Chapter Six: The Aliens of London...and it's not just the Doctor
"The memory of the little girl and her mother that I mentioned before was only the beginning. At the time, I thought that they were dreams because I had lost my family, I was trying to create a new one. Now of course...I know different. But I'm just going to keep it at that the memory was only the beginning of a long list of questions and almost no answers."
The Doctor, Rose, Sivy (on my shoulder) and I stepped out of the TARDIS after it materialized. Rose walks farther out and the Doctor stays by my side at the door frame. He folds his arms and leans against me and I lean against the door.
"How long have I been gone?" Rose asked, looking around for second and then back at the two of us.
"About 12 hours." the Doctor answers with a laugh. I smile and Rose giggles at the thought.
"Oooh! Right, I won't be long, I'm just gonna see my mum." Rose informed, starting to walk towards the flat the two of them share.
"What exactly are you going to tell her?" I asked with my eyebrows raised, I was curious to hear what kind of excuse Rose could come up with to explain what we had been through.
"I don't know! I've been to the year 5 billion...and only been gone, what, 12 hours?" The Doctor lets out something that sounds like a cross between a snort and a laugh and I give a little chuckle at the sound.
"No, I'll just tell her I've spent the night at Shareens. See you later," she says and begins to walk off and then turning around and looking at the two of us, "Oh-don't you disappear." She warns and we give a laugh.
"I'll keep him here." I promised her and she nods happily with that answer and runs to her flat. The Doctor shuts the door of the TARDIS and we lean against, waiting for Rose to come back. But, waiting like that makes me antsy so I began to walk across the area, kicking an empty bottle as I do so. I stopped when I noticed a sign stapled to a post. It was bent over and crumpled from the wind. I pushed the top part up and began to run towards Rose's flat.
"What's wrong?!" the Doctor yelled, running after me.
"You got the bloody date wrong!" I yelled, opening the door and running up the stairs.
It was a missing person's poster...with Rose's picture on it.
I busted through the front door and ran up to the two Tylers. Jackie, who was hugging her daughter and crying, and Rose who looked baffled at what was going on. Rose looks over at me curiously.
"It's not 12 hours, it's...well it's 12 months. You've been gone a whole year." Rose's eyes goes wide and the Doctor looks over at Rose apologetically. I bit my lip and grabbed Sivy, shoving him up my shirt.
"Sorry." the Doctor lamely apologizes.
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"The hours I've sat here. Days and weeks and months all on my own. I thought you were dead. And where were you? Travelling. What the hell does that mean? Travelling? That's no sort of answer." Jackie vents. I cringe as Sivy clutches onto my stomach tighter, I couldn't take him out, that would only raise more questions, and quite honestly...Jackie is really scary right now. The Doctor and I are standing next to Rose as she sits in a chair, across from a policeman who is listening to the venting Tyler.
"You ask her. She won't tell me! That's all she says. Travelling." she tells the Policeman.
"That's what I was doing." Rose defends, well, quite lamely but how can you explain that you've been traveling through space and time to a policeman and your mother? Let's just say, times like these, I'm glad Esther knows where I am.
"When your passport's still in the drawer? It's just one lie after another!" Jackie exclaims, pointing backwards towards a room, which I assume is Rose's.
"I mean to phone, I really did, I just...I forgot."
"What, for a year? You forgot for a year? And I am left sitting here? I just don't believe you. Why won't you tell me where you been?" At that point, the Doctor decided to step in and intervene for Rose.
"Actually, it's my fault. I sort of er, employed Rose as my companion." he explained lamely. I bit my lip to keep from laughing out loud at this situation, I think I might have the Doctor take me to go visit Esther after this and see what happens with him and her. That would most certainly be a sight for sore eyes.
"When you say 'companion', is this a sexual relationship?" the policeman inquires, looking between the two of them.
"Oh most certainly..." I began before the Doctor covered my mouth and the both of them protested. I couldn't help it, and if the Doctor wanted to be angry at me, I'll just blame the policeman for asking that question. Jackie advanced dangerously on the Doctor and I stepped back and pulled Sivy off of my stomach and shoved him in my leather jacket pocket, so he could watch what was going to happen next.
