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Chapter 6: Six Words

"In future, when you talk about this, you tell people that there was a chance but you were so much less than the best of humanity."

-The Doctor

After, the Doctor brought them all into the TARDIS and back down to Earth. To say that Harriet and Alex were impressed by the Time Lord's ship would be an understatement, as they gazed around the interior with shock and fascination.

They quickly materialized and came out onto a street.

"Where are we?" Rose asked, looking around.

"We're just off Bloxom Road!" Mickey recognized with a grin, "We're just round the corner, we did it!"

Mickey jumped up and down in glee, waving his hands and hollering.

The Doctor held out a hand to calm him as he watched the skies. Amy wondered what he was waiting for but it became very clear as the roaring of the spaceship's engines echoed throughout the city.

"Wait a minute." The Doctor looked very nervous, "Wait a minute..."

Amy bit her lip as well. Not time to celebrate yet. They had just created a power vacuum on that ship, and the new leader might not be as willing to leave the planet.

But both of their worries were proved useless as the ship look flight, heading back out of the atmosphere.

The Doctor grinned.

"Go on, my son!" Mickey cheered, "Oh, yeah!"

Rose jumped on Mickey's back in jubilation, "Yeah! Don't come back!"

"It is defended!"

Amy laughed along with them. They looked very much like children in that moment. Rose jumped off his back and hugged him, before turning to a very surprised Alex and hugging him as well.

Harriet turned to the Doctor and raised her arms, grinning.

"My Doctor." She shook her head fondly.

The Doctor was still grinning madly, "Prime Minister." And he threw his arms around her, hugging her.

Amy was distracted by a mop of blond hair in her face as Rose launched herself at her and hugged her tightly.

"We did it!" The blond girl looked like she was in shock.

But Amy wasn't so sure. Her hesitation must've shown on her face cause Rose paused.

"What's wrong?"

Amy shook her head, looking up at the ship, "That's not what happened, originally. But I suppose...this is better."

Rose smiled softly, "Maybe...Maybe you can change things after all yeah. Maybe..."

She trailed off and Amy sighed, looking down at the blond girl.

"Rose..." She paused, "I don't know what happened to you. I don't know if you left, or got left behind or..."

Rose swallowed, "Or if I died?"

"Well..." Amy winced, "It's possible."

"What if." Rose sniffled a bit, "What if he doesn't want me anymore?"

Amy looked at the girl in shock, but Rose had a look of genuine worry on her face.

"Why wouldn't he want you?" Amy furrowed her eyebrows.

Rose wrung her hands, "You said I wasn't there in the future. Maybe this is why. He's a new man, what if he doesn't want me along anymore."

But to Rose's surprise Amy just started to giggled.

"What?" Rose asked defensively.

"Oh, Rose." Amy ruffled her hair affectionately, "He will definitely still want you along."

"Rose!"

Both Amy and Rose spun to see Jackie running at them.

"Mum!" Rose cried, momentarily forgetting her conversation with Amy.

"Oh! Talking of trouble..." The Doctor winced slightly.

Amy smacked his arm, "Rude." She whispered to him.

He wrapped am arm around her and messed her hair, "I am, aren't I? Well I'll get used to it. I've been rude before. You should have seen my sixth self..."

"Ooooh." Amy giggled, "That coat. What we're you thinking?"

He groaned loudly, "Figure's you'd know about that."

"Oh, My God." Jackie gushed, holding Rose tightly, "You did it, Rose! Oh!"

"You did it to!" Rose smiled, "It was the tea! Fixed his head!"

"That was all I needed," The Doctor approached Rose, Mickey and Jackie, "Cup O' Tea."

"I said so!" Jackie glared at Rose.

But Rose just looked at the Doctor happily, "Look at him!"

"Is it him, thought." Jackie looked at him through narrowed eyes, "Is it really the Doctor? Oh, my god." Jackie's eyes widened, "It's the bleeding Prime Minister!"

Amy shook her head, chucking. Jackie wouldn't ever change.

"Come here, you!" The Doctor urged, holding out his arms which Jackie gladly jumped into.

"Very touchy, this one." Rose noted.

Amy couldn't help but smirk. Just wait until the next one.

Rose and Mickey joined in on the hug and Amy hesitated. but before she could make up her mind, Jackie reached out and pulled her into the hug.

"Get in here you." Jackie grinned before turning to the Doctor, "Are you better?"

"I am, yeah."

"No more...gold breath, yeah?" Jackie confirmed.

