A/N I own nothing, so if anyone sued me all they could win is my impressive three cardboard boxes and two thirds of a Christmas tree.
Chapter Three: The End of the World Take Two
"Right then Rose, where do you want to go? Forwards or backwards in time, it's your choice."
"Forwards, definitely forwards."
"How far?"
"How far can you take me?" Rose asked the Doctor cheekily.
"How far do you think you can handle?" The Doctor replied "One hundred years? Ten thousand years?"
"You think you're so impressive." Rose teased him.
"I am so impressive!"
"You wish"
"Right then, you asked for it. I know exactly where to go. Hold on!" The Doctor warned her just as the TARDIS shook violently as the TARDIS entered the Time Vortex.
"Right we're here" The Doctor announced as the TARIDS stooped moving.
"Where are we and when are we?" Rose asked as she started to feel excited because even though she'd already done this she still felt like a kid on Christmas morning. Rose walked down the ramp and pushed the door open and looked at the large shutter wall blocking the view of Earth from her. The Doctor only steps behind took out his sonic screwdriver and pointed it towards the control panel lifting the shutter up.
"You lot, you spend all your time thinking about dying, like you're going to get killed by eggs or beef or global warming or asteroids. But you never take time to imagine the impossible, that maybe you survive. This is the year 5.5/apple/26. Five billion years in your future, and this is the day." The Doctor looked at his watch to make sure he got his timing right. "This is the day the Sun expands. Welcome to the end of the world."
Rose just looked out the window in amazement because not matter how many time she saw this view she still found it completely breath taking.
Rose looked at the Doctor when she heard the computer announce the arrival of the guest.
"Shuttles five and six now docking. Guests are reminded that Platform One forbids the use of weapons, teleportation, and religion. Earth Death is scheduled for Fifteen Thirty Nine. Followed by drinks in the Manchester Suite."
The Doctor and Rose walked along the corridor towards the main room when it struck Rose that she should probably ask about the guests.
"So when it says guests, does it mean people?"
"Depends on what you mean by people."
"You know people, walking talking people."
"Well yes if you follow that definition."
"What's that supposed to mean."
"Nothing just that you're going to meet your first lot of aliens."
"Oh, that is so cool! Hurry up then I don't want to miss a moment."
"You really are a very excited person aren't you?"
"Yep" Rose replied popping the 'p' "So what are they all doing here anyway?"
"This is an observation deck, the great and the good are gathering to watch the planet burn."
"Why?" Rose asked as they reach the next door and the Doctor soniced it open.
"For fun." The Doctor replied easily as the door opened and they walked through. "Although when I say the great and the good, what I actually mean is the rice."
"Wait but they did this on Newsround Extra once, the Sun expanding that takes hundreds of years."
"Millions, but the planet's now property on the National Trust. They've been keeping it preserved. See down there? Gravity satellites holding back the Sun.
"Wow talk about an upgrade, from protecting some forests to the whole planet. Talk about ambition." Rose looked at the Doctor quickly to see that he was smiling. "But the planet looks the same. That's how it looked last time I was down there, I thought the continents would of continued to shift and stuff."
"They did and the Trust just shift them back. That's a classic Earth. But now the money's run out, nature gets to take over again."
"How long?" Rose asked hoping that this time she could actually watch the Earth go so that it wasn't all for nothing.
"About half an hour and then the planet gets roasted."
As Rose looked out at the Earth a thought hit her and suddenly she realised why the Doctor took her here. He brought her here because he was still in pain, pain over his planet burning and being left alone. She looked at the Doctor quickly and saw that beneath his cool exterior he was clearly in pain over what he had to do. And that made her sad because she knew if she could she would take his pain away just for a moment so he didn't feel guilty over something that wasn't completely his fault.
"So where did all the people go then" Rose asked to break the silence.
"Out into space, to other planets."
"Oh so it's just me then."
Before the Doctor could reply a blue skinned person with golden slit eyes walked up to them.
"Who the hell are you!?" He demanded just as rudely as the first time Rose noticed.
"Oh, that's nice, thanks." Rose replied before the Doctor could.
"But how did you get in? This is a maximum hospitality zone. The guests have disembarked. They're on their way any second now."
"That's me. I'm a guest. Look, I've got an invitation." The Doctor pulled out the psychic paper to show the steward. "Look. There, you see? Its fine, you see? The Doctor plus one. I'm the Doctor, this is Rose Tyler. She's my plus one. Is that alright?" The Doctor put away his psychic paper as the steward was answering.