"Then what is it? Because you, you waltz in here all charms and smiles, and the next thing I know, she vanishes off the face of the earth! How old are you then? 40? 45? What, did you find her on the Internet? Did you go online and pretend you're a doctor?" Jackie demanded and I quickly covered my mouth to cover the smile that was forming. This was just too good to be true.
"I AM a Doctor!"
"Prove it! Stitch this, mate." she snaps and then slaps him right across the face. I snickered into my hand and Rose turned around and rolled her eyes at the reaction her mother had. Oh, I was most certainly not going to let him live this down.
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Rose and I were sitting on top of the wall while the Doctor was leaning against it. Sivy was sitting on my knee, enjoying the view with the rest of us and glad to be out of containment.
"I can't tell her. I can't even begin...she's never going to forgive me. And I missed a year? Was it good?" Rose asked, looking at the Doctor. I kept quiet, Rose didn't know about my past and so far, I planned to keep it that way. But the year that she missed was the year of the fire. So I'm not sure how the Doctor was going to answer that. I mentally prayed and hoped that he would lie to her.
"Middling." was his reply, not even looking over at me. 'THANK THE LORD!' my mind cried.
"You're so useless." Rose said angrily. 'NOT TO ME!' my mind argued.
"Well, if it's this much trouble, are you gonna stay here now?" the Doctor asked, looking at Rose. Sivy crawled over to rose and nudged her stomach, as if he was begging in his own way for her to stay. She smiled and gave him a pat on the head.
"I dunno. I can't do that to her again, though." was her answer, neither a yes nor a no. And that seemed good enough for Sivy because he jumped a couple of times before I picked him up and let him nest himself in my hair.
"Well, if I get a say in something, it's that she's not coming with us." I inputted. The three of us began laughing at the thought of Jackie traveling with us.
"No chance." Rose agreed.
"I don't do families."
"She slapped you!" I exclaimed with a laugh.
"900 years of time and space, and I've never been slapped by someone's mother." I bit my lip, thinking about the time when he said that he had never been hit by someone's friend, we should start making a list of things like these.
"Your face."
"It hurt!" the Doctor exclaimed, rubbing his cheek with an offended look on his face. Like I said, I'm never letting him live this down and I don't think Rose is either.
"You're so gay!" the two of us cried, giggling and laughing at him. It become quiet for a few moments until Rose speaks up again.
"When you say 900 years..." she began, looking over at him.
"That's his age." I said, pushing my glasses up my nose and tightening the laces on my boots.
"You're nine hundred years old." She obviously doesn't believe him, which is completely understandable. It's like saying I was two thousand.
"Yeah."
"My mum was right-that is one hell of an age gap," she comments and jumps off the wall, "Every conversation with you, and you Georgie, just goes mental. There's no one else I can talk to. I've seen all that stuff up there, the size of it, and I can't say a word. Aliens and spaceships and things, and I'm the only person on planet earth, 'sides you Georgie, who knows they exist." Right on cue, a spacecraft narrowly misses our heads as it falls from the sky and heads for Central London. It smashes into Big Ben, then lands with a splash in the Thames. The three of us just stand there for a moment with our mouths wide open.
"Oh that's not even fair." I said for Rose, who was standing with her mouth just hanging wide open. The Doctor laughs much too gleefully for the situation and pulls the two of us towards the direction of the crash.
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The four of us ran down the streets, Sivy had been shoved in my pocket and was jiggling around as I ran. We stopped seeing as it was blocked off from everyone else and we couldn't get through.
"It's blocked off." the Doctor said in disbelief. I took my glasses off and rubbed my forehead, praying that this forming headache would go away quickly.
"Doctor...something's wrong." I said to him, but he didn't make any acknowledgement that he heard me. I didn't remember this happening at all.
"We're miles from the center. The scene must be grid locked. The whole of London must be closing down." Rose comments and tries to peer over the large crowd and get a look at what was happening.