"Oh, you're worse than my mother." The Doctor waved her off. Amy noted the looked of surprise on Rose's face. The last Doctor never would have mentioned his family.

But this Doctor was healed. He was far more complete than the last Doctor had been.

"You left me!" Jackie accused Rose.

Rose grimace, "I'm sorry"

"I had all the food!"

The Doctor grinned and turned to Harriet, who was whispering with Alex. Amy turned as well. Harriet gave them a feeble smile before turning back to Alex.

Alex said something into his communicator.

And then all hell broke loose.

A roar filled the air as a burst of green light came from the ground. Amy gapped, stepping back as another burst shot up.

Three more lights came from different points until they met up in the sky.

"No, no, no..." She whispered, but could only watch it horror as they shot forward.

"What is that?" Rose gasped, "What's happening."

Jackie put her hand over her mouth, gasping as the spaceship exploded across the sky.

The Doctor stared at it for a second, before he stalked angrily over to Harriet Jones.

"That was murder!" He yelled at her.

Harriet winced, but stood her ground, squaring her shoulders, "That was defense. It's adapted from alien technology. A ship that fell to Earth ten years ago."

The Doctor pointed to the sky in anger, "But they we're leaving!"

"You said it yourself, Doctor. They'd go back to the stars and tell others about the Earth. I'm sorry, Doctor, but you're not here all the time. You come and go. It happened to today - Mr. Llewellyn and the Major. They were murdered. They died right in front of me while you were sleeping. In which case - we have to defend ourselves."

"You didn't defend yourself!" Amy yelled, stepping forward, "That was cold-blooded murder. That was vengeance! For all you know you could have just started a war with that species!"

The Doctor seemed to agree with her as he looked at her disdainfully, "Britain's Golden Age."

"It comes with a price." Harriet still seemed sure of her decision.

The Doctor glared, "I gave them the wrong warning. I should've told them to run - as fast as they can, run and hide because the monsters are coming: the Human race."

"Those are the people I represent. I did it on their behalf."

"I thought you represented Britain." Amy pointed out, "Not the human race. You had no right."

"I should've stopped you!" The Doctor decided.

"And what does that make you, Doctor? Another alien threat?"

The Doctor was about to say something, but he paused. He shook his head and turned towards Amy.

"Have you met Amy?" He asked her in anger, "She's from the future you know. 2020. When I first met you she told me your future. Mental breakdown. Went insane. Lasted barely a term..."

He leaned over her threateningly.

"Don't challenge me, Harriet Jones. 'Cos I'm a completely new man. I could bring down your government with a single word."

Harriet scoffed, "You're the most remarkable man I've ever met. But I don't think you're quite capable of that."

The Doctor thought it over, "No, you're right. Not a single word...Just six."

Harriet shook her head, "I don't think so."

"Six words."

"Stop it!"

"...Six."

They both stared at each other for a few moment. Harriet looked slightly terrified but the Doctor just fixed her with steel eyes.

But then he walked over to Alex, taking his earpiece of and leaned down to his ear.

"Don't you think she looks tired."

Then he walked away, back over to Rose and Jackie, Amy following him once he'd reached her.

Harriet looked between the Doctor and Alex in shock. "What did he say?"

But Alex just studded her before shaking his head, "I-Nothing." He shook his head, "I don't know."

Harriet turned to the Doctor, yelling, "Doctor! Doctor, what did you say?! What did you say, Doctor? Doctor?"

The Doctor ignored her. Amy didn't think he heard it, but Harrier lowered her head, looking down at the ground.

"I'm sorry." She whispered, Alex walked away and she was left standing in the street. Completely alone.

A man absentmindedly walked down the street, a crisp clean suit pressed against his chest. If you were to look closely you'd be able to see the outline of a gun right under his left arm in a holster.

He pulled out his portable GPS, frowning as he read the screen. Something had fallen from that ship. They had picked it up almost right away and now he'd been sent to retrieve it.

Probably just alien garbage, he grumbled to him.

His GPS beeped for frantically as he got closer to the object. He quickly jogged down the street, turning into a dark alleyway.

It beeped louder as he walked down, increasing in speed until he found himself in the middle of the alley, looking down at the thing lying there.

He tilted his head, reaching into his pocket to pull out his phone. He quickly dialed and pressed it to his ear.

"Yes, I've found it." He told the women on the other end.

"What is it?"

"It's...a hand." He answered, frowning, "A human hand, but..." He narrowed his eyes. "It's glowing."