"Well, obviously. Apologies, et cetera. If you're on board, we'd better start. Enjoy." And the steward left them and headed towards a lectern . The Doctor turn towards Rose, "The paper's slightly psychic. It shows them whatever I want them to see. Saves a lot of time."
Rose was about to ask a question when the steward starting speaking, "We have attendance the Doctor and Rose Tyler. Thank you. All staff to their positions." And with that Rose watched as a lot of little blue people rushed around them to get ready.
"Hurry, now, thank you. Quick as you can. Come along, come along. And now, might I introduce the next honoured guest? Representing the Forest of Cheam, we have trees, namely Jabe, Lute and Coffa."
Rose watched as Jabe entered remembering how the Doctor told her how she died helping to save everybody here and Rose decided that even though she didn't know her she wasn't going to die this time round.
"There will be an exchange of gifts representing peace. If you could keep the room circulating, thank you. Next, from the solicitors Jolco and Jolco, we have the Moxx of Balhoon." Rose watched as she remember that when he came she would have to move behind the Doctor so he got the spit in the eye this time around.
"And next, from the Financial Family Seven, we have the Adherents of the Repeated Meme." As the group of black-robed people entered Rose remembered to watch out for them cause she didn't want another almost roasting in the observation room.
"The inventors of Hypo-slip Travel Systems, the brothers Hop Pyleen. Thank you."
The Doctor looked at Rose to see how she was taking this, he knew he had thrown her in at the deep end but he was curious to see how she would react, if she would continue to puzzle him or react in the way he guessed she would.
"Cal Spark Plug. Mister and Mrs Pakoo. The Ambassadors from the City State of Binding Light."
Rose and the Doctor stopped watching the door as they noticed that Jabe, Lute and Coffa were making their way towards them.
"The Gift of Peace. I bring you a cutting of my Grandfather." Jabe handed the pot with the cutting to the Doctor who passed it to Rose while he started patting himself down trying to find a gift to give her in return.
"Thank you. Yes, gifts. Errr,"
Rose decided to speak up because as funny as it was to watch the Doctor flounder about she knew that 'the air from my lungs' was like going up to someone a snogging them.
"We give you a cutting of me." Rose said as she pulled out three hairs and passed them to Jabe.
When Jabe and the other two left the Doctor looked at Rose, "What was that about?"
"Well she gave us a cutting and I have enough hair. Besides what were you going to do? The air from your lungs? Wouldn't that be like giving her a good snog?" Rose teased
"Well…ummm…good idea." The Doctor looked away wondering how she could she possibly know that was what he was going to do?
"From the Silver Devastion, the sponsor of the main event, please welcome the Face of Boe." Rose looked up as a large glass case barely made it through the doorway. It contained a giant head with straggly hair and squinting eyes, Rose thought about the Face of Boe and just how old he could be as she heard the Doctor speak.
"The Moxx of Balhoon." Rose quickly but quietly moved behind the Doctor ever so slightly.
"My felicitations on this historical happenstance. I give you the gift of bodily salivas." And spat right in the Doctors eye. The Doctor turned to see Rose trying not to laugh and decided to get a little pay back so he grabbed a few hairs and gave them a quick tug.
"Thank you, I give you the gift of a cutting from my companion." Rose stopped trying not to laugh when The Moxx of Balhoon left and the Doctor just raised an eyebrow. Rose stopped laughing when the black robed group approached them.
"Ah! The Adherents of the Repeated Meme. I give you a cutting from my companion." And handed them the hairs that Rose had just handed him.
A large metal hand holding a small metal ball appeared in front of the Doctor, "A gift of peace in all good faith." And they walked away.
"And last but not least, our very special guest. Ladies and gentlemen, and tress and multiforms, consider the Earth below. In memory of this dying world, we call forth the last Human. The Lady Cassandra O'Brien Dot Delta Seventeen."
Rose watched as the bitchy trampoline enter the room of the people she was about to try and kill.
"Oh, now, don't stare. I know, I know it's shocking, isn't it? I've had my chin completely taken away and look at the difference. Look how think I am. Thin and dainty. I don't look a day over two thousand. Moisturise me. Moisturise me."