"I know, I can't BELIEVE I'm here to see this! This is fantastic!"the Doctor exclaimed, examining the crowd with a happy look on his face. Sivy crawled out of my pocket and onto my shoulder, pulling on my hair, his way of asking if I was alright. I shook my head no and closed my eyes. Neither of them payed any attention to me, still too wrapped up in the action in front of us.
"Did you know this was going to happen?" Rose asked the Doctor.
"Nope!"
"Did you know why it crashed?"
"Nope!"
"Oh, I'm so glad I've got you." Rose comments, looking back at the scene. I ran away, my headache getting worse and worse. I pushed through the crowd, ignoring the irritated cries and snide comments that people gave me. Finally I came upon Albian Hospital, my head still pounding, I snuck around the back. Aliens might be invading but I remember this day, this is when I went to the hospital with Mrs. Snide, my nanny/governess. She died a month after I went to school, let's just say that her funeral was MUCH smaller than my family's.
"Mam. I really don't want to be here. Can't we please go?" a young voice asked, a voice I was all too familiar with.
"Hush child." I forgot how crabby she could be. Sivy and I craned over the corner looking at the back of a young girl with messy red hair and an old woman with white hair pulled into a tight bun.
"Miss Bond? Mrs. Snide?" a young doctor asked. The younger me clutched onto the doll that my brother had made me for the last Christmas that we had as a family. The doll had red yarn for hair, a blue dress and black shoes. I should make the Doctor go back to my time so I can grab that. I really do miss her. It was the only thing that I had with me when I left, besides the clothes that I had on. The doctor introduced himself and led us into the room where the bodies where. I slid down to my bottom and looked at my boots.
"Should I even be here?" I asked Sivy and he shrugged.
"Georgina!" Mrs. Snide's voice snapped and my ears perked up and I was almost tempted to answer. But then I remembered where I was and what was going on. I stayed quiet and got back on my feet, deciding to go find the Doctor and Rose. As I turned to go down the hall something ran into me, sending me down on my back from the impact.
"Oh I'm sorry! But I have to hide!" my young voice said and I looked up and saw young me scramble to her, or my, feet and hide behind a cart. I quickly got to my own feet and shoved Sivy in my pocket as I heard the familiar 'click-clack' of Mrs. Snide's two inch black heels that she wore. I tried to look for a hiding spot but she came in view before I could hide.
"Who are you?" she demanded and I froze, to this day she still terrifies me.
"Um...I'm um..." I stuttered, trying to think of a name to give her.
"Stop stuttering child! Tell me your name!" she snapped and I flinched. I quickly apologized.
"My name is...Cassandra Tyler." I said, saying the first thing that popped into my head. I mentally smacked myself, why did I choose Cassandra's name?
"Well Miss Tyler, have you seen a young girl with red hair in a green dress, a white turtle neck, and those God awful...converse." she sneered at the shoes. I remember that the converse were my way of rebelling against her. She wanted me to wear the same shoes that she did and she always got my shoe size wrong, so they were ALWAYS too small.
"No mam. But you'll be the first person I got to if I see her." I informed her with a forced polite smile.
"Thank you. " she replied and turned and walked away. I watched her walk down the hall and out of the hospital, her heels clicking along the way.
"Is she gone?" young me asked.
"Yeah. She's gone." I told me, or her, as she, or I, got on my, or her, feet and went to check. She, you know what I'm just going to say I, smiled with satisfaction.
"Good. She's an evil witch. Thank you for sending her away. My name's Georgie Bond. What's yours?" I introduced and put my left hand out, seeing as how the other one was holding the doll tightly.
"Cassandra Tyler." I said, looking at the hand and then shaking it warily, as if I expected me to attack me. Good Lord I'm getting a headache.
"No it's not. You obviously lied to Mrs. Snide to send her away. So what's your real name?" I stated like the genius eight-year-old I was. I bit my lip, trying to think of a way to get out of this without causing some sort of time explosion or whatever.
"Just call me Gina." I said finally and I, I think I might switch back to referring younger me as a completely different person, looked at me with raised eyebrows and then crossing her arms.