True to his word the hand gave off a faint golden glow.

"Collect it, but send it to Cardiff. The Captain can deal with it. We're far to busy here."

"Busy?" He frowned. "Busy with what."

There was silence on the other end of the phone, "Need to know."

The man sighed and hung up, cursing the day he ever started working for those people.

He put on a glove and hesitated before reaching down to pick up the hand,

"Bloody Torchwood."

Amy and Rose sat in her flat, relaxing as they waited for the Doctor. The smells of christmas dinner lingered through the house as Jackie hummed to herself, working in the kitchen. Amy had offered to help, but Jackie had insisted, saying it was the least she could do.

"Those other aliens." Rose whispered, looking at Amy. "The one's you mentioned to the Sycorax...Silurians and Silence and the Cybermen. Are those...are those in the future?"

Amy sighed, leaning back in the chair. "Rose. I really can't tell you about the future."

"Why not!" The shop girl winced, realizing how whiney she sounded.

Amy frowned. This had only been explained to her right before she was sent back by the angel. In a way maybe the Doctor was teaching her the rules for her long journey.

Maybe he had known the whole time.

"Rose." She frowned, "Once I tell you something, it's harder to change it, maybe even impossible. Once you know you're own future you try and change it, or maybe you don't do the one thing to make it happen. Or maybe you just...can't change it. Like...today.'

"Today?" Rose asked her.

Amy nodded, "I told you, remember. I told you that that wasn't how it was supposed to end and then it happened."

Rose shook her head, "That wasn't your fault. Seemed to me like that was gonna happen anyways."

Amy winced, "Yeah." She muttered, "And nothing changed."

Rose flinched this time, looking down, "Doesn't mean you can't change things."

Amy nodded, looking around, "I'll try, Rose." She promised the blond girl, "I mean. If you leave or something I'll let you, but If you're...I'll try to save you."

The front door to the flat opened and closed and They both turned to see the Doctor standing there, no longer in his jim jams.

He replaced them with a brown pinstriped suit and tan coat which fell to the floor.

Rose smiled, but Amy's mouth went dry. Her eyes travelled from the pants to the swirl pattern on the tie.

It was what he'd been wearing when she'd first met him.

She cleared her throat, "Nice coat." Se complimented.

He looked down, "Yes, Janis Joplin gave it to me. Never thought I'd wear it, but I thought I'd give it a whirl."

"Looks good." She said dryly, trying not to let her inner panic that confirmed this. This was definitely the Doctor right before her own.

They all sat around the dinner table, eating turkey and laughing, telling stories. Amy pulled a christmas cracker with Mickey and pulled out a green crown, setting it on her head.

She tried to be happy, but there was a nagging thought in the back of her head. This was the first Christmas in memory that Rory hadn't been there for.

Even when they were kids Rory's family would come over with Mels and they would all sit together.

The Doctor and Rose pulled a cracker and they both laughed as a pink crown erupted.

"Oh, that's yours..." The Doctor snorted.

Rose picked it up. "It's pink! Mum, it should be yours!"

"Pink! Lovely!" The Doctor laughed as Rose placed the crown on her head.

Rose pointed at the television, "Look, it's Harriet Jones."

"Prime Minister, is it true you are no longer fit to be in position?"

"No. Now, can we talk about other things?"

The Doctor stood up, throwing on a pair of thick rimmed glasses and watching the telly sternly.

"Is it true you're unfit for office?"

"Look, there is nothing wrong with my health! I don't know where these stories are coming from! And a vote of no confidence...if completely unjustified."

"Well there you have it." The Doctor shook his head as the phone rang. Jackie ran out of the room and the Doctor looked at Amy, "You were right."

"Yeah." Amy whispered.

He frowned, "I wonder who the next one will be. You said they went crazy too, didn't you?"

"Yep." Amy chuckled, "Completely wacko. But he didn't last long."

"Good thing probably." The Doctor muttered.

"Are you going to resign"

"On today of all days, I'm fine. Look at me, I'm fine. I look find. I feel fine!"

Jackie ran back into the kitchen, "It's Beth. She says go and look outside!"

"Why?" Rose asked. The Doctor pulled off his glasses and looked at her.

"I dunno." Jackie shrugged, "Just go outside and look. Come on, shift!"

It was snowing.

Amy looked up and grinned. Oh she loved snow. It always made everything look so much cleaner and prettier. Like transforming the city into a wonderland.