After one of her attendants sprayed her she continued her monologue, "Truly I am the last Human. My father was a Texan, my Mother was from the Arctic Desert. They were born on Earth and were the last to be buried in its soil. I have come to honour them and to say goodbye. Oh, no tears, no tears. I'm sorry. But behold I bring gifts. From Earth itself, the last remaining ostrich egg. Legend says it had a wingspan of fifty feet and blew fire from its nostrils. Or was that my third husband? Oh, no. Oh don't laugh. I'll get laugher lines. And here another rarity." While the workers were bringing it in Rose was trying not to laugh at Cassandra she was so concerned with being human she was actually quite thick about the Earth. Rose watched as they wheeled in the 1950's juke box in.
"According to the archives, this was called an iPod. It stores classical music from humanity's greatest composers. Play on!" When Rose heard Tainted Love start to play she quickly left the room before she dissolved into a fit of giggles in front of everybody. And laughing was just how the Doctor found her in the observation room.
"Hey, wondered where you stumbled off to. What's so funny?"
"Sorry, but its Cassandra. Imagine Tainted Love ever being considered classical music. I had to leave before I started laughing."
"What you'd think then?"
"I think it's amazing. I mean here I am 5 billion years in the future when yesterday all I was thinking about was what I should have for dinner and where was I going to get my next job, this really puts it into perspective…So you going to tell me why everybody in there was speaking English?"
"They're not, you just hear English. It's a gift of the TARDIS. The telepathic field, gets inside your head and translates."
"Ok. So tell me Doctor where are you from?" Rose asked trying to get the Doctor to open up more this time because even though she loves him and knows some of his past she still thought that maybe if opened up more now then he might realise how he feels sooner rather than later.
"Everywhere really." The Doctor answered evasively.
"Well I'm gonna guess you were born on actual planet. Why won't you just tell me the name?"
Rose watched the Doctor as the thought through what to say true he could tell her to mind her own business but then again he felt that there was something about Rose that wasn't ordinary, shown by the fact he asked her twice. That still bothered him actually, why had he asked twice? In the past when people said no it was off to the next adventure, so what made her so different?
"Gallifrey."
"Ok then." Rose pulled her phone out and looked at her signal bar and quipped "Just a little bit out of range then, I guess."
The Doctor took her phone out of her hands thankful for the change in subject and started to take her phone apart.
"With a little bit of jiggery pokery."
"Is that a technical term, jiggery pokery?"
"Yeah I came first in jiggery pokery. What about you?"
"Nah I took hullabaloo, came first too." Rose answered changing her answer slightly from the first time but she couldn't help it.
"Oh. There you go."
Rose took her phone from the Doctor and decided to phone her mum to let her know she was alright.
"Mum?"
"Oh, what is it?" Jackie asked assuming that Rose was calling her to complain. "What's wrong? What have I done now? Oh this red top's falling to bits. You should get your money back. Go on what did you want. There must be something you never phone in the middle of the day."
"No reason just wanted to make sure you where alright."
"Yeah, why wouldn't I be?"
"No reason just wanted to check. What day is it?"
"Wednesday, all day. You got a hangover? Oh, I tell you what. Put a quid in that Lottery syndicate. I'll pay you back later."
"Yeah, umm, mum, I was just calling to let you know I'm going travelling. Everything's fine so there's no need to panic. I just might not get the chance to phone home but I'll be alright."
"Rose, what are you chattin about? Going travelling? Are you alright?"
"I'm fine. Top of the world in fact. Bye mum." And with that Rose hung up.
"Think that's amazing, you want to see the bill."
"Thank you Doctor." And Rose threw herself at the Doctor as she gave him a hug, the Doctor stood there awkwardly for a moment then decided to just give and he hugged her back. As they were in the middle of their hug the space station shook and the Doctor looked up, "That's not supposed to happen."
The Doctor and Rose made their way back to the main room while the Doctor explained to Rose, "That wasn't a gravity pocket. I know gravity pockets and they don't feel like that. What do you think Jabe? Listen to the engines. They've pitched up about thirty hertz. That dodgy or what?"
"It's the sound of metal. It doesn't make any sense to me."
"Where's the engine room?"
"I don't know, but the maintenance duct is just behind our guest suite, I could show you and your wife."
"She's not my wife."
"Partner?"
"No."
"Concubine?"
"Nope."
"Prostitute?"