"That's all I'm giving you so don't give me that look." I stated, crossing my arms and then uncrossing them.
"Are you hear because of the alien they found?" Georgie asked me, still looking at me with the same 'I don't believe you' look.
"Uh, sure. Listen, I've got to go find my friends. So stay out of trouble." I said and began walking away and my phone began to buzz. I went to my pocket and Sivy handed me my phone.
"Thanks." I whispered and looked at who was calling and saw a little picture of the TARDIS there, with the caller ID saying it was the TARDIS. I looked around and found that Georgie had disappeared so I answered.
"Um...hello?" I answered, walking down the hall.
"Georgie! Where are you?" the Doctor said and I pulled the phone away from my ear and then put it back.
"You have a phone?" I asked, keeping an eye out for anyone that could possibly question what I was doing here and throw me out or even get arrested.
"Course I do! Now, important question, where are you?" he said and I grabbed a lab coat that was hanging and quickly put it on, hoping that it would help me blend in.
"Albian Hospital. Where are you and Rose?" I asked, glancing around and quickly turning my back when two doctors came walking by. They didn't stop to question.
"Ah good! Go down the hall and into the storage closet. The TARDIS is there." he instructed and hung up. I sighed and turned around and came in contact with younger me again.
"Why do you keep doing that?!" I exclaimed, holding my stomach. I pulled Sivy out of my pocket and he jumped up and down in anger.
"I'm sorry it's her fault!" I exclaimed and pointed at Georgie. He stood on his hind legs and crossed four of his legs.
"What is that?!" Georgie exclaimed excitedly. Sivy and I ignored her.
"I'm sorry. Alright? How about I...well what do you want?" I asked before the idea came to me.
"A voice! I'll have the Doctor give you a voice. That sound good?" I asked and Sivy jumped up and down with glee. Georgie kept asking different questions, trying to get my attention, which I wasn't giving and was about ready to tell her to hush until a scream came from down the hall.
"What was that?" Georgie asked but I didn't answer. I grabbed her hand and pulled her down to where the scream came from. The two of us skidded to a stop when we noticed a woman in a lab, who was wearing a lab coat similar to mine, and cowering.
"It's alive!" she cried in horror. I looked around, seeing the Doctor running down the hall, leading a group of soldiers.
"Oh great." I whispered and Sivy crawled onto my head.
"Who's Schnozie?" Georgie asked me pointing at the Doctor. I looked at younger me. The Doctor and the men stop. The Doctor turned around and gave an order and the soldiers just stood there. The Doctor came in between me and younger me and held the female Doctor's hand.
"My God-it's still alive." she whispered, horrified with what she had seen. I look at the soldiers and poked the Doctor, pointing at them.
"Do it!" he snapped and they ran off. He looks at me with an exasperated look. And then looks at Georgie and back to the female doctor and then back at Georgie with a startled look.
"I'll explain later." I whispered, bringing his attention back to the terrified woman.
"I swear it was dead."
"It could've been in a coma." Georgie supplied.
"Good job Georgie. But what does it look like?" the Doctor demands the frantic woman, who has blood leaking out from under her hairline. The three of us turned around when a slight sound came from behind us.
"It's still here." I whispered, loud enough for everyone to hear but to not scare away the alien that was hiding. The Doctor grabs mine and Georgie's hand and pulls us up. I beckon a soldier into the room and we walked quietly, looking for the source that made the sound. I let go of his hand and got down on my hands and knees. I peered around the side of the desk, coming face to face with a pig. I smiled gently.
"Hello." I tell him, or her I'm not a hundred percent sure, but it squealed in terror and ran across the room. The soldier that came in with us readied his gun.
"Don't shoot!" Georgie cried. I push my way through to get out to the corridor but was too late. A soldier had shot the poor terrified pig.
"What did you do that for?! It was scared!" I yelled. The soldier looks alarmed as he looks between the pig and I. I knelt down and stroked his head, offering him some form of comfort as he died.
"It was scared." I whispered sadly.
