he added to the boy. "Anyway, ohhh what's this? I love this. A big flashy lighty thing! That's what brought us here then."

The Doctor walked over to huge control panels with lights and knobs all over. At least that was all it looked like to Rose.

"Big flashy lighty things have got my name written all over them. Not actually, but give me time and a crayon," he said, trailing off as he sat in the chair and spun around to face the grumpy, and now confused, old man. "Now. This flashy lighty thing is connected to the spire in your dome, yeah, and it controls the sky. Well really it controls the clouds, which technically aren't clouds at all. Well, they're clouds of tiny particles of ice. Ice clouds, love that."

"Wait Doctor, who's this?" Rose asked, walking towards the woman that seemed to be frozen inside the iron box.

"Just about to ask that, love. Who's she?" The Doctor repeated, walking over to rosé and the frozen woman in white.

"No one important," the old man said.

"Really? Blimey, that's amazing. You know, in 900 years of time and space I've never met anyone unimportant before," the Doctor said, but then he changed direction again and went back to the controls. "Now I'd say this console is the key to saving the ship, or I'll eat my hat."

"You don't have a hat, Doctor," Rose added.

"Well someone else's hat. Not someone who was using their hat, don't want to shock a nun or something."

"Rambling, Doctor," Rose said smirking.

"Yes sorry, rambling cos...cos this isn't working! Why?"

"Controls are isomorphic. One to one. They respond only to me," the old man said.

"And who are you?" Rose asked.

"Kazran Sardick, as if you don't know. I should be asking the questions, you are the ones intruding!"

"No, I was let in by your lovely door man, and I'm Rose actually, Rose Tyler."

"Oh you're a fibber!" The Doctor said.

"No I'm not, that's my name," Rose said putting a hand on her hip.

"Not you, him! Isomorphic...there's no such thing!" The Doctor said, waving a hand in the air.

Kazran reached over and flipped a switch, shutting it off, and then flipping it again to turn it on. The Doctor tried to do the same thing but nothing happened.

"No such thing?" Rose said, laughing slightly. He always had that slightly annoying tendency to think he was always right.

The Doctor ran the sonic over the panel. "These controls are isomorphic!"

"The skies of this world are mine. My family tamed them, and now I own them."

"Tame the skies? Why would you need to? Besides, you can't own something like that. That's like saying you own the planet," Rose argued.

"I own that too, little girl. I'm Kazran Sardick, how can you possibly not know who I am?"

"We're just easily bored I suppose. So we need your help then," the Doctor concluded.

"Make an appointment," Kazran said coldly.

"4,003 people on that ship up there, trapped in your cloud belt. Without you they will all definitely die," the Doctor said, trying the sympathy route.

"Yes that's right," Kazran said simply.

"You don't have to let that happen," Rose added.

"I know, but I am going to. Bye-bye. Bored now. Chuck!" He called to his servant, and two men came and put their hands on the Doctor and Rose's shoulders. The Doctor ducked out of the man's grip and stood in front of Kazran, sitting in his chair.

"Oh ho ho, look at you, looking all tough now. In front of the blonde lady friend? Is this all a big show?" Kazran scoffed sarcastically and settled into his chair.

"There are 4,003 people I won't allow to die tonight. Do you know where that puts you?" The Doctor said, all traces of levity gone.

"Where?"

"4,004." The Doctor bent down just as he was saying that, to look right in the old man's face. Any normal man would have squirmed.

This one just grinned; "was that a sort of threat-y thing?"

"Whatever happens tonight, just remember you brought it on yourself," the Doctor said as he was being pulled out the door.

"Yeah, yeah right. Get him out of here. Next time, try and find some funny poor people," Kazran said smiling. Rose stayed where she was as the family and the Doctor were escorted out.

The little boy picked up a piece of coal and threw it at Kazran's head. Kazran threw himself out of the chair and bounded over to the boy with his hand raised.

"No, stop, don't!" The Doctor shouted.

"Don't you dare, you leave him!" The father yelled.

Kazran paused and stared at the boy, for a moment his expression softened. Just as quickly, it hardened and he lowered his hand. "Get him out of here! Get that foul smelling family out of here! Out!"

"We're going!" The boy said, his fear showing in his voice.

Kazran waked back to his chair and turned around to face the Doctor, "what do you want?"

"A simple life. But you didn't hit the boy," the Doctor noticed.

"Well I will next time!"

Rose frowned slightly, she had noticed too. "No, you won't. It's your chair," she said, waiting for the Doctor to realize.

"The chair?" The Doctor repeated, pacing up and down.

"Get out! Get out of this house, the both of you!"

"Oh! Oh Rose you're clever. Almost cleverer than me."

"Almost? Let's see. Mr. Kazran, there's a portrait of a man behind you. Looks a hell of a lot like you, but he's too old. So your father? Been gone about 20 years now? I'd say so," Rose said, not sounding smug this time. Too much was at stake. Rory and Amy and 4,001 more people were at stake.

"Right! And as Rose pointed out, all the chairs are angled away from that portrait. You still can't get comfortable where he can see you, even after his death. There's a Christmas tree in that painting but none in this house, on Christmas Eve. You're scared of him."

"And of being like him," Rose added.

"And good for you, you're not like him. Not really, do you know why?" The Doctor asked.

Kazran looked at the mad talking man questionably. "Why?"

"You didn't hit the boy. Merry Christmas, Mr. Sardick," the Doctor said, starting to walk away.

"I despise Christmas!" Sardick shouted, waving a hand.

"You shouldn't, it's very you," the Doctor said nearly at the door.

"It's what? What do you mean?"

"Halfway out of the dark," he said solemnly, closing the door behind him.

Kazran stood staring at the door without a word. Then he noticed the girl in the red dress looking into the iron case. "What is it, girl?"

"This frozen girl, she seems so peaceful. But him? The man that just walked out? That's the Doctor. And he means what he says. He won't allow you to die. Me? I'm not the Doctor. People I love are up there right now. And thousands more. If I know him, he's got a plan. Now his plans don't always work. And if this one doesn't," she paused, walking closer to Kazran," if it doesn't then I will step in. Without hesitation. He has his ways...and I've got mine. I'll say goodnight, Mr. Sardick, but I doubt you'll actually be having one."

With that Rose made her way to the door, taking the coat from the doorman and walking out strongly, not showing any sort of hesitation.

Kazran paused then closed his mouth. A woman had never spoken to him like that. It would be the first and last time when he was through. They thought he was rough...these people didn't know rough.

"Get this one downstairs with the others. And clean this mess up!" He shouted, pointing at the soot left all over the floor from the Doctor.


Ok, first off, I am sorry. So, so sorry. I feel like Ten having to say this so often but that's not so bad because let's be honest, that's one foxy Doctor.

Anyhoo, I really am sorry about the absolutely massively long wait on this chapter. I won't bore you with excuses of busyness, but I will say that this time, I am going to try for a once every two weeks. Got it on my calendar now so no backing out...let's see how this monster goes.

Reviewers, you lot have kindly pushed me to update and for that I thank you immensely :) As should the rest of you readers that have been waiting for this chappie, come to think of it :)

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