"Whatever the hell I am, I must be invisible if you think it's alright to call a person a hooker in front of them." Rose snapped at Jabe because even though she didn't have anything against her personally people calling her a hooker just pissed her off. "Tell you what, you two go do whatever you planned on doing. I'm going to catch up with the family. Quick word with Michael Jackson." Rose started to walk away as the Doctor called back.
"Don't start a fight."
"Now would I do that?"
"Don't make me answer that one." The Doctor replied and turned towards Jabe and offered her his arm "I'm all yours then."
As Rose watched them leave she could help but call out "And I want you hope by midnight."
~~DW~~
Rose walked towards Cassandra getting hold of her temper as she went.
"Soon, the sun will blossom into a red giant, and my home will die. That's where I used to live, when I was a little boy, down there. Mummy and Daddy had a little house built into the side of the Los Angeles Crevice. I'd have such fun."
"What happened to everybody else? The human race moved on didn't they? To other planets."
"They say mankind has touched every star. I am the last pure human though. The others mingled, oh, they call themselves New humans and Proto-humans and Digi-humans, even Humanish, but you know what I call them? Mongrels."
"But Cassandra the point of the human race is that we move forward, we adapt, we change for the better. Instead you stayed behind and clung to the idea of being pure, and look at you now, you're just lipstick and skin Cassandra. Whatever as human about you was taken away the moment you became this." And Rose turned around and walked away, she was about to leave the room but she remembered what had happened the first time she did that and had no desire to repeat that experience anytime soon. So instead she chose to stand near the wall looking out at the Earth as it slowly got closer to the sun.
~~DW~~
"The planet's end. Come gather, come gather. Bid farewell to the cradle of civilisation. Let us mourn her with a traditional ballad" Cassandra signalled one of her attendants who put on Toxic by Britany Spears and Rose had to pull herself to together as a little giggle slipped out, how could Cassandra be so thick? She wondered for someone who claims to be the 'last human' she doesn't know a damn thing about the planet she claims to love so much.
Jabe and the Doctor entered the room in silence, Rose was the first to notice them and turned around to see the Doctor and noticed he had a haunted look in his eyes again.
"The metal machine confirms it." Jabe spoke first "The spider devices have infiltrated the whole of Platform One."
"How is that possible? Our private rooms are protected by a coded wall. Moisturise me, moisturise me."
"Summon the steward at once!" The Moxx of Balhoon demanded .
"I'm afraid the steward is dead." Rose looked at the Doctor when Jabe said that, that explained the haunted looked. He was feeling guilty, Rose felt even worse because she forgot. She forgot that the steward died. How could she? Now her Doctor was going to live with that guilt all because she was too busy laughing at Cassandra.
"Who killed him?"
"This whole event was sponsored by the Face of Boe. He invited us. Talk to the Face. Talk to the Face." Cassandra pitched in.
"Talk to the skin, talk to the skin." Rose muttered under her breath.
The Doctor looked at her hearing what she had said and gave her another calculating look.
"Easy way to find out. Someone bought their little pet on board. Let's send him back to master."
The Doctor place the spider down on the ground and gave it little kick to start it going and watched as the spider headed straight for Cassandra, well wasn't that interesting maybe Rose was right the Doctor wondered, but before he could think any more on the subject the spider turned around and headed towards The Adherents of the Repeated Meme.
"The Adherents of the Repeated Meme. J'accuse!"
"Oh come on." Rose muttered and the Doctor shot her another look.
"That's all very well, and really kind of obvious, but if you stop to think about it." He went over to the Adherents, as the leader tried to hit him the Doctor merely grab his arm and gave it a tug. "A Repeated Meme is just an idea, and that's all they are an idea." He held on to the arm as the Adherents fell to the ground. "Remote control Droids. Nice little cover for the real trouble maker. Go on, Jimbo. Go home." The Doctor gave the spider another nudge with his foot and the spider scuttled off to Cassandra.
"I bet you were the school swot and never got kissed. At arms!" With that command her attendants raised their spray guns towards the Doctor.
"What you going to do? Moisturise me?" He questioned in a mocking tone.
"Yes, with acid. Oh, you're too late, anyway. My spiders have control of the mainframe. Oh, you all carried them as tax free gifts past every coded wall. I'm not just a pretty face."
"Oh and you're not even that." Rose couldn't help but put in. "Sabotaging the ship while you're still inside it? How stupid's that?"
"You pretty little twit. I was hoping to manufacture a hostage situation with myself as one of the victims. The compensation would have been enormous."