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The Doctor, Dr. Sato (the female doctor), me (Sivy still curled up in my hair), and Georgie (grasping my hand as tight as she could) stood over the pig's body.
"I just assumed that's what alien's look like. But you're saying it's an ordinary pig? From Earth?" Dr. Sato confirmed, looking at the Doctor.
"More like a mermaid. Victorian showmen used to draw the crowds by taking the skull of a cat and gluing it to a fish and calling it a mermaid. Now, someone's taken a pig, opened up it's brain, stuck bits on...then they strapped it in that ship and made it dive bomb. It must've been terrified. They've taken this animal and turned it into a joke." the Doctor explains in a distasteful tone. I looked down at Georgie, who was soaking up every word that the Doctor spoke. Dr. Sato begins to talk again but while she's talking, I pull Georgie with me to go find the TARDIS so we could take her back to Mrs. Snide. The Doctor followed us.
"Where are we going?" she asked me, I could hear the tone of excitement in her voice. I didn't answer, my head was hurting too much. New memories were replacing my old ones, I could remember being with a beautiful, young me thought I was beautiful?, girl, a magical man and spider on what was supposed to be one of the saddest days of my life.
"Listen Georgie, I'm just going to steal your friend for a second. Mind waiting?" The Doctor asked. He didn't wait for an answer, grabbing me by the hand and dragging us far enough so younger me couldn't overhear our conversation.
"What did you do?!" he whispered.
"I haven't done anything! We ran into each other!" I defended. Sivy jumped up and down on my head. The Doctor looked at him and nodded, as if he could understand him, which I'm sure he can.
"Alright. Let's just get you back where you belong." he said after Sivy had stopped jumping. I took off the lab coat I was wearing and threw it aside, following the Doctor back to Georgie and the TARDIS.
"Please don't take me back to Mrs. Snide! She's horrible and evil! Please don't take me back sir!" Georgie pleaded as we opened the supply closet. The Doctor looked down at her and I could tell he was fighting to tell her no because she was using the sad puppy eyes trick. I opened the TARDIS with a chuckle.
"Maybe not yet Doctor?" I asked.
"Maybe...not quite yet." he agreed.
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Georgie stood between the Doctor and I as we looked at a computer screen. Rose comes barging in and Georgie looks at her with wide eyes.
"Alright, so I lied! I went and had a look, but the whole crash landing's a fake-I thought so, it's just too perfect. I mean, 'hitting Big Ben' come on, so I thought let's go and have a look-" he began to explain to the blonde. Georgie hid behind me as Rose came up to the group of us.
"My mum's here." Rose interrupted. I bit my lip as Mickey and Jackie enter the TARDIS. Georgie clutches onto my jacket.
"Oh, that's JUST what I need. Don't you dare make this place domestic!" the Doctor warned Rose.
"You ruined my life Doctor," The Doctor spins smoothly around to face Rose's boyfriend, or ex-boyfriend I'm not a hundred percent sure, "They thought she was dead. I was a murder suspect because of you."
"See what I mean? Domestic." I leaned over and smacked his arm and he glared at me. Which I did back. We turned back to face the computer screen, Georgie squeezed back in between the two of us.
"I bet you don't even remember my name!"
"Ricky." I rolled my eyes. Sivy came running in from our room and jumped onto the control panel. He scurried over to the three of us and sat on top of the computer screen.
"It's Mickey." he corrected.
"No, it's Ricky." the Doctor argued.
"I think that he knows his own name." I said, defending the poor boy.
"You THINK you know your own name? How stupid are you?" I completely forgot that Jackie was in here because after hearing us bicker and looking around the TARIDS, she ran back outside.
" Mum don't! Don't go anywhere and don't start a fight!" she yells at the Doctor and Mickey. The three of us, the Doctor, Georgie and I, turned back around towards the monitor. Rose runs back in the TARDIS and up to us.
"That was a REAL spaceship?" Rose asked us, looking between the Doctor and I, and then down at Georgie. "Hey...aren't you..."
"Yep!" I quickly interrupted and grabbed Georgie by the back of her dress and pushed her behind me. Rose looked at me strangely but decided to drop whatever she was originally going to say and looked at the Doctor.