"Oh, that's beautiful!" Rose gasped. Dozens of people from various flats came down to the street to stand in the snow. Amy looked up and saw several streaks across the stars.

"Meteors?" Amy asked.

The Doctor winced, "It's the spaceship breaking up in the atmosphere. This isn't snow...it's ash."

Amy quickly closed her mouth which she'd been trying to catch snowflakes in. She wrinkled her nose.

"Okay." Rose looked around, "Not so beautiful."

"This is a brand new planet Earth." The Doctor grinned, "No denying the existence of Aliens now - everyone saw it."

"Oh, they'll still try." Amy sighed.

He chuckled, "Everything's new."

Rose looked down to the ground, "And what about you? What are you gonna do next?"

"Well..." The Doctor looked at the sky thinking, "Back to the TARDIS...same old life."

"On...on your own?" Rose asked tentatively.

"Why?" The Doctor looked at her slightly panicked, "Don't you wanna come?"

"Well, yeah." Rose quickly answered.

The Doctor looked hesitant, "Do you, though?"

"Yeah!" She nodded.

He frowned, "I just thought...'cos I changed."

"Yeah, I.." Rose swallowed, "I thought, 'cos you changed...you might not want me anymore."

Oh, boy. Amy walked slightly to her left. This was so not about traveling anymore.

"Oh, I'd love you to come!" The Doctor grinned at her happily.

Rose faltered for a second, before returning his grin. Amy gave her a sympathetic look. Obviously the Doctor hadn't gotten the message Rose had been trying to send.

"Okay!" She grinned.

Amy stepped forward, "Not getting rid of me either, I'm afraid."

"Wouldn't dream of it." He agreed.

"You're never gonna stay are you."

The three of them turned to look at Mickey, who was staring at the ground. Not sadly, but more in resignation.

"There's just so much out there." Rose apologized, "So much to see...I've got to."

Mickey gave her a sad smile, "Yeah."

"Well, I reckon you're mad." Jackie shook her head in disbelief, "The three of you! It's like you go looking for trouble."

"Trouble's just the bits in-between!' The Doctor defended, throwing an arm around her, and looking up at the sky, "It's all waiting out there, Jackie. It's brand new to me. all those planets...creatures and horizons. I haven't seen them yet! Not with these eyes..."

He walked over to Rose and grinned down at her.

"And it's gonna be...fantastic."

Rose smiled at him. He held out his hand.

"That hand of yours still gives me the creeps!" Rose joked, but the Doctor just grinned and wiggled his fingers until Rose wound her fingers with his.

Amy looked up and sighed, "Alright boss. Where to?"

"Um..." The Doctor studied the sky before taking his free finger and pointing to a point in the sky, "That way. No...hold on...that way."

Rose looked down his arm and pointed in the same direction, "That way?"

"Hmm?" The Doctor asked and Rose nodded.

"Yeah. That way." Rose agreed.

Amy grinned, but then a spike of pain erupted into her head. She gasped, placing her hand against her head, but it quickly vanished.

She shook her head. Must've just been a headache. Nothing to worry about

A/N: So as I promised. Here's the final chapter of Christmas Invasion. The Torchwood bit was just because I didn't do any of the Torchwood scenes in this episode, but I still wanted to make their presence known, so I added this little bit with the hand.

I got a surprising amount of reviews saying they were excited about Amy seeing the Doctor's outfit, so I hope I didn't disappoint.

By the way, dunno if any of you live in this area, but anyone planning on going to Calgary Expo? They started the guest list but there isn't a lot there yet. I'm crossing my fingers for some Doctor Who peeps. Last year we got an awesome Torchwood panel with John Barrowman, Eve Myles, and Gareth-David Lloyd, which was just off the rails. It was so cute, John's boyfriend (now husband) called in the middle of the Panel. They are so adorable. We also had some supernatural peeps, Misha Collins and Mark Sheppard, so I'm hoping for an equally awesome turn out this year.

And holy 100 reviews batman guys! Well, it's only 98 but I'll be breaking that barrier this chapter. Unless you all conspire not to send any reviews this chapter in which case...I'm onto you. But this Only 6 chapters in, that's just freaking amazing. You guys are so awesome I can't even. As usual, a shout out to whoever gets me to 100!

So review with any thoughts, questions, or concerns. I love hearing from you guys. There was a couple of you that I was going to respond to last chapter, but I never got around to it...mostly cause I got them at 2am and was tired. Whoops. Anyway, I'm off for foods and studying!

Until Next Time,

-Ash