"Five billion years and it still comes down to money. Guess you were right Doctor, times haven't changed that much after all."
"Do you think it's cheap, looking like this? Flatness costs a fortune. I am the last human Doctor. Me, not that freaky little blonde girl of yours!"
"Arrest her! The infidel" The Moxx of Balhoon shouted out.
"Oh, shut it pixie. I've still got my final option."
"Three minutes until Earth death" The computer rang out.
"And here it comes. You're just as useful dead, all of you. I have shares in your rival companies and they'll triple in price as soon as you're dead. My spiders are primed and ready to destroy the safety systems. How did that old Earth song go? Burn baby, burn."
"Then you'll burn with us Cassandra."
"Oh, I'm sorry to disappoint you tree. I know the use of teleportation is strictly forbidden, but I'm such a naughty thing. Spiders, activate." The whole floor shook as they felt a series of small explosions being set off. "Forcefields gone with the planet about to explode. At least it'll be quick. Just like my fifth husband. Oh, shame on me."
"Safety System failing." The computer rang out.
"Bye, bye, darlings. Bye, bye, my darlings." And Cassandra and her attendants beamed out.
Rose made her way to the Doctor "Is it me or do you really not like her? So what the plan?" She asked.
"We have to reset the system."
"Only the steward would know how." Jabe said.
"No we can do it by hand. There must be a system restore switch. Jabe, Rose come on your with me. You lot just chill." And the Doctor, Rose and Jabe left the room.
The trio made their way down towards the engine Rose and Jabe walking slightly behind the Doctor when Jabe grabbed Rose's arm.
"What are you? When I scanned you earlier the metal machine had more trouble naming you than it did the Doctor, what species are you?" Jabe asked Rose in a whisper so the Doctor wouldn't hear.
"I don't know what you're talking about. I'm human. I was born on Earth, raised on Earth. I'm 100% human."
"Not according to the metal machine, according to that you are something else. In a state of being something, frozen part human part unknown."
"I honestly have no idea what you're talking about, but can you not tell the Doctor. He'd just panic and worry and he doesn't need to do that, I promise."
"I will keep your secret for now." And Jabe walked ahead to catch up with the Doctor leaving Rose behind to ponder what Jabe had just told her. Was she changing? Was she becoming Bad Wolf again? What was happening? She tried to push these thoughts out of her mind when she felt the TARDIS give a comforting nudge letting know that whatever it was the TARDIS must know so it couldn't be that bad.
The Doctor noticed Rose and Jabe whispering as they made their way to the engine room but decided not to worry about it and instead focus at the task in hand.
"Earth death in Two Minutes. Heat levels rising. Heat levels critical." The computer rang out as Rose snapped out of her thoughts as they reached the engine room.
"And guess where the switch is." The Doctor said staring across the room at a switch being blocked by the huge cooling fans. The Doctor noticed the breaker lever and pulled it down making the fans slow down a little, he let go and started to walk towards the fans but as soon as he let go the fans started picking speed up.
"External temperature five thousand degrees." The computer rang out.
Rose noticed Jabe heading towards the lever to grab it but Rose was quicker, Jabe raised a questioning eyebrow at Rose.
"Jabe if you hold the lever you'll burn. And I'm not going to let you die when I can hold it. Go back upstairs and try to keep everyone calm. Move them away from the windows though, in to the corridors."
Jabe was about to protest when the Doctor said, "Rose it right Jabe, you don't have to be here. Go and keep them safe."
"Ok, I'll go but," she got closer to Rose and whispered to her, "I may not know what you are but it will get too hot in here for you too." She said you concern in her eyes.
"Don't worry about me. And you," she said turning to face the Doctor "stop wasting time, Time Lord."
"How did you know I was a Time Lord. I never told you that."
"Oh, umm, Jabe told me. But that was all she said and she felt real bad about it afterwards. Look can't we talk about this later. It's getting a bit hot in here." Rose said trying to turn attention away from her slip up.
The Doctor decided to let it go and made his way towards the fans. Rose was holding down the lever the best she could but it was getting harder and harder as it got hotter. She could feel the skin of her hands breaking as she tried to hold it in place just for a little longer. The Doctor was now at the last set of fans and turned around to see Rose was barely holding on in this heat and he hoped she would make it he turned around knowing the only way she would was if he got the shields up in time. He ran through the last fan barely making it as he grabbed the lever the other side and shouted "raise shields!" Rose looked at her hands as she let go of the lever to inspect the damage done and was surprised to see what looked like tiny scrapes instead of huge bleeding gashes she expected to see. She looked up as the Doctor approached, they shared a look and ran back towards the observation deck hand in hand.