"So, it's all a pack of lies? What is it then, are they invading?" Rose asks. Mickey comes over and stands on his tip-toes and peers at the screen over the Doctor and Rose's shoulders. I tugged Rose's sleeve and made her move over a bit so Mickey could see.
"Funny way to invade, putting the world on red alert."Mickey states. The Doctor looks at the man with an impressed look on his face.
"Good point! So what're they up too?"
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I made Sivy keep Georgie company while I helped the Doctor, seeing as he was currently wedged under the consul. Mickey comes over and peers at the Doctor. I hand the Doctor a miniature sledgehammer.
"So, what're you doing down there?" he asked. The Doctor handed me back the sledgehammer and put his sonic screwdriver back in his mouth,.
"Ricky." he muffled out. I rolled my eyes.
"Mickey." the boy automatically corrected. The Doctor takes the sonic screwdriver out of his mouth and handed it to me.
"Ricky," he repeated, "If I was to tell you what I was doing to the controls of my frankly magnificent time ship, would you even begin to understand?" I sighed and looked over at Georgie and Sivy, Rose had joined the them and was teaching Georgie a hand game.
"I suppose not..." Mickey trailed off.
"Shut it then. Screwdriver please." he held out his hand. I gave it to him and shot an apologetic smile towards Mickey, who smiled at me but gave the evil eye to the Doctor. He went over to join Rose and Georgie.
"You don't have to be rude to him." I muttered and the Doctor looked at me.
"He's an idiot!" He argued.
"Isn't everyone an idiot to you?" I asked with an eyebrow raised. The Doctor stuck his sonic screwdriver in his mouth and muttered something.
"What did you say?" I asked. He quickly took it out of his mouth and sparks flew from the wires he connected. I flinched and covered my eyes.
"Got it! Haha!" he cried and jumped to his feet. He pulled me up on mine and pulls me toward the computer screen. Rose and Georgie, with Sivy in her hair, ran over to the two of us.
"Patched in the radar, looped it back twelve house so we can follow the flight of the spaceship, here we go...hold on," he smacks the computer screen and an image comes up fuzzy at first, "Come on," I sigh and whack the screen and it instantly becomes clearer, "Thanks. That's the spaceship on it's way to Earth...see? Except..hold on...see, the spaceship did a sling shot round the Earth before it landed."
"What does that mean?" Georgie asked, looking up at the Doctor with admiration in her eyes. My own eyes went wide as I remembered what she was thinking currently, she thought he was amazing and...handsome? Oh lordy, I need to teach younger me a thing or two.
"It means it came from Earth in the first place-it went up and came back down. Whoever those aliens are, they haven't just arrived. They've been here for a while. The question is, what have they been doing." I said. The Doctor begins to work on something else, everyone else's signal to go away so he could concentrate.
"Can I talk to you?" Rose asked me quietly. I nodded, we went over towards the entrance of the TARDIS. I looked over at Georgie, who was now trying to teach Mickey the hand game that Rose taught her but the poor boy looked confused and lost.
"That's Georgie Bond." she said and nodded towards her. I crossed my arms and nodded.
"That's your name. Is she...you? Cause I know you're from the future, so is she you...now?" Rose asked. I bit my lip and nodded slowly.
"The Doctor lied...when he said that the year you missed was middling. It was when my home burned down, taking my family with them." I said quietly, blinking away the tears that were starting to form. Rose obviously noticed and pulled me into a hug.
"How many channels do you get?" Mickey asked, making the two of us look over. Georgie was holding her doll and Sivy, while Mickey was using her head as an armrest. The Doctor was flipping through the different television channels. I wiped away the tears and smiled at Rose, who gave me an encouraging smile back. We went up and joined the three of them.
"All the basic packages." the Doctor replied, still flipping through the channels.
"You get the sports channels?'
"Yes, I get the football," he says exasperatedly looking over at Mickey and then back at the screen, "Hold on, I know that bloke."
"It is looking likely that the government is bringing in alien specialists-those people who have devoted their lives to studying outer space." the reporter said.
"UNIT! United Nations Intelligence Task force-good people."
"How do you know them?" Georgie asks, looking over at him.
"Cos he worked for them," Mickey answered, pointing at the Doctor and getting off Georgie's head, "Yeah, don't think I sat on my backside for twelve months Doctor. I read up on you. You look deep enough on the Internet..and in the history books, and there's his fame. Followed by a list of the dead."
"That's nice. Good boy Ricky." the Doctor murmured, paying attention to the reporter.
"If you know them, why don't you go and help?" I asked as Georgie sneezed. Sivy jumped at the sudden action.
"Bless you, but they wouldn't recognize me. I've changed a lot since the old days. Besides, the world's on a knife-edge. There's aliens out there and fake aliens. We want to keep this alien out the mix. I'm going undercover...and eh, better keep the TARDIS out of site. Ricky! You've got a car-you could do some driving." The Doctor grabs my and Georgie's hand and walks towards the TARDIS door.
"Where to?!" Mickey exclaimed.
"The roads are clearing. Let's go and have a look at that spaceship." The three of us, with Rose close behind us, stepped out of the TARDIS and was greeted by a searchlight in our faces. I used my free hand to cover my eyes.
"Do not move!" Police cars and soldiers surround us, pointing their guns at us, covering any chance of an escape. Out of the corner of my eye, I see that Mickey made a run for it and I sigh in relief, at least someone is safe. I turn when I hear Jackie let out a 'NO!', two soldiers restrain the older Tyler from going to us. The four of us are standing in the middle of the searchlight, Rose and Georgie looking confused, while I'm irritated.
"Raise your hands above your head! You are under arrest!" the loudspeaker said. I quickly stole Sivy from Georgie and place him in my pocket. We all raise our hands. Georgie grinned at me but I didn't say anything, because I was mentally frowning at the memories.
"Take me to your leader!" the Doctor cried happily and I leaned over and smacked him against the head.
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Rose allows Georgie to crawl in first and sit next to me while she quickly follows. The door is shut behind her and the car starts to drive off.
"This is a bit posh. If I knew it was gonna be like this-being arrested-I'd have done it years ago." Rose comments, looking around the car.
"I don't think we're being arrested." I commented as I looked out the window at the scenery passing by, we were heading the wrong way to the police station.
"We're being escorted!" the Doctor cries with glee.
"Where to?" Georgie asked, leaning across Rose to look outside.
Where'd you think? Downing Street!" the Doctor laughed. The rest of us looked at each other before joining in with the Doctor's laughter.
"You're kidding!" I giggled.
"I'm not!" he exclaimed.
"10 Downing Street?" Rose confirmed with a laugh.
"That's the one!" the Doctor cries with a laugh. Rose laughs gleefully.
"Oh, my God! We're going to 10 Downing Street?" Rose slaps my arm and I snicker at her action.
"How come?" Georgie asked, looking over at the Doctor.
"I hate to say it, but Mickey was right," "Hey you got his name right!" The Doctor glared at me and I apologized and allowed him to carry on. "Over the years I've visited this planet a lot of times, and I've been, uh-noticed."
"Now they need you?" Rose asked, the conversation now serious.
"Like it said on the news-they're gathering experts in alien knowledge. And who's the biggest expert of the lot?" The Doctor grins at the three of us, as if we're supposed to know the answer. We share a glance before Georgie speaks.
"Patrick Moore?" she asks uncertainly.
"Apart from him!"
"Ah, don't you just love it..." I said with a grin, catching on to what he was saying.
"I'm telling you, Llyod George-he used to drink me under the table. Who's the Prime Minister now?" the Doctor asks, the question mostly directed at Rose.
"How should I know? I missed a year." The car comes to a stop and the door is opened for us. The Doctor gets out first, with me following closely behind because I was afraid of what would happen. The Doctor waves at the paparazzi, grinning like a maniac before I pull him inside. Rose, holding Georgie's hand follows us.