~~DW~~
When they got there Rose was happy to see that this time round everybody made it and shared a happy smile with Jabe who was currently talking to her fellow trees.
"You know what Rose?" The Doctor asked turning towards her.
"What Doctor."
"I'm full of ideas, I'm bristling with them. Idea number one, teleportation through five thousand degrees needs some kind of feed. Idea number two, this feed must be hidden nearby."
Rose made her way towards the ostrich egg "like in a fake ostrich egg?" She asked.
"Fantastic Rose." He reached over to take the egg from her hand and smashed it. "Idea number three, if you're as clever as me, than a teleportation feed can be reversed." He pulled out his sonic screwdriver changed the setting and push the button watching as Cassandra reappeared.
"Oh, you should have seen their little alien faces!" Cassandra laughed as she was beamed into the room. "Oh" She stopped laughing as she realised where she was.
"The last human." The Doctor said coldly.
"So, you passed my little test. Bravo. This umm makes you eligible to join er join the Human Club."
"A person died Cassandra and more almost followed. You tried to kill them."
"It depends of your definition of people, and that's enough of a technicality to keep your lawyers dizzy for centuries. Take me to court, then, Doctor, and watch me smile and cry and flutter"
"And creak?" Rose interrupted.
"What?"
"She said creak. You're creaking."
"What? Ah! I'm drying out! Oh, sweet heavens. Moisturise me, moisturise me! Where are my surgeons? My lovely boys! It's too hot!"
"You raised the temperature."
"Have pity! Moisturise me! Oh, oh Doctor. I'm sorry. I'll do anything."
"Help her" Rose whispered to the Doctor hoping that maybe if they did help her then she wouldn't have to go through what happen on New Earth again.
"Everything has its time and everything dies."
"I'm too young!" Cassandra screamed as her last words as she exploded apart again.
~~DW~~
"The Earth, it's gone." Rose said as she and the Doctor looked out of the window as the remains of the Earth floated passed them. "We were too busy saving ourselves. No one saw it go. All those years, all that history, and no one was even looking."
"Everything has it time Rose. Everything must die."
"It isn't dying that should make me worried." Rose sighed
"What do you mean" the Doctor asked looking down at her.
"Being alone, that's the scary part. Being left all alone with no one else who understands." Rose said quietly thinking back to Bad Wolf bay and her goodbye with the Doctor.
"You sound like you know what you're talking about." The Doctor said looking into her eyes and was shocked to see the raw pain shining through them, they looked close to what his did. But just as quickly as he saw it the shutters came down and Rose looked away.
"Nah, what do I know, eh? I'm just an 19 years old estate girl." Rose said.
The Doctor took her hand "Come on, I've got something to show you." And they walked away hand in hand.
~~DW~~
The Doctor pushed the TARDIS doors open to show Rose London, a current London with people pushing each other about all getting on with their life as though nothing else mattered.
"You think it'll last forever, people and cars and concrete, but it won't. One day it's all gone. Even the sky. My planet's gone. It's dead. It burned like the Earth. It's just rocks and dust before it's time."
"What happened?"
"There was a war and we lost."
Rose knew how hard it was for the Doctor to talk about this so she slipped her hand in his hoping he would take small comfort in the small gesture.
"What happened to your people? To the other Time Lords?"
"I'm the last Rose, I'm the last one in the whole universe. I'm left travelling on my own because there is no one else."
"There's me."
"You've seen how dangerous it can be. Do you want to go home?"
"I want…" I want to stay with you forever and travel in time and space with you so you never have to be alone again, I want to take away your pain Rose wanted to say but settle on, "Oh, can you smell chips?"
The Doctor laughed at the sudden change in topic, "Yeah I can."
"I want chips."
"Me too." The Doctor said laughing again and Rose decided then and there she would do whatever she could to make him laugh more often.
"Right then, before you get me back in your magic box, chips it is, and you can pay."
"No money.
"What sort of date are you? Come on then tightwad, chips are on me. We've only got five billion years until the shops close." And Rose and the Doctor walked away hand in hand laughing at everything and nothing in particular.