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The four of us were standing among the crowd of people in Downing Street, I had an arm around Georgie, keeping her close to me. Sivy was watching everything from my pocket. A man walks in to the middle and gathers everyone's attention.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, could we convene? Quick as we can, please. It's this way to the right and can I remind you, ID cards are to be worn at all times." he informs and everyone begins to move towards the door. The man approaches to four of us and hands an ID card to the Doctor.
"Here's your ID card. I'm sorry, but your companions don't have clearance."
"I don't go anywhere without them." He informs the man and loops the ID card around his neck.
"Your the code nine, not them." An older woman comes up close to Georgie and I, Sivy sneaks back into my pocket.
"I'm sorry Doctor...it's the Doctor, isn't it? They'll have to stay outside."
"They're staying with me." he argued and Rose and I shared a glance. We could tell that this was going to get ugly quick if they Doctor didn't get his way.
"Look, even I don't have clearance to go in there. I can't let them in and that's a fact."
"It's alright, you go." I told him, to stop an argument from happening. The older woman that was near Georgie and I went over to the man and stood by his shoulder.
"Excuse me? Are you the Doctor?" she asks him. The man she was standing by gives her an exasperated look.
"Not now, we're busy, can't you go home?" he asks her, obviously irritated with the woman.
"Are you sure?" the Doctor asks the three of us.
"Yes, they're the experts, you should hear what they've got to say." Rose tells him.
"I s'pose so. Don't get into any trouble." The Doctor follows the other experts into the room.
"I just need a word in private." the old woman tells the man.
"You haven't got clearance, now leave it!" he snaps and grabs me by the arm. "I'm going to have to leave you with security." He starts to drag me away and I can tell that Rose was getting ready to argue with the man but the old woman stepped in.
"It's alright. I'll look after them. Let me be of some use." she offers and the man lets go of my arm and walks off. "Walk with me. Just keep walking..." she tells the three of us and we follow her, confused on why she was asking such a request. We walk past the guards at the door.
"That's right...don't look round! Harriet Jones, MP Flydale North." she introduces and shows us her ID card. We walk into a corridor and she turns to us, looking upset and distressed.
"This friend of yours...he's an expert, is that right? He knows about aliens?"
"Why do you wanna know?" Georgie asks tentatively. Harriet breaks into tears, leaving the three of us standing there, unsure of what to do. Until Rose attempts to comfort her by taking her arm.
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Harriet shows us a body suit in the cabinet room.
"They turned the body into a suit! A disguise for the thing inside!" she burst into tears again.
"It's alright! I believe you. It's...it's alien. They must have some SERIOUS technology behind this...if we could find it...we could use it." Rose says as I begin to rummage around the room with Georgie. She runs over to a cupboard and opens it, screaming when the body of the Prime Minister falls out. I ran over and pulled her back.
"Oh, my God! Is that-?" Rose begins to ask before the man from before enters the room.
"Harriet, for God's sake! This had gone beyond a joke-you cannot just wander," he begins to scold before he notices the body of the Prime Minister on the floor, "Oh my God! That's the Prime Minister!"
"Ohhh!" a female voice says with a deranged excitement tone. We all turned to see a heavy set woman enter the cabinet room.
"Has someone been naughty?" she teased. We all looked at her and she shut the door behind her. I quickly pulled Georgie behind me and allowed Sivy to come out and sit on my right shoulder, just to be safe.
"That's impossible! He left this afternoon. The Prime Minister left Downing Street, he was driven away!" he exclaimed and I sighed. Honestly, people will believe anything during a time of crisis.
"And who told you that? Hmm?" she asks and walks up to him.
"You." I said with a sigh.
"Me." She agreed and stokes the hair from her forehead. She reveals a zipper on her forehead and begins to unzip it. Slowly revealing a giant ugly alien inside. I breathed slowly as Sivy clung himself onto my neck. None of us bothered to move, too scared I guess. The woman/green alien thing grabbed the man by the neck and pins him to the wall. He begins to shout as she strangles him to death.
"Go!" I cry and push what was left of us to the back, an attempt to save us. We all stood against the wall as she edged towards us.
TO BE CONTINUED